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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

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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

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.

In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one's critical life as a whole.

File under: Hans Haacke Andy Warhol Polke Gerhard Richter Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Jack Smith Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Michael Asher Thomas Hirschhorn Gabriel Orozco Anselm Kiefer Yvonne Rainer Isa Genzken Jenny Holzer Dan Graham Martha Rosler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Hal Foster No Place Press / US Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Pop Art

F.R. David Spring 2023 (Zeros and Ones)
Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung

2023, English
Softcover, 180 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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Riffing off the title, this volume includes Catherine Damman interviewing Carolyn Lazard – an artist whose conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full amplitude of relation, in addition a feature on contemporary artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the “embodiment of technology”, plus contributions by time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. [...] Lee Lozano, Sturtevant, Margarethe Raspé, Jef Geys, Martin Wong, Bernadette Mayer, Louise Lawler, Sarah Rapson, Ketty La Rocca, Stanley Brouwn, Lutz Bacher, Hanne Darboven, Pope L., Silvia Kolbowski, Ilmari Kalkkinen, Henrik Olesen, Otto Wagner...

File under: Ghislaine Leung Will Holder Tishan Hsu Yvonne Rainer Lutz Bacher Carolyn Lazard Silvia Kolbowski Bernadette Mayer Stanley Brouwn Pope.L William Pope L. William Pope.L Lee Lozano Sturtevant Margarethe Raspé Jef Geys Martin Wong Louise Lawler Sarah Rapson Ketty La Rocca Hanne Darboven Pope L. Ilmari Kalkkinen Henrik Olesen Otto Wagner Octavia Butler Will Holder Kathrin Bentele Anna Gritz Ghislaine Leung Catherine Damman Bernadette Mayer Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Periodicals Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Art

INFORMATION
by Kynaston McShine, Lucy Lippard, et al.

1970, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Extremely rare first 1970 edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art, published to accompany this groundbreaking avant-garde show.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear, single spine crack, all crisp, clean interior and tightly bound copy of a book that usually sees serious page detachments. Best copy we have seen.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Newspaper Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Ettore Sottsass Jr. Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Kynaston McShine Lucy Lippard MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Fluxus Minimal Art Arte Povera Photography Curatorial Art Counterculture Ecology / Earth Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Afterimage : Draw Through Process
Edited by Cornelia H. Butler

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 152 pages, 30.5 x 24.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts MOCA / Los Angeles

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First edition of long out-of-print important catalogue published to accompany Afterimage : Draw Through Process, a major survey of conceptual / post-minimalist drawing at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, before travelling to Texas and Washington. Co-published by the MIT Press and MOCA.

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical, a formal experimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium of drawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the feminist and post minimalist art of the 1970s.

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical, a formal experimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium of drawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the feminist and postminimalist art of the 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for example, suggests a kind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and related drawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The book also explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which the process of making dictates the form of the drawing. Examples include Gordon Matta-Clark's stacked cuttings, Robert Morris' "blind time" drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded construction drawings. Other works, such as those by Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson, record a particular approach to body-based and process-oriented sculpture. The book, which accompanies an exhibition, contains an essay by Cornelia H. Butler on the historical ambiguity surrounding process art and one by Pamela M. Lee on temporality in work of the late 1960s.

The artists included in the book are William Anastasi, Richard Artschwager, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Barry LeVa, Sol Lewitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret, Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, and Jack Whitten.

Very Good copy. Only very light wear to soft dust jacket, light tanning to edges.

File under: William Anastasi Richard Artschwager Mel Bochner Agnes Denes Nancy Grossman Robert Grosvenor Marcia Hafif Eva Hesse Nancy Holt Barry LeVa Sol Lewitt Lee Lozano Sylvia Plimack Mangold Gordon Matta-Clark Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Yvonne Rainer Dorothea Rockburne Alan Saret Joel Shapiro Robert Smithson Michelle Stuart Richard Tuttle Jack Whitten Pamela M. Lee Cornelia H. Butler The MIT Press / Massachusetts MOCA / Los Angeles Conceptual Art Minimal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

New York: 1962-1964
Edited by Germano Celant

2022, English
Softcover, 344 pages, 26.8 x 35.5 cm
Published by Skira / Milan

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Charting the three momentous years in which New York became the global capital of art.

The radical cultural transformations that occurred in New York in the three years between January 1962 and December 1964 ramified across the world. In addition to a whole host of creative innovations across disciplines, the period also saw a shift in the center of artistic gravity from Europe to the United States and the rise of a new leadership in the arts—curators, gallerists and other impresarios.

Modeled on the scale and format of Life magazine (one of the most widely read publications of the era), this lavishly illustrated oversized paperback traces a detailed itinerary of artists and curators, experimental exhibitions and museums, as well as historical and political events that transformed society during this explosive moment. From the New Realists exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1962 to Robert Rauschenberg's unexpected win of the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale, every groundbreaking event from this incredible three-year period is documented.

Organized chronologically, the book is teeming with images of artworks and archival photographs, and artist interviews conducted by the late great curator Germano Celant.

Artists include: Diane Arbus, Lee Bontecou, Chryssa, Merce Cunningham, Jim Dine, Melvin Edwards, Dan Flavin, Lee Friedlander, Nancy Grossman, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Norman Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, George Segal, Jack Smith, Harold Stevenson, Marjorie Strider, Mark di Suvero, Bob Thompson and Andy Warhol.

Conceived by Germano Celant. Edited with text by Sam Sackeroff, Lerman-Neubauer Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum. Preface by Claudia Gould, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director at the Jewish Museum. Introduction by Michael Rock. Interviews by Germano Celant with Christo and Jim Dine. Text by Claudia Gould, Michael Rock, Sam Sackeroff, Emily Bauman, Ninotchka D. Bennahum, Jennifer G. Buonocore-Nedrelow, Olivia Casa, Laura Conconi, J. English Cook, Maria Corti, Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Joshua B. Guild, Liz Hirsch, Hiroko Ikegami, Susan Murray, Kristina Parsons, Benjamin Serby, Jennifer Sichel, Robert Slifkin.

File under: Diane Arbus Lee Bontecou Chryssa Merce Cunningham Jim Dine Melvin Edwards Dan Flavin Lee Friedlander Nancy Grossman Jasper Johns Donald Judd Ellsworth Kelly Yayoi Kusama Norman Lewis Roy Lichtenstein Marisol Agnes Martin Louise Nevelson Isamu Noguchi Claes Oldenburg Yvonne Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Faith Ringgold Larry Rivers James Rosenquist Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann George Segal Jack Smith Harold Stevenson Marjorie Strider Mark di Suvero Bob Thompson Andy Warhol Germano Celant Sam Sackeroff Lerman-Neubauer Claudia Gould Helen Goldsmith Menschel Michael Rock Emily Bauman Ninotchka D. Bennahum Jennifer G. Buonocore-Nedrelow Olivia Casa Laura Conconi J. English Cook Maria Corti Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann Joshua B. Guild Liz Hirsch Hiroko Ikegami Susan Murray Kristina Parsons Benjamin Serby Jennifer Sichel Robert Slifkin Skira / Milan Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera SALE

Avalanche No. 5 (Summer 1972)
Yvonne Rainer Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

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Issue number five of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Summer 1972. Cover features Yvonne Rainer. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Hiro Kosaka, Trisha Brown and Marcel Broodthaers; "Braco Dimitrijevic: Casual Passers-by I Met"; "Direct Demokratie: Joseph Beuys Talking at Documenta 5"; "Structure and Sensibility: An Interview with Jannis Kounellis," by Willoughby Sharp; "Phil Glass: An Interview in Two Parts" by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp; "Illustrated Time - Proscenium II," by Keith Sonnier, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Richard Landry and Kurt Munkacs; "The Performer as Persona: An Interview with Yvonne Rainer". Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Yvonne Rainer Braco Dimitrijevic Joseph Beuys Philip Glass Jannis Kounellis Keith Sonnier Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Minimal Art Film / Video

FROM THE CENTER : Feminist Essays on Women's Art
by Lucy R. Lippard

1976, English
Softcover, 314 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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First 1976 printing of this fantastic and now rarely seen classic book collection of essays by internationally acclaimed writer, art critic, activist and curator, Lucy R. Lippard.

"FROM THE CENTER : Feminist Essays on Women's Art" is broken into three sections: GENERAL ESSAYS, MONOGRAPHS, and FICTION. GENERAL ESSAYS include 12 major essays such as "Sexual Politics : Art Style", "Household Images in Art", "Fragments", "What is Female Imagery", "Making Up: Role-Playing and Transformation in Women's Art", "The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: European and American Women's Body Art", "The Womens' Art Movement - What Next?" and more. MONOGRAPHS is made up of writings dedicated to single artists, including essays on the work of Eva Hesse, Adrian Piper, Jo Baer, Joan Mitchell, Hanne Darboven, Ree Morton, Irene Siegel, Rosemarie Castoro, Louise Bourgeois, Faith Ringgold, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Jackie Winsor, Nancy Graves and many more. A suburb collection, illustrated throughout with examples of the artists written about, including a colour plate section.

Very Good copy with cover/spine tanning, light wear.

File under: Adrian Piper Eva Hesse Faith Ringgold Hanne Darboven Jo Baer Joan Mitchell Louise Bourgeois Nancy Graves Ree Morton Yvonne Rainer Lee Bontecou Nancy Holt Harmony Hammond Mierle Laderman Ukeles Lynda Benglis Hannah Wilke Joan Jonas Rebecca Horn Irene Siegel Rosemarie Castoro Judy Chicago Jackie Winsor Mary Miss Mary Beth Edelson Dorothea Rockburne Agnes Martin Howardena Pindell Christiane Mobus Rita Myers Alice Adams Lucy R. Lippard E P Dutton / New York Art Counterculture Eros Feminism Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting

Yvonne Rainer
Work 1961-73

2020, English
Softcover, 344 pages, 19.7 x 25.5 cm
Ed. of 3000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art. The publication provides multifaceted insight into some of the artist’s most celebrated choreographic works, including Terrain (1962), Trio A (1966), Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1970), War (1970), Street Action (1970), and This is the story of a woman who … (1973), among many others.

Assembled ostensibly as a survey, Work 1961-73 features a multitude of documentary forms, including scripts, excerpts from the artist’s notebooks, press reviews, correspondence, photographic documentation, literary excerpts, contextualizing texts by the artist, diagrams, film stills, floor plans, scores, and more. As such, the publication resembles an artist book that generously gives the reader access to Rainer’s modes of working, as well as the social and political context around which the work was made. The publication is also a book of writing, with the artist’s frank, witty, and sometimes humorous prose intimately leading the reader through each work.

As the artist states in the book’s introduction: I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, give us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to ‘replace’ my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book ‘out of’ the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said simply “She usually makes performances and has also made a book.”

Work 1961-73 is an indispensable publication for anyone interested in the artist and the radical developments in dance and performance in the 1960s.

Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is a dancer, choreographer, writer,and filmmaker. She is a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater and worked primarily as a dancer and choreographer from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. Her choreographic work is widely recognized for blurring the lines between performers and non-performers, incorporating gestural and pedestrian movements, as well as classical dance steps and theatre. In 1972, Rainer began making films, producing seven experimental features, including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). She returned to dance in 2000, producing new works commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Performa Biennial, and The Museum of Modern Art. She is the author of several books including Feelings Are Facts: A Life (2006), A Woman Who…: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (1999), and Poems (2012). She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Awards, The Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Merce Cunningham Award, and a USA Grant.

Edition of 3000

File under: Yvonne Rainer Primary Information / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay

Information (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Kynaston McShine. Text by Lucy Lippard, et al.

2019, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized. This facsimile edition of the original Information catalog, which has long been out of print, invites reengagement with MoMA’s landmark exhibition while illuminating the early history of conceptual art.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Ettore Sottsass Newspaper Ettore Sottsass Jr. Kynaston McShine Lucy R. Lippard MoMA / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Art Fluxus Minimal Art

Art-Rite

2019, English
Softcover, 678 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Out of print.

Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn, Art-Rite was published in New York City between 1973 and 1978. The periodical has long been celebrated for its underground/overground position and its cutting, humorous, on-the-streets coverage and critique of the art world. Art-Rite moved easily through the expansive community it mapped out, paying homage to an emergent generation of artists, including many who were—or would soon become—the defining voices of the era. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books—Art-Rite’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to spotlighting the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York City and beyond.

All issues of Art-Rite are collected and published here.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert & George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Peter Grass, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Rifka, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Alan Suicide (Vega), David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, Yuri, and Irene von Zahn.

File under: Vito Acconci Kathy Acker Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson John Baldessari Gregory Battcock Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Marcel Broodthaers Trisha Brown Chris Burden Scott Burton Ulises Carrión Judy Chicago Lucinda Childs Christo Diego Cortez Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Ralston Farina Richard Foreman Peggy Gale Gilbert & George John Giorno Philip Glass Leon Golub Peter Grass Julia Heyward Nancy Holt Ray Johnson Joan Jonas Richard Kern Lee Krasner Shigeko Kubota Les Levine Sol LeWitt Babette Mangolte Brice Marden Agnes Martin Gordon Matta-Clark Rosemary Mayer Annette Messager Genesis P-Orridge Brian O'Doherty Judy Pfaff Lil Picard Yvonne Rainer Judy Rifka Dorothea Rockburne Ed Ruscha Robert Ryman David Salle Carolee Schneemann Richard Serra Jack Smith Patti Smith Robert Smithson Holly Solomon Naomi Spector Nancy Spero Pat Steir Frank Stella David Tremlett Richard Tuttle Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Hannah Wilke Robert Wilson Yuri Irene von Zahn Elizabeth Murray Alice Neel Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine Alan Vega Gregory Battcock Brian O’Doherty John Giorno Patti Smith Kathy Acker Lucy R. Lippard Babette Mangolte Primary Information / New York Feminism Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Painting Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Yvonne Rainer
Poems

2011, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 15 x 22 cm
Published by Badlands Unlimited / New York

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Poems is a collection of never before published poems by choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Full of wit and candor, they offer a window into the life and mind of one of America’s greatest living artists. Accompanying the poems is a selection of images curated by Rainer and an introduction by poet and critic Tim Griffin.

Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in l960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in l962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern art and dance in the following decades. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers(1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder(1996). A memoir, Feelings are Facts: a Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.

File under: Yvonne Rainer Tim Griffin Yvonne Rainer Badlands Unlimited / New York Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater

Trisha Brown: Choreographing Life

2020, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 18.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MASP / São Paulo

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A comprehensive tribute to one of the central figures of postmodern dance in America. Edited with text by André Mesquita. Texts by Adriana Banana, David M. Sperling, Susan Rosenberg, Babette Mangolte, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown.

A founding member of the legendary Judson Dance Theater, American choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown (1936-2017) helped build the tenets of postmodern dance and is now considered one of the most influential figures in American choreography. Trisha Brown: Choreographing Life presents a sizable archive of Brown’s career, with photographs, drawings and video stills that illustrate her lifelong contributions to the world of contemporary dance.

Brown established her own dance company in 1970 and continued to dance until 2008, during which time she created over 100 dances and six operas. One of her most famous pieces was the product of a creative partnership with artists Laurie Anderson and Robert Rauschenberg; after the 1983 premiere of Set and Reset at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Brown was launched into international acclaim. Brown’s choreography demonstrates an unparalleled cognizance of space and visuality, as indicated by the artistic process apparent in the drawings and diagrams included in this publication. Her work conveys the extent to which movement is an artistic language reflective of the complex relationship between body and mind.

File under: Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Yvonne Rainer Judson Dance Theater Laurie Anderson Robert Rauschenberg Adriana Banana David M. Sperling Susan Rosenberg Babette Mangolte Yvonne Rainer Trisha Brown MASP / São Paulo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Babette Mangolte
Selected Writings, 1998–2015

2018, English
Softcover, 383 pages, 11.5 x 17.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

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A single black-and white photograph taken by Babette Mangolte has come to epitomize New York's downtown art scene of the 1970s. The dancers performing Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece characterize perfectly the wild spirit of the time. Choreographed as an echo of movement unfolding across SoHo’s rooftops, the dancers mimed the chimneys, water towers, and fire escapes which surrounded them across that skyline. Influenced early on by Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera and the work of Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, Mangolte began studies in 1964 at the renowned École nationale de la photographie et de la cinematographie in Paris, one of the school’s first female students. In 1970, having become disillusioned with the film scene in France, Mangolte moved to New York and became involved in the avant-garde film and dance milieus of the Kitchen and the Anthology Film Archives.

Selected Writings, 1998–2015 is a collection of texts by Mangolte in which she reflects on her practice as a photographer and filmmaker and her collaborative work with filmmakers, artists, dancers, and choreographers. She provides insights into the techniques and methods she created as well as her relationships with notable collaborators such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.

Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien on occasion of the exhibition “Babette Mangolte: I = Eye”

Edited by Luca Lo Pinto
Design by Enrico Bravi

File under: Chantal Akerman Trisha Brown Yvonne Rainer Babette Mangolte Robert Morris Stuart Sherman Marina Abramovič Babette Mangolte Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art SALE

Some Recent American Art

1973, English
Softcover (denim-bound, stitched and silk-screened), 96 pages, 24 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia / Adelaide City of Auckland Art Gallery / Auckland

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The art catalogue wearing denim! Fantastic, scarce exhibition catalogue from 1973 for "Some Recent American Art", a major contemporary survey exhibition that toured Australia and New Zealand, organised under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York with the assistance of Graeme Sturgeon, David Sampietro, and Peter Cripps. Wrapped in jeans denim covers (screen-printed and stitched), and profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with the work of exhibiting artists Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Robery Irwin, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner. Each artist section includes a list of works, biographical information and text(s) from the artist. Opening text by curator Jennifer Licht, acknowledgments by NGV director Gordon Thomson, with further sections on exhibited Video Tapes, bibliography and artist index.

This special copy also includes the inserted National Gallery of Victoria director's announcement for Yvonne Rainer's "Performance around an unfinished film", February 13, 1974, 8:30 pm at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, during the exhibition. The stapled, 4-page letterhead announcement includes information on the performance, list of performances, list of technical assistants, texts on Rainer, biography, chronology, and selected reading.

Very Good copy, well preserved.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre John Baldessari Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Dan Flavin Eva Hesse Donald Judd Joseph Kosuth Sol LeWitt Brice Marden Agnes Martin Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Dorothea Rockburne Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Yvonne Rainer Robert Irwin Jennifer Licht Gordon Thomson NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia / Adelaide City of Auckland Art Gallery / Auckland Minimal Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

F.R.DAVID Summer 2019 - Recto Verso

2019, English
Softcover, 210 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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The eighteenth issue of ‘F.R. DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and had its beginnings in prosody, the measure of language, geometry, and a notion of imagist transcription. A two-dimensional exercise, it turns out, on paper. Words were tuned out in favour of the volume of values our bodies exchanged. This issue’s diverse contents centre around the non-verbal, the insinuated, the reverse-side of the image, the backside, and perhaps even the next page. With contributions by Simone Weil, Marcel Proust, Will Holder, Anna Daučíková, Yvonne Rainer, Jesse Birch, Paola Grassi, David Lang, Péter Dobai, John Yau, Clare Noonan, and others.

File under: Yvonne Rainer Jesse Birch Clare Noonan Pier Paolo Pasolini Simone Weil Marcel Proust Will Holder Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Art Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay

Performing Image
by Isobel Harbison

2019, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.

In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation-from home video to social media-suggesting how and why Western subjects might seek alternative platforms for self-expression and self-representation. In the course of her argument, Harbison offers close analyses of works by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, and Martine Syms.

Harbison argues that while we produce images, images also produce us-those that we take and share, those that we see and assimilate through mass media and social media, those that we encounter in museums and galleries. Although all the artists she examines express their relation to images uniquely, they also offer a vantage point on today's productive-consumptive image circuits in which billions of us are caught. This unregulated, all-encompassing image performativity, Harbison writes, puts us to work, for free, in the service of global corporate expansion. Harbison offers a three-part interpretive framework for understanding this new proximity to images as it is negotiated by these artworks, a detailed outline of a set of connected practices-and a declaration of the value of art in an economy of attention and a crisis of representation.

File under: Robert Rauschenberg Yvonne Rainer Mark Leckey Wu Tsang Martine Syms Judson Dance Theatre Frances Stark Isobel Harbison The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Film / Video

Yvonne Rainer
Feelings Are Facts : A Life

2013, English
Softcover, 496 pages, 178 x 218.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals -- including breakfast -- have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. -- from Feelings Are Facts In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts (the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film-frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and antiwar causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances -- including The Mind Is a Muscle and its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan -- and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life.

File under: Merce Cunningham Robert Morris Robert Rauschenberg Yoko Ono Yvonne Rainer The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Before Pictures
by Douglas Crimp

2016, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 15.2 x 24.1 cm
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman who appropriated images from mass culture to carry out a subversive critique. But while his influence is widely recognized, we know little about Crimp's own formative experiences before "Pictures."Before Pictures tells the story of Crimp's life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City during the late 1960s through the turbulent 1970s. Crimp participated in all of what made the city so stimulating in that vibrant decade. The details of his professional and personal life are interwoven with this the particularly rich history of New York City at that time, producing a vivid portrait of both the critic and his adopted city. The book begins with his escape from his hometown in Idaho, and we quickly find Crimp writing criticism for ArtNews while working at the Guggenheim where, as a young curatorial assistant, he was one of the few to see Daniel Buren's Peinture-Sculpture before it was removed amid cries of institutional censorship. We also travel to the Chelsea Hotel (where Crimp helped the down-on-his-luck couturier Charles James organize his papers) through to his days as a cinephile and balletomane to the founding of the art journal October, where he remained a central figure for many years. As he was developing his reputation as a critic, he was also partaking of the New York night life, from drugs and late nights alongside the Warhol crowd at the Max's Kansas City to discos, roller-skating, and casual sex with famous (and not-so-famous) men. As AIDS began to ravage the closely linked art and gay communities, Crimp eventually turned his attention to activism dedicated to rethinking AIDS. Part biography and part cultural history, Before Pictures is a courageous account of an exceptional period in both Crimp's life and the life of New York City. At the same time, it offers a deeply personal and engaging point of entry into important issues in contemporary art.

Includes the work of Cindy Sherman, Jack Goldstein, Daniel Buren, Charles James, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Peter Hujar, Eva Hesse, Bernardo Bertolucci, Walker Evans, Joseph Cornell, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Tworkov, Robert Ryman, Jane Freilicher, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Stanley Kubrick, Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Brice Marden, Ellsworth Kelly, Guilio Romano, Andrea Mantegna, Merce Cunningham, Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Alvin Baltrop, Divine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Edgar Degas, Louise Lawler, and so many others.

File under: Cindy Sherman Jack Goldstein Daniel Buren Charles James Hiroshi Sugimoto Agnes Martin Dan Flavin Peter Hujar Eva Hesse Bernardo Bertolucci Walker Evans Joseph Cornell Alfred Hitchcock Jack Tworkov Robert Ryman Jane Freilicher Robert Smithson Michael Snow Stanley Kubrick Cristobal Balenciaga Christian Dior Brice Marden Ellsworth Kelly Guilio Romano Andrea Mantegna Joan Jonas Yvonne Rainer John Baldessari Dan Graham Vito Acconci Alvin Baltrop Divine Gordon Matta-Clark Edgar Degas Louise Lawler Merce Cunningham Douglas Crimp University of Chicago Press / Chicago Art Pop Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Painting Fashion Textiles Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Conceptual Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Art-Events and Happenings
Udo Kultermann (Ed.)

1971, English
Softcover, 210 pages, 23 x 25 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mathews Miller Dunbar / London

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First English edition from 1971, Udo Kultermann's "Art-Events and Happenings", published by Mathews Miller Dunbar of London, translated by John William Gabriel. A deep reflection on an important part of Art's development throughout the 1960s - the turn to action through performance and conceptual art - surveying happenings, protests, theatre, ritual, land art and much more, and featuring a vast collection of black and white photographic illustrations of the work of Allan Kaprow, Ann Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Otto Mühl, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Piero Gilardi, Charlotte Moorman, Franz Erhard Walther, Joseph Beuys, Tetsumi Kudo, Lygia Clark, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Andy Warhol, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, Barry La Va, Rafael Ferrer, Marinus Boezum, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knizak, Jackson Pollock, Saburo Murakami, Atsuko Tanaka, Claes Oldenburg, Piero Manzoni, Peter Hutchinson, Christo, Robert Morris, and many more.

Very good copy (some tanning, previous owners name to first page)

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Atsuko Tanaka Barry La Va Carl Andre Carolee Schneemann Charlotte Moorman Christo Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Franz Erhard Walther Hermann Nitsch Jackson Pollock Jan Dibbets Jean-Jacques Lebel John Cage Joseph Beuys Lygia Clark Marinus Boezem Merce Cunningham Milan Knizak Nam June Paik Otto Muehl Peter Hutchinson Piero Gilardi Piero Manzoni Rafael Ferrer Robert Morris Saburo Murakami Stan Brakhage Tetsumi Kudo Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Günter Brus Öyvind Fahlström Anna Halprin Udo Kultermann Mathews Miller Dunbar / London Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art

ART & TEXT 23/4
March - May 1987

1987, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art & Text / Prahran

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ART & TEXT 23/4
March - May 1987

"After THE EVENT, a special double issue of Art & Text on "culturecidal" aspects of appropria-
tion and (post) modernity, with Juan Davila, Laleen Jayamanne and Geeta Kapur, and Eric
Michaels - plus Yvonne Rainer discusses The Man Who Envied Women, Peter Tyndall sket-
ches the 1986 Sydney Biennale, Imants Tillers plays Bicentennial in the Park, Paul Carter takes
a gondola through Gondwanaland, Sophie Calle and Jean Baudrillard follow perfect strangers,
Allen S. Weiss mocks the Sun King dazed in anamorphic gardens, and Danielle Duval chases
Borges and others through the labyrinth of Australian "picturing".

Edited by Paul Foss

Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of that period of postmodernism.

Very Good - general wear/tanning. Ex-library sticker to cover and stamp inside.

File under: Juan Davila Yvonne Rainer Geeta Kapur Peter Tyndall Imants Tillers Sophie Calle Paul Foss Laleen Jayamanne Danielle Duval Eric Michaels Jean Baudrillard Allen S. Weiss Art & Text / Prahran Art Periodicals Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art

Judson Dance Theatre
The Work Is Never Done

2018, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 20.2 x 25.5 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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Using "ordinary" movements, the Judson Dance Theater stripped dance of its theatrical conventions

Taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants--Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Bill Dixon, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Fred Herko, Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, Rudy Perez, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann and Elaine Summers, among others--would go on to profoundly shape all fields of art in the second half of the 20th century. They employed new compositional methods to strip dance of its theatrical conventions, incorporating "ordinary" movements--gestures typical of the street or home, for example, rather than a stage--into their work, along with games, simple tasks, and social dances to infuse their pieces with a sense of spontaneity.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done highlights the workshop's ongoing significance. The catalog charts the development of Judson, beginning with the workshops and classes led by Anna Halprin, Robert Ellis Dunn and James Waring, and exploring the influence of other figures working downtown such as Simone Forti and Andy Warhol, as well as venues for collective action like Judson Gallery and the Living Theatre. Lushly illustrated with film stills, photographic documentation, reproductions of sculptural objects, scores, music, poetry, architectural drawings and archival material, the publication celebrates the group's multidisciplinary and collaborative ethos as well as the range of its participants.

File under: Judson Dance Theatre Trisha Brown Lucinda Childs Philip Corner Bill Dixon Judith Dunn David Gordon Alex Hay Deborah Hay Fred Herko Robert Morris Steve Paxton Rudy Perez Yvonne Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Carolee Schneemann Elaine Summers Anna Halprin Robert Ellis Dunn James Waring Simone Forti Andy Warhol The Living Theatre John Cage Ana Janevski Thomas J. Lax MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Art

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

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