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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

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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

Black Magazine No. 16
July 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

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July 1972 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Paul Delvaux Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Japanese Photography Photography Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Eros Fantasy: Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room
by Yoshiki Yamamoto

1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 236 pages, 20.4 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Self-published / Kobe City

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this stunning privately-issued 1979 Japanese hardcover collection of erotic fantasy art, edited and written by Yoshiki Yamamoto. Upon retiring from the Sanyo Electric Railway Company in 1976, Yamamoto devoted himself to the art that he loved and to complete an intimate book study that traces an important lineage of artists of "eros fantasy", focussing on 16 key artists through profusely illustrated chapters, linking artists of the fin de siècle, symbolism, surrealism, and their descendants. A total labour of love. There is no other book like it. "Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room" features profusely illustrated full chapters on Gustave Moreau, Félicien Rops, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Bayros, Egon Schiele, Paul Delvaux, Hans Bellmer, Felix Labisse, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Leonor Fini, Paul Wunderlich, Ernst Fuchs, Tomi Ungerer, H.R. Giger, Raymond Bertrand, Gilles Rimbault, including profiles, many artworks, portraits and texts by Yamamoto, closing with a chronology of further artists and authors through the centuries.

Average—Good copy due to the back hardcover board being reattached. Good dust jacket with the usual wear and tanning of this title, otherwise the book block is VG throughout — crisp and clean.

File under: Gustave Moreau Félicien Rops Gustav Klimt Franz von Bayros Egon Schiele Paul Delvaux Hans Bellmer Felix Labisse Pierre-Yves Trémois Leonor Fini Paul Wunderlich Ernst Fuchs Tomi Ungerer H.R. Giger Raymond Bertrand Gilles Rimbault Yoshiki Yamamoto Self-published / Kobe City Eros Out-of-print / Rare Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Fetishism / BDSM Art Drawing Painting Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Group Shows / Collections Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Paul Delvaux, Paul Wunderlich

1971, English
Softcover, folded card, 46 x 20 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Staempfli / New York

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Rare folding card invitation/catalogue published on the occasion of the two-artist exhibition of Belgian painter Paul Delvaux (1897—1994) and German painter and graphic artist Paul Wunderlich (1927—2010) at Staempfli, New York, February 16—March 20, 1971. Offset printed in Switzerland, the catalogue features a colour reproduction of each artist's work in oil on canvas on the subject of the fantastic nude, with full exhibition catalogue on verso. The exhibition comprised a large number of works in oil on canvas by each artist, the earliest of which by Delvaux from 1943.

Good copy, light wear/marking.

File under: Paul Delvaux Paul Wunderlich Staempfli / New York Surrealism Painting Eros Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Images of Horror and Fantasy
by Gert Schiff

1979, English
Softcover, 159 pages, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Published by Abrams in 1978, 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.

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

Surrealist Drawings
by František Šmejkal

1978, English
Hardcover (clothbound w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 24.5 x 32 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Octopus / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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English edition of the great "Surrealist Drawings", edited by František Šmejkal, designed and printed in Czechoslovakia. 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.

Highly recommended.
Very Good copy with light edge wear. Very Good dust jacket.

File under: Toyen Jindřich Štyrský André Masson Hans Bellmer Arshile Gorky Victor Brauner Salvador Dalí Paul Delvaux Wilfredo Lam Max Ernst Yves Tanguy Wolfgang Paalen Giorgio de Chirico Alfred Kubin Max-Walter Svanberg Odilon Redon Joan Miró Josef Sima René Magritte Jacques Hérold Francis Picabia Man Ray Richard Oelze Kurt Seligmann František Muzika Mikuláš Medek Josef Istler František Šmejkal Octopus / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Surrealism in Belgium - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
by Xavier Canonne

2015, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 27 x 31 cm
Published by Marot / Brussels

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From the start, the Belgian Surrealists—among them René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Nougé, E.L.T. Mesens and Marcel Mariën—distinguished themselves from their Parisian counterparts with their dry wit, brilliant conceptualism and knack for combining the fantastical and the everyday (e.g., Magritte's bowler-hatted men, or Marcel Mariën's iconic single-lensed spectacle), and their disinclination to issue Breton-style manifestos.

This revelatory volume celebrates the Surrealist movement in Belgium through a group of more than 250 paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and books by artists such as Rachel Baes, Paul Delvaux, Camille Goemans, Jane Graverol, Tom Gutt, Jacques Lacomblez, René Magritte, Marcel Mariën, Jacques Matton, Edouard (E.L.T.) Mesens, Paul Nougé, Gilbert Senecaut, Louis Scutenaire, Max Servais, Armand Simon, André Stas Raoul Ubac, Louis Van de Spiegele, Rogier Van de Wouwer and Robert Willems.

File under: Rachel Baes Paul Delvaux Camille Goemans Jane Graverol Tom Gutt Jacques Lacomblez René Magritte Marcel Mariën Jacques Matton Edouard (E.L.T.) Mesens Paul Nougé Gilbert Senecaut Louis Scutenaire Max Servais Armand Simon André Stas Raoul Ubac Louis Van de Spiegele Rogier Van de Wouwer Robert Willems Xavier Canonne Marot / Brussels Surrealism Painting Drawing Fiction / Poetry Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Fantastic Painters
by Simon Watney

1977 / 1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bracken Books / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Hardcover edition of Fantastic Painters by Simon Watney, first published in 1977, this 1984 edition published by Bracken Books, London. Includes the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Luigi Russolo, Paul Delvaux, Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri Rousseau, Paul Klee, Georde Frederic Watts, Giovanni Segantini, Edward Burne-Jones, John Anster Fitzgerald, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Dadd, Francisco de Goya, Henry Fuseli, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Hubert Robert, William Blake, François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio), Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Jacopo Pontormo, Matthias Grünewald, Luca Signorelli, David Hockney, and more.

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hieronymus Bosch Max Ernst Lyonel Feininger Luigi Russolo Paul Delvaux Arnold Böcklin Odilon Redon Gustave Moreau Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Caspar David Friedrich Henri Rousseau Paul Klee Georde Frederic Watts Giovanni Segantini Edward Burne-Jones John Anster Fitzgerald Pieter Bruegel the Elder Richard Dadd Francisco de Goya Henry Fuseli Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Hubert Robert William Blake François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio) Giuseppe Arcimboldo Jacopo Pontormo Matthias Grünewald Luca Signorelli David Hockney Simon Watney Bracken Books / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Group Shows / Collections

domus
No. 466 Settembre 1968

1968, Italian / English
Softcover, 98 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 466 Settembre 1968
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames,
Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
features :
Archizoom; Lucio Fontana; "Tatlin" by Agnoldomenico Pica; "Apartment Building in Ramat Gan Tel Aviv" by architects Alfred Neumann, Zvi Hecker, Eldar Sharon, "The 18th Aspen Design Conference" by Hans Hollein; Olivetti store in Buenos Aires by architect Gae Aulenti; XIV Triennial of Milan "Il Grande Numero" (Arata Isozaki); "Venice Biennale 1968: A Failure in Attempted Suicide" by Pierre Restany; "For a New Biennale" by Tommaso Trini; Book reviews; and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

File under: Gae Aulenti Ettore Sottsass Archizoom Lucio Fontana Arata Isozaki Marisol Arman César Cesare Casati Bruno Munari Vico Magistretti Artemide Saul Bass Archizoom Associati Charles Eames Ray Eames Ugo La Pietra Paul Delvaux Bridget Riley Rodolfo Bonetto Ambrogio Pozzi Gino Marotta Enrico Castellani Eero Aarnio Jiro Takamatsu Hans Hollein Alfred Neumann Zvi Hecker Eldar Sharon Agnoldomenico Pica Carmela Haerdtl Kho Liang je George Nelson Fausto Melotti Tapio Wirkkalaand Rut Bryk Phillip King Gio Ponti Ettore Sottsass Pierre Restany Joseph Rykwert Bernard Rudofsky Fausto Melotti Tommaso Trini Hans Hollein Editoriale Domus / Milan Art Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Textiles

documenta-Dokumente 1955-1968

1972, German
Hardcover, 216 pages, 24.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel

$60.00 $40.00 - Out of stock

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documenta - Dokumente 1955 - 1968 (Four International Exhibitions of Modern Art), was published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag, Kassel in 1972. This clothbound hardcover book of texts (by Dieter Westecker, Carl Eberth, Werner Lengemann, Erich Müller) and photographs of the first four documenta exhibitions, is quite a unique publication. Written at the suggestion of former students and collaborators of Documenta initiator Arnold Bode, it does not replace a documenta chronicle or a scientific study of individual facts. On the contrary, the textual and pictorial material is selected from a technical point of view, processed and presented in a comprehensible form to stimulate detailed investigations into the exhibition-presentations. The bulk of the photographic documentation is of visitor reception and interaction with the installations of artworks, including those of Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Lee Bontecou, Victor Pasmore, Marino Marini, Jean Dubuffet, Konrad Klapheck, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Walter de Maria, Eduardo Paolozzi, Phillip King, Erich Hauser, Ernest Trova, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Carl Andre, William Tucker, Peter Brüning, David Smith, Edward Keinholz, Dan Flavin, Morris Louis, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, James RosenquisThomas Lenck, Francis Bacon, Horst Antes, Shinkichi Tajiri, Christo, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Bernard Schultze, Otto Herbert Hajek, Jacques Lipchitz, Lynn Chadwick, Paul Delvaux, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Max Bill, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Giogio de Chirico, Victor Vasarley, Zoran Music, Giuseppe Capogrossi, and many others.

Texts in German. First and only edition.
Vert Good copy with original dust jacket.

File under: Constantin Brancusi Lee Bontecou Victor Pasmore Marino Marini Jean Dubuffet Konrad Klapheck George Segal Robert Indiana Claes Oldenburg Walter de Maria Eduardo Paolozzi Phillip King Erich Hauser Ernest Trova Michelangelo Pistoletto Carl Andre William Tucker Peter Brüning David Smith Edward Keinholz Dan Flavin Morris Louis Sol Lewitt Robert Morris Frank Stella Tom Wesselmann James RosenquisThomas Lenck Francis Bacon Horst Antes Shinkichi Tajiri Christo Jackson Pollock Karel Appel Bernard Schultze Otto Herbert Hajek Jacques Lipchitz Lynn Chadwick Paul Delvaux Helen Frankenthaler Wassily Kandinsky Fernand Leger Max Bill Joan Miro Henry Moore Pablo Picasso Robert Rauschenberg Giogio de Chirico Victor Vasarley Zoran Music Giuseppe Capogrossi Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Pop Art Bauhaus Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic SALE

Fashion and Surrealism

1996, English
Softcover, 238 pages, 23 x 30.5 cm
Out of print title / used*,
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$70.00 - Out of stock

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"The influence of Surrealism on fashion and its ancillary arts lasted decades longer than the movement itself. This catalog, accompanying a 1987 exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology, explores the extravagances of visual language as social and political comment, a revolution in perception."--The Library Journal.

"The love affair between fashion and Surrealism began in the Paris of the 1920s when Surrealist artists plundered fashion's imagery for their art, raising fashion beyond the level of mere style to an important expression of culture. This text reveals the extravagent and ingenious creations resulting from this collaboration. It ranges from the shocking Surrealist dresses of Schiaparelli and Dali, and photographic experiments with Surrealist techniques by Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton and George Hoyningen-Huene to the work of younger fashion designers, including Olivier Guillemin and Vivienne Westwood, who have all brought Surrealist imagery into clothing and accessories."

This bountiful, visually lavish volume, published to accompany a 1987 exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology, features the garments, paintings, sculptures, illustrations, window displays, fashion advertisements, costume designs and photography of Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Issey Miyake, Horst P. Horst, Cinzia Ruggeri, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Krizia, Giorgio De Chirico, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Donatella, Rene Magritte, Comme des Garcons, Enrico Donati, Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dali, Marcel Rochas, Jaques Griffe, Adelle Lutz, Marina Killery, Dominique Lacoustille, Emme, Stephen Jones, Louise Bourbon, Bill Cunningham, Germaine Vittu, Eric Braagaard, Karl Lagerfeld, Candy Pratts Price, Serge Lutens, Antonio, Linda Fargo, Claude Montana, Georgina Godley, Olivier Guillemin, Yves Tanguy, Christian Lacroix, Valentine Hugo, Paul Colin, Francoise Lesage, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Cocteau, Adam Kurtzman, Herbert Bayer, Mel Odom, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alfa Castaldi, Leo Malet, Jorge Silvetti, Gabriella Giandelli, Givenchy, Marcel Jean, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Michael Roberts, Marcel Vertés, Bert Stern, John Galliano, Danuta Riyder, Paul Delvaux, Manolo Blahnik, Dorothea Tanning, Eileen Agar, Miguel Covarubias, Cristobal Balenciaga, Andre Masson, Leonor Fini, Roman Cieslewicz, Shoji Ueda, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bruce Weber, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. M. Cassandre, Peter Lindbergh, Claude Cahun, Jean Arp, and so many more.

Condition: Good – (some internal stamping/stickers from ex-library, light creasing, otherwise clean, tight throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: A.M. Cassandre Adam Kurtzman Adelle Lutz Alfa Castaldi André Masson Antonio Bert Stern Bill Cunningham Bruce Weber Candy Pratts Price Cecil Beaton Christian Lacroix Cinzia Ruggeri Claude Cahun Claude Montana Comme des Garçons Cristobal Balenciaga Danuta Riyder Dominique Lacoustille Donatella Dorothea Tanning Eileen Agar Elsa Schiaparelli Enrico Donati Eric Braagaard Francoise Lesage Gabriella Giandelli Georgina Godley Germaine Vittu Giorgio de Chirico Givenchy Herbert Bayer Horst P. Horst Issey Miyake Jaques Griffe Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Jean Cocteau Jean-Paul Gaultier John Galliano Jorge Silvetti Karl Lagerfeld Krizia Leo Malet Leonor Fini Linda Fargo Louise Bourbon Louise Dahl-Wolfe Man Ray Manolo Blahnik Marcel Jean Marcel Rochas Marcel Vertés Marina Killery Max Ernst Mel Odom Meret Oppenheim Michael Roberts Olivier Guillemin Paul Colin Paul Delvaux Peter Lindbergh René Magritte Robert Mapplethorpe Salvador Dalí Serge Lutens Shoji Ueda Stephen Jones Thierry Mugler Valentine Hugo Vivienne Westwood Yves Saint Laurent Yves Tanguy Roman Cieślewicz Miguel Covarrubias Richard Martin Rizzoli / New York Art Fashion Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Photography Surrealism Textiles