World Food Books

Fool's Mate Vol. 18 October 1981

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Rare early issue of the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. Fool's Mate Vol. 18 October 1981. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This incredible issue with cover feature on Fred Frith and Recommended Records, plus Vini Reilly/Durutti Column, The Flying Lizards, David Cunningham, Steve Beresford, Piano Records, Phew, David Toop, Michael Nyman, Aksak Maboul, Crammed Discs, Family Fodder, Video Aventures, Band Apart, Robert Wyatt, Lidsay Cooper, Tim Hodgkinson, Nord, Ken Lockie, Landscape, Alan Gowen, Electroacoustic music, medieval heresy and satanism, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy. General wear/age.

File under: David Cunningham Steve Beresford Piano Records Phew David Toop Michael Nyman Aksak Maboul Crammed Discs Family Fodder Band Apart Robert Wyatt Lidsay Cooper Tim Hodgkinson Nord Ken Lockie Landscape Alan Gowen Henry Cow Art Bears The Residents Lemon Kittens Gloria Mundi Fred Frith Recommended Records The Flying Lizards Vini Reilly Durutti Column Video Aventures Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masashi Kitamura Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Sound / Music Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Occult / Esoterica Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Surrealism Theory / Essay Counterculture

Fool's Mate "Special Stock" part 2 January 1981
Vol. 15 + S.S

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 224 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare "Special Stock" compendium book by the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This special collection combines Vol. 15 + S.S in January 1981. Features: Heldon and Magma, Rock in Belgium (COS, Aksak Maboul, Marc Hollander, Julverne, Esperanto, Wallace Collection, etc.), Rough Trade Records (The Raincoats, Swell Maps, This Heat, The Fall, Young Marble Giants, Liliput, etc.), EGG Records (Patrick Vian, Fracoise Breant, Ose, Michel Magne, Christian Vander, etc.), Ash Ra Temple, Prog in Italy (PFM, Area, New Trolls, Stormy Six, etc.), Gilgamesh, The Residents, Henry Cow discography, Nurse with Wound, P.D./P16.D4/Permutative Distorsion, L.Voag, Borbetomagus, YLEM Tapes, Negativland, alchemy and the occult, The Pop Group, Bauhaus, Japan, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vangelis, Jon Anderson, Blondie, Mike Oldfield, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy.

File under: Heldon Magma COS Aksak Maboul Marc Hollander Julverne Esperanto Wallace Collection Rough Trade Records The Raincoats Swell Maps This Heat The Fall Young Marble Giants Liliput EGG Records Patrick Vian Fracoise Breant Ose Michel Magne Christian Vander Ash Ra Temple PFM Area New Trolls Stormy Six Gilgamesh The Residents Henry Cow Nurse with Wound P16.D4 L.Voag Borbetomagus YLEM Tapes Negativland The Pop Group Bauhaus Japan Siouxsie and the Banshees Vangelis Jon Anderson Blondie Mike Oldfield Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Occult / Esoterica Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image)

1970, German / French
Softcover, 118 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich

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Rare, important exhibition catalogue designed by Walter Diethelm, published on the occasion of the exceptional exhibition Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image), held at the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich, July 11—August 23, 1970. Preface by Felix Andreas Baumann. "The point is to present this literature, which is located between writing and images, text and graphics and around the tertium comparationis of typography, to an audience that is probably not too familiar with the techniques and variants of “concrete literature”—from the preface. An incredible and varied anthology of the experimental, poetic, graphic interplay of text and image, profusely illustrated in b/w, accompanied by texts in German and French by Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Oyvind Fahlström, El Lissitzky, André Breton, Eugen Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Carlfriedrich Claus, Seiichi Niikuni, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Jiri Kolár, and Bob Cobbing.

Artists included: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Holz, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, Carlo Carrà, Lacerba, Ardengo Soffici, Hugo Ball, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Amédée Ozenfant, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, Fernand Léger, Richard Hülsenbeck, Vincente Huidobro, Francis Picabia, Jean Pougny, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Bruno Adler, Jean Epstein, Theo Van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Jozef Peeters, Sonja Delaunay-Terk, Iliazd, Friedrich Kiesler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Käthe Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Henryk Berlewi, Farkas Molnár, Zenit, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, and Georges Hugnet.

Very Good ex-NGV library copy, well preserved with only light wear and "National Gallery of Victoria" light stamp to block edge and lower back-cover. No internal stamping/marking.

File under: Carlo Carrà F.T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Arno Holz Christian Morgenstern Lacerba Ardengo Soffici Hugo Ball Georges Braque Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Amédée Ozenfant Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Fernand Léger Richard Hülsenbeck Vincente Huidobro Francis Picabia Jean Pougny Kurt Schwitters Paul Klee Bruno Adler Jean Epstein Theo Van Doesburg El Lissitzky Jozef Peeters Sonja Delaunay-Terk Iliazd Friedrich Kiesler Man Ray László Moholy-Nagy Käthe Steinitz Theo van Doesburg Hans Arp Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Henryk Berlewi Farkas Molnár Zenit Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann Walter Gropius John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Le Corbusier Georges Hugnet Walter Diethelm Jiří Kolář Öyvind Fahlström Stéphane Mallarmé F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti André Breton Haroldo de Campos Jan Hamilton Finlay Pierre Garnier Max Bense Reinhard Döhl Carlfriedrich Claus Seiichi Niikuni Henri Chopin Franz Mon Bob Cobbing Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Eugen Gomringer Felix Andreas Baumann Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich Group Shows / Collections Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Dada Fluxus Art Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Bauhaus

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

$220.00 - 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

Pierre Molinier
by Jean-Luc Mercié

2010, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 24 x 31 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris

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The Molinier bible! A mammoth, crucial 400 page book on the method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's provocative, gender-bending photos and artwork. Beautifully printed and prodigiously illustrated with over 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete (nearly 100-page) chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.Molinier. Essential publication on Molinier, the most comprehensive to date, and a must for any fan.

Rare English edition translated from the French by Edward Penwarden.

Pierre Molinier is an unknown of worldwide renown. Every book and every exhibition on the body, gender confusion or sexual excess seems to feature at least one work by this artist whose “genius” was acclaimed by André Breton in a memorable text published in 1956. But the bulk of his work has remained inaccessible. A number of pictures have never been shown and a corpus of only 160 prints has been published. The ensemble revealed by the artist's archives is much more extensive. It includes numerous proofs made to prepare his photomontages and working prints given to friends, but also notebooks and personal letters. Here, precise links emerge between his paintings, photographs and scandalous life. The myth carefully constructed by the artist begins to crumble before the reality of the work.

An inveterate seducer, thoroughgoing fetishist, unrepentant transvestite and inadvertent bisexual, to the very last Molinier remained haunted by two obsessions: pleasure, meaning immediate access to la petite mort, and “leaving a trace in the infinity of time.” This book charts the aesthetic incarnation of his passions. Its 819 photographs, most of them never published before, reveal the method, shed light on the procedures and give details of the origin and alchemy of his latent or composed images. Finally, an exhaustive chronology offers a new biography of Molinier, based on his letters: for it is in the intimacy of these writings that the shaman's heart beats closest to the truth.

In a career shared between the university (fifteen years) and publishing (twenty) Jean-Luc Mercié has written widely on painting and photography. This monograph is his fourth book about Pierre Molinier, the master from Bordeaux.

Born 1900 in Agen (France), Pierre Molinier, surrealistic painter and photographer, a precursor to body art, died in 1976 after having thought out radical and pornographic artwork.

File under: Pierre Molinier Jean-Luc Mercié Edward Penwarden Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris Art Surrealism Eros LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Art & Project : A History

2023, English / Dutch
Softcover, 512 pages, 21 × 29.7 cm
Published by Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam

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A comprehensive volume on the influential Dutch gallery that united American and European conceptualism For more than 33 years, the Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968-2001) played a pivotal role in the development of contemporary art within the Netherlands and beyond. Founders Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) and Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) presented a pioneering program of work by both national and international artists, including Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Charlotte Posenenske, Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner and Sol LeWitt, among many others. The cofounders published a total of 156 bulletins to draw attention to their exhibitions, and the bulletins quickly evolved into an experimental medium—from carriers of conceptual artists' ideas to conceptual artworks themselves.

Art & Project: A History examines the gallery's exhibitions, bulletins, social networks and international legacy. Replete with extensive research and previously unpublished visual material, this massive book provides an indispensable overview of the history of conceptual art in the Netherlands.

Text by Jip Hinten, Isabelle Bisseling, Ton Geerts, Regine Ehleither.

Already out-of-print at source.

File under: Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Ian Wilson Bas Jan Ader Yutaka Matsuzawa Jan Dibbets Gilbert & George Richard Long Ger van Elk Charlotte Posenenske Lawrence Weiner Stanley Brouwn Sol LeWitt Jip Hinten Isabelle Bisseling Ton Geerts Regine Ehleither Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Conceptual Art Photography Art Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Painting Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Theory / Essay

Kathy Acker With Nox
Love, Emily

2023, English / French
Vinyl LP
400 copies,
Published by Slow Moves / Turin—Paris

$58.00 - In stock -

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Originally released in a long sold-out edition of 50 cassette tapes, Love, Emily (Acte 3) was the third and final album of Michel Henritzi’s industrial label AKT Production. Recorded in a Paris studio in 1987, this 25-minute collage of spoken word and noise saturations intersects two radical voices from literature and experimental music of the time: American author Kathy Acker reading excerpts from her book My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Nox, mainstay of the French noise and industrial scene. Pulled from oblivion, restored and remastered for vinyl by Slow Moves, this archive gem crosses the clashing worlds of poetry and industrial music, melding Acker’s thought-provoking words to absolute and inflexible industrial sounds. A lot of it is noise, but a lot of it is also play; research for a new mystique, generating unusual forms and unknown languages.

Published in a limited edition of 400 copies, this vinyl also comes with a long printed panel of previously unpublished photographs and letters from Kathy Acker, tracing the background exchanges that led to the collaboration between the groundbreaking writer, Henritzi and Nox, a poster of Kathy Acker with french translations and a download code featuring both music and extra archival material (interview and articles).

Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was at the forefront of transgressive writing from the Seventies until her death. Her provocative intertextual narratives—halfway between autobiography and pornography—were developed in lectures, performances and films (Variety, Bette Gordon). Her published work includes Blood and Guts in High School (1984), Don Quixote (1986), and Empire of the Senseless (1988).

Nox was a French industrial band active from 1981 to 1992, founded by Arno (guitar, voice), Cécile Babiole (bass, voice, percussions), and Gerome Nox (guitar, voice), joined by Laurent Perrier (guitar, voice) then Laurent Pernice (percussions, voice). Their musical influences go from German Krautrock (Neu, Can...) to industrial music (Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle...) through repetitive music. The collective is at the origin of the AKT label with Michel Henritzi.

File under: Kathy Acker Nox Michel Henritzi Slow Moves / Turin—Paris Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fiction / Poetry Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

1945—1985 : Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Edited by Dominik Bartmann

1985, German
Softcover, 736 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nationalgalerie / Berlin

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Enormous 700+ page volume about "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945—1985", published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 27, 1985—January 21, 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour with many works by Vostell, Baselitz, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Palermo, Klapheck, Darboven, Schultze, Uecker, Horn, Lüpertz, Haacke, Ruthenbeck, Antes, the Bechers, Rinke, Gerz, Erhard Walther, Penck, Knowles, Higgins, June Paik, Maciunas, Christiansen, Filliou, Brecht, Kriwet, Roth, Ulrichs, and many more, accompanied by texts in German, bibliography and index.

Good copy, some rubbing to the cover boards, light wear, bumping with age/size.

File under: Wolf Vostell A.R. Penck Joseph Beuys Rainer Ruthenbeck Sigmar Polke Horst Antes Robert Filliou Hanne Darboven Ferdinand Kriwet Nam June Paik Alison Knowles Blinky Palermo George Brecht George Maciunas Dick Higgins Gerhard Richter Konrad Klapheck Rebecca Horn Hans Haacke Bernhard Schultze Bernhard & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla and Bernd Becher Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Timm Ulrichs Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Henning Christiansen Franz Erhard Walther Jochen Gerz Klaus Rinke Günter Uecker Günther Uecker Gunther Uecker Vostell Baselitz Beuys Polke Richter Palermo Klapheck Schultze Uecker Horn Lüpertz Darbhoven Haacke Ruthenbeck Antes the Bechers Rinke Gerz Erhard Walther Penck Knowles Higgins June Paik Maciunas Christiansen Filliou Brecht Kriwet Roth Ulruchs Dominik Bartmann Nationalgalerie / Berlin Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drawing Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Curatorial Fluxus Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Photography Theory / Essay

Neumusik – The Complete Edition
by David Elliott

2023, English
Softcover, 425 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Published by Korm Plastics, this heavy book compendium collects all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979—82 while at university. The fanzine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articles range from Conrad Schnitzler and Richard Pinhas to Florian Fricke and Chris Carter. Most issues were 60-80 pages long so, together with new text and photos, this compendium weighs in at a heavy 425 pages. It also touches on the parallel YHR label.

File under: David Elliott Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Counterculture Periodicals Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Vital – The Complete Collection 1987-1995

2023, English
Hardcover, 580 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Frans de Waard published Vital, a fanzine for electronic and electroacoustic music, from 1987 to 1995. It was a low-budget, Xeroxed publication, bearing the revolutionary instruction: ‘No Copyright Publication. Reprint Now!’ It featured interviews with Asmus Tietchens, O Yuki Conjugate, Merzbow, P16.D4, Pierre Henry, Jim O’Rourke, Brume, Döc Wor Mirran and many others, hosted discussions on copyright, plagiarism and plunderphonics, house music, ambient music, cassette culture and noise, and included contributions from musicians such as Leigh Landy, Godfried Willem Raes, John Duncan, and GX Jupitter-Larsen. Every issue included reviews of cassette releases, LPs, CDs and books. A total of 44 issues were published. Vital moved online in 1995, where it appeared every week since as Vital Weekly.

This book is a reprint of all 44 issues and is a lively record of the heyday of cassette culture and industrial music, but also of developments in the wider field of electronic music.

File under: Asmus Tietchens O Yuki Conjugate Merzbow P16.D4 Pierre Henry Brume John Duncan Frans de Waard John Duncan Korm Plastics / Netherlands Theory / Essay Sound / Music Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture

Nul Nul — the Complete Edition — Industrial Culture Magazine 1985—86
by Frans de Waard & Christian Nijs

2023, English
Hardcover (w. cd), 184 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$60.00 - Out of stock

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In October 1984, Frans de Waard started his Korm Plastics label and his music project Kapotte Muziek. Shortly after, a fellow student, Christian Nijs, joined him as a musical partner. They quickly released a few cassettes and contributed to international compilations, and Nijs started a short-lived label, Disabuse Transmissions. In the summer of 1985, they published the first issue of Nul Nul, a fanzine, to promote their projects and to support the industrial music scene in The Netherlands and Belgium. They published four issues. The lack of enthusiasm of readers, the financial struggle and the Nijs leaving Kapotte Muziek meant the end of Nul Nul, and De Waard started shortly after Vital (1987-1995), which is already published in book form by Korm Plastics.

These four issues are a testament to the creative times that were the 1980s, cut ‘n paste, and the strange, curious language we used when we were younger. Mark Posyden and Frans de Waard painstakingly translated all the texts (and went slightly insane doing it, as some of the original writing was pure gobbledygook), and Studio Bertin made a design that is ‘almost’ like the original, making this book a true beauty.

Along with this book comes a 24-track compilation CD by bands discussed within the pages of Nul Nul. It is very well possible this is the first time industrial music from The Netherlands and Belgium is collected on a CD, and it comes with many musical approaches, from pure noise to minimal synth. The bands are Kapotte Muziek (with a rare solo piece by Christian Nijs), Odal, Zombies Under Stress, Factor 6 (Christian Nijs’s solo project), Narzisse, Jacinthebox, Het Zweet (of which in recent years various works have been re-issued), THU20, Joe the Prang’d, Administratief Management, The Dwarf Farm, Clinique Lutetia, Experiment Incest, Heer Peejee, Sluagh Ghairm (pre Psychic Warriors Of Gaia), Zweiter Korps, Mailcop (Roel Meelkop’s earlier project), Ilo Istatov (from O.R.D.U.C.), Prilius Lacus, Dikyl Brobojo, Kanker Kommando, Het Hilaire Brisdak Ensemble, Vidna Obmana (from his early noise days), and A Violated Body; from totally unknown bands to still going strong ones, such as Kapotte Muziek and THU20.

File under: Kapotte Muziek Odal Zombies Under Stress Factor 6 Narzisse Jacinthebox Het Zweet Joe the Prang’d Administratief Management The Dwarf Farm Clinique Lutetia Experiment Incest Heer Peejee Sluagh Ghairm Zweiter Korps Mailcop Ilo Istatov Prilius Lacus Dikyl Brobojo Kanker Kommando Het Hilaire Brisdak Ensemble Vidna Obmana A Violated Body Frans de Waard Christian Nijs Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Counterculture Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Periodicals

Hans Bellmer
Peintures / Gouaches / Collages

1983, French
Hardcover, 80 pages, 17 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by L'Autre Musee—La Difference Paris

$40.00 - Out of stock

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First 1983 hardcover edition (later re-printed in the 1990s) of Bellmer — Peintures / Gouaches / Collages by Jean Revol, a lovely pocket monograph on the German artist Hans Bellmer published in France by L'Autre Musee / La Difference, Paris. A heavily illustrated (in colour and b/w) survey of Bellmer's painting and collage works, including some lesser seen early works. Accompanied by text in French from Revol, Bellmer biography, list of exhibitions, bibliography, etc.

Good copy. Clean interior with some marks/light staining to boards.

File under: Hans Bellmer Jean Revol L'Autre Musee—La Difference Paris Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Drawing Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

The Complete Tadanori Yokoo

1971, Japanese / English
Softcover (in slipcase w. obi strip), 22 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$500.00 - Out of stock

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The very first printing of the legendary Complete Tadanori Yokoo book, designed by Yokoo and published in Japan in 1971. Still the quintessential Yokoo book, anyone who sees it knows immediately — boldly designed and beautifully produced with gorgeous colour, thick paper stock, fold-outs, and absolutely comprehensive in capturing the early masterpieces of one of Japan's leading artists of the 1960s. All housed in the original iconic illustrated slipcase with publisher's obi-strip present. 360 total works recorded, alongside 230 photographs — all the posters and other works showcasing his psychedelic, erotic, esoteric and politically charged photo-montage and vivid pop print-making, with documentation of the exhibitions, events, and underground scene Yokoo was central to in the 1960s, captioned throughout with texts by Akiyuki Nosaka and Yokoo himself. A treasure for any fan. A most complete copy.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy preserved with very minimal wear, light tanning to obi/spine, VG slipcase.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Akiyuki Nosaka Kodansha Int / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Pop Art Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Painting Posters / Prints

Max Ernst
Una settimana di bonta oi sette elementi capitali

1978, Italian / French
Softcover, 230 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mazzotta / Milan

$50.00 - Out of stock

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First 1978 Mazzotta edition of this absolute classic of Surrealist collage by Max Ernst, first published in 1934. If the collage technique has become an art, it owes it to a work like this book and of course to Max Ernst, one of the masters of collage and incomparable Surrealist painter. Western art has always tried to tear apart the straitjackets of the imprisoned body with one hand: but no one has succeeded in this insurrection like Max Ernst in the novel-collages he invented and brought to climax between 1929 and 1934. These are images accompanied by rapturous captions and cropped from the illustrations of serial novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries, full of sensual and innocent girls undermined by dark pupils of Sade, and messieurs in black suits and spats who hide shameful foibles, while in the background "the city full of dreams" by Baudelaire trembles and again "the specter lures the passer-by in broad daylight". A dreamlike staging inherited from the feuilletons, therefore, but which Ernst, with his montage made up of mysterious juxtapositions and obscure cuts, the exaltation of chance and the thrill of analogy, with his slow-motion cinema and his comic strip for adults only, has been able to transform into the banner of the perennial revolt of desire.

Bi-lingual texts (French/Italian) by Jarry, Schwob, Breton, Eluard...
A masterpiece.

Very Good copy some edge wear, ageing.

File under: Max Ernst Marcel Schwob Alfred Jarry Paul Eluard André Breton Mazzotta / Milan Surrealism Drawing Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada

Eimi Suzuki
Anatomie de l'Art Insolite

2022, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 19 x 26 cm
Signed by artist,
Published by Pan-Exotica / Tokyo

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First hardcover edition of Anatomie de l'Art Insolite by Japanese artist Eimi Suzuki, signed by the artist. The long-awaited third collection of gothic-baroque mixed media works by Eimi Suzuki, a contemporary Japanese artist who pursues a new beauty between painting and collage. In addition to creating two-dimensional works that incorporate classical art into the modern era, at once elegant and grotesque\ rich with themes of life, prejudice, and prayer, this collection also includes Suzuki's textiles, metalwork works, and objects documented.

File under: Eimi Suzuki Pan-Exotica / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Textiles Signed Books

Compulsive Beauty
by Hal Foster

1995, English
Softcover, 314 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First 1995 edition of this long out-of-print study by Hal Foster, published The MIT Press and October Books. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism—the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance—in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many traumatic tableaux that point to difficult connections not only between sadism and masochism but also between surrealism and fascism. At this point Compulsive Beauty turns to the social dimension of the surrealist uncanny. First Foster reads the surrealist repertoire of automatons and mannequins as a reflection on the uncanny processes of mechanization and commodification. Then he considers the surrealist use of outmoded images as an attempt to work through the historical repression effected by these same processes. In a brief conclusion he discusses the fate of surrealism today in a world become surrealistic. Compulsive Beauty not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, but also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.

Very Good copy.

File under: Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Alberto Giacometti Hans Bellmer Raoul Ubac Man Ray Brassaï Hal Foster André Breton The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada

Christopher LG Hill
Yakvlt Soirée

2020, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Published by Innen Books / Zürich

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Christopher LG Hill's "Yakvlt Soirée" zine, published by Innen Books, Zürich, in 2020. First Edition. 150 copies.

Born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria; Christopher LG Hill lives and works in Melbourne. A co-founder of artist-run space Y3K, Hill has participated in, and organised, many exhibitions and music-related events and productions. Hill is editor and publisher of Endless Lonely Planet and co-founder of Bunyip Trax.

File under: Christopher L G Hill Christopher LG Hill Innen Books / Zürich Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Sound / Music

Special Interests No 10
Power Electronics, Noise, Industrial

2018, English
Softcover, 84 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Issue 10 (Feb 2018) of Mikko Aspa's Special Interests fanzine dedicated to Power Electronics, Noise, and Industrial musics, packed with interviews, reviews, articles, photographs and artwork. This issue featuring Wince, Le Syndicat Faction Vivante, New Forces label, Storm Bugs, Dead Tech, Hal Hutchinson, Human Larvae, Richard Stevenson, Kristian Olsson... contributions by Mikko A, Stephen Petrus, Cyril Adam, Manuel Pereira, Frank Cordry, Arvo Zylo, Takahiko Yokoyama, J. Peterson, Cooper Bowman, Frank Cordry... cover art and additional artwork by Paul Kerin.

Very Good copy.

File under: Wince Le Syndicat Faction Vivante New Forces label Storm Bugs Dead Tech Hal Hutchinson Human Larvae Richard Stevenson Kristian Olsson Mikko A Stephen Petrus Cyril Adam Manuel Pereira Frank Cordry Arvo Zylo Takahiko Yokoyama J. Peterson Cooper Bowman Sound / Music Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Myself and My Aims : Writings on Art and Criticism
by Kurt Schwitters

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 656 pages, 23 x 18 cm
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures—collaged and assembled from the scrap materials of popular culture and the debris of the studio, such as newspaper clippings, wood, cardboard, fabric, and paint—reflect a lifelong interest in collection, fragmentation, and abstraction, techniques he also applied to language and graphic design.

As the first anthology in English of the critical and theoretical writings of this influential artist, Myself and My Aims makes the case for Schwitters as one of the most creative thinkers of his generation. Including material that has never before been published, this volume presents the full range of his prolific writing on the art and attitudes of his time, joining existing translations of his children’s stories, poetry, and fiction to give new readers unprecedented access to his literary imagination. With an accessible introduction by Megan R. Luke and elegant English translations by Timothy Grundy, this book will prove an exceptional resource for artists, scholars, and enthusiasts of his art.

"This indispensable collection follows Schwitters' swiftly changing thought on a diverse range of subjects from architecture and painting to graphic art and poetry. In each case Schwitters delivers his canny diagnosis with rigor, humor, and unflinching belligerence. No figure was able to reconcile Dadaist nihilism with constructivist optimism quite like Schwitters, and his striking insights about the hollow metaphysics of consumer society will not fail to resonate with anyone torn between the positions of critique and complicity today."—Devin Fore, Princeton University

File under: Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters Megan R. Luke University of Chicago Press / Chicago Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Theory / Essay Dada Art Painting

Jay Defeo
Photographic Work

2023, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 31.2 x 25.4 cm
Published by DelMonico Books / US The Jay DeFeo Foundation / San Francisco

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A revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies--many never before published--most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them

This monograph on the legendary and influential artist Jay DeFeo features over 150 photographic works--many never before published--most reproduced at the size the artist printed them. After the completion of her monumental masterpiece The Rose in 1966, DeFeo moved from the heart of artistic activity in San Francisco to a small house in Marin County, California. There she embarked on a focused and rigorous exploration with the camera. For much of the 1970s, she used the camera as a tool to look and think with, creating a wide range of black-and-white photographs she processed in her darkroom. The artist used experimental photographic techniques to produce extraordinary artworks, alongside documentary images of her studio and paintings in process. Her contact sheets, some of which are reproduced here, are often filled with multiple views of one object, revealing the way DeFeo looked and sketched with the lens. In 1972 she wrote: "My interest in photography has always paralleled my expression as a painter."

Essays by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller and Catherine Wagner survey the rich materiality, sculptural layering and illusionistic devices of DeFeo's playful and enigmatic photographic works, illuminating her astonishing range and daring experimentation with the medium.

Jay DeFeo (1929-89) was a Bay Area artist who created an original and provocative body of work, including the iconic painting The Rose (1958-66). In the 1970s and 1980s, DeFeo continued her visionary work in a range of mediums, including works on paper, photography, collage and photocopies. Among many other exhibitions, a retrospective of her work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

File under: Jay DeFeo Hilton Als Judith Delfiner Corey Keller Justine Kurland Dana Miller Catherine Wagner DelMonico Books / US The Jay DeFeo Foundation / San Francisco Sculpture / Installation Photography Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Birth Death : The Come Organisation Compendium
by WHITEHOUSE / COME ORGANISATION

1986, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Strength Through Joy / Seattle

$200.00 - Out of stock

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The incredibly rare 1986 bible of Come Organisation (1979—1985) — a 350+ page collection of Come Org. and Whitehouse material, including all issues of Kata (the official organ publication of Come Org.), "The Story of Come Organisation", Live Action booklets, interviews, the complete Come Org. discography, littered with b/w reproductions of photos, posters, flyers, ephemera, and lots of serial killers. Features Come, Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi), Consumer Electronics, Nurse With Wound, Heinrich Himmler, Etat Brut, DDV, P.16D.4, Ramleh, Esplendor Geometrico, Kleistwahr, Krang, Aleister Crowley, William Bennett, Peter McKay, Paul Reuter, Philip Best, Glenn Michael Wallis, John Murphy, Kevin Tomkins, Steven Stapleton, Gary Mundy, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Charles Manson, Ed Gein, Peter Sutcliffe... The Come Organisation was a record label founded in London in 1979, initially as a vehicle for founder William Bennett's group Come, then Whitehouse, issuing many now legendary records and cassettes (and publications) that shaped experimental noise, industrial and power electronics to come.

THE resource. Very Good copy with light tanning and only light wear.

File under: MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Come Whitehouse Sutcliffe Jugend Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Consumer Electronics Nurse With Wound Heinrich Himmler Etat Brut DDV P.16D.4 Ramleh Esplendor Geométrico Kleistwahr Krang Aleister Crowley William Bennett Peter McKay Paul Reuter Philip Best Glenn Michael Wallis John Murphy Kevin Tomkins Steven Stapleton Gary Mundy Charles Manson Aleister Crowley Ted Bundy Ed Kemper Ed Gein Peter Sutcliffe Peter Sotos Philip Best Strength Through Joy / Seattle Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence

Obliques No. 14—15 : La Femme Surréaliste

1977, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Obliques / Paris

$180.00 - Out of stock

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The landmark, over-sized Obliques special double issue, "La Femme Surréaliste", published in Paris in 1977. The French literary journal Obliques (who published special issues on Artaud, Bellmer, Kafka, Klossowski, Vian, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Strindberg, Genet...) was the first publisher to present a comprehensive list of the literary and plastic production of Surrealist women with this gorgeous volume, long before the works of surrealist women, as a corpus, began to be more widely studied in the 1980s. Featuring well known names, but also many female artists neglected and seldom mentioned in the recent (strangely narrow-minded) re-evaluation of this period, this beautifully printed issue of Obliques is an incredibly valuable reference on a movement that was decidedly ‘feminine’. Edited by Roger Borderie with Michel Camus, it features profiles on the work and writing of Belen, Maya Bell, Bona, Leonora Carrington, Lise Deharme, Jacqueline Duprey, Aube Elléouët, Josette Exandier, Leonor Fini, Aline Gagnaire, Giovanna, Jane Graverol, Marianne Van Hirtum, Rozeta Hum, Valentine Hugo, Karskaya, Greta Knutson, Laure, Gina Pane, Annie Lebrun, Georgette Magritte, Manina, Joyce Mansour, Nora Mitrani, Meret Oppenheim, Mimi Parent, Valentine Penrose, Gisele Prassinos, Karina Raeck, Remedios Varo, Sibylle Ruppert, Colette Thomas, Toyen, Isabelle Waldberg, Unica Zurn, Cécile Reims, Dorothea Tanning, Greta Knutson, and more. Additional texts and works by Beatrice Didier, Cécile Reims, Michel Butor, Michel Sicard, Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues, Jean Roudaut, Rene Micha, Gerard Legrand, Jean Pfeiffer, Jacques Laurans, Michel Carassou, Annie Lebrun, Charles Bachat, Olivier Milliard, Robert Brechon, Jules Michelet, Jerome Prieur, Xaviere Gauthier, Elsa Thoresen Gouveia, plus a gallery by Titi Parant and Henri Maccheroni's Portraits Corrigés. Profusely illustrated with artworks, mostly in b/w with some colour sections.

Very Good copy of the rarer hardcover edition in VG dust jacket with signs of ageing and some wear/small tears

File under: Belen Maya Bell Bona Leonora Carrington Lise Deharme Jacqueline Duprey Aube Elléouët Josette Exandier Leonor Fini Aline Gagnaire Giovanna Jane Graverol Marianne Van Hirtum Rozeta Hum Valentine Hugo Karskaya Greta Knutson Laure Gina Pane Annie Lebrun Georgette Magritte Manina Joyce Mansour Nora Mitrani Unica Zürn Karina Raeck Remedios Varo Sibylle Ruppert Colette Thomas Toyen Isabelle Waldberg Cecile Deux Dorothea Tanning Meret Oppenheim Mimi Parent Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Cécile Reims Henri Maccheroni Cécile Reims Beatrice Didier Michel Butor Michel Sicard Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Jean Roudaut Rene Micha Gerard Legrand Jean Pfeiffer Jacques Laurans Michel Carassou Charles Bachat Olivier Milliard Robert Brechon Jules Michelet Jerome Prieur Xaviere Gauthier Elsa Thoresen Gouveia Annie Lebrun Obliques / Paris Surrealism Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Painting Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy Fiction / Poetry

Ray Johnson

1999, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 27.8 x 21.2 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Flammarion / Paris

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First edition of “Correspondences”, the now out-of-print major catalogue / monograph of the fabulous artist Ray Johnson.

In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery of thousands of works of art in his house. Drawing upon this vast trove, Donna De Salvo, the Wexner Center's Curator at Large, has organized Ray Johnson: Correspondences, the first comprehensive exhibition to be mounted (with the complete cooperation of the artist's estate).

Like Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, and later Andy Warhol and Jim Rosenquist, Johnson combined the signs and symbols of contemporary culture with the lessons of abstraction to develop a new lexicon of forms. A pioneer in the use of 'found' images and techniques of mechanical reproduction, Johnson created in 1955 what may have been the first informal happening.

Johnson first created 'mail art' in the fifties. These were part collage, part manifesto, part parody; he often instructed recipients to 'add to', 'return to', or 'send to', spawning an interactive art form, a continuous happening, that pre-figured electronic mail. Johnson was the nerve center of this pre-digital netscape that spread around the nation and, eventually, the world, which continues to flourish today.

By the eighties, Johnson was a legend in the artistic community. Ray Johnson: correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.

Essays by the exhibition’s curator, Donna De Salvo, Mason Klein, Wendy Steiner, Jonathan Weinberg, Sharla Sava, Lucy Lippard, William S. Wilson, and Henry Martin, all profusely illustrated throughout with Johnson's artworks.

Co-published by Flammarion and the Wexner Center in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Wexner Center September 16 – December 31, 2000.

As New.

File under: Ray Johnson Donna De Salvo Mason Klein Wendy Steiner Jonathan Weinberg Sharla Sava Lucy Lippard William S. Wilson Henry Martin Flammarion / Paris Art Dada Pop Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Ubi Fluxus Ibi Motus : 1962-1990

1990, English / Italian
Softcover, 500 pages, 27 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mazzotta / Milan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Huge and comprehensive exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with "Ubi Fluxus Ibi Motus : 1962-1990" held at the Ex Granai della Repubblica alle Zitelle from May 26 - September 30, 1990. Profusely illustrated throughout with essays by curator Achille Bonito Oliva, Gino Di Maggio, Gianni Sassi, and many others (texts in English and Italian.)

Captures the history of Fluxus, including the works of Nam June Paik, Joe Maciunas, Christo, Dieter Rot, Öyvind Fahlström, Ray Johnson, Piero Manzoni, Gustav Metzger, Jean Tinguely, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Carolee Schneemann, Ay-o, Wolf Vostell, Eric Andersen, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Phillip Corner, Willem de Ridder, Robert Filliou, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Arthur Køpcke, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, La Monte Young, and many others. Sections: Pre-Fluxus (1958-1962), Fluxus during the Collective Years (1962-1964), Fluxus during Fluxus, Some Fluxus friends, Pre-history.

First edition in very good, well-preserved, crisp condition - only tanning from age to cover.

File under: Achille Bonito Oliva Gino Di Maggio Gianni Sassi Mazzotta / Milan Art Fluxus Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Graphic Design / Typography Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art