World Food Books

FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART
By Amos Vogel

1974, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Random House / New York

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The first edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art, one of the greatest books on cinema, published in 1974. Reprinted in 2005 by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, that edition also quickly went out of print and this landmark book has not been available since. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago for this classic volume are still relevant today. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

VG copy.

File under: Luis Buñuel Dušan Makavejev Stan Brakhage Roman Polanski Vera Chytilova Alfred Hitchcock Carolee Schneemann Peter Watkins Tony Conrad Jonas Mekas Andrei Tarkovsky Marcel Duchamp Robert Bresson Luchino Visconti Chris Marker Federico Fellini Rainer Werner Fassbinder Kate Millett Shuji Terayama William Klein Russ Meyers Louis Malle Woody Allen Yoko Ono Michelangelo Antonioni Agnes Varda Andy Warhol Ingmar Bergman Jacques Rivette Lindsay Anderson Roberto Rossellini Marguerite Duras Charlie Chaplin Paul Morrissey Joseph Losey Otto Muehl Hans Richter Fritz Lang Jean Genet Kenneth Anger Maya Deren Jean-Luc Godard Frans Zwartjes Arrabal Jack Smith Stan Vanderbeek Werner Herzog Morgan Fisher Jean Renior Michael Snow Robert Frank Jan Svankmajer Sam Peckinpah Paul Sharits Akira Kurosawa Orson Welles Frederick Wiseman Ken Jacobs Martin Scorcese Jean Cocteau Manuel Octavio Gomez Stanley Kubrick Norman McLaren Walérian Borowczyk John Cassavetes Bruce Conner Sergei Eisenstein Amos Vogel Random House / New York Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Art Surrealism Dada Eros Performance / Dance / Theater

Love is Colder Than Death: Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Robert Katz and Peter Berling

1989, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 20 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Paladin / London

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First 1989 edition of this colossal and now rare biography and a painful gaze inside the life and times of the tortured cinematic genius that was Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Author Robert Katz knew Fassbinder, had worked with him, interviewed him in the months before his death, and spent three years researching his life and talking extensively to 'Fassbinder people'. The result is a fascinating and revealing study of the man who turned the hell he inhabited in the real world into some of the most powerful images in post-war cinema.

"A sort of a whirlwind of a book, matching perhaps in speed and compulsive fascination the rhythm of a life that produced forty-three films"—LITERARY REVIEW

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder died at the age of thirty-seven, his body bloated and poisoned by years of drug abuse, the award-winning director of The Marriage of Maria Braun was at the height of his fame and artistic reputation.

Fassbinder's prodigious cinematic output is legendary. Over a period of thirteen years, he made, on average, a film every hundred days. His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with the excesses of abasement and tortured relationships of his personal life with the people he drew around him in a surrogate family.

Very Good copy with general light wear/tanning to extremities.

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paladin / London Film / Video LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Art

Hanna Schygulla : Images from films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1981, German
Softcover, 190 pages, 23 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

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First 1981 edition of the photo-book dedicated entirely to legend of the New German Cinema, actress Hanna Schygulla, in the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour with film stills spanning Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) to Lili Marleen (1981), with an autobiographical text by Schygulla herself and a contribution by Fassbinder, with whom she collaborated intensively. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies. A must for any fan.

Hanna Schygulla (b. 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. Associated with the prolific young theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in 1965, she is an award winning actress who was active in the New German Cinema.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945 – 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Hanna Schygulla Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art

FILM IS: The International Free Cinema
by Stephen Dwoskin

1975 / 1985, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Overlook Press / New York

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First 1975 US edition (1985 print) of Stephen Dwoskin's important critical history of international independent and underground film-making, its pioneers and masters, and their creations, from the 1920s to the present (late 1970s), assessing the movements importance to the current status of film as art and entertainment. Published by Overlook Press.

Underground' film is finally emerging in terms of the public consciousness as an important and enduring contribution to the world of celluloid, both as entertainment and as an art form. The author, Stephen Dwoskin, is a young American independent filmmaker with personal experience in an expert knowledge of a creative area barely studied until this time. He has created in FILM IS an invaluable record of the pioneering cinematic statements that are at once peripheral and central to film today on an international scale. It is both culturally and sociologically true today that an increasing number of the painters and the poets have become filmmakers. Un-pressured by big business, free cinema has become a personal, creative expression for many men and women who often work in obscurity with small means indeed. Dwoskin's work presents the early history of the independent film from its beginning in the twenties to its phenomenal outburst in the sixties, written by an involved, perceptive critic. Through his own work and his contributions to the juries of international festivals, Dwoskin has a wide-ranging knowledge of the independent film from the U.S. to Britain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Over 700 films are discussed, many for the first time. Van der Beek, Refenstahl, Brakhage, Emshwiller, Ray and Jack Smith are only some of the experimental filmmakers mentioned in FILM IS, but Dwoskin refers forwards and backwards to the works of others, often better known— Bunuel, Cocteau, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Warhol. There is also a comprehensive index. FILM IS provides a unique and invaluable reference work for all those interested in the frontiers of film consciousness.

Stephen Dwoskin (1939—2012) was a major avant-garde filmmaker whose work was closely connected to the 'gaze theory' associated with Laura Mulvey; a significant disabled filmmaker – though he rejected being framed as such – and an activist for an alternative film culture, through such organizations as the London Film-Makers' Co-op and The Other Cinema. His films are held by the BFI and distributed by LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Very Good copy, light wear, ex-owner's name in inside front cover.

File under: Jack Smith Stan Brakhage Andy Warhol Leni Riefenstahl Stephen Dwoskin François Truffaut Rainer Werner Fassbinder Jean Cocteau The Cockettes Paul Sharits Jean-Luc Godard Maya Deren Jonas Mekas Robert Wiene Robert Frank Tiny Tim Ron Rice Robert Breer Carolee Schneemann Michael Snow Stan Vanderbeek Wim Wenders Kenneth Anger George Kuchar Mike Kuchar Frans Zwartjes Kurt Kren Peter Weibel Otto Muehl Limpe Fuchs Peter Gidal Peter Kubelka Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Bruce Connor Luis Buñuel Ed Emshwiller Reinosuke Kinugasa Taylor Mead Harry Smith David Larcher Bruce Baillie Alfredo Leonardi Valie Export Stephen Dwoskin The Overlook Press / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art Surrealism

Bombast Issue 2
Edited by Nick Pinkerton

2024, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
Published by Bombast / Seattle

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MAKING CINEPHILIA A THREAT AGAIN!

The long-awaited second issue of the periodical that “saved film culture” [J-M Straub], Bombast, that shape-shifting, mind-bending “Journal of Film and Funnies,” is back with a sophomore edition nigh twice as girthy as the first, a laff-larded -yet -thought-provoking traipse through the posh front parlors and squalid back alleys of the Seventh (and Best) Art. Far cheaper and more edifying than a Cinema Studies degree, a thing of beauty to treasure forever, and still in retina- scorching full color!

CONTRIBUTORS: Nick Pinkerton, Dan Fried, Christopher Norris, Nick Blinko, Mira Sonnleitner, Chase Slaker, David Tarafa, Jonathan Bauerle, Gashly, Jay Giampietro, Mike Kuchar, Wil Long, Rozz Williams, Casey Moore, Demian Johnston, Ben Horak...

Extremely LIMITED copies!

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rozz Williams Mike Kuchar Nick Blinko Christopher Norris Demian Johnston Ben Horak Christopher Norris Nick Pinkerton David Tarafa Bombast / Seattle Counterculture Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Film / Video

Fassbinder

1981, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tanam Press / New York

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First edition of this anthology of texts on the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, published in New York in 1981 by Tanam Press.

Illustrated throughout with stills from his filmography spanning 1965-1980. Full filmography is included, along with biography and the following major chapters and essays:
"History of Anti-Teater : The Beginnings" by Yaak Karsunke; "The Impact-Maker" by Peter Idem; "The Doll in the Doll : Observations on Fassbinder's Films" by Wilfried Wiegand; Interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Wilfried Wiegand; "Fassbinder's Reality: an Imitation of Life" by Ruth McCormick; "Franz, Mieze, Reinhold, Death and the Devil : Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Wolfram Schulte; "Annotated Filmography" by Wilhelm Roth; "Documentation" by Hans-Helmut Prinzler.

The influential Tanam Press was founded in 1980 by Reese Williams with the release of LP recordings featuring talks by Buckminster Fuller and Susan Sontag. Over the course of five years, Tanam published lively individual and collaborative projects from writers, visual and media artists that utilize the page in innovative ways. Playing across genre, the publications incorporate critical essays, poetry, experimental prose, photography, film, video and television.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945 – 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Yaak Karsunke Peter Idem Wilfried Wiegand Wilhelm Roth Wolfram Schulte Ruth McCormick Tanam Press / New York Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
by Ian Penman

2023, English
Softcover, 200 Pages, 19.6 x 14.2 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period "in the spirit" of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as Penman's equivalent of what Baudelaire was to Benjamin: an urban poet in the turbulent, seeds-sown, messy era just before everything changed. Beautifully written and extraordinarily compelling, echoing the fragmentary works of Roland Barthes and Emil Cioran, Eduardo Galeano and Alexander Kluge, this story has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema, and revolution.

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder Ian Penman Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

1972, English / German
Softcover, 32 pages, 22 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Goethe-Institute / Münich

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Extremely rare, early publication on the work of director, actor, playwright and catalyst for the New German Cinema movement, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), published in 1972 by Goethe-Institute, Münich. Illustrated throughout with chronology of his prolific work to date, with each feature including a full-page film image, full cast listing, production, camera and music credits, along with bi-lingual texts in German and English for each film, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Katzelmacher (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), The American Soldier (1970), The Niklashausen Journey (1970), Whity (1971), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), and more, ending with his latest feature, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972). Ten years before his untimely death in 1982, this gorgeous publication celebrates and documents the early achievements of one of cinema's greatest directors.

""He is", said Henri Langlois, director of the Paris Cinematheque during an Hommage a Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "the beginning of German post-war cinema". Indeed, Fassbinder is one of the most talked about and honored — and productive — moviemakers in West Germany. Not only 12 features in three years, but also five plays, a number of drama-adaptations, radio-plays and an eight-part-family-serial for television have made the 27 year-old director a unique phenomenon in the German cultural scene." (Wolfgang Limmer, opening of the introduction)

"Fassbinder's unique position in Germany is first of all the result of his fearless breaking of crusted cultural traditions, but also the result of the strong impression his enormous productivity has made on Germany's cultural industrie. Quickly he was captioned "German Warhol", "Kid-Genius", "Wunderkind . He is certainly none of those. Goethe's remark would fit here better: "His genius is deligence."" (Wolfgang Limmer, closing of the introduction)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

Very Good copy, only light corner and spine wear.

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wolfgang Limmer Goethe-Institute / Münich Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Die Kinofilme 1

1987, German
Softcover, 294 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

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First 1987 edition of this excellent compendium of early films by prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Introduction by Michael Toteberg. 252 film stills alongside script excerpts from the 5 early films : ' Der Stadtstreicher '(1965),' Das kleine Chaos' (1966), 'Liebe ist Kalter als der Tod / Love is Colder Than Death' (1969), 'Katzelmacher' (1969), and 'Gotter der Pest / Gods of The Plague' (1969). A must for any Fassbinder fan. Unfortunately they only made this one, first volume, not to be followed with more. It would've a tremendous collection!

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945 – 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The films 1: Der Stadtstreicher; The little mess; Love is colder than death Katzelmacher; Gods of the plague: Ed. Michael Töteberg. - Nothing more appeared.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The movies 1
Published by Schirmer / Mosel Verlag GmbH, Munich, Federal Rep. Of Germany (1987)
ISBN 10: 3888141826 ISBN 13: 9783888141829
New Trade Paperback/ OBroschur First Edition Quantity: 1
Seller:Lighthouse
(Flensburg, Germany)
RatingSeller Rating: 5-star rating
Book Description Trade Paperback / OBroschur. Condition: New, New. First edition / first edition. no more appeared. 294 p., 17 x 23.5 cm. Films: Die Stadtstreicher: 1965, Das kleine Chaos: 1966, Love is colder than death: 1969, Katzelmacher and: Gods of the Plague: both 1969. RWF. Seller Inventory # 88814182_Bd.1_Y

File under: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Hanna Schygulla Michael Toteberg Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art

Continental Film Review September 1976
Vol. 23 No. 11

1976, English
Softcover, 34 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

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Continental Film Review, September 1976 issue, includes the films of Jess Franco (Caged Women), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Richard Donner (The Omen), Roman Polanski (The Tenant), Alfred Hitchcock, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Gérard Pirès, Brunello Rondi, Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock), actor/sculptor Jean Marais, and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Jesús Franco Rainer Werner Fassbinder Richard Donner Roman Polanski Alfred Hitchcock Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Gérard Pirès Brunello Rondi Peter Weir Eurap / London Eros Periodicals Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

Documenta 6
Complete 3 volume boxset, plus booklet

1977, German
Heavy card slipcase (4 vols.), 323 pages; 357 pages; 378 pages; 40 pages; 21 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Paul Dierich / Kassel

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Complete 3 volume boxset exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta 6, the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, Germany, and the artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger. The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition.

Box contains volume 1: painting - sculpture - performance (320 pages) / volume 2: photography - film - video (357 pages) / volume 3: drawings - utopian design - books (376 pages + show) / special edition of exhibition information booklet (40 pages + show); essays by Lothar Romain, Bazon Brock, Karl Oskar Blase, Klaus Honnef, Evelyn Weiss, Manfred Schneckenburger, Arnold Bode, Wieland Schmied, and Lothar Lang.

Artists featured throughout include Francis Bacon, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerd Baukhage, Enzo Cacciola, Louis Cane, Chuck Close, Ulrich Erben, Winfred Gaul, Raimund Girke, Kuno Gonschior, Camille Graeser, Gotthard Graubner, Nancy Graves, Alan Green, Richard Hamilton, Heijo Hangen, Bernhard Heisig, Michael Heizer, Edgar Hofschen, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Attila Kovács, László Lakner, Roy Lichtenstein, Markus Lüpertz, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Gerhard Merz, Rune Mields, Carmengloria Morales, Malcolm Morley, Claudio Olivieri, Roman Opalka, Palermo, A.R. Penck, Lucio Pozzi, Hans-Peter Reuter, Gerhard Richter, Claude Rutault, Willi Sitte, Frank Stella, Werner Tübke, Bernar Venet, Andy Warhol, Reindert Wepko van de Wint, Gianfranco Zappetini, Jerry Zeniuk, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Christian Boltanski, Bettina Brand, Heinz Breloh, James Collins, Zdenek Felix, Reinhold Hohl, Gabrielle Honnef-Harling, Erich Kuby, Werner Lippert, Bernd Lohse, Felix H. Mann, Hilmar Pabel, Georg Reinhardt, Liselotte Strelow, Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Peter Ackermann, Michael von Biel, Fernando Botero, Miguel Condé, Renato Guttoso, Horst Janssen, Giacomo Manzù, Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Schmitz, Rudolf Schoofs, André Thomkins, Bodo Baumgarten, Blythe Bohnen, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Rupprecht Geiger, Hetum Gruber, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Nino Malfatti, Bob Ryman, Jan Schoonhoven, Lee U-Fan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick.

Texts in German.

Also includes an exhibition guide booklet in the same format as the 3 main catalogue volumes.
Good copy throughout with general tanning and age wear to box and books, some knocking and tape-mended cracking to the box binding corners and edging.

File under: Lothar Romain Arnold Bode Manfred Schneckenburger Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Lothar Lang Francis Bacon Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerd Baukhage Enzo Cacciola Louis Cane Chuck Close Ulrich Erben Winfred Gaul Raimund Girke Kuno Gonschior Camille Graeser Gotthard Graubner Nancy Graves Alan Green Richard Hamilton Heijo Hangen Bernhard Heisig Michael Heizer Edgar Hofschen Jasper Johns Willem de Kooning Attila Kovács László Lakner Roy Lichtenstein Markus Lüpertz Wolfgang Mattheuer Gerhard Merz Rune Mields Carmengloria Morales Malcolm Morley Claudio Olivieri Roman Opalka Palermo A.R. Penck Lucio Pozzi Hans-Peter Reuter Gerhard Richter Claude Rutault Willi Sitte Frank Stella Werner Tübke Bernar Venet Andy Warhol Reindert Wepko van de Wint Gianfranco Zappetini Jerry Zeniuk Bernhard Johannes Blume Christian Boltanski Bettina Brand Heinz Breloh James Collins Zdenek Felix Reinhold Hohl Gabrielle Honnef-Harling Erich Kuby Werner Lippert Bernd Lohse Felix H. Mann Hilmar Pabel Georg Reinhardt Liselotte Strelow Ann Wilde Jürgen Wilde Peter Ackermann Michael von Biel Fernando Botero Miguel Condé Renato Guttoso Horst Janssen Giacomo Manzù Pablo Picasso Wolfgang Schmitz Rudolf Schoofs André Thomkins Bodo Baumgarten Blythe Bohnen Pinchas Cohen Gan Rupprecht Geiger Hetum Gruber Eva Hesse Sol LeWitt Nino Malfatti Robert Ryman Jan Schoonhoven Lee U-Fan Wieland Schmied Rainer Werner Fassbinder Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Bernd and Hilla Becher Lothar Romain Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Manfred Schneckenburger Arnold Bode Wieland Schmied Lothar Lang Paul Dierich / Kassel Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Dada Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Pop Art Sound / Music Fluxus

Film As A Subversive Art
by Amos Vogel

2005, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
2005 edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by D.A.P. / New York

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The now scarce 2005 reprint edition of one of the greatest books on film. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
This 2005 edition, published by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, also quickly went out of print and it has not been available since.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

Condition: Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light creasing to covers and light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Agnès Varda Akira Kurosawa Albert Maysles and David Maysles Alfred Hitchcock Andrei Tarkovsky Andy Warhol Arrabal Bruce Conner Carolee Schneemann Charlie Chaplin Chris Marker Dušan Makavejev Federico Fellini Frans Zwartjes Frederick Wiseman Fritz Lang Hans Richter Ingmar Bergman Jack Smith Jacques Rivette Jan Svankmajer Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renior Jonas Mekas Joseph Losey Kate Millett Ken Jacobs Kenneth Anger Lindsay Anderson Louis Malle Luchino Visconti Luis Buñuel Manuel Octavio Gomez Marcel Duchamp Marguerite Duras Martin Scorcese Maya Deren Michael Snow Michelangelo Antonioni Morgan Fisher Norman Mclaren Otto Muehl Paul Morrissey Paul Sharits Peter Watkins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Robert Bresson Robert Frank Roberto Rossellini Roman Polanski Russ Meyers Sam Peckinpah Sergei Eisenstein Shuji Terayama Stan Brakhage Stan VanDerBeek Stanley Kubrick Tony Conrad Vera Chytilova Walérian Borowczyk Werner Herzog William Klein Woody Allen Yoko Ono John Cassavetes Amos Vogel D.A.P. / New York Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Theory / Essay