World Food Books

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

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND II, 1999
Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki

1999, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 100,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 13 May — 4 July 1999, featuring the work of Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 100 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Alien Productions Thorsten Goldberg Christina Kubisch Akio Suzuki Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND III, 2001
Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz

2001, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 250,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 10 May — 1 July 2001, featuring the work of Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 250 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Ulrich Eller Christoph Lahl Robin Minard Alexander R. Titz Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Act 1
an exhibition of performance and participatory art

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 29.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ANU Arts Centre / Canberra

$200.00 - In stock -

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of Act 1: an exhibition of performance and participatory art, 4—12 November 1978, spanning the ANU Arts Centre, Commonwealth Gardens and Civic Centre, Canberra. Organised by the ANU Arts Centre, Act I drew Australian artists to Canberra for the "first of a series of exhibitions directed towards specific aspects of recent and experimental art". Profusely illustrated artist pages throughout with photo documentation, collage, drawings, and artist's texts. Artists include Mike Parr, Ian Hamilton, Terry Smith and Media Action Group (Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Terry Smith, Michael Dolk, Kieren Finnane, Mary Kinney, Ian Milliss, Anne Sutherland...), Leigh Hobba, Kevin Mortensen, John Nixon, John Davis, Marr Grounds, Ken Unsworth, John Fisher, Liz Honybun, David Kerr, Richard and Pat Larter, Tony Twigg, Lesley Savage, Terry Smith, Tony Twigg, Bob Ramsay, Noel Sheridan, Arthur Wicks, Jillian Orr, Richard Tipping, Jim Cowley, Donald Walters... Includes critical essays by Paul McGillick and Terry Smith on performance art and private and public work, plus further texts by organisers Ingo Kleinert, Diana Ashcroft Johnson, Mildred Kirk. The catalogue also operates in as a document of the exchanges between the organisers and the artists, laying bare the operations and budget, reproducing the open letter to the invited artists along with a selection of the signed responses outlining the artistic concepts, all reproduced in full facsimile. Signatures and transcribed concept responses of contributing artists also make up the wrap-around cover design. Also of particular interest for the contribution by Terry Smith and Media Action Group, who formed in 1977 at Sydney University around the Australian members of the Art & Language group, who had recently returned to Australia. The group produced slide shows on the ideological bias in media treatment of advertising, uranium mining, new technology and the history of May Day. This work is stamped "withdrawn because titled 'performance'" in the contents.

Very Good copy with light wear to cover extremities/light spine pinching. Toned pages from age.

File under: Mike Parr Ian Hamilton Leigh Hobba Kevin Mortensen John Nixon John Davis Marr Grounds Ken Unsworth John Fisher Liz Honybun David Kerr Richard and Pat Larter Tony Twigg Lesley Savage Terry Smith Bob Ramsay Noel Sheridan Arthur Wicks Jillian Orr Richard Tipping Jim Cowley Donald Walters Pat Larter Richard Larter Media Action Group Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Michael Dolk Kieren Finnane Mary Kinney Ian Milliss Anne Sutherland Paul McGillick Terry Smith ANU Arts Centre / Canberra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera

Kerb Your Dog TEXTBOOK 1992
Edited by John Nixon and John Young

1992, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 84 pages, 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kerb Your Dog / Sydney

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Rare copy of Kerb Your Dog, the experimental Australian artist-edited anthology of artist pages, published in Sydney, Australia. Edited by John Nixon and John Young and published in an edition of 500 copies, this volume from 1992 – "TEXTBOOK" – addresses the question "what is contemporary art?", featuring pages by John Barbour, Eugene Carchesio, Tony Clark, Peter Cripps, Aleks Danko, John Dunkley-Smith, Clinton Garofano, Ross Harley, Tim Johnson, Lyndal Jones, Maria Kozic, Rosemary Laing, Shelley Lasica, Lindy Lee, Geoff Lowe, Robert Macpherson, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Susan Norrie, David O'Halloran, Robert Owen, Mike Parr, Jacky Redgate, Carole Roberts, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth, Geoffrey Weary, Wood / Marsh Architecture Pty. Ltd., John Young, and an essay by Janet Shanks. An invaluable collection of artist's "texts" from Australia in this very scarce document.

As New copy, light wear only.

File under: Aleks Danko Carole Roberts Clinton Garofano David O'Halloran Eugene Carchesio Geoff Lowe Geoffrey Weary Jacky Redgate John Barbour John Dunkley-Smith John Nixon John Young Ken Unsworth Lindy Lee Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Mike Parr Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Macpherson Robert Owen Rose Nolan Rosemary Laing Ross Harley Shelley Lasica Susan Norrie Tim Johnson Tony Clark Vivienne Shark LeWitt Janet Shanks Kerb Your Dog / Sydney Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Poetry Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Sculpture / Installation

Mladen Stilinović
Frizeri / Hairdressers

2010, English / Croatian
Softcover (leporello fold), 11 x 166 cm
Artist's Ed. of 200,
Published by Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw

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Mladen Stilinović's "Frizeri / Hairdressers" was first published in 1975, when Stilinović was making many photographs and photographic series which he bound in leporello (accordion) format. Frizeri (Hairdressers) was one of these many important published edition works of the late Croatian conceptual artist, and this Artist's edition was published in 2010 to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

This Artist's edition was published by Stilinović by pasting together photographs in an edition of 200 copies.

Mladen Stilinović (1947—2016) was one of the most significant representatives of neo-avant-garde art in Central and Eastern Europe. Stilinović was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. His polymorphic approach finds varied manifestations from collages, installations, photographs, books, performances, actions in public space as well as participations in collective actions. Through his works, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects. Using devices such as irony, paradox, and manipulation, the artist criticizes the language of politics, institutional hierarchy within art, and the role of money and labor in society. Language is central to his aesthetics; he associates it with graphic signs and other visual references to historical movement, such as geometric abstraction. His work is deeply rooted in the rites that reveal the interdependence of private and public spheres. He is particularly interested in the interaction between visual and linguistic signs as well as in the mechanisms of deconstruction in language. Stilinović also ran the Extended Media Gallery from 1981-1991. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

As New.

File under: Mladen Stilinović Mladen Stilinović Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Mladen Stilinović
My Sweet Little Lamb

2009, English
Softcover (leporello fold), 15.5 x 97 cm
Artist's Ed. of 200,
Published by Index / Stockholm

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Mladen Stilinović's "My Sweet Little Lamb" was first published as an artist's book in 1993. Produced with pen and rubber seal on printed paper, it is one of the many important published edition works of the late Croatian conceptual artist, and this recent Artist's edition was published in 2009 by Index, Stockholm, on the occasion of a major exhibition of the artist's books.

This Artist's edition was published by Stilinović in leporello format in an edition of 200 copies.

Mladen Stilinović (1947—2016) was one of the most significant representatives of neo-avant-garde art in Central and Eastern Europe. Stilinović was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. His polymorphic approach finds varied manifestations from collages, installations, photographs, books, performances, actions in public space as well as participations in collective actions. Through his works, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects. Using devices such as irony, paradox, and manipulation, the artist criticizes the language of politics, institutional hierarchy within art, and the role of money and labor in society. Language is central to his aesthetics; he associates it with graphic signs and other visual references to historical movement, such as geometric abstraction. His work is deeply rooted in the rites that reveal the interdependence of private and public spheres. He is particularly interested in the interaction between visual and linguistic signs as well as in the mechanisms of deconstruction in language. Stilinović also ran the Extended Media Gallery from 1981-1991. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

As New.

File under: Mladen Stilinović Mladen Stilinović Index / Stockholm Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Mladen Stilinović
Vau - Vau (Wuff - Wuff)

2006, English
Softcover (unbound), 3 leporello booklets, 16.5 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerija Nova / Zagreb

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Copy of Mladen Stilinović's artist's book, designed by Mladen Stilinović and Dejan Kršić, published by Galerija Nova, Zagreb in 2006 on the occasion of the exhibition Vau - Vau (Wuff - Wuff). Printed by GIPA Zagreb, the book is made up of three leporello booklets, unbound and housed in an illustrated french fold cover. The booklets present the paintings, sculptural and photographic works of Stilinović, installation views of the exhibition, accompanying hand–written texts by Stilinović and an essay by Ana Dević, inc. quotes by Stilinović, Brecht, Canetti... Texts in English / Czech. Very scarce.

Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016) was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

As New, light wear to cover.

File under: Mladen Stilinović Ana Dević Galerija Nova / Zagreb Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Domus
No. 506 Gennaio 1972

1972, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / 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. 506 Gennaio 1972
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 :
architectural projects by Wolfgang Döring, Heinz Wilke, Filippo Alison, Adriana Baglloni and Luigi Moretti, Eliot Noyes; new furniture by Oscar Niemeyer, new interiors by Shigeru Uchida, Shoei Yoh, Gio Semprini, Ennio Chiggio; design objects from Zvi Hecker, De Pas/D'Urbino/Lomazzi, Kurt Ziehmer, a playground by Jean Michel Folon; projects/exhibitions by Studio 9999, Marisa Merz, Eva Hesse, Ugo La Pietra, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Agnes Denes, Adrian Piper, Dorothea Rockburne, Hanne Darboven; book reviews; and much more.

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.

Good copy with edge wear and tanning from age.

File under: Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Architecture / Interior Pop Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

DOMUS
No. 510 Maggio 1972

1972, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / 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. 510 Maggio 1972
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 :
architectural projects by Angelo Mangiorotti, Marco Zanuso, Giulio Ballio, Giovanni Colombo, Alberto Vintani; interiors by Studio Zziggurat, Marc Held, Angelo Cortesi, Sergio Chiappa-Cattò, Franco Mazzucchelli, Takashi Sakaizawa, Alberto Breschi, Roberto Pecchioli, Franco Ferrari; new furniture by Tecno, Werner Kemp, Nanda Vigo, Lucio Fontana, Knoll, Gio Ponti; fashion design by Nanni Strada,; projects/exhibitions by Gae Aulenti, Ugo La Pietra, Joe Colombo, Gruppo Strum, Gaetano Pesce, Marco Zanuso, Superstudio, et al. (Ettore Sottsass, (Italy: The New Domestic Landscape"), Marino Marini, Filippo De Piis, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Getulio Alviani; book reviews; and much more.

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.

Good copy with edge wear and tanning from age.

File under: Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Architecture / Interior

Domus
No. 516 Novembre 1972

1972, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

$55.00 - Out of stock

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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. 516 Novembre 1972
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 :
architectural projects by James Stirling; New York, black and white by Douglas and Stephanie M. Kahn; a flat in Milan by Alberto Salvati and Ambrogio Tresoldi; furniture from the Milanese furniture show, 1967–72; art exhibitions all over the world; Robert Morris interviewed by Achille Bonito-Oliva; item perspective by Germano Celant; London’s Age of Neo-classicism by Joseph Rykwert; an off-season journey by Daniela Palazzoli; a conversation at Salt Lake City with Gianni Pettena; a huge feature on new furniture and interior objects of 1972 (everyone from Vico Magistretti to Meret Oppenheim); book reviews; and much more.

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 Robert Morris Gianni Pettena Cesare Casati Agnoldomenico Pica 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 Daniela Palazzoli Vico Magistretti Meret Oppenheim Joseph Paul D'Urso Gio Ponti Achille Bonito Oliva Gianni Pettena Germano Celant Pierre Restany Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Art Arte Povera Pop Art Conceptual Art Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation

Domus
No. 499 Giugno 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

$55.00 - Out of stock

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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. 499 Giugno 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 :
architectural and design projects by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Guglielmo Ulrich and Herbert Rader, Mirco Ravanne, Gae Aulenti, Kazuhide Takahama, De Pas/D’Urbino/Lomazzi, and Fabrizio Cocchia; a competition for a hilltop project by Francesco and Teresa Gino; flowers over the world from Persia; an embassy in Islamabad and a resort on the Caspian; the reform of a convent and new “giardini all’italiana” by Gae Aulenti; knock-down shelves by De Pas/D’Urbino/Lomazzi; ideas by Ico and Luisa Parisi; a summer 1971 project; “Cover”, an exhibition by Haus-Rucker-Co.; Mario Merz by Germano Celant; exhibitions by Tomaso Trini; books; and much more.

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 De Pas-D'Urbino-Lomazzi Cesare Casati Agnoldomenico Pica 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 Daniela Palazzoli Franco Albini and Franca Helg Guglielmo Ulrich Herbert Rader Mirco Ravanne Gae Aulenti Kazuhide Takahama Fabrizio Cocchia Haus-Rucker-Co Mario Merz Tomaso Trini Pierre Restany Gio Ponti Germano Celant Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Theory / Essay Arte Povera Pop Art

OUT OF ACTIONS: Between Performance and The Object, 1949-1979
by Paul Schimmel

1998, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 31 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, edited by Paul Schimmel, published in 1998. with essays by Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, and Paul Schimmel.

Published to coincide with the first major museum exhibition to examine the complex relationship linking the creative process, action or performance, and works of art in the postwar period. Featuring nearly one hundred and fifty artists and collaboratives from approximately twenty countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and North and South America—including figures associated with the New York School, Nouveaux Realistes, Fluxus, Viennese Actionists, Hi Red Center, Arte Povera, the Gutai group, happenings, process art, and performance art—the exhibition centered on how the possibilities and implications of using time and process as elements of art were realized by a number of international movements during this influential thirty-year period.

Covering three decades of significant and original art, this lavishly illustrated book features work by more than one hundred artists from across the world who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era.

Includes the work of: Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Araeen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Jerzy Beres, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle & Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Rhett Delford Brown, Günter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Jochen Gerz, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Hi Red Center, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maler, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Cusi Masuda, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujín, Jan Mlčoch, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Hélio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Ságlová, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Štembera, Wolfgang Stöerchle, Jirō Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijević, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, Zaj.

Their work encompasses sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and the ephemera that arises from the performance, as well as documentary film and video stills.

Published in conjunction with a major touring exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process, in essays by acclaimed art historians. Covering an unprecedented range of material, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated.

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

VG copy with light wear and "The Grid" written in red marker on the block side (?).

File under: Joseph Beuys Chris Burden John Cage Lygia Clark Yves Klein John Latham Bruce Nauman Hélio Oiticica Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Robert Rauschenberg Niki de Saint Phalle Carolee Schneemann Atsuko Tanaka Jean Tinguely Marina Abramovič Jerzy Bereś Zorka Saglova Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Rasa Todosijevic Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Araeen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Mark Boyle & Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Rhett Delford Brown Günter Brus James Lee Byars Marc Camille Chaimowicz Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista VALIE EXPORT Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Jochen Gerz Gilbert & George Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Leeson Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Hi Red Center Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Jürgen Klauke Milan Knížák Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maler Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Cusi Masuda Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Marta Minujín Jan Mlčoch Linda Montano Charlotte Moorman Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Orlan Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope.L Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Ora Sherk Shōzō Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Jirō Takamatsu Mark Thompson Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Thames and Hudson / London Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sound / Music Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Dada Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Painting Drawing

Feminist Avant-Garde
Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 672 pages, 29 x 24 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan "The personal is political", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women--mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasize the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists–Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others–as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

Features the work of: Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Annekke Barger, Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Teresa Burga, Marcella Campagnano, Judy Chicago, Linda Christanell, Lili Dujourie, Mary Beth Edelson, Renate Eisenegger, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Iveković, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Katalin Ladik, Brigitte Lang, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Karin Mack, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Lorraine O’Grady, Orlan, Gina Pane, Letítia Parente, Ewa Partum, Friederike Pezold, Margot Pilz, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Suzanne Santoro, Carolee Schneemann, Lydia Schouten, Cindy Sherman, Penny Slinger, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter...

File under: Helena Almeida Eleanor Antin Annekke Barger Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Renate Bertlmann Teresa Burga Marcella Campagnano Judy Chicago Linda Christanell Lili Dujourie Mary Beth Edelson Renate Eisenegger Valie Export Esther Ferrer Lynn Hershman Leeson Alexis Hunter Sanja Iveković Birgit Jürgenssen Kirsten Justesen Ketty La Rocca Leslie Labowitz Katalin Ladik Brigitte Lang Suzanne Lacy Suzy Lake Karin Mack Ana Mendieta Rita Myers Lorraine O’Grady Orlan Gina Pane Letítia Parente Ewa Partum Friederike Pezold Margot Pilz Ulrike Rosenbach Martha Rosler Suzanne Santoro Carolee Schneemann Lydia Schouten Cindy Sherman Penny Slinger Annegret Soltau Hannah Wilke Martha Wilson Francesca Woodman Nil Yalter Gabriele Schor Prestel / Munich Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sociology / Politics Gender Studies / Sexuality Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Film / Video

Rosemarie Trockel

2026, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 27.9 x 22.2 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Edited with text by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Valeria Gordeev, Quinn Latimer, Christoph Menke, Cord Riechelmann, Ann-Charlotte Gunzel.

From “knitting pictures” to upside down palm trees and mannequin heads in glass boxes, Trockel’s caustic oeuvre defies classification.

Finally here, the enormous MMK catalogue! German multimedia artist Rosemarie Trockel rose to fame in the 1980s with her “knitting pictures” made with industrial weaving machines. In 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit at the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The brutality and absurdity of normative regimes emerge openly in the work of Rosemarie Trockel. Definitions, restrictions, paternalism, and violence due to gender become visible and transparent. Her advance is a risky, courageous, combative, and humorous one. In all media—drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and film—Trockel’s sociological gaze is as much directed at social regimes and political structures as it is at nature. Her observations and studies of processionary caterpillars, starlings, chickens, or lice, while scientifically sound and precise, always include her own critical gaze as a vital component. She appropriates the ambivalences in her work, capturing them decidedly.

The comprehensive exhibition and catalogue displays works from all periods of Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre, from the 1970s to the new works created especially for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Susanne Pfeffer Valeria Gordeev Quinn Latimer Christoph Menke Cord Riechelmann Ann-Charlotte Gunzel Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art

Rosemarie Trockel
Post Menopause

2005, English / German
Softcover (w. folded poster dust-jacket), 192 pages, 22.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Rare 2006 edition (w. original fold-out dust-jacket poster) of Rosemarie Trockel's Post Menopause catalogue (raisonné), published on the occasion of the major 2005—2006 exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: Menopause, at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, and MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

This wonderful, major survey disappeared from print very fast, quickly becoming a valuable item in the mid-2000s. A catalogue raisonné of sorts, collecting Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980—2005 (sculpture, wool works, drawings, publications, garments, photography, video — including many very rarely seen objects), Post Menopause remains one the best, most comprehensive, and Trockel-esque books produced on one of Germany's most important and influential conceptual artists. Not surprisingly, since Post Menopause was realised in close collaboration between Trockel herself with Museum Ludwig curator Barbara Engelbach, and designed by her regular design collaborator, and sometimes muse, the great graphic designer Yvonne Quirmbach. Extensive chronological cataloguing of all works, biography, bibliography, and bilingual (English and German) essays by Brigid Doherty, Silvia Eiblmayr, Barbara Engelbach, Kasper König, and Gregory Williams.

A highly recommended and invaluable resource on the artist.

Rosemarie Trockel (*1952) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

VG/VG.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Barbara Engelbach Brigid Doherty Gregory Williams Silvia Eiblmayr Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Drawing Conceptual Art Film / Video

The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss

1986, English
Softcover, 319 pages, 175 x 229 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor at Columbia University and an editor and cofounder of October magazine, is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious (1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), and Bachelors (1999), all published by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User's Guide (Zone Books, 1997).

"All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative."—Art Documentation

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

File under: Jackson Pollock Richard Serra Sol Lewitt Agnes Martin Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Man Ray Robert Ryman Caspar David Friedrich Eugene Atget Auguste Rodin Gordon Matta-Clark Alberto Giacometti Max Ernst Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Minimal Art Conceptual Art Dada Surrealism

Lutz Bacher
The Gift

2016, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Ed. of 400,
Published by Secession / Vienna

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This out-of-print artist’s book is published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘More Than This’ at the Secession, Vienna, and features the heterogeneous oeuvre of American artist Lutz Bacher. Over her 40-year career, Bacher has produced conceptual works that defy classification in a variety of formats, including videotapes, photographs, and other mixed media. Described as eclectic, rough, open-ended, and disturbing, many works incorporate elements from pop culture, personal artefacts, and found objects, and address questions of identity as expressed through sexuality and the human body. The book is filled with newspaper clippings, personal communications, and many images.

Limited to 400 copies. Absolutely essential!

File under: Lutz Bacher Secession / Vienna Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

RUINOUS SPIRITUALITY
by Henry Flynt

2022, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17.1 x 23.4 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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Ruinous Spirituality can be seen as the sequel to my recent Three Essays on Spirituality and Art. The abstract for Three Essays on Spirituality and Art said that ruinous spirituality needs to be studied as carefully as admirable spirituality: it discloses personness as much as admirable spirituality does. Ruinous Spirituality is a lengthy and aggressive contribution to this study. It goes without saying that myths about supernatural sources of evil, and myths about impiety, are rejected. Indeed, they are ignored: except when they comprise part of the object of study. There have been self-avowed Satanist enterprises for centuries. (And Satanic has a vivid metaphorical use in English. As shorthand for eerily malicious.) As for religion, it has to be appraised as a ruinously spiritual institution (more carefully, as an amalgam).

The study wants to go beyond “decrying the bad.” It wants to go beyond listing public manifestations which exhibit ruinous spirituality. (E.g. cultural works.) What needs to be answered is how ruinous spirituality is assembled in individual interiority at all. It needs a “reality-picture” beyond today’s conventional wisdom: that would be personalysis. What constituents must personness have to give rise to ruinous spirituality? Five cases are found of spiritually ruinous interiority. (The cases outline a principal axis). The SUFFERER, the PERFORMER, the WRECKER, the SEDUCER, the PARTICIPANT. The SUFFERER is a victim of themself. Three cases are agents acting on targets: their success is the ruin of the target. The PARTICIPANT is a SEDUCER who also participates in the revels. In a postscript, the book finds another axis, with admirable and ruinous as its poles. It takes up amalgams, mixtures in the middle of this axis. Indeed, amalgams comprise much of what faces us. Not because admirable and ruinous are vague. Quite the contrary. The appropriate metaphor would be a clothed person. Clothes and humans go together even though they are distinct.

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt João Simões / Lisbon Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fluxus Art Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Occult / Esoterica Conceptual Art

THREE ESSAYS ON SPIRITUALITY AND ART
by Henry Flynt

2020, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 17.2 x 24.3 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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First edition, out-of-print, As New limited copies.

Three Essays may be the first book ever published that offers a panoramic account of spirituality without reference to religion or comic-book supernaturalism. Of course, that means redefining spirituality. The redefinition has to have a foundation (“ontology”), and that is supplied by personalysis, a discipline I have spelled out on record. No. spirituality is not an “it”: it is a heterogeneous family of mutually supportive modalities. But there is a further differentiation. There is affirmative spirituality and there is ruinous spirituality.

Three Essays focuses on affirmative spirituality, but I hold that ruinous spirituality also needs to be closely studied; it discloses personness as much as affirmative spirituality does.

Modern authors on art have been unable to write about emotion and spirituality in art (unless they are satisfied to offer kitsch about associations which a work is supposed to elicit in some audiences). I begin with Bharata-Muni as a precedent, with a nod to Aristotle’s Poetics. Again, the foundation is personalysis: it entitles us not to be mechanistic, to speak of the (human) affections. art is a generic label for the arts. In Three Essays I am laying an analytical groundwork for the topic, and speak of sensitization to artistic languages. Instances range from those cited for their splendor, to the dubiously revered, to famous targets of disapproval, to commercial successes.

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt Henry Flynt João Simões / Lisbon Sound / Music Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Art Conceptual Art Philosophy

About Transformations
by Henry Flynt

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 114 pages, 23.5 x 14 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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"I have chosen, in this study, to go deeply into my 1961 Transformations, to note the guises in which it appeared, to identify its issues and to sort them out.

I will not rush toward an explanatory description of the piece as it is found in An Anthology (La Monte Young, ed., La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low, New York, 1963).
I prefer to establish its context and to explore correlative issues. I want to explore fully how Transformations is positioned:

.i as a diversion from absurdist computationalist music
.ii as a diversion from the derivations of exact science
.iii as a cognitive nihilist object-lesson to exact science regarding derivations"

—Henry Flynt, 2021, New York

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt Henry Flynt Christian Xatrec João Simões / Lisbon Theory / Essay Fluxus Sound / Music Art Philosophy Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art
by Ursula Meyer

1972, English
Softcover, 228 pages, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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"The function of the critic and the function of the artist have been traditionally divided; the artist's concern was the production of the work and the critic's was its evaluation and interpretation. During the past several years a group of young artists evolved the idiom of Conceptual Art, which eliminated this division. Conceptual artists take over the role of the critic in terms of framing their own propositions, ideas, and concepts.

An essential aspect of Conceptual Art is its self-reference; often the artists define the intentions of their work as part of their art. Thus, many Conceptual artists advance propositions or investigations. It is in keeping, then, with Conceptual Art that it is best explained through itself, i.e., through the examination of Conceptual Art, rather than through any assumptions outside of itself. In this sense, this book is not a 'critical anthology' by a documentation of Conceptual Art and Statements."

Includes : Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Alain Kirili, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Iain Baxter, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perreault, Adrian Piper, Mel Ramsden, Edward Ruscha, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, Vito Acconci, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Gregory Battcock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Rosemarie Castoro, Roger Cutforth, Jan Dibbets, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke.

Ex–libris copy from the personal collection of Australian artist, educator, historian, writer, art critic, environmentalist, plumber, Noel Hutchinson (1940-2020), name penned to reverse front cover. Average–Good copy, Wear/light creasing to extremities.

File under: Douglas Huebler Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Alain Kirili Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov Sol LeWitt Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Iain Baxter Dennis Oppenheim John Perreault Adrian Piper Mel Ramsden Edward Ruscha Bernar Venet Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Vito Acconci Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge Michael Baldwin Harold Hurrell John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Gregory Battcock Bernd and Hilla Becher Mel Bochner Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Rosemarie Castoro Roger Cutforth Jan Dibbets Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Dan Graham Hans Haacke E P Dutton / New York Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Flashback, Eclipse
by Romy Golan

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 312 pages, 23.2 x 15.9 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Flashback, Eclipse is a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the twentieth century and the aftermath of World War II. Most analyses have treated the 1960s in Italy as the decade of “presentism” par excellence, a political decade but one liberated from history. Romy Golan, however, makes the counterargument that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Her book identifies and explores this imaginary through two forms of nonlinear and decidedly nonpresentist forms of temporality—the flashback and the eclipse. In view of the photographic and filmic nature of these two concepts, the book’s analysis is largely mediated by black-and-white images culled from art, design, and architecture magazines, photo books, film stills, and exhibition documentation.

The book begins in Turin with Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Mirror Paintings; moves on to Campo urbano, a one-day event in the city of Como; and ends with the Vitalità del Negativo exhibition in Rome. What is being recalled and at other moments occluded are not only episodes of Italian nationalism and Fascism but also various liberatory moments of political and cultural resistance. The book’s main protagonists are, in order of appearance, artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giosetta Fioroni, photographer Ugo Mulas, Ettore Sottsass (as critic rather than designer), graphic designer Bruno Munari, curators Luciano Caramel and Achille Bonito Oliva, architect Piero Sartogo, Carla Lonzi (as artist as much as critic), filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, and, in flashback among the departed, painter Felice Casorati, writer Massimo Bontempelli, art historian Aby Warburg, architect Giuseppe Terragni, and Renaissance friar-philosopher-mathematician Giordano Bruno (as patron saint of the sixty-eighters).

“Adapting the cinematic and temporal processes of flashback and eclipse recruited by Italian artists and film directors in the 1960s, Golan creates her own montage, in which art and politics, history and criticism, as well as the memory and actuality of Fascism become enmeshed through techniques of ‘mimetic subversion.’ The result is a dazzling mosaic that stages contemporary auteurs, like Pistoletto and Antonioni, in conversation with the historical figures of Aby Warburg and Giordano Bruno. Based on this subtle historiographic strategy, Flashback, Eclipse not only challenges prewar and postwar periodizations in Italian art, but also reevaluates the performance of anachrony in the writing of art history.” —Spyros Papapetros, Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University

“Romy Golan explores the historical unconscious of 1960s Italian art as she opts for a new kind of temporality that is nonlinear and fractured. With a great command of film history, graphic design, and exhibition history, she presents us with an unprecedented study of Italian artworks experienced through their mediation, suggesting that we ought to look at the filters — the mirror images, hues, and experimental mise-en-page — that obliterate and reveal these works.” —Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

“This masterful book reveals the richness and complexity of a poly- centric, dispersed, even anarchic art scene — the Italy of the 1960s — that no institution was powerful enough to unify, label, and export. It was known that Italy had been the laboratory of some of the most radical political experiments of the twentieth century, for better or for worse. Here we discover that, around 1968, it delivered the unexpected elements of a new political economy of the arts.” —Patricia Falguières, Professor of Renaissance Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

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Formless: A User's Guide
by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss

1997, English
Softcover, 306 pages, 28 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zone Books / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Long out–of–print.

"In a work that will become indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss convincingly introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. Formless: A User’s Guide constitutes a decisive and dramatic transformation of the study of twentieth-century culture. Although it has been over sixty years since Georges Bataille undertook his philosophical development of the term informe, only in recent years has the idea of the “formless” been deployed in theorizing and reconfiguring the very field of twentieth-century art. This is partly because that field has most often been crudely set up as a battle between form and content, whereas “formless” constitutes a third term that stands outside the opposition of form and content, outside the binary thinking that is itself formal. In Formless: A User’s Guide, Bois and Krauss, two of the most influential and respected art historians of our time, present a rich and compelling panorama of the formless. They map out its persistence within a history of modernism that has always repressed it in the interest of privileging formal mastery, and they assess its destiny within current artistic production. In the domain of practice, they analyze it as an operational tool, the structural cunning of which has repeatedly been suppressed in the service of a thematics of art. Neither theme nor form, formless is, as Bataille himself expressed it, a “job.” The job of Formless: A User’s Guide is to explore the power of the informe. A stunning new map of twentieth-century art emerges from this innovative reconceptualization and from the brilliantly original analyses of the work of Lucio Fontana, Lygia Clark, Cy Twombly, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Smithson, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others."

Very Good copy. First 1997 Ed. 2nd 1999 print.

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