World Food Books

European Decoration
Creative Contemporary Interiors

1969, English
Hardcover, 186 page, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Reynal & Company / New York

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First English edition of this wonderful hardcover volume of European interiors from the 1960s, edited by L'ŒIL creators Georges and Rosamond Bernier. Profusely illustrated throughout, all the material in this volume was selected from the pages of France's L'ŒIL magazine. "This book leads the reader into some of the most distinguished and original homes of Europe. Here are glimpses into the lives of gifted, glamorous people whose taste sets style around the globe. Whether Lombard palazzo or Paris roof-top, highly diversified interiors are the source of stimulating ideas that can often be translated into American terms."

L'ŒIL (French: The Eye) is a French magazine created by Rosamond Bernier (née Rosenbaum) and her second husband, Georges Bernier, in 1955 to celebrate and reflect contemporary art creation. It was one of the finest documents of interior design, architecture, fine and applied arts and design in the 1950s-1970s, marrying the historical with the modern and profiling many artists and designers in France for the first time.

Includes large chapters on each of the following: the Villar Perosa villa of Signor & Signora Giovanni (Marella) Agnelli; London apartment of Mr & Mrs Stanley Rubin designed by Jon Bannenberg; a Milanese apartment designed by Marcello Pietrantoni & Carla Venosta; architect J. Anthony Cloughley's London apartment, designed with help from Rubin de C. Albrizzi; Karl Lagerfeld's Paris apartment; a one-story modern country house designed by Martine Dufour and Caumont & Collard for Monsieur & Madame Claude Labouret; The Villa Montecchia; decorator Isabelle Hebey's Marais apartment; Palazzo Brandolini in Venice (Renzo Mongiardino); Saint-Tropez apartment designed by Andree Putman; the Parisian apartment of Marc Bohan (of Christian Dior); The house of David Hicks in the South of France; Prince Bao-Long's Isabelle Hebey-designed apartment; Hugh Chisolm's Paris apartment (designed by Charles Sevigny); the Villa Fiorentina at St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, belonging to Lady Kenmare & her son Roderick Cameron; Leonard Goulandris's London apartment designed by Jon Bannenberg; Van Day Truex's Vaucuse home; Philippe Guibourge's Paris apartment; Eugene Berman's Rome apartment; the Villa La Tana; Jacques Chazot's Paris apartment; Jacques & Andree Putman's Saint-Tropez home.

Good copy with foxing and wear to hardcover edges/corners.

File under: David Hicks Isabelle Hebey Martine Dufour Karl Lagerfeld Jon Bannenberg Marcello Pietrantoni Carla Venosta Christian Dior Charles Sevigny Renzo Mongiardino Quasar Khanh Verner Panton Charles Eames Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Dubuffet Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Pablo Picasso Joe Colombo Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Eero Saarinen Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Olivier Mourgue Carlo Scarpa Jim Dine Kurt Schwitters Jean Fautrier Max Ernst Wassily Kandinsky Joan Miró Lucio Fontana Andrée Putman César Georges Bernier Rosamond Bernier Reynal & Company / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art

The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss

1986, English
Softcover, 319 pages, 175 x 229 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor at Columbia University and an editor and cofounder of October magazine, is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious (1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), and Bachelors (1999), all published by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User's Guide (Zone Books, 1997).

"All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative."—Art Documentation

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

File under: Jackson Pollock Richard Serra Sol Lewitt Agnes Martin Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Man Ray Robert Ryman Caspar David Friedrich Eugene Atget Auguste Rodin Gordon Matta-Clark Alberto Giacometti Max Ernst Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Minimal Art Conceptual Art Dada Surrealism

Max Ernst
by Eva Petrová

1993, Czech
Hardcover, 214 pages, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Odeon / Prague

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Rare, Czech language hardcover edition of Czech art historian Eva Petrová's study on Max Ernst (1891—1976), 'The Stohláva Identity of Max Ernst', with introductory text, 'Max Ernst or the Dissolution of Identity', by Per Gimferrer. This major study traces the sources of inspiration of the German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet, a most prolific, experimental artist and pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. Profusely illustrated with 184 mostly coloured reproductions.

Eva Petrová was a Czech art critic, curator, theorist and art historian, graphic artist, writer and poet.

Pere Gimferrer Torrens is a Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He has been a member of the Real Academia Española since 1985.

Very Good copy.

File under: Max Ernst Eva Petrová Per Gimferrer Odeon / Prague Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Death to The Pigs: Selected Writings (Atlas Anthology 5)
by Benjamin Peret

1997, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 20.4 x 14.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

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Rare first 1988 edition of this definitive collection of Benjamin Peret's writings translated to English, published by the legendary Atlas Press. Illustrated by Picabia, Ernst, Matta, and Toyen. Edited and introduced by Rachel Stella.

BENJAMIN PÉRET was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement in France. Within the group he was the writer they most admired, yet until now little of his work has been translated. This collection is definitive, it contains his novel "Death to the Pigs and the Field of Battle", a selection of stories, his own bizarre creation myth "Natural History", love poems, political poems, letters from the Spanish civil war, polemical and critical essays, and other, unclassifiable texts such as the "Calendar of Tolerable Inventions from Around the World".

The biographical introduction recounts his political affiliations.

Péret's works are wildly unrestrained, his imagination is unleashed in every direction at once, "logic is sent back into its kennel," only humour maintains some sort of order. There is nothing else like it.

"Péret's oeuvre: the most original and savage of our era."—Octavio Paz

"The greatest living poet."—Paul Eluard

Marcel Noll: What is Benjamin Péret?
Raymond Queneau: A menagerie in revolt, a jungle, liberty.

"... the poetic principle itself, pared down to its quintessential imaginary nerve."—Charles Simic

"Benjamin Péret is, for me, the Surrealist poet par excellence: a totally liberating and lucid inspiration which flows effortlessly and directly from its source and straight away re-creates a whole other world. - Luis Bunuel.
Humour gushes here as if from its very source."—André Breton.

VG copy with some light buckling, faint foxing to edges.

File under: Toyen Max Ernst Roberto Matta Francis Picabia Benjamin Péret Rachel Stella Atlas Press / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

Volné Směry 9
Vol. XXX, 1934

1934, Czech
Softcover (staple-bound), 30 pages, 29.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mánes Association of Fine Artists / Prague

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Rare 1934 issue of important modern Czech arts and literary magazine, Volné směry (Free Directions), Vol XXX, edited by Emil Filla with Jindřich Štyrský, Karel Honzík, Václav Špála. Published following the landmark 'Poesie 1932' exhibition, one of the first exhibitions of international Surrealism, and issued the year poet Vítězslav Nezval founded the Czech Surrealist group, the content of this issue holds particular significance. This copy includes the inserted announcement of the inaugural revue of the Czech Surrealist group, Surrealismus v ČSR, edited by Nezval with collaborators Konstantin Biebl, Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen, Bohuslav Brouk, Imre Forbath, Jindrich Honzl, Jaroslav Ježek, Katy King, Josef Kunstadt, Vincenc Makovský. The magazine itself features writing by Nezval, Konstantin Biebl and Adolf Hoffmeister, and artworks by Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský, Alfréd Justitz, Rodin, Picasso, Max Ernst, Corbusier-Jeanneret, Edvard Munch, and many more.

Volné směry (Free Directions) was an important monthly arts and literary journal published in Prague between 1896–1948 by the Mánes Association of Fine Artists in Prague. It was one of the longest-running art magazines of the 20th century (1897–1949) and also the most influential platform for modernism and openness of Czech art towards European artistic developments. Editors included Stanislav Sucharda, Josef Čapek, Miloš Jiránek, Karel Vítězslav Mašek, Jan Preisler, František Xaver Šalda, Martin Jiránek, Jan Štursa, Jaroslav Fragner, Jan Kotěra, Emil Filla, and others. After the cubism of Filla's generation, the magazine devoted itself to the art of the 'Poesie 1932' exhibition, one of the first exhibitions of international Surrealism, held at the Mánes Building itself, including the works of Czech artists such as Josef Šíma, Jindřich Štyrský, and Toyen, alongside Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy, to name a few. The Mánes Association and Volné Směry became an important outlet of Czech Surrealism, avant-garde art and poetry, with further exhibitions by Štyrský, Toyen and Vincenc Makovský, the trio all members of both the Mánes Association and the Czech Surrealist Group, founded in 1934. After the war, it still captured the spirit of the association and the work of its youngest members (Zdeněk Sklenář, Václav Zykmund, Toyen, Vaclav Tikal, Jindřich Štyrský, etc.), but the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in late 1938 had a major impact on the Mánes Association, Volné směry, and a generation of artists deemed "degenerate". Volné Směry was stopped altogether as part of the post-February changes and Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. During the Stalinist period, the Mánes Association was dissolved as a private society. The gallery remained, however, and today still stands at its location on the Vltava.

Very Good copy with only light general wear/age.

File under: Auguste Rodin Rodin Pablo Picasso Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Edvard Munch Max Ernst Toyen Jindřich Štyrský Alfréd Justitz Emil Filla Emil Filla Vitezslav Nezval Konstantin Biebl Adolf Hoffmeister Mánes Association of Fine Artists / Prague Periodicals Art Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Poetry Surrealism Architecture / Interior Painting Sculpture / Installation

20th Century Masters of Erotic Art
by Bradley Smith; Foreword by Henry Miller

1980, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 30 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fleetbooks / New York

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"Unblushing color, is the sexual world around us painted by outstanding artists of the twentieth century. In this extraordinary book, the modern world, the flesh, and the devil are captured as never before."

Foreword by Henry Miller.

Within it are 163 newly photographed works of art, each one faithfully reproduced, unretouched, in four color lithography. On these oversized pages is reflected the erotic life of our times from never before published Picasso watercolors of 1901-02 to the initial publication of recent works by George Segal, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, R.B. Kitaj, Tom Wesselman and many others.

1980 hardcover survey by Bradley Smith, '20th Century Masters of Erotic Art' is a lavishly illustrated (colour and b/w) collection of erotic works from private and public collections and museums. "Within it are 163 newly photographed works of art, each one faithfully reproduced, unretouched, in four-color lithography. On these oversized pages is reflected the erotic life of our times from never before published Picasso watercolors of 1901-02 to the initial publication of recent works by George Segal, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, R.B. Kitaj, Tom Wesselman and many others." Featuring further works by Leonor Fini, Otto Dix, Ernst Fuchs, Fernando Botero, Hans Bellmer, André Masson, Mel Ramos, Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern, Paul Wunderlich, Richard Lindner, Elias Friedensohn, Roberto Matta, Graham Ovenden, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Revilla, Egon Schiele, Leonard Foujita, Henk Pander, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Félix Labisse, Paul Delvaux, Salvador Dalí, and many other painters and illustrators who have conveyed human sexuality through fantasy, romance, symbolism, and super realism, contributing to the development of diverse erotic themes in art becoming more prominent and accepted in the modern era. We've since regressed.

Good copy in Good DJ, wear to dj extremities.

File under: George Segal Andy Warhol Larry Rivers R.B. Kitaj Tom Wesselman Léonard Foujita Leonor Fini Otto Dix Ernst Fuchs Fernando Botero Hans Bellmer André Masson Mel Ramos Paul Wunderlich Richard Lindner Pablo Picasso Alexander Calder Max Ernst Salvador Dalí Graham Ovenden Roberto Matta Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern Elias Friedensohn Henk Pander Carlos Revilla Egon Schiele Paul Delvaux Felix Labisse Henry Miller Bradley Smith Fleetbooks / New York Eros Painting Pop Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Gender Studies / Sexuality Feminism Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Surrealism

200 Years of Fantastic Painting / 200 Jahre Phantastische Malerei
by Wieland Schmied

1973, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket + slipcase), 475 pages, 28 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rembrandt Verlag / Berlin

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Exceptional 1973 hardcover, slipcased first edition volume dedicated the history of Fantastic Painting in all its mutations, compiled by Austrian art historian and critic, curator, literary scholar and writer, Wieland Schmied (1929 – 2014).

"The fantastic and connected with it the remote, the strange, the absurd, the unreal, the irrational and illusionary, the visionary, the hallucinatory and dreamlike belong to the constant undercurrents and countercurrents of all art. Such images remind us that the world is more diverse, richer and more unmistakeable than we sometimes want to admit, that the night pages with their secrets of the dark belong to it in essence like the day with its magic of light. The fantastic art articulates powers and instincts that have a very intense influence on our lives, on our consciousness. It always shakes the questionlessness of the world, it always frightens us: from the abysses within ourselves and from the mysteries of a world that we have not created.

Wieland Schmied, who, as director of the Kestner Society, highlighted the topicality of fantastic and surrealist thoughts in the work of numerous contemporary artists in much-discussed exhibitions, examines in this book the different definitions of the fantastic and tries to distinguish between similar and related phenomena - the poetic, the grotesque, the absurd, the literary - but also to distinguish the fantastic art from the historical currents of Mannerism, Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism, which contain all elements of the Fantastic."

At 475 pages, and profusely illustrated with over 200 plates in colour and b/w, featuring the art of Henry Fuseli, Odilon Redon, James Ensor, Alfred Kubin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Blake, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern, Rodolphe Bresdin, Félix Labisse, Meret Oppenheim, Horst Janssen, Edward Burra, Jindřich Štyrský, Victor Hugo, Gustave Moreau, Henri Rousseau, Roland Topor, Giorgio de Chirico, Jane Graverol, Unica Zürn, Max Ernst, Pierre Roy, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, Richard Oelze, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Ivan Albright, Man Ray, Fred Deux, Morris Graves, Joseph Cornell, Max Klinger, Gustave Doré, Max Walter Svanberg, Toyen, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, André Masson, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Kurt Seligmann, Miodrag Đurić (Dado), Karel Teige, Paul Wunderlich, Roland Penrose, Josef Šíma, Paul Delvaux, Óscar Domínguez, Fernando Botero, Leonor Fini, Uwe Bremer, Bernard Schultze, František Janoušek, Josef Vyleťal, František Muzika, Domenico Gnoli, Wols, Heinz Trökes, Otto Tschumi, Jindřich Heisler, Václav Tikal, Gisela Breitling, Pit Morell, Graham Sutherland, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Erich Brauer, Anton Lehmden, Ursula, Konrad Klapheck, and so many more....

Fine copy in Fine dust jacket, perfectly preserved in Near Fine-Very Good original-issue publisher's box with some light discolouration.

File under: Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern Henry Fuseli Odilon Redon James Ensor Alfred Kubin Giovanni Battista Piranesi William Blake Francisco Goya Felix Labisse Jindrich Heisler Jindřich Štyrský Rodolphe Bresdin Meret Oppenheim Horst Janssen Edward Burra Joan Miró Victor Hugo Gustave Moreau Henri Rousseau Roland Topor Giorgio de Chirico Jane Graverol Unica Zürn Max Ernst Pierre Roy Yves Tanguy Salvador Dalí René Magritte Salvador Dali Victor Brauner Hans Bellmer Richard Oelze Wifredo Lam Ivan Albright Man Ray Fred Deux Morris Graves Joseph Cornell Max Klinger Gisela Breitling Pit Morell Graham Sutherland Ernst Fuchs Wolfgang Hutter Erich Brauer Anton Lehmden Ursula Konrad Klapheck Václav Tikal František Muzika Heinz Trökes Domenico Gnoli Wols Otto Tschumi František Janoušek Josef Vyleťal Josef Sima Paul Delvaux Óscar Domínguez Fernando Botero Leonor Fini Uwe Bremer Bernard Schultze Emil Nolde Karel Teige Paul Wunderlich Roland Penrose Paul Klee Max Beckmann Friedensreich Hundertwasser Kurt Seligmann Gustave Doré Toyen Max Walter Swanberg Marc Chagall Miodrag Đurić (Dado) Wieland Schmied Rembrandt Verlag / Berlin Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Drawing Eros Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: A Shock To The Senses
Ulrich Bischoff and Luc Tuymans

2013, English / German
Softcover, 214 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Dresden

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First bi-lingual English/German edition of this lavish exhibition catalogue.

John Constable (1776–1837), Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) and Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) were vital in shaping modern art at the threshold of the 18th to the 19th century and they had a formative influence on the age of Romanticism in Europe. Their outstanding paintings continue to serve as sources of inspiration and visual instruction for the generations of artists that have followed in their wake. In this special exhibition, Luc Tuymans, one of the most influential contemporary painters, and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bischoff trace the influence of these four exceptional artists by presenting paintings by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Adolph Menzel (1815-1905), Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Gerhard Richter (* 1932) alongside masterpieces of the Romantic period. Works by 16 artists will be presented in sometimes surprising combinations, thus enabling historical references and contexts spanning some 200 years of art history to be explored from new perspectives. The idea at the core of the exhibition is to present the museum as both an artistic workshop and a source of inspiration. The curators demonstrate that art does not come into being solely as the result of a creative act in the artist’s studio, but can often be traced back to the artist’s direct engagement with freely chosen models from art history.

Very Good copy.

File under: Luc Tuymans Francisco Goya Francisco de Goya John Constable Eugène Delacroix Caspar David Friedrich Adolf Menzel Per Kirkeby Max Liebermann David Claerbout Vilhelm Hammershøi Jeff Wall Max Ernst Paul Cézanne Mark Rothko Gerhard Richter Ulrich Bischoff Luc Tuymans Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Dresden Group Shows / Collections Painting Art Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Curatorial Theory / Essay

Photomontage
by Dawn Ades

1976, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 28 x 20.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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Photomontage—the manipulated photograph—is as old as photography itself. Yet it was only with the chaotic, explosive impact of World War I that photomontage became an art form. The term was coined by the anti-art, anti-bourgeois Berlin Dadaists, whose members included John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann, and George Grosz. By breaking up images and using odd juxtapositions of fragmented photographs and other materialsthe stuff of today's and yesterday's news-they created a bold new art of agitation for posters, book jackets, magazine covers, and stage sets. The idea of photomontage was as revolutionary as its it emphasized the links between politics and the technological age to expose the disorder of bourgeois society.What started as an inflammatory political joke soon became a conscious artistic technique. The use of bizarre images to render reality enigmatic was seized upon by the successors of Dadaism, the Surrealists. Artists such as Max Ernst, Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray combined images of poetic power to form hallucinatory landscapes, pursuing a systematic derangement of the senses to express the internal chaos of the individual as well as the external chaos of the world.

Patterned with 174 visually startling and intellectually exciting monochromes, Dawn Ades's book follows the fascinating evolution of photomontage, revealing different realities that disrupt our perceptions of the traditional world.

Average-Good copy. Ex-owner's name to title page. Overall Very Good copy but with some markings to block edge and on a couple of pages from a past studio life.

File under: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy Hannah Hoch Hannah Höch Raoul Hausmann Max Ernst Man Ray John Heartfield George Grosz Paul Nash Marcel Mariën Penny Slinger Friedrich Kiesler Richard Hamilton Marcel Duchamp Herbert Bayer André Breton El Lissitzky Francis Picabia Fritz Lang Alexander Rodchenko Joseph Cornell Roger Leigh Lajos Kassak Terry Gilliam Kazimierz Podsadecki Conroy Maddox Tim Head Erwin Blumenfeld Louise Ernst-Strauss Paul Citroen Gustav Klutsis Nikolai Prusakov Dawn Ades Thames and Hudson / London Art Dada Surrealism Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Protest / Revolt Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Erotische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
Edited by Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen

1972, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 205 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Heyne Verlag / Münich

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Wonderful 1972 German book of erotic art selected by Phyllis and Dr. Eberhard Kronhausen, rightly considered international experts in the field. "Their exhibition "Erotic Art," which has been shown in many countries around the world, formed the basis for this illustrated volume. Because this exhibition included loans from museums and galleries, as well as works from the Kronhausen couple's collection and other private collections, it was possible to present images that had previously been inaccessible to the public. In selecting works for this volume, care was taken, on the one hand, to depict these unknown works, and, on the other, to provide a reliable overview of the erotic work of the leading artists (painting, graphic art, and sculpture) of our century. Thus, this book is a fortunate exception; it is a precious document, but also a demonstration of the sexual and cultural revolution of our century."

Features the work of Franz von Bayros, Hans Bellmer, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Otto Dix, J. Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Ernst Fuchs, Willi Geiger, George Grosz, Horst Janssen, Allen Jones, Gustav Klimt, Felix Labisse, Jan Lebenstein, Edward Munch, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Herbert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Max Walter Swanberg, Tomi Ungerer, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann.

Good—VG copy with some laminate seperation to cover extremities and slight corner bump.

File under: Franz von Bayros Hans Bellmer Marc Chagall Lovis Corinth Salvador Dali Paul Delvaux Otto Dix J. Dubuffet Max Ernst Ernst Fuchs Willi Geiger George Grosz Horst Janssen Allen Jones Gustav Klimt Felix Labisse Jan Lebenstein Edward Munch Claes Oldenburg Pablo Picasso Herbert Rauschenberg George Segal Max Walter Swanberg Tomi Ungerer Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen Heyne Verlag / Münich Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Surrealism Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Painting LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM

Max Ernst

1960, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 106 pages, 26.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Misuzu Shobo / Tokyo

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First edition of this lovely 1960 hardcover monograph published in Tokyo on the German Surrealist Max Ernst (1891—1976), as part of a Misuzu Shobo series on Modern European and American artists issued for Japanese readers. With accompanying text by Japanese poet, critic and fellow Surrealist artist Shūzō Takiguchi. A prolific and highly original painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, Ernst's various works are surveyed (paintings, collages, and frottages dating upto the late 1950s) herein generously in colour and b/w reproductions. Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada and Surrealism movements.

Very Good copy with some internal blank stock paper tanning. Dust Jacket with some wear and tear to extremities, all preserved in mylar wrap. A lovely copy of this uncommon title.

File under: Max Ernst Shūzō Takiguchi Shūzō Takiguchi Misuzu Shobo / Tokyo Surrealism Dada Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Drawing SALE

Max Ernst

1971, French
Softcover, 48 pages, 22 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Orangerie des Tuileries / Paris

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First edition of this lovely, simple catalogue published in 1971 on the occasion of Max Ernst's 80th anniversary exhibition at Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris. 40 works illustrated in b/w with some colour. Full catalogue of exhibited works.

Good copy. Some age spotting to both covers, otherwise very good throughout.

File under: Max Ernst Orangerie des Tuileries / Paris Art Painting Drawing Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare

Archive of Dreams: Surrealist Impulses, Networks, and Vision

2024, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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The book Archive of Dreams is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that will open the Archiv der Avantgarden. Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first surrealist manifesto and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, the volume is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the twentieth century. The idea was for the Bureau to collect dream testimonies in whatever form, not only to preserve and analyse them but also to give active expression to them in artistic processes. The publication shows how the practices of the avantgardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment — and thus ultimately also between the past, the present, and possible futures.

Works and documents from the period before, during, and after the Second World War shed light on the working methods of international artists and the global network they were involved in. They are complemented by diverse reflections on global protest movements and the traumas of war, thus connecting, too, to everyday experiences in a Europe beset by warfare.

File under: Salvador Dalí Max Ernst Marcel Duchamp Hans Bellmer Yves Tanguy Man Ray Unica Zürn Toyen Kurt Seligmann Carolee Schneeman Carolee Schneemann René Magritte Alexander Calder Diego Giacometti Leonora Carrington Egidio Marzona Marion Ackermann Rudolf Fischer Przemysław Strożek Friederike Fast David Wittinghofer Author Erin McClenathan Kristoffer Noheden Sven Spieker Abigail Susik David Wittinghofer Georges Bataille Marcel Duchamp André Breton Guillaume Apollinaire Michel Leiris Louis Aragon Spector Books / Leipzig Surrealism Dada Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and photography in dialogue
Von 1840 bis Heute / From 1840 to The Present

1979, German
Softcover, 419 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern

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Wonderful over-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and Photography in Dialogue, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 13 to July 24, 1977. Profusely illustrated, this heavy volume documents this historical survey of the relationship between photography and painting from 1840 to the present (late 1970s); with a full catalogue of works, artists' biographies, bibliography. Edited by Erika Billeter with texts throughout by art historian Josef A. Schmoll. Includes the work of Edvard Munch, Urs Lüthi, Wols, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Eadweard Muybridge, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Oskar Schlemmer, Francis Bacon, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Les Levine, Constant Puyo, Clarence Hudson White, Jan Groover, Jochen Gerz, Duane Michels, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Ruth Francken, Theo Von Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, Ferdinand Hodler, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alighiero Boetti, Klaus Rinke, Giuseppe Penone, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Gerhard Richter, Monika Baumgartl, Yves Klein, Wolf Vostell, Heinrich Kühn, Georges Mathieu, Peter Roehr, Sarkis, Jiro Takamatsu, Michael Heizer, Umberto Boccioni, Hans Bellmer, William Wegman, Raoul Ubac, Margrit Jäggli, André Kertész, Jiri Kolar, Kasimir Malevich, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dennis Oppenheim, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, Jan Dibbets, Jürgen Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Jean Tinguely, Vettor Pisani, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Allen Kaprow, Arnulf Rainer, Mieczyslaw Berman, Jim Dine, George Brecht, Man Ray, Paul Wunderlich, Karin Székessy, Tom Wesselmann, Chuck Close, Eugène Delacroix, Duane Hanson, Heinrich Zille, Félix Vallotton, Carl Durheim, Gilbert and George, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Eakins, Robert Rauschenberg, Édouard Vuillard, Carlo Carrà, Alphonse Mucha, Les Krims, Albert Steiner, Giorgio de Chirico, Keiji Uematsu, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Zille, Franco Fontana, Richard Long, Ben Shahn, Edmund Kesting, László Moholy-Nagy, Anton Stankowski, Paul Nash, Rene Magritte, Paul T. Frankl, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Georges Hugnet, Gordon Matta-Clark....

Very Good copy, crease to top cover corner.

File under: Edvard Munch Urs Lüthi Wols Vito Acconci Eadweard Muybridge Hannah Höch Raoul Hausmann Hans-Peter Feldmann Oskar Schlemmer Francis Bacon Hilla and Bernd Becher Les Levine Constant Puyo Clarence Hudson White Jan Groover Jochen Gerz Duane Michels Mario Merz Giulio Paolini Ruth Francken Theo Von Doesburg Kurt Schwitters Ferdinand Hodler Herbert Bayer Marcel Duchamp Gertrude Käsebier Edward Steichen Alighiero Boetti Klaus Rinke Giuseppe Penone Pierre Bonnard Paul Klee Gerhard Richter Monika Baumgartl Yves Klein Wolf Vostell Heinrich Kühn Georges Mathieu Peter Roehr Sarkis Jiro Takamatsu Michael Heizer Umberto Boccioni Hans Bellmer William Wegman Raoul Ubac Margrit Jäggli André Kertész Jiri Kolar Kasimir Malevich Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dennis Oppenheim Christian Boltanski Dan Graham Jan Dibbets Jürgen Klauke Bruce Nauman Jean Tinguely Vettor Pisani Max Ernst Joseph Cornell Allen Kaprow Arnulf Rainer Mieczyslaw Berman Jim Dine George Brecht Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Karin Székessy Eugène Delacroix Félix Vallotton Tom Wesselmann Chuck Close Duane Hanson Joseph Beuys Thomas Eakins Robert Rauschenberg Édouard Vuillard Carlo Carrà Alphonse Mucha Les Krims Albert Steiner Giorgio de Chirico Keiji Uematsu Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Heinrich Zille Franco Fontana Richard Long Ben Shahn Edmund Kesting László Moholy-Nagy Anton Stankowski Paul Nash Rene Magritte Paul T. Frankl John Heartfield El Lissitzky Georges Hugnet Gordon Matta-Clark John Baldessari Erika Billeter Josef A. Schmoll. Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern Photography Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Dada Conceptual Art SALE

Surrealist Drawings
by František Šmejkal

1974, Japanese
Hardcover (cloth-bound w. original illustrated card box and dust jacket) 160 pages, 21 x 21.6
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

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Stunning boxed first printing of the Japanese edition of "Surrealist Drawings" by František Šmejkal, printed and bound in cloth-covers in Japan in 1973. A beautiful clothbound hardcover folio of drawings by artists affiliated with Surrealism. What makes this lovely collection special is the inclusion of many of the Czech Surrealists, and a generally broad European scope of artists. Czech art historian František Šmejkal has collated a wonderful selection of works on paper by Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský, Wolfgang Paalen, Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Bellmer, Alfred Kubin, Francis Picabia, Jacques Hérold, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Josef Istler, Max Ernst, André Breton, František Muzika, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Richard Oelze, Mikuláš Medek, Joan Miró, Josef Sima, Kurt Seligmann, Odilon Redon, Andre Masson, Max Walter Svanberg, Salvador Dali, Arshile Gorky, Victor Brauner, Rene Magritte, and many more.

Very Good copy in original slipcase and plastic jacket over cloth. Almost Fine, but with corner bumping to top.

File under: André Masson Hans Bellmer Joan Miro Man Ray Max Ernst René Magritte Salvador Dalí Yves Tanguy Toyen Victor Brauner Wifredo Lam Arshile Gorky Giorgio de Chirico Wolfgang Paalen Alfred Kubin Jindřich Štyrský Francis Picabia Max-Walter Svanberg Andre Masson Josef Sima Kurt Seligmann Odilon Redon František Šmejkal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Writings on Art and Anti-Art
by Dawn Ades

2015, English
Softcover (french-folds), 608 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Ridinghouse / London

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Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. Ades addresses themes fundamental to the history of modern art and the avant-garde, across time periods and art movements, from Europe to the Americas. She offers alternative readings and investigates the particular dynamics that affect the ways images and objects are produced, presented and received.

With topics ranging from close-up photography to the female subject in Mexico, and from automatism to photomontage, as well as monographic essays on artists such as Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp and Hannah Hoch, this collection explores major figures of the twentieth century as well as art beyond the canon. The selected writings are divided into sections that correspond to the overarching concerns of gender, identity, the impact of new mediums and the enduring significance of the materials of art.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Brassaï Josef Albers Francis Bacon Karl Blossfeldt Claude Cahun Salvador Dali Richard Deacon Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Naum Gabo Georg Grosz John Heartfield Hannah Hoch Frida Kahlo Wilfredo Lam El Lissitzky Fernand Léger René Magritte Kasimir Malevich Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Joan Miro Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Henry Moore Eduardo Paolozzi Man Ray Diego Rivera Melanie Smith John Stezaker Salvador Dalí Dawn Ades Georges Bataille Andre Breton Doro Globus Ridinghouse / London Dada Surrealism Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Bauhaus Photography

Histoire de l'insolite
par Romi

1964 , French
Hardcover, 192 pages, 30.5 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Pont Royal Del Duca - Laffont Paris

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 1964 hardcover edition of Histoire de l'insolite (History of the Unusual) by Romi. Preface by Philippe Soupault, artistic design by Pierre Chapelot. An incredible visual survey of the weird and wonderful from the history of occultism to the absurd, the cabinet of curiosities to the voyages of science fiction, demonology to psychosis, the Fin de siècle, Futurists, Surrealists, Dadaists, Pataphysicians, the visionaries, the mediums, the curios, the macabre, the bizarre. Profusely illustrated in mono and duotone with many pasted-in lush colour plates, this is a beautiful visual reference of the fantastic throughout history. Chapters include (translated from French): The Sources of the Unusual - A Legendary Bestiary - Fantastic Voyages - The Design to Surprise - Unusual Enterprises, featuring Alfred Jarry, Giuseppe Arcimbaldo, P.T. Barnum, Edward Lear, Hélène Smith, Raymond Roussel, Alessandro Cagliostro, Stanislao Lepri, Hieronymus Bosch, Ferdinand Cheval, and hundreds of other artists, poets, mystics and unknowns. With a preface by none other than Surrealist founder, Dadaist, writer, poet, novelist, critic, political activist, Philippe Soupault (1897-1990).

Very Good copy, highly recommended.

File under: René Magritte Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Jean Tinguely Daniel Spoerri Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Pierre Chapelot Salvador Dalí Jean Dubuffet Pablo Picasso Francis Picabia Felix Labisse Guy Bourdin Meret Oppenheim Claude Lalanne Claude and Francoise-Xavier Lalanne Francois-Xavier Lalanne Victor Brauner Hieronymus Bosch Man Ray Jean Cocteau Alfred Jarry Edward Lear Ferdinand Cheval Gustave Moreau Alessandro Cagliostro Stanislao Lepri Hélène Smith Gustave Doré Max-Walter Svanberg Pieter Bruegel the Elder Philippe Soupault Alfred Jarry Jean Cocteau Raymond Roussel Jacques Prévert Alessandro Cagliostro Hélène Smith Pont Royal Del Duca - Laffont Paris Surrealism Dada Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Architecture / Interior Bauhaus Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Occult / Esoterica Photography Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Drugs / Psychedelia Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Le Surréalisme en 1947
Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp

1947, French
Softcover, 142 pages, 24 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Maeght Editeur / Paris

$650.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce copy of the legendary "Le Surréalisme en 1947 : Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp", published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, in conjunction with an important exhibition of Surrealist artists in 1947. Features the cover design by Marcel Duchamp - a photographic reproduction by Rémy Duval of "Prière de toucher (Please touch)", the famous Duchamp rubber breast edition, created with Italian-born painter Enrico Donati, that adorned the first 999 copies of the catalogue. This gorgeous catalogue features the work of artists from 24 countries including Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Jacqueline Lamba, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Joan Miró, Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Maria Martins, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Arp, Frederick Kiesler, Alberto Giacometti, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Brignoni, Alexander Calder, Bruno Capacci, Elizabeth van Damme, Jacques Halpern, Julio de Diego, Enrico Donati, Francis Bouvet, David Hare, Iaroslav Serpan, Jacqueline Lamba, Taro Okamoto, Roberto Matta, Kay Sage, Toyen, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Leonard Baskin, Jindrich Heisler, Jeanne Reynal, Isabelle Waldberg, Roger Brielle, Jindrich Styrsky, Bruno Capacci, Jean Guerin, Isamu Noguchi, Gerome Kamrowski, Frédéric Delanglade, Eugenio Granell, Francis Picabia, Remedios Varo, Hans Richter, Arshile Gorky, and many more, along with the folding sheet catalogue, and newspaper clipping about the show inserted.

Good copy considering age. Tanned edges and wear to corners, edges and spine. Some spine chipping.

File under: Victor Brauner Max Ernst Leonora Carrington Jacqueline Lamba Jacques Hérold Wilfredo Lam Joan Miró Hans Bellmer Marcel Jean Maria Martins Yves Tanguy Hans Arp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Dorothea Tanning Frederick Kiesler Alberto Giacometti Hector Hyppolite Serge Brignoni Alexander Calder Bruno Capacci Elizabeth van Damme Jacques Halpern Julio de Diego Enrico Donati Francis Bouvet David Hare Iaroslav Serpan Taro Okamoto Roberto Matta Kay Sage Toyen Frédéric Delanglade Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Jindřich Štyrský Leonard Baskin Jindrich Heisler Jeanne Reynal Isabelle Waldberg Roger Brielle Jean Guerin Isamu Noguchi Gerome Kamrowski Eugenio Granell Francis Picabia Remedios Varo Hans Richter Arshile Gorky Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Maeght Editeur / Paris Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Theory / Essay

Images of Horror and Fantasy
by Gert Schiff

1980, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 159 pages, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Academy Editions / London

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First UK hardcover edition published by Academy Editions in 1980, Images of Horror and Fantasy by art historian Gert Schiff expanded on a major group exhibition guest curated by Schiff at the Bronx Museum in 1977. The resulting publication is a perceptive critical and psychological analyses of a variety of nineteenth-and twentieth-century art that "unfolds simultaneously on the level of historical and social reality and on the level of dreams. Its purpose is to expose some of the principal anxieties of modern man and their resolution in utopian reveries and escapist fantasies."

Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with the works of Alfred Kubin, James Ensor, George Grosz, Paul Thek, Sibylle Ruppert, Henry Fuseli, Paul Delvaux, Nancy Grossman, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Fernand Khnopff, Rudolph von Ripper, Max Klinger, H. R. Giger, Jonah Kinigstein, Edward Keinholz, Jean Delville, Lucas Samaras, Miriam Beerman, Willem de Kooning, Man Ray, Oskar Kokoschka, Salvador Dali, Paolo Soleri, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Georges Rouault, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philip Evergood, William Blake, Giorgio de Chirico, Ivan Albright, Yves Tanguy, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns, Germaine Richier, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Rene Magritte, Illya Repin, Antoine Wiertz, Odilon Redon, Edward Burra, Larry Rivers, George Segal, Thomas Cole, Léon Frédéric, Matthias Grünewald, Rico Lebrun, Bruce Connor, Edvard Munch, and many more.

Gert Schiff (1926 — 1990, b. Oldenburg, Germany) was an art historian, critic, lecturer and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. A specialist in the Romantic movement, particularly the work of Henry Fuseli and William Blake, Mr. Schiff was also very much involved with 20th-century art, organising many major exhibitions around his interests whilst authoring important studies on the arts from his dwellings at the Chelsea Hotel.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Alfred Kubin James Ensor George Grosz Paul Thek Sibylle Ruppert Henry Fuseli Paul Delvaux Nancy Grossman Käthe Kollwitz Max Beckmann Fernand Khnopff Rudolph von Ripper Max Klinger H. R. Giger Jonah Kinigstein Edward Keinholz Jean Delville Lucas Samaras Miriam Beerman Willem de Kooning Man Ray Oskar Kokoschka Salvador Dali Paolo Soleri Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Georges Rouault Otto Dix Pablo Picasso Philip Evergood William Blake Giorgio de Chirico Ivan Albright Yves Tanguy Paul Klee Jasper Johns Germaine Richier Francisco de Goya Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Matisse Max Ernst Francis Bacon Rene Magritte Illya Repin Antoine Wiertz Odilon Redon Edward Burra Larry Rivers George Segal Thomas Cole Léon Frédéric Matthias Grünewald Rico Lebrun Bruce Connor Edvard Munch Academy Editions / London Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Psychoanalysis

19 Surrealists

1967, Japanese
Softcover, 6 page card fold-out w. insert, 23.8 x 23.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Gallery / Tokyo

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Incredibly scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the 1967 exhibition "19 Surrealists" held at Tokyo Gallery, Japan. Fold-out catalogue with insert, illustrated with the exhibited works (along with biographies in Japanese) by Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, Felix Labisse, René Magritte, Man Ray, Andre Masson, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, Taro Okamoto, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Max-Walter Svanberg, Yves Tanguy, Wols.

Very Good with light wear and mild spotting and a couple of pencil notations in Japanese. Preserved in sleeve.

File under: Enrico Baj Hans Bellmer Victor Brauner Salvador Dalí Paul Delvaux Max Ernst Wifredo Lam Felix Labisse Man Ray Roberto Matta Joan Miro Francis Picabia Kurt Schwitters Max-Walter Svanberg Yves Tanguy Wols René Magritte André Masson Tarō Okamoto Tokyo Gallery / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Art Painting Drawing

SALE2 NO.35
EROTIK!! ISSUE

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Issue No.35 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.35, the "EROTIK!!" issue features erotic writings and artwork throughout by Hans Bellmer, Dorothea Tanning, André Berg, Pierre Molinier, Max Ernst, Armando Calvelli, articles on vintage stag films, nude French postcards, interspersed with lots of mysterious vintage erotic imagery, bondage illustration, and catalogue/advertisments/clippings of Eric Stanton, Irving Klaw, Jim, John Willie, Bizarre Comix, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy, tanning to pages.

File under: Hans Bellmer Dorothea Tanning André Berg Pierre Molinier Max Ernst Armando Calvelli Eric Stanton Irving Klaw John Willie Jim Rieko Matsuura Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Surrealism

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Dada: Art and Anti-Art
by Hans Richter

1965, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$30.00 - Out of stock

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First 1965 English edition of German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian, Hans Richter's important book of the Dada movement. "Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace" writes Hans Richter, who was associated with Dada from its early days. The noted artist and film-maker records here the history of that boisterous and fantastic movement, from its beginnings in wartime Zurich to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s Dada invited the world to misunderstand it and fostered all kinds of confusion; nearly fifty years later its contradictions still intrigue us.

By skilful quotation from manifestoes and other documents of the time Professor Richter re-creates the events of those turbulent days. Looked at in retrospect Dada's role in the development of modern art seems inevitable, and the creative force of its planned outbursts can now be perceived: Dada led on from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism, and in its turn prepared the way for Surrealism. Dada was enlivened by extravagant, bizarre personalities: Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray. Today the wheel has turned again; the gestures and provocations of the original movement reappear, hardly changed, in such forms as Pop art. The final section discusses this phenomenon.

"Mr.Richter, one of the original adherents of Dada, describes their attitude in a first-rate history, as objective and sober as the laughter was once derisive."—THE TIMES OF LONDON

Very Good copy, light wear to extremities, tanning to covers.

File under: Hans Richter Tristan Tzara Francis Picabia Hans Arp Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Man Ray Raoul Hausmann George Grosz Giorgio de Chirico Marcel Janco Hans Richter Tristan Tzara Louis Aragon Andre Breton André Breton Richard Huelsenbeck Philippe Soupault Harry N. Abrams / New York Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Art 'Pataphysics / Oulipo

MAX ERNST
1983/1984

1983, Japanese / German / English
Softcover, 164 pages, 24 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo

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Scarce Japanese catalogue on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition that travelled Japan 1983—1984.

With an introduction by German art historian Werner Spies, in German and Japanese, this profusely illustrated book is quite a valuable volume on Ernst as it concentrates its pages on a huge collection of his lithography, frottage, collage, etching, and other graphic works, rather than his more well-known works in painting and sculpture, bringing to the surface many lesser-seen works of the artist. Over 300 colour and black and white reproductions, including biography and bibliography. Texts in Japanese and German, with titles and introduction in English.

Max Ernst (1891—1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Good copy with wear and creasing to corners, general wear and tear to cover extremities. Spine uncreased and tightly bound.

File under: Max Ernst Werner Spies Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada