World Food Books

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

"Poem" — As A Journal no.7, 2024
Guest Editor: Jean-Max Colard

2024, English
Softcover, 118 pages, 20.9 x 28 cm
Published by As A Journal / Vilnius

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What sparked off this issue of as a Journal was the clear evidence of poetry’s growing presence in the field of contemporary art. Rather than ‘Poetry’ in general, and even less so the figure of the ‘Poet’, it’s the poem that has our full attention: I find it in the title of an exhibition by Jason Dodge, on the invitation card sent out by artist Ida Ekblad, and then again in the form of an exhibition, in the display and arrangement of works within a space by Ian Kiaer, Elena Narbutaitė or Wolfgang Tillmans. Hence this open-ended question, ‘What is poetry for you today?’, placed like a probe among various art world players, in a sort of vox populi.

And so rises the confirmation of an intuition: in an art field driven by the market, where artworks are becoming luxury accessories for the jet set, poetry, with its poverty and economy of means, appears at the opposite end of the spectrum, as a pole of resistance.

contributors: Jean-Max Colard, Babi Badalov, Simon Johannin, Christine Herzer, Erica Baum, Cia Rinne, Ida Ekblad, Jean D'Amerique, Pedro Barateiro, Anton Bialas, Belinda Cannone, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Chris Cyrille-Isaac, Liliane Giraudon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Nikita Kadan, Kamilya Kuspanova, Raimundas Malašauskas, Makenzy Orcel, Rachel Rose, John Jefferson, Selve Noah Truong, Oscar Tuazon, Christian Bernard, Ian Kiaer, Elena Narbutaite, Jack Pierson, Louise Brunner, Enrico Camporesi, Pip Chodorov, Quinn Latimer, Vaiva Grainyte, Josefa Ntjam, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Bogdana Romantsova, Maksgm Kryvtsov.

File under: Jean-Max Colard Babi Badalov Simon Johannin Christine Herzer Erica Baum Cia Rinne Ida Ekblad Jean D'Amerique Pedro Barateiro Anton Bialas Belinda Cannone Barbara Chase-Riboud Chris Cyrille-Isaac Liliane Giraudon Thomas Hirschhorn Nikita Kadan Kamilya Kuspanova Raimundas Malašauskas Makenzy Orcel Rachel Rose John Jefferson Selve Noah Truong Oscar Tuazon Christian Bernard Ian Kiaer Elena Narbutaite Jack Pierson Louise Brunner Enrico Camporesi Pip Chodorov Quinn Latimer Vaiva Grainyte Josefa Ntjam Jean-Michel Espitallier Bogdana Romantsova Maksgm Kryvtsov As A Journal / Vilnius Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Art Fiction / Poetry Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Painting Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

David Hammons/Yves Klein

2014, English
Hardcover, 208 pages, 20 x 26 cm
Published by Aspen Art Museum / Aspen

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This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and performative expression, often touching on the metaphysical. Hammons (born 1943) is a conceptual artist whose works in performance, installation, sculpture, printmaking and other media confront contemporary realities with an often hard-hitting wit. This publication aims not to draw out any notion of influence or direct correlation between these bodies of work, but rather to elucidate a resonance between two artists who both engage transformative processes to invest the humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.

File under: Yves Klein David Hammons Michelle Piranio Klaus Ottmann Franklin Sirmans Phillippe Vergne Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Aspen Art Museum / Aspen Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Ana Mendieta
Search For Origin / Aux commencements

2024, English / French
Softcover, 216 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León

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An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta, with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.

The monograph devoted the Cuban born, American artist Ana Mendieta at MO.CO. Panacée in 2023 brings together about one hundred works from over fifteen years of production (1968-1985). The exhibition explores in particular how the artist never ceased to reinvent herself, developing an original, ephemeral sculptural language, at times performative in act, nourished by her research into primitive myths and rock art. It focuses especially on revealing her relationship to the visible and the invisible, her way of rendering the unspeakable intelligible through the trace of the body, and how it relates to nature. It is not intended to be a retrospective show, but rather to celebrate the relevance of such political and vibrant contemporary work.

Accompanying the exhibition, this richly illustrated publication is introduced by Numa Hambursin and Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, in addition to unpublished texts by Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo and Rahmouna Boutayeb, as well as an interview of Raquel Cecilia Mendieta with Vincent Honoré.

In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled "siluetas," are fugitive and potent traces of the artist's inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.

Contributions by Numa Hambursin, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo, Rahmouna Boutayeb, Vincent Honoré, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta.

Published with This Side Up and MUSAC, León.

File under: Ana Mendieta Numa Hambursin Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya Géraldine Gourbe Carla Guardiola Bravo Rahmouna Boutayeb Vincent Honoré Raquel Cecilia Mendieta MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Art Occult / Esoterica Feminism

Sophie Calle
Die wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle

2000, German
Softcover, 80 pages,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel Haus der Kunst / Munich

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Heavily illustrated out-of-print German catalogue published with Sophie Calle on the occasion of her major exhibition at Museum Fridericianum Kassel, 8 April— 21May 2000 and Haus der Kunst, Münich, 26 August—12 November 2000. Artworks are accompanied by texts by Calle in German.

Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo.

Very Good copy.

File under: Sophie Calle Calle Sophie Elke Bahr Fridericianum / Kassel Haus der Kunst / Munich Conceptual Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Art 'Pataphysics / Oulipo

To Note: Notation Across Disciplines

2017, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 18 x 11 cm
Edition of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Perimeter Editions / Melbourne

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Published in an edition 500 copies in 2017 and out-of-print.

Notation is part of our everyday. It is an act that records an observation for future reference. From a handwritten note, an electronic reminder or a quick sketch to a highlighted passage of text or post-it note, notation assumes many casual forms. It marks a moment of (anticipated) significance. Its audience may be its author or others. In time, it may or may not retain its (intended) significance. The motivation for the notation may be to capture something out of time for consideration at a later date – a reminder, a record, an instruction. It may be to convey something in the here and now by extracting (and abstracting) it from its original context and into the moment – to communicate. It may be a generative gesture, using a system of symbols to share a thought or proposition with peers for their interpretation or response.

In December 2015, notation became the focal point of a workshop presented at RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne entitled To Note: Notation Across Disciplines, which involved 25 practitioners working in and across the disciplines of sound, dance, visual art and design/architecture. Part reference, part exercise manual, this book is a collection of material that both informs and challenges our understanding of notation and how it exists both historically and currently within and across various fields and disciplines.

Editor: Hannah Matthews
Design: Žiga Testen & Stuart Geddes
Authors: Dr Michael Trudgeon, Erkki Veltheim, Dr Sally Gardner & Dr Alex Selenitsch
Participants: Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Georgina Criddle, Richie Cyngler, Matthew Day, Eliza Dyball, Benjamin Forster, Dr Sally Gardner, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Aurelia Guo, Melanie Irwin, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Mantsio, Phip Murray, Geoff Robinson, Jan van Schaik, Brooke Stamp, Lilian Steiner, Studio Apparatus, Studio Osk, Colby Vexler, Phoebe Whitman, Benjamin Woods

Very Good copy.

File under: Deanne Butterworth Lane Cormick Georgina Criddle Richie Cyngler Matthew Day Eliza Dyball Benjamin Forster Dr Sally Gardner Nathan Gray Helen Grogan Aurelia Guo Melanie Irwin Rebecca Jensen Shelley Lasica Michelle Mantsio Phip Murray Geoff Robinson Jan van Schaik Brooke Stamp Lilian Steiner Studio Apparatus Studio Osk Colby Vexler Phoebe Whitman Benjamin Woods Michael Trudgeon Erkki Veltheim Sally Gardner Alex Selenitsch Hannah Matthews Perimeter Editions / Melbourne Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Concrete Poetry

The Rita
Correlations

2024, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

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This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

Correlations presents some of the images and documents Sam McKinlay finds most definitive in his practice. The monograph is designed to provide a cohesive understanding of the artist's creative trajectory, as well as illuminate The Rita's uncanny process that visually, conceptually, and historically 'connects' seemingly unrelated subjects.

Published by Amaya Productions and curated by Andrea Stillacci; the monograph includes essays by the art historian and Centre Pompidou curator Nicolas Ballet (Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music), associate Professor and harsh noise artist Lexi Turner (Cornell University), and author, writer, producer Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women).

Credited as one of the pioneers of "harsh noise wall", influential artist Sam McKinlay (born 1974 in California) has been operating under the alias The Rita since the 1990s. Having performed extensively and credited with over 200 releases, the project has grown into a laser focused multidisciplinary venture and is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of "harsh noise". Accompanying The Rita's singular and often unpredictable sonic output is an inseparable and distinct visual language. By combining McKinlay's fine arts education, research, experimentation, and collaboration; the project visually and texturally unites the artist's interests in minimalist design, noise, ballet, sharks, choreography, and film.

Edited by Andrea Stillacci.
Texts by Nicolas Ballet, Lexi Turner, Kier-La Janisse.

File under: The Rita Sam McKinlay Nicolas Ballet Andrea Stillacci Lexi Turner Kier-La Janisse Amaya Productions / USA Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Conceptual Art Art Fetishism / BDSM

Women At Work
A Week of Women's Performance June 1980

1980, English
Softcover (staple bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by George Paton Gallery / Parkville

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Very rare copy of Women At Work, an important catalogue published to accompany a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia held at the George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union, June 2—6, 1980. Includes valuable transcriptions of the seminars — 'Feminism in Performance' : An open discussion led by women from the Women's Art Movement, Adelaide (featuring: Cath Cherry, Peg Maguire, Judy Annear, Denise McGrath, Jan Hunter, Ann Marsh, Jane Kent, Shan Short, Ann Fogarty, Lorraine Bennington, Jackie Lawes, Bonita Ely, Helen Sherriff, Joan Grounds), plus a general discussion reflecting on the activities of the week (Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, Vineta Lagzdina, Anna Paci, Aleks Danko, Jan Ferrari). Heavily illustrated artist's pages with texts and performance documentation follows, featuring: Cath Cherry, Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Joan Grounds, Jan Hunter, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Jackie Lawes, Ann Marsh, Jill Orr, Anna Paci, Liz Paterson, WIMMINS CIRCUS, plus photographic documentation of the exhibition, and a detailed catalogue of the videos and slides shown.

"In 1979, Jane Kent, from the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide, had a three week installation in the Ewing Gallery. She and Ann Marsh, also from WAM suggested a weekend get together later in 1979 for Adelaide and Melbourne women artists. After discussion with Kiffy Rubbo and Judy Annear, the idea developed into a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia to be held June 2-6, 1980. The eventual make-up of the week was 14 performances by 12 women, plus a performance by the WIMMINS CIRCUS (courtesy Union Council). The women who performed were Cath Cherry, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Ann Marsh, from Adelaide; Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, from Melbourne; Joan Grounds, Jackie Lawes, Anna Paci, from Sydney, and Jan Hunter from Hobart. Documentation of performances by the above women and many others was exhibited in the gallery: this took the form of written material, videotapes, slides and installation."—Judy Annear and Aleks Danko, October 1980

Fair copy with moisture staining, damage and general tanning to extremities, rippling along spine.

File under: Cath Cherry Jane Kent Vineta Lagzdina Ann Marsh Bonita Ely Ann Fogarty Jill Orr Liz Paterson Joan Grounds Jackie Lawes Anna Paci Jan Hunter Peg Maguire Judy Annear Denise McGrath Shan Short Lorraine Bennington Helen Sherriff Joan Grounds) Aleks Danko Jan Ferrari George Paton Gallery / Parkville Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Sociology / Politics

Reinventing the Grid
Curated by Rachel Kent

1994, English
Softcover (fold-out six panels w. double-sided price list insert), 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne

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grid- 1. A grating.. A network of lines on a map... A network of electrical lines, etc.—The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol.1, 1984

Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition REINVENTING THE GRID curated by Rachel Kent, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 5—29 October, 1994, in association with the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, featuring the works of Angela Brennan, lan Burn, Debra Dawes, Rosalie Gascoigne, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Martin King, Hilarie Mais, Deborah Ostrow, Robert Owen, Louise Paramor, Rodney Spooner, John Young. Illustrated six-panel fold-out card catalogue with essay by Rachel Kent, illustrated with works from the exhibition and complete catalogue of works, plus the original price-list inserted, with prices.

"While it has been a theme for research and exhibition internationally, the grid has received less critical attention in Australia. One of the intentions of this exhibition, therefore, is to explore some of the ways in which the grid is figured in the art of a selection of fourteen Australian artists, from the mid—1960s to the present day."

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Angela Brennan lan Burn Debra Dawes Rosalie Gascoigne Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Martin King Hilarie Mais Deborah Ostrow Robert Owen Louise Paramor Rodney Spooner John Young Rachel Kent Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

Broken Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

$OUL — DÉCADA DEL 70 — INTERCÂMBIO ENTRE MAC E CAYC
Organised by Jorge Glusberg

1976, Portuguese
Double-sided fold-out, 4 panels, 47 x 30 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo

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Very rare fold-out catalogue for the important international art exhibition surveying conceptual art, concrete poetry, experimental art, performance art, mail art ("activity with a critical view of society") in the 1970s organized by Argentine author, publisher, curator, professor, and conceptual artist, Jorge Glusberg, who was director of the Center for Art and Communication of Buenos Aires (CAYC). With text by Brazilian professor, historian, art critic and curator by Walter Zanini, director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MAC). With a number of the exhibited heliographic documents from the exhibition illustrated throughout, the brochure catalogues the exhibited works by participants including: Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, Öyvind Fahlström, Július Koller, Tim Ullrichs, Luis Fernando Benedit, Jaime Davidovich, Jorge Glusberg, Víctor Grippo, Lea Lublin, Luis Pazos, Julio Plaza, Jonier Marin, Jiří Valoch, Guillermo Deisler, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Manuel Barbadillo, MH de Ossorno, Valcárcel Medina, Felipe Ehrenberg, César Bolaños, Pawel Petasz, José Urbach, Lydia Okumura, Haroldo González, Les Levine, and many others.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Dan Graham Lawrence Weiner Genesis P-Orridge Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Öyvind Fahlström Július Koller Walter Zanini Jorge Glusberg Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Art Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Poetry Protest / Revolt Sound / Music

FILM IS: The International Free Cinema
by Stephen Dwoskin

1975 / 1985, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Overlook Press / New York

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First 1975 US edition (1985 print) of Stephen Dwoskin's important critical history of international independent and underground film-making, its pioneers and masters, and their creations, from the 1920s to the present (late 1970s), assessing the movements importance to the current status of film as art and entertainment. Published by Overlook Press.

Underground' film is finally emerging in terms of the public consciousness as an important and enduring contribution to the world of celluloid, both as entertainment and as an art form. The author, Stephen Dwoskin, is a young American independent filmmaker with personal experience in an expert knowledge of a creative area barely studied until this time. He has created in FILM IS an invaluable record of the pioneering cinematic statements that are at once peripheral and central to film today on an international scale. It is both culturally and sociologically true today that an increasing number of the painters and the poets have become filmmakers. Un-pressured by big business, free cinema has become a personal, creative expression for many men and women who often work in obscurity with small means indeed. Dwoskin's work presents the early history of the independent film from its beginning in the twenties to its phenomenal outburst in the sixties, written by an involved, perceptive critic. Through his own work and his contributions to the juries of international festivals, Dwoskin has a wide-ranging knowledge of the independent film from the U.S. to Britain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Over 700 films are discussed, many for the first time. Van der Beek, Refenstahl, Brakhage, Emshwiller, Ray and Jack Smith are only some of the experimental filmmakers mentioned in FILM IS, but Dwoskin refers forwards and backwards to the works of others, often better known— Bunuel, Cocteau, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Warhol. There is also a comprehensive index. FILM IS provides a unique and invaluable reference work for all those interested in the frontiers of film consciousness.

Stephen Dwoskin (1939—2012) was a major avant-garde filmmaker whose work was closely connected to the 'gaze theory' associated with Laura Mulvey; a significant disabled filmmaker – though he rejected being framed as such – and an activist for an alternative film culture, through such organizations as the London Film-Makers' Co-op and The Other Cinema. His films are held by the BFI and distributed by LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Very Good copy, light wear, ex-owner's name in inside front cover.

File under: Jack Smith Stan Brakhage Andy Warhol Leni Riefenstahl Stephen Dwoskin François Truffaut Rainer Werner Fassbinder Jean Cocteau The Cockettes Paul Sharits Jean-Luc Godard Maya Deren Jonas Mekas Robert Wiene Robert Frank Tiny Tim Ron Rice Robert Breer Carolee Schneemann Michael Snow Stan Vanderbeek Wim Wenders Kenneth Anger George Kuchar Mike Kuchar Frans Zwartjes Kurt Kren Peter Weibel Otto Muehl Limpe Fuchs Peter Gidal Peter Kubelka Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Bruce Connor Luis Buñuel Ed Emshwiller Reinosuke Kinugasa Taylor Mead Harry Smith David Larcher Bruce Baillie Alfredo Leonardi Valie Export Stephen Dwoskin The Overlook Press / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art Surrealism

OBJET — Deviant Materials

1987, Japanese
Softcover (w. wax dust jacket), 56 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo

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Rare copy of the 1987 exhibition cataloue OBJET — Deviant Materials, published on the occasion of the group exhibition at Seibu Museum of Art and curated by Tatehata Satoshi, exploring postwar sculptural art in Japan from around 1960 to the present day through the work of 21 artists, an attempt to provide an opportunity to see the expansion and transformation of the so-called object itself. Heavily illustrated throughout with worksm biographies adn statements from artists including Genpei Akasegawa, Kazunori Ono, Mokuma Kikubata, Ryo Kitatsuji, Yayoi Kusama, Tetsumi Kudo, Yumiko Kanno, Shuzo Takiguchi, Kyoji Takubo, Atsuko Tanaka, Satomi Tim, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Shiro Matsui, Tomio Miki, Kimiyo Mishima, Toyoji Miyazaki, Saburo Muraoka, Tatsumi Yoshino, Masunobu Yoshimura, Isamu Wakabayashi...

Good copy, some wear, light foxing.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Kazunori Ono Mokuma Kikubata Ryo Kitatsuji Yayoi Kusama Tetsumi Kudo Yumiko Kanno Shuzo Takiguchi Kyoji Takubo Atsuko Tanaka Satomi Tim Natsuyuki Nakanishi Shiro Matsui Tomio Miki Kimiyo Mishima Toyoji Miyazaki Saburo Muraoka Tatsumi Yoshino Masunobu Yoshimura Isamu Wakabayashi Tatehata Satoshi Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada SALE

Semiotext(e) The German Issue
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

1982, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 255.5 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Rare copy of one of the remarkable special book issues of the original Semiotext(e) journal — the Semiotext(e) The German Issue, published in 1982, edited by Sylvère Lotringer, featuring the work of Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger, Félix Guattari, Fritz Teufel, André Gorz, Helke Sander...

First edition. Not the 2009 reprint.

The German Issue (1982) was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)’s Autonomia/Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. The German Issue is the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own country by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is also the complex evocation of the rebelling youth—squatters, punks, artists and radicals, theorists and ex-terrorists—who gathered all their energy and creativity in order to outlive a hostile environment.

Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers. The book opens with Christo's “Wrapping Up of Germany” and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall (“Mauer”). Since it has been published in many languages, The German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Founded in 1974, Semiotext(e) began as a journal that emerged from a semiotics reading group led by Sylvère Lotringer at the Columbia University philosophy department. Initially, the magazine was devoted to readings of thinkers like Nietzsche and Saussure. In 1978, Lotringer and his collaborators published a special issue, Schizo-Culture, in the wake of a conference of the same name he had organized two years before at Columbia University. The magazine brought together artists and thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Kathy Acker, John Cage, Michel Foucault, Jack Smith, Martine Barrat and Lee Breuer. Schizo-Culture brought out connections between high theory and underground culture that had not yet been made, and forged the "high/low" aesthetic that remains central to the Semiotext(e) project.

Good—Very Good copy with general cover wear.

File under: Joseph Beuys Christo Joseph Beuys Michel Foucault Christo Christa Wolf Walter Abish Alexander Kluge Paul Virilio Ulrilke Meinhof William Burroughs Jean Baudrillard Hans Magnus Enzenberger Maurice Blanchot Hans Jürgen Syberberg André Gorz Helke Sander Martin Heidegger Félix Guattari Fritz Teufel SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Out-of-print / Rare Anarchism Art Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Philosophy Psychoanalysis Crime / Violence Feminism Fluxus Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt

JOHN NIXON: FOUR DECADES, FIVE HUNDRED PRINTS
Edited by Sue Cramer

2024, English
Softcover, 224 pages (500+ ills.), 22.5 x 22 cm
Published by Geelong Art Gallery / Victoria

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Printmaking was a vital part of artist John Nixon’s celebrated oeuvre of abstract art. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Geelong Gallery and reveals Nixon's inventive use of varied techniques, which ranged from simple woodcuts and potato prints, to more complex screenprints, stone lithographs and etchings. It includes a curatorial essay by Sue Cramer, Emma Nixon, and Trent Walter. Additional contributions by Stephen Bram, Lizzie Boon, Roger Butler, Claus Carstensen, Sally Foster, James Gatt, Erik Jensen, Rebecca Mayo, Rose Nolan, Mike Parr, Victoria Perin, Jacqueline Stojanović, Jason Smith, and Warren Taylor.

File under: John Nixon Sue Cramer Emma Nixon Trent Walter Stephen Bram Lizzie Boon Roger Butler Claus Carstensen Sally Foster James Gatt Erik Jensen Rebecca Mayo Rose Nolan Mike Parr Victoria Perin Jacqueline Stojanović Jason Smith Warren Taylor Geelong Art Gallery / Victoria Conceptual Art Posters / Prints Australian Art Art Painting Minimal Art

Witness To Her Art
Adrian Piper, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Mona Hatoum, Daniela Rossell, Eau de Cologne ...

2006, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 26 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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First edition of this very special, now very rare catalogue published in 2006 on the occasion of the major survey exhibition Witness To Her Art, featuring the work of Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and the seminal magazine Eau de Cologne, published by gallerist Monika Sprüth between 1985 and 1989. Profusely illustrated throughout with artworks by all artists, reproductions of important artist publications, installation views, and many works by other related artists, alongside texts by Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Monika Sprüth, Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson, Norton Batkin, Johanna Burton, Aruna D’Souza, Pamela Franks, Janet Kraynak, David Levi Strauss, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ann Reynolds, Hamza Walker, and many more.

Publisher's blurb:
"This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen—all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, "Witness to Her Art" presents works by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and "Eau de Cologne," a magazine published by gallerist Monika Sprüth. The artworks are accompanied by original writings by the artists, contemporaneous criticism and newly commissioned essays by Pamela Franks, Aruna D'Souza, Johanna Burton, David Levi Strauss, Hamza Walker and Cuauhtémoc Medina. The ambitious works presented and interpreted herein invite us to consider the impact of the feminist revolution across generations while rendering obsolete any stigma associated with shows or catalogues limited to women artists. Taking its lead from Conceptualism, feminism, and from its included artists, "Witness to Her Art" reaches for art history's capacity as a medium of world-making."

Highly recommended. Very Good copy with light edge wear/rounding to stiff overlay boards.

File under: Adrian Piper Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Monika Sprüth Adrian Piper Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Rhea Anastas Michael Brenson Norton Batkin Johanna Burton Pamela Franks Janet Kraynak David Levi Strauss Ann Reynolds Hamza Walker Aruna D'Souza Cuauhtémoc Medina Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Photography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Jenny Holzer
Private Property Created Crime

1984, English
Softcover, 62 pages, 21.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kunsthalle Basel / Basel

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Wonderful 1984 catalogue, Private Property Created Crime, surveying the work of American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950), published on the occasion of a major European exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel and Le Nouveau Musée.

"THIS IS A BOOK OF STREET WORK AND INSTALLATIONS; POSTERS, T-SHIRTS, PLAQUES, STICKERS AND ELECTRONIC SIGNS. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ARRANGED IN SERIES: TRUISMS, 1977–1983; ESSAYS, 1979–1983; LIVING, 1981–1983; AND SURVIVAL, 1983-1984. THE BOOK ACCOMPANIES EXHIBITIONS AT THE KUNSTHALLE, BASEL AND LE NOUVEAU MUSÉE, VILLEURBANNE."

Profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. Introduction by Jean-Christophe Ammann, plus biography and bibliography. All in English.

Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is an American conceptual artist best known for her text-based works, which are constructed from "truisms" such as "abuse of power comes as no surprise"and "protect me from what I want." By experimenting with the use of words visually displayed in public spaces, Holzer is able to stimulate public discussions about violence, sexuality, oppression, human rights, feminism, power, war, and death. Starting with street posters, Holzer's practice has come to incorporate LED screens that run with stock-ticker-like texts, painted signs, plaques, photographs, sound, video, and the Internet.

Until 1993, Holzer wrote her own texts, after which she began to appropriate texts by Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska and other champions of human rights, including Elfriede Jelinek, Fadhil Al-Azawi, Yehuda Amichai, and Mahmoud Darwish. Recent works include I Was in Baghdad Ochre Fade (2007), a series of oil on linen transcriptions of torture documents from the Iraq War; Redaction Paintings (2009), which were created using recently released classified memos with texts blacked out by censors; and an installation in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center. In 1990, she was the first woman to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, where she won the Golden Lion for the best artist.

Good—VG copy with cover wear.

File under: Jenny Holzer Jean-Christophe Ammann Kunsthalle Basel / Basel Sculpture / Installation Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Art

Piero Manzoni
General Catalogue by Germano Celant

1975, Italian / French
Hardcover (linen bound), 277 pages, 30 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nuova Prearo Editore / Milan

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the wonderful (in progress) catalogue raisonné of Piero Manzoni — General Catalogue — edited by Germano Celant and published by Nuova Prearo Editore, Milan, 1975. This heavy, richly illustrated book provided the first overview of Piero Manzoni’s oeuvre. Illustrated exclusively with black and white photographs, the book featured an extensive text by Germano Celant, divided into chapters, a selection of writings by the artist and the register of works “ordered chronologically by groups, determined by type” and the appendices with exhibitions and bibliography. It was later re-printed and expanded in 1989. Texts in Italian and French.

Piero Manzoni (1933—1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values". His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II. Italian artists such as Manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war Europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic, artistic, and cultural borders.

Very Good copy. Book is Near Fine in every way, yet missing dust jacket, therefore VG.

File under: Piero Manzoni Germano Celant Nuova Prearo Editore / Milan Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Arte Povera Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

Piero Manzoni : Writings on Art

2020, English
Flexicover, 265 pages, 22 x 16.5 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

$95.00 - Out of stock

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Featuring a luxurious faux-leather binding, Piero Manzoni: Writings on Art features 25 texts by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-63), spanning from 1956 to 1963, the year of the artist's premature death by heart attack. Writing during the Italian economic miracle of the '50s and '60s, Manzoni's essays and manifestos represent his response to the state of midcentury Italian art and art writing. Selected by art historian Gaspare Luigi Marcone, all writings have been either translated into English for the first time or newly translated. Each text is accompanied by extensive archival images and contextualized with editorial commentary. The book features a foreword by the Piero Manzoni Foundation's director, Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, and a newly commissioned essay by one of today's best-known art historians, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

File under: Piero Manzoni Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Gaspare Luigi Marcone Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Arte Povera Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Art Painting

Queen Street Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1, Issue 7, 8, 9
"Language & Structure in North America" issue

1975, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Queen Street Magazine / Toronto

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Queen Street Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1, Issue 7, 8, 9, a 'Multi-media Journal of the Arts' from Canada that covered the experimental and conceptual arts in Toronto's historic Queen Street West neighborhood, which grew into a vibrant arts district in the 1970s. Edited by Angelo Sgabellone, associate edited by Beth Learn, this issue of particular interest for Learn's Language & Structure in North America on Language Art to accompany the first, large, definitive survey of North American Language Art curated by Richard Kostelanetz in Toronto in 1975. This issue gathers many works by North American Language Artists including Bill Bissett, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Barry, Brion Gysin, Mario Diacono, Agnes Denes, Thomas Ockerse, Steve McCaffery, Claes Oldenburg, Ernest & Marion Robson, Garry Gilbert, Larry Miller, Richard Kostelanetz, Hans Jewinski, Joe Rosenblatt, Gerry Shikatani, and more. Plus Mary Janitch, Read '75: Language & Structure in North America, Chuck Stake Enterprizes and the Junk Mail Art Show, The State of Magazine Distribution In Canada, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Learn/Yeats Second Coming Band, Small Magazine Press Scene, and much more.

Good copy with wear.

File under: Bill Bissett Jackson Mac Low Robert Barry Brion Gysin Mario Diacono Agnes Denes Thomas Ockerse Steve McCaffery Claes Oldenburg Ernest & Marion Robson Garry Gilbert Larry Miller Richard Kostelanetz Hans Jewinski Joe Rosenblatt Gerry Shikatani Mary Janitch Beth Learn Queen Street Magazine / Toronto Periodicals Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Poetry Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay

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

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

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The incredible Broodthaers book that was never available. Exhibition History 1964 – 1975 and Selected Works 1957 – 1975 is the most comprehensive account of Broodthaers' truely radical history of exhibition-making and catalogue of artworks that was immediately removed from market release the moment it was printed and pre-listed. An incredibly important and detailed reference on the artist like no other, this almost 900 page volume remains catalogued as 'not yet printed' to this day, shelved indefinitely. We have one available that escaped embargo. Still sealed.

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

As New, still sealed.

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

Marcel Broodthaers
Industrial Poems. The Complete Catalogue of the Plaques 1968-1972

2021, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 23.5 x 28.5 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin WIELS / Brussels

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Marcel Broodthaers's work is characterized by a complex exploration of the relationship of text and image. This catalog raisonne, prepared by WIELS and developed in close collaboration with the Marcel Broodthaers Succession, is the first to include all of the Belgian conceptual artist's industrial poems created between 1968 and 1972. Borrowing from the aesthetics of industrially manufactured plastic signs, Broodthaers's multi-layered, often enigmatic pictorial poems testify to his interest in the entanglements of language, punctuation, and symbols. In blurring the boundaries between word and image, painting and object, new levels of meaning are made visible. The index is supplemented by a collection of Broodthaers's drawings, writings and "open letters" as well as scholarly contributions that position the poems as a crucial group of works within the artist's oeuvre.

Text by Manuel Borja-Villel

File under: Marcel Broodthaers Manuel Borja-Villel Hatje Cantz / Berlin WIELS / Brussels Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

Marcel Broodthaers
Objekte - Druckgraphik - Zeichnungen - Bücher

1992, German
Softcover, 68 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Ed. of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Kunstraum München / Münich Raum für Kunst / Hamburg

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First edition of this Broodthaers catalogue, published on the occasion of an exhibition of Broodthaers' "Objects, Printmaking, Drawings, Books" held in 1992 at Kunstraum München and Raum für Kunst, Hamburg. Heavily illustrated with works in black and white throughout (with extended captions/descriptions), portrait of Broodthaers with Magritte, and accompanying text by a Dorothea Zwirner. Texts in German.

As New copy.
Edition of 1000.

File under: Marcel Broodthaers Dorothea Zwirner Kunstraum München / Münich Raum für Kunst / Hamburg Art Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

KITSCH 1 + 2 (all volumes)

1970/1971, French
Softcover, 2 volumes, unpaginated, 28.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marie Concorde / Paris

$380.00 - Out of stock

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Both of the only volumes ever produced of this wonderful French avant-garde journal, published in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s. A visual manifesto against the prudishness of the times, KITSCH presented hundreds of illustrations of mostly erotic, fetish and fantastic/grotesque artwork by artists from all over the world, and spanning generations, with both issues wrapped in the most striking Tom Wesselmann covers. KITSCH 1 includes Toshio Saeki, Guido Crepax, Richard Linder, Robert Crumb, Guy Bourdin, Petr Herel, Hannes Jahn, Roman Cieślewicz, Ben Vautier, Christian Bour, Jacques Sternberg, Roland Topor, Jim, Allen Jones, Thomas Weir, alongside photo essays on upskirt polaroids, Satanik, Diabolik, fashion and more. KITSCH 2 includes Aslan, Roy Lichtenstein, Virgil Finlay, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Greg Irons, George Grosz, Egon Schiele, Mel Ramos, alongside photo essays on subjects such as "Pop Art", "Human Concern" and Paris' "Pigalle" district, further featuring work by H.C.Westermann, Paul Thek, Edward Keinholz, William Tunberg, Christian Schad, William Weegee, James Rosenquist, Frank Gallo, Tom Wesselmann, and many more.

Very good copies both, light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Guido Crepax Richard Linder Robert Crumb Guy Bourdin Petr Herel Hannes Jahn Roman Cieślewicz Ben Vautier Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Roland Topor Jim Allen Jones Thomas Weir Aslan Roy Lichtenstein Virgil Finlay Jim Osborne Ronald Lipking Greg Irons George Grosz Egon Schiele Mel Ramos H.C.Westermann Paul Thek Edward Keinholz William Tunberg Christian Schad William Weegee James Rosenquist Frank Gallo Tom Wesselmann Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Marie Concorde / Paris Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Photography Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction