World Food Books

Lutz Bacher
Burning the Days: An Exhibition

2026, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 29 x 22 cm
Published by Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo WIELS / Brussels Roma / Amsterdam

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Edited by Helena Kritis and Solveig Øvstebø

Published by Astrup Fearnley Museet, WIELS, and Roma Publications, the catalogue brings together three newly commissioned essays approaching Bacher's art from distinct yet intersecting perspectives. Kate Nesin takes The Betty Center — Bacher's archive of nearly 300 black binders, later realised as an artwork — as a point of departure to examine her engagement with archives, containers, and readymade forms. Juliane Rebentisch reads Bacher's work as a sustained practice of opacity that stages accumulation, self-exposure, humour, and citation to unsettle fixed identities and disrupt the clichés through which meaning is usually secured. Finally, Emily LaBarge reads Bacher through the logic of the pun, showing how her works hinge on double meanings and perceptual slippages that make uncertainty the condition of viewing. Burning the Days: An Exhibition occupies a distinct place within the lineage of Bacher’s artist books. It is the first major publication on Bacher produced entirely after her death and without her direct involvement or design input.

Design: Julie Peeters.

File under: Lutz Bacher Julie Peeters Kate Nesin Emily LaBarge Juliane Rebentisch Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo WIELS / Brussels Roma / Amsterdam Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Photography

Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
by Martha Rosler

2006, English
Softcover, 402 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The first comprehensive collection of writings by Martha Rosler considers the intersection of art and politics, the operation of art systems, feminist art practices, and the media.

Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosler. Best known for her videos and photography, Rosler has also been an original and influential cultural critic and theorist for over twenty-five years. The writings collected here address such key topics as documentary photography, feminist art, video, government patronage of the arts, censorship, and the future of digitally based photographic media. Taken together, these thirteen essays not only show Rosler's importance as a critic but also offer an essential resource for readers interested in the issues confronting contemporary art. The essays in this collection illustrate Rosler's ongoing investigation into means of exposing truth and provoking change, providing a retrospective of characteristic issues in her work.

Mixing analysis and wit, Rosler challenges many of the fundamental precepts of contemporary art practice. Her influential essay, "In, around, and afterthoughts: on documentary photography," almost single-handedly dismantled the myth of liberal documentary photography when it appeared. Many of the essays in this volume have had a similarly wide-ranging influence; others are published here for the first time. Illustrating the essays are 81 images by Rosler and other artists and photographers.

Good copy with a heavy bump to top corner, leser one to bottom back, otherwise light wear to boards.

File under: Martha Rosler Martha Rosler The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Feminism Film / Video Sociology / Politics

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
Edited by Caroline A. Jones

2006, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 25 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Artists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic "Abecedarius of the New Sensorium."

The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. The art in Sensorium—which accompanies an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center—captures the aesthetic attitude of this hybrid moment, when modernist segmentation of the senses is giving way to dramatic multisensory mixes or transpositions. Artwork by each artist appears with an analytical essay by a curator, all of it prefaced by an anchoring essay on "The Mediated Sensorium" by Caroline Jones.

In the second half of Sensorium, scholars, scientists, and writers contribute entries to an "Abecedarius of the New Sensorium." These short, playful pieces include Bruno Latour on "Air," Barbara Maria Stafford on "Hedonics," Michel Foucault (from a little-known 1966 radio lecture) on the "Utopian Body," Donna Haraway on "Compoundings," and Neal Stephenson on the "Viral." Sensorium is both forensic and diagnostic, viewing the culture of the technologized body from the inside, by means of contemporary artists' provocations, and from a distance, in essays that situate it historically and intellectually.

Caroline A. Jones is an art historian, author, and curator and Professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism in the Department of Architecture at MIT. She is the author of, most recently, The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience.

Vg copy light edges wear to boards.

File under: Mathieu Briand Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Natascha Sadr Haghighian Ryoji Ikeda Christian Jankowski Bruce Nauman François Roche and R&Sie(n) Anri Sala Sissel Tolaas Caroline A. Jones Bruno Latour Michel Foucault Donna Haraway Neal Stephenson Barbara Maria Stafford The MIT Press / Massachusetts Group Shows / Collections Film / Video Conceptual Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

RE-PLAY: Anfänge internationaler Medienkunst in Österreich (Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria)
Edited by Sabine Breitwieser

2000, German
Softcover, 506 pages, 23 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna

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Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Preface by Dietrich Karner. Texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Marie-Luise Angerer, Reinhard Braun, Timothey Druckrey, Heidi Grundmann and Gene Youngblood.

The development of communication and recording technologies after the Second World War awakened the interest of artists in the aesthetic, political and social influence of mass distribution and global communication. At the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, artists in Austria, partly coming from Actionism and Expanded Cinema, began to work with the audio-visual home technologies (video equipment, stereo magnetophone, tape cassette) that had just come onto the market. The Austrian pioneers of media art were fully integrated into the international flow of information about current developments in art and gained experience abroad themselves or contextualized their quite independent approaches with those of international artists, primarily from Germany and North America. Internationally top-class exhibitions and symposia focused on questions of a de-materialized, mediatized art as well as the redefinition of the concept of work and author. Feminist approaches and alternative models for the production and distribution of (media) art were also discussed. With a series of cross-border events on performance and media art, on theory and art, Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck became important stations for many of the now best-known international artists in the 1970s, while Austrian artists were increasingly invited to important events in the international art world.

In "RE-PLAY. Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria," Austrian achievements in an international context as well as their dense networking with the international art scene were presented for the first time. In addition to essays by renowned authors such as Marie-Luise Angerer, Reinhard Braun, Timothy Druckrey, Heidi Grundmann, and Gene Youngblood, this publication contains more than 500 works by approximately 80 international artists, including brief descriptions and mostly illustrations, among them central works by pioneers of media art. These conceptual, media-reflexive, and critically oriented productions from the late 1960s to the early 1980s are anchored in a larger context by means of a comprehensive chronology and a biography.

Vito Acconci/USA, Robert Adrian X/CAN/AT, Laurie Anderson/USA, John Baldessari/USA, Gottfried Bechtold/AT, Stephen Beck & Warner Jepson/USA. Lynda Benglis/USA, Trisha Brown/USA, Norbert Brunner/AT, Hank Bull/CAN, Peter Campus/USA, Ernst Caramelle/AT, Patrizia Caire/Günther Schrom/AT, CCMC (Peter Anson, Larry Dubin, Nobuo Kubota, Allan Mattes, Michael Snow, Casey Sokol)/CAN, Colette/Peter Gordon/USA, Francesco Agnetti/Gianni Colombo/IT, Axel Corti/AT , Merce Cunningham/USA , Douglas Davis/USA. Georg Decristel/AT, Peter Downsbrough/USA/BE, Ed Emshwiller/USA, Wolfgang Ernst/AT, VALIE EXPORT/AT, Flatz/AT/GER, Hermine Freed/USA, Terry Fox/USA, Dale Frank/AUS, Bill Furlong/GB, Ladislav Galeta/YU, Wilhelm Gaube/AT, Genera ldea/CAN, Bob George/USA, Jochen Gerz/GER, Tina Girouard/USA, Roland Goeschl /AT, Jack Goldstein/USA, Dan Graha /USA, Peter Grass/USA, Horst Gerhard Haberl/AT, Lotte HendrichHassmann/AT, Hermann Hendrich/AT, Gazi Herzog/AT, Julia Heyward/USA, Klaus Hoffer/AT, Dragan llic /AUS, Sanja lvekovic/Dalibor Martinis/CR, Joan Jonas/USA, Angelika Kaufmann/GER, Allan Kaprow/USA, Milan Knizak/CZ, kollektive Telekommunikationsprojekte, Renate Kowanz-Kocer/AT, Karl Kowanz/AT, Richard Kriesche/AT, Shigeko Kubota/USA, Richard Landry/USA, Charles Loeffler/Bob Gaglioni/USA, Herr Lugus/AT, Tom Marioni/USA, Albert Mayr/IT, Bruce McLean/GB, Robert Morris /USA, Antonio Muntadas/USA, lan Murray/CAN, Maurizio Nanucci/IT, Bruce Nauman/USA, Juan Navarra Baldeweg/ESP, Hermann Nitsch/AT, Muriel Olesen/CH, Yoko Ono/USA, Dennis Oppenheim/USA, Nam June Paik/J/USA, Friederike Pezold/AT, Arnulf Rainer/AT, Patrick Ready/CAN, Ulrike Rosenbach/GER, Dieter Roth/CH, Gerhard Rühm/AT, R. Murray Schafer/CAN, Michael Schuster/AT, Richard Serra/USA, Tom Sherman/USA/CAN, Katharina Sieverding/GER, Hartmut Skerbisch/AT, Michael Snow/USA, Throbbing Gristle/GB, Rasa Todosiewiz/YU, Goran Trbuljak/CR, David Troostwyk/GB, Ferry Unger/AT, Franco Vaccari/IT, Franz Vana/AT, William Wegman/USA, Peter Weibel/AT, Lawrence Weiner/USA , Norman T. White/CAN, Monsti (Ingrid ) Wiener/AT, Oswald Wiener/AT, Hannah Wilke/USA, Jana Wisniewski/AT, Otto M. Zykan/AT.

VG copy, light wear to boards.

File under: Vito Acconci Robert Adrian X Laurie Anderson John Baldessari Gottfried Bechtold Stephen Beck Warner Jepson Lynda Benglis Trisha Brown Norbert Brunner Hank Bull Peter Campus Ernst Caramelle Patrizia Caire Günther Schrom Peter Anson Larry Dubin Nobuo Kubota Allan Mattes Michael Snow Casey Sokol Colette Peter Gordon Francesco Agnetti Gianni Colombo Axel Corti Merce Cunningham Douglas Davis Georg Decristel Peter Downsbrough Ed Emshwiller Wolfgang Ernst VALIE EXPORT Flatz Hermine Freed Terry Fox Dale Frank Bill Furlong Ladislav Galeta Wilhelm Gaube AA Bronson Felix Partz Jorge Zontal Bob George Jochen Gerz Tina Girouard Roland Goeschl Jack Goldstein Dan Graham Peter Grass Horst Gerhard Haberl Lotte HendrichHassmann Hermann Hendrich Gazi Herzog Julia Heyward Klaus Hoffer Dragan Ilic Sanja Iveković Dalibor Martinis Joan Jonas Angelika Kaufmann Allan Kaprow Milan Knížák Renate Kowanz-Kocer Karl Kowanz Richard Kriesche Shigeko Kubota Richard Landry Charles Loeffler Bob Gaglioni Herr Lugus Tom Marioni Albert Mayr Bruce McLean Robert Morris Antonio Muntadas Ian Murray Maurizio Nanucci Bruce Nauman Juan Navarro Baldeweg Hermann Nitsch Muriel Olesen Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Friederike Pezold Arnulf Rainer Patrick Ready Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm R. Murray Schafer Michael Schuster Richard Serra Tom Sherman Katharina Sieverding Hartmut Skerbisch Genesis P-Orridge Cosey Fanni Tutti Peter Christopherson Chris Carter Goran Trbuljak David Troostwyk Ferry Unger Franco Vaccari Franz Vana William Wegman Peter Weibel Lawrence Weiner Norman T. White Monsti Wiener Oswald Wiener Hannah Wilke Jana Wisniewski Otto M. Zykan Rasa Todosijevic Sabine Breitwieser Dietrich Karner Marie-Luise Angerer Reinhard Braun Timothey Druckrey Heidi Grundmann Gene Youngblood Generali Foundation / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Film / Video Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fluxus Feminism

DOMUS
No. 537 Agosto 1974

1974, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 537 Agosto 1974
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames, Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
Features: Architecture by Peter J. Papademetriou, Werkgruppe, Haus-Rucker-Co. and Angelo Mangiarotti; Georges Pencraec’h and Jean-Philippe Lenclos on colour and housing; Misawa Homes Ideas Award; confrontations in Vienna; Lucia and Dario Bartolini on chairs and tables; Robert A. M. Stern and John S. Hagmann on a new street; Ambrogio Salvati and Alberto Tresoldi on space; Studio 65 in Turin; modular furniture and living systems; Eberhard G. Rensch on the ADD system; Paolo Algiardi and Antonio Zanuso on the book supermarket; Alberto Rosselli on service units; Wabico’s washbasin-bidet; Warren Platner’s executive office; international art exhibitions, competitions and design shows; and a preview of September’s features on Bruno Munari’s design school, Art ’74 in Basel, Projekt ’74 in Cologne and S’asseoir ’74 in Grenoble.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Peter J. Papademetriou Werkgruppe Haus-Rucker-Co. Angelo Mangiarotti Georges Pencraec’h Jean-Philippe Lenclos Lucia Bartolini Dario Bartolini Robert A. M. Stern John S. Hagmann Ambrogio Salvati Alberto Tresoldi Studio 65 Eberhard G. Rensch Paolo Algiardi Antonio Zanuso Alberto Rosselli Wabico Warren Platner Bruno Munari Gio Ponti Gio Ponti Georges Pencraec’h Jean-Philippe Lenclos Robert A. M. Stern John S. Hagmann Eberhard G. Rensch Paolo Algiardi Antonio Zanuso Alberto Rosselli Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Textiles Furniture Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

DOMUS
No. 498 Maggio 1971

1971, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 498 Maggio 1971
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames, Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
Features: Architecture and industrial design by Agnoldomenico Pica; Mies van der Rohe in Munich, Montreal and Houston; a winter sports resort; houses by Angelo Mangiarotti, the Khanhs, Barney Broadbent and Brian Morris; Ottokar Uhl’s circular prayer space; a lamp by Studio DA; international design exhibitions and competitions; Domus Italian Design at Harrods, London; the Milanese Fair; a Milan home by Bruno Contenotte; global art exhibitions; Vincenzo Agnetti on Copia dal vero numero uno; Pierre Restany’s travel notes from Houston and New York; Joseph Kosuth responding to Restany; and Fabio Mauri on contemporary art and theatre.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Gio Ponti Agnoldomenico Pica Mies van der Rohe Angelo Mangiarotti the Khanhs Barney Broadbent Brian Morris Ottokar Uhl Studio DA Bruno Contenotte Joseph Kosuth Fabio Mauri Pierre Restany Gio Ponti Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Theory / Essay Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Architecture / Interior Textiles Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

Domus
No. 538 Settembre 1974

1974, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 538 Settembre 1974
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames, Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
Features: Bruno Munari on design education; furniture and interiors by Vico Magistretti, Joe Colombo, Mario and Marcello Mariotti, and others; architectural projects in California, Paris, Milan and beyond; experimental lighting, modular systems and children’s furniture; sculpture by Haruno Iwashiro and Pierre Restany; Klaus Honnef on Projekt ’74 in Cologne; Gérard Ifert on graphic design; industrial design exhibitions and competitions; plus a preview of the October issue featuring Hamburg, Canada, Tokyo and Miró in Paris.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Gio Ponti Bruno Munari Vico Magistretti Joe Colombo Mario Mariotti Marcello Mariotti Haruno Iwashiro Gio Ponti Bruno Munari Klaus Honnef Gérard Ifert Pierre Restany Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Pop Art Furniture Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay Textiles Ceramics / Glass Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

John Davis
The Sculpture of John Davis: Places and Locations

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 26 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hyland House / Victoria

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First edition of this major hardcover monograph on Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art John Davis' work, deeply and personally researched with documentation of his works rarely seen anywhere else.

"The Sculpture of John Davis traces the development of his work from the early wood carvings produced while he was a young man living in Mildura in the early 1960's through many changes of style, until he became a major Australian sculptor exhibiting in Venice, Delhi, Tokyo and Los Angeles. John Davis moved through a variety of styles and media from 'Organic Wood Carvings' to an interest in 'Repetitions, Grids, Multiples and Processes' before becoming fascinated by 'Low Technology and Cheap Materials', using 'Twigs, Paper and String'."

John Davis (1936–1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art. An Australian exponent of Arte povera, he famously developed a new mode of Site-specific art at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial in the early 1970s. John Davis established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. Davis travelled widely and exhibited regularly in America, Japan and Australia. As well as participating in the inaugural Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978. Davis initially worked in wood and later in fibreglass and aluminium, becoming known for his multiples and for his distinctive formalist style. By 1973, Davis had become increasingly interested in conceptual, process-based and land art practices, and his mature works reflect his sensitivity to elemental forces, the organic world, and his profound connection to the ecological fragility and beauty of landscape.

VG in VG DJ.

File under: John Davis Ken Scarlett Hyland House / Victoria Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Ecology Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera

Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas
Edited by Ann Noel and Emmett Williams

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24.9 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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First 1997 HC edition, first printing.

The first biography of George Maciunas, a key figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s.

George Maciunas was the founding member and leader of the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, Fluxus. Its members rejected the traditional systems of high art, practicing an extraordinary form of anti-art that encompassed everything from photography and pavement art to poetry and drama.

Mr. Fluxus, the first biography of this key figure in twentieth-century art, reveals the story of an unorthodox, contradictory, and elusive genius. Maciunas attempted to rule Fluxus in totalitarian fashion, yet he laughed at himself and provoked others to laughter, poking fun at the incurable illnesses and painful realities that afflicted him throughout his relatively short life. What emerges from this collection of anecdotes and impressions, coaxed from many of his former Fluxus colleagues and from an array of friends and enemies, is an informative portrait of an inspiring crusader whose mission was to change the world, beginning with the world of art.

Near Fine copy in Near Fine DJ, preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: George Maciunas Emmett Williams Yoko Ono Daniel Spoerri Claes Oldenburg John Cage Dick Higgins Alison Knowles George Brecht Ben Vautier Robert Filliou Nam June Paik Joseph Beuys Wolf Vostell Benjamin Patterson Carolee Schneemann George Maciunas Ann Noel Emmett Williams Thames and Hudson / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Fluxus Dada Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Poetry

Franz Erhard Walther
Arbeiten 1955–1963, 1972, Exhibition Poster

1972, German
Poster, 86 x 61 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld

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Rare original 1972 poster produced on the occasion of the solo exhibition, Arbeiten 1955–1963, of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, August 6 – October 1, 1972, a major survey presentation of his early trajectory, the same year as his participation in Harald Szeemann’s legendary Documenta 5. Oversized monochrome black screen–printed poster on heavy, warm paper stock depicting an example of Franz Erhard Walther's Wand–Ecken (Wall–Corner) muslin fabric pieces from 1963. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 86 (h) x 61 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities, a few old pin–holes, single closed tear.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld Posters / Prints Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Textiles Arte Povera

Franz Erhard Walther
Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, 1971, Event Poster

1971, German
Poster, 60 x 60 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spot–Kiel University / Kiel

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Rare original 1971 poster produced on the occasion of Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, a performance of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther in the foyer of the Kiel University Library, as part of the Spot event series. The event was a demonstration by the artist of his first set of works (process material), followed by a discussion with German art critic Bazob Brock, designer Dietrich Helms, and German sociologist Lars Clausen. The poster features a performance photo taken by Tim Rautert. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 60 (h) x 60 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities.

Artist: Walther, Franz Erhard. Date: 1971. Exhibition poster for the exhibition in the foyer of the University Library. Franz Erhard Walther demonstrated and explained parts of his first set of works (process material). A discussion followed with Bazob Brock, Dietrich Helms, and Lars Clausen. Part of the Spot event series of Kiel University and the Cultural Senate of the City of Kiel. 60 x 60 cm, illustration: photo by Tim Rautert. Mint condition.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Bazob Brock Tim Rautert Dietrich Helms Lars Clausen Spot–Kiel University / Kiel Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Into Performance
by Midori Yoshimoto

2005, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rutgers University / New Jersey

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The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is the inordinate amount of revolutionary art that was created by women.

Into Performance fills a critical gap in both American and Japanese art history as it brings to light the historical significance of five women artists–Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota. Unusually courageous and self-determined, they were among the first Japanese women to leave their country-and its male-dominated, conservative art world-to explore the artistic possibilities in New York. They not only benefited from the New York art scene, however, they played a major role in the development of international performance and intermedia art by bridging avant garde movements in Tokyo and New York.

This book traces the pioneering work of these five women artists and the socio-cultural issues that shaped their careers. Into Performance also explores the transformation of these artists' lifestyle from traditionally confined Japanese women to internationally active artists. Yoshimoto demonstrates how their work paved the way for younger Japanese women artists who continue to seek opportunities in the West today.

VG copy, tanning to spine.

File under: Yoko Ono Yayoi Kusama Takako Saito Mieko Shiomi Shigeko Kubota Midori Yoshimoto Rutgers University / New Jersey Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Pop Art

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
by Lawrence Weschler

1982, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First 1982 edition.

"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted this journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."–Calvin Tomkins

In May 1980, Robert Irwin returned to Market Street in Venice, California, to the block where he'd kept a studio until 1970, the year he abandoned studio work altogether. Malinda Wyatt was opening a gallery in the building next door to his former work space and invited Irwin to create an installation. He cleaned out the large rectangular room, adjusted the skylights, painted the walls and ceiling an even white, and then knocked out the wall facing the street, replacing it with a sheer, semi-transparent white scrim. The room seemed to change its aspect with the passing day: people came and sat on the opposite curb, watching, sometimes for hours at a time, The piece was up for two weeks in one of the more derelict beachfront neighborhoods of Los Angeles: no one so much as laid a hand on it.

Good copy with some corner creasing/light wear to boards.

File under: Robert Irwin Lawrence Weschler University of California Press / Berkley Conceptual Art Minimal Art Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Terry Fox
(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c.

2003, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel

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"(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c." was a major exhibition by the American conceptual, Fluxus, and sound artist Terry Fox (1943 – 2008), May 31–July 13, 2003, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive exhibition catalogue accompanied the show, with contributions by Ulli Seegers and Nikola Dietrich, foreword by Rene Block. Bi–lingual German and English texts. A figure in the conceptual and performance art movements, Fox's work frequently integrated bodily experiences, political actions, and intricate multi-layered audio environments. (RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c. highlighted his ongoing thematic preoccupations with restructuring spaces, transforming materials, and analyzing sounds. This was an important late survey of the artist's work.

Terry Alan Fox (1943 – 2008) was an American conceptual and fluxus artist known for his work in performance art, video art and sculpture. He was one of the first generation conceptual artists and was a central participant in West Coast conceptual art movements and fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 120 performances - the first of which took place in Germany in 1970 at the invitation and with the assistance of Joseph Beuys - and numerous museum exhibitions have made him internationally known, especially in museum and artistic circles. He was represented three times at documenta in Kassel. Fox was active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe, living and working in Liège, Belgium in the later part of his life.

G–VG copy, some wear to extremities.

File under: Terry Fox René Block Ulli Seegers Nikola Dietrich Fridericianum / Kassel Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Linda Fregni Nagler
Anger, Pleasure, Fear

2026, English / Italian
Softcover, 206 pages, 16 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Quodlibet / Italy GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea / Turin

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Linda Fregni Nagler. Anger Pleasure Fear, curated by Cecilia Canziani GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin 29 October 2025–1 March 2026 With over one hundred photographic reproductions and texts by Cecilia Canziani, Geoff Dyer, Luisella Farinotti, Dieter Roelstraete and a conversation between Linda Fregni Nagler and Federico Nicolao.

Linda Fregni Nagler has spent 20 years researching photography as both a material and speculative object. Since her earliest projects, she has focused on early, anonymous, and vernacular photography. She selects, studies, collects, and catalogues photographic objects according to a personal logic, reproducing them at different scales and drawing attention to marginal or hidden details within each image. This book presents works from different series, often distant in time, that collectively restore a history of the gaze. It features around 100 photographic reproductions, alongside texts by various writers and a conversation between the artist and Federico Nicolao.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Linda Fregni Nagler Cecilia Canziani Geoff Dyer Luisella Farinotti Dieter Roelstraete Federico Nicolao Quodlibet / Italy GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea / Turin Photography Conceptual Art

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki

2011, English
Softcover, 169 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PAJ Communications / New York

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In this ground-breaking look at a new art genre, Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves brings together a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Here is a fascinating account of the ingenuity and creativity of artists who have made new discoveries in broadcast, public works, performance composition, sound, and text, stretching the boundaries of both transmitter and receiver. At a time when public access struggles with corporate control of the airwaves, artists have combined activism and communications technologies to represent alternative worlds on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Artists featured include Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Delia Derbyshire, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Maryanne Amacher, Ray Johnson, Scanner, Videofreex, Valie Export, William Basinski, Marshall McLuhan, Bertolt Brecht, Pierre Schaefer, Negativland, Antoni Muntadas, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Piene, Robert Whitman, Hildegard Westerkamp, Wolf Vostell, Orson Welles, Brandon LaBelle, Tetsuo Kogawa, Max Neuhaus, Keith Sonnier, Ezra Pound, Nam June Paik, Lucio Fontana, Alison Knowles, Chris Burden, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Delia Derbyshire John Cage Allan Kaprow Maryanne Amacher Ray Johnson Scanner Videofreex Valie Export William Basinski Bertolt Brecht Pierre Schaefer Negativland Antoni Muntadas László Moholy-Nagy Otto Piene Robert Whitman Hildegard Westerkamp Wolf Vostell Orson Welles Brandon LaBelle Tetsuo Kogawa Max Neuhaus Keith Sonnier Ezra Pound Nam June Paik Lucio Fontana Alison Knowles Chris Burden Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Karlheinz Stockhausen Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Walter Benjamin Galen Joseph-Hunter Penny Duff Maria Papadomanolaki Marshall McLuhan PAJ Communications / New York Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Isa Genzken
Catalogue Raisonné 1961–1996

2026, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket + slipcase), 702 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln Walther König / Köln

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The first volume of Isa Genzken’s (b. 1948) catalogue raisonné serves as the definitive scholarly resource on the artist’s early works, including her Ellipsoids, Hyperbolos, plastic sculptures and Basic Research paintings. This exhaustive hardcover, slipcased volume documents works produced between 1961 and 1996, the first 35 years of her career, encompassing more than 1,200 individual chronological entries, providing documentation of her oeuvre all media (sculpture, painting, installation, works on paper, and film) with detailed descriptions, photographic documentation and bibliographic references.

Edited by Daniel Buchholz with Michael Sanchez, Katharina Forero de Mund and Christopher Müller. The book includes an introductory essay by Manfred Hermes, as well as a biographical timeline, exhibition history and bibliography.

File under: Isa Genzken Manfred Hermes Daniel Buchholz Michael Sanchez Katharina Forero de Mund Christopher Müller Galerie Buchholz / Köln Walther König / Köln Art Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Pierre Huyghe

2026, English / German
Softcover, 224 pages, 30 x 23 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Fondation Beyeler / Basel

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Art as a Living Organism.

Pierre Huyghe is considered one of the most radical contemporary artists. His extensive works are conceived as speculative fictions challenging our perception of reality and consciousness. This publication, released on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, is not a classical catalogue of works. Instead of a documentary overview, it offers a unique and fascinating “mental journey.“ The book combines images and research on recent works with sketches, notes, and text fragments. A cluster of ideas and images in which we can navigate through, reflecting the creative process. A visual archive exploring Huyghe’s complex universe.

Edited by Mouna Mekouar and Anne Stenne

Pierre Huyghe (*1962, Paris, lives in Santiago, Chile) is a world-renowned artist whose works have been exhibited in numerous international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA New York, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. He has received numerous awards, including the Nasher Prize (2017).

Fondation Beyeler Riehen/Basel
May 24–September 13, 2026

File under: Pierre Huyghe Mouna Mekouar Anne Stenne Hatje Cantz / Berlin Fondation Beyeler / Basel Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art

Marcel Broodthaers
Exhibition History 1964 – 1975 and Selected Works 1957 – 1975

2020, English
Softcover, 880 pages, 31 x 22.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Koenig Books / London

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In 1963, the writer Marcel Broodthaers decided to embark on a career in the visual arts. Yet he never severed his ties to poetry and language, whose systems of meaning make up an integral aspect of his work. Retaining a certain distance to the art world, he posed fundamental questions about art —its mediums, its conceptions of what constitutes an artwork, its representation in museums. To this day, his oeuvre takes a critical stand on art’s commercialization strategies. Exhibition-making itself was a key element of Broodthaers’ artistic approach. Documenting all of the artist’s solo exhibitions that took place during his lifetime, this major 880-page catalogue is the first ever to highlight that praxis. The extensive chronology and the accompanying detailed pictorial documentation of the most important works of every year together offer a systematic overview of his oeuvre. In addition to scholarly essays and many texts by Marcel Broodthaers himself, this major publication also features an extensive series of photographic views of the major retrospective at the iconic Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany.

File under: Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers Maria Gilissen Broodthaers Michael Compton Anny De Decker Sebastian Egenhofer Sabine Folie Gloria Moure Susanne Pfeffer Cord Riechelmann Koenig Books / London Art Poetry Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

Italian Female Filmmakers in the Sixties and Seventies
Edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata

2026, English
Softcover, 504 pages, 21 x 13 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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Edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata
Texts by Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Teresa Kittler, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti, Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky, Giovanna Zapperi
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio

A project by Fondazione In Between Art Film, edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata, this illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.

With 18 newly commissioned essays about artists and filmmakers Valentina Berardinone, Anna Valeria Borsari, Pia Epremian, Giosetta Fioroni, Rosa Foschi, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Le Nemesiache, Cecilia Mangini, Federica Marangoni, Marisa Merz, Gina Pane, Marinella Pirelli, and Angela Ricci Lucchi, it charts a captivating, multifaceted period, the elements of which have now been compiled for the first time in this publication.

File under: alentina Berardinone Anna Valeria Borsari Pia Epremian Giosetta Fioroni Rosa Foschi Laura Grisi Ketty La Rocca Le Nemesiache Cecilia Mangini Federica Marangoni Marisa Merz Gina Pane Marinella Pirelli Angela Ricci Lucchi Carla Subrizi Paola Ugolini Maria Alicata Lucia Aspesi Silvia Bottinelli Lara Conte Flavia Frigeri Francesca Gallo Sharon Hecker Laura Iamurri Caterina Iaquinta Teresa Kittler Jennifer Malvezzi Iolanda Ratti Giulia Kimberly Colombo Valentine Umansky Giovanna Zapperi Lenz Press / Milan Film / Video Feminism Gender Studies / Sexuality Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art

Ana Mendieta
A Book of Works

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 74 pages, 26.7 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Grassfield Press / Florida

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Rare first edition of Ana Mendieta's posthumous artist's book, A Book of Works, beautifully produced in an edition of 2,400 copies, edited by Bonnie Clearwater, and long out-of-print.

Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta was working on many important projects that were left incomplete at the time of her tragic death in 1985 at age 36. Among these was a beautiful book of photo etchings of her carvings of female figures in remote caves on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. These sculptures were inspired by the myths and beliefs of the Tainos, pre-Columbian inhabitants of the West Indies. This publication reproduces in facsimile Mendieta's unfinished book of photo etchings and related works and publishes, for the first time, her notes and writings for this important project.

Mencdieta's work crosses the categories of earth art, body art, performance and conceptual photography. As her works generally were site specific and ephemeral, they became know primarily through the photographic documentation she exhibited in galleries and museums. She intended her intimate book of photo etchings to capture the experience of viewing her elusive life-size sculptures in the close quarters of the caves.

Illustrated with many never-before published photographs, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of his extraordinary artist.

"...the authors have honored (Mendieta's) desires by crating a book that speaks softly an genuinely in the artist's voice."
by Alexandra Tager --Art & Auction magazine

"When Ana Mendieta died in 1983, she was working on a book similar to this one, a slim volume of photo etchings of the life-size figures she carved into the stone walls of caves in Cuba's Jaruco State Park. The artist, a "Pedro Pan" child who was sent out of Cuba in the early days of Castro's reign, spent her short art life seeking expression for her personal exile. Inspired by Taino mythology, these pre-Columbian islanders believed the first humans emerged from a cave-Mendieta identified the Cuban caves with birth,including her own. Her entire body of work, largely a collection of photographs documenting such ephemeral art forms as earth works, performance pieces and body art, was spun on this theme of self-identity, a return to her roots, to mother earth. Unlike her other photographic artifacts, however, these photo etchings were destined for a book, of which this is a facsimile. Her montes on the Taino myths appear as if in her own hand on these pages, along with her thoughts about how the book should be arranged. The result is an intimate experience with the artist's hand and mind and a unique act of closure for a career that ended in a still-unexplained fall from a New york high-rise."—Helen L. Kohen—Miami Herald (1993)

Bonnie Clearwater is the Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the former curator of the Mark Rothko Foundation, New York. Among her publications are "Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules"; "Defining the Nineties: New York,Los Angeles,Miami"; "Mark Rothko: Works on Paper"; "Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go"; and "David Smith: Stop/Action".

Fine copy in VG—NF dust jacket with sunning to spine.

File under: Ana Mendieta Bonnie Clearwater Grassfield Press / Florida Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Comic Stripping

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26.6 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Melbourne

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Wonderful, exceptionally rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Comic Stripping at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, May 31—June 24 1983. Features the work of Howard Arkley, Julie Cunningham, Juliet Darling, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Raymond X, Peter Tyndall, Christopher Van Der Craats, → ↑ →. Illustrated throughout with work and texts by the artists and an introduction by Denise McGrath.

Very Good copy with ex-libris 200 Gertrude St. archive stamps to contents and final page of catalogue. Small mark, soft surface tear from old sticker to bottom-left of cover, otherwise a lovely copy with only light wear.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Howard Arkley Julie Cunningham Juliet Darling Juan Davila Linda Marrinon Raymond X Peter Tyndall Christopher Van Der Craats → ↑ → George Paton Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Painting Sound / Music