World Food Books

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

$90.00 - Out of stock

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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

Rémy Zaugg
Dedans — Dehors, Dehors — Dedans

1972, German
Softcover, 54 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel

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Rare copy of Dedans - Dehors, Dehors - Dedans, published in 1972 by Kunstmuseum Basel on the occasion of a solo exhibition of Swiss conceptual artist Rémy Zaugg (1943—2005). Rémy Zaugg was one of the most radical Swiss artists of his time. He played an important role as both a critic and observer of contemporary culture, especially with regards to the perception of space and architecture. A lovely and detailed catalogue profusely illustrated with Zaugg's artworks spanning 1968—1972, including two fold-out spreads, largely a pictorial survey with a small exhibition note by Dieter Koepplin and chronology. Texts in German.

Good—Average copy with some cover wear, bumping, spine pinching, internally very good, light tanning.

File under: Rémy Zaugg Dieter Koepplin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Art

Supports/Surfaces

1993, Japanese / French
Softcover (w. french folds), 190 pages, 22 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo

$90.00 $70.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce and visually rich monograph on Supports/Surfaces, the radical painting movement that began in the South of France in the late-1960s, published in Japan on the occasion of a rare major exhibition that toured throughout 1993—1994. This definitive catalogue gives a generous overview of the many works of the artists of Supports/Surfaces from 1966—1974 through colour and black and white photographs. It also provides texts (in Japanese and French), interviews, historical photos of the group and their installations, work list, a chronology, a biography and many essays. One of the few major publications on the work of Supports/Surfaces. Comes with original 1993 illustrated exhibition flyer inserted.

Supports/Surfaces developed away from Paris, in the south of France, with the first major exhibition held in 1969 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In June 1969, during an exhibition at the Havre Museum entitled “La peinture en question”, Vincent Bioulès, Louis Cane, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, André Valensi, Bernard Pagès and Claude Viallat write in the catalog: “The subject of the painting is the painting itself and paintings on display refer only to themselves. They make no appeal to an “elsewhere” (the personality of the artist, his biography, history of art, for example). Early exhibtions took place in towns like Coaraze, Montpellier, Nimes and Nice in the mid-1960s. After the student revolts of 1968, the movement ratcheted up its activities, exploding in such exhibitions as “Supports/Surfaces,” which took place at ARC in Paris in September 1970. These shows occurred at or around the same time as those of other French artist groups like GRAV and BMPT (Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni). Like them, Supports/Surfaces questioned the role of painting as both an art object and a social one.

As its name suggests, Supports/Surfaces was interested in articulating what its artists felt were all too readily ignored aspects of painting: basic concepts like ‘support’ and ‘surface,’ for example, and the presence of painting as a product of individual labor. At the same time, these artists were very much interested in painting and its own peculiar history. Daniel Dezeuze points out that he was looking for a means of “revolting against the art world and the world in general without having to make anti-art.” (Raphael Rubinstein, Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism: 1990 – 2002.) In fact, those involved with Supports/Surfaces, as Rubinstein also notes, were some of the few French artists of the period to engage directly with American Painting from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field, albeit doing so within the context of their Maoist discourse.

Very Good copy with light wear/age/foxing. Comes with original 1993 illustrated exhibition flyer inserted.

File under: André Valensi Bernard Pagès Claude Viallat Daniel Dezeuze Jean-Pierre Pincemin Louis Cane Marc Devade Noël Dolla Patrick Saytour Supports/Surfaces Vincent Bioulès Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation SALE

Mladen Stilinović
Bijeli radovi / White Works

2012, English / Croatian
Softcover, 136 pages, 16.2 x 23.5 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Galerija Zuccato / Poreč

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Book published to accompany the exhibition "Bijeli radovi / White Works", at Galerija Zuccato, Poreč, in 2012, by Croatian conceptual artist Mladen Stilinović. Heavily illustrated throughout with his works and installations revolving around the history of his white works (absence, silence...), this catalogue also features texts by Branka Stipančić (including an interview with Stilinović), Mladenka Solman, József Mélyi, and a biography, and bibliography.

Published in an edition of 600 copies.

Mladen Stilinović (April 10, 1947 - July 18, 2016) was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

File under: Mladen Stilinovic Branka Stipančić József Mélyi Mladenka Solman Galerija Zuccato / Poreč Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Camera Obscura No. 28 — A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory
"Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science"

1992, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana

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January 1992 issue of Camera Obscura (No. 28), the Journal of Feminism and Film Theory published by Indiana University Press. This issue with the theme of "Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science", with special issue editors Paula A. Treichler and Lisa Cartwright.

Edited by Elisabeth Lyon, Constance Penley, Lynn Spigel, Sharon Willis, with advisory editors Bertrand Augst, Elizabeth Cowie, Mary Ann Doane, Laura Mulvey, Linda Orr, Susan Suleiman, and managing editor Gary Laderman.

camera obscura

A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory/28

Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science

Special Issue Editors: Paula A. Treichler and Lisa Cartwright

5 Introduction by Paula A. Treichler and Lisa Cartwright

Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender by Paula A. Treichler; Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory by Katie King; Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis by Jamie Feldman; WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism and the Making of HIV TV by Alexandra Juhasz; WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism in AIDS; Education by Juanita Mohammed; The Politics of Breast Cancer by Alisa Solomon; Shooting the Mother: Fetal Photography and the Politics of Disappearance by Carol Stabile; On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body by Anne Balsamo; Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape by Giuliana Bruno; Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Félix-Louis Regnault by Fatimah Tobing Rony; plus reviews and much more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Félix-Louis Regnault Elisabeth Lyon Constance Penley Lynn Spigel Sharon Willis Bertrand Augst Elizabeth Cowie Mary Ann Doane Laura Mulvey Linda Orr Susan Suleiman Gary Laderman Paula A. Treichler Lisa Cartwright Katie King Jamie Feldman Alexandra Juhasz Juanita Mohammed Alisa Solomon Anne Balsamo Giuliana Bruno Fatimah Tobing Rony Indiana University Press / Indiana Feminism Film / Video Theory / Essay Philosophy Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Conceptual Art

member: Pope.L, 1978–2001

2024, English
Hardcover, 144 pages, 26.1 x 21 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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The first-in depth publication to critically investigate the impact of Pope.L’s early performances on his career. With contributions by Stuart Comer, C. Carr, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Adrienne Edwards, Darby English, Malik Gaines, Danielle A. Jackson, Adrian Heathfield, EJ Hill, Thomas J. Lax, Andre Lepecki, Yvonne Rainer, Martine Syms, Martha Wilson.

Pope.L (b. 1955) is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums – including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theatre and video – utilizes abjection, humour, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Spanning works made primarily from 1978 to 2001, member: Pope.L, 1978-2001 features a combination of videos, photographs, sculptural elements, ephemera and live actions. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, presents a detailed study of thirteen early works that helped define Pope.L’s career. It features essays by curators, artists, filmmakers and art historians, plus an intervieww and artistic interventions by the artist. These components are supplemented by thirteen detailed plate entries that highlight key details of each work. The entries engage performances that are rooted in experimental theatre such as Egg Eating Contest (1990) and Aunt Jenny Chronicles (1991) as well as street interventions such as Thunderbird Immolation a.k.a. Meditation Square Piece (1978), ATM Piece (1996), and The Great White Way: 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street (2001-2009), among others. Together these works highlight the role of that performance has played within a seditious, emphatically interdisciplinary career that has established Pope.L as an influential force in the history of contemporary art.

File under: William Pope.L Pope.L Stuart Comer C. Carr Valerie Cassel Oliver Adrienne Edwards Darby English Malik Gaines Danielle A. Jackson Adrian Heathfield EJ Hill Thomas J. Lax Andre Lepecki Yvonne Rainer Martine Syms Martha Wilson MoMA / New York Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Conceptual Art Drawing Painting

Mladen Stilinović
Re-print #3: I Have No Time (1983 [1979])

2016, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 15 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by 3-Ply / Victoria

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“Despite Mladen’s instruction to read this book when I have no time, when I am very busy, I first ‘properly’ read I have no time when I had a lot of time, while lying in bed in a hospital in the early 1990s. It was then that I began to understand that this small book was more than some small joke. I have no time, I have no time, I have no time… is for me a kind of mantra, to stop and think about what and why I am doing something, anything…Paradoxically the pursuit of laziness requires an active engagement in stealing back time. That activity becomes harder and harder when time seems to accelerate and is consumed by an endless quota of daily tasks (even supposedly art associated) and so this little book, first hand-written in 1978, becomes more and more important (to read properly) through time, especially when you are very busy…”—Kerrie Poliness, Re-print #3: I Have No Time (1983 [1979])

The Re-print project is a curated series that reintroduces out-of-print artist publications to a contemporary audience. The series also exploits the character of the reprints to insert interventions in public archives: introducing material that was never legally deposited, or reinserting previously archived publications in the form of mediated replications, thereby indexing the originals.

The book selected for Re-print #3 is Nemam vremena (1979) [I Have No Time (1979)] (1983) by Mladen Stilinović. The 1983 version was offset printed by Edition Dacic, Tubingen, in an edition of 150 copies. The specific book scanned for this Re-print was loaned from the collection of artist John Nixon.

Nemam vremena (1979) [I Have No Time (1979)] was the first printed version of ‘I Have No Time’, and was an Artist’s Edition, 70 copies. It was offset printed in Zagreb, seven sheets, softcover, stapled, 17.5 x 13.5 cm.

Nemam vremena (1978) [I Have No Time (1978)] was the original version of ‘I Have No Time’. It was handwritten by Mladen Stilinović in pencil on paper, nine sheets (four written on), cardboard covers, stapled, 17 x 24 cm.

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

File under: Mladen Stilinovic Kerrie Poliness 3-Ply / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Concrete Poetry

Joseph Beuys
"Sonnenschlitten" (1984)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

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Joseph Beuys "Sonnenschlitten" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

As New.

File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Posters / Prints

Joseph Beuys
"La rivoluzione siamo Noi" (1972)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

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Joseph Beuys "We Are The Revolution" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

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File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater

Mladen Stilinović
My Sweet Little Lamb

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

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

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

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

As New.

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