World Food Books

Aquirax Uno
Masquerade

1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. obi-strip & plastic jacket), 128 pages, 32.5 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan

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First 1982 edition of the great oversized collection "Masquerade" by Japanese graphic artist Aquirax Uno, published in Japan. Lavishly designed and directed by the artist himself, this beautiful album collects some of Uno's most stunning fantastical illustration and painting, alongside texts and photography of Uno in his atelier. Masquerade collates a cross-section of Uno's graphic work spanning his entire career, including many new, unpublished works and illustrations printed in large format across many full-colour fold-outs — a wonderful way to capture his decadent, stream of consciousness line work.

Aquirax Uno, also known as Akira Uno (b. 1934) is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter who was very influential in the 1960s and 1970s. His incredibly unique work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque) eroticism, and frequent use of collage and psychedelic bright colours. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his frequent collaborations with Shuji Terayama and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki.

Good copy with a corner knock to top, light wear. Complete w. VG obi and original publisher's textures plastic dust jacket (some common chipping and shrinkage from age). Discounted due to air freshener smell. Sample images only.

File under: Aquirax Uno Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Art Graphic Design / Typography

Thea Djordjadze

2025, English / German
Softcover, 296 pages, 28 x 21 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin Hamburger Kunsthalle / Hamburg

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“Other echoes inhabit the void”

Thea Djordjadze’s (b. Tbilisi, 1971; lives and works in Berlin) experimental artistic practice yields sculptures and environments which emerge from the artist’s acute engagement with the latent energies of a space, using a wide variety of materials in assemblages of singular poetry. Djordjadze’s aesthetic vocabulary reprises forms and ideas from literature, design, painting, architecture—particularly, but not limited to Modernism. Her works respond to the particular site, sometimes reflexively, sometimes as an immediate reaction to the given conditions.

Thea Djordjadze will create a new body of work for Hamburger Kunsthalle that will offer the viewers a spatial, physical, and psychological experience. A comprehensive publication extends Djordjadze’s exhibition with a wide-ranging archival section on the artist’s production and exhibition history. With essays by Mihaela Chiriac, Tinatin Gurgenidze, and Andrew Maerkle, poetry by Vazha Pshavela, and a curatorial afterword by Corinne Diserens. Edited by Corinne Diserens for Hamburger Kunsthalle.

File under: Thea Djordjadze Mihaela Chiriac Tinatin Gurgenidze Andrew Maerkle Vazha Pshavela Corinne Diserens Distanz / Berlin Hamburger Kunsthalle / Hamburg Sculpture / Installation Art

Sibylle Ruppert
Dark Light on White Shadow

2026, English / German
Hardcover (clothbound), 304 pages, 31 x 25 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin Kunsthalle Gießen / Gießen

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Grotesque and Somber. Dark Light on White Shadow is a retrospective of the largely unpublished oeuvre of Sibylle Ruppert, whose hyperrealistic works were inspired by Marquis de Sade and Georges Bataille.

Edited by Nadia Ismail / Kunsthalle Gießen and Paul J. Walter / Estate Sibylle Ruppert

Sibylle Ruppert (b. Frankfurt/Main, 1942; d. Paris, 2011) turned childhood fears and wartime experiences into art. Born the night of the first massive bombing of Frankfurt Main, she spent her early years between nursery and improvised air-raid shelter. Ruppert's richly detailed drawings, paintings, and collages investigate her traumas and the rifts within us they leave behind. Her works reveal a visual language in which bodies menace one another and fuse to produce grotesque creatures. Drawing inspiration from writers like Georges Bataille, Comte de Lautréamont, and Marquis de Sade as well as the artists Francis Bacon and HR Giger, Rupert created a prolific surreal erotic and dystopian imagery — a singular oeuvre in hues of brown and gray. In 2010, a year before her death, the artist was the subject of a retrospective at the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres.

The book Dark Light on White Shadow pays fresh homage to her oeuvre, which was displayed at Kunsthalle Gießen in 2023. With essays by Kate Brown, Nadia Ismail, Vera Kattermann, Annekathrin Kohout, and Paul J. Walter.

File under: Sibylle Ruppert H. R. Giger Nadia Ismail Paul J. Walter Comte de Lautreamont Georges Bataille Marquis de Sade Distanz / Berlin Kunsthalle Gießen / Gießen Drawing Art Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Fetishism / BDSM

Hans Bellmer
Petit traité de morale

1969, German / French
Softcover, 34 pages, 21 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Sydow / Frankfurt

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Wonderful 1969 book that reproduces one of Bellmer's finest works in its entirety – Petit traité de morale, ten magnificent copperplates expertly engraved by Bellmer between 1966–1968, all inspired by the work of Marquis de Sade, and produced in a deluxe portfolio of 150 copies in 1968 by Èdition Georges Visat, Paris. This catalogue was published to commemorate the release at Galerie Sydow, Frankfurt, printed in a small run in Germany in Spring 1969. It contains all of the portfolio works reproduced in offset by F. Guhl & Co., Frankfurt, with their exquisite overlay colours, each plate protected by glassine (title–printed) sheets, accompanied by a single portrait of Bellmer by Marianne Kimpel. A provocative masterpiece of European graphic art by Bellmer at the height of his power, here available for a good $10,000 less than the folio itself.

Very Good copy with some foxing to boards, tanning to block edges.

File under: Hans Bellmer Marquis de Sade Hans Bellmer Galerie Sydow / Frankfurt Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Art Surrealism Fetishism / BDSM

Hans Bellmer
Ars Erotica (Bellmer-Graphik)

1970, German
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 118 pages, 21 x 17 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio 69 / Cologne

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First edition, edited and designed by Galerie Sydow's Heinrich Sydow-Zirkwitz, this beautiful book of Hans Bellmer's graphic works was published as a special project between Studio 69 in Cologne and Galerie Sydow in Frankfurt to accompany the exhibition "Ars Erotica" in 1970. Handsomely printed with spot-colour over-printing and illustrated throughout with Bellmer's graphic famous graphic series' "Bellmer à Sade" (1961), "Petite Traité de Morale" (1965) and illustrations for Georges Bataille's "Madame Edwarda" (1965). Includes text by Horst Albert Glaser. A very handsome collection and one of the nicest Bellmer books.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with light tanning to spine/edges, dustiness.

File under: Hans Bellmer Heinrich Sydow-Zirkwitz Horst Albert Glaser Georges Bataille Comte de Lautreamont Studio 69 / Cologne Art Out-of-print / Rare Eros Drawing Surrealism Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

Edvard Munch
1863—1944

2013, English
Hardcover (in slipcase), 420 pages, 28.5 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York Munchmuseet / Oslo

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First hardcover, slipcased edition of this now very rare, beautifully illustrated comprehensive book published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in 2013, for which a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition was organized by the Munch Museum and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo.

This major new book is the most comprehensive and ambitious full-scale retrospective of Munch's artistic oeuvre ever presented. It includes an exceptional number of renowned masterpieces as well as many lesser-known works from public and private collections worldwide. With some 350 illustrations, the volume beautifully illustrates the entire development of Munch's art from the 1880s to his death in 1944, including paintings, prints, and drawings. Texts by important scholars cover various aspects of the artist's work: self-presentation and self-portraiture, places and perception, visual rhetoric, The Frieze of Life series as a lifelong project, Munch and public life, narration and abstraction, figure and representation, and the staging of gender. With texts reflecting the most recent Munch scholarship as well as a timeline, a biography, and an index of names and places, this comprehensive book provides a new understanding of Munch's groundbreaking contribution to modernist painting.

Edvard Munch was one of Modernism's most significant artists. His tenacious experimentation within painting, graphic art, drawing, sculpture, photo and film has given him a unique position in Norwegian as well as international art history.

Fine copy in Near Fine illustrated slipcase with some light shelf wear.

File under: Edvard Munch Jon-Ove Steihaug Mai Britt Guleng Birgitte Sauge Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York Munchmuseet / Oslo Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art

MD72—Door Slamming Festival (2007–2018)
Edited by Alexander Schröder, Dominic Eichler, Marianna von Palombini

2026, English / German
Softcover, 560 pages, 29.7 x 22.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This anthology tells the story of the influential Berlin exhibition space MD72 between 2007 and 2018, featuring more than 70 exhibitions. Over 190 contemporary artists, designers, curators, and writers are featured in this anthology. MD72 was founded by the gallerist and collector Alexander Schröder; its events reflected the repercussions of contextual art and post-institutional critique, as well as the cultural conditions of post-reunification Berlin shaped by post-feminism, postcolonial thought, and queer strategies. In addition to extensive visual documentation of exhibitions and artworks, the book offers a compendium of eyewitness accounts, essays, exhibition notes, interviews, excerpts, and commentaries from a wide range of authors.

Features: David Adamo, Jana Euler, Mark Leckey, Yves Saint Laurent, Michael Sanchez, Kai Althoff, Matias Faldbakken, Ang Lee, Peter Saville, Mathis Altmann, Barney Farmer, Lee Healey, Gunter Lepkowski, Magnus Schaefer, Tariq Alvi, Keith Farquhar, David Lewis, Mathias Schormann, Art & Language, Paul Feigelfeld, Klara Lidén, Alexander Schröder, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Valentina Liernur, Yasmine Schroeder-Elgarafi, Red Krayola, Marta Fontolan, Beca Lipscombe, Nora Schultz, Charles Asprey, Catherine Francblin, Hilary Lloyd, Elfie Semotan, Atelier E.B, Andrea Fraser, Hannes Loichinger, Gedi Sibony, Lutz Bacher, Luca Frei, Stefan Lux, Katharina Sieverding, Nairy Baghramian, Gelatin, Danny McDonald, Eric Banks, General Idea, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, Amy Sillman, Dirk Bell, Isa Genzken, Eric N. Mack, Avery Singer, Kirsty Bell, Liam Gillick, Lucy McKenzie, Andreas Slominski, Sean Snyder, Bernadette Corporation, Marc Glöde, René Magritte, Gerry Bibby, Julian Göthe, Victor Man, Lucie Stahl, Julien Binet, Goldin+Senneby, André Masson, Frank Stella, BLESS, Fanny Gonella, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mladen Stilinović, Anna Blessmann, Isabelle Graw, Nick Mauss, Josef Strau, Peter Saville, Wade Guyton, Ken Okiishi, Studio Manuel Raeder, Juliette Blightman, Florian Hecker, Birgit Megerle, Juergen Teller, Cosima von Bonin, Manfred Hermes, John Miller, Philippe Thomas, Mark Borthwick, Georg Herold, Pierre Molinier, Simon Thompson, Michael Bracewell, Charline von Heyl, Sarah Morris, Torey Thornton, Janet Burchill, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Ariane Müller, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jennifer McCamley, Ull Hohn, Jill Mulleady, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tom Burr, Yngve Holen, Jeanette Mundt, Rosemarie Trockel, David Bussel, Karl Holmqvist, Geoff Nees, Donald Urquhart, Caroline Busta, Judith Hopf, Georgie Nettell, Mona Vătămanu, Florin Tudor, Michael Callies, Alex Hubbard, Albert Oehlen, Donna Huddleston, Roberto Ohrt, Francesco Vezzoli, Sergej Jensen, Alex Israel, Ken Okiishi, Danh Vo, Ellen Cantor, Robert Jarosz, Henrik Olesen, Heinz Peter Knes, Merlin Carpenter, Sergej Jensen, Paulina Olowska, Steven Warwick, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Helen Johnson, Dietrich Orth, Michal Wasaznik, Alan Charlton, Stefan Kalmár, Daniel Pies, Marianna von Palombini, Scott Cameron Weaver, Doryun Chong, Tobias Kaspar, Manfred Pernice, Hannah Weinberger, Claire Fontaine, KAYA, Kerstin Brätsch, Kirsten Pieroth, Thilo Wermke, Anne Collier, Debo Eilers, Falke Pisano, Stephen Willats, Carole Condé, Karl Beveridge, Annette Kelm, Simon Popper, Susanne M. Winterling, John Kelsey, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ashes Withyman, Isabelle Cornaro, Pierre Klossowski, Stephen Prina, David Woodard, Enrico David, John Knight, Mark Prince, Christopher Wool, Jacques de Koning, Valérie Knoll, Josephine Pryde, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Jutta Koether, Manuel Raeder, Alex Zachary, Mark Dion, Stefan Korte, Reena Spaulings, Heimo Zobernig, Eliza Douglas, Andrzej Kostenko, Jeroen de Rijke, Lukas Duwenhogger, Christian Kracht, Willem de Rooij, Alexander Schröder, Martin Ebner, Kitty Kraus, Martha Rosler, Dominic Eichler, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Annette Ruenzler, Marianna von Palombini, Florian Zeyfang, Colin de Land, J. St. Bernard, Dominic Eichler.

File under: David Adamo Jana Euler Mark Leckey Kai Althoff Matias Faldbakken Mathis Altmann Barney Farmer Tariq Alvi Klara Lidén Art & Language Red Krayola Nora Schultz Andrea Fraser Gedi Sibony Lutz Bacher Luca Frei Katharina Sieverding Nairy Baghramian Gelatin General Idea Amy Sillman Dirk Bell Isa Genzken Eric N. Mack Avery Singer Liam Gillick Lucy McKenzie Andreas Slominski Sean Snyder Bernadette Corporation René Magritte Gerry Bibby Julian Göthe Victor Man Lucie Stahl Goldin+Senneby André Masson Frank Stella BLESS Gordon Matta-Clark Mladen Stilinović Nick Mauss Josef Strau Wade Guyton Ken Okiishi Juliette Blightman Florian Hecker Birgit Megerle Cosima von Bonin John Miller Philippe Thomas Georg Herold Pierre Molinier Charline von Heyl Sarah Morris Janet Burchill Ariane Müller Wolfgang Tillmans Ull Hohn Jill Mulleady Rirkrit Tiravanija Tom Burr Yngve Holen Jeanette Mundt Rosemarie Trockel Karl Holmqvist Judith Hopf Mona Vătămanu Florin Tudor Alex Hubbard Albert Oehlen Francesco Vezzoli Sergej Jensen Alex Israel Danh Vo Ellen Cantor Henrik Olesen Merlin Carpenter Paulina Olowska Marc Camille Chaimowicz Helen Johnson Alan Charlton Tobias Kaspar Manfred Pernice Hannah Weinberger Claire Fontaine KAYA Kerstin Brätsch Kirsten Pieroth Anne Collier Debo Eilers Falke Pisano Stephen Willats Carole Condé Karl Beveridge Annette Kelm Susanne M. Winterling Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Isabelle Cornaro Stephen Prina Enrico David John Knight Josephine Pryde Cerith Wyn Evans Jutta Koether Mark Dion Reena Spaulings Heimo Zobernig Eliza Douglas Jeroen de Rijke Lukas Duwenhogger Willem de Rooij Martha Rosler Mierle Laderman Ukeles Florian Zeyfang Atelier E.B. Yves Saint Laurent Peter Saville Kitty Kraus Ian Hamilton Finlay Keith Farquhar Beca Lipscombe Hilary Lloyd Danny McDonald Manuel Raeder Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley Juergen Teller Heinz Peter Knes Pierre Klossowski Christopher Wool Georgie Nettell Mark Borthwick Simon Thompson Alexander Schröder Dominic Eichler Marianna von Palombini Michael Sanchez Lee Healey Gunter Lepkowski Magnus Schaefer David Lewis Mathias Schormann Paul Feigelfeld Valentina Liernur Yasmine Schroeder-Elgarafi Marta Fontolan Charles Asprey Catherine Francblin Elfie Semotan Hannes Loichinger Stefan Lux Eric Banks Kirsty Bell Marc Glöde Julien Binet Fanny Gonella Anna Blessmann Isabelle Graw Manfred Hermes Michael Bracewell Torey Thornton Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz David Bussel Geoff Nees Donald Urquhart Caroline Busta Michael Callies Donna Huddleston Roberto Ohrt Robert Jarosz Heinz Peter Knes Steven Warwick Dietrich Orth Michal Wasaznik Stefan Kalmár Daniel Pies Scott Cameron Weaver Doryun Chong Thilo Wermke Simon Popper John Kelsey Ashes Withyman Pierre Klossowski David Woodard Mark Prince Jacques de Koning Valérie Knoll Gigiotto Del Vecchio Alex Zachary Stefan Korte Andrzej Kostenko Christian Kracht Annette Ruenzler Colin de Land J. St. Bernard Martin Ebner Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith Walther König / Köln Group Shows / Collections Painting Art Sculpture / Installation Drawing Photography

Rosemarie Trockel

2026, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 27.9 x 22.2 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Edited with text by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Valeria Gordeev, Quinn Latimer, Christoph Menke, Cord Riechelmann, Ann-Charlotte Gunzel.

From “knitting pictures” to upside down palm trees and mannequin heads in glass boxes, Trockel’s caustic oeuvre defies classification.

Finally here, the enormous MMK catalogue! German multimedia artist Rosemarie Trockel rose to fame in the 1980s with her “knitting pictures” made with industrial weaving machines. In 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit at the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The brutality and absurdity of normative regimes emerge openly in the work of Rosemarie Trockel. Definitions, restrictions, paternalism, and violence due to gender become visible and transparent. Her advance is a risky, courageous, combative, and humorous one. In all media—drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and film—Trockel’s sociological gaze is as much directed at social regimes and political structures as it is at nature. Her observations and studies of processionary caterpillars, starlings, chickens, or lice, while scientifically sound and precise, always include her own critical gaze as a vital component. She appropriates the ambivalences in her work, capturing them decidedly.

The comprehensive exhibition and catalogue displays works from all periods of Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre, from the 1970s to the new works created especially for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Susanne Pfeffer Valeria Gordeev Quinn Latimer Christoph Menke Cord Riechelmann Ann-Charlotte Gunzel Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art

Design As Art
by Bruno Munari

1971, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Penguin Books / London

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Rare first English–language 1971 edition of Munari's classic Design As Art, first published in Italy in 1966.

'A thing is not beautiful because it is beautiful, as the he-frog said to the she-frog: it is beautiful because one likes it.'

Here, with the lightest Latin touch, a famous Italian designer sketches out the principles and practice of the four branches of design - visual, graphic, industrial and research. The whole world is his oyster (and he will certainly have views on the design of oysters, as he has on the form and function of oranges and peas. Lamps, road-signs, cars, typography, posters, colours, knives, chairs, and Japanese houses are only some of the objects Munari discusses, with the constant insistence that things must be made right for function, right for production, right for distribution, and right for price. Design, in a word, is planning.
Through it the artist today renews genuine contact with the people.

With its irresistible humour, its wealth of anecdotes, quotations and pointed illustrations this treatise by the man who invented 'useless machines' and 'continuous structures' is a perfectly designed model of painless instruction.

One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari has been the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth century.

Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children's books, advertising, cars and chairs - these are just some of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.

Cover design by Bruno Munari, heavily illustrated throughout by Munari.

VG copy with light wear/age to extremities, previous owner's name to title page/old tape marks to inner cover.

File under: Bruno Munari Bruno Munari Penguin Books / London Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

Erotic Art: From the 17th to the 20th Century
Edited by Peter Weiermair

1995, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 295 pages, 28 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Edition Stemmle / Zürich Frankfurter Kunstverein / Frankfurt

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Erotic Art: From the 17th to the 20th Century is an exceptional volume showcasing over 200 plates from the renowned Hans-Jürgen Döpp collection, edited by Peter Weiermair and published by Edition Stemmle to accompany an exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. This is the English language edition. Essays by Georges Bataille, Hans-Jurgen Dopp, Claudia Gehrke, Volkmar Sigusch, Isabelle Azoulay.

The watercolors, drawings and print portfolios presented in this publication are not only outstanding examples of their genre, but also an invaluable documentation of social mores and cultural history from the 17th century onwards. These works of erotic art from all over Europe are part of a major private collection built up over a period of many years. The main focus of this particular selection is on lesser known and rarely published material, open to a wide range of possible interpretation. In tracing the history of taboo, secrecy and prohibition, this book gives its readers access to material previously available only to scholars and specialists.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket with some light wear to extremities.

File under: D. Taddeo de las Pelotas Tieses Gerda Wegener André Lambert Max Ernst Jules Pascin Rojan Marcel Vertès Suzanne Ballivet André Masson Pablo Picasso Hans Bellmer Eberhard Schlotter Michel Fingesten Willi Geiger Franz von Bayros Archibald Smith Julius Klinger Franz Windhager Laszlo Boris Franz Christophe Walter Klemm Rudolf Schlichter Efwe Ornikleios Guy de Laurence Erich Godal Konstantin Somoff Hans Pellar Alexander Gergely Otto Schoff Eugène Reunier Fritz Erler Otto Rudolf Schatz Marcus Behmer Horst Janssen Martin van Maele Jean Gabriel Domergue Albert Marquet Pipifax Peter Weiermair Georges Bataille Hans-Jurgen Dopp Claudia Gehrke Volkmar Sigusch Isabelle Azoulay Marquis de Sade The Marquis de Sade Edition Stemmle / Zürich Frankfurter Kunstverein / Frankfurt Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Art

Hans Bellmer
Die Puppe

1962, German
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 16.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gerhardt Verlag / Berlin

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Rare 1962 edition of Bellmer's "Die Puppe", published by Gerhardt Verlag in Berlin. German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous—notorious, even--for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. This collectable first edition of Die Puppe (The Doll) comprises a series of Bellmer's hand-painted photographs in the form of 10 monochrome and 15 coloured tipped-in plates accompanying his remarkable texts, here published for the first time. Bellmer's hand-coloured photographs subsequently acquired an iconic status as perhaps the purest exemplification of the Surrealist ideal of "convulsive beauty." Bellmer weaves a remarkably disparate set of concepts and intuitions—from fields as diverse as mathematics, morphology, optics and psychology—into a theory of eroticism that provides a totally unexpected rationale for his uncompromising art. His ideas are, in the words of poet Joë Bousquet, a "scandal to reason." The book also contains many b/w drawings by Bellmer along with prose poems by Paul Eluard. A book like no other!

Very Good—Near Fine preserved copy of this stunning edition with the die-cut decal cover. Light corner bump, light block shelf wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer Gerhardt Verlag / Berlin Eros Surrealism Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Wyndham Lewis on Art : Collected Writings 1913-1956
by Wyndham Lewis

1969 / 1977, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 480 pages, 21.6 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London Funk & Wagnalls / New York

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First 1969 US hardcover edition of Wyndham Lewis on Art : Collected Writings 1913-1956, edited and introduced by Walter Michel & C.J. (Cyril James) Fox. A comprehensive anthology of the Vorticist founder's essays, manifestos, and art criticism. An "antagonistic collaborator" to Ezra Pound, Lewis was a brilliant, incisive critic of the modernist era. Distinguished and highly original, Wyndham Lewis (Amherst 1882–London 1957) – writer, painter, essayist and pamphleteer, and the leading figure in the English experimental adventure of 1912-1915 – is known for his sharp wit and sardonic insight. A modern master of satire, expert at deflating the pretensions of democracy, he was born off the coast of Maine in his English father's yacht and grew up in England. He was associated with Roger Fry and Ezra Pound on the vorticist magazine Blast (1914-15). Lewis served in France in World War I, and his dynamic paintings of war scenes soon gained him wide recognition for his ferocious and dehumanizing style.

VG in Good dust jacket with some wear, losses to edges. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Wyndham Lewis Wyndham Lewis Walter Michel J. Fox Thames and Hudson / London Funk & Wagnalls / New York Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

Cosima von Bonin
Songs for Gay Dogs

2024, English / French
Softcover, 272 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich MUDAM / Luxembourg

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A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

Published to accompany the German artist's comprehensive exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg (October 2024–March 2025), Cosima von Bonin's new monograph Songs for Gay Dogs is both a book spanning her work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references, designed by her long-time friend and collaborator Yvonne Quirmbach.

Introduced by Mudam Director Bettina Steinbrügge, it assembles a play by Australian writer and art critic Estelle Hoy that brings to life Cosima von Bonin's recurring characters, an essay by Mudam curator Clémentine Proby about the carnivalesque in her work, a contribution by Pop journalist and Cologne figure Clara Dreschler, and a "Privato" chapter comprising images, texts, and documentation from the artist's personal archive. The book includes 200 illustrations, previously unseen images, and pictures of Cosima von Bonin's newly commissioned installation in Mudam's Grand Hall.

Cosima von Bonin (born 1962 in Mombasa, lives in Cologne) began her career in the early 1990s, following in the footsteps of Martin Kippenberger. A prolific artist, she produced oversized stuffed animals and other fantastical creatures, as well as pseudo-Minimalist sculptures using comedy, cartoons, and pop culture to question social constructions and relations. She explores the relationship of the individual to work, the capitalist production system, and leisure society. She uses knitted and woven fabrics to create objects that enable her to mock industrial means of production, which she feels infantilize the individual. By advocating a life of dolce far niente, of carefree idleness, von Bonin is proposing a form of resistance against the consumerist regime. Her exhibitions include the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Mudam Luxembourg, both 2024; Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv (2019); CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson (2018); and Sculpture Center, New York (2016). She participated in the 59th Biennale di Venezia (2022); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); Glasgow International (2016); MUMOK, Vienna (2014); Artipelag, Sweden (2013); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2011); Arnolfini, Bristol (2011); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2011); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008); and Documenta, Kassel (2007 & 1982).

Edited by Clémentine Proby and Cosima von Bonin.
Texts by Bettina Steinbrügge, Clara Dreschler, Clémentine Proby, Estelle Hoy.

File under: Cosima Von Bonin Cosima von Bonin Josef Strau Sergej Jensen Michael Krebber Mike Kelley Yvonne Quirmbach Martin Kippenberger Bettina Steinbrügge Clara Dreschler Clémentine Proby Estelle Hoy JRP Ringier / Zürich MUDAM / Luxembourg Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Textiles

Pierre Bonnard

1991, English / Japanese
Softcover, 180 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Life / Japan

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Scarce 1991 catalogue published on the occasion of the travelling Japanese exhibition 'Pierre Bonnard'
curated by Norio Shimada, edited, produced and published by Art Life Ltd. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with tri–lingual Englsih/Japanese/French texts by Gabriel P.Weisberg, Nicholas Watkins, Vincent Pomarède, Alain Daguerre de Hureaux, and Norio Shimada. These illustrated essays include rare illuminations on Bonnard's relationship to Japanese art.

Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is one of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century. Also a successful draughtsman, photographer, printmaker, illustrator and interior designer, the French artist is celebrated for his use of colour to convey an exquisite sense of emotion. His close friend Henri Matisse declared that Bonnard was ‘a great painter, for today and definitely also for the future’.

VG copy.

File under: Pierre Bonnard Gabriel P.Weisberg Nicholas Watkins Vincent Pomarède Alain Daguerre de Hureaux Norio Shimada Art Life / Japan Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare

Particular Motors 10
Audio–Art Magazine

1986, English / Spanish
Softcover, 66 pages, 33 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sindicato de Trabajos Imaginarios (S.T.I.) / Zaragoza

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Very rare copy of Particular Motors Audio–Art Magazine issue 10, a special bi–lingual (Spanish/English), over–sized edition of the magazine published by Javier Cinca, who ran Sindicato de Trabajos Imaginarios (S.T.I) in Zaragoza, Spain, a cassette label specialising in homemade music, sound poetry and experimental video and mail art projects. The magazine specialised in the same, featuring artists like Etant Donnes or Vox Populi! and maintained correspondances with mail artists like Vittore Baroni or Rod Summers and sound poetry heavy-weights like Henri Chopin or Bernard Heidsieck. P.M. was a key publication in the 1980s postal art and experimental cassette networks in Europe.

Particular Motors 10 features interviews, articles, artworks, writings with/by: Nota Oficial, Paul Montague, Cranioclast, Sue Ann Harkey, Semiotext(e)/Audio Leter, Tox Movement, Angel Carrera, U. S. F., Visor X, Vivenza, Steve Tanza, Recloose Organisation, Steve Tanza, T. A. C., Camino Al Desvan, Amor Fati, Anton Jodra, Alex Adriaansens & Joke Brouwer, Los Rinos, Pedro Bericat, Etant Donnes, Peter R. Meyer, Marcelo Exposito, Die Todliche Doris, Vittore Baroni (Trax/Lieutenant Murnau/Arte Postale!), Francisco Felipe, Lagartijo, Victor Nubla, Orient Express/Micrart Group, Surco De Niño, Decay Int./Prima Linea, Phillipe Stojanovic, Informe Sobre La Industria, Varios, Alessandro Aiello, Papelera, Carlo Marcello Conti. Loads of collages, photography, tape reviews and adverts from the 1980s tape/mail–art network.

Very Good copy.

File under: Recloose Organisation Steve Tanza Camino Al Desvan Die Tödliche Doris Sue Ann Harkey Etant Donnes Peter R. Meyer Vittore Baroni Trax Lieutenant Murnau Arte Postale! Prima Linea Sindicato de Trabajos Imaginarios (S.T.I.) / Zaragoza Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Poetry Concrete Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater

Too Negative No. 8
March 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, Softcover, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

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Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997, features the photography the paintings of Manuel Ocampo, the art of Helter Skelter corpse/death photography, the art of Jake and Dinos Chapman, grotesque tabloid news, the art of Pierre Molinier, the art of Damien Hirst, the fetish photography of Hiroshi Yokoi, latex/rubber fetish photography by Uchiyama Kazunori, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, loads of abnormal medical photography, autopsy, anatomical photographic/illustrated, much more.

Mature readers only.

Very Good copy.

File under: Manuel Ocampo Jake and Dinos Chapman Pierre Molinier Damien Hirst Hiroshi Yokoi Uchiyama Kazunori Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Film / Video Crime / Violence Fashion LGBTQ+

Too Negative No. 9
May 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, Softcover, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative issue no. 9, May 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative issue no. 9, May 1997, features the historical death photography of criminology and medical sciences, Art Brut, photography of Cindy Sherman, lots of gore collage, latex/rubber fetish photography by Uchiyama Kazunori, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Yokoi Hiroshi, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, loads of abnormal medical photography, autopsy, anatomical photographic/illustrated, much more.

Mature readers only.

Very Good copy, with light wear to edges/light crease to cover corner.

File under: Cindy Sherman Uchiyama Kazunori Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Yokoi Hiroshi Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sculpture / Installation Surrealism LGBTQ+ Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography

Apocalypse Omnibus: The Adam Parfrey Reader
by Adam Parfrey

2026, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

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The Apocalypse Omnibus collects the best of Adam Parfrey's essays in a single volume.

Adam Parfrey was, before starting iconoclastic publisher Feral House, a writer. His foresight in revealing extreme trends and societal angst long before mainstream media had any inkling of the darkness bubbling just under the surface of American culture earned him praise and derision.Apocalypse Culture 1987) was hailed by J. G. Ballard as the 'terminal documents of the Twentieth Century'.

Many of the included essays are eerily prescient as Parfrey warned about right-wing militias in the early nineties and documented the rise of conspiracy-dominated thinking decades before Republican government officials loudly declared political opponents were satanically inspired drinkers of baby blood. Yet Parfrey's interests were wide-ranging and Apocalypse Omnibus includes profiles of outre characters, artists, and, yes, some crackpots. Parfrey loved tweaking American mythology by resurrecting lost texts highlighting outlaws and outsiders. He continually sought to expose the absurdity of American culture. His collective writings have become the ur-texts of the 'Dirtbag Left'.

Parfrey was fascinated by the contrast between America portrayed as wholesome freedom-loving peacekeepers and the reality of covert military operations, mass-drug experiments, and the obscured 'wizards' hidden behind the curtain pulling the levers of power. His work has been lauded as groundbreaking and criticised as dangerous. In a time when truth has been stretched to the breaking point, Parfrey's essays remind readers that there is always more to the story.

Apocalypse Omnibus also contains material previously published in the out-of-print books, Apocalypse Culture 2 (2003) and Cult Rapture (1995), as well as new material culled from his extensive private archives. It also contains a selection of Parfrey's essays and investigations, originally published in the San Diego Reader, Village Voice, Hustler Magazine, and on his own site, and inaccessible for years, are collected here in a single volume.

File under: Adam Parfrey Feral House / Los Angeles Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Art Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture

Marcel Duchamp

2026, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 388 pages, ‎27.2 x 23.5 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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An essential and lavishly illustrated visual compendium on the epoch-shifting artist whose radical vision reshaped art―and the museum―forever.

More than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than 50 years, the volume features the world's largest collection of Duchamp's work, bringing together such iconic works as Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase for the first time in decades. Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 works spanning six decades―including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography and ephemera―and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp's revolutionary and provocative work, strongly associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. An expansive introduction by curators Ann Temkin, Michelle Kuo and Matthew Affron explores Duchamp's radical rethinking of art and the museum, transformation of authorship, innovative exhibition and installation displays, and lifelong dedication to changing the relationship between art and life. Revealing new dimensions of his conceptual brilliance, subversive wit and lasting impact on generations of artists, Marcel Duchamp is a rich visual compendium and an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand an artist who changed the course of modern art.

Although Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968) defied definition or association with any single movement, he is perhaps the most impactful artist of the modern era in Europe as well as in the United States. Despite his place as a central figure in numerous artistic groups in both countries―including Cubism, Dada and Surrealism―Duchamp resisted categorization, prioritizing creative individuality. Though he is primarily remembered as an artist, he was also a curator, conservator, art advisor, professional chess player, writer, inventor and celebrity.

"Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love―love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, love of freedom, love of what art can be, love of women, queerdom, poetry, and chance―is what makes 'Marcel Duchamp' such a wonder."—Hilton Als, The New Yorker

File under: Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Ann Temkin Michelle Kuo Matthew Affron MoMA / New York Surrealism Dada Theory / Essay Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Pierre Klossowski
Hommage a Klossowski

1988, Japanese / English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 70 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

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Wonderful and very rarely seen hardcover Japanese publication on the work of the great Pierre Klossowski. Features an extensive selection of his paintings and drawings reproduced in full-colour and black and white, alongside texts, biography and photographic portraits of Klossowski. Published by Atelier Peyotl and printed in Tokyo in 1988 on the occasion of a major exhibition at The Seed Hall, Seibu Shibuya. First printing in original illustrated dust jacket.

Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a significant and influential philosopher, writer, translator and artist who befriended Georges Bataille and formulated an original stance on many theological issues, as well as the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. His first novel, Roberte, ce soir, appeared in 1954 as a limited edition containing six of his own erotic illustrations, after he rejected drawings by his younger brother, the painter Balthus. Following the encouragement of Robert Lebel, Andre Masson and Alberto Giacometti, Klossowski held his first exhibition in Paris in 1956, and subsequently produced numerous life-size drawings of erotic scenes imbued with mythological, allegorical and philosophical connotations. By the 1970s, he had won the acclaim of such eminent thinkers as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Felix Guattari. Of Klossowski, Gilles Deleuze once said, "That bodies speak has been known for a long time."

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with some rubbing to front print, light wear.

File under: Pierre Klossowski Pierre Klossowski Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Art Drawing Eros Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Eric Stanton
The Dominant Wives & Other Stories

1998, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 20.96 x 15.24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1998 English language edition of The Dominant Wives & Other Stories, Eric Stanton's brick-sized collection of his highly prized femdom Stantoons.

That bottom won’t spank itself!

20 stories from America’s premier fetish artist Eric Stanton (1926–1999) was America’s premier fetish artist, a man of very particular tastes, as all fetishists are. Most keep their work and sex preferences separate, but Stanton made his desires the center of his art, pouring his passions onto the page. These preferences included, in no particular order, female dominance, female fighting, mixed gender wrestling, and face sitting.

Perhaps if the man born Ernest Stanzoni in New York City, 1926, had grown taller, all would have been different. As happened, he topped out around 5’5” (165 cm), making him smaller and weaker than many women, and rather than bemoan this shortcoming, he chose to eroticize it. Then, like Robert Crumb and Tom of Finland to follow, he put his fantasies on paper.

Stanton produced paperback book covers, magazine illustrations, comics and even wrestling and smother videos, but what he is best known for is his Stantoons: self-published 16- to 28-page booklets produced between 1982 and his death in 1999. These booklets best represent Stanton’s rich and complex fantasy life, as well as the lives of his fans, whose fantasies he also incorporated. This new edition of The Dominant Wives & Other Stories, brings together the finest of the Stantoons, along with Stanton’s most famous series for Irving Klaw: Bound in Leather, parts 1 and 2. Done in pencil, pen and ink, gouache and mixed media, these 20 stories represent the best of Stanton, who himself represents the best of fetish.

Good—VG copy with some light edge wear an minor buckling (common due to size)

File under: Eric Stanton Eric Stanton Taschen / Cologne Fetishism / BDSM Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Drawing

Pierre Molinier
by Jean-Luc Mercié

2010, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 24 x 31 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris

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The Molinier bible! A mammoth, crucial 400 page book on the method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's provocative, gender-bending photos and artwork. Beautifully printed and prodigiously illustrated with over 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete (nearly 100-page) chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.Molinier. Essential publication on Molinier, the most comprehensive to date, and a must for any fan.

Rare English edition translated from the French by Edward Penwarden.

Pierre Molinier is an unknown of worldwide renown. Every book and every exhibition on the body, gender confusion or sexual excess seems to feature at least one work by this artist whose “genius” was acclaimed by André Breton in a memorable text published in 1956. But the bulk of his work has remained inaccessible. A number of pictures have never been shown and a corpus of only 160 prints has been published. The ensemble revealed by the artist's archives is much more extensive. It includes numerous proofs made to prepare his photomontages and working prints given to friends, but also notebooks and personal letters. Here, precise links emerge between his paintings, photographs and scandalous life. The myth carefully constructed by the artist begins to crumble before the reality of the work.

An inveterate seducer, thoroughgoing fetishist, unrepentant transvestite and inadvertent bisexual, to the very last Molinier remained haunted by two obsessions: pleasure, meaning immediate access to la petite mort, and “leaving a trace in the infinity of time.” This book charts the aesthetic incarnation of his passions. Its 819 photographs, most of them never published before, reveal the method, shed light on the procedures and give details of the origin and alchemy of his latent or composed images. Finally, an exhaustive chronology offers a new biography of Molinier, based on his letters: for it is in the intimacy of these writings that the shaman's heart beats closest to the truth.

In a career shared between the university (fifteen years) and publishing (twenty) Jean-Luc Mercié has written widely on painting and photography. This monograph is his fourth book about Pierre Molinier, the master from Bordeaux.

Born 1900 in Agen (France), Pierre Molinier, surrealistic painter and photographer, a precursor to body art, died in 1976 after having thought out radical and pornographic artwork.

File under: Pierre Molinier Jean-Luc Mercié Edward Penwarden Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris Art Surrealism Eros LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Bruce Nauman
Catalogue Raisonné

1994, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 392 pages, 30.5 x 23.5 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by D.A.P. / New York Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Very rare, first 1994 limited deluxe hardcover edition catalogue raisonné of American artist Bruce Nauman, published on the occasion of the major 1994-1995 touring retrospective that stunned critics by bringing together the full and largely underrated range of Bruce Naman's work, first held at Nuseo Nacioal Centro de Arte Rena Sofía, Madrid, before travelling to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

A most vital reference on the artist's oeuvre, this (deluxe) hardbound version of the exhibition catalogue was issued in limited edition (1000 copies), almost doubling in page-count to contain the full illustrated catalogue raisonné of over five hundred works created (and in some instances destroyed) by the artist between 1965 and 1993. With provenance and notes for each, the work spans sculptures, films, videos, performances, drawings, neons, holograms, texts, installations, photographic pieces, et al. Profusely illustrated throughout with enlarged exhibition plates, along with a full exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and bibliography, alongside texts by Neal Benezra, Kathy Halbreich, Paul Schimmel, Robert Storr, Laurie Haycock Makela and Kristen McDougal. Edited by Joan Simon and designed by Laurie Haycock Makela and Kristen McDougall. Still the most indispensable book reference on Nauman.

Very Good copy only with minimal unobtrusive ex-libris stamps to preliminary pages, not affecting content. No library markings to outside, spine or edges. Very Good throughout with Very Good dust jacket protected under removable mylar wrap.

File under: Bruce Nauman Neal Benezra Kathy Halbreich Paul Schimmel Robert Storr Laurie Haycock Makela Kristen McDougal D.A.P. / New York Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera

Suture Vol. 1
Edited by Jack Sargeant

1998, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 24.5 x 17 com
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London ‎The Tears Corporation / London

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Long out-of-print, and only issued in one volume, Suture was a "collection of illustrated essays on and by some of the most highly acclaimed figures in the global underground today" (c. 1998). Edited by Jack Sargeant, Suture documents radical artists, filmmakers, and writers working at the fringes of contemporary culture, including: Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, Suehiro Maruo, John Hilcoat, James Havoc, Trevor Brown, Dame Darcy, Mark Hejnar.

Jack Sargeant (b. 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances.

Very Good copy, light corner, cover wear.

File under: Lydia Lunch Joe Coleman Romain Slocombe Suehiro Maruo John Hilcoat Trevor Brown Dame Darcy Mark Hejnar Jack Sargeant James Havoc Creation Books / London ‎The Tears Corporation / London Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Film / Video Sound / Music Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Australian Art Photography