World Food Books

Nancy Grossman

1991, English
Softcover, 143 pages, 27 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hillwood Art Gallery / New York

$120.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this monographic book on the incredible work of American artist, Nancy Grossman. Grossman is best known for her wood and leather heads, using the leather, as well as straps, zippers, and string, to create sculptures that appear bound and restrained. She describes her work as autobiographical, and while others have reviewed her work as seemingly sexual and reminiscent of sadism and masochism, Grossman says her work challenges the ideas of gender identity and gender fluidity and refer to her "bondage in childhood". She is also well known for her mixed-media wall assemblages, drawings, collages and paintings, all of which are illustrated throughout this catalogue of her work from the late 1960s-early 1990s. Produced to accompany the first comprehensive survey of Grossman's extensive provocative career that opened at the Hillwood Art Museum in 1991, this book also features texts throughout by feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, curator and co-founder of the Feminist Studio Workshop, Arlene Raven.

Good—VG copy. Some general wear.

File under: Nancy Grossman Arlene Raven Hillwood Art Gallery / New York Art Drawing Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Fetishism / BDSM Painting

Rag Vol. 1, No. 1
Spring/Summer 1986

1986, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 36.5 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cross Culture Foundation / Tokyo

$25.00 $60.00 - In stock -

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Rare inaugural issue of the almost unknown but incredible Japanese magazine, Rag. Was this the only issue? Published in 1986 in over-sized, staple-bound format, Rag issue 1 includes a beautiful photo feature on Butoh performer Goro Namerikawa, a large feature on "Art's Destroying Angel" Tadanori Yokoo, photography by Nobuyoshi Araki, Keiichi Tahara, Yasushi Handa, Shunji Kaida, Herbie Yamaguchi, Sachiko Kuro, Kaoru Ijima, experimental musician and playwright Koharu Kisaragi, costume designer Michiko Kitamura, designers Issey Miyake, Junko Shimada, musician Eitetsu Hayashi, and much more.

Good copy with some large format wear to spine/extremities.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Tadanori Yokoo Keiichi Tahara Yasushi Handa Shunji Kaida Herbie Yamaguchi Sachiko Kuro Kaoru Ijima Michiko Kitamura Issey Miyake Junko Shimada Eitetsu Hayashi Goro Namerikawa Cross Culture Foundation / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Photography Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

NEW NUDE 2

1985, Japanese
Softcover, 276 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan

$120.00 $80.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of NEW NUDE 2, published in Japan in 1985 as part of a unique and short-lived book series published by the mighty Camera Mainchi house, showcasing leading photographers and artists on the subject of the nude. Opening with illustrated essays by photo critic Kōtarō Iizawa and others, this lovely volume, printed in Japan, presents works generously and sympathetically presented in colour and black-and-white across various paper-stocks. Includes the work of Masahisa Fukase, Hans Bellmer, Yoshiichi Hara, Masaaki Nakagawa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Lee Friedlander, Alice Odilon, E. J. Bellocq, Heinrich Zille, Donald Woodman, Florence Chevallier, Laurence Sackman, Joel Peter Witkin, Marie Bume, James Wedge, Franco Fontana, Lucas Samaras, Miron Zownir, Herlinde Koelbl, and others.

Good-Very Good copy. General wear.

File under: Masahisa Fukase Hans Bellmer Yoshiichi Hara Masaaki Nakagawa Nobuyoshi Araki Lee Friedlander Alice Odilon E. J. Bellocq Heinrich Zille Donald Woodman Florence Chevallier Laurence Sackman Joel Peter Witkin Marie Bume James Wedge Franco Fontana Lucas Samaras Miron Zownir Herlinde Koelbl Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan Eros Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+ SALE Art

NEW NUDE 3

1986, Japanese
Softcover, 276 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan

$120.00 $80.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of NEW NUDE 3, published in Japan in 1985 as part of a unique and short-lived book series published by the mighty Camera Mainchi house, showcasing leading photographers and artists on the subject of the nude. Opening with illustrated essays by photo critic Kōtarō Iizawa and others, this lovely volume, printed in Japan, presents works generously and sympathetically presented in colour and black-and-white across various paper-stocks. Includes the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Masahisa Fukase, Keiichi Tahara, Noriaki Yokosuka, Irina Ionesco, Hennri Maccheroni, Keizo Kitajima, Takashi Ishii, Richard Cerf, Ayako Parks, Taku Aramasa Seiji Kurata, Jean-Jacques Dicker, Flip and Debra Schulke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marie-Claire Montanari, Lee Friedlander, Jaques Schumacher, Joyce Tenneson, Herlinde Koelbl, and many others.

Very Good copy. Light wear, crease to one front cover bottom corner.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Daido Moriyama Masahisa Fukase Keiichi Tahara Noriaki Yokosuka Irina Ionesco Hennri Maccheroni Keizo Kitajima Takashi Ishii Richard Cerf Ayako Parks Taku Aramasa Seiji Kurata Jean-Jacques Dicker Flip and Debra Schulke Robert Mapplethorpe Marie-Claire Montanari Lee Friedlander Jaques Schumacher Joyce Tenneson Herlinde Koelbl Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan Eros Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography LGBTQ+ SALE Art

Bill 5

2024, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 31 x 23 cm
Published by Bill / Brussels

$92.00 - In stock -

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‘Bill’ is annual magazine that prioritises visual reading of its photographic stories without the distraction of text. This issue contains 192 offset pages printed in CMYK, silver, and black and white on a dozen different paper stocks, along with some Japanese bound signatures. Designed, edited, and produced by Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite.

Sand, wind, tide, bills, tulips, LA, parking lots, waves, thoughts, bagels, prints, Tokyo, orchids, horses, backs, balm, magazines, updates, shadows, Elena's shoe, two mudbaths and a garage door...

by Boyle Family, Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Gillian Garcia, Beat Streuli, Takashi Homma, JP, Adrianna Glaviano, Mimosa Echard, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gerald Domenig, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, Martiniano, Blommers Schumm

File under: Blommers/Schumm Julie Peeters Elena Narbutaite Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili Gillian Garcia Beat Streuli Takashi Homma Adrianna Glaviano Mimosa Echard Rosalind Nashashibi Martiniano Boyle Family Jochen Lempert JP Gerald Domenig Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham Blommers Schumm Bill / Brussels Periodicals Fashion Photography Art

Ana Mendieta
Search For Origin / Aux commencements

2024, English / French
Softcover, 216 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León

$70.00 - Out of stock

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An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta, with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.

The monograph devoted the Cuban born, American artist Ana Mendieta at MO.CO. Panacée in 2023 brings together about one hundred works from over fifteen years of production (1968-1985). The exhibition explores in particular how the artist never ceased to reinvent herself, developing an original, ephemeral sculptural language, at times performative in act, nourished by her research into primitive myths and rock art. It focuses especially on revealing her relationship to the visible and the invisible, her way of rendering the unspeakable intelligible through the trace of the body, and how it relates to nature. It is not intended to be a retrospective show, but rather to celebrate the relevance of such political and vibrant contemporary work.

Accompanying the exhibition, this richly illustrated publication is introduced by Numa Hambursin and Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, in addition to unpublished texts by Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo and Rahmouna Boutayeb, as well as an interview of Raquel Cecilia Mendieta with Vincent Honoré.

In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled "siluetas," are fugitive and potent traces of the artist's inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.

Contributions by Numa Hambursin, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo, Rahmouna Boutayeb, Vincent Honoré, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta.

Published with This Side Up and MUSAC, León.

File under: Ana Mendieta Numa Hambursin Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya Géraldine Gourbe Carla Guardiola Bravo Rahmouna Boutayeb Vincent Honoré Raquel Cecilia Mendieta MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Art Occult / Esoterica Feminism

5 Prose Fictions
by Lucy R. Lippard

2024, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 21.6 x 27.9 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by New Documents / Los Angeles

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Originally self-released in 1976 through A.I.R. Gallery, New York, the five short unpublished manuscripts collected in 5 Prose Fictions offer an abbreviated introduction to curator Lucy R. Lippard’s largely under-examined fictional work.

The republication of these pieces follows the recent rerelease of I See/ You Mean and provides further context for the release of Brimstone, an anthology compiling over 50 of Lippard’s experimental and narrative fiction works from the early 1950s through the 1980s.

Edition of 500.

File under: Lucy R. Lippard New Documents / Los Angeles Curatorial Poetry Fiction / Poetry Art

Michael E. Smith

2024, English / German
Softcover, 208 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan

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A series of preparatory drawings for exhibitions by Michael E. Smith, collected over fifteen years.

Michael E. Smith occasionally creates drawings as organizational notes for his exhibitions: a to-do list may be intertwined with a sketch outlining an idea for a sculpture, and at times, drawings emerge as impromptu phone scribbles. Over the past fifteen years, Michael E. Smith has accumulated a substantial collection of drawings, largely unpublished until now. To complement the exhibition dedicated to the artist in 2024, the Kunst Museum Winterthur is releasing an artist book featuring a comprehensive selection of drawings from this period.

Michael E. Smith (born 1977 in Detroit) makes sculptures out of cast-offs, waste and other residues of our consumer society. He assembles and manipulates this found material in an unusual way. He isolates objects, makes changes to their form and seeks out the limits of their imaginative power. His presentations are characterized by an intense yet sparse choreography of the exhibition space. Accordingly, they manifest themselves as site-responsive artworks exploiting all of the museum's infrastructure. Smith's work seems to avoid any form of sublimation. His predilection for the absurd and for an indefinable tension ensue from a broader critical view of the ecological, economic and social challenges facing our society.

Afterword by Lynn Kost.

File under: Michael E. Smith Lynn Kost Mousse / Milan Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Art Drawing

MAY #22
June 2024 (Dedicated to Sylvère Lotringer)

2024, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

$34.00 - Out of stock

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Introduction to Sylvère Lotringer's Interviews by Chris Kraus, interviews with David Wojnarowicz and Kathy Acker by Sylvère Lotringer, Machines for Looking by Karl Holmqvist, Anette Freudenberger on Hélène Fauquet, Gianmaria Andreetta on Yuki Kimura, Nick Irvin on Sam Pulitzer, Annie Ochmanek on Marc Kokopeli, Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle on Nicolas Ceccaldi, Shiv Kotecha on Klara Lidén and Hannah Black, Anke Dyes on Marie Angeletti, E.C. Feiss on Andrea Fraser, Thea Westreich Wagner, Our Guide to Comedy-Adventure by Bernadette Van-Huy.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, once a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: David Wojnarowicz Kathy Acker Karl Holmqvist Bernadette Van-Huy Hélène Fauquet Yuki Kimura Sam Pulitzer Marc Kokopeli Nicolas Ceccaldi Klara Lidén Hannah Black Marie Angeletti Andrea Fraser David Wojnarowicz Chris Kraus Kathy Acker Sylvère Lotringer Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle Shiv Kotecha Anke Dyes E.C. Feiss Nick Irvin Anette Freudenberger Annie Ochmanek Gianmaria Andreetta May Revue / Paris Periodicals Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Philosophy Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Photography Theory / Essay

Rene Ricard
Love Poems

2024, English / French
Softcover, 80 pages, 22.4 x 14 cm
Published by Editions Lutanie / Paris

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Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.
After Rene Ricard 1979–1980 and God with Revolver, Editions Lutanie publishes a third collection of poetry by the American writer, artist, and actor Rene Ricard (1946–2014), Love Poems.

Reprising the rare, eponymous book published by Richard Hell through CUZ Editions in 1999, Love Poems features three poems by Ricard and a series of black-and-white drawings by Robert Hawkins).
Haunted by death, betrayal, and guilt, Ricard's poems speak from a wounded heart. Hawkins's accompanying drawings have the simplicity of children's book illustrations, but feature menacing shadows, broken cigarettes, used condoms, and petal-less flowers.

Translated into French by Manon Lutanie and Rachel Valinsky, and presented in a bilingual edition, the poems are followed by a newly commissioned afterword by Hawkins retracing his encounter, friendship, and collaboration with Ricard.

With Love Poems, Editions Lutanie reaffirms its decade-long commitment—initiated the year of Ricard's passing—to reissue his out-of-print works for English-speaking readers, while also presenting them for the first time to a French-speaking audience.

"With three simple poems, Rene Ricard exposes us to the often strained love within class stratification, between those coming together from different worlds, whether Bowery panhandlers or street hustlers, Hollywood movie stars or the highest echelon of European aristocratic wealth. Rene Ricard writes poems that are always honest. Sometimes painfully so."—Patrick Fox

Robert Hawkins (born 1951 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American artist who lives and works in London. A fabled figure of the 1980s and early 1990s East Village art and punk scene, his work is and has been collected by artists and writers including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Glenn O'Brien, and Jim Jarmusch. Among Hawkins' first exhibitions was Lower Manhattan Drawing Show, a group exhibition curated by Keith Haring at 77 White Street Gallery above the Mudd Club, in 1981.

Rene Ricard was an American writer, artist, and actor. He was born in 1946 and grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After a troubled childhood, he fled to Boston as a teenager, where he came into contact with literary and artistic circles. At the age of eighteen, he moved to New York City and became a central figure in the city's artistic and literary scene. Ricard appeared in several films by Andy Warhol and continued to act in many independent films throughout his life. In the 1980s, he wrote two major collections of poetry, as well as important essays and articles, some of which were instrumental in launching the careers of artists such as Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat (about whom he wrote the famous article "The Radiant Child" in Artforum in 1981). Beginning in the 1990s, he developed a pictorial body of work and exhibited his paintings in various galleries in the UK and the US. He died in New York in 2014.

Edited by Manon Lutanie.
Translated from the English (American) by Manon Lutanie and Rachel Valinsky.
Drawings and afterword by Robert Hawkins.
Graphic design: Manon Lutanie.

File under: Rene Ricard Robert Hawkins Rene Ricard Rachel Valinsky Manon Lutanie Robert Hawkins Editions Lutanie / Paris Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Eros

Asaji Muroi
Life with Woman Dog

2004, Japanese
Softcover (w. cardboard slipcase, poster and post-card), 110 pages, 15 x 10.5 cm
Numbered ed. of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Taiyo Tosho / Japan

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, individually-numbered limited edition artist publication, Life with Woman Dog, by Asaji Muroi, published in 2004 in this deluxe set with heavily illustrated, rarely seen collection of drawings, slipcase, double-sided poster and post-card. Out-of-print.

Asaji Muroi is a fetish artist from Japan. Born in 1946, Muroi first developed a fascination as a young child, which would go on to characterize his art as an adult. Around the age of 5, Asaji happened upon a poster for a local freak show depicting a ‘dog woman’ attraction, an image which would remain with him for life and throughout his work of over 35 years, consistently used to explore taboo themes of guilt, submission and shame.

While publishing under a pseudonym and creating his work very privately, Asaji Muroi has been a prolific contributor to many Japanese SM and fetish magazines, particularly SM Kitan. Though private as an artist (indeed, Muroi only shared his work with his wife in recent years) his work is immediately recognisable and widely appreciated, having been exhibited across Tokyo and as far afield as Paris.

Immaculate, As New copy.

File under: Asaji Muroi Taiyo Tosho / Japan Art Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

A MAGAZINE CURATED BY MAISON MARGIELA
LIMITED EDITION REPRINT

2021, English
Softcover (w. print), 208 pages, 23 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A Magazine / Antwerp

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On the occasion of our 20th anniversary, A Magazine presents a limited-edition reprint of A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela. Originally released in 2004, this project can be traced back to the Belgian origins of A Magazine, which was founded in Antwerp by Walter Van Beirendonck in 2001.

After the magazines N°A, N°B, N°C, N°D and N°E, A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela was the first ever issue to bear the ‘Curated By’ title, and is a testament to this core concept thanks to Martin Margiela’s insightful mix of collaborators and projects that unveils many key names working quietly behind-the-scenes as parts of his anonymous fashion collective. Though not a single contribution bears his name, every page is imbued with the essence of the Maison, with written recounts via fax and photocopy as well as photographic and artistic projects by permanent staff members, trainees, assistants, models, artists, photographers, musicians, set designers and filmmakers.

Nearly two decades after its original release, the issue remains a bold statement that acknowledges the season-less, timeless nature of A Magazine. As a cult and collectible object in the realm of printed matter, it is a testament to the ongoing relevance of the founding ideals of the Maison Martin Margiela: from the deconstruction of garment-making and the disruption of classical ideals in photography, to such phenomena as street casting, unconventional beauty, subversive communication, and a Dadaist approach to the very concept of fashion and object design.

The 2021 edition is an identical reprint of the original magazine with matched paper stock and cover treatments, with all original content preserved.

Accompanying the issue, a selection of 6 archival images from Mark Borthwick, Anders Edström, Marina Faust, Jonathan Hallam, Ola Rindal and Ronald Stoops have been issued as 240 x 180mm unsigned prints.

Each copy contains a single print placed at random – in the spirit of the Maison Martin Margiela.

Contributor:
Åbäke, Ali Mahdavi, BLESS, Bob Verhelst, Claudia Riedel, David Ballu, Dorothee Perret, Elisabeth Broekaert, Eric Traoré, Frank Pay, Gerdi Esch, Hilde Bouchez, Hilde Decock, Inge Grognard, Jacques Habbah, Jane Birkin, Jonathan Hall House, Kanako B. Koga, Katerina Jebb, Kristina De Coninck, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Laurence Passera, Laurent Mercier, Lutz Huelle, Marina Faust, Mark Borthwick, Nigel Bennett, Nigel Scott, Ola Rindal, Patrick Scallon, Paul Boudens, Paul Helbers, Peter Pilotto, Pierre Gayte, Ronald Stoops, Roxane Danset, Sébastien Meunier, Sherald Lamden, Tetsuya Kitayama, Violeta Sanchez, Yung

File under: Maison Martin Margiela Mark Borthwick Anders Edström Marina Faust Jonathan Hallam Ola Rindal Ronald Stoops A Magazine / Antwerp Art Fashion Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Raymond Bertrand
dessins érotiques

1970, German
Softcover (staple-bound), 14 pages, 16 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio 69 / Cologne

$100.00 - In stock -

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Rare early catalogue published on the occasion of an important solo exhibition "Raymond Bertrand: dessins érotiques," held in 1970 at the great Studio 69 in Cologne. Seemingly the only catalogued exhibition of work by one of the great elusive erotic-fantasy artists from Europe, Raymond Bertrand. Beautifully printed with reproductions of his works throughout, on varying paper stocks.

Along with Leonor Fini, Raymond Bertrand became acknowledged as one of the major new artists dealing with the modern sexuality in a highly personal fashion in the late 1960s-early 1970s, a period that seemed to encapsulate the entire published work of this little-known artist. Bertrand's work became known through his incredible illustrations for French SF journals Fiction, Galaxie, illustrations for the erotic Emmanuelle novels, and Eric Losfeld published collections. Bertrand is a somewhat elusive and shadowy figure about whom it is hard to find biographical information, and it is sadly unknown whether he continued his work after this period.

Very Good copy.

File under: Raymond Bertrand Studio 69 / Cologne Art Drawing Painting Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism

Mike Kelley
Ghost and Spirit

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 24.3 x 18.0 cm
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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The first properly posthumous retrospective, this book highlights the significance of Kelley's influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s

Mike Kelley (1954-2012) liked to play with how an artist appears, exists, and inhabits a role and how an artwork "communes" with a viewer. Central to his ambitious explorations of memory, history, and the future is his consideration of how one's individual subjectivity is shaped by familial and institutional power structures within society. Ghost and Spirit highlights the significant and prescient questions about the role of art, and of the artist, and about gender and class, in terms that stem from Kelley's own position as a white, heterosexual man in postmodern, capitalist America. Featuring a diverse range of voices, it explores the major works and themes of Kelley's career, while drawing attention to aspects of his practice associated with performance, activism, and collaboration, to emphasize his continual deflation of his own authority, and his willingness to invent and inhabit several identities. Covering over four decades of Kelley's work spanning performance, sculpture, video and installation, and articulating challenges to power, gender, class, and sexuality, this book is a pertinent presentation of the breadth, complexity, and significance of Kelley's influential practice.

File under: Mike Kelley Catherine Wood Fiontán Moran The Tate Gallery / London Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Viscose 6
TEXT

2024, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 33 x 24.7 cm
Published by Viscose / Copenhagen

$55.00 - Out of stock

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The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

The fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their “expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe,” as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing— which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice— are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. And even today, in an age described by many as image-driven, this remains true: across various media platforms, language not only surrounds fashion but also continuously contributes to its creation.

The succinct, ephemeral poetry of the fashion writer still plays—nearly a century since Hughes’ observation—a transformative role in the seasonal turnover of fashion, but its role in the fashion industry remains seriously overlooked. Fashion invests substantially in seasonally refreshing the visual messaging accompanying its physical commodities, but language plays a similarly important support in this artful game of marketing. In this industrial context spanning from press releases to magazine production, writing is devoted to fashion promotion, prioritizing its fundamental traits of novelty, urgency, and semiotic complexity. In this context, fashion writing is a process of mystification, capable of revealing things that the image cannot. The material conditions of fashion writing—of being for fashion—generates a unique set of poetics and syntax. Fashion writing, or “written fashion,” as Roland Barthes asserts, is a form of signification that is simultaneously real and imaginary, connected to the real garment that it signifies, but largely unencumbered by its materiality. Given the constraints of economic, cultural, and political factors on fashion writing, it is perhaps more interesting to ask, what is fashion writing really encumbered by, and what would it mean to “unencumber” it?

Since Baudelaire, art critics have turned to fashion as source material for their practice, casting fashion in the role of art’s capitalist conspirator, temporal truth-sayer, or feminine alter-ego. This erratic history is one filled with both fraught politics (rooted in a gendered division of labor) as well as critical possibility: art writing gestures to a style of intellectualism and independence from industry that is largely foreign in fashion. Viscose Journal has, since its founding, aimed to detach fashion criticism from industrial frameworks that has historically premised it. At the same time, informed by a materialist politics of fashion labor, we wish to seriously level the largely female writing of commercial fashion publications with the masculine philosophical inquiries of fashion.

While “fashion writing” denotes a thematic category within the wider field of writing, our theme of “writing fashion” prompts an exploration of fashion writing as a mode of fashion production and critique. This issue aims to explore writing as a tool for shaping fashion and broaden its perspectives by presenting a survey of experimental, fictocritical, and poetic approaches to writing fashion. In this expanded field of writing, “fashion” unfolds as a ubiquitous and epistemologically complex phenomena of everyday life pertinent to all.

Accompanied by the exhibition “Writing Fashion“ at and published by the International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, Norway, staged in June 2024, Viscose Journal 06 strives to be a thought-provoking journey into the captivating intersection of fashion and language. We are grateful to the library’s fantastic team and collaborators for their ongoing support and collaboration.

with works by: Osman Ahmed, Alba Aragón, Katherine Bernard, Ricarda Bigolin, Eileen Chang, Dal Chodha, Eduardo Costa, Jose Unzueta Criale, Femke De Vries, Becket Flannery, Kennedy Fraser, Laura Gardner, Patrick Greaney, Bruce Hainley, Elizabeth Hawes, Nakako Hayashi, Devin Hentz, Elaine Wing-Ah Ho, Juje Hsiung, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Jamaica Kinkaid, Chantal Kirby, Jeremy Lewis, Davora Lindner, Hanne Lippard, Shanzhai Lyric, Shizuang Magazine, Celine Mathieu, Derek Mccormack, H.B. Peace, Julie Peeters, John Perrault, Vogue Runway Rag, Rachel Tashjian, Jeppe Ugelvig, Elizabeth VR, Hanna Weiner, Elizabeth Wilson, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruno Zhu

File under: Osman Ahmed Alba Aragón Katherine Bernard Ricarda Bigolin Eileen Chang Dal Chodha Eduardo Costa Jose Unzueta Criale Femke De Vries Becket Flannery Kennedy Fraser Laura Gardner Patrick Greaney Bruce Hainley Elizabeth Hawes Nakako Hayashi Devin Hentz Elaine Wing-Ah Ho Juje Hsiung Olivia Kan-Sperling Jamaica Kinkaid Chantal Kirby Jeremy Lewis Davora Lindner Hanne Lippard Shanzhai Lyric Shizuang Magazine Celine Mathieu Derek Mccormack H.B. Peace Julie Peeters John Perrault Vogue Runway Rag Rachel Tashjian Jeppe Ugelvig Elizabeth VR Hanna Weiner Elizabeth Wilson Yohji Yamamoto Bruno Zhu Viscose / Copenhagen Periodicals Fashion Fiction / Poetry Textiles Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Men In Black: Handbook for curatorial practice
Edited by Christoph Tannert and Ute Tischler

2004, English / German
Softcover, 586 pages, 20.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin

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“Men in Black” is an art-theoretical analysis in the form of a handbook published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In over 100 statements, more than 30 essays and with illustrations by Peter Friedl, this book gives a survey of curatorial discussion during the last ten years. Its 592 pages explain the changing role of those who create exhibitions, examine perspectives for the future and relate attempts to break out of conventions, all from a range of perspectives.

Contributors include: Jean-Christophe Amman, Marius Babias, Beatrice von Bismarck, Justin Hoffmann, Udo Kittelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist / Akiko Miyake, Florian Waldvogel, and so many more...

Very Good, small price sticker tear to bottom of front (English) cover.

File under: Peter Friedl Christoph Tannert Ute Tischler Jean-Christophe Amman Marius Babias Beatrice von Bismarck Justin Hoffmann Udo Kittelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist Akiko Miyake Florian Waldvog Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin Art Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay

Sophie Calle
Die wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle

2000, German
Softcover, 80 pages,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel Haus der Kunst / Munich

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Heavily illustrated out-of-print German catalogue published with Sophie Calle on the occasion of her major exhibition at Museum Fridericianum Kassel, 8 April— 21May 2000 and Haus der Kunst, Münich, 26 August—12 November 2000. Artworks are accompanied by texts by Calle in German.

Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo.

Very Good copy.

File under: Sophie Calle Calle Sophie Elke Bahr Fridericianum / Kassel Haus der Kunst / Munich Conceptual Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Art 'Pataphysics / Oulipo

The Emancipated Spectator
by Jacques Rancière

2009, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verso / London

$35.00 - In stock -

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First 2009 hardcover edition. Now out-of-print.

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.

In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

VG/VG

File under: Jacques Rancière Verso / London Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics

Scott Redford (limited edition)
1962: Selected works 1983–1992

2003, English
Softcover, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill overprinted in black.), 33 x 24 cm
Edition of 100, plus 10 A/P,
Published by UQ Art Museum / Brisbane

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Artists' edition (100 copies) of Scott Redford’s already limited edition publication "1962: Scott Redford - Selected works 1983–1992" that have been have been overprinted entirely in black with detail images of Redford's iconic ‘black’ works, in which Redford made large collages and painted them black, signed, numbered and with a 7 inch record from the artists collection attached. "1962: Scott Redford - Selected Works 1983 - 1992" is a wonderful monograph surveying the early work of Redford, published to accompany an exhibition surveying Redford's early work at the University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. 3 October - 22 November 2003. Beautifully designed and brilliantly illustrated, this monograph brings to life Redford’s diverse work across assemblage, sculpture, painting, installation, and much more. Includes essay by Andrew McNamara and interview with Scott Redford.

Scott Redford (b. 1962 Gold Coast, Queensland) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Redford's work is unique in its references to international art movements including colour-field painting, conceptual art and pop art, while engaging with local themes, such as Australian art history, beach culture and vernacular architecture, regularly commenting on issues of gender and identity.

File under: Scott Redford Andrew McNamara UQ Art Museum / Brisbane Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Signed Books

To Note: Notation Across Disciplines

2017, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 18 x 11 cm
Edition of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Perimeter Editions / Melbourne

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Published in an edition 500 copies in 2017 and out-of-print.

Notation is part of our everyday. It is an act that records an observation for future reference. From a handwritten note, an electronic reminder or a quick sketch to a highlighted passage of text or post-it note, notation assumes many casual forms. It marks a moment of (anticipated) significance. Its audience may be its author or others. In time, it may or may not retain its (intended) significance. The motivation for the notation may be to capture something out of time for consideration at a later date – a reminder, a record, an instruction. It may be to convey something in the here and now by extracting (and abstracting) it from its original context and into the moment – to communicate. It may be a generative gesture, using a system of symbols to share a thought or proposition with peers for their interpretation or response.

In December 2015, notation became the focal point of a workshop presented at RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne entitled To Note: Notation Across Disciplines, which involved 25 practitioners working in and across the disciplines of sound, dance, visual art and design/architecture. Part reference, part exercise manual, this book is a collection of material that both informs and challenges our understanding of notation and how it exists both historically and currently within and across various fields and disciplines.

Editor: Hannah Matthews
Design: Žiga Testen & Stuart Geddes
Authors: Dr Michael Trudgeon, Erkki Veltheim, Dr Sally Gardner & Dr Alex Selenitsch
Participants: Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Georgina Criddle, Richie Cyngler, Matthew Day, Eliza Dyball, Benjamin Forster, Dr Sally Gardner, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Aurelia Guo, Melanie Irwin, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Mantsio, Phip Murray, Geoff Robinson, Jan van Schaik, Brooke Stamp, Lilian Steiner, Studio Apparatus, Studio Osk, Colby Vexler, Phoebe Whitman, Benjamin Woods

Very Good copy.

File under: Deanne Butterworth Lane Cormick Georgina Criddle Richie Cyngler Matthew Day Eliza Dyball Benjamin Forster Dr Sally Gardner Nathan Gray Helen Grogan Aurelia Guo Melanie Irwin Rebecca Jensen Shelley Lasica Michelle Mantsio Phip Murray Geoff Robinson Jan van Schaik Brooke Stamp Lilian Steiner Studio Apparatus Studio Osk Colby Vexler Phoebe Whitman Benjamin Woods Michael Trudgeon Erkki Veltheim Sally Gardner Alex Selenitsch Hannah Matthews Perimeter Editions / Melbourne Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Concrete Poetry

Armand Simon
De l'autre côté du Miroir

1987, French
Hardcover, 120 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Les Editeurs d'Art associés / ‎Brussels

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First 1987 hardcover edition of this monographic survey of self-taught Belgian surrealist Armand Simon (1906–1981). Profusely illustrated throughout with colour and b/w reproductions of his wonderful artworks, many inspired by Lautréamont's Maldoror and the poems by Rimbaud., accompanied by text from Belgian art historian and curator, Xavier Canonne. Also includes selections of Simon's poetic works and an illustrated biography with rare photographs. The most comprehensive book on this elusive artist, little known outside Belgium.

Armand Simon (1906–1981) was a self-taught Belgian Surrealist artist, cartoonist and poet known for his dreamlike and thought-provoking works. Born in Mons, Belgium, in 1923 Simon discovered the 'Chants de Maldoror' by Comte de Lautréamont, a text that fascinated him and to which he devoted thousands of drawings. An extremely prolific draftsman, he developed a noir universe nourished by literary sources, of which he proposed "graphic equivalents". Dense and precise, his drawings are based on an automatism to which he remained faithful throughout his life. His ink drawings often featured enigmatic and fantastical elements, exploring themes of the subconscious, dreams, and the absurd. In the mid 1930s Simon joined the Belgian Surrealist group Rupture, established in Hainaut, and alongside Chavée, Dumont and Lefrancq, took part in L'Invention Collective, founded and published by Raoul Ubac (1910-1985) and Rene Magritte (1898-1967) in 1940. He illustrated texts by Monique Watteau and Marcel Brion, as well as Achille Chavée's 'Seven Poems of High Negligence'. Throughout his life, he remained a relatively obscure figure outside of surrealist circles, but his work continues to be appreciated for its unique and devoted contribution to the movement. Simon's legacy is preserved through his art, which remains on display in various collections and museums dedicated to Surrealist art. Simon died in Frameries in 1981.

Xavier Canonne holds a doctorate in art history from the Sorbonne (Paris) and directs the Musée de la Photographie de la Communauté française in Charleroi. Since the 1970s, he has known and frequented the Belgian surrealists, some of whom were his close friends. He has devoted various books or articles to Armand Simon, Marcel Marién, Louis Scutenaire, Max Servais, Tom Gutt, Irène Hamoir and Robert Willems.

Very Good copy, light age/tanning.

File under: Armand Simon Xavier Canonne Les Editeurs d'Art associés / ‎Brussels Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Eros

SALE2 NO.35
EROTIK!! ISSUE

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Issue No.35 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.35, the "EROTIK!!" issue features erotic writings and artwork throughout by Hans Bellmer, Dorothea Tanning, André Berg, Pierre Molinier, Max Ernst, Armando Calvelli, articles on vintage stag films, nude French postcards, interspersed with lots of mysterious vintage erotic imagery, bondage illustration, and catalogue/advertisments/clippings of Eric Stanton, Irving Klaw, Jim, John Willie, Bizarre Comix, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy, tanning to pages.

File under: Hans Bellmer Dorothea Tanning André Berg Pierre Molinier Max Ernst Armando Calvelli Eric Stanton Irving Klaw John Willie Jim Rieko Matsuura Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Surrealism

Sadomasochism (Graphik Erotik #2)

1993, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), unpaginated, 14.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Amazing pocket art book of Sadomasochism, the second in the Graphik Erotik series edited by art director Makoto Ohrui (of SALE2/Fiction Inc./Purple/etc.) and published in Tokyo Japan by Kawade Bunko in 1993. Packed cover-to-cover with colour and b/w reproductions of European and American erotica illustrations and photography depicting all manner of lashings, spankings, and torture contraptions through the ages, including artworks by Carlo, Loïc Dubigeon, Serge Nazarieff, Serajat, Jean-Pierre Muhlstein, Juan Jose Fernandez, Luis Vigil, anonymous works from Bizarre Classix, reproductions of private collection prints, and much more. Perfectly compiled in the way SALE2 did so well, with elegant scrapbook style, dense with imagery, blown-up, full-bleed reproductions from many publications. Also includes two postcards bound-in featuring SM photography.

Makoto Ohrui founded the publishing house Fiction Inc. (later Radical Silence Production), the magazine SALE2, the gallery THE deep in Tokyo, and the magazine THE International. Ohrui was art director for SALE2, Purple, Rockin' On, and designed many books.

Very Good copy.

File under: Makoto Ohrui Carlo Serge Nazarieff Serajat Jean-Pierre Muhlstein Juan Jose Fernandez Luis Vigil Loic Dubigeon Makoto Ohrui Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Ikko Kagari
Close-up of a Woman

1983, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 226 pages, 19 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Goma Shobo / Tokyo

$240.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare 1983 first edition of Japanese photographer Ikko Kagari's guide to surreptitious infrared photography. “A guide to taking hidden photos of women with an infrared camera with images such as car sex, office sex, lovers going into love hotels, night sex in the park, upskirt shots on the train; on escalators and at clubs, all shot in infrared.” A profusely illustrated and "revealing" in-depth photo/text book from the photographer of the infamous "Document Commuter Train" the year previous, Kagari here accompanies his photography with texts on his experiences, insights, technical clandestine methods, along with instructional manga and advice to amateurs. Kagari made a number of these extraordinary, extremely questionable, surreptitious infrared photography collections in the 1980's, featuring secret "close-up photography" documenting sexual activities in public places — groping and upskirt photographs taken on packed Tokyo Metro commuter trains, in nightclubs, on escalators, couples making it in public toilets, parked cars and in parks with infrared strobe techniques reminiscent of Kohei Yoshiyuki's incredible Document Park (the two often featured side-by-side in books and journals, both their masterpiece photobooks cited in Parr & Badger's The Photobook series). A "modern eroticism of the voyeur in the cold metropolis". Kagari's grainy, blown-out infrared images that blur all lines between voyeur/participant and simulated/real, make for disorientating, sometimes claustrophobic, uneasy viewing. But they are also absolutely stunning, effective photo books that feel as conceptual as they do devious. Kagari's fleeting in flagrante scenes capture erotic desire and criminal impulse engulfed by the soft folds of entangled garment fabrics with stunning technique.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Ikko Kagari Ikko Kagari Goma Shobo / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography Photography Art