World Food Books

Ana Mendieta
A Book of Works

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 74 pages, 26.7 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Grassfield Press / Florida

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Rare first edition of Ana Mendieta's posthumous artist's book, A Book of Works, beautifully produced in an edition of 2,400 copies, edited by Bonnie Clearwater, and long out-of-print.

Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta was working on many important projects that were left incomplete at the time of her tragic death in 1985 at age 36. Among these was a beautiful book of photo etchings of her carvings of female figures in remote caves on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. These sculptures were inspired by the myths and beliefs of the Tainos, pre-Columbian inhabitants of the West Indies. This publication reproduces in facsimile Mendieta's unfinished book of photo etchings and related works and publishes, for the first time, her notes and writings for this important project.

Mencdieta's work crosses the categories of earth art, body art, performance and conceptual photography. As her works generally were site specific and ephemeral, they became know primarily through the photographic documentation she exhibited in galleries and museums. She intended her intimate book of photo etchings to capture the experience of viewing her elusive life-size sculptures in the close quarters of the caves.

Illustrated with many never-before published photographs, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of his extraordinary artist.

"...the authors have honored (Mendieta's) desires by crating a book that speaks softly an genuinely in the artist's voice."
by Alexandra Tager --Art & Auction magazine

"When Ana Mendieta died in 1983, she was working on a book similar to this one, a slim volume of photo etchings of the life-size figures she carved into the stone walls of caves in Cuba's Jaruco State Park. The artist, a "Pedro Pan" child who was sent out of Cuba in the early days of Castro's reign, spent her short art life seeking expression for her personal exile. Inspired by Taino mythology, these pre-Columbian islanders believed the first humans emerged from a cave-Mendieta identified the Cuban caves with birth,including her own. Her entire body of work, largely a collection of photographs documenting such ephemeral art forms as earth works, performance pieces and body art, was spun on this theme of self-identity, a return to her roots, to mother earth. Unlike her other photographic artifacts, however, these photo etchings were destined for a book, of which this is a facsimile. Her montes on the Taino myths appear as if in her own hand on these pages, along with her thoughts about how the book should be arranged. The result is an intimate experience with the artist's hand and mind and a unique act of closure for a career that ended in a still-unexplained fall from a New york high-rise."—Helen L. Kohen—Miami Herald (1993)

Bonnie Clearwater is the Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the former curator of the Mark Rothko Foundation, New York. Among her publications are "Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules"; "Defining the Nineties: New York,Los Angeles,Miami"; "Mark Rothko: Works on Paper"; "Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go"; and "David Smith: Stop/Action".

Fine copy in VG—NF dust jacket with sunning to spine.

File under: Ana Mendieta Bonnie Clearwater Grassfield Press / Florida Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Dictée
by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

1995, English
Softcover, 179 pages, 20.2 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Third Woman Press / Berkeley

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First printing of the Third Woman Press re-publication of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, the classic 1982 experimental autobiography first published by Tanam Press in 1982. Founded by Norma Alarcón, which primarily centered Chicana and Latina literature but expanded in 1994 and 1995 to publish works by other women of colour, notably reissuing Cha's masterpiece.

Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory. The result is a work of power, complexity, and enduring beauty.

"Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee is both the ancestor and the future of all attempts to remember and rewrite--against the force of being dismembered and rewritten by--colonial/imperial histories and their reiterative, disfiguring shadows. I have, for that reason, the feeling, maybe also the fear, that neither the experience nor the revelation of it will ever come to an end."–Brandon Shimoda, PEN America Literary Award winner and author of The Grave on the Wall

"You think you know what a book can do, then you read Dictee. A life is split by it. A text of multiple modes and languages, moving in a staccato accumulation through histories of war and displacement, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's postcolonial classic created ways and privacies where there were none. Unimaginable what literature would be today without it."–Solmaz Sharif, author of Customs

"Dictee is part memoir, part history, part experimental meditation; a challenging, innovative exploration of Cha's life, her mother's difficult immigrant journey across East Asia and to the United States, the fractured immigrant experience, women warriors, and language itself. . . . An essential work for feminist writers, conceptual artists and Asian American authors and scholars."–New York Times

VG–NF copy.

File under: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Third Woman Press / Berkeley Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Poetry Art Film / Video

American Poetry in the Twentieth Century
by Kenneth Rexroth

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 180 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Herder and Herder / New York

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First 1971 hardcover edition of Rexroth's major study of modern American poetry. "An iconoclastic, gossipy, yet judicious book."—Library Journal

"Poetry has been both personally and professionally the central concern in Kenneth Rexroth's life and art. He is now recognized as one of America's leading poets and critics. A man of sharp and discriminating tastes, supported by keen sensibility and a wide erudition, he here offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder.

For Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process he provides a controversial new look at a number of the more unimpeachable standard authors—Stevens, Sandburg, Frost, Williams, Jarrell—and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Robert Lowell.

Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1905, and grew up in Chicago, New York, and various towns throughout the Midwest. His erudition and range of interests have marked him as both a uniquely individual yet universal man: poet, painter, critic, linguist, guru. Mr. Rexroth now lives in Santa Barbara, California."

Very Good copy in G—VG dust jacket with some light wear to extremities and price clip to inner flap. 1975 previous owner inscription to title page.

File under: Kenneth Rexroth Herder and Herder / New York Poetry Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Art

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (GMP)
by Gertrude Stein

1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 278 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First 1972 US hardcover edition of this 1933 collection featuring descriptive artist essays alongside two major experimental pieces, A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women (often grouped under G.M.P.).

"This is the unmentionable book in the mature Stein canon. For one thing, it's about homosexuality, and for another thing, it's written in her most difficult, "cubist" style. For both reasons it has utterly baffled her (mostly male) critics.

A discreet title it has. But the title shows its sham immediately: each of the two "shorter" stories is longer than the title story. The first, "A Long Gay Book," can pretty well speak for itself.

It opens with a powerful statement of how a very mature person feels on entering into a life in which her style and her sexuality will not be geared towards having babies. Many people know, from the Autobiography and elsewhere, that as a medical student she delivered a number of babies, that she wrote the book by watching couples and groups on the street and imagining about them But until one has read the book, the fantasies sound abstract when one tries to describe them.

The myth about "A Long Gay Book" is that it's a cerebral spin-off of The Making of Americans, uneven and unsustained. The fact is that it contains much of Stein's most fascinating writing and observation, and that only resistance to the subject matter has prevented people from seeing what a self-contained masterpiece it is.

The second story, Many Many Women," is a sort of sequel to "A Long Gay Book." It is purely about days and women. And identity, which is the touchstone of Stein's special cosmology. There are no men, other than by reference or implication, in the entire 80 + page novella. None of the personae have names-they are simply and exclusively women. To see how positive her statement is, try the final two pages of the story. It's like brushing out your hair.

The third, "G.M.P.," is rather more bizzare. In it she tries to fantasize a love between Matisse and Picasso, including a very uncharacteristic string of symbols (for Stein) whenever she wants to avoid explicit sexual descriptions (as on page 264), and to draw a connection between this and the different kind of love that was shared among herself, Matisse and Picasso. It is an unusual work in the corpus of Stein works: another well-known piece with symbols is Four Saints in Three Acts. But there are only a very few others. As a work it registers as comparatively awkward, but it provides the beard for the book, and that has its place too in Steinian humor.

In this book we're spared the tiresome tea-party self-interrogations of the early novel, Things As They Are (Q.E.D.), and we don't get the full-fledged eroticism of "Lifting Belly" the later poem cycle. What we get instead in this volume is frank exposition and joy, the view of things from inside things (as good cubism ought to be). It is not an easy book, but it is a very human one and today there is absolutely no excuse for not recognizing it as one of the very great ones."–dust jacket

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, light age/wear. Well preserved copy now in mylar wrap.

File under: Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Gertrude Stein Something Else Press / New York Theory / Essay Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Art Painting

Useful Knowledge
by Gertrude Stein

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 207 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Station Hill Press / Barrytown

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First hardcover 1988 Station Hill edition of Useful Knowledge by Gertrude Stein, a 1928 collection of experimental prose pieces, portraits, and linguistic investigations that serves as a tender, humorous, and satirical paean to America, here with new material including a foreword by Edward Burns and introduction by Keith Waldrop.

"Useful Knowledge is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed," writes Gertrude Stein in her Advertisement for this book-an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. This rare yet quintessential Stein supplies an indispensable link in her rich serial portrait of America and its inhabitants. Despite her long expatriation, she "always remained," in her words, "firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania." Indeed physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance that is both tender and humorous. War, Woodrow Wilson, Chicago, Sherwood Anderson— such is the range of her intimate concerns. As for the significant questions to which her writing responds: "Wherein Iowa Differs from Kansas and Indiana" and "Wherein the South Differs from the North," useful knowledge indeed, when the thought, along with the word, is opened up in these extraordinary prose inventions.

Keith Waldrop's Introduction furnishes new insight into the process and development of Stein's infamous style always more intricately evolving than is recognized. And Edward Burns provides "useful knowledge about Useful Knowledge," the kind of close-up, detailed information about Stein's text that we rarely find when we most want it. All of which makes this a useful book.

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, some light knocking to edges, light wear/dustiness to extremities.

File under: Gertrude Stein Keith Waldrop Edward Burns Station Hill Press / Barrytown Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Art

The Rape of Art: The Story of Hitler's Plunder of the Great Masterpieces of Europe
by David Roxan & Ken Wanstall

1965, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 196 pages, 21.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Coward-McCann Inc. / New York

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First US hardcover edition, 1965.

Based on a hitherto secret U.S. Army document made available to the authors, The Rape of Art adds an exciting and significant chapter to World War II history.

Here, for the first time, is the complete story of Hitler's massive plunder of Europe's great art treasures and his egomaniacal plans to make Linz, the provincial Austrian city of his child-hood, the cultural center of the world.
Contrary to popular belief it was Hitler, not Goering, who was the greatest Nazi plunderer of art treasures. In seven years, by direct confiscation or by forced sale, he systematically amassed 100,000 works of art worth an estimated $300,000,000—an accumulation of paintings, sculpture, books and objets dart greater than the collections of the Louvre, the Metropolitan, the British Museum and Moscow's Tretiakov.

But unlike Goering, who had a genuine love of art, Hitler had little interest in great masterpieces beyond the fact of possessing them. He had a long-range plan in mind, a dream conceived many years before the war, to show the people of his hometown visible proof that he had made good.

Besides planning collections of paintings, sculpture, coins and armor, he intended to build a great library and a vast theatre in Linz, and he had detailed plans drawn up for the layout of the city that would transform it from a drab industrial community to the cultural capital of the Nazi order. He set up a secret looting organization, the Linz Special Mission, that until now has passed unnoticed by war historians.

Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child," the Ghent altarpiece by the van Eycks, Breughel's "The Hay Harvest," the celebrated Czernin Vermeer, and works by da Vinci, Goya, Rem-brandt, and Tintoretto were swept up in history's greatest art robbery.

With the end in sight, Hitler clung to the dream of Linz and issued orders to have works of art moved to places of safety. The most valuable-10,000 paintings, 5,350 of which were old masters-had already been stored in the Alt Aussee salt mines. When American forces got word of the Alt Aussee cache they accelerated their push to beat the Russians there. The account of the Allies' painstaking efforts to locate the treasures and make restitution provides an exciting climax to a narrative that will take its place among the important books about the last war.

David Roxan and Ken Wanstall are well-known English journalists. Through their untiring efforts, they managed to convince the U.S. Army Archives to give them access to a document known as the Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 4, without which this complete story of Hitler's thefts of the great masters would not have been possible.

VG copy in VG dust jacket with some rubbing wear. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: David Roxan Ken Wanstall Coward-McCann Inc. / New York Art Crime / Violence Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Sculpture / Installation

Wallace Berman: Support the Revolution
Wallace Berman and Tosh Berman

1992, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 184 pages, 24.7 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by D.A.P. / New York

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First hardcover edition of the first comprehensive title on the artwork of Wallace Berman (outside of an exhibition catalogue published in 1978), and includes insights from people close to him, Walter Hopps, Tosh Berman, David Meltzer, Michael McClure, and others. Profusely illustrated throughout with B&W and colour images of his work.

Wallace "Wally" Berman (1926–1976) was an American experimental filmmaker, assemblage, and collage artist and a crucial figure in postwar California art. A biting and prescient critic of American visual culture, associated with the Beat Generation and known for his magnetic personality and aversion to publicity, Wallace Berman is considered to be one of the most innovative artists to have worked with photography. With his Verifax (an early copying machine) collages, record covers, Polaroid transfers, art and poetry journal, and filmmaking, Berman was among the first artists to appropriate mass, popular, and advertising imagery. His use of appropriation, and his keen critique of the Modernist ideal of originality, places him alongside the first generation of Pop artists as a major innovator. He was among the first L.A.-based artists who developed the potential of the photograph as an object that could be used as raw material for making art.

NF copy in VG dust jacket with light wear to extremities.

File under: Wallace Berman Wallace Berman Tosh Berman D.A.P. / New York Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Film / Video

Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
by Stephen Jones

2011, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 416 pages, 23.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First hardcover edition.

A critical and comprehensive account of the emergence of electronic arts in Australia.

New technologies continually arise, offering repeated opportunities to artists in search of the technologically novel. Stephen Jones calls this phenomenon the "rolling new," and in Synthetics he describes how artists in Australia used new technologies in their art, from the early days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark exhibition in 1975. Jones looks at not only the artists and the artworks they produced but also at the evolution of computing technologies and video displays as these new forms of media developed into tools that artists could use. He also examines the collaborations that sprang up between artists and the technologists who taught them how to use these new devices. The process, he finds, was reciprocal: the offerings of the engineer could inspire the artist as much as the needs of the artist could inspire the engineer.

Jones discusses the constraints imposed by the limitations of new technologies as they developed and shows that different types of output and display technologies made for the production of very different kinds of images. He explores the development of computer graphics, the use by artists of such new conceptual paradigms as post-object art, and the emergence of video art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By 1975, the art and technology movement in Australia reached something of a watershed. The work itself became established as an art form just as funding dwindled and a popular and supportive left-wing government left office. And yet, Jones writes, the early electronic artists laid the foundation for today's burgeoning culture of new media art in Australia.

VG copy in VG DJ.

File under: Stephen Jones The MIT Press / Massachusetts Out-of-print / Rare Art Theory / Essay

Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire
By Arnold Schoenberg

1995, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 28 x 21 cm
Published by Dover / New York

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In a number of his early compositions, Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) expressed the strong emotions stirred in him by the poetry of Richard Dehmel. Among these seminal works, Verklärte Nacht (1899) stands out for the beauty and strength of its chromatic language, drawing on Wagner's advances in Tristan und Isolde for its emotional impact.

The program of Verklärte Nacht is a love story. Yet, in both its content and psychology, the work clearly anticipates the innovative twentieth-century music Schoenberg himself helped to forge.
Pierrot Lunaire, one of Schoenberg's best-known and most striking works, was composed in 1912. It is a music setting for solo voice and chamber ensemble of 21 poems by Albert Giraud, translated into German by the Expressionist poet Otto Erich Hartleben. In this satiric work, evoking moods that are by turns ironic, melodramatic, and sinister, Schoenberg incorporates a highly specialized use of the speaking voice, the singing-speech delivery call Sprechstimme, within an instrumental framework of jolting atonality.

Both Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire deeply influenced the development of the Second Viennese School and, in time, the course of twentieth-century music. They are reprinted here from authoritative editions.

File under: Arnold Schoenberg Otto Erich Hartleben Richard Dehmel Dover / New York Sound / Music Art

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

$100.00 - Out of stock

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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

Cindy Sherman / Comme des Garçons
1994 Spring/Summer Campaign Postcard

1994, English
Post card, 22.2 x 15.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Comme des Garçons / Tokyo

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Rare original 1994 Comme des Garçons advertising campaign postcard from the iconic collaboration with American artist Cindy Sherman, famous for her raw and direct representations of women roles in media, in which Sherman employed dolls and prosthetics to create dark, subversive fashion imagery. The 1994 campaign, reflecting the Comme des Garçons aura, destabilizes the beauty and communication standards of the classical polished fashion campaign that were (and still are) flooding the luxury industry. According to curator Jessica Glasscock, “If Sherman’s take on Kawakubo’s designs is difficult to discuss as fashion photography, that difficulty is mirrored in the fashion press’s attempts to come to terms with Comme des Garçons clothes.”

Large format postcard (C5): 22.2 x 15.8 cm

Good copy with some light creasing.

File under: Cindy Sherman Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons / Tokyo Objects / Ephemera / A/V Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Tony Conrad
Writings

2019, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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I want art to stand strong, to display how it manipulates its audience. I want it to take up their expectations, their sense of the world, their predispositions toward the way they think or use their language, and then to use these things perversely, politically, colorfully, “expressively.”

—Tony Conrad, “Dolomite: Having No Trust in Readers”

Writings is the first collection to widely survey this singular polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras, and Music and the Mind of the World, as well as that of his peers: Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham, and Henry Flynt, among others. He devotes critical essays both to grand subjects—horology, neurolinguistics, and the historical development of Western music—and more quotidian topics, such as television advertising and camouflage. He also writes on media activism, network communications, censorship, and the political and cultural implications of corporate and global media. No matter the topic or theme, Conrad always approaches his subjects with erudition, precision, and a healthy twist of humor.

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them.

Re-print.

File under: Tony Conrad Constance DeJong Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Art Fluxus

Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture
Edited by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal

2022, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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More than a decade after the liberation movements of the 1960s and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences, which called for social and political alignment and solidarity among the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in order to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying cry for the formation of a liberatory arts and culture movement throughout the Third World. International in scope, Black Phoenix positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain and beyond—one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses of race, class, and postcolonial theory in the decade that followed. Black Phoenix proposed a horizon for Blackness that transcended racial binaries, across the Third World and the West.

Contributors include art critics, scholars, artists, poets, and writers, including Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan) and Mahmood Jamal (Pakistan), Guy Brett (United Kingdom), Kenneth Coutts-Smith (United Kingdom), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), N. Kilele (Tanzania), Babatunde Lawal (Nigeria), David Medalla (Philippines), Ayyub Malik (Pakistan), Susil Siriwardena (Sri Lanka), and Chris Wanjala (Kenya).

Rasheed Araeen is a Karachi-born, London-based artist, activist, writer, editor, and curator. Aareen founded the critical journals Black Phoenix, Third Text, and Third Text Asia, and took on activist roles with the Black Panthers and Artists for Democracy. His work has been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Chicago; BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead; MAMCO, Geneva; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Tate Britain, London; the 2017 Venice Biennale; and Documenta 14, Athens/Kassel, among others.

Mahmood Jamal was born in Lucknow, India, and moved to Britain from Pakistan in 1967. He published several books of poetry, including Sugar Coated Pill (2007), and translated the Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (2009) and Faiz: Fifty Poems (2013), among other titles. In 1983, he co-formed the all-Asian Retake Film and Video Collective production company, and initiated Epicflow Films in 1989. Jamal worked as an independent producer and writer; produced several documentary series, including Islamic Conversations; was a lead writer on Britain’s first Asian soap, Family Pride (1991–92), and wrote and produced Turning World (1996) for Channel4 television. He died in London in December 2020.

Last copy with a knock to bottom spine corner.

File under: Rasheed Araeen Rasheed Araeen Primary Information / New York Periodicals Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Poetry Fiction / Poetry Protest / Revolt SALE

My Mother Laughs
By Chantal Akerman

2019, English
Softcover, 175 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

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"With pride because I finally believed in my ability to say something that I’d had trouble saying. I told myself, I am strong for once, I speak. I tell the truth."

In this unforgettable and moving memoir, the last book written before her death, the legendary film director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) blends her matter-of-fact writing style with family photographs and stills from her own films in order to better describe and speak toward the most tender of human elements: her family, her lovers, and, most urgently, the deterioration of her mother’s health along with her own mental health.

While addressing universal experiences–the pain found woven into love, the end of relationships, difficult family histories, self-doubt, the end of life–Akerman‘s sharp eye toward memory raises questions about what it means to love and care for oneself and for another, and in the end, what the personal cost of those decisions can be.

Chantal Akerman was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and professor. She is best known for her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by the New York Times. During her 42 years of active filmmaking, Akerman's influence on queer, feminist, and avant-garde cinema remains unmatched, her films highlighting a near physical passage of time.

Translated by Corina Copp

File under: Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Corina Copp The Song Cave / New York Art Theory / Essay Film / Video

Yaso
Special Feature: Jan Svankmajer

2007, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 24 x 18.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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"Jan Svankmajer" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, published in 2007, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Profusely illustrated in colour with texts in Japanese that look at the genius of Jan Švankmajer, the Czech filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist, a self-labeled surrealist celebrated for his innovative stop–motion animations and feature films, his extensive collaboration with wife painter and author Eva Švankmajerová, his collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. Packed with his drawings, film stills, artworks, photographs, interviews, articles on Svankmajer's motifs, artists inspired by Svankmajer and their works, a Svanmkajer filmography, and a section on Travel Tips to the Czech Republic. In typical Japanese magazine fashion, and Yaso in particular, this volume is incredibly comprehensive.

Good–VG copy. Some cover creasing. Sample image only.

File under: Jan Svankmajer Eva Švankmajerová Eva Švankmajerová Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Periodicals Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Art Surrealism Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sculpture / Installation

Visual Poetics: Concrete Poetry and its Contexts
An exhibition curated by Nicholas Zurbrugg

1989, English
Softcover, 74 pages, 27.2 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by MOCA / Brisbane

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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Visual Poetics: Concrete Poetry and its Contexts at MOCA, Brisbane, 1989, curated by Nicholas Zurbrugg. Heavily illustrated throughout in b/w, Zurbrugg "attempts to trace the evolution of the visual textual work, from Dadaist pioneers like Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco; Letterist pioneers like Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître; the cut-ups of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and the 'flower-power' typography of the psychadelic era; to the optical and concrete poems of Pierre Garnier, Eugen Gomringer, and the Brazilian 'Noigrandes' poets. Subsequent developments are traced in the work of Australian poets such as Allan Riddell and Alex Selenitsch; English poets and artists like John Furnival and Dom Sylvester Houédard; the Argentinian poet Edgardo Antonio Vigo; the French Approches and Agentzia poets; the Japanese VOU photo-poets; and the Italian Lotta Poetica poets. As becomes evident, a very formal, geometrical typographic poetry gradually gives way to texts incorporating visual imagery and material of all kinds. Particular attention is also given to three of the most distinctive visual poets of the last quarter century: Robert Lax, lan Hamilton Finlay and Henri Chopin. Each of these poets has gradually refined and extended their work, exploring differing domains of abstraction and/or political, social and metaphysical allusion."–from the introduction.
It documents many of the key publications, artist's statements, and includes a section 'Visual Poetics in Brisbane'.

Includes the work of: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Chris Mann, William Burroughs, Henri Chopin, Jas H. Duke, thalia, Pete Spence, π.O., Alan Riddell, Richard Tipping, Gordon Bennett, Alex Selenitsch, Marcel Janco, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Malcolm Enright, Hansjörg Mayer, Futura Editions, Kitasono Katue, Pierre Garnier, Diena Georgetti, Pierre Garnier, Maurizio Nannucci, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Shane Kneipp, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Rudi Krausmann, Davida Allen, Robert Lax, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard, bp Nichol, The Situationist International, Madonna Staunton, Ben Vautier, Adam Wolter, Tom Phillips, Thomas A. Clark, and many more.

Nicholas Zurbrugg is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Griffith University, Brisbane. He is the author of Beckett and Proust, and has published widely on Beckett, Proust, Burroughs, and theories of the avant-garde and Post-Modernism.

Good copy, knock to bottom of spine, some wear to covers.

File under: Maurice Lemaitre Ian Hamilton Finlay Bob Cobbing Chris Mann William Burroughs Henri Chopin Jas H. Duke thalia Pete Spence π.O. Alan Riddell Richard Tipping Gordon Bennett Alex Selenitsch Marcel Janco Isidore Isou Malcolm Enright Hansjörg Mayer Futura Editions Kitasono Katue Pierre Garnier Diena Georgetti Maurizio Nannucci Eugen Gomringer Brion Gysin Shane Kneipp Edgardo Antonio Vigo Rudi Krausmann Davida Allen Robert Lax John Furnival Dom Sylvester Houédard bp Nichol The Situationist International Madonna Staunton Ben Vautier Adam Wolter Tom Phillips Thomas A. Clark Nicholas Zurbrugg MOCA / Brisbane Concrete Poetry Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik

2002, English / German
Softcover (spiral–bound), 76 pages + 2 x audio CD, 26.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin

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Spiral–bound book and double CD set published to accompany the exhibition, Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik, Klanginstallationen - Akusmatische Konzerte, 2000, organised by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, lead by Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth. The publication comprises two CDs housed in a polyurethane sleeve inside a 76 page spiral-bound book in bi–lingual English/German containing liner notes, essays, biographies and full-colour photographs of the participants, installations and performances.

CDs feature: François Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Tom Johnson/Martin Riches, José Antonio Orts, Ed Osborn, Christina Kubisch, Wolfgang Mitterer

As New copy.

File under: François Donato Adrian Moore David Prior Mario Verandi Alvin Lucier Ron Kuivila Tom Johnson/Martin Riches José Antonio Orts Ed Osborn Christina Kubisch Wolfgang Mitterer Andreas Bernnat Frank Gertich George Goodman Herbert Velasquez Laurie Schwartz Silke Borgstedt Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Comic Stripping

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26.6 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Melbourne

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Wonderful, exceptionally rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Comic Stripping at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, May 31—June 24 1983. Features the work of Howard Arkley, Julie Cunningham, Juliet Darling, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Raymond X, Peter Tyndall, Christopher Van Der Craats, → ↑ →. Illustrated throughout with work and texts by the artists and an introduction by Denise McGrath.

Very Good copy with ex-libris 200 Gertrude St. archive stamps to contents and final page of catalogue. Small mark, soft surface tear from old sticker to bottom-left of cover, otherwise a lovely copy with only light wear.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Howard Arkley Julie Cunningham Juliet Darling Juan Davila Linda Marrinon Raymond X Peter Tyndall Christopher Van Der Craats → ↑ → George Paton Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Painting Sound / Music

Het Apollohuis 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001
(Lot of 3 books)

1985–2001, English
Softcover (3 volumes), 144 + 152 + 102 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Lot of 3 books. Each book is a five year compendium documenting the programme series at the legendary sound arts venue Het Apollohuis between the years 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001. Founded by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in 1980, Het Apollohuis was a unique space dedicated to experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in a former nineteenth century cigar-factory. Between 1980 and 2001, Het Apollohuis organized 253 art exhibitions, 476 concerts and performances, 46 public lectures, symposia and several festivals (as "ECHO: images of sound II" in 1987 or FLEA Festival in 1997). Alongside an ambitious programme, Het Apollohuis also published prints, artist books, multiples, audio-cassette tapes, LPs, and CDs. This wasn't a museum or a traditional gallery. It was an independent space operating outside institutional structures, able to take risks and follow intuitions.

These books document all of these activities through profuse photo documentation, floor–plans, descriptions (in English), invites and biographies, all indexed. Includes accompanying essays. All in English.

For anyone interested in the history of experimental music and sound art in the 1980s–1990s, these books are essential. Not as nostalgia, but as documentation of a moment when possibilities were opening up, when artists were finding each other, when spaces like Het Apollohuis proved that independent platforms could operate at the highest level of ambition and seriousness. An indispensable reference.

Artists include: Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Merzbow, Jerry Hunt, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada, Christian Marclay, Terry Fox, Akio Suzuki, Junko Wada, Paul Panhuysen, Michael Parsons, Alvin Curran, Bernard Villers, Takashi Kazamaki, Iva Bittová, Borbetomagus, Jon Rose, Rhys Chatham, Junko Ueda, Paul Gees, Tibor Szemző, Richard Lerman, Joe Jones, Christina Kubisch, Pascal Comelade, Jon Gibson, Tari Ito, Jim O'Rourke, David Shea, Rolf Julius, Gordon Monahan, Warren Burt, Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, Goji Hamada, Rafael Toral, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk, Roman Signer, Ikue Mori, Felix Hess, Pierre Bastien, Goji Hamada, Herman De Vries, Ellen Fullman, Hugh Davies, Jan Boerman, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Jürgen Olbrich, Remko Scha, Jackson MacLow, Anne Tardos, Paul Dutton, J.H. Kocman, Eric Andersen, Alison Knowles, the Maciunas Ensemble, Hideharu Matsueda, Tokihiro Sato, Trimpin... just the tip of the iceberg.

All Very Good copies with some light wear to boards, light knocking.

File under: Eliane Radigue Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Merzbow Jerry Hunt Elliott Sharp Alvin Lucier Yoshi Wada Christian Marclay Terry Fox Akio Suzuki Junko Wada Paul Panhuysen Michael Parsons Alvin Curran Bernard Villers Takashi Kazamaki Iva Bittová Borbetomagus Jon Rose Rhys Chatham Junko Ueda Paul Gees Tibor Szemző Richard Lerman Joe Jones Christina Kubisch Pascal Comelade Jon Gibson Tari Ito Jim O'Rourke David Shea Rolf Julius Gordon Monahan Warren Burt Keiji Haino Eugene Chadbourne Goji Hamada Rafael Toral David Behrman Zeena Parkins Jaap Blonk Roman Signer Ikue Mori Felix Hess Pierre Bastien Herman De Vries Ellen Fullman Hugh Davies Jan Boerman Esther Ferrer Boris Nieslony Arnold Dreyblatt Phil Jürgen Olbrich Remko Scha Jackson MacLow Anne Tardos Paul Dutton J.H. Kocman Eric Andersen Alison Knowles the Maciunas Ensemble Hideharu Matsueda Tokihiro Sato Trimpin Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Group Shows / Collections Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND II, 1999
Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki

1999, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 100,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 13 May — 4 July 1999, featuring the work of Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 100 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Alien Productions Thorsten Goldberg Christina Kubisch Akio Suzuki Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND III, 2001
Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz

2001, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 250,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 10 May — 1 July 2001, featuring the work of Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 250 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Ulrich Eller Christoph Lahl Robin Minard Alexander R. Titz Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Music, Language and Environment
Writings by David Dunn

c. 1989, English
Softcover (spiral bound), unpaginated, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Dunn / California

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Very rare, privately issued anthology of writings by pioneering experimental/environmental composer and researcher, Harry Partch's assistant, and Harry Partch Ensemble member, David Dunn. Around this time Dunn privately issued a series of 4 staple-bound publications that documented his pioneering work of electronic and acoustic, collected and reflected in his own words. This much larger anthology brings together a most vital compilation of his major technical and philosophical writings and sound research around human and non–human language, music, composition, and bio–acoustics that shaped his work and philosophy, opening with his 1984 essay Music, Language and Environment, followed by An Expository Journal of Extractions from Wilderness: Notes Toward an Environmental Language (1981), Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior (1983), Mappings and Entrainments (1984), Synchronisms: Toward a Phenomenological Science (1986), The Self-Referring Universe: Identity, Nonlocality and Evolution (Allyn B. Brodsky and David Dunn), Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature, Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond, Environment, Consciousness, and Magic (An Interview with David Dunn, 1988).

Composer David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research. His compositions and soundscape recordings have appeared in many international forums, concerts, broadcasts, and exhibitions. In addition to his multiple books, recordings and soundtracks, he has been anthologized in over 50 books and journals. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Good–Very Good copy, light wear to cover pages.

File under: David Dunn Chris Mann David Dunn Chris Mann Allyn B. Brodsky David Dunn / California Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology / Earth