World Food Books

Avalanche No. 1 (Fall 1970)
Joseph Beuys Cover

1970, English
Softcover (staple bound), 84 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$180.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue number one of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche. Featuring Joseph Beuys on cover. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring James Turrell, Keith Arnatt, Douglas Davis, Luis Fernanda Benedit, Paolo Soleri, Isaac Witkin and William Wegman; "Interview: Carl Andre"; "Interview: Jan Dibbets"; "Retrospective: Richard Long"; "Pace and Process," by Robert Morris; "Portrait: Joseph Beuys," by Skunk-Kender; "Body Works," by Willoughby Sharp; "Museums: MOCA, San Francisco"; "Galleries: Reese Palley, San Francisco"; "Discussions with Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson," by Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim and Robert Smithson. Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Joseph Beuys Carl Andre Jan Dibbets Richard Long Robert Morris Shunk-Kender Robert Smithson Michael Heizer Dennis Oppenheim Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Film / Video

Avalanche No. 2 (Winter 1971)
Bruce Nauman cover

1971, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 114 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue number 2 of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Winter 1971. Cover features Bruce Nauman. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Bas jan Ader, John Perreault, Vito Acconci and Paul Kos; "Interview: Bruce Nauman"; "Interview: Terry Fox"; "Klaus Rinke Retrospective"; "Documents: John Van Saun"; "Documents: Dennis Oppenheim"; "Documents: Richard Serra"; "Yves Klein," by Shunk-Kender; "King for a Day," by Bruce McLean; "112 Greene Street," by Alan Saret and Jeffrey Lew; "Mrs. Burke, I Thought You Were Dead," by William Wegman; "Drifts and Conversions," by Vito Acconci; "A Discussion with Acconci, Fox, and Oppenheim," by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox and Dennis Oppenheim. Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Bruce Nauman Terry Fox John van Saun Richard Serra Dennis Oppenheim Yves Klein Bruce McLean William Wegman Vito Acconci Boris Wall Gruphy Alan Saret Jeffrey Lew Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Theory / Essay Film / Video

Avalanche No. 3 (Fall 1971)
Barry Le Va Cover

1971, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 94 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue three of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Fall 1971. Cover features Barry Le Va. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Jackie Winsor, William Wegman, Allen Ruppersberg, Gilbert & George and Philip Glass; "The Art of Searching," interview with David Tremlett; "Ululations," by Bill Beckley; "Soap," by Joel Fisher; "Jacks," by Gordon Matta-Clark; "Observatory," by Robert Morris; "Christ & Pythagoras," by Italo Scanga; "A Metal Ring Encircling a Tree," interview with Ulrich Ruckriem; "Outcrops," by George Trakas; "Discussions with Barry Le Va," by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp. Edited by Liza Béar, published by Willoughby Sharp, design by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Barry Le Va David Tremlett Bill Beckley Joel Fisher Gordon Matta-Clark Robert Morris Ulrich Ruckreim Italo Scanga George Trakas Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Art Theory / Essay Minimal Art Film / Video

Avalanche No. 4 (Spring 1972)
Lawrence Weiner Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 84 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue number four of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Spring 1972. Cover featuring Lawrence Weiner. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Bill Beckley, Marcel Duchamp, Daniel Buren and Hanne Darboven; "Jackie Winsor: An Interview," by Liza Béar; "Sol LeWitt: Page Drawings"; "Howard Fried: The Cheshire Cat," by Liza Béar; "Alice Aycock: Four 36-38 Exposures"; "Stanley Brouwn: Steps"; "Franz Erhard Walther: First Workset"; "Hanne Darboven: Words"; "Walter de Maria" ; "Lawrence Weiner at Amsterdam," by Willoughby Sharp. Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Lawrence Weiner Jackie Winsor Sol LeWitt Howard Fried Alice Aycock Stanley Brouwn Franz Erhard Walther Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Conceptual Art Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Avalanche No. 5 (Summer 1972)
Yvonne Rainer Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue number five of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Summer 1972. Cover features Yvonne Rainer. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Hiro Kosaka, Trisha Brown and Marcel Broodthaers; "Braco Dimitrijevic: Casual Passers-by I Met"; "Direct Demokratie: Joseph Beuys Talking at Documenta 5"; "Structure and Sensibility: An Interview with Jannis Kounellis," by Willoughby Sharp; "Phil Glass: An Interview in Two Parts" by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp; "Illustrated Time - Proscenium II," by Keith Sonnier, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Richard Landry and Kurt Munkacs; "The Performer as Persona: An Interview with Yvonne Rainer". Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Yvonne Rainer Braco Dimitrijevic Joseph Beuys Philip Glass Jannis Kounellis Keith Sonnier Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Minimal Art Film / Video

Avalanche No. 6 (Fall 1972)
Vito Acconci Special Issue

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Special issue of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche focusing on the work of Vito Acconci. Includes performance descriptions written by artist and documentary photographs, biography, and bibliography. Interview between the artist and Liza Bear. Sections: "Introduction: Notes on Performing a Space"; "Early Work: Movement Over a Page"; "Early Work: Moving My Body into Place"; "Body as Place - Moving in on Myself, Performing Myself"; "Peopled Space - Performing Myself Though Another Agent"; "Occupied Zone - Moving in, Performing on Another Agent"; "Concentration - Container - Assimilation"; "Power Field - Exchange Points - Transformations"; "Excerpts from Tapes with Liza Bear"; "Biography"; "Bibliography"; "Index." Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, design by Boris Wall Gruphy, Henry Post, Richard Falk.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Film / Video

Avalanche No. 7 (Winter / Spring 1973)
William Wegman Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 84 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Issue number seven of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Winter Spring 1973, featuring a William Wegman cover. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Chris Burden, Jennifer Bartlett and Urs Lüthi; "The Gold-diggers of '84: An Interview with General Idea" by Willoughby Sharp, Ron Gabe, Jorge Saia, A.A. Bronson, Granada Gazelle, P.J., Noah Dakota, Marcel Idea, Ms. Paige, Myth Honey and Ms. Generality; "Different Strokes for Different Folks: An Interview with Van Schley," and includes a bound in portfolio of loose elements; "Shuck and Jive: An Interview with Lowell Darling" by Willoughby Sharp; "... a kind of Huh? A interview with Edward Ruscha" by Willoughby Sharp; "Man Ray, Do You Want To... An Interview with William Wegman". Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: General Idea William Wegman Edward Ruscha Van Schley Lowell Darling Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Arte Povera Periodicals Conceptual Art

Recent International Forms in Art
The 1976 Biennale of Sydney

1976, English
Hardcover (ring-bound), 86 pages + programme, 2.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

$200.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Beautiful and rare historical catalogue published on the occasion of the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Recent International Forms in Art, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 13—Dec 18, 1976. With exceptional uncredited povera design, the catalogue is printed entirely on thick kraft paper and metal ring-bound between thick corrugated cardboard covers. An incredible second year of the Sydney biennale, heavy with international representation of conceptual, Art Povera, environmental, minimal, Mono-ha artists, includes the work of Ant Farm, Giovanni Anselmo, John Armstrong, Robert Arneson, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Tony Coleing, Gianni Colombo, John Davis, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Koji Enokura, Robert Grosvenor, Marr Grounds, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Noel Hutchison, Robert Kinmont, Gloria Kisch, Kyubei Kyomizu, Lee U-Fan, John Lethbridge, Les Levine, Loren Madsen, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Michael McMillen, James Melchert, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, Tsuneo Nakai, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Fujiko Nakaya, Ti Parks, Giuseppi Penone, Insik Quac, Terry Reid, Ron Robertson-Swann, Fred Sandback, Joel Shapiro, Moon-Seup Shim, Morio Shinoda, Robert Smithson, Stelarc, Kishio Suga, Noboru Takayama, Kakuzo Tatehata, William Tucker, Greer Twiss, Ken Unsworth, William T. Wiley, Gilberto Zorio, and many more... Organised with the guidance of people like John Stringer (New York, previously Australia, managed The Field at the NGV in 1968), Gerald Forty and Ian Barker (UK), Tommaso Trini (Italy), Joseph Love. S.J. (Korea, Japan), Philip Linhares (California), and many more under the direction of Thomas G. Cullough.

This copy includes a folded handbill programme for the Biennale, also on kraft paper and including information on performances, installations, lectures and other public works.

Very Good copy with some wear.

File under: Ant Farm Giovanni Anselmo John Armstrong Robert Arneson Lynda Benglis Joseph Beuys Tony Coleing Gianni Colombo John Davis Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Koji Enokura Robert Grosvenor Marr Grounds Noriyuki Haraguchi Noel Hutchison Robert Kinmont Gloria Kisch Kyubei Kyomizu Lee U-Fan John Lethbridge Les Levine Loren Madsen Yutaka Matsuzawa Michael McMillen James Melchert Kevin Mortensen Clive Murray-White Tsuneo Nakai Natsuyuki Nakanishi Fujiko Nakaya Ti Parks Giuseppi Penone Insik Quac Terry Reid Ron Robertson-Swann Fred Sandback Joel Shapiro Moon-Seup Shim Morio Shinoda Robert Smithson Stelarc Kishio Suga Noboru Takayama Kakuzo Tatehata William Tucker Greer Twiss Ken Unsworth William T. Wiley Gilberto Zorio Thomas G. Cullough Philip Linhares Joseph Love. S.J. Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Art

Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.
by Harald Szeemann

1969, English / French / German / Italian
Softcover binder (w. spring-loaded plate), 170 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

$600.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

One of the great art documents of the 20th century, the original printing of the legendary catalogue for "Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form", curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, March 22 - April 27, 1969. Very rare original 1969 edition!

Sponsored by the Philip Morris tobacco company, this was an important, extensive and primary exhibition dedicated to the amalgam of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe and the United States. The catalogue itself is designed and produced by Szeemann, and printed in Switzerland by Stämpfli & Cie in Bern. Alongside those of Seth Siegelaub, Szeemann's now historical catalogues changed the way exhibition publishing performed. Presented as a indexical binder (spring-bound with a metal plate) forming an index of alphabetical artist pages and accompanying texts. Includes a biography, bibliography, illustrations and portrait for each artist.

Texts by Harald Szeemann, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini.

Artists include Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger Van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Jo Ann Kaplan, Eva Hesse, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary B. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Pechter, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Viner, Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, William Wiley and Gilberto Zorio.

Texts in English, French, German and Italian.

Light wear and marking to folder covers, internal rubbing from metal plate, previous owners name and "69" to top of inside cover, otherwise very good copy throughout, complete.

File under: Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Richard Artschwager Thomas Bang Jared Bark Robert Barry Joseph Beuys Alighiero Boetti Mel Bochner Marinus Boezem Bill Bollinger Michael Buthe Pier Paolo Calzolari Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Ger van Elk Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Hans Haacke Michael Heizer Eva Hesse Paolo Icaro Alan Jacquet Stephen Kaltenbach Jo Ann Kaplan Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Gary B. Kuehn Sol LeWitt Bernd Lohaus Richard Long Roelof Louw Walter de Maria David Medalla Mario Merz Robert Morris Claes Oldenburg Panamarenko Pino Pascali Paul Pechter Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Markus Raetz Allen Ruppersberg Rainer Ruthenbeck Robert Ryman Frederick Lane Sandbach Alan Saret Sarkis Jean-Frederic Schnyder Richard Serra Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Frank Lincoln Viner Franz Erhard Walther William G. Wegman Lawrence Weiner William T. Wiley Gilberto Zorio Harald Szeemann Scott Burton Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Pop Art Photography Film / Video

SAM PULITZER
THE PREMISE OF A BETTER LIFE

2022, English
Hardcover, 128 pages, 22 x 17 cm
Published by After 8 Books / Paris

$65.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

An artist’s book by New York–based author and artist Sam Pulitzer, this volume combines photographs with ethical and existential questions addressed to the viewer, in an allegory of the contemporary condition. These photographs of everyday things, ambiguous details, nondescript landscapes and cityscapes were mostly taken in New York, although the city appears as the pale reflection of a model city. The montages offer a complex, personal, at times satirical image of the present.An original essay by Pulitzer unfolds the project’s philosophical and political issues, notably discussing a key reference for the project, Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope.

File under: Sam Pulitzer After 8 Books / Paris Art Drawing Conceptual Art Photography

Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time
by Maria Stavrinaki

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 448 pages, 15.4 x 23.5 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

$59.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to surmise the age of the Earth; second, to find the point of emergence of human beings; and third, to ponder the age of art. Maria Stavrinaki considers the inseparability of these accounts of temporality from the disruptive forces of modernity. She asks what a history of modernity and its art would look like if considered through these three interwoven inventions of the longue durée. Transfixed by Prehistory attempts to articulate such a history, which turns out to be more complex than an inevitable march of progress leading up to the Anthropocene. Rather, it is a history of stupor, defamiliarization, regressive acceleration, and incessant invention, since the “new” was also found in the deep sediments of the Earth. Composed of as much speed as slowness, as much change as deep time, as much confidence as skepticism and doubt, modernity is a complex phenomenon that needs to be rethought. Stavrinaki focuses on this intrinsic tension through major artistic practices (Cézanne, Matisse, De Chirico, Ernst, Picasso, Dubuffet, Smithson, Morris, and contemporary artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Hirschhorn), philosophical discourses (Bataille, Blumenberg, and Jünger), and the human sciences. This groundbreaking book will attract readers interested in the intersections of art history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, mythology, geology, and archaeology.

“Transfixed by Prehistory delivers a stunning reconceptualization of the relationship between time and technology in industrial capitalism.” —Devin Fore

“From Cézanne to Smithson via Paleolithic mandibles, Stavrinaki mobilizes an unlikely group of artifacts to explore the core hermeneutic questions of an Anthropocene epoch in which the symbolic and the geological have become intertwined, if not indistinguishable. Through readings that are not just anecdotally rich and methodologically exemplary but also utterly compelling formally, Transfixed by Prehistory delivers a stunning reconceptualization of the relationship between time and technology in industrial capitalism.” —Devin Fore, Princeton University

File under: Lucio Fontana Thomas Hirschhorn Jean Dubuffet Pablo Picasso Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Robert Smithson Henri Matisse Paul Cézanne Robert Morris Pierre Huyghe Ernst Jünger Georges Bataille Maria Stavrinaki Zone Books / New York Art Painting Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Theory / Essay Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Conceptual Art

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

$59.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

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

File under: Michelangelo Pistoletto Giosetta Fioroni Ugo Mulas Ettore Sottsass Bruno Munari Piero Sartogo Michelangelo Antonioni Bernardo Bertolucci Felice Casorati Massimo Bontempelli Aby Warburg Giuseppe Terragni Giordano Bruno Luciano Caramel Achille Bonito Oliva Carla Lonzi Massimo Bontempelli Giordano Bruno Aby Warburg Romy Golan Zone Books / New York Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Film / Video Photography

Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics / Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek
Edited by Ine Gevers and Jeanne Van Heeswijk

1997, English / Dutch
Softcover, 500 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by SUN / Nijmegen

$45.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First, only edition of Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics / Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek, a 500 page book based on the experiences during the formation, realization and evaluation of the exhibition: I + the Other. Art and the Human Condition, in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam 1994. Edited by Ine Gevers and Jeanne Van Heeswijk.

"Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics has been compiled in the knowledge that it is impossible to avoid a history in which the meaning of ethics and aesthetics has already been fixed. Rooted in tradition, these notions determine the space and scope of contemporary practices such as fine art, exhibition-making and theory. Whenever an attempt is made to cross the dividing lines, for instance in trying to connect art with life, it becomes immediately apparent how unproductive it is to continue to com-ply with structures that are no longer functional in a technology- and information-based, postmodern society. This is particularly true when it becomes clear that notions such as ethics and aesthetics, which are basically idealistic, often have a controlling and, in this sense, limiting function. With this book we want to draw attention to the sometimes subtle, though often radical attempts to escape from the way modernity has divided the world into manageable and relatively safe specializations. The continuing institutionalization, 'museification' and 'mediaization' of our society provides an example. They seem to pull the above-mentioned obstructions even sharper into focus." — from book introduction

With contributions by Oscar van Alphen, Ute Meta Bauer, Yvonne P. Doderer, Marianne Brouwer, Martin Lucas, Adrian Piper, Simon Critchley, Helmut Draxler, Jean Fisher, Avital Geva, Ine Gevers, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Tijs Goldschmidt, Roy Villevoye, Multiple Autorenschaft, Jouke Kleerebezem, Viktor Misiano, Everlyn Nicodemus, Sadie Plant, Martha Rosler, Rob Schroder, Jorinde Seijdel, Barbara Steiner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ross Sinclair, and more.

Good copy with some cover wear.

File under: Krzysztof Wodiczko Adrian Piper Rirkrit Tiravanija Martha Rosler Avital Geva Ross Sinclair Everlyn Nicodemus Jouke Kleerebezem Roy Villevoye Ute Meta Bauer Yvonne P. Doderer Simon Critchley Helmut Draxler Jean Fisher Ine Gevers Jeanne van Heeswijk Viktor Misiano Sadie Plant Martha Rosler Jorinde Seijdel Barbara Steiner Tijs Goldschmidt SUN / Nijmegen Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Photography Film / Video

Michael Krebber
Alien Hybrid Creatures

2005, English / German
Softcover, 184 pages, 15.2 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Walther König / Köln

$260.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

As new copy of the out-of-print and fantastic 2005 artist book Alien Hybrid Creatures by German painter Michael Krebber.

Alien Hybrid Creatures addresses, amongst other things, the historical figure of the dandy--and among the dandies implicated is the spawning sea anemone on the cover. It functions as a reading list for the Seminar "Dandyism I/II (Düsseldorf Academy of Art) 2001/2002, with additional material from Krebber's seminar "Geniuses and Dandies/Historical and Theoretical Reflections" 2001. Such material includes the work of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Bernhard Willhelm, Robert Bresson, Kai Althoff, Charles Baudelaire, Odilion Redon, Merlin Carpenter, Devince, Josephine Pryde, Kenneth Anger, Albert Camus, Cosmia Von Bonin, Jack Smith, John Waters, Susan Sontag, Russ Meyers, Marcel Broodthaers, and French & Saunders (amongst many more).

Alien Hybrid Creatures was published on the occasion of Michael Krebber's legendary lecture "Puberty in Painting", delivered in the context of Renate Goldmann's seminar at the Institute of Art History at the University of Cologne in 2003.

Essay by Oswald Wiener.
Designed by Markus Ziegler in cooperation with Yvonne Quirmbach.

Now a very scarce collector's item. Some light shelf wear only.

File under: Michael Krebber Yvonne Quirmbach Oswald Wiener Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Conceptual Art

Endgame : Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture
Yve-Alain Bois, Thomas Crow, Hal Foster, David Joselit, Elisabeth Sussman, Bob Riley

1986, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston

$65.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Scarce copy of this long out-of-print seminal catalogue published by MIT Press on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the ICA Boston in 1986, curated by Yve-Alain Bois and Elisabeth Sussman.

The six illustrated essays by some of today's most noted art historians and critics which comprise Endgame provide the first comprehensive discussion of reference in contemporary art and the commodification of the art object. The interrrelated concerns of painters Sherry Levine, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Philip Taaffe — who ironically adapt the visual strategies of earlier modern artists—and those of sculptors Jon Kessler, General Idea, Jeff Koons, Joel Otterson, and Haim Steinbach—who use consumer objects and their mode of representation as the raw material of their sculpture—are the sources of the authors' varied and acute arguments on this theme of the political and social economy of the image.

Contents: The return of Hank Herron / by Thomas Crow; Painting, the task of mourning / by Yve-Alain Bois; The last picture show / by Elisabeth Sussman; Modern leisure / by David Joselit; The future of an illusion, or, The contemporary artist as cargo cultist / by Hal Foster; Notes on new media theater / by Bob Riley. Includes an exhibition checklist. Preface by David A. Ross

Good copy, with some tanning to cover, light wear/marking.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Meret Oppenheim Richard Baim Gretchen Bendes Perry Hoberman General Idea Jon Kessler Jeff Koons Joel Otterson Haim Steinbach Sherry Levine Ross Bleckner Peter Halley Philip Taaffe Andy Warhol Piet Mondrian Robert Ryman Victor Burgin Mary Kelly Bridget Riley Frank Stella Donald Judd Yve-Alain Bois Thomas Crow Hal Foster David Joselit Elisabeth Sussman Bob Riley David A. Ross The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Art Pop Art

Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Coupland
School Spirit

2002, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 16.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Dis Voir / France

$35.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

An artistic and literary journey through the soul of a dead and disembodied student, lost in the memories and infrastructure of a Californian High school.

In this first installment, French artist Pierre Huyghe chooses to encounter Canadian writer Douglas Coupland. High school yearbooks become the framework for constructing a narrative and characters and also for creating a meditation on memory.

“Huyghe and Coupland team up to explore the awkwardness and ironic sentimentality of high school. Culled from actual photos and real inscriptions from old '80s yearbooks, School Spirit exhumes the jocks, geeks and valley girls of a forgotten adolescence. The book is strung toghether by the story of one dead student, recalling the goofiness and despondency of the 'times of our lives'.”—BlackBook Magazine

The photographs, videos and installations produced by Pierre Huyghe (born 1962 in Paris, where he lives and works) question the conditions of representing reality and the shifts of meaning they give rise to. By using the aesthetics of an underrated daily round, the artists suggests the limits of our knowledge, based restrictively on the interpretation of the world. Situated somewhere between reality and make-believe, and steeped in the cinematographic world (repeats, remakes, and so on), his videos lead the viewer to question his own vision of the things surrounding him, and his relation to collective memory.

Douglas Coupland (born 1961 in Baden Söllingen, Gemrany) is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. His first novel, Generation X, was an international bestseller. He has published fourteen novels, two collections of short stories, and seven nonfiction books; written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and has penned a number of works for film and television. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wired magazine, and the Financial Times.

Good copy, some light general wear.

File under: Pierre Huyghe Douglas Coupland Dis Voir / France Conceptual Art Photography Fiction / Poetry

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$80.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

$25.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Füsun Onur
Once upon a time...

2022, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 21 x 27 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan

$60.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Retrospective monograph of the pioneer of Turkish contemporary and conceptual art, Füsun Onur.
Once upon a time..., a new installation conceived for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Bige Örer, exemplifies not just the artist's recent work, but the narrative and autobiographical elements that have characterized her art for more than half a century. A companion to the exhibition, this book is the most comprehensive monograph ever published on the artist. It details almost all of her works, and includes twenty-six new essay by leading figures in the international art world, as well as archival fragments and interviews.

Füsun Onur (born 1938 in Istanbul) began her art practice in the 1960s, producing works that what beyond the traditional confines of painting and sculpture, giving form to her art through instinct and intuition and creating a language beyond time. In the decades since, she has become a leading figure in Turkish contemporary art, both through her inclusion of everyday, ephemeral materials in her works and through her conceptual and minimalist approach. Her practice, which can be understood through the lens of feminist art history, draws on her private life and employs traditional and domestic media, such as weaving and textiles.

Edited by Bige Örer and Nilüfer Şaşmazer.

Texts by Ahu Antmen, Alev Ersan, Anna Boghiguian, Anne Barlow, Aslı Seven, Ayşe Erek, Bige Örer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martinez, Defne Ayas, Deniz Gül, Fatih Özgüven, Gregory Volk, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, HG Masters, Iwona Blazwick, İz Öztat, Kevser Güler, Leyla Gediz, Misal Adnan Yıldız, Murat Alat, Necmi Sönmez, Paolo Colombo, Rabia Çapa, Sally Tallant, Selim Birsel, Seza Paker, Tolga Tüzün.

File under: Füsun Onur Bige Örer Nilüfer Şaşmazer Ahu Antmen Alev Ersan Anna Boghiguian Anne Barlow Aslı Seven Ayşe Erek Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Chus Martinez Defne Ayas Deniz Gül Fatih Özgüven Gregory Volk Hera Büyüktaşcıyan HG Masters Iwona Blazwick İz Öztat Kevser Güler Leyla Gediz Misal Adnan Yıldız Murat Alat Necmi Sönmez Paolo Colombo Rabia Çapa Sally Tallant Selim Birsel Seza Paker Tolga Tüzün Mousse / Milan Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Ruth Francken
Werke 1950—1994

1994, English / French / German
Hardcover (w. die-cut foiled dust jacket), 248 pages, 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$190.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Rare first edition of Czech-American artist Ruth Francken's catalogue raisonné, who's cosmopolitan and nomadic life was a reflection of her work as a painter and visual artist: marginal, disparate and inseparable from the various post-war trends, whether American Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Surrealism or Pop Art. Published in 1994, this lavishly illustrated volume, issued in hardcover with fragile die-cut metallic silver dust-jacket, features texts by the artist, her close friend French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, Peter Ruthenberg, Ursula Sandmann, and Ignatz Bubis, in English, French and German. Documentation of works from all periods of her oeuvre are accompanied by studio and social photography, a full catalogue of works and biography. A valuable and scarce book on a tremendous artist with little reception outside France, where she was primarily active. Francken's exploration of themes of fragmentation, incompleteness, multiplication, and decomposition in communication and image spanned the mediums of painting, sculpture, collage, textile and furniture design, and has been a large influence on artists such as Rosemarie Trockel.

Ruth Francken (1924, Prague—2006, Paris) was a Czech-American sculptor, painter, and furniture designer who was mostly active in Paris. Ruth Francken's life and career would span over six decades, two continents, and more than half a dozen countries. After studying painting from 1939-1940 at the Ruskin School in Oxford, England, she moved to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League of New York. After becoming an American citizen in 1942, she worked as a textile designer until 1949, when she left the United States for Europe. After a two-year period in Venice (1950-1952), she moved to Paris, where she lived until her death in 2006, save for two years in the 1960s and 1970s when she worked out of Berlin and Santa Barbara, California. Ruth Francken was considered an Abstract Expressionist in her early career, until around 1964. After this point she began working with object sculptures, collage, and different textiles and techniques, and her art took on a more surrealist and pop-art aesthetic. She focuses heavily on problems and disconnects in communication, a subject she shared with friend and collaborator French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

Very Good copy with Good dust-jacket. Some general wear to foiled covers and common small damages to the fragile die-cut lettering. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Ruth Francken Jean-François Lyotard Peter Ruthenberg Ursula Sandmann Ignatz Bubis Sculpture / Installation Art Pop Art Furniture Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Surrealism

Comic Stripping

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

$180.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

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

Aleks Danko
Zen Made in Australia

1994, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne

$35.00 $25.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Catalogue published on the occasion of Australian artist Aleks Danko's exhibition at Ian Potter Gallery, 18 May-18 June 1994; volume #1 in "The Artist and the Museum" series curated by Merryn Gates. A timeline of works spanning the bottom half of each page throughout the catalogue traces Danko's history of works across sculpture, installation, video, performance, editions, books, etc. from 1970-1994, accompanied by texts by Charles Green, Jacqueline Thomas, Jackie Dunn, and Merryn Gates occupying the top half of each page. Also includes "Lafart" Manifesto - 18/3/1975 written by Danko and Mike Parr!

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko Mike Parr Charles Green Jacqueline Thomas Merryn Gates Jackie Dunn The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Aleks Danko
MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS

2015, English
Softcover (w. french flaps), 176 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

$35.00 $15.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Major survey catalogue of Australian artist Aleks Danko, published by Hiede Museum of Modern Art and MCA in 2015. First held at Heide, 7 November 2015—21 February 2016, MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS presented artworks spanning nearly five decades of the long career of Victorian-based, Adelaide-born artist Aleks Danko, from his earliest exhibitions in the late 1960s through to his recent installations. Profusely illustrated with accompanying texts by curators Lesley Harding and Glenn Barkley.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

File under: Aleks Danko Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Aleks Danko
Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix)

2004, English
Softcover, 30cm x 21cm. 48 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

$35.00 $25.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the major National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition Aleks Danko — Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix) in 2004. Presenting "The Song Cycle Volumes 1—16" this profusely illustrated catalogue documents many of Danko's major installations in glossy colour, alongside texts, including those by the artist, exhibition history, bibliography.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art SALE