World Food Books

Ikko Kagari
Dark Secret Photography

1983, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 17.5 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hama Shobo / Tokyo

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1983 photo/text book published the year following Ikko Kagari's infamous "Document Commuter Train" (1982). After the acclaim of his masterpiece photobook, Kagari stepped further into the darkness with this collection of his close-up candid infrared photography. Kagari takes to the streets, the parks, the gay beats, the girl's toilets, the alley-ways, the bars, the back-rooms, and back onto the trains with his "modern eroticism of the voyeur in the cold metropolis". "Full of secrets and charm", Kagari here accompanies his photography with texts on his experiences, insights, technical clandestine methods, along with amazing and humorous instructional manga. 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). 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 in VG dust jacket.

File under: Ikko Kagari Ikko Kagari Hama Shobo / Tokyo Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Fetishism / BDSM Art

Akira Ishigaki‎
Adult Photography: Peeping Part 4: Secret Rooms

1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 238 pages, 17.5 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hama Shobo / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1982 edition of acclaimed Japanese photographer Akira Ishigaki‎'s heavily illustrated instructional photobook, published the same year as his award-winning bondage photobook “Strange Fruit”, now considered an absolute masterpiece of SM art photography. This is the fourth issue of Peeping that was published in a series in the 1980s. The first issue was by Yakuza photographer Michio Soejima, and the second and third by Ikko Kagari, of the infamous "Document Commuter Train" (1982). Profusely illustrated in b/w and gloss colour, Secret Rooms combines Ishigaki‎'s erotic photographs, many shot within the "secret" mirrored room, alongside other peeper/close-up stories, Ishigaki‎'s camera techniques, how-to manga, and experiences in Ishigaki's words. File alongside Kohei Yoshiyuki and Ikko Kagari.

Akira Ishigaki (b. 1953) was a Japanese photographer who was active from a young age in the 1970's, shooting vending machine books and vinyl books. In 1982, still in his 20's, he published the award-winning photobook “Strange Fruit”, now considered an absolute masterpiece of SM art photography with it's 1993 re-edition in collector's hardcover. "Strange Fruit" (featuring the bondage of then little-known bakushi Kaoru Roppongi) became a hot topic, and Ishigaki‎ held solo exhibitions both in Japan and New York the following year. In 1984 his work was featured in the French magazine "PHOTO" and he became a pioneer of the overseas Kinbaku Art boom. He is also famous for his photo collections of musician Endo Michiro (Stalin). From the mid-1980s to the 1990s, he also released many directorial works for Nikkatsu films and videos. He passed away in September 2011.

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Akira Ishigaki Hama Shobo / Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

Akira Ishigaki‎, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Ikko Kagari
Excite Infrared Photography

1981, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 252 pages, 17.5 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Futami Shobo / Japan

$160.00 - Out of stock

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"Whether voyeuristic or hardcore, Akira Ishigaki‎'s shutters are a wedge of passion that penetrates the hidden city."

Very rare 1981 infrared and peeping photobook collection edited by acclaimed Japanese photographer Akira Ishigaki, published the year before his award-winning bondage photobook “Strange Fruit”, now considered an absolute masterpiece of SM art photography. Excite Infrared Photography introduces this "modern eroticism of the voyeur in the metropolis" via three of the celebrated masters of this deviant genre, Akira Ishigaki‎, Kohei Yoshiyuki and Ikko Kagari. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographic collections by all, many now infamous, many not seen elsewhere, they are accompanied by editor Ishigaki‎'s experiences, technical insights and philosophical reflections on the world of peeping photography. Considering this was published in 1981, right after Kohei Yoshiyuki's "Document Park" (1980), and the year before Kagari's infamous "Document Commuter Train" (1982) and Ishigaki‎'s award-winning “Strange Fruit” (1982), Excite Infrared Photography makes for an important and rare editorial statement on a clandestine moment in Japanese erotic photography, where fleeting in flagrante scenes capture erotic desire and criminal impulse, and lines between voyeur/participant and simulated/real are blurred.

Akira Ishigaki (b. 1953) was a Japanese photographer who was active from a young age in the 1970's, shooting vending machine books and vinyl books. In 1982, still in his 20's, he published the award-winning photobook “Strange Fruit”, now considered an absolute masterpiece of SM art photography with it's 1993 re-edition in collector's hardcover. "Strange Fruit" (featuring the bondage of then little-known bakushi Kaoru Roppongi) became a hot topic, and Ishigaki‎ held solo exhibitions both in Japan and New York the following year. In 1984 his work was featured in the French magazine "PHOTO" and he became a pioneer of the overseas Kinbaku Art boom. He is also famous for his photo collections of musician Endo Michiro (Stalin). From the mid-1980s to the 1990s, he also released many directorial works for Nikkatsu films and videos. He passed away in September 2011.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Ikko Kagari Kohei Yoshiyuki Akira Ishigaki Ikko Kagari Kohei Yoshiyuki Akira Ishigaki‎ Futami Shobo / Japan Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography Photography Periodicals Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Hitomi Watanabe
Shinjuku 1968

2014, Japanese
Softcover (in card slipcase w. obi), 260 pages, 25.4 x 18.2 cm
Signed.,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Town to House / Japan

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Signed first edition of "Shinjuku 1968" by acclaimed Japanese photographer and representative of the Provoke movement, Hitomi Watanabe, published in 2014 and now out of print.

"The core of the collection is formed by photographs from the year 1969, the year in which the Shinjuku West Exit square became a passage and a meeting penned by the media as “Folk Guerilla” was obliterated by the riot police, a greater part of the collected photos were taken in 1968. At that time, the first place editors would take me to was a bar called Unicon, near Shinjuku Gyoen. After that, we would go barhopping to places like DUG (which is still going strong even today),Trevi, DIG, Mokuba, Pit In, Bizarre, places where modern jazz was playing. The time of the Red Tents of Juro Kara near Hanazono shrine, of the avant-garde films of ATG, the performance art happenings on the streets, before they became pedestrian zones… It was a time when hippies stoned off their mind would cross your path, and “underground” was the word you’d hear in the streets of Shinjuku. When it was not Shibuya or Shimokitazawa, not Kichijoji but Shinjuku where culture was taking place. Days like these continued, until one night, a huge riot took place in the Shinjuku area. The 10.21 International Anti-War Day. While being jostled with the crowd, the once abstract Vietnam War and its consequences became a tangible reality which I experienced with my own body.

In the Shinjuku of 1968, you can see an entire era reflected." — Excerpt from the afterword

"These may be photographs of the past, but they show the present." — Nobuyoshi Araki

Shinjuku 1968 consists entirely of Watanabe's photographs of the Tokyo neighbourhood Shinjuku at the end of the 1960s, which can be said to be the beginning of her photographic career. It was here that she first encountered the Japanese counter culture and became involved in the student movement and anti-war protests. Her candid photographs of the everyday lives of the protesters, the state violence, and the aftermath of rioting from her insider’s vantage on this tumultuous moment afforded her work an undeniable, enduring power. Here, in "Shinjuku 1968", Watanabe presents her documents of the protests and rallies beside her images of the underground scene, the theatre, clubs, the Shinjuku streets, shopfronts, and the everyday folk that inhabited the neighbourhood at that time, with some of the images republished for the first time since her iconic "Shinjuku Contemporary 1968" and "Kaihoku '68 / Liberated Area '68" photo books of the 1960s.

Very Good copy, almost As New, with original slipcase and publisher's obi-strip (featuring Nobuyoshi Araki testimonial). Signed and dated by Hitomi Watanabe in 2015 to the colophon page in black pen.

File under: Hitomi Watanabe Town to House / Japan Counterculture Protest / Revolt Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books Art Japanese Photography Photography

Luigi Ghirri
Pensare per immagini

2013, Italian
Softcover, 432 pages, 25.5 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Electa / Milan MAXXI / Rome

$600.00 $390.00 - In stock -

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First edition of the very rare, immediately out-of-print comprehensive catalogue on Italian artist and photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943—1992), published on the occasion of the largest retrospective of his photographic work at MAXXI, Rome, 2013. Published by Electa, Milan.

Luigi Ghirri was one of Europe's photographers who revoluzionised, from the mid-1970s onwards, the atmosphere of Italian photography. The sequence of more than 300 photographs published in this book allows the reader to retrace Ghirri's photographic process. In this manner, we can understand the innovative Ghirri's ideas.

This extensive catalog examines the output of the Italian photographer through an original route which re-interprets the photographer’s encounter with the neo-avant-garde movement, his early decision in favor of color photography and the development of an analysis of photographic genres which led to a new way of understanding photographs. Ghirri organized most of his work into ‘sequences’ of images, and later regarded it as a gigantic work in progress. Ghirri succeeded in grasping the stimuli of the artistic and cultural scene of the 1970s, transforming them into an output that became a benchmark for contemporary art.

This book is a fundamental tool for historians and critics eager to learn about and study the work of the photographer from Modena. Critical essays by Giuliano Sergio, Quentin Bajac, Laura Gasparini, Larisa Dryansky and others tackle the multiple aspects of Ghirri’s work: his rapport with the avant-garde movements, the debate on post-Modernism, his encounters with architects and writers, his confrontation with American photography, and his role as an intellectual and a curator in many Italian photographic projects in the 1980s. There is an anthology of the most important critical writings which accompanied the photographer’s work.

The majority of this lavish, heavy book is devoted to 300 of his photographs, arranged according to his main topics: people, things and life. Each series of photographs is introduced by a quotation by Ghirri. The texts have been chosen to highlight the photographer’s skill as a writer and to help the public to understand the photographer’s work through his own words.

Very Good copy, with only very light wear, almost As New. No spine creasing.

File under: Luigi Ghirri Giordano Gasparini Massimo Mezzetti Giovanna Melandri Giuliano Sergio Quentin Bajac Laura Gasparini Larisa Dryansky Electa / Milan MAXXI / Rome Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Luigi Ghirri
The Map and The Territory

2018, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 19.8 cm x 24.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by MACK / London

$220.00 - In stock -

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Quickly out-of-print in all language editions, this is the first edition, of the especially collectible English language first printing of Luigi Ghirri — The Map and The Territory.

Through the course of the 1970s and 1980s, Luigi Ghirri pursued his extraordinary project, open-ended and mercurial, marked by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. Over the course of his short career, Ghirri would produce a vast body of photographs without parallel in the Europe of his time and numerous writings which would have an indelible impact on the history of photography.

This extensive book compiled by the renowned British curator James Lingwood accompanies a touring exhibition to three major museum venues across Europe and focuses on the first decade of Ghirri’s work, defined by his 1979 exhibition in Parma. Vera Fotografia was grouped into fourteen different narrative sequences, each of which is represented in this volume: Fotografie del periodo iniziale (1970), Kodachrome (1970-78), Colazione sull’erba (1972-74), Catalogo (1970-79), Km 0.250 (1973), Diaframma 11, 1/125, luce naturale (1970-79), Atlante, (1973), Italia Ailati (1971-79), Il paese del balocchi (1972-79), Vedute (1970-79), Infinito (1974), In Scala (1976-79), Still Life (1975-79).

The focus of the project is on Ghirri’s quietly compelling project to create a new kind of geography, located in his fascination with representations of the world, in the form of reproductions, pictures, posters, models and maps. The mediation of experience through images in an Italy poised between the old and the new was, for Ghirri, an inexhaustible terrain to survey – “a great adventure into the world of thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness and the fairy tale world of children…a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine specular place of multitudes and simulation."

Published in collaboration with Jeu de Paume, Museum Folkwang and Museo Reina Sofia.
Edited by James Lingwood

Out of print, As New copy. Rare.

File under: Luigi Ghirri MACK / London Photography Art Out-of-print / Rare

Eros Fantasy: Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room
by Yoshiki Yamamoto

1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 236 pages, 20.4 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Self-published / Kobe City

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this stunning privately-issued 1979 Japanese hardcover collection of erotic fantasy art, edited and written by Yoshiki Yamamoto. Upon retiring from the Sanyo Electric Railway Company in 1976, Yamamoto devoted himself to the art that he loved and to complete an intimate book study that traces an important lineage of artists of "eros fantasy", focussing on 16 key artists through profusely illustrated chapters, linking artists of the fin de siècle, symbolism, surrealism, and their descendants. A total labour of love. There is no other book like it. "Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room" features profusely illustrated full chapters on Gustave Moreau, Félicien Rops, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Bayros, Egon Schiele, Paul Delvaux, Hans Bellmer, Felix Labisse, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Leonor Fini, Paul Wunderlich, Ernst Fuchs, Tomi Ungerer, H.R. Giger, Raymond Bertrand, Gilles Rimbault, including profiles, many artworks, portraits and texts by Yamamoto, closing with a chronology of further artists and authors through the centuries.

Average—Good copy due to the back hardcover board being reattached. Good dust jacket with the usual wear and tanning of this title, otherwise the book block is VG throughout — crisp and clean.

File under: Gustave Moreau Félicien Rops Gustav Klimt Franz von Bayros Egon Schiele Paul Delvaux Hans Bellmer Felix Labisse Pierre-Yves Trémois Leonor Fini Paul Wunderlich Ernst Fuchs Tomi Ungerer H.R. Giger Raymond Bertrand Gilles Rimbault Yoshiki Yamamoto Self-published / Kobe City Eros Out-of-print / Rare Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Fetishism / BDSM Art Drawing Painting Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Group Shows / Collections Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Too Negative No. 7
January 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative No. 7 January 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,  Too Negative No. 7 January 1997, features the photography of Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Francis Bacon, photographer Andres Serrano, photographer Eric Kroll, photographer Hiroshi Yokoi, artist/photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, early 20th Century medical photography, early American mugshots, ‘Forbidden Colors’ tattoo photography, artist Hideki Sugimoto, early war medical and facial prosthetics, crime scene photography ‘The Sunset Murders', contemporary infant medical photography, crime scene photography, ‘Henry Lee Lucas’ serial killer article with photos, ‘Women En Large’ photo feature, ‘The Man Who Fell To Heaven’ gunshot wounds medical photography, and much more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Francis Bacon Andres Serrano Eric Kroll Joel Peter Witkin Hiroshi Yokoi Hideki Sugimoto Tom Shobo / Japan Art Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Shock Factory – Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
by Nicolas Ballet

2023, French
Softcover, 465 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$80.00 - In stock -

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A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly produced a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and the growing influence of technology. Originally British, its development grew in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by industrial bands—designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes recycled or conceived by the artists—were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. The saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, altered by a détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that invested polemical themes: mental control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who anticipated current issues concerning the media and their coercive power.

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Octopus Notes, Marges,OpticalSound, Volume !, Revue & Corrigée, Klima, in Cahiers du CAP and Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.

Foreword by Pascal Rousseau.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Pascal Rousseau Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video

The Rita
Correlations

2024, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

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This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

Correlations presents some of the images and documents Sam McKinlay finds most definitive in his practice. The monograph is designed to provide a cohesive understanding of the artist's creative trajectory, as well as illuminate The Rita's uncanny process that visually, conceptually, and historically 'connects' seemingly unrelated subjects.

Published by Amaya Productions and curated by Andrea Stillacci; the monograph includes essays by the art historian and Centre Pompidou curator Nicolas Ballet (Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music), associate Professor and harsh noise artist Lexi Turner (Cornell University), and author, writer, producer Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women).

Credited as one of the pioneers of "harsh noise wall", influential artist Sam McKinlay (born 1974 in California) has been operating under the alias The Rita since the 1990s. Having performed extensively and credited with over 200 releases, the project has grown into a laser focused multidisciplinary venture and is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of "harsh noise". Accompanying The Rita's singular and often unpredictable sonic output is an inseparable and distinct visual language. By combining McKinlay's fine arts education, research, experimentation, and collaboration; the project visually and texturally unites the artist's interests in minimalist design, noise, ballet, sharks, choreography, and film.

Edited by Andrea Stillacci.
Texts by Nicolas Ballet, Lexi Turner, Kier-La Janisse.

File under: The Rita Sam McKinlay Nicolas Ballet Andrea Stillacci Lexi Turner Kier-La Janisse Amaya Productions / USA Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Conceptual Art Art Fetishism / BDSM

Nigel Ayers
Electronic Resistance

2021, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 31 x 22.86 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers (b. 1957, UK) has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia experimentation to form a singular body of work. Co-founder of the groups The Pump and Nocturnal Emissions (along with brother Daniel Ayers and then-partner Caroline Kaye), Ayers has been a contributor to and proponent of industrial music’s high-water marks, his Sterile Records imprint disseminating not only NE sides but also defining work from Lustmord, SPK, Maurizio Bianchi, and others between 1979 and 1986. In 1987, Ayers inaugurated the Earthly Delights label with the now-canonical Caroline K recording Now Wait For Last Year, and the imprint has since served as Ayers’s primary outlet for releasing new work, whether as Magnetizdat, Spanner Thru Ma Beatbox, or Nocturnal Emissions, a going concern to this day.

Published, designed, and produced by Ross Waitman and Amaya Productions in collaboration with the artist, Electronic Resistance compiles mail-art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, record and tape covers to present an arresting cross-section of the genre-sundering art Nigel Ayers created between 1980 and 1992. It features an introductory reflection from Ayers, as well as an essay entitled “Bleeding Images: Antipsychiatry, Death, and Mind Control” by art historian and critic Nicholas Ballet (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), contextualizing Ayers’s work and extensive career.

750 copies limited edition.

File under: Nigel Ayers Nicholas Ballet The Pump Nocturnal Emissions Lustmord SPK Maurizio Bianchi Amaya Productions / USA Art Sound / Music Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

G.B. Jones

1994/2022, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 68 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Published by Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto

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Long-awaited re—print of G.B. Jones' legendary 1994 monograph.

G.B. Jones (b. 1965, Bowmanville, Canada) is recognized for many accomplishments: for the success of her post-punk band Fifth Column (1981–2002), the widespread influence of the many queer punk zines she co-authored, including J.D.s, Double Bill and Hide, her coining of the term “queercore,”and her prolific work as a “no-budget” filmmaker, scene photographer and visual artist. Her drawing series, “Tom Girls,” originally published in J.D.s, replaced Tom of Finland’s iconic, “hyper-virile studs” with bold, uncompromising leather dykes, co-opting Finland’s objectified, male-on-male erotica and presenting a world of “nasty female role models”—Dodie Bellamy.

In 1994, Feature Inc. + Instituting Contemporary Idea in New York released the monograph G.B. Jones. Edited and designed by Steve Lafreniere, the book compiled Jones’ “Tom Girls” drawings alongside show and film posters, record covers, comics and commissioned writing, including contributions and appearances by Dennis Cooper, Vaginal Davis, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Caroline Azar, Johnny Noxzema, and others. As part of a campaign by the Canadian Border Services agency against allegedly pornographic or immoral materials in the 1990s, copies of Jones’ book were seized by the Canada Border Services Agency and barred from entering the country on the charge of depicting “bondage.” Jones was later informed that the seized copies had been burned by Border Control agents.

27 years later, in collaboration with Jones, Kunstverein Toronto is putting G.B. Jones back in circulation in Canada. This re—publication of the book was published to accompany a 2022 exhibition of related drawings, photographs, posters, ephemera and tributes that reflect the reach and influence of Jones’ heterogenous practice, both at the time of the original release of G.B. Jones, and today.

File under: G.B. Jones Dennis Cooper Vaginal Davis Dodie Bellamy Kevin Killian Caroline Azar Johnny Noxzema Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto Art Eros Sound / Music Film / Video LGBTQ+ Drawing Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Ellen Cantor
"I’m Still Coming" : COMING TO POWER 2016 & 1993

2017, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Capricious / New York

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A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor, in 1993, along with its re-staging in 2016 by curator Pati Hertling and artist, Julie Tolentino.

The book also chronicles the unprecedented partnership amongst five New York City institutions. Exhibitions and programming of Cantor’s work were offered by 80WSWE, Maccarone, Foxy Productions, Participant Inc., Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Skowhegan School of Painting, and MOMA—highlighting the lush, visionary, and audacious aspects of Cantor’s drawings, paintings, curatorial projects, sculpture, assemblage, video, film, and evocative writing. Another section features a reprint of an interview between Cantor and Cerith Wyn Evans, a conversation between Lia Gangitano/Jonathan Berger and Julie Tolentino/Pati Hertling, as well as archival material from Cantor’s diary entries and never-seen sketches from Cantor’s personal papers.

LIST OF ARTISTS:

PAINTING/SCULPTURE/PHOTOGRAPHS: Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Fried, Nan Goldin, Nancy Grossman, Pnina Jalon, G.B. Jones, Doris Kloster, Joyce Kozloff, Zoe Leonard, Monica Majoli, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke

VIDEO/FILM: Peggy Ahwesh, Maria Beatty, Lynda Benglis, Abigail Child, Cicciolina, Kate Dymond, Azian Nurudin, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Julia Kunin, Blush Productions, Annie Sprinkle, and Ona Zee

PERFORMANCES: FlucT, luciana achugar, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom, Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado, Jim Fletcher, Narcissister, niv Acosta, and Jen Rosenblit and their collaborators

File under: Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Louise Bourgeois Ellen Cantor Patricia Cronin Mary Beth Edelson Nicole Eisenman Nancy Fried Nan Goldin Nancy Grossman Pnina Jalon G.B. Jones Doris Kloster Joyce Kozloff Zoe Leonard Monica Majoli Marilyn Minter Alice Neel Lorraine O’Grady Yoko Ono Carolee Schneemann Joan Semmel Cindy Sherman Nancy Spero Hannah Wilke Julie Tolentino Peggy Ahwesh Maria Beatty Abigail Child Cicciolina Kate Dymond Azian Nurudin Barbara Hammer Holly Hughes Julia Kunin Blush Productions Annie Sprinkle Ona Zee FlucT luciana achugar Kia Labeija Xandra Ibarra / La Chica Boom Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado Jim Fletcher Narcissister niv Acosta Jen Rosenblit Pati Hertling Capricious / New York Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Film / Video Feminism Curatorial Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+

Selling Ourselves for Dinner (+ poem print)
by Christopher Barnett

1982, English
Softcover (staple-bound + telex), unpaginated, 24.5 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by All Out Ensemble / Adelaide

$50.00 - Out of stock

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“The greatest Australian poet you’ve never heard of”—Anne Marsh

Very rare copy of Australian avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher Barnett's theatre poem, Selling Ourselves for Dinner, performed at the Adelaide Festival in 1982 with the All Out Ensemble (Nicholas Tsoutas, Peggy Wallach, etc.) in the Rundle Street Carpark. Printed at The Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and published by the All Out Ensemble, this hand-made publication, final drafted in December 1981, presents the entire revolutionary performance—poem by Christopher Barnett, scene for scene, along with introduction, cast credits and bios. Starring Barnett as his hero, Soviet-Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky, the play opens at a reading of Mayakovsky's work at the Moscow Polytechnic in 1929. Directed by Nicholas Tsoutas, the cast of characters includes Lilya Brik, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Alexander Fadeyev, Jim Morrison, Sergei Yesenin, etc. with visual and sound contributions from Michael Trudgeon, Derek Kreckler, Laughing Hands, Peter Cheslyn, Jacky Redgate, Ian de Gruchy, and many more.

In Adelaide and Melbourne in the early 1980s the hard talking, hard living poet Christopher Barnett was a force to be reckoned with—socially, artistically, politically, not that he made these distinctions. A charismatic public performer once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", this self-styled “Cultural Bolshevik”—a homage to his hero, Valdimir Mayakovsky—and a key collaborator with Nicholas Tsoutas and Peggy Wallach in the All Out Ensemble, Barnett left Adelaide for Fitzroy and then in the mid 80s relocated to Nantes in France where he became notable for co-founding an experimental company, Le Dernier Spectateur, working with the disenfranchised, where he remains to this day.

This copy with inserted dot matrix printed poem, “Telec".

Very Good copy.

File under: Michael Trudgeon Derek Kreckler Laughing Hands Peter Cheslyn Jacky Redgate Ian de Gruchy Nicholas Tsoutas Peggy Wallach Christopher Barnett Christopher Barnett All Out Ensemble / Adelaide Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Poetry Sociology / Politics Art Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sound / Music

Women At Work
A Week of Women's Performance June 1980

1980, English
Softcover (staple bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by George Paton Gallery / Parkville

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Very rare copy of Women At Work, an important catalogue published to accompany a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia held at the George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union, June 2—6, 1980. Includes valuable transcriptions of the seminars — 'Feminism in Performance' : An open discussion led by women from the Women's Art Movement, Adelaide (featuring: Cath Cherry, Peg Maguire, Judy Annear, Denise McGrath, Jan Hunter, Ann Marsh, Jane Kent, Shan Short, Ann Fogarty, Lorraine Bennington, Jackie Lawes, Bonita Ely, Helen Sherriff, Joan Grounds), plus a general discussion reflecting on the activities of the week (Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, Vineta Lagzdina, Anna Paci, Aleks Danko, Jan Ferrari). Heavily illustrated artist's pages with texts and performance documentation follows, featuring: Cath Cherry, Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Joan Grounds, Jan Hunter, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Jackie Lawes, Ann Marsh, Jill Orr, Anna Paci, Liz Paterson, WIMMINS CIRCUS, plus photographic documentation of the exhibition, and a detailed catalogue of the videos and slides shown.

"In 1979, Jane Kent, from the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide, had a three week installation in the Ewing Gallery. She and Ann Marsh, also from WAM suggested a weekend get together later in 1979 for Adelaide and Melbourne women artists. After discussion with Kiffy Rubbo and Judy Annear, the idea developed into a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia to be held June 2-6, 1980. The eventual make-up of the week was 14 performances by 12 women, plus a performance by the WIMMINS CIRCUS (courtesy Union Council). The women who performed were Cath Cherry, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Ann Marsh, from Adelaide; Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, from Melbourne; Joan Grounds, Jackie Lawes, Anna Paci, from Sydney, and Jan Hunter from Hobart. Documentation of performances by the above women and many others was exhibited in the gallery: this took the form of written material, videotapes, slides and installation."—Judy Annear and Aleks Danko, October 1980

Fair copy with moisture staining, damage and general tanning to extremities, rippling along spine.

File under: Cath Cherry Jane Kent Vineta Lagzdina Ann Marsh Bonita Ely Ann Fogarty Jill Orr Liz Paterson Joan Grounds Jackie Lawes Anna Paci Jan Hunter Peg Maguire Judy Annear Denise McGrath Shan Short Lorraine Bennington Helen Sherriff Joan Grounds) Aleks Danko Jan Ferrari George Paton Gallery / Parkville Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Sociology / Politics

The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History
by Bernard Smith

1976, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Oxford University Press / Melbourne

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this important and now very scarce volume of essays by Australian art historian, Bernard Smith (1916—2011), The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History, published by Oxford in 1976. The book centres around the controversial title essay "The Antipodean Manifesto", first published on the occasion of the Antipodean group's only exhibition, held in Melbourne in August 1959. The Antipodeans were a group of Australian modern artists (Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh) who asserted the importance of figurative art, and protested against abstract expressionism. Though they staged but a single exhibition, they were noted internationally and the manifesto provoked strong reaction. Smith was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department (1955–1967) during this time. Smith's collection continues with texts on Perceiving the Australian Suburb, William Morris, Whitlam government arts funding, Coleridge and Cook, the Myth of Isolation, and much more.

"This book contains a selection of essays and articles written by Bernard Smith during the past thirty years. They have been written in the belief that art is concerned more with what it is to be human than with aesthetic, formal or monetary values, though such factors do play a part, often too great a part, in the evaluation of works of art. Bernard Smith has always been an outspoken commentator on controversial issues, and many of the hard-hitting articles he has written over the years are still very relevant today. His views on the 'myth' of Australia's isolation from the influence of the mainstream of Western art, for example, and on the dubious value of a National Art Gallery in fostering an appreciation of the arts, are stimulating and incisive. Also included here are essays on the work of individual artists such as William Dobell and Henry Moore; on issues peculiar to Australian art and on more general matters, such as Government support for the arts, art and history, art and the industrial society, art and romanticism; and finally Professor Smith's long and fascinating paper which reveals that Coleridge's poem The Ancient Mariner was almost certainly based on Cook's second voyage around the world."—book blurb

Bernard William Smith (1916—2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, and influence on Robert Hughes. Smith was associated with the Communist Party of Australia, and after leaving the party remained a prominent left-wing intellectual and Marxist thinker. Following the death of his wife in 1989, he sold much of their art collection to establish the Kate Challis RAKA, one of the first prizes in the country for Indigenous artists and writers.

Good copy with tanning to spine and edges, general wear.

File under: Charles Blackman Arthur Boyd David Boyd John Brack Robert Dickerson John Perceval. Clifton Pugh The Antipodeans William Morris William Dobell Henry Moore Bernard Smith Clark Coolidge Oxford University Press / Melbourne Australian Art Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Eva Hesse
Exhibitions, 1972–2022

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

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German-born American artist Eva Hesse (1936–70) was a pioneering figure in Postminimalism, known for her use of materials such as latex and fiberglass to evoke fleshy, organic forms. This volume provides a historical account of Hesse’s landmark institutional exhibitions following her death, from 1972 to the present.

Contributions from the museum curators involved in organizing these shows reflect the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition, such as intent and reception. Extensive installation views are included throughout, along with exhibition-related ephemera, lending historical texture to the curators’ essays.

Edited by Barry Rosen. Text by Fiona Bradley, Helen Cooper, Briony Fer, Sabine Folie, Andrea Gyorody, Ellen Johnson, Brigitte Kölle, Luanne McKinnon, Renate Petzinger, Petra Roettig, Nicholas Serota, Linda Shearer, Lena Stringari, Elisabeth Sussman, Fred Wasserman, Catherine de Zegher.

Curators and corresponding exhibitions include: Linda Shearer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972); Nicholas Serota (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1979); Ellen Johnson (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1982); Helen Cooper (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992); Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002); Renate Petzinger (Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002); Sabine Folie (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2004); Fred Wasserman (Jewish Museum, New York, 2006); Catherine de Zegher (Drawing Center, New York, 2006); Briony Fer (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009); Luanne McKinnon (University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 2011); Brigitte Kölle and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2013–14); Andrea Gyorody (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 2019/22); Lena Stringari (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2022).

File under: Eva Hesse Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Sculpture / Installation Art Painting Minimal Art Drawing

Reinventing the Grid
Curated by Rachel Kent

1994, English
Softcover (fold-out six panels w. double-sided price list insert), 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne

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grid- 1. A grating.. A network of lines on a map... A network of electrical lines, etc.—The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol.1, 1984

Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition REINVENTING THE GRID curated by Rachel Kent, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 5—29 October, 1994, in association with the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, featuring the works of Angela Brennan, lan Burn, Debra Dawes, Rosalie Gascoigne, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Martin King, Hilarie Mais, Deborah Ostrow, Robert Owen, Louise Paramor, Rodney Spooner, John Young. Illustrated six-panel fold-out card catalogue with essay by Rachel Kent, illustrated with works from the exhibition and complete catalogue of works, plus the original price-list inserted, with prices.

"While it has been a theme for research and exhibition internationally, the grid has received less critical attention in Australia. One of the intentions of this exhibition, therefore, is to explore some of the ways in which the grid is figured in the art of a selection of fourteen Australian artists, from the mid—1960s to the present day."

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Angela Brennan lan Burn Debra Dawes Rosalie Gascoigne Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Martin King Hilarie Mais Deborah Ostrow Robert Owen Louise Paramor Rodney Spooner John Young Rachel Kent Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

Hermann Nitsch
Atlas

2018, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 16 x 24 cm
Published by A+m Bookstore / Viaindustriae

$60.00 - Out of stock

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This book looks at the work of Austrian avant-garde artist Hermann Nitsch, particularly his ritualistic and existential “public aktionen” under the Orgies Mysterien Theater. Presented through the documentation of these events as they were recorded (scored, directed, written down, photographed, published, and reported), this archiving method explores Nitsch’s performative practice, both in terms of how the performance is organised and by what means the organisation is effected by the original and primary scripts the artist prepared for his own actions. The book includes detailed materials, among them images, sketches, texts, staging, choreography, sound, and music.

File under: Hermann Nitsch A+m Bookstore / Viaindustriae Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Günter Brus
Herzeigung / Disclosure

2023, English / German
Hardcover, 624 pages, 35.5 x 28.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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The most comprehensive, exhaustive volume of collected works by Viennese Actionist, painter, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer, Günter Brus (b. 1938).

Under the title ‘Disclosure’, what is probably in terms of its scope and quality the most outstanding private collection of Günter Brus’ work is now presented for the first time. Over the past few decades, the THP Private Foundation has built up an extensive collection of the artist’s work. This ranges from one of his first watercolours from the late 1950s through to the latest works during the lockdown of 2020. This comprehensive monograph contains major works from all of the artist’s creative periods and traces vividly the development of the exceptional artist Günter Brus from Viennese Actionist to celebrated picture-poet.

Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Günter Brus: Disclosure – A Retrospective from the Collection of the THP Private Foundation’, 28 Oct 2022 – 5th March 2023, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria.

The exhibition was curated by Roman Grabner of Neue Galerie Graz, who edits and contributes to this book. English and German text.

Günter Brus (born 1938 in Ardning, Austria) is an Austrian artist known for his controversial films, performances, and paintings. He was notably a member of the Viennese Actionist Group alongside Otto Muehl and Hermann Nitsch. In 1960, the artist’s interest in the paintings of Jackson Pollock led his transition into making performance-based paintings regarding his own body. Many of the Viennese Actionist’s radical acts were intended as reactions to what they considered the ongoing legacy of Nazi fascism in Austrian culture. His 1968 performance Kunst und Revolution, consisted of the artist consuming his own urine, masturbating in public, and vomiting, he was subsequently jailed for six months. Brus currently lives and works in Graz, Austria.

File under: Günter Brus Roman Grabner Walther König / Köln Performance / Dance / Theater Art Drawing Film / Video Painting

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

No Manifesto (Rosa Johanna, Wjm Kok, John Nixon)
22nd of February, 2018 Amsterdam

2018, English / Dutch
Staple bound, 4 pages, 15 x 10.5 cm
Ed. of 300,
Published by Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

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"No Manifesto" from artists Rosa Johanna, Wjm Kok, and John Nixon, published by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 22nd of February, 2018. This wonderful staple-bound publication takes the form of a Stedelijk Museum visitor's feedback form, asking "What Do You Think?", accompanied by the artist's "No Manifesto".

Limited edition of 300 copies.

File under: John Nixon Rosa Johanna Wjm Kok Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam Art Painting Objects / Ephemera / A/V Australian Art Minimal Art SALE

$OUL — DÉCADA DEL 70 — INTERCÂMBIO ENTRE MAC E CAYC
Organised by Jorge Glusberg

1976, Portuguese
Double-sided fold-out, 4 panels, 47 x 30 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo

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Very rare fold-out catalogue for the important international art exhibition surveying conceptual art, concrete poetry, experimental art, performance art, mail art ("activity with a critical view of society") in the 1970s organized by Argentine author, publisher, curator, professor, and conceptual artist, Jorge Glusberg, who was director of the Center for Art and Communication of Buenos Aires (CAYC). With text by Brazilian professor, historian, art critic and curator by Walter Zanini, director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MAC). With a number of the exhibited heliographic documents from the exhibition illustrated throughout, the brochure catalogues the exhibited works by participants including: Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, Öyvind Fahlström, Július Koller, Tim Ullrichs, Luis Fernando Benedit, Jaime Davidovich, Jorge Glusberg, Víctor Grippo, Lea Lublin, Luis Pazos, Julio Plaza, Jonier Marin, Jiří Valoch, Guillermo Deisler, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Manuel Barbadillo, MH de Ossorno, Valcárcel Medina, Felipe Ehrenberg, César Bolaños, Pawel Petasz, José Urbach, Lydia Okumura, Haroldo González, Les Levine, and many others.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Dan Graham Lawrence Weiner Genesis P-Orridge Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Öyvind Fahlström Július Koller Walter Zanini Jorge Glusberg Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Art Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Poetry Protest / Revolt Sound / Music

Francis Picabia
1999/2000 & 391

1999, English / French / Japanese
Two-volume softcover bookset in curregated cardboard slip-case, 120 pages & 220 pages (colour and b&w ill. throughout), 18 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by APT International / Tokyo Isetan Museum of Art / Tokyo

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First Edition of this comprehensive, beautifully produced Japanese two-volume publication on the life and work of the great French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist, Francis Picabia.

Published by APT International in 1999 for a major Japanese travelling exhibition on Francis Picabia, starting at the Isetan Museum of Art in Tokyo in 1999, then to Fukushima and Osaka throughout 1999-2000.

Two Volumes bound in french-fold wraps, beautifully kept fine volumes, both housed in protective corrugated cardboard slip-case with scarlet label wrapped around spine. Slipcase itself is now protected under plastic sleeve.

First volume (226 page) forms a comprehensive retrospective of Picabia's life and prolific and defying work across painting, drawing, printing, poetry and film. Extensive colour and b&w reproductions of a vast collection of his painting, illustration and publishing projects are presented alongside a folio of his poems and drawings, plus photo documentation of his studio and private/social life. Also includes a biography and bibliography, as well as an insightful conversation between Olga Picabia (Francis Picabia's widow), Pierre Calté (director of Comité Picabia), Hans Ulrich Obrist (independent curator) and Stefan Banz (independent curator), about Picabia's life (text in English and Japanese). Introductory essays in Japanese and French by Beverley Calte and Arnauld Pierre.

Second volume (120 pages) "391" is a very special book made up of collated facsimiles of the 19 issues of Picabia's famous Dada periodical, "391", dating 1917-1924.
391 first appeared in January 1917 in Barcelona, published and edited by Picabia, assisted in assembling by Olga Sacharoff, a Georgian emigre residing in Barcelona. The title of the magazine derives from Alfred Stieglitz's New York periodical 291 (to which Picabia had contributed), and bore no relation to its contents. Despite Picabia's renown as an artist, it was mostly literary in content, with a wide-ranging aggressive tone, possibly influenced by Alfred Jarry and Apollinaire. There were contributions by two men new to Dada: Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. However 391 remained essentially the expression of the inventive, energetic and wealthy Picabia, who stated of it: "Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify."

Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. His was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

Very Good copy.

File under: Francis Picabia Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Arnauld Pierre Beverley Calte Francis Picabia Hans Ulrich Obrist Stefan Banz APT International / Tokyo Isetan Museum of Art / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Surrealism Fiction / Poetry SALE