World Food Books

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

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

$80.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remedios Varo
The Mexican Years (Los años mexicanos)

2024, Spanish
Hardcover, 160 pages, 28 x 24 cm
Published by RM / Barcelona

$60.00 - In stock -

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First Spanish edition of this major book dealing with the life and work of Remedios Varo, one of the most interesting and mysterious surrealist painters of the 20th century. It is the first monograph dedicated to the artist that is spread worldwide and includes an introductory study by Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition Mujeres surrealistas en Mexico and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's studio offers a unique look at the pictorial universe of Remedios and is accompanied with magnificent reproductions of his most important paintings. The ensemble of works included in this book, was part of the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (In Wonderland: The Surreal Adventures of Female Artists in Mexico and the United States) Presented in 2012 in the United States and Canada.

100 images!

File under: Remedios Varo RM / Barcelona Surrealism Art Painting Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Surrealism: The Centenary Exhibition

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 334 pages, 32 x 22 cm
Published by Centre Pompidou / Paris

$110.00 - Out of stock

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The defining book for the centenary of Surrealism. From September 2024 to January 2025, the Centre Pompidou will celebrate the 100th anniversary of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto. For the next two years, their unprecedented Surrealist exhibition will tour the art galleries of the world, accompanied by this special catalogue.

Perhaps more than any other artistic movement, Surrealism had a cataclysmic effect on the modern mind, changing forever the way we think about experiencing the world. By rejecting the gross linearity that typified several centuries of preceding artworks, the legendary Surrealists Magritte, Ernst, Carrington, Dali, Tanning and so many others reached beyond the facade of that which is patently visible and found something more. Featuring original essays from leading academics and excerpts from the Surrealist Manifesto itself, this stands among the most essential Surrealist catalogues ever published.

File under: Centre Pompidou / Paris Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Group Shows / Collections Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Feminism Film / Video Photography Eros

Martin Wong
Footprints, Poems, and Leaves

2024, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 22 x 14 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

$44.00 - In stock -

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Self-published in 1968, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves collects dozens of poems written by Martin Wong between 1966 and 1968. Hand-written in a signature calligraphic style that he was just beginning to develop, the poems ebb and flow visually across the page, much like the fluctuating characters, scenes, and moods that inhabit them. This was Wong’s first book of poetry and it contains a double cover showcasing intricate drawings of skeletal angels and other tableaux, as well as a folded, looseleaf broadsheet containing two poems and a drawing of a boney leaf.

The poems were written during a relatively free period for the artist, shortly after he dropped out of Berkeley and began exploring San Francisco at the height of the hippy movement. The poems range from surrealist and pastoral descriptions of the urban subculture that surrounded him to downtrodden, travel-weary biographical entries that are both lonely and tender. Footprints, Poems, and Leaves functions like a journal capturing Wong’s tumultuous life in this period, which included being arrested at a queer, drug-fueled house party (along with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn) and a stay in a mental institution in late 1967 and early 1968. Around the time of the book’s publication, Wong enrolled in Humboldt State University to finish his degree, beginning a new chapter for the artist.

Despite the dark backdrops of many of the works, the writing displays a playfulness with form and language and a sense of humor that can be seen throughout Wong’s later work as well. Altogether, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves creates a rich tapestry of visual poetry that is both a product of its time and the budding artistic mind of a young Martin Wong.

Martin Wong (1946-1999) was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in San Francisco, California. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1968. Wong was active in the performance art groups The Cockettes and Angels of Light before moving to New York in 1978. He exhibited for two decades at notable downtown galleries including EXIT ART, Semaphore, and P·P·O·W, among others, before his passing in San Francisco from an AIDS related illness. His work is represented in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, among others. Human Instamatic, a comprehensive retrospective, opened at the Bronx Museum of The Arts in November 2015, before traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2016 and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2017. In 2022, the first extensive, touring exhibition of Wong’s work in Europe, Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, opened at Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid before traveling to KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin), Camden Art Centre (London), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).

Managing Editor (2024): James Hoff
Managing Designer (2024): Rick Myers

File under: Martin Wong Primary Information / New York LGBTQ+ Drawing Poetry Painting Art

Martin Wong
Malicious Mischiefs

2022, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Walther König / Köln KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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First, only edition, very quickly out-of-print.

New major publication published to accompany the first extensive European exhibition of the work of the US-Chinese artist Martin Wong (b. 1946, Portland, US, d. 1999, San Francisco), ‘Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief’, initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez-Rubio, and produced in collaboration with Camden Art Centre, Stedelijk Museum and Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Malicious Mischief is the result of exhaustive research into the life’s work of Wong from his early creations on the US East Coast to his work in the late-1990s before he died due to an VIH/AIDS-related illness.

Martin Wong is recognized for his depictions of social, sexual, and political scenographies from the US in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Poetically weaving together narratives of queer existence, marginal communities, and urban gentrification, Wong stands out as an important countercultural voice at odds with the art establishment’s reactionary discourse at the time. Heavily influenced by his immediate surroundings, the artist’s practice merges the visual languages of Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti, carceral aesthetics, and sign language. His work offers rare insight into decisive periods of recent US American history as told through its changing urban landscapes, unfolding hidden desires, and complexities.

Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief presents a vast survey of Wong’s works, encompassing early paintings and sculptures made in the euphoric environments of San Francisco and Eureka, California, in the late 1960s and early 1970s; Wong’s iconic 1980s and 1990s paintings from his time as a citizen of a dilapidated New York City; lastly, his reminiscences on the imagery of Chinatowns on the East and West Coast, made prior to his premature death from an HIV/AIDS-related illness.

Edited by curators Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez Rubío.
Contributions by Julie Ault, Sofie Krogh Christensen, David J. Getsy, Heinz Peter Knes, Marci Kwon, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Danh Vo.
Co-published by Walther Koenig with KW Berlin.

As New copy.

File under: Martin Wong Heinz Peter Knes Danh Vo Agustín Pérez Rubío Krist Gruijthuijsen Julie Ault Sofie Krogh Christensen David J. Getsy Marci Kwon Danh Vo Walther König / Köln KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Painting Drawing LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Anne Collier
Women With Cameras (Anonymous)

2018, English
Softcover,168 pages, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by Karma / New York

$90.00 - In stock -

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Now out-of-print second edition of Women with Cameras (Anonymous), a new artist's book by Anne Collier (born 1970), with a text by Hilton Als (winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism), that consists of a sequence of 80 images of found amateur photographs that each depict a female subject in the act of holding a camera or taking a photograph.

Dating from the 1970s to the early 2000s, these artifacts of the pre-digital age were collected by Collier over a number of years from flea markets, thrift stores and online market places. Each of these photographs has, at some point in the recent past, been discarded by its original owner. The concept of "abandonment," of photographic images and the personal histories that they represent, is central to Women with Cameras (Anonymous), which amplifies photography's relationship with memory, melancholia and loss. The sequence of the images in Collier's book follows the format of her 35mm slide projection work Women with Cameras (Anonymous) (2016), that was recently shown to great acclaim in Tokyo, Japan, and Basel, Switzerland.

Printed in two editions with different covers by Karma (both 1,500 copies), both are out-of-print. This is the second edition. Sealed As New copy.

File under: Anne Collier Karma / New York Photography Art Out-of-print / Rare

Seiu Ito
Kinbaku Photographs

2023, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 128 pages, 18 x 15 cm
Published by Atelier Third / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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Brand new photo book collecting Seiu Ito's "research" photographs which were inspiration and reference for some of his many torture and bondage artworks. Ito, "the father of modern kinbaku", commissioned a photographer to take these now historical photos which are held at the "Abnormal Museum" in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Seiu Ito (1891—1960) Seiu Ito, also romanised as Seiyu Itoh, was a Japanese painter, recognised today as "the father of modern kinbaku". Ito's life was the subject of director Noboru Tanaka's 1977 Nikkatsu Roman porno film Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!, the final entry in his "Showa Era trilogy". Ito uses his skilful technique to draw realistic torture pictures, and as a master of these paintings, he has many fans and has written masterpieces such as "The Story of Blame." On the other hand, he not only left behind many masterpieces of ghost paintings, but also loved the street customs of Edo and wrote books about Edo customs.

File under: Seiu Ito Seiu Ito Atelier Third / Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Photography Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

Enclosure 3: Harry Partch
Edited by Philip Blackburn

1997, English
Hardcover (in publisher's box, stamped book), 524 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by American Composers Forum / Minnesota

$150.00 - In stock -

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First 1997 hardcover (boxed) edition of Enclosure 3: Harry Partch, produced, compiled, designed and edited by Philip Blackburn and published in this deluxe volume by American Composers Forum in Minnesota in a limited edition of only 800 copies. Harry Partch (1901—1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. This lavish coffee table bio-scrapbook is a portrait chronicle of Partch's life and work compiled from original documents, reproduced throughout. Includes over 300 photographs by Partch and others, reproductions of Partch's writings and letters - a mass of important material (corres. inc. Anais Nin, John Cage, W.B. Yeats, Martha Graham, etc), lectures, drawings, reviews, sketches... A remarkable and beautifully made artefact. Limited edition of 800 copies. A "must have" for anyone with an abiding interest in musical "alternative universes".

Composer Harry Partch created a music that by its nature led to the Harry Partch invention of a fantastic array of percussion instruments. Rejecting equal temperament and much of Western musical heritage, he developed a system based on Just tuning and conceived of a "corporeality" that demanded special instrumental resources. He spoke of himself as "a musician seduced into carpentry" and built sculpture-like instruments such as the Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, and Quadrangularis Reversum. His music, mostly dramatic, was influenced by, among other things, Chinese lullabies, Yaqui Indian music, Christian hymns, his experiences as a hobo, Greek philosophy and drama, and jazz. His large-scale dramas required that the percussionists become actor-dancers. Among his major works are "Delusion of the Fury," "The Wayward," "Revelation in the Courthouse Park" and "Oedipus."

Fine copy in the seldom preserved publisher's box and with the Partch signature stamp to front endpaper. A stunning collector copy.

File under: Harry Partch John Cage Anaïs Nin W.B. Yeats American Composers Forum / Minnesota Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Performance / Dance / Theater

The Darkroom
by Marguerite Duras

2021, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 20.32 x 12.7 cm
Published by Contra Mundum Press / New York

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Introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy
Translated by Alta Ifland

THE DARKROOM contains the script for Duras' 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies "beat the imagination to death" because they "are the same every time they are played." She also accuses the gatekeepers of traditional cinema of treating intelligence as if it were a "class phenomenon" and distinguishes her own approach: a cinema based on ideas and sensory experience. In the dialogue with Michelle Porte at the end of the book, Duras further describes her filmmaking style, discussing everything from her biography to her critique of Marxism.

Much of the film consists of the sounds and images of a truck rumbling through an industrial landscape dotted with dilapidated, immigrant shantytowns. Periodically, the images of the truck are interrupted by cutaways of Duras and G rard Depardieu sitting in Duras' living room, reading from a script that includes a dialogue between a staunchly communist truck driver and an anonymous, ethnically-unidentifiable woman who stands in as an alter-ego for Duras and at the same time is a substitute for "everyone." Neither of the characters are ever shown on-screen. Via an afterimage effect, the juxtaposed voice-over text and cutaways help the film's audience members project their own images of the truck driver and hitchhiker onto the screen. The truck driver quickly decides the hitchhiker is "a reactionary" suffering from some kind of "mental disturbance." Using the "mad," uneducated woman (who, is, nevertheless, interested in everything from the position of the earth in the universe to politics to such august personalities as Proust, Corneille, and Marx), Duras criticizes the invasion of Prague by the Soviets in 1968 and its support by the French Communist Party.

Between the images of the truck, juxtaposed voice-overs, and cutaways to Duras and Depardieu, the art of film becomes the art of opening audience members to the possibility of engaging multiple faculties-not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

File under: Marguerite Duras Michelle Porte Marguerite Duras Jean-Luc Nancy Contra Mundum Press / New York Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Panstopia No. 14

1996, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 68 pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Japan Publishing Company / Tokyo

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Panstopia No. 14, Gals News Special Issue from July 1996, "For the Fetishist & Mania of Pantistocking". Says it all. A must for any nylon pantyhose lover or textile/leg fetishist. Cover to cover glossy full-colour photoshoots of Japanese models emphasising their sheer leg wear c. mid-1990s.

Mature audiences only.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Japan Publishing Company / Tokyo Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

TAKE IVY
PHOTO BY T. HAYASHIDA

1965 / 1971, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 139 pages, 24.7 x 18.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fujingahosha / Tokyo

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Very rare first 1965 hardcover edition of "Take Ivy", the legendary cult fashion photo-book and mythological sociological study that set off an explosion of American-influenced fashion amongst Tokyo students and re-defined "Ivy Style" as we know it. Second printing.

Sold out immediately upon publication, and little known outside of Japan until the 2000s, Take Ivy (the title inspired by "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck) was authored by four Japanese sartorial men's style enthusiasts, including Van Jacket founder and unerring dandy Kensuke Ishizu and photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida (who shot for the influential Men’s Club magazine in Japan). In early 1960s Tokyo, many of these Ivy enthusiasts were arrested simply for dressing in "outlandish" American-inspired styles. In the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, authorities aimed to clean up Japan’s image, targeting those who strayed too far from traditional norms. During this backlash, Hayashida, Ishizu, and their team set off to the USA in search of their beloved modern "American-style". Upon their arrival on the campuses of America’s elite Ivy League universities they were stunned by the dissonance between real Ivy league style and the Japanese understanding of Ivy. The resplendent sartorial formality of Japan’s Ivy was nowhere to be seen. Where were the three-piece suits that were supposed to be the de facto Ivy uniform? Did this style-conscious utopia the Japanese men espoused and emulated ever even exist? This realisation did not discourage the team, but rather gave birth to something truely unique. The Japanese Reimagining of Ivy.

The result is a beautiful and iconic collection of seemingly candid, almost voyeuristic, possibly staged photographs of college-aged men and their clothes between 1959—1965, shot on campus. Whether getting a meal in the cafeteria, lounging in the quad, riding bikes, studying in the library, in class, or at the boathouse, the subjects of this photographic compendium are impeccably and distinctively dressed in fine American-made garments, documenting an idealised golden age of Ivy League campus life. An aspirational ideal designed to inspire. It wasn’t just about the clothes; it was about the lifestyle they represented. A vision of American confidence and cool modernity that resonated deeply with young Japanese audiences and became a cultural reference the world over. The New York Times described "Take Ivy" as “a treasure of fashion insiders”, a bible for designers, stylists and photographers ever since its first publication. While America is the birthplace of Ivy Style, it was the meticulous attention to detail and cultural reinterpretation of the Japanese that preserved and redefined it for generations to come. "Take Ivy" shaped the Ivy we know today. It became the definitive document of the Ivy Style and remains one of the most iconic fashion books of all time.

Original copies are rare in the West, garnering auction prices as high as $2000 USD. This is the rarely seen first 1965 edition in its second print run from 1971, identical to the first print-run with only minor text corrections. The later 1973 and 1980 reprints being much larger print-runs due to demand, although all now incredibly sought after. The quality and feel of these early editions, printed in Japan, far surpass the many later, more common English and Japanese editions.

Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket with only small closed tear to back top edge (clean and preserved in mylar wrap). Light tanning to page edges, light foxing only to first a last pages, otherwise a wonderful copy, well-preserved for a collector.

File under: Teruyoshi Hayashida Fujingahosha / Tokyo Fashion Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography

Roy Stuart
The Leg Show Photos: Embrace Your Fantasies / Power Play

2018, English / German / French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 272 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Taschen / Cologne

$140.00 - In stock -

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First hardcover edition.

Between 1987 and 2001, Dian Hanson, then editor of Leg Show magazine, and photographer Roy Stuart collaborated on over 100 fetish photo shoots, producing an intensely sexual, socially transgressive body of work unmatched in contemporary erotic photography. Stuart, influenced by authors Angela Carter, William S. Burroughs, and Georges Bataille, was and remains passionately opposed to commercial pornography and insisted every photo story subvert and skewer some societally imposed sexual taboo. Women are portrayed with strength and sexual agency; men are often submissive; all are adventuresome and fluid. Hanson selected the wardrobe to appeal to a range of sexual tastes, including stocking, shoe, panty, nylon, and rubber fetishes. Viewed today, the styles and attitudes speak to the liberal hedonism of 1990s America, when, under the Clinton presidency, erotic artists were afforded more creative freedom.

Power Play, the first volume in the series Roy Stuart: Embrace Your Fantasies, showcases photo stories addressing sexual power dynamics. All images are from the original transparencies, rescued from the Leg Show archives before the magazine’s demise in 2012, and presented with Hanson’s original magazine text.

Join us in a trip back to the prosperous, optimistic 1990s to explore your fantasies—and perhaps some you never considered—with the richly produced sexual subversion of Roy Stuart and Dian Hanson.

"'Art porn' almost universally fails to be either aesthetically satisfying or a turn-on-but Roy Stuart bestrides both camps like an obscene and beguiling colossus, truly earning the title undisputed master of the genre."―Arena

Dian Hanson produced a variety of men’s magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker, and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN’s Sexy Book Editor. Her titles include the "body part" series, The Art of Pin-up, Psychedelic Sex, and Ren Hang.

Based in Paris with a reputation as a grandmaster of the erotic camera, Roy Stuart has exhibited his work in numerous galleries throughout the world. He has already published a few bestsellers with TASCHEN prior to this collection of subversive, erotic fantasy narratives.

Near Fine copy of the first 2018 edition.

File under: Roy Stuart Dian Hanson Taschen / Cologne Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Rope Pictorial
Dirty Kudou and Jin Shito

1998, Jpaanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 86 pages, 25.7 x 18.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Wides Shuppan / Tokyo

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"For bondage fetishists, the moment of ultimate ecstasy is when they become intoxicated with the beautiful yet cruel harmony created by the rope and the female body, a unique expression known as "the beauty of tight binding (kinbaku-bi)." Furthermore, by selecting and arranging the dozens, or even hundreds, of different ways to tie a body, it is possible to subtly change the boiling point of ecstasy. This delicacy and attention to detail is what makes bondage a unique form of fetishism.

However, one can only be called a true bondage fetishist if he or she is just as particular about the "rope marks" left on the soft skin of a bound woman as he or she is about the bondage itself. Because the rope marks are like the lingering scent of sex, and are extremely fetishistic"—from the Introduction

Rare 1998 Japanese photo book collecting a unique "impression" of kinbaku (Japanese rope bondage), made in collaboration between bondage artist, director, and film critic, Dirty Kudou (Koichi Kudo, b. 1954) and photographer Jin Shito (b. 1967). Rather than introducing the many ways of rope binding, this beautifully shot collection of erotic photographs focuses on the eroticism of rope marks — the impressions that remain on the body after binding. Shot in b/w with wonderful use of light to cast shadow on the skin impressions, the bondage master uses a rough hemp rope for binding, at times recalling the pioneering work of bondage master Seitu Ito. Very course yet naturally elastic, hemp, particularly the use of twisted manila hemp, is used to leave dramatic impressions that recall "rawa-me marks", the patterns made by rope on the surface of ancient Jōmon earthenware. The book is also filled with photographic documentation of the many variations of bindings that are applied to leave the depicted "traces of the rope".

Near Fine copy in NF dust jacket (preserved in archival mylar wrap).

File under: Dirty Kudou Jin Shito Wides Shuppan / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Mike Parr
Prints by Mike Parr

1990, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra

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"I think of drypoint in terms of braille and excavation"—Mike Parr

Catalogue of Australian artist Mike Parr's print works, compiled in detail by Roger Butler, an authority on the history of Australian print-making and curator of Australian prints at the National Gallery of Australia, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, 31 March-29 April 1990. Illustrated with selected prints throughout.

"Parr's first etchings were produced in November 1987 as part of a joint Australian National Gallery and Australian Bicentennial Authority commission. His rapport with the processes of printmaking was instantaneous. Working with printer John Loane firstly at the Victorian Print Workshop (now the Australian Print Workshop) and later at Loane's Viridian Press produced over 260 prints by March 1990. Parr is not concerned with the nicities of the printmakers craft, he passionately explores different techniques with total disregard for tradition. There are small plates worked delicately with drypoint and sandpaper and there are prints the size of 12 sheet billboard posters worked with an electric grinder. This exhibition and catalogue does not deal with the past. Its focus is work in progress, showing what has so far been accomplished and perhaps suggesting future directions."—Roger Butler

Mike Parr was born in Sydney in 1945. Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. He was raised in Queensland, and from 1965 to 1966 studied arts and law at the University of Queensland. He dropped out of the course and moved to Sydney where, in 1968, he studied painting at the National Art School. In 1970, together with Peter Kennedy, he established Inhibodress, an artists' co-operative and alternative space for conceptual art, performance art and video. Parr travelled to Europe in 1972 and again in 1977-78. He has taught part-time at the Sydney College of the Arts from 1979 and the City Art Institute, Sydney College of Advanced Education, from 1980. Parr's performance art pieces, video and drawings have been exhibited widely, both in Australia and overseas.

VG copy.

File under: Mike Parr Roger Butler Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Drawing Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare

Pierre Molinier
by André Breton

1989, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and original plastic wrap), 80 pages, 22.8 x 16.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gakutokan / Japan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of The World of Pierre Molinier, published in 1989 in Japan. An exquisite book of Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, and drawings, fittingly wrapped in "stocking" dust jacket, with texts by André Breton, translated from French to Japanese by Kosaku Ikuta, imagery from "Molinier" (1966) film by Raymond Borde, beautifully designed and printed in Japan where Molinier's artworks had a particular resonance.

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good copy in original plastic jacket.

File under: Pierre Molinier André Breton Raymond Borde Kosaku Ikuta Gakutokan / Japan Surrealism Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Painting Drawing Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Imants Tillers
Venice Biennale 1986

1986, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Gallery Board of South Australia / Adelaide

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Catalogue published to accompany Imants Tillers' participation in the 1986 Venice Biennale, published by Australia Council and the Art Gallery Board of South Australia. Heavily illustrated throughout with photographs of Tillers' painting stacks in his Mosman home, alongside his major exhibited canvasboard paintings including "Heart of the wood" 1985, "I am the door" 1985, "Mount Analogue" 1985, "Psychic (for Yves Klein)" 1986, "The Kondratiev wave" 1986, and "Thehyperborean and the speluncar" 1986. They demonstrated the realisation of a vision that Tillers had been developing in the early-mid 1980s towards an art in which provincialism, fragmentation and distance could be seen as highly productive material for an artist. He recognised that the tendency towards mimicry could be used to advantage, particularly when the source was itself the subject of transformation through the dotscreen matrix of reproductions disseminated around the world. Includes texts by Daniel Thomas, Vivien Johnson and Imant Tillers, and quoted passages by Nietzsche and Arakawa (on Giorgio di Chirico).

Imants Tillers (born 30 July 1950) is an Australian artist, curator and writer. Tillers has represented Australia at important international exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo Bienal (1975), Documenta 7 (1982), and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986).

Good copy with tanned board covers/spine. Interior VG.

File under: Imants Tillers Kerry Crowley Imants Tillers Friedrich Nietzsche Daniel Thomas Vivien Johnson Art Gallery Board of South Australia / Adelaide Australian Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art

Kitsch 2

1971, French
Softcover, 28.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marie Concorde / Paris

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Rare 2nd volume of this wonderful two-part French avant-garde journal, published in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s. A visual manifesto against the prudishness of that time, KITSCH presents a scrapbook of hundreds of illustrations of mostly erotic and fantastic/grotesque artwork by artists from all over the world, and spanning generations, including Aslan, Roy Lichtenstein, Virgil Finlay, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Greg Irons, George Grosz, Egon Schiele, Mel Ramos, alongside photo essays on subjects such as "Pop Art", "Human Concern" and Paris' "Pigalle" district, further featuring work by H.C.Westermann, Paul Thek, Edward Keinholz, William Tunberg, Christian Schad, William Weegee, James Rosenquist, Frank Gallo, and many more.

G—VG copy with some light wear to cover edges, scratch to cover.

File under: Paul Thek Edward Keinholz William Tunberg Christian Schad William Weegee James Rosenquist Frank Gallo Aslan Roy Lichtenstein Virgil Finlay Jim Osborne Ronald Lipking Greg Irons George Grosz Egon Schiele Mel Ramos H. C. Westermann Marie Concorde / Paris Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Toshio Saeki
Red box (Akai Hako)

2019, French / English / Japanese
Hardcover, 104 pages, 30 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Cornelius / Paris

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Now out-of-print first French hardcover edition of this cult work by ero-guro master Toshio Saeki (1945—2019). The most famous work by Toshio Saeki, Red box (Akai Hako) brings together around fifty illustrations drawn by Toshio Saeki in 1972. A masterpiece of the erotic-grotesque, this re-print benefits from a substantial re-formatting of the original double-page spreads to seamless landscape in order to fully appreciate the fascinating work of Toshio Saeki. In addition, the preface of the book is translated into three languages (French/English/Japanese) so that the work can be fully appreciated internationally for the first time.

Toshio Saeki (1945—2019) was an illusive Japanese illustrator and painter, and icon of 1970s Tokyo counterculture, known for combining Japanese folklore, Yōkai spirits and elements of Western art with his own sophisticated aesthetics to create a unique, sensational world of eros, dark humour, and horror. Given the title “Erotic Engineer” by Timothy Leary, Saeki's provocative art broke all sexual taboos, questioned Japanese ideology and traditional views on love, desire and gender roles. Saeki’s surgically-precise graphic work is closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense’ (ero, guro, nansensu).

“Toshio Saeki conjures death with a pen”—Shūji Terayama, 1969.

Fine, As New copy.

File under: Toshio Saeki Cornelius / Paris Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Drawing Painting Art Fetishism / BDSM

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

2013, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Published by AK Press / Edinburgh

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First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action--a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Tea.

"To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. It's not. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon... It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful."—Michelle Tea

"Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out."—Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

File under: Michelle Tea Valerie Solanas AK Press / Edinburgh Crime / Violence Feminism Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics

Nobuyoshi Araki
Tokyo Lucky Hole

1990, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi strip), 269 pages, 13 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ota Shuppan / Tokyo

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Rare first Japanese edition of Nobuyoshi Araki's most controversial book, and cited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger (in The Photobook Vol.1) as Araki's best and most famous work. Includes original publisher's obi-strip issued with the first 1990 printing. Tokyo Lucky Hole is Araki's intimate document of Japan's sex industry in full flower. Before Shinjuku's infamous red-light district was closed in 1985, the Japanese photographer made this obsessive documentation of its every aspect: the pleasure-seekers and providers, street scenes, performances, peep-shows, parlours, parks, dungeons. Tokyo Lucky Hole reveals the core of Araki's art: the desire to create a portrait of Tokyo without the niceties (and prudishness) of convention. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, bondage and orgies, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections. Text by Nobuyoshi Araki. Design by Katsumi Komagata.

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.

Very Good copy with VG obi-strip.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Ota Shuppan / Tokyo Art Eros Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

Trevor Wishart
Fidelio: For Flute or Clarinet. Stranger and 6 Suitcases.

1977, English
Softcover (staple/tape bound), 8 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Philip Martin Music Books / York

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Exceptionally rare first 1977 edition of English musique concrète composer Trevor Wishart's illustrated score and performance instructions for the performance piece 'Fidelio: For Flute or Clarinet. Stranger and 6 Suitcases', published here by Philip Martin Music Books in Wishart's York, Great Britain, to accompany the first performance at the University of York in 1977. Designed, illustrated and typeset by Wishart himself and issued the same year he completed his seminal "Red Bird (A Political Prisoner's Dream)", an electroacoustic masterpiece that predates the use of computers but prefigures many of the techniques later used for making computer sound art.

No copies located on OCLC.

Trevor Wishart (b. 1946, Leeds, England, based in York) has been very active, since the early 1970s in the area of electro-acoustic music (first with tape manipulation, later with computer pieces) and music theatre pieces. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds. He pays special attention to the objectives of musical education, collaborative performance-projects and solo practice using original vocal techniques. He is widely acknowledged for his contributions to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive. Not only has he composed many significant pieces, but he has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms “sonic art,” and contributed to the design and implementation of many software tools used in the creation of digital music. He was educated at the University of Oxford (BA 1968), the University of Nottingham (MA 1969), and the University of York (PhD 1973).

VG copy with light wear and bump to bottom-right corner.

File under: Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart Philip Martin Music Books / York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art

David Lumsdaine
Flights for 2 Pianos

1975, English
Softcover (folder with 12 looseleaf sheets), 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Universal Edition / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1975 Universal Edition publication of Australian composer David Lumsdaine's Flights for 2 Pianos. An important work in Australian modernism. Printed folder with directions for performance on reverse of cover, housing entire score on 11 loose-leaf sheets with original belly-band to contain. Composed in Great Bookham, May-July 1967. First performed by Australian composer and pianist Roger Smalley and pianist Stephen Savage at a BBC Invitation Concert, London 1967. Recorded by Daniel Herscovitch and Erzsébet Marosszéky on Continuum.

David Lumsdaine (1931—2024) was an Australian composer central to both Australian and British modernism. Lumsdaine studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music before moving to England in 1952. He attended the Royal Academy of Music in London studying composition and subsequenetly lectured at Durham University (where he founded and directed the Electronic Music Studio) and Kings College London. In the 1960s he was immersed in English contemporary musical life and established his career with such works as Kelly Ground, Flights, and Mandalas 1 and 2. He spent his time between England and Australia, returning to Australia in 1973. He composed strikingly original music that embodies all that is important to him in the Australian landscape – its shapes and rhythms, its creatures, its sudden violence, its sense of unlimited space. His passion for the natural world is embodied in a developing passion for field recording – his archive of over three thousand recordings is held in the British Library’s National Sound Archive. In 1997 though still spending time in Australia, he moved to York where his wife Nicola Lefanu had been appointed Professor of Music at York University. David Lumsdaine passed away in 2024.

Good—VG copy with light handling wear, light tanning to cover folder, and signature to front cover by previous owner Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music, Donald Banks (1923—1980). Banks studied composition privately with Mátyás Seiber in the UK, was associated with Gunther Schuller, Tubby Hayes, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Dallapiccola, scored Hammer horror films, and, back in Australia during the 1970s, was Head of Composition and Electronic Music Studies at the Canberra School of Music and Head of the School of Composition Studies at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music.

File under: David Lumsdaine David Lumsdaine Universal Edition / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Conceptual Art

John Cage
Amores. Piano and Percussion / Klavier und Schlagzeug

1960, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Edition Peters / New York C. F. Peters / New York

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1960 edition of John Cage's "Amores" (1943) sheet music, published by Henmat Press and C. F. Peters, New York. Complete sheet music with a detailed introduction in English.

Average copy with general wear/age, spine edge giving way but still bound, some lead pencil notation throughout. From the collection of Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music, Donald Banks (1923—1980). Banks studied composition privately with Mátyás Seiber in the UK, was associated with Gunther Schuller, Tubby Hayes, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Dallapiccola, scored Hammer horror films, and, back in Australia during the 1970s, was Head of Composition and Electronic Music Studies at the Canberra School of Music and Head of the School of Composition Studies at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music.

File under: John Cage Donald Banks Edition Peters / New York C. F. Peters / New York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Minimal Art Fluxus

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