World Food Books

Gordon Matta-Clark
Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It / Zeichnung Bei

1997, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna

$280.00 - In stock -

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Rare first hardcover edition of the catalogue raisonné of Gordon Matta-Clark's incredible drawings published in conjunction with exhibition held at Generali Foundation, Vienna, May 7—August 10, 1997. Heavily illustrated throughout (243 colour and 548 b/w illustrations) with essays by Sabine Breitwiesser, Peter Fend, and Pamela M. Lee. Includes a biography and bibliography. Text in English and German.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943—1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art.

Fine copy in Fine DJ.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Sabine Breitwiesser Peter Fend Pamela M. Lee Generali Foundation / Vienna Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Minimal Art Drawing

Lucio Fontana
by Guido Ballo

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 268 pages, 29.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First 1971 clothbound hardcover edition of the first major English-language monograph on Argentinian artist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), published two years after his death. Profusely illustrated with texts by Italian writer and art critic Guido Ballo (1914-2010), this volume surveys Fontana's works across painting (many of his Concetti Spaziale examples), sculpture, drawing, installation and graphic work, encompassing his Spatialism manifesto, along with biographic details, bibliography, photographs documenting the life and work of the great artist.

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one the most innovative artists of the 20th century. A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Fontana blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. The founder of Spatialism, a movement focused on the spatial qualities of sculpture and paintings with the goal of breaking through the two-dimensionality of the traditional picture plane, he pushed the painterly into the sculptural and redefined the relationship between the arts. He was best known for his monochrome canvases known as Concetti Spaziale that he would cut or puncture, leaving distinctive gaping slash marks and holes that imbued the finished work with an almost violent energy. In his seminal writing, White Manifesto (1946), the artist traced ideas for creating a new medium that blended architecture, painting, and sculpture. “I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture,” he said of his work. Fontana had widespread impact on the following generation of artists, who began to use installation media more aggressively to address the dynamics of space in gallery environments and Land Art. Fontana died on September 7, 1968 in Varese, Italy at the age of 69, just two years after being awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket. All near Fine.

File under: Lucio Fontana Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Arte Povera Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$70.00 - Out of stock

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Donald Judd
Furniture Retrospective

1994, English / Dutch
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 134 pages, 27 × 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam

$850.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of the the highly sought after Donald Judd Furniture Retrospective catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 1993.

The only published overview of Judd's furniture works, this clothbound (wrapped in kraft paper printed jacket), is profusely illustrated throughout and accompanied by Judd's essays "It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp", “Eichholteren, Switzerland” and “Marfa, Texas: Concrete Building”. "It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp" is partly an account of his first forays into chair and table making, having found it hard to buy the right furnishings for his own home in Marfa, Texas. It is also a meditation on the problems of designer, antique and mass-produced furniture in which Judd rails against the price and availability of decent furniture, while also examining what constitutes good and bad design.

Lovely copy of the original hardcover volume, much scarcer than the softcover.
Very Good copy with light tanning to edges in Very Good jacket with light tanning to spine.

File under: Donald Judd Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Furniture

Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts
Edited by Vincenzo de Bellis

2022, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 19.8 x 24.1 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Six decades of sculptural innovation from the Arte Povera pioneer and alchemist of the everyday captured in this stunning new volume.

Over the course of more than five decades, Jannis Kounellis developed a singular practice across painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation and hybrid works combining objects with live performance. Playing a central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, Kounellis created wide-ranging and innovative works exploring theater, migration, history, politics and other themes, which continue to influence subsequent generations of artists.

Published by the Walker Art Center for the first US Kounellis survey in over 35 years, Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts offers the most comprehensive assessment of his career to date. The richly illustrated catalog, assembled with the full cooperation of the artist's estate and archive, presents a first-of-its-kind collection of visual materials and Kounellis' writings, including image-based exhibition and performance chronologies. The volume also features essays by Vincenzo de Bellis, Claire Gilman, Kit Hammonds and Ara H. Merjian.

Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) was born in Piraeus, Greece. In 1956, he moved to Rome and by 1960 was an active member of the Arte Povera movement. In 1969 he created one of his best-known works: the installation of 12 live horses in the gallery L'Attico in Rome. Kounellis' first New York solo show was in 1972. Recent exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece (2012) and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2007), among others.

File under: Jannis Kounellis Vincenzo de Bellis Claire Gilman Kit Hammonds Ara H. Merjian Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Global Tools 1973–1975
When Education Coincides with Life

2019, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 27 x 19.5 cm
Published by Nero / Rome

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program “without students or teachers.” The Global Tools journey began with its foundation in 1973 by groups and figures drawn from Italian Radical Architecture, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art, and ended in 1975 after three years of intense experimentation. This book is both a commentary and an impressive visual archive that brings together essays by international authors and reproductions of many original documents—including the Global Tools bulletins, entirely republished here for the first time. This unique and definitive book marks a fundamental stage in the rediscovery of one of the most fascinating European cultural experiences of the late twentieth century.

Edited by Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini.

With texts by Manola Antonioli and Alessandro Vicari, Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini, Alison J. Clarke, Beatriz Colomina, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco Raggi, Simon Sadler.

Published by Nero in collaboration with SALT, Istanbul.

File under: Global Tools Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass Jr. Remo Buti Gianni Pettena Alessandro Mendini Franco Raggi Archizoom Associati Archizoom UFO UFO Group Superstudio Zziggurat Ugo La Pietra 9999 Gruppo 9999 Peter Eisenman Riccardo Dalisi Walter Pichler Adolfo Natalini Gian Piero Frassinelli David Mosconi Inez Klok The Body Group Franco Vaccari Manola Antonioli Alessandro Vicari Valerio Borgonuovo Silvia Franceschini Alison J. Clarke Beatriz Colomina Maurizio Lazzarato Franco Raggi Simon Sadler Fernanda Pivano Nero / Rome Anarchism Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Protest / Revolt Counterculture Art Arte Povera Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973

1994 / 1998, French
Softcover, 158 pages, 28.7 × 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels

$260.00 - In stock -

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The great "L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973", first published in Brussels and France in 1994 by Fondation pour l'Architecture and Norma Editions. Long out of print, this comprehensive volume quickly became an invaluable bible of sorts for plastic collectors of the 1960s, 1970s period. In 1994, on the occasion of a major exhibition in Brussels, editors Philippe Decelle, Diane Hennebert, and Pierre Loze compiled the most detailed printed survey of plastic products to date, from Art, Functional Furniture, Fiberglass, Inflatable PVC, Transparent PMMA, Pop and Radical Design, Cookware, Electronics, Mod Fashions, Utopian Architecture. Heavily researched and lavishly illustrated throughout with close to 200 of the finest examples, L’ Utopie has become the standard reference on 1960s plastic design - an essential aid in identifying the designers, companies and manufacture details of many classic plastic objects from this era.

Includes detailed biographies of the artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, plus a chronology and bibliography.

Translated blurb:
"The sixties are marked by unprecedented prosperity and technological progress. To this optimism corresponds an extraordinary freedom of creation until the oil crisis of 1973 which tempers this enthusiasm. The vogue of plastic is linked to this society of abundance. Yellow, red, orange, soft, hard, inflatable, it identifies with cheap, serial and disposable productions. Starting from a private collection unique in the world, the book offers a selection of plastic objects created between 1960 and 1973. Tupperware box, Kelton watch, Courrèges dress, Ettore Sottsass portable typewriter Valentine for Olivetti, first chair of Verner Panton, Joe Colombo ABS plastic chair, Niki de Saint Phalle's Nana, Caesar's Compression, cupola of the United States Pavilion by Richard Buckminster Fuller at the Montreal World's Fair or Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch overhead roof for the stadium of the Olympic Games in Munich, all show their diversity, their spirit and sometimes their beauty of the inventiveness of the time."

Features the work of Pierre Paulin, Sergio Mazza, Vico Magistretti, César, Studio 65, Nicola L, Piero Gilardi, Verner Panton, Arman, Gianfranco Frattini, Jonathan De Pas, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gae Aulenti, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Joe Colombo, Enzo Mari, Iseo Hosoe, Mario Bellini, Dorothée Maurer-Becker, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Günter Beltzig, Maurice Calka, Eero Aarnio, Wendell Castle, Alberto Rosselli, Quasar Khanh, Rossi Molinary, Ennio Lucini, Ugo la Pietra, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Roy Adzak, Studio Gruppo 14, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss, Marco Zanuso, Rodolfo Bonetto, Roger Tallon, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Maneval, Paolo Soleri, Archigram, and many more.

Second edition, published in 1998 on the occasion of Plastiques: Matieres e créér at l'lnstitut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux a la Saline Royale de Arc et Senans-France, October 1997—March 1998. Rare and immediately out-of-print. Very good copy with some light tanning, ageing.

File under: Pierre Paulin Sergio Mazza Vico Magistretti César Studio 65 Nicola L Piero Gilardi Verner Panton Arman Gianfranco Frattini Jonathan De Pas Donato d'Urbino Paolo Lomazzi Gae Aulenti Anna Castelli Ferrieri Joe Colombo Enzo Mari Isao Hosoe Mario Bellini Dorothée Maurer-Becker Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi Günter Beltzig Maurice Calka Eero Aarnio Wendell Castle Alberto Rosselli Quasar Khanh Rossi Molinary Ennio Lucini Ugo la Pietra Ettore Sottsass Superstudio Archizoom Roy Adzak Studio Gruppo 14 Dieter Rams Reinhold Weiss Marco Zanuso Rodolfo Bonetto Roger Tallon Pierre Cardin Courreges Frei Otto Buckminster Fuller Jean Benjamin Maneval Paolo Soleri Archigram Philippe Decelle Diane Hennebert Pierre Loze Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Arte Povera Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Paul Thek
Artist's Artist

2009, English
Hardcover, 550 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$420.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the scarce, highly sought after, and most comprehensive book ever published on American artist Paul Thek, published in 2009 by MIT Press. Edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel, this enormous 550 page monograph contains more than 300 works by this groundbreaking artist, documenting his journey from legendary outsider to central figure in many contemporary art movements.

Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek's death from AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn. This book brings together more than 300 of Thek's works—many of which are published here for the first time—to offer the most comprehensive display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at ZKM ? Museum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek's work in dialogue with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature, theater, and religion. These works chart Thek's journey from legendary outsider to foundational figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek's works embody the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic Against Interpretation to him. Thek's treatment of the body in such works as “Technological Reliquaries,” with their castings and replicas of human body parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in colour) and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates Thek's work on its own terms, and as a starting point for understanding the work of the many younger artists Thek has influenced.

Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock, Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg, Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer, Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom, Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Susanne Neubauer, Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann, Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel, Ann Wilson.

Good copy with tanning to spine, some bumping and waving from storage. Clean throughout.

File under: Paul Thek Jean-Christophe Ammann Margrit Brehm Bazon Brock Suzanne Delehanty Harald Falckenberg Marietta Franke Stefan Germer Kim Gordon Roland Groenenboom Axel Heil Gregor Jansen Mike Kelley John Miller Susanne Neubauer Kenny Schachter Harald Szeemann Annette Tietenberg Peter Weibel Ann Wilson The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera

Assemblage, Environments & Happenings
by Allan Kaprow

1966, English
Hardcover (Burlap covered boards), 342 pages, 32 x 31cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$400.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1966 burlap-bound edition of this seminal work by Allan Kaprow documenting the milieu of performance art and happenings in the early-mid 1960s. Published by H. N. Abrams, Assemblage, Environments & Happenings is a legendary photo-artist-book by “one of the grand antiheroes of contemporary art”, produced in way we would never see today. Wrapped in a heavy, debossed and screen-printed raw burlap hardcover, this massive and visually stunning volume features incredible typography, commentary and lay-out by Kaprow himself, accompanying countless photogravures (photos taken by Oldenburg, Robert McElroy, Peter Moore and others) featuring the work of artists (and non-artists) such as Claes Oldenburg, Tetsumi Kudo, Jean Tinguely, Clarence Schmidt, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, Kenneth Dewey, Milan Knizak, Jackson Pollock, Robert Whitman, Red Grooms, George Segal, Yayoi Kusama, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, together with images of works by the Japanese Gutai Group (Murakami Saburo, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, et al) and many more.

Allan Kaprow, “an artist who coined the term ‘happenings’ in the late 1950s and whose anti-art works contributed to radical changes in the course of late 20th-century art,” was a leading member-with artists George Segal, Jim Dine and Claes Oldenberg-of a group whose performance works were signally influenced by John Cage’s “reliance on chance as an organizing, or disorganizing element in art. Like Cage, Kaprow used a combination of choice and accident as a way of creating nonverbal, quasi-theatrical situations in which performers functioned as kinetic objects, the role of the single artist-genius was de-emphasized, audience members became creative participants and no-clear distinction was made between everyday actions and ritual…” (New York Times).

"Step Right In"

Very Good copy, spotless with tight-As New binding, perfectly preserved.

File under: Gutai Allan Kaprow Murakami Saburo Shozo Shimamoto Kazuo Shiraga Atsuko Tanaka Claes Oldenburg Tetsumi Kudo Clarence Schmidt Jackson Pollock George Segal Yayoi Kusama Jim Dine Robert Rauschenberg Jean-Jacques Lebel Wolf Vostell George Brecht Kenneth Dewey Milan Knizak Robert Whitman Red Grooms Jean Tinguely Harry N. Abrams / New York Sculpture / Installation Painting Fluxus Arte Povera Art Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare

Giorgio Griffa
Works 1965-2015

2015, English
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 248 pages, 18 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

$400.00 - Out of stock

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The great hardcover monographic book on the work of Giorgio Griffa, edited by Andrea Bellini, that very quickly disappeared from print and became understandibly collectible. This most comprehensive English-language book on the artist, published on the occasion of the cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the work of Giorgio Griffa (Turin, 1936) (Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Bergen Kunsthall; and Fondazione Giuliani, Rome) aims—through a series of essays by Andrea Bellini, Luca Cerizza, Laura Cherubini, Martin Clark, Suzanne Cotter, and Chris Dercon, a conversation between Griffa and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and a selection of artist’s writings and a chronology compiled by Marianna Vecellio—to highlight the very diverse features and extraordinary richness of Griffa’s paintings. Profusely illustrated throughout.

“Giorgio Griffa is one of the least-known Turin-born artists of the Arte Povera generation. Another precious ‘secret’ that the city of Turin, discreet and haughty as ever, has managed to keep under wraps—in this case for almost half a century. From the immediate post-war period, a singular group of young artists in the city helped write the history of European art in the second half of the twentieth-century. Together with now universally acclaimed figures, such as Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio, and Mario and Marisa Merz, there were also other leading artists in Turin, who have only recently begun to receive the international attention they deserve. Here I am thinking of the likes of Piero Gilardi, Gianni Piacentino, Carol Rama, Salvo, and Aldo Mondino, but also of the eccentric and eclectic Carlo Mollino. Griffa was one of the most discreet and isolated in this group of young people who revolved around Sperone’s gallery. He immediately showed an exclusive interest in painting, while his companions mainly moved out towards sculpture and installation from the mid-sixties.”—Andrea Bellini

Fine copy, almost As New.

File under: Giorgio Griffa Andrea Bellini Chris Dercon Giorgio Griffa Hans Ulrich Obrist Laura Cherubini Luca Cerizza Marianna Vecellio Martin Clark Suzanne Cotter Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Minimal Art

Giorgio Griffa

2016, English / French
Softcover, 72 pages, 25 x 31 cm
Published by Analogues / Arles

$65.00 - Out of stock

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New monograph, with thirty emblematic paintings, a text by the artist, and an essay by Francesco Manacorda.

The art of the italian artist Giorgio Griffa developed quietly and with impressive coherence outside the latest movements broadly outlined on the contemporary scene. At the beginning of his career Griffa nonetheless associated himself with the representatives of Arte Povera, with whom he exhibited on numerous occasions in the 1960s and 1970s. His simultaneously “minimalist” painting also displayed an affinity in particular with the group Supports/Surfaces in France.

Elegant, unprimed and unstretched, the canvases by Italian artist Giorgio Griffa offer constellations of horizontal lines and the numerals of the golden mean in a graceful and warm minimalism. Like a melody, a rhythm or a line of poetry, these painted signs in half-tones convey a certain lyricism, one that is also found in the artist's poems.

Griffa's raw canvases are covered with marks in pastel shades of acrylic paint, which he says “are performed by the brush, by my hand, the paint, my concentration, etc.” They attest to his admiration for the artists of ancient times, and his “feeling for the centuries-old memory of painting”. His solo show at the Fondation presents earlier as well as very recent works, including Canone aureo 705 (VVG) (2015), a breath-taking homage to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night of 1889.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Giorgio Griffa” at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, from February 13 to April 24, 2016.

In 1968, Giorgio Griffa (born 1936 in Turin, where he lives and works) abandoned figurative painting in favor of a format of abstract painting that still characterizes his work to this day. Painting with acrylic on raw un-stretched canvas, burlap and linen, Griffa's works are nailed directly to the wall along their top edge. When not exhibited, the works are folded and stacked, resulting creases that create an underlying grid for his compositions. In keeping with his idea that painting is “constant and never finished”, many of his works display a deliberate end-point that has been described as “stopping a thought mid-sentence.” Despite early associations with movements such as Arte Povera and Minimalism, Giorgio Griffa's work was not exhibited in the United States for 40 years after his first solo exhibition in New York at Ileana Sonnabend's gallery. In 2012, Giorgio Griffa had a solo exhibition, Fragments 1968 - 2012 at Casey Kaplan in New York, leading him to be named one of the “10 thrilling rediscoveries from 2012.”

File under: Giorgio Griffa Bice Curiger Francesco Manacorda Analogues / Arles Art Arte Povera Painting

Jannis Kounellis
Galleria Alexandre Iolas, Rome, 1968 exhibition poster

1968,
Silkscreen and offset print (85 x 46 cm)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galleria Alexandre Iolas / Rome

$1000.00 - Out of stock

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Stunning, extremely rare early Jannis Kounellis (1936—2017) exhibition poster, published on the occasion of one of his most iconic early solo exhibitions at Galleria Alexandre Iolas, Rome, 1968. A piece of printed history of the forefather of the Arte Povera movement, issued by the legendary Galleria Alexandre Iolas and published by Sergio Tosi Editore. Gorgeous silkscreen and offset print. Since the 1960s Greek—Italian artist Kounellis investigated the alienation inherent in contemporary society, juxtaposing the materials of mass urban and industrial civilization with symbols and values of the pre-industrial world.

A stunning collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions : 85 x 46 cm
Very Good condition, well preserved.

File under: Jannis Kounellis Galleria Alexandre Iolas / Rome Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art

Jannis Kounellis
signed poster

Signed offset printed poster (80 x 59 cm)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$900.00 - In stock -

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Rare and signed vintage Jannis Kounellis (1936—2017) litho/serigraph print poster. Possibly an Italian museum artist's edition, although we have never seen another like it available. Beautifully large print in offset halftone with over-print of black square and "KOUNELLIS". Hand signed in pencil in the lower right by Jannis Kounellis, Greek Italian artist and forefather of the Arte Povera movement. Since the 1960s Kounellis investigated the alienation inherent in contemporary society, juxtaposing the materials of mass urban and industrial civilization with symbols and values of the pre-industrial world.

A stunning collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions : 80 x 59 cm.
Very Good condition, well preserved.

File under: Jannis Kounellis Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Art Signed Books

Bruce Nauman
Catalogue Raisonné

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

$460.00 - In stock -

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

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

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

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

Fontana / Pascali

1995, English / Italian
Softcover, 16 pages, 25 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio Castoli / Milan

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Very scarce catalogue from Milan published on the occasion of a two-person exhibition of works by Italian artists Lucio Fontana and Pino Pascali, held at Studio Castoli in 1995. Introductory text by Italian art critic Angela Vettese, with colour and b/w reproductions of works by each artist.

Very Good copy.

File under: Pino Pascali Lucio Fontana Angela Vettese Studio Castoli / Milan Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera

Pino Pascali
Mostra di Pino Pascali

1969, Italian
Softcover, 84 pages, 24 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by De Luca Editori D'arte / Rome

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Extremely rare catalogue of Pino Pascali to accompany the first retrospective exhibition of his work, organized by Palma Bucarelli, 7 months after the tragic death of the artist on 11 September 1968. Presented at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, Valle Giulia 31 maggio - 27 giugno 1969, this accompanying catalogue is illustrated with 60 monochrome pages of Pascali's work and portraits of the artist himself, biography and full exhibition history, accompanied by text by curator and museum director Palma Bucarelli. A stunning and historical publication.

Pino Pascali (b. Bari, 1935—1968), in the late 1950s, whilst working as a set designer, graphic designer, scriptwriter, and creative writer for television advertising, met fellow Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis. In 1965, Pascali first exhibited his “fake sculptures,” a series of shaped-canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings presenting abstract forms that suggest animals, plants and landscapes. During his brief activity as a sculptor at the height of Pop Art, Pascali, considered a key artist of the Arte Povera movement, produced no more than 149 works, many of which are true icons of twentieth-century Italian art. The day of his untimely death at the age of 32, following a tragic motorcycle accident on 11 September 1968, coincided with the moment of his greatest public recognition (his presentation at the Venice Biennale and the posthumous awarding of the Sculpture Grand Prix). His short, enigmatic career has served as an important, almost mythological, contribution to post-war European art.

Palma Bucarelli (1910—1998) was an Italian art historian, curator and administrator, mostly known for her tenure as director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome from 1942—1975.

Very Good copy with some light handling wear/ageing.

File under: Pino Pascali Palma Bucarelli De Luca Editori D'arte / Rome Sculpture / Installation Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare

Ceroli Kounellis Marotta Pascali
4 Artistes Italiens Plus Que Nature

1969, French
Softcover, 96 pages, 20.5 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Musée des Arts Decoratifs / Paris

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful, scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ceroli Kounellis Marotta Pascali : 4 Artistes Italiens Plus Que Nature" at Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, in 1969.

"Four of the most representative artists of the last season of Italian art, four artists in full activity except, unfortunately, Pino Pascali, who died last year. Despite the brevity of his career, Pascali has given an international contribution to the artistic research of today. It is arbitrary to look for traits and points in common among these artists, even if they are more or less the same trend, so I preferred to draw separate portraits ... " (M. Calvesi, 1969)

Each artist has a profusely illustrated section dedicated to their work, each divided by printed wax title pages, introduced (in French) by Maurizio Calvesi, and closed with an exhibition history and list of works. Blakc and white photography throughout by Gianni Berengo Gardin, Ugo Mulas, Adele Macchi, Claudio Abate, Andrea Taverna, and silkscreened covers.

Included in ARTE POVERA 1966-1980. LIBRI E DOCUMENTI / BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS, the critical catalogue raisonné of artist's books from the Arte Povera movement 1966-1980, compiled by Giorgio Maffei.

File under: Mario Ceroli Pino Pascali Gino Marotta Jannis Kounellis Maurizio Calvesi Musée des Arts Decoratifs / Paris Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art

Jannis Kounellis
by Germano Celant

2019, English
Hardcover, 516 pages, 21 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Fondazione Prada / Venice

$240.00 - Out of stock

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The ultimate (now out-of-print) Jannis Kounellis book. Published by Fondazione Prada to accompany the exhibition 'Jannis Kounellis', curated by Germano Celant, the major retrospective in Venice dedicated to the artist. Developed in collaboration with Archivio Kounellis, the exhibit brings together more than 60 works from 1959 to 2015, from both Italian and international museums, as well as from important private collections both in Italy and abroad. This comprehensive hardcover catalogue explores the artistic and exhibition history of Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus 1936 - Rome 2017), a Greek Italian artist and key figure associated with Arte Povera, a movement theorized by curator Germano Celant as a major shift from work on flat surfaces to installations. In 1967, Kounellis installed "live birds in cages along with rose-shaped, cloth cut-outs pinned to canvas" alongside his painting. Through this shift in his work, "Kounellis was more interested in anarchical freedom from linguistic norms and conventional materials. The space of the gallery and the exhibition site in general were transformed into a stage where real life and fiction could join in a suspension of disbelief." Viewers became part of the scene of these living natural sources of energy within the gallery space. He continued his involvement with live animals later in 1969, when he exhibited twelve living horses, as if they were cars, in the Galleria l'Attico's new location in an old garage in Via Beccaria. Kounellis introduced recurring materials such as propane torches, smoke, coal, meat, ground coffee, lead, and found wooden objects into his installations, which looked beyond the gallery environment to historical (mostly industrial) sites. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full bleed large installation photographs, individual works, performances, details, an illustrated bibliographic history, introductory essay by Germano Celant, foreword by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, and more, this volume forms a valuable, intimate resource on Kounellis.

File under: Jannis Kounellis Germano Celant Fondazione Prada / Venice Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare

Alighiero e Boetti

2012, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 22.5 x 27 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$120.00 - In stock -

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Now out-of-print, this is the first monograph on the influential 20th-century artist Alighiero e Boetti and his groundbreaking works.

Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work, its conceptual ingenuity, and his political sensibility. His work, though usually associated with the Italian Arte Povera group and Conceptual Art, has never quite fit into these contexts. Boetti ceased making Arte Povera–type objects in 1969 after a few years of association with the group, and his later choice of materials (embroidery, calligraphy, mosaic, kilims) put a gulf between his work and that of most artists of the 1970s and 1980s.

Boetti had an idiosyncratic style of working, and he often collaborated with or commissioned others to execute his ideas, including his celebrated maps of the world, colorfully embroidered by women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He tended to create several divergent bodies of work at once in series that he continued throughout his life. Alighiero e Boetti is the first monograph covering the whole career of this crucial artist to be published in English. Rather than present a linear account of the artist's creative practice, the book contains linked chapters that expound on the key subjects of Boetti's art and position this work in relation to that of his European and American contemporaries.

File under: Alighiero Boetti Mark Godfrey Yale University Press / New Haven Art Sculpture / Installation Textiles Drawing Conceptual Art Arte Povera

New York: 1962-1964
Edited by Germano Celant

2022, English
Softcover, 344 pages, 26.8 x 35.5 cm
Published by Skira / Milan

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Charting the three momentous years in which New York became the global capital of art.

The radical cultural transformations that occurred in New York in the three years between January 1962 and December 1964 ramified across the world. In addition to a whole host of creative innovations across disciplines, the period also saw a shift in the center of artistic gravity from Europe to the United States and the rise of a new leadership in the arts—curators, gallerists and other impresarios.

Modeled on the scale and format of Life magazine (one of the most widely read publications of the era), this lavishly illustrated oversized paperback traces a detailed itinerary of artists and curators, experimental exhibitions and museums, as well as historical and political events that transformed society during this explosive moment. From the New Realists exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1962 to Robert Rauschenberg's unexpected win of the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale, every groundbreaking event from this incredible three-year period is documented.

Organized chronologically, the book is teeming with images of artworks and archival photographs, and artist interviews conducted by the late great curator Germano Celant.

Artists include: Diane Arbus, Lee Bontecou, Chryssa, Merce Cunningham, Jim Dine, Melvin Edwards, Dan Flavin, Lee Friedlander, Nancy Grossman, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Norman Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, George Segal, Jack Smith, Harold Stevenson, Marjorie Strider, Mark di Suvero, Bob Thompson and Andy Warhol.

Conceived by Germano Celant. Edited with text by Sam Sackeroff, Lerman-Neubauer Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum. Preface by Claudia Gould, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director at the Jewish Museum. Introduction by Michael Rock. Interviews by Germano Celant with Christo and Jim Dine. Text by Claudia Gould, Michael Rock, Sam Sackeroff, Emily Bauman, Ninotchka D. Bennahum, Jennifer G. Buonocore-Nedrelow, Olivia Casa, Laura Conconi, J. English Cook, Maria Corti, Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Joshua B. Guild, Liz Hirsch, Hiroko Ikegami, Susan Murray, Kristina Parsons, Benjamin Serby, Jennifer Sichel, Robert Slifkin.

File under: Diane Arbus Lee Bontecou Chryssa Merce Cunningham Jim Dine Melvin Edwards Dan Flavin Lee Friedlander Nancy Grossman Jasper Johns Donald Judd Ellsworth Kelly Yayoi Kusama Norman Lewis Roy Lichtenstein Marisol Agnes Martin Louise Nevelson Isamu Noguchi Claes Oldenburg Yvonne Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Faith Ringgold Larry Rivers James Rosenquist Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann George Segal Jack Smith Harold Stevenson Marjorie Strider Mark di Suvero Bob Thompson Andy Warhol Germano Celant Sam Sackeroff Lerman-Neubauer Claudia Gould Helen Goldsmith Menschel Michael Rock Emily Bauman Ninotchka D. Bennahum Jennifer G. Buonocore-Nedrelow Olivia Casa Laura Conconi J. English Cook Maria Corti Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann Joshua B. Guild Liz Hirsch Hiroko Ikegami Susan Murray Kristina Parsons Benjamin Serby Jennifer Sichel Robert Slifkin Skira / Milan Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera SALE

Pino Pascali

1991, French
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 112 pages, 22 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Paris

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce, collectable, major retrospective survey catalogue on legendary Italian artist Pino Pascali (1935—1968) published to accompany exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, March—May 1991, edited by Suzanne Pagé. Heavily illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with Pascali's major works, especially valuable as it includes the first published (partially illustrated) catalogue raisonné of Pascali's works, along with biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and texts (in French) by Pascali, Maurizio Calvesi, Alberto Boatto, Angeline Scherf, Bruno Cora, and Suzanne Pagé.

Pino Pascali (b. Bari, 1935—1968), in the late 1950s, whilst working as a set designer, graphic designer, scriptwriter, and creative writer for television advertising, met fellow Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis. In 1965, Pascali first exhibited his “fake sculptures,” a series of shaped-canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings presenting abstract forms that suggest animals, plants and landscapes. During his brief activity as a sculptor at the height of Pop Art, Pascali, considered a key artist of the Arte Povera movement, produced no more than 149 works, many of which are true icons of twentieth-century Italian art. The day of his untimely death at the age of 32, following a tragic motorcycle accident on 11 September 1968, coincided with the moment of his greatest public recognition (his presentation at the Venice Biennale and the posthumous awarding of the Sculpture Grand Prix). His short, enigmatic career has served as an important, almost mythological, contribution to post-war European art.

Very Good copy.

File under: Pino Pascali Suzanne Pagé Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Paris Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare

'73-74' : An Annual of New Art and Artists
Edited by Willem Sandberg

1973, English
Softcover (soft boards), 204 pages, 29.6 x 21.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York Thames and Hudson / London

$25.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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English edition wide ranging and comprehensive survey of conceptual and other contemporary art movements circa 1973—1974, profiling 53 contemporary artists from 18 countries, edited and designed by the legendary Dutch typographer and museum curator, Willem Sandberg, with associates including Jean-Christophe Ammann, Harald Szeemann, Achille Bonito Oliva, Yona Fischer and many others. Original cover by Alighiero Boetti. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with collected works by each artist or original pieces made for the publication, aside from the occasional accompanying artist's text it is entirely made up of visuals. Artists featured include : Sergi Aguilar, Gilles Aillaud, Keith Arnatt, Gábor Attalai, Lothar Baumgarten, Ola Billgren, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Boris Budan, Luciano Castelli, Mary Corse, William Crozier, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Braco Dimitrijević, Gino De Dominicis, Benni Efrat, Luciano Fabro, Robert Filliou, John-E Franzen, Hamish Fulton, Tibor Gayor, Avital Geva, Zbigniew Gostomski, Allan V. Harrison, Jeroen Henneman, Martha Jungwirth, Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz, Per Kirkeby, Christof Kohlhöfer, Harriet Korman, Piotr Kowalski, Richard Long, Urs Lüthi, Inge Mahn, Richard Nonas, Lev Nusberg, Panamarenko, Antonio Soler Pedret, Ireneusz Pierzgalski, Vettor Pisani, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Carl J. Plackrnan, Markus Raetz, Franz Ringel, Salvador Sauna, Kjartan Slettemark, Hugo Suter, Endre Tot, Jerzy Treliński, Carel Visser, Rolf Winnewisser...

Average—Poor copy, contents and interior in good shape and complete, cover and edges with decent wear and marking, spine 75% torn away, although all still thread-bound.

File under: Sergi Aguilar Gilles Aillaud Keith Arnatt Gábor Attalai Lothar Baumgarten Ola Billgren Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Marcel Broodthaers Boris Budan Luciano Castelli Mary Corse William Crozier Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Braco Dimitrijevic Gino De Dominicis Benni Efrat Luciano Fabro Robert Filliou John-E Franzen Hamish Fulton Tibor Gayor Avital Geva Zbigniew Gostomski Allan V. Harrison Jeroen Henneman Martha Jungwirth Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz Per Kirkeby Richard Nonas Lev Nusberg Panamarenko Antonio Soler Pedret Ireneusz Pierzgalski Vettor Pisani Joan Hernández Pijuan Carl J. Plackrnan Markus Raetz Franz Ringel Salvador Sauna Kjartan Slettemark Hugo Suter Endre Tot Jerzy Treliński Carel Visser Rolf Winnewisser Urs Lüthi Christof Kohlhofer Harriet Korman Piotr Kowalski Richard Long Inge Mahn Willem Sandberg Jean-Christophe Ammann Harald Szeemann Achille Bonito Oliva Yona Fischer Willem Sandberg Harry N. Abrams / New York Thames and Hudson / London Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Painting Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Photography Sculpture / Installation SALE

Eva Hesse
Diaries

2020, English
Flexi (cloth), 904 pages, 14 x 20 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

$90.00 - In stock -

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‘I open my new book. What will you tell for the next year. To bring forth a new chapter of wisdom, hopes, joys fears. I shall be honest with myself; and therewith SUCCEED.’ These lines open Eva Hesse’s 1955 diary and lay out the task of her writing. In between weekly to-do lists and personal musings, Hesse used her diaries as a space to process her experience of the world and to reckon with what it means to be an artist.

An American sculptor best known for her pioneering work with materials such as rope, latex, and fiberglass, Hesse is regarded as one of the artists who ushered in the Post-Minimalist movement of the late 1960s. This publication presents Hesse’s diaries from 1955 to 1970, providing an intimate glimpse into the artist’s psyche. Her diaries and journals, which she kept for the entirety of her life, convey her anxieties, her feelings about family and friends, her quest to be an artist, and the complexities of living in the world.

Hesse's biography is well known: her family fled Nazi Germany, her mother committed suicide when Hesse was ten years old, her marriage ended in divorce, and she died at the age of thirty-four from a brain tumor. The diaries featured in this publication begin in 1955 and describe Hesse's time at Yale University, followed by a sojourn in Germany with her husband, Tom Doyle, and her return to New York and a circle of friends that included Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Lucy Lippard, Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Ryman, Mike Todd, and Paul Thek.

Poignant, personal, and full of emotion, these diaries convey Hesse's struggle with the quotidian while striving to become an artist.

Now in its second edition, ‘Eva Hesse: Diaries’ was first published in 2016 in association with Yale University Press and was awarded that year’s Most Beautiful Swiss Book Award by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of Culture.

Edited by Barry Rosen with Tamara Bloomberg Publisher Hauser

File under: Eva Hesse Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Art Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Minimal Art Theory / Essay

Alberto Burri
Plastiche

2018, English
Hardcover, 136 pages, 28.5 x 31.5 cm
Published by Forma Edizioni / Firenze

$170.00 - In stock -

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This monograph, edited by noted Italian art critic Bruno Cora and published on the occasion of Art Basel 2018, presents the genesis, critical analysis, and exhibition history of the Combustioni Plastiche [Plastic Combustions] cycle by Alberto Burri. These works span a quarter of a century, from 1953 to 1979, and were created using industrial sheets of different kinds of plastic, with different melting points. They are visceral and technically innovative hybrids, part painting and part sculpture, ranging in size from a few centimetres to larger works installed in places of worship and stage designs for theatre performances. They illuminate Burri's longstanding exploration of the beauty that can be found in mass produced materials, and function as a lens through which we can reassess Burri's entire creative career.

Historical photographs by Claudio Amendola and Ugo Mulas, newspaper articles, and in-depth essays offer a complete analysis of this extraordinary cycle of works in this beautiful over-sized hardcover book.

File under: Alberto Burri Ugo Mulas Bruno Cora Forma Edizioni / Firenze Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Art Painting Sculpture / Installation