World Food Books

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
Edited by Emmett Williams

1967, English
Hardcover, 342 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1967 European hardcover edition of An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, published by the legendary edition hansjörg meyer. The book's editor, Emmett Williams, "as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance." An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry, published subsequently by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967 in America. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany–through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term “concrete” from the art of his mentor, Max Bill–and in Brazil, through the Noigandres group, which included the de Campos brothers and Decio Pignatari. Over the course of the 1960s it exploded across Europe, America and Japan, as other protagonists of the movement emerged, such as Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström, Ernst Jandl, bpNichol, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin and Kitasono Katue. By the late 1960s, poet Jonathan Williams could proclaim: “If there is such a thing as a worldwide movement in the art of poetry, Concrete is it.” The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book’s editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume–long out of print–the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.

Writers and artists included: Friedrich Achleitner, Alain Arias-Misson, H. C. Artmann, Ronaldo Azeredo, Stephen Bann, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Henri Chopin, Carl Friedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Paul de Vree, Reinhard Döhl, Torsten Ekbom, Öyvind Fahlström, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Larry Freifeld, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse and Pierre Garnier, Matthias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Ludwig Gosewitz, Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, José Lino Grünewald, Brion Gysin, Al Hansen, Václav Havel, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Åke Hodell, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Hiro Kamimura, Kitasono Katue, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjörg Mayer, Cavan McCarthy, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, bp Nichol, Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Yuksel Pazarkaya, Décio Pignatari, Vlademir Dias Pino, Luiz Angelo Pinto, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, John J. Sharkey, Edward Lucie Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Daniel Spoerri, Vagn Steen, Andre Thomkins, Enrique Uribe Valdivielso, Franz Van Der Linde, Franco Verdi, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Pedro Xisto and Fujitomi Yasuo.

"Emmett Williams, as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance. However it is far too soon to regard any anthology of Concrete Poetry as being definitive since the movement is extremely active and major new works have yet to appear in this most interesting of current poetry movements." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white.

Very Good copy with some light edge wear to thick covers, general light age/tanning.

File under: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Jiri Kolar Ferdinand Kriwet Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo André Thomkins André Thomkins Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Brion Gysin Al Hansen Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Andre Thomkins Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Jiří Kolář Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Ferdinand Kriwet edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Minimal Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Fluxus

Freud at Work
Photographs by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson

2006, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 256 pages, 23.7 x 26.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Jonathan Cape / London

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A rare insight into the mind of the greatest portrait painter of our time, accompanied by intimate photographs of the artist at work in his studio.

Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed. Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2005, the painter has agreed to talk to Sebastian Smee, a writer on art whom he greatly respects, in a series of conversations rather than formal interviews. He wants to talk about painting itself, the demands of his own work and the painters he admires. ;Two photographers have had access to Freud's studio. The late Bruce Bernard was a friend for many years and the subject of two of Freud's paintings. Bernard was an authority on photography, a great picture editor, and also a very fine photographer. He made a number of studies of Freud at work. Over the last five years in particular, Freud's assistant, the painter David Dawson, has been photographing the artist constantly. The results reveal various stages of works in progress, including paintings of Dawson himself, and the intensity of the activity in this very secret domain. The only precedent to such a document might be David Douglas Duncan's photographs of Picasso at work, but nothing as extensive has been published on such a major painter before.

File under: Lucian Freud Bruce Bernard David Dawson Sebastian Smee Jonathan Cape / London Art Painting Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Francis Bacon
Paintings

2025, English
Hardcover, 568 pages, 30 x 24.5 cm
Published by Heni / London

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Francis Bacon: Paintings is a compact collection of the complete paintings of Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon. 745 illustrations. Accompanied by a curated selection of compelling quotes — from figures such as Lucian Freud, Roald Dahl and Damien Hirst — the book guides the reader through the evolution of Bacon’s distinctive aesthetic.

A master of the grotesque, Bacon created art that is both unsettling and hypnotic, repulsive and irresistible. Emerging from a turbulent inner life and the devastation of World War II, his images retain a quality of urgency that continues to resonate with contemporary audiences.

Over a career spanning more than five decades, Bacon produced almost 500 paintings, including his signature diptychs and triptychs. From his early Surrealist experiments of the 1920s to the stark, elegiac works completed just before his death, this book charts a lifetime of radical and groundbreaking artistry.

File under: Francis Bacon Heni / London Painting Art

Memo Review 2025: Issue 4

2025, English
Softcover, 200 pages. 23 x 16.6 cm
Published by Memo Review / Naarm

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Issue 4 of Memo Review focuses on Frankfurt-based artist Hana Earles, a defining figure in the recent history of Melbourne’s backyard gallery scene. Other pieces include renowned French philosopher Catherine Malabou on Cyril Schäublin’s 'Unrest', Chris Kraus on her literary evolution, Micaela Sahhar on media and institutional censorship of Palestine, and features on Caveh Zahedi, Carol Jerrems, Rosemarie Trockel, Hany Armanious, Nora Turato, Robert Rooney and more. Also featured: eminent art historian T. J. Clark’s Marxist-inflected commitment to modernity comes under review by Francis Plagne, and Keith Broadfoot restages Imants Tiller’s canonical von Guérard copy, Mount Analogue, as repetition and resurrection of Australian art through the colonial sublime.

"Across this issue, a recurring tension emerges between what can be said, what must be withheld, and who controls the threshold between the two. In conversation with Declan Fry, Chris Kraus reflects on her new novel’s blend of small-town crime and Trump-era “cancellation,” asking how a writer can depict other people’s lives when social media, true crime, and activist vocabularies are all busy turning them into types, or erasing them altogether. Micaela Sahhar turns to Anna Akhmatova, the poet who defied Stalin’s censors, to trace how media and cultural institutions now treat Palestine as a zone of censorship, suppression, and risk management. That climate finds an echo in Berlin, where Tania Bruguera’s hundred-hour Hannah Arendt reading at the Hamburger Bahnhof was overtaken first by pro-Palestine activists, then by the institution’s own fear. As Hilary Thurlow argues, what played out was not a clash of opposing camps but a sign of the Left’s deeper fractures under the pressure of moral absolutism. And is this not close to Nicolas Hausdorf ’s claim that the West’s moral language, forged in the crucible of the twentieth century’s horrors, has been worn thin by empty repetitions and meme-like escalation, until it can no longer bear its original meaning?

Meanwhile, the old question of “effective political art” persists. Rex Butler reads 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art as a kind of visual plebiscite, a wall of works in which every artist gets a vote and every vote counts the same — a quasi-“Voice” in exhibition form — while there are revisitations of the weary Marxist art historian T. J. Clark, whose new collected essays are reviewed by Francis Plagne.

Elsewhere, the veil is not political but ontological. For Susie Anderson and Hannah Presley, the veil marks a space of partial revelation in which artists choose what to show and what to keep, set in stark contrast to the radical transparency of Caveh Zahedi’s life-as-art practice, with all its personal collateral, as explored by Chelsea Hopper.

Questions of exposure return again in Biz Sherbert’s interview with Hana Earles, where scribbled text, titles, and even Jo Malone perfume bottles act as “secret doorways” between diary-like interiority and the messy surface of painting. Seen this way, Earles’s work, steeped in psyops, Manson girls, anime adolescence, Addison Rae, mumblecore, and spiritual acceleration, offers an oblique map of Melbourne’s outwardly impoverished backyard-gallery ecology over the past decade — the Meows, Guzzlers, Asbestoses, and Punk Cafés at the fringes of the city’s institutional officialdom. Call it, with Gemma Topliss, façadism." — Paris Lettau

Contributors:

File under: Hana Earles Nora Turato Robert Rooney Caveh Zahedi Carol Jerrems Rosemarie Trockel Hany Armanious Audrey Schmidt Paris Lettau Giles Fielke Amelia Winata Tristen Harwood Gemma Topliss Hilary Thurlow Chelsea Hopper Memo Review / Naarm Art Australian Art Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Theory / Essay

Rosemarie Trockel

2012, English / German
Softcover, 96 pages, 26 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Distanz / Berlin

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Quickly out-of-print 2012 survey catalogue on the work of German artist Rosemarie Trockel, published by Distanz. Rosemarie Trockel (b. Schwerte 1952; lives and works in Cologne) rose to international fame in the mid-1980s with her knitting pictures. A second group of works from the 1990s consists of numerous variations on wall works and sculptures into which the artist integrates conventional stovetops. These works gave rise to the entrenched notion that she is an artist who interrogates the images that define women’s social roles, dedicated to contributing to their deconstruction. Yet Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre extends far beyond this one aspect. In its diversity, it defies any attempt to characterize it according to conventional criteria. Rosemarie Trockel is a painter as well as a graphic artist, a sculptor as well as a conceptual artist. In 2011, she receives the Kaiserring of the City of Goslar, one of the world’s most renowned art awards.

Includes essays by Friedemann Malsch, director, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, and Wulf Herzogenrath, director, Kunsthalle Bremen.

Good copy with light wear, light creasing.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Friedemann Malsch Wulf Herzogenrath Distanz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Textiles Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
TOKYO COMEDY

1997, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 254 pages, 30. x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Korinsha Press & Co / Kyoto

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First 1997 edition of this wonderful black and white collection of Araki's photographic works, almost entirely comprised of his finest female nudes and provocative bondage photography. Text sections in English and Japanese with introductory essay by Werner Würtinger, Vienna Secession. "The artist Nobuyoshi Araki works without a safety net, so to speak, every utterance turns into the spontaneous and irrevocable expression of his loneliness vis-à-vis the wilderness of sexuality"—Werner Würtinger, Vienna Secession). Includes biographical information and exhibition history at rear.

VG copy with a light buckling to the block.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Werner Würtinger Korinsha Press & Co / Kyoto Japanese Photography Photography Eros Fetishism / BDSM Art Out-of-print / Rare

KITSCH 1 + 2 (all volumes)

1970/1971, French
Softcover, 2 volumes, unpaginated, 28.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marie Concorde / Paris

$320.00 - In stock -

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Both of the only volumes ever produced of this wonderful French avant-garde journal, published in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s. A visual manifesto against the prudishness of the times, KITSCH presented hundreds of illustrations of mostly erotic, fetish and fantastic/grotesque artwork by artists from all over the world, and spanning generations, with both issues wrapped in the most striking Tom Wesselmann covers. KITSCH 1 includes Toshio Saeki, Guido Crepax, Richard Linder, Robert Crumb, Guy Bourdin, Petr Herel, Hannes Jahn, Roman Cieślewicz, Ben Vautier, Christian Bour, Jacques Sternberg, Roland Topor, Jim, Allen Jones, Thomas Weir, alongside photo essays on upskirt polaroids, Satanik, Diabolik, fashion and more. KITSCH 2 includes Aslan, Roy Lichtenstein, Virgil Finlay, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Greg Irons, George Grosz, Egon Schiele, Mel Ramos, alongside photo essays on subjects such as "Pop Art", "Human Concern" and Paris' "Pigalle" district, further featuring work by H.C.Westermann, Paul Thek, Edward Keinholz, William Tunberg, Christian Schad, William Weegee, James Rosenquist, Frank Gallo, Tom Wesselmann, and many more.

Very good copies both, light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Guido Crepax Richard Linder Robert Crumb Guy Bourdin Petr Herel Hannes Jahn Roman Cieślewicz Ben Vautier Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Roland Topor Jim Allen Jones Thomas Weir Aslan Roy Lichtenstein Virgil Finlay Jim Osborne Ronald Lipking Greg Irons George Grosz Egon Schiele Mel Ramos H.C.Westermann Paul Thek Edward Keinholz William Tunberg Christian Schad William Weegee James Rosenquist Frank Gallo Tom Wesselmann Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Marie Concorde / Paris Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Photography Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Paul Wunderlich
Werkverzeichnis der Lithografien von 1949-1971

1971, German
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 264 pages, 18.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Propyläen-Verl / Berlin

$15.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this catalogue raisonne of lithographs by German painter, sculptor and graphic artist, Paul Wunderlich (1927—2010). Illustrated heavily throughout, this wonderful and extensive reference book of graphic works by Wunderlich was compiled by the artist, together with gallerist Dieter Brusberg, and accompanied by texts from art historians and philosophers Max Bense, Hanns Theodor Flemming, Fritz J. Raddatz, Frank Whitford, and others.

Paul Wunderlich (1927—2010) is known for his erotic, Surrealist-inspired paintings, prints, and sculptures featuring mythological imagery. A pioneer of Magic Realism, Wunderlich received the Japan Cultural Forum Award and the Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein among other accolades. Despite his iconic works being held in some of the world’s most prominent museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wunderlich remains an “artist’s artist.” He studied graphic arts at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg; he later learned printmaking techniques from Oskar Kokoschka and Emil Nolde. His early paintings displayed an abstract, Tachist style, although he embraced figuration in the late 1950s and he developed his characteristic style. He portrayed dismembered figures and sexually provocative imagery reminiscent of the Surrealists, but also influenced art movements such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau. His work was critically received as so scandalous that, in 1960, his lithograph series Qui s’explique (1959) was seized by authorities in Hamburg, and he often had trouble with raids that destroyed his works. Paul Wunderlich was married to photographer Karin Székessy in 1971, and the couple pursued art projects together.

Average copy as the fragile glue has deteriorated and some pages are loose, though all are present.

File under: Paul Wunderlich Frank Whitford Fritz J. Raddatz Hanns Theodor Flemming Max Bense Propyläen-Verl / Berlin Art Painting Drawing Eros Out-of-print / Rare

Richard Kern
Grey Cards

2025, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by Friend Editions / New York

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Already out of print at source, published in an edition of only 500 copies, here are the collected notorious 'Grey Card' pictures from Richard Kern, encapsulated in one book. Some candid, some not — Grey Cards is an interesting perspective on the artists practice, and a side of his work long appreciated by many.

"Digital cameras made photography cheap and easy for everyone but one drawback was unreliable image capture. A greycard is used so that the photographer can correct color and lighting during post production work. the photographs in this book are presented here as they came out of the camera."

Richard Kern, photographer and filmmaker remains, first and foremost, a portraitist. For more than two decades Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation. - Matthew Higgs

First edition of 500 copies. Cover with tipped-in Grey Card.

File under: Richard Kern Friend Editions / New York Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Photography Eros Art

BLOCK 15
10th Anniversary Issue, SPRING 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 68 pages, 29 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Middlesex Polytechnic / UK

$55.00 - In stock -

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Block magazine was founded in 1979 by a small group of lecturers at Middlesex Polytechnic and ran for eleven years. Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. Edited by Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson and Lisa Tickner, Block “attempted to address the problem of the social, economic and ideological dimensions of the arts in society, and offered a challenge to a conventional understanding of art history.” Block featured important conceptual artists and contemporary cultural theorists including Terry Atkinson, Lucy Lippard, Mary Kelly, Art & Language, Allen Jones, John Berger, Susan Hiller, Martha Rosler, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Conrad Atkinson, Terry Smith, amongst others. Despite the small scale of its operation, the magazine had a wide distribution in art colleges and was avidly read by lecturers looking for ways to incorporate new theoretical, often Marxist, anarchist, feminist, situationist, poststructuralist, perspectives into their teaching.

This "Retrospective and Prospective" 10th anniversary issue features Patrick Wright, Dick Hebdige, Griselda Pollock, Judith Williamson, Jean Baudrillard, Adrian Rifkin, Jonathan Harris, Olivier Richon, Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, and many more.

Very Good copy, light wear/age.

File under: Patrick Wright Dick Hebdige Griselda Pollock Judith Williamson Jean Baudrillard Adrian Rifkin Jonathan Harris Olivier Richon Theodor W. Adorno Roland Barthes Walter Benjamin Middlesex Polytechnic / UK Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Psychoanalysis Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics

Remedios Varo

1999, Japanese / English / Spanish
Softcover (French Flaps), 170 pages, 29 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Tokyo Shimbun / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce, stunning Japanese catalogue on Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo, published on the occasion of a major touring retrospective of her work throughout Japan in 1999. Only available in the participating Japanese museums in the late 1990s and now long out-of-print, this book beautifully reproduces Varo's paintings and drawings (including preliminary sketches alongside final oils) with detailed captions and descriptions, accompanied by illustrated essays and other texts by Masayo Nonaka, Octavio Paz, Luis-Martin Lozano, and Walter Green, portraits of the artist, exhibition history, bibliography, work list and more.

Remedios Varo Uranga (1908 – 1963) was a Spanish surrealist artist. Born in Anglès (north of Catalonia), Spain in 1908, she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Varo spent her formative years between France and Barcelona and was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. The summer of 1935 marked Varo's formal invitation into Surrealism when French surrealist Marcel Jean arrived in Barcelona. While still married to her first husband Gerardo Lizarraga, Varo met her second partner, the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris with Péret leaving Lizarraga behind (1937). It was through Peret that Remedios Varo met André Breton and the Surrealist circle, which included Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, and Max Ernst among others. Shortly after arriving in France, Varo took part in the International Surrealist exhibitions in Paris and in Amsterdam in 1938. She was forced into exile from Paris during the German occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941 when the Mexican president, Lázaro Cardenas, made it a policy to welcome Spanish and European refugees. In Mexico, she met native artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, but her strongest ties were to other exiles and expatriates, notably the English painter Leonora Carrington and the French pilot and adventurer, Jean Nicolle. However, because Mexican muralism still dominated the country's art scene, surrealism was not generally well received. She worked as an assistant to Marc Chagall with the design of the costumes for the production of the ballet Aleko, which premiered in Mexico City in 1942. In 1947, Péret returned to Paris, and Varo traveled to Venezuela, living there for two years. She returned to Mexico and began her third and last important relationship with Austrian refugee Walter Gruen, who had endured concentration camps before escaping Europe. Gruen believed fiercely in Varo, and he gave her the economic and emotional support that allowed her to fully concentrate on her painting. In 1955, Varo had her first solo exhibition at the Galería Diana in Mexico City. Buyers were put on waiting lists for her work. Even Diego Rivera was supportive. In 1960, her representative, Juan Martín, opened his own gallery and showed her work there, and opened a second in 1962. Only a year after that opening, at the height of her career, she died from a heart attack in Mexico City. Her work is well known in Mexico, but not as commonly known throughout the rest of the world.

Fine, As New copy.

File under: Remedios Varo Masayo Nonaka Octavio Paz Luis-Martin Lozano Walter Green Tokyo Shimbun / Tokyo Art Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Occult / Esoterica

Francis Picabia

1984, Japanese / English / French
Softcover, 149 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seibu / Tokyo

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Scarce Japanese Francis Picabia catalogue produced on the occasion of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa 21 July-5 September 1984 and The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 9 September-21 October 1984.

Richly illustrated with many of Picabia's works spanning his entire oeuvre in painting, drawing, text and print, with texts in Japanese,some English and French.

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.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Francis Picabia Seibu / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Painting

Francis Picabia
1999/2000 + 391

1999, English / French / Japanese
Softcover (2 Vols in curregated cardboard slip-case), 226 + 120 pages, 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 long out-of-print, 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, 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 in Good slipcase that has discoloured with sun-tanning to spine, corregation has some wear. Books VG both.

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

Francis Picabia
Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning

2025, English / French
Hardcover (clothbound), 224 pages, 29.5 x 25 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

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Documenting the great, late, neglected work of a modernist master.

Prefaced by Beverley Calté, president of the Comité Picabia, this book delves into Picabia’s practice between the years 1945 to 1952—an incredibly rich period during which Picabia created paintings unlike anything he had produced before, working alongside the growing Art Informel movement in Paris.

Essays by art historians Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements shed new light on the hidden signs and symbols buried in his abstractions, the new painting techniques he employed, and the mysterious and fantastical reappearance of the “dot” in his work.

'Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning' is an essential resource, marking the first focused exploration of a crucial chapter of Picabia’s practice.

File under: Francis Picabia Francis Picabia Beverley Calté Arnauld Pierre Candace Clements Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Painting Dada Drawing Art

Hajime Sorayama
Torquere (Torture)

1998, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 100 pages, 37 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Sakuhinsha / Tokyo

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Scarce first Japanese hardcover edition of Japanese master of erotic fantasy illustration Hajime Sorayama's absolute classic Torquere (Torture), published in 1998. Following the success of best-seller NAGA, Sorayama's Torquere delves deeper into the darker realm of fantasy fetishism and, as the title suggests, into the world of Sadomasochism. This lavish over-sized volume is illustrated cover-to-cover with Sorayama's most explicit works presented in dramatic, glossy full-colour throughout. Rare in this original hardcover edition.

Hajime Sorayama is revered for his erotic airbrushed illustrations of humanoid robots that explore ideals of femininity and beauty. Drawing on pinup pictures, Sorayama published the first book of his signature “Sexy Robot” series of chromium-plated figures in 1983. Decades later, these striking works have sold for more than $500,000. Sorayama started his career in advertising before freelancing in Hollywood, where he helped to produce visuals for sci-fi films. His illustrations gained widespread attention in 1995, when Penthouse began featuring them in a monthly column. While Sorayama has enjoyed a particular cult status for his sensual cyborgs —who appear empowered rather than objectified —he has also received mainstream commercial attention. Sony enlisted him to produce the first designs for its robotic dog AIBO, which won the grand prize for Japan’s Good Design Award in 1999. Sorayama has also worked with fashion titans such as Thierry Mugler and Dior on projects that have extended his illustrations into the realm of wearables, sculpture, and performance.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Hajime Sorayama Sakuhinsha / Tokyo Eros Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Fetishism / BDSM

Marianne Wex
Let's Take Back Our Space (“Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures)

1979, English
Softcover, 366 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Frauenliteratur Verlag Hermine Fees / Germany

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Very rare first 1979 English edition of one the finest artist's books and photographic projects of the 1970's, Let's Take Back Our Space (“Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures / with 2037 photographs / In the second part of the book: Man's stuggle against womanpower and the effects upon body language throughout the course of history.)

The German artist Marianne Wex started out as a painter before producing her encyclopaedic photographic project "Let’s Take Back Our Space", one of the great unsung works of 1970s feminist history and cultural analysis. Marianne Wex bases her work on the assumption that body language is a result of sex-based, patriarchal socialization, affecting all of our other "feminine" and "masculine" role behavior. Born in Hamburg in 1937, Wex studied at the city’s University of Fine Arts, where she later taught for seventeen years. In 1979, she published Let’s Take Back Our Space as a book in both a German and English edition, to accompany an exhibition in the Neue Gesellschaft fair Bildende Kiinste in Berlin, in connection with the show Women Artists International, 1877 to 1977. It is an in-depth visual survey comprised of 5,000 to 6,000 photographs of body postures, taken between 1974 and 1977, assembled into dozens of thematic grids: Seated persons—leg and feet; arm and hand positions; standing persons—leg and feet; arm and hand positions; people sitting and laying on the ground; arm and leg positions; and so on. The images were culled from a huge range of sources—re-photographed advertisements, reportage, fashion magazines, pornography, studio portraits, the history of art—and many were taken on the streets of Hamburg by Wex, who proposes that our smallest, most unconscious gestures speak volumes about the power relations of gender in daily life. The work was expanded to include an extensive historical section for the book, where Marianne Wex investigates the body language shown in sculptures of the last 3,000 to 4,000 years, and comes to the conclusion that the ideals of body language and body forms have never been so different between the sexes as they are today.

Very Good copy. General light wear/ageing, tanning to cover, but a most lovely copy of the rare first edition from 1979. A more common reprint edition was published in 1984.

File under: Marianne Wex Frauenliteratur Verlag Hermine Fees / Germany Conceptual Art Feminism Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Suzanne Santoro
Per una espressione nuova / Towards a New Expression

1974, English / Italian
Softcover, 40 pages, 20.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Rivolta Femminile / Rome

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First, extremely rare edition of Suzanne Santoro's artist's book "Per una espressione nuova / Towards a New Expression", published in a small run in Rome 1974 by Santaro and The Rivolta Femminile ("Women's Revolt") publishing house, founded in 1970 by Carla Lonzi. In the 1960s, Suzanne Santoro (b. 1946, Brooklyn New York), after training at the School of Visual Arts in New York and NYU and being affiliated with the minimalist and conceptual New York context of the 1960s, moved to Rome where she studied classical sculpture. Here her artistic path crossed with the experience of feminist militancy, through her connection to Rivolta Femminile and Carla Lonzi and co-founded the Beato Angelico Cooperative (CBA) and exhibition space. Her research immediately focused on restoring those characteristics of the female image that had been intentionally hidden or transformed by the patriarchal tradition of visual arts, culminating in this artist’s libretto. Mysterious, beautiful and fiercely feminist, Towards a New Expression articulates, through a photographic collection of images, a critical stance towards the "subordinate and unclarified" portrayal of women's genitalia in art from classical to contemporary times. Santoro's book generated some controversy when it was censored by The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Very rare, especially in this first edition. Good copy, only with notable but attractive ex-libris "Moon Books" rubber stamp mark on back cover and another to the front end page. The title is written on the blank spine for filing into the collection. It is believed this was from a community library in Berkley. General light corner and edge wear/marking.

File under: Suzanne Santoro Carla Lonzi Rivolta Femminile / Rome Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art Conceptual Art

Superior and Inferior. Conversations among girls at middle school
by Carla Accardi

2025, English / Italian
Softcover, 304 pages, 21.5 x 15.3 cm
Published by Crackers / Milan

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The book Superior and Inferior features a facsimile copy of pivotal and extremely rare publication by the Italian abstract artist Carla Accardi (1924–2014) titled Superiore e Inferiore, plus the first ever translation of the work into English.  Published in 1972, it brings together the recordings of a series of conversations between Accardi and her pupils – she was a teacher at a public middle school – all between 10 and 13, about society’s discriminatory behaviour towards women. They also commented the Manifesto of the revolutionary feminist group Rivolta Femminile, collectively written by art critic Carla Accardi, artist Carla Lonzi and Elvira Banotti, which first appeared posted on city walls in Rome in July 1970.

For having discussed sex-related issues with pupils, Accardi was fired and permanently suspended from teaching. (Her letter of dismissal issued by the Italian Ministry of Education forms part of the introduction to the book.) Along the lines of Pasolini’s Comizi d’Amore (Love Meetings), Accardi’s own voice is secondary in the book, giving way to the thoughts, narratives, opinions and debates expressed among girls from the middle school where she taught, on the role of women and girls, family conflicts and sentimental relations, as well as their reflections on Accardi’s Manifesto.

English / Italian

File under: Carla Accardi Carla Accardi Crackers / Milan Feminism Art Theory / Essay Gender Studies / Sexuality

Feminist No. 1
(Yoko Ono cover)

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Feminist / Tokyo

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The inaugural 1977 issue of "Feminist", a rare and important record of the women's liberation movement in Japan in the the 1970s and document of the cross-currents of international female theorists, artists, poets, authors, and activists in the women's movement. This first issue with cover story on Yoko Ono, shot by Michiko Matsumoto, one of post war Japan's leading photographers. Edited by Japanese critic, American literature researcher, and poet, Ikuko Atsumi (who also co-edited "Burning Hearts: Women Poets of Japan" with Kenneth Rexroth, The Seabury Press/New Directions, 1977), with Diane L. Simpson, and contributors including women's rights activist/journalist Yayori Matsui (noted for her work to raise awareness of sex slaves and sex tourism in post-war Asia), photographer Michiko Matsumoto, Japanese linguist Sachiko Ide, Japanese poet, literary critic, and scholar Muneko Mizuta, historian Masaaki Sugiyama, author/activist Yumiko Sakuma, with this issue covering the controversy surrounding the formation of the magazine, a feature with performer/educator Mitsuko Hase, modern mythology, masculinity, media, misogyny, the Feminine imagination, the media's disdain for Asians, The Blood Bowl Sutra / women and the Buddhist faith, a report from the frontlines of the American women's movement (w. photography by Michiko Matsumoto), visiting women's studies courses around the world (University of Southern California), book reviews, feminist news, and the cover feature with artist Yoko Ono, "Yoko Ono's Philosophy" and a conversation with editor Ikuko Atsumi by Mitsuko Hase (w. photography by Michiko Matsumoto).

Good—VG copy with age/wear to cover extremities, some foxing/staining.

File under: Michiko Matsumoto Yoko Ono Mitsuko Hase Mitsuko Hase Muneko Mizuta Yayori Matsui Ikuko Atsumi Yumiko Sakuma Sachiko Ide Diane L. Simpson Feminist / Tokyo Feminism Sociology / Politics Gender Studies / Sexuality Periodicals Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Philosophy / Psychoanalysis Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography

Richardson Issue A12
The California Issue

2025, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 30.5 x 22.6 cm
Published by Richardson / New York

$77.00 - Out of stock

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New "California" themed issue of of Richardson magazine, the cult magazine that navigates the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). Featuring Sky Bri, Photographed by Harley Weir. With additional work by Frances Stark, Mario Ayala, Andy Capper, Bruce Wagner, Ed Ruscha, Bruce LaBruce, Chivas Clem, Alex Kekesi, Delicious Tacos, Jack Mason, Kazumi, Karley Sciortino, Noah Kumin, Taylor Lorenz, Weirdo Dave / Fuck This Life, William E. Jones, Scarlett Kapella, Stewart Home, Rosie Marks, A. Kircher, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

File under: Dasha Nekrasova Harley Weir Frances Stark Sky Bri Ed Ruscha Bruce LaBruce Weirdo Dave (Fuck This Life) William E. Jones Anna Khachiyan Dasha Nekrasova Bruce Wagner William E. Jones Delicious Tacos Karley Sciortino Noah Kumin Stewart Home Rosie Marks Richardson / New York Eros LGBTQ+ Pop Art Art Painting Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM Photography Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Richardson Issue A7
The Death Issue

2013, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 30.6 x 22.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Richardson / New York

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Incredible seventh issue ("The Death Issue") of Richardson magazine, the cult magazine that navigates the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). This seventh issue features features Tori Black on the cover (and inside) photographed by Nobuyoshi Araki, Aaron Bondaroff, Antoine D'Agata, Nobuyoshi Araki, Aurel Schmidt, Bela Borsodi, Bill Henson, Bjarne Melgaard, Bret Easton Ellis, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Christopher Wool, Cy Twombly, Cyprien Gaillard, Dan Colen, Daniel Johnston, Danny Lyon, Doping Pong, Enrique Metindes, Weirdo Dave / Fuck This Life, Fuyuko Matsui, Giasco Bertoli, Glenn Kenny, Gunter Brus, Hanna Liden, Harmony Korine, Jack Webb, Jack Donoghue, James Dearlove, Jenny Saville, Jim Goad, Joe Coleman, John Holland, John Willie, Pope John Paul II, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Leon Lefarge, Michael Schmidt, Mila Djordjevic, Namio Harukawa, Nate Lowman, Pascal Dangin, Paul McCarthy, Peter Saville, Robert Crumb, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Sophia Al Maria, Stewart Home, Terry Richardson, Toshio Saeki, Trevor Brown, Vince Aletti.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Weirdo Dave (Fuck This Life) Tori Black Aaron Bondaroff Antoine D'Agata Namio Harukawa Nate Lowman Michael Schmidt Dan Colen Paul McCarthy Peter Saville Robert Crumb Raymond Pettibon Richard Prince Aurel Schmidt Bela Borsodi Bill Henson Bjarne Melgaard Bret Easton Ellis Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Christopher Wool Cy Twombly Cyprien Gaillard Daniel Johnston Danny Lyon Fuyuko Matsui Giasco Bertoli Gunter Brus Hanna Liden Harmony Korine Terry Richardson Toshio Saeki Trevor Brown Vince Aletti John Willie Bret Easton Ellis Stewart Home Glenn Kenny Jim Goad Richardson / New York Eros Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Richardson Issue A4
The Female Gaze Issue

2010, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Richardson / New York

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Incredible fourth issue ("The Female Gaze Issue") of Richardson magazine, the cult magazine that navigates the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). This fourth issue (The Female Gaze Issue) features the Sasha Grey cover photographed by Glen Luchford (w. continued photo feature inside), and featuring work by Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export, Genesis P-Orridge, GB Jones, Alex Needham, Amy Kellner, Kira Jolliffe, Bunny Yeager, Tristan Taormino, Michelle Maccarone, Mila Djordjevic, Gunter Rambow, V. Vale/ Re/Search, Simon Ford, Clara Herve & Eugene Krafft, Carol Bove, Sue Williams, Tracy Emin, Carolin Kunst & Sunje Todt, Kotaro Iizawa, and much more. Riddled with bans and confiscations due to explicit un-censored imagery by Japanese censorship standards.

Very Good copy.

File under: Sasha Grey Glen Luchford Carolee Schneemann Valie Export Genesis P-Orridge GB Jones Alex Needham Amy Kellner Kira Jolliffe Bunny Yeager Tristan Taormino Michelle Maccarone Mila Djordjevic Gunter Rambow V. Vale/ Re/Search Simon Ford Clara Herve Eugene Krafft Carol Bove Sue Williams Tracy Emin Carolin Kunst Sunje Todt Kotaro Iizawa V. Vale Richardson / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Japanese Photography Photography Conceptual Art Feminism Art Sound / Music Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Richardson Issue A1
December 1998

1998, English / Japanese
Softcover, 128 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Little More / Tokyo Richardson / New York

$250.00 - Out of stock

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Controversial inaugural (December 1998) issue of Richardson magazine, the cult 1990's art/sex magazine published by Little More in Japan, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). Navigating the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, an honourable pursuit in Japan, this first issue features the double-cover (censored and non-censored) of adult film star Jenna Jameson shot by Glen Luchford, along with J.J. photo feature and interview, Richard Prince’s “Spiritual America” text and photography/artworks inc. the infamous 11-year-old Brooke Shields piece, "Be Broken" erotic artwork gallery by Harmony Korine, "Love Letter to Amerika" from Takashi Homma, Terry Richardson photography, "Cunt" fiction by Stewart Home, photos by French cinematographer (Gummo, Ulysse, Boy Meets Girl, etc.) Jean-Yves Escoffier, Japanese V-Cinema and pink star Nao Saejima, Stewart Home on Cosey Fanni Tutti, many works of photography and text by American photojournalist and writer Erika Langley, erotic photography by skater Ed Templeton of photographer and wife Deanna Templeton, vintage erotica collection by photographer Bela Borsodi, poetry and more! Riddled with bans and confiscations due to explicit un-censored imagery by Japanese censorship standards.

Texts in both English and Japanese.

Very Good copy.

File under: Glen Luchford Jenna Jameson Erika Langley Richard Prince Harmony Korine Terry Richardson Stewart Home Cosey Fanni Tutti Nao Saejima Ed Templeton Deanna Templeton Bela Borsodi Andrew Richardson Laura Genninger Takashi Homma Erika Langley Richard Prince Stewart Home Little More / Tokyo Richardson / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Japanese Photography Eros Counterculture LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

An Artist, a Coyote, and a Cage: Joseph Beuys in New York 1974
Photographs by Stephen Aiken

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 26 x 28.6 cm
Published by Letter16 Press / Miami

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New documentation of Joseph Beuys’ controversial performance piece.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol

May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’ infamous piece of performance art staged in New York City: I Like America and America Likes Me. The premise—a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a room—helped build a cult following for Beuys that has made him alternately revered and reviled throughout the contemporary art world. Stephen Aiken’s (born 1948) photographs of this May 1974 "action" by Beuys—recently unearthed and previously unpublished—offer a fresh look at this seminal art happening. These striking images are supplemented with a set of previously unseen color photos taken by Aiken of Beuys at Greenwich Village’s New School in January 1974: verbally sparring onstage with fellow artist Hannah Wilke and jousting with a raucous audience that threatened to turn his lecture into a brawl.

File under: Joseph Beuys Hannah Wilke Stephen Aiken Brett Sokol Letter16 Press / Miami Photography Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation