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Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

$180.00 - In stock -

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

Sigmar Polke
Fotografien

1990, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages, 29.7 x 24.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine

$250.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, first hardcover bi-lingual (English and German) edition of this long out-of-print, comprehensive book on Sigmar Polke's work with photography, published by Editions Cantz to accompany the exhibition at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 1990. This handsome book exhaustively compiles the jubilant and almost cheeky relationship that the German artist had with the photographic medium during his career. Photography is just a starting point for Polke. He alters his imagery—much of it derived from his travels in Asia and South America—in every way imaginable. He hand colours some of his photographs; others he mutilates. Some are the result of darkroom experimentation with light and\or chemistry. His work is wide ranging and often fascinating, and page by page the many photographic genres and experiments usual to Polke's practice reveal themselves, creating a body of work partly family album, partly road movie. The book also insists on the important place the chemical and photographic experiments held in the painter's practice. Includes stunning installation views, a major essay, printed in both English and German, by critic Bice Curiger. A key publication on the photographic practice of Polke and a treasure trove archive of rare images! Includes exhibition checklist, biography, and exhibition history.

VG—Near Fine copy in VG—NF dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Sigmar Polke Jochen Poetter Bice Curiger Painting Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Sigmar Polke
Works on Paper 1963-1974

1999, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 200 pages, 21 x 26.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York

$120.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of the long out of print Sigmar Polke "Works on Paper 1963-1974" catalogue from 1999.

Texts by Bice Curiger, Margit Rowell, and Michael Semff

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Düsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and eclectic creative process than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of the 1960s and early 70s.

More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper. This book was published to accompany the first American exhibition of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.

Very Good copy in preserved dust jacket.

File under: Sigmar Polke Bice Curiger Margit Rowell Michael Semff MoMA / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Parkett Vol. 30 (1991)
Sigmar Polke Issue

1991, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

$50.00 - Out of stock

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1991 issue of Parkett (Vol. 30), deluxe issue created in collaboration with Sigmar Polke, lavishly illustrated with Polke's works alongside texts by Bice Curiger, Thomas McEvilley, Gary Garrels, Laszlo Glozer, Dave Hickey, Gabriele Wix, G. Roger Denson, Anne Rorimer, Laura Cottingham. And an Insert by Glenn Ligon. Spine by Niele Toroni. Additional texts are by Edward Leffingwell and Lawrence Weiner “When You Offer Stones You Get Stones,” Andrei Kowaljow “François Boucher.” Also feature articles: When You Offer Stones You Get Stones by Edward Leffingwell & Lawrence Weiner; François Boucher by Andrei Kowaljow; On curating exhibitions of site-specific public sculpture by Dan Cameron; Reflections on a space for creation by Gloria Moure; Michael Asher by Anne Rorimer; Overstepping, Les Infos du Paradis by Carin Kuoni; December, 1989: After the Fact by Richard Flood; and more.

Founded in the early 1980s in Zurich, with an office also in New York City, , Parkett was international art magazine that aimed to foster an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, with the goal to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre was explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English. By 2017, Parkett had published 100 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide. Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.

Average—Good copy with marking and wear.

File under: Sigmar Polke Glenn Ligon Michael Asher Niele Toroni Lawrence Weiner Bice Curiger Thomas McEvilley Gary Garrels Laszlo Glozer Dave Hickey Gabriele Wix G. Roger Denson Anne Rorimer Laura Cottingham Richard Flood Gloria Moure Parkett / Zürich Periodicals Art Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

1945—1985 : Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Edited by Dominik Bartmann

1985, German
Softcover, 736 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nationalgalerie / Berlin

$40.00 - In stock -

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Enormous 700+ page volume about "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945—1985", published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 27, 1985—January 21, 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour with many works by Vostell, Baselitz, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Palermo, Klapheck, Darboven, Schultze, Uecker, Horn, Lüpertz, Haacke, Ruthenbeck, Antes, the Bechers, Rinke, Gerz, Erhard Walther, Penck, Knowles, Higgins, June Paik, Maciunas, Christiansen, Filliou, Brecht, Kriwet, Roth, Ulrichs, and many more, accompanied by texts in German, bibliography and index.

Good copy, some rubbing to the cover boards, light wear, bumping with age/size.

File under: Wolf Vostell A.R. Penck Joseph Beuys Rainer Ruthenbeck Sigmar Polke Horst Antes Robert Filliou Hanne Darboven Ferdinand Kriwet Nam June Paik Alison Knowles Blinky Palermo George Brecht George Maciunas Dick Higgins Gerhard Richter Konrad Klapheck Rebecca Horn Hans Haacke Bernhard Schultze Bernhard & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla and Bernd Becher Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Timm Ulrichs Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Henning Christiansen Franz Erhard Walther Jochen Gerz Klaus Rinke Günter Uecker Günther Uecker Gunther Uecker Vostell Baselitz Beuys Polke Richter Palermo Klapheck Schultze Uecker Horn Lüpertz Darbhoven Haacke Ruthenbeck Antes the Bechers Rinke Gerz Erhard Walther Penck Knowles Higgins June Paik Maciunas Christiansen Filliou Brecht Kriwet Roth Ulruchs Dominik Bartmann Nationalgalerie / Berlin Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drawing Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Curatorial Fluxus Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Photography Theory / Essay

Sigmar Polke
History of Everything

2004, English
Softcover (staple bound), 16 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

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Exhibition guide published on the occasion of Sigmar Polke, History of Everything, at the Tate London in 2004. Introduces the German artist Sigmar Polke (1941—2010) and surveys the major themes/developments in his work, illustrated throughout with examples in b/w and colour. Includes full schedule of exhibition events, etc.

Good copy with wear and spine pinching, rubbing to cover from another small book.

File under: Sigmar Polke The Tate Gallery / London Painting Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Pop Art

Sigmar Polke
Modern Art (Moderne Kunst) poster 1995

1995, English
Offset Lithographic poster (87 x 67 cm)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Unknown

$350.00 - In stock -

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Stunning, rare 1995 colour offset lithographic poster of Sigmar Polke's "Modern Art (Moderne Kunst)" from 1968, printed on heavy stock in 1995. Unknown publisher, likely a German museum edition. A striking reproduction of this iconic Polke painting.

Dimensions : 87 x 67 cm
Fine condition, immaculately preserved, ready to frame.

Sigmar Polke (1941–2010)
Characterized by wit and endless inventiveness, German artist Sigmar Polke created an oeuvre that is wildly diverse in its exploration of mediums and materials. Inspired by his fascination with science and alchemy, Polke innovated techniques in painting and photography by manipulating chemical processes. Life in post-war Germany led the artist to establish Capitalist Realism, an ironic exploration of consumerism using the imagery of popular culture and advertising, evident in his 1976 collage on paper Supermarkets aus dem Zyklus, Wir Kleinbürger (translated as “Supermarkets from the Cycle, We Petty Bourgeoisie”), featuring iconic Superman figures shopping in a brand-laden supermarket.

File under: Sigmar Polke Unknown Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Les infamies photographiques de Sigmar Polke

2019, English / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Ed. of 600,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by LE BAL Books / Paris

$240.00 - Out of stock

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"A picture is and is not a key, a key is chemistry, no key is chemistry, chemistry is poison, poison is risk, risk is poison, risk is painting, painting is hiding, in hiding new colors emerge, new colors are new dangers, dangers are desires, desires are keys"—Extract from Malva Alcea (Sigmar's Mallow) by Harald Szeemann

Published by LE BAL on the occasion of the exhibition and now out-of-print, this publication displays a collection of never-seen-before photographs which all belong to the artist's son, Georg Polke. Designed by Roger Willems, the book highlights the jubilant and almost cheeky relationship that the artist had with the photographic medium during a key creative period : 1970-1986. Page by page, the many photographic genres and experiments usual to Polke's practice reveal themselves, creating a body of work partly family album, partly road movie. The book also insists on the important place the chemical and photographic experiments held in the painter's practice.

Produced in a small edition of 600 copies, the book also contains a rare 1985 interview of the artist by Bice Curiger as well as texts by Bernard Marcadé, Bice Curiger, Fritz Emslander and Harald Szeemann. A key publication on the photographic practice of Polke and a treasure trove archive of rare images!

As New copy.

File under: Sigmar Polke Roger Willems Bernard Marcadé Bice Curiger Fritz Emslander Harald Szeemann LE BAL Books / Paris Pop Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$70.00 - Out of stock

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

The Love of Painting : Genealogy of a Success Medium
by Isabelle Graw

2018, English
Softcover, 364 pages, 14 x 20 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Isabelle Graw’s brilliant analysis of the exceptional position of painting in our increasingly digital economy combines a deep respect for the objects of study and those who make them with an impressive range of critical and theoretical insights. Along the way, The Love of Painting never loses sight of the medium’s dialectical relationship to the art world, the art market, and society at large. This is a lively, provocative, and persuasively argued book.
—Alexander Alberro, author of Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

It’s about time for a book declaring “the love of painting” to appear, afer the aridity of postmodernism’s announcement of painting’s demise. Isabelle Graw’s argument in favor of this love turns on what she terms “vitalistic fantasies”: the perception of artworks as “quasi subjects” saturated with the life of their creator. This notion of the work of art as a quasi subject relates directly to the philosopher Stanley Cavell’s consideration that “the possibility of fraudulence, and the experience of fraudulence, is endemic in the experience of contemporary art.” To understand this we must ask: Why do we relate to works of art in the same way we relate to people? The Love of Painting works on this question—and does so with success.
—Rosalind E. Krauss, author and University Professor at the Department of Art History, Columbia University

Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent. Following the tradition of classical theories of painting based on exchanges with artists, Isabelle Graw’s The Love of Painting considers the art form not as something fixed, but as a visual and discursive material formation with the potential to fascinate owing to its ability to produce the fantasy of liveliness. Thus, painting is not restricted to the limits of its own frame, but possesses a specific potential that is located in its material and physical signs. Its value is grounded in its capacity to both reveal and mystify its conditions of production. Alongside in-depth analyses of the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers, the book includes conversations with artists in which Graw’s insights are further discussed and put to the test.

Design by Surface

File under: Édouard Manet Jutta Koether Martin Kippenberger Jana Euler Marcel Broodthaers Frank Stella Gerhard Richter Monika Baer Charline von Heyl Francis Picabia Mathieu Malouf Isa Genzken Joan Mitchell Ellsworth Kelly Merlin Carpenter Sigmar Polke Michaela Eichwald Jean Fautrier Alex Israel Wade Guyton Avery Singer Jörg Immendorff Isabelle Graw Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Painting Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Minimal Art Conceptual Art

Wild Visionary Spectral : New German Art

1986, English
Softcover, 94 pages, 28 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Gallery of South Australia / Adelaide

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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Wild Visionary Spectral : New German Art, organised by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 28 Feb — 20 April, 1986, before traveling Australia and Wellington, New Zealand in 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout with the works 13 contemporary German artists, including Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Franz Erhard Walther, Georg Baselitz, Joesph Beuys, A. R. Penck, Anslem Kiefer. Includes bios and texts by Ron Radford (on the relationship between German and Australian art), Karl Ruhrberg, and Wolfgang Max Faust.

Good—Very Good copy with some light general wear.

File under: Jörg Immendorff Gerhard Richter Sigmar Polke Georg Herold Franz Erhard Walther Joseph Beuys Georg Baselitz A. R. Penck Ron Radford Karl Ruhrberg Wolfgang Max Faust Art Gallery of South Australia / Adelaide Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art

Not without My Ghosts

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 112 pages, 22.23 x 14.61 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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The abiding presence of spiritualism in art, from af Klint to Susan Hiller.

Bringing together more than 30 international artists from the late 19th century to the present day, Not without My Ghosts surveys work inspired by spiritualism and its rich cultural history.

With original essays by art historian Susan L. Aberth and curators Simon Grant and Lars Bang Larsen, this publication explores the anti-authoritarian political agendas of 19th-century spiritualism and the movement’s close association to the history of feminism, as well as its continued influence on contemporary practitioners. Spanning diverse artistic approaches, Not without My Ghosts offers a unique insight into the ties that bind spirit and mediumistic art across the centuries.

Artists: William Blake, Cameron, Ann Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Despont, Casimiro Domingo, Madame Fondrillon, Chiara Fumai, Madge Gill, Susan Hiller, Barbara Honywood, Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt, Victor Hugo, Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindman, Ann Lislegaard, André Masson, Grace Pailthorpe, František Jaroslav Pecka, Olivia Plender, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Austin Osman Spare, Yves Tanguy, Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective

File under: William Blake Cameron Ann Churchill Ithell Colquhoun Louise Despont Casimiro Domingo Madame Fondrillon Chiara Fumai Madge Gill Susan Hiller Barbara Honywood Georgiana Houghton Anna Mary Howitt Victor Hugo Augustin Lesage Pia Lindman Ann Lislegaard André Masson Grace Pailthorpe František Jaroslav Pecka Olivia Plender Sigmar Polke Lea Porsager Austin Osman Spare Yves Tanguy Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective Susan Aberth Simon Grant Lars Bang Larsen Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Feminism

Boston Collects : Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

1986, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Museum of Fine Arts / Boston

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Exhibition catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1986, surveying their collection of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Illustrated throughout in full colour with works by Pierre Alechinsky, Miquel Barcelo, Alfonse Borysewicz, Terry Allen, Siah Armajani, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerry Bergstein, Troy Brauntuch, Jack Bush, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Anthony Caro, Joseph Cornell, Enzo Cucchi, Willem De Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Roy Deforest, Robert Freeman, Adolph Gottlieb, Al Held, Yves Klein, Michael Lucero, Louise Nevelson, Katherine Porter, Susan Rothenberg, Cy Twombly, Terry Winters, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Ralph Goings, Arshile Gorky, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Duane Hanson, Jess, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Michael Mazur, John Mcnamara, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neel, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, David Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Gary Stephan, Clyfford Still, Tom Wesselmann, William T. Wiley, Bill Woodrow, Robert Yarber, and many more.

File under: Terry Allen Siah Armajani Arman Richard Artschwager Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerry Bergstein Troy Brauntuch Jack Bush Pier Paolo Calzolari Anthony Caro Joseph Cornell Enzo Cucchi Willem De Kooning Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Roy Deforest Robert Freeman Adolph Gottlieb Al Held Yves Klein Michael Lucero Louise Nevelson Katherine Porter Susan Rothenberg Cy Twombly Terry Winters Gilbert & George Gregory Gillespie Ralph Goings Arshile Gorky Nancy Graves Philip Guston Duane Hanson Jess Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Franz Kline Joseph Kosuth Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Michael Mazur John Mcnamara Catherine Murphy Alice Neel A.R. Penck Sigmar Polke Robert Rauschenberg Gerhard Richter Mark Rothko Lucas Samaras George Segal David Smith Kenneth Snelson Joan Snyder Pat Steir Frank Stella Gary Stephan Clyfford Still Tom Wesselmann William T. Wiley Bill Woodrow Robert Yarber Pierre Alechinsky Miquel Barcelo Alfonse Borysewicz Museum of Fine Arts / Boston Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Materializing Six Years
Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art

2012, English
Hardcover, 304 pages, 216 x 254 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book.

“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized.’” — Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippard’s celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materializing the ideas in her book.

The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. By tracing Lippard’s own activities in those years, the book also documents the early blurring of boundaries among critical, curatorial, and artistic practices.

With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippard’s curatorial experiment full circle.

Edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Six Years' Project: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, September 14, 2012-February 3, 2013, organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum, and the independent scholar Vincent Bonin.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy Lippard Joseph Beuys Gilbert & George Lucy R. Lippard The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Feminism Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Sigmar Polke
Disguised Sublimity

1994, Japanese / English
Softcover, 128 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Wako Works of Art / Tokyo

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First, only edition of this long out of print and very scarce illustrated essay by Japanese art critic Kentaro Ichihara on the work of German painter, Sigmar Polke, published in 1994 by Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Includes the complete essay "Disguised Sublimity" in Japanese, alongside an English summary and illustrated throughout with Polke's works and historical references. Published to accompany an exhibition of oil paintings, watercolours, prints, and photographic works using printed fabrics, exhibited at Wako, Tokyo, the same year.

Table of contents : 1. The End of Art, Art as the End 2. Unimaginable? Blots and Sublimity 3. Dot! Dot! Dot! 4. In the Beginning of the World

Fine, As New.

File under: Sigmar Polke Kentaro Ichihara Wako Works of Art / Tokyo Art Painting Drawing Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Sigmar Polke
Alice In Wonderland

2005, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. printed paper dust-jacket and exhibition ephemera), 112 pages, 30 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The National Museum of Art / Osaka Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo

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Scarce first edition copy of this fine Japanese Polke catalogue (with inserted collected exhibition ephemera). Published in 2005 to accompany the Sigmar Polke exhibition "Alice In Wonderland" held at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo and the National Museum of Art in Osaka, this handsome catalogue features many full-colour reproductions of Polke's paintings and drawings throughout.

"This exhibition is composed mainly of works in the collection of the artist, so it might be described as an exhibition of "Polke by Polke." In it, we examine the artist's career through approximately 30 of his large-scale paintings, from his early masterworks Alice in Wonderland (1971), and representative pieces of the 1980s and 1990s to some of his most recent work."

Includes texts in English and Japanese by Polke, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Wataru Hayashi, and more, plus an interview with Polke, biography, bibliography, exhibition list and catalogue of works. Comes wrapped in printed kraft paper dust-jacket and this copy with inserted collected exhibition ephemera, including exhibition flyer.

Polke is a major contemporary German artist and one of the most noted painters in the world. Polke was born in Oels, Silesia, formerly an eastern part of German territory, in 1941. At age 12 he moved to West Germany. After studying at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, he began making paintings incorporating photographs and references to American pop art and he has continued to develop experimental methods. Paintings that show the raster dots used in printing became his trademark and he also produced paintings on printed fabric or transparent materials instead of canvas. With broad knowledge and penetrating observation, parody, irony, and a sense of humor, he has combined a wide variety of motifs from the everyday life of contemporary people, fairy tales, history, military events, myths, and alchemy. These groups of images arouse the imagination of viewers. They are both fascinating and enigmatic. He received the Gold Lion Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1986 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2002.

Very Good copy, preserved in plastic jacket, with fine ephemera enclosed.

File under: Sigmar Polke Peter-Klaus Schuster Wataru Hayashi The National Museum of Art / Osaka Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing

Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction 1992–2016

2017, English / German
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Published by Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Fabian Schöneich
Texts by Helke Bayrle, Kirsty Bell, Daniel Birnbaum, Sunah Choi, Nikola Dietrich, Nikolaus Hirsch, Brigitte Kölle, Kasper König, Angelika Nollert, Melanie Ohnemus, Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte, Fabian Schöneich, Jochen Volz

In 1992, Helke Bayrle began videotaping the installation of each exhibition at the Portikus exhibition space. These videos form a remarkable and intimate archive of the storied Frankfurt contemporary art institution and the exceptional artists and personnel that have worked within it. Coinciding with the launch of a website containing all of Bayrle’s Portikus videos, this publication pays tribute to the artist’s extraordinary work, through a comprehensive timeline, video stills, and statements by past and current directors and curators. Art critic and historian Kirsty Bell writes about the history of Portikus and the meaning of Bayrle’s work. Also included in the book is a conversation with the artist and Sunah Choi, who, since 2001, has edited the videos that comprise Bayrle’s truly unique undertaking.

Copublished with Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Design by Ronnie Fueglister

File under: Gareth James Isa Genzken Jana Euler John Armleder John Kelsey Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Josef Strau Lutz Bacher Mark Leckey Michael Krebber Morgan Fisher Sigmar Polke Wolfgang Tillmans Angelika Nollert Brigitte Kölle Daniel Birnbaum Fabian Schöneich Helke Bayrle Jochen Volz Kasper König Kirsty Bell Melanie Ohnemus Nikola Dietrich Nikolaus Hirsch Philippe Pirotte Sophie von Olfers Sunah Choi Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Photography Curatorial SALE

Medium Fotografie
Fotoarbeiten bildender Künstler von 1910 bis 1973

1974, German
Softcover, 169 page, 20 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Städtisches Museum / Leverkusen

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"Medium Fotografie" was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, 18 May - 5 August 1973.
Foreword by Rolf Wedewer; Artists featured include Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, Anton Giulio, Marcel Duchamp, Theodor Fraenkel, Hannah Höch, Layos Kalsas, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, George Mucha, Man Ray, Luigi Veronesi, Stuart Wiese, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Hamish Fulton, Christoph Kohlhöfer, Ingrid Kohlhöfer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Johannes Theodor Baargeld, Tristan Tzara, El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, Jörg Immendorff, A.R. Penck, Edward Ruscha, Pablo Picasso,Gilbert & George, Walter de Maria, and many more. Heavily illustrated throughout, texts in German.

File under: A.R. Penck Herbert Bayer Hans Bellmer Anton Giulio Marcel Duchamp Theodor Fraenkel Hannah Höch Layos Kalsas George Mucha Man Ray Luigi Veronesi Stuart Wiese Christian Boltanski Marcel Broodthaers Hamish Fulton Ingrid Kohlhöfer Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter Johannes Theodor Baargeld Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky John Heartfield Raoul Hausmann Jörg Immendorff Edward Ruscha Pablo Picasso Walter de Maria Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Christof Kohlhofer Rolf Wedewer Städtisches Museum / Leverkusen Photography Art Group Shows / Collections Dada Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry : Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

2003, English
Softcover, 632 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions.

Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin Buchloh, one of the most insightful art critics and theoreticians of recent decades, argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.This collection contains eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years. Each looks at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. The art movements covered include Nouveau Realisme in France (Arman, Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villegle) art in postwar Germany (Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter), American Fluxus and pop art (Robert Watts and Andy Warhol), minimalism and postminimal art (Michael Asher and Richard Serra), and European and American conceptual art (Daniel Buren, Dan Graham). Buchloh addresses some artists in terms of their oppositional approaches to language and painting, for example, Nancy Spero and Lawrence Weiner. About others, he asks more general questions concerning the development of models of institutional critique (Hans Haacke) and the theorization of the museum (Marcel Broodthaers); or he addresses the formation of historical memory in postconceptual art (James Coleman). One of the book's strengths is its systematic, interconnected account of the key issues of American and European artistic practice during two decades of postwar art. Another is Buchloh's method, which integrates formalist and socio-historical approaches specific to each subject.

File under: Arman Yves Klein Jacques de la Villegle Joseph Beuys Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter Robert Watts Andy Warhol Michael Asher Richard Serra Daniel Buren Dan Graham Nancy Spero Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers James Coleman Hans Haacke Benjamin H. D. Buchloh The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Theory / Essay Painting Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Fluxus Minimal Art Conceptual Art

Painting 2.0
Expression in the Information Age

2016, English
Hardcover, 280 pages, 31.6 x 3.1 x 26 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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The resurgent interest in contemporary painting in recent years has coincided with an explosion of new digital media and technologies. Contrary to canonical accounts premised on medium-specificity, painting’s most advanced positions since the 1960s have developed in productive friction with contemporaneous forms of mass media and culture. From the rise of television and computers to the Internet revolution, painting has assimilated precisely those cultural and technological developments that were held responsible for its presumed “death.” Moving far beyond its technical definition as “oil on canvas,” painting during the information age has consistently offered a site for negotiating the challenges of a mediated life-world.

Featuring over 230 works by 107 artists, Painting 2.0 is one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of contemporary painting in recent years.

Artists include:
Kai Althoff, Ei Arakawa/Shimon Minamikawa, Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Sadie Benning, Judith Bernstein, Joseph Beuys, Ashley Bickerton, Cosima von Bonin, KAYA (Debo Eilers & Kerstin Brätsch), Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Merlin Carpenter, Leidy Churchman, William Copley, René Daniëls, Guy Debord/Asger Jorn, Carroll Dunham, Mary Beth Edelson, Thomas Eggerer, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Louise Fishman, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Mary Grigoriadis, Philip Guston, Wade Guyton, Guyton/Walker, Raymond Hains, Harmony Hammond, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Rachel Harrison, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Charline von Heyl, Ull Hohn, Jacqueline Humphries, Jörg Immendorff, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Yves Klein, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Manfred Kuttner, Maria Lassnig, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Lee Lozano, Konrad Lueg, Michel Majerus, Piero Manzoni, Kerry James Marshall, Hans-Jörg Mayer, John Miller, Joan Mitchell, Ree Morton, Ulrike Müller, Matt Mullican, Elisabeth Murray, Cady Noland, Hilka Nordhausen, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens, Steven Parrino, Ed Paschke, Howardena Pindell, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Stephen Prina, R.H. Quaytman, Robert Rauschenberg, David Reed, Gerhard Richter, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mario Schifano, Amy Sillman, Sylvia Sleigh, Josh Smith, Joan Snyder, Reena Spaulings, Nancy Spero, Gruppe SPUR, Frank Stella, Walter Swennen, Paul Thek, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Jacques de la Villeglé, Kelley Walker, Andy Warhol, Sue Williams, Karl Wirsum, Martin Wong, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig, u.a.

File under: Albert Oehlen Amy Sillman Andrea Fraser Andy Warhol Asger Jorn Ashley Bickerton Cady Noland Carroll Dunham Charline von Heyl Christopher Wool Cosima von Bonin Cy Twombly Daniel Buren David Hammons David Reed Ed Paschke Ei Arakawa Eva Hesse Frank Stella Georg Baselitz Gerhard Richter Glenn Ligon Gruppe SPUR Günter Brus Harmony Hammond Heimo Zobernig Hilka Nordhausen Howardena Pindell Isa Genzken Jacqueline Humphries Jacques de la Villeglé Jana Euler Jasper Johns Jean-Michel Basquiat Joan Jonas Joan Mitchell Joan Snyder John Miller Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Josh Smith Judith Bernstein Jutta Koether Kai Althoff Karl Wirsum Keith Haring Kelley Walker Kerry James Marshall Konrad Lueg Laura Owens Lee Lozano Leidy Churchman Louise Fishman Lynda Benglis Manfred Kuttner Maria Lassnig Mario Schifano Martin Kippenberger Martin Wong Mary Beth Edelson Mary Grigoriadis Mary Heilmann Matt Mullican Merlin Carpenter Michael Krebber Michaela Eichwald Michel Majerus Mike Kelley Mimmo Rotella Monika Baer Nairy Baghramian Nancy Spero Nicole Eisenman Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul Thek Philip Guston Piero Manzoni R.H. Quaytman Rachel Harrison Raymond Hains Ree Morton Reena Spaulings René Daniëls Robert Rauschenberg Rosemarie Trockel Sadie Benning Seth Price Sherrie Levine Shimon Minamikawa Sigmar Polke Stephen Prina Steven Parrino Sue Williams Sylvia Sleigh Thomas Eggerer Ull Hohn Ulrike Müller Wade Guyton Walter Swennen William Copley Yves Klein Hansjörg Mayer Elizabeth Murray Achim Hochdörfer David Joselit Guy Debord Isabelle Graw John Kelsey Kerstin Stakemrich Lynne Coeier Manuela Ammer Wolfram Pichler Prestel / Munich Art Group Shows / Collections Painting Theory / Essay

Sigmar Polke
The Editions

2017, English / German
Hardcover, 128 pages, 18 x 26 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Editioned work holds a special place within Sigmar Polkeʼs artistic oeuvre. To him it represented another possibility for conducting intensive and excessive variations on his experiments, enabling an endless discourse between himself and the world.

Like an alchemist, he expected different techniques to serve his creative ego, thus his editions comprise objects, books, folders, photography, photocopies, collages and numerous prints.

This catalogue contains all of the artistʼs editions, a total of around 200 works.

Accompanies the exhibition Sigmar Polke – The Editions, 28 Apr – 27 Aug 2017, The Collectors Room, Berlin. Curated by Tereza de Arruda.

German and English text.

File under: Sigmar Polke Walther König / Köln Art Drawing Painting

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic