World Food Books

How to Write a Resumé Volume II: Making a Good First Impression
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

1989/1991, English
Softcover (spiral bound, hand collaged acetate cover), 212 pages, 22 x 18.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Apathy Press / Baltimore

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Exceptionally rare copy of How to Write a Resumé Volume II: Making a Good First Impression by Baltimore guerrilla cultist conceptualist tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE aka Michael Tolson aka Tim Ore aka Monty Cantsin aka tENT, published by poet Tom DiVenti's Apathy Press around 1989. Self-described as a mad scientist/d composer/sound thinker/thought collector, Tolson's work has involved body art, installation, film and video, performances, artist books, mail art, and graffiti. He is also a member of the Church of the Sub-genius and co-publisher of Widemouth Tapes with the Merzaum (Schwitters' "Merz" / Kruchenykh's "zaum") Collective. With a first edition of little more than 100 copies, this second expanded edition of 200 copies was hand-copied by the anarcho dadaist, neoist author himself in 1991 whilst working at Kinkos in Baltimore, featuring hand-collaged acetate covers and an additional 72 pages of content, it is an impressive document where even language itself is under interrogation. How to Write a Resumé Volume II: Making a Good First Impression (naturally there was no Volume 1) functions as a sort of evidence file of Tolson's life/agit-career as a self-made objet d'art. The incidents, subversive actions, broadcasts, exhibitions, rituals, arrests and general provocation; collating documentation, texts, reflections and press clippings of legitimate news coverage of his various activities throughout the 1980's, from the subtle to the catastrophic, the petty to the galvanising — drug trips, urban rituals, fights at parties, body modification, pranks, art strikes. Includes his guerrilla art action at the upmarket Luskin's department store, confronting customers by broadcasting his films across the audio/visual department, and "Three Year Emergency of Fire & Grim" — an illustrated journal from the "working class barracks" of South Baltimore in the early 1980's, depicting the rising violent tensions and mutual vulnerability of a progressively deteriorating neighbourhood poisoned by surrounding gentrification and inhabited by squatters and drunks.

Safe to say there is no account like it because there is no other life like it, yet it simultaneously embodies a certain tragicomedy provocateur death-drive that permeated the underground arts (or anti-arts) in the 1980's—1990's, that can seldom be found in culture today. As one reviewer commented, How to Write a Resumé Volume II: Making a Good First Impression could have made an entire issue of RE/SEARCH at that time.

Very Good with general light wear/tanning to extremities.

File under: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE Michael Tolson Michael Tolson Apathy Press / Baltimore Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Art Performance / Dance / Theater Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Anarchism Film / Video Protest / Revolt

Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
by Martin Jay

1993, English
Softcover, 632 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First 1994 edition.

Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance.

Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty.

His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.

Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Force Fields (1992), Marxism and Totality (California, 1984), Adorno (1984), and The Dialectical Imagination (1973).

Good copy due to contact laminating, otherwise VG.

File under: Martin Jay University of California Press / Berkley Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Painting Philosophy Photography Film / Video

Modern Art in the Common Culture
by Thomas Crow

1996, English
Softcover, 274 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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First 1996 edition, second print. In this illuminating book, a prominent art historian explores the links between avant-garde art and modern mass culture, showing that the connections between the two have always been strong, and even necessary to both. The author recounts vivid episodes involving Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, and many others, arriving at fresh and original insights into modern art and its place in late twentieth-century culture.

Thomas E. Crow is an American art historian and art critic who is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. Since 2007, Crow has served as the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Thomas Crow Yale University Press / New Haven Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

John Nixon
Monochrome

1992, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 10 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Store 5 / Melbourne

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John Nixon catalogue for an exhibition at Store 5, Melbourne, 1992. Includes a black monochrome, selection of Nixon's texts, along with texts on Nixon by László Réber and John Barlycorn.

John Nixon (1949-2020) was a seminal ﬁgure in contemporary Australian abstraction. Since 1968 his work has been dedicated to the ongoing experimentation, analysis and development of radical modernism, minimalism, the monochrome, constructivism, non-objective art and the readymade – key reference points in his work. Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW), which began in 1978, forms the basis of Nixon’s rigorous and long-standing intellectual investigation into the making of art, over time expanding to encompass not only painting, but collage, photography, video, dance and experimental music performance.

As New.

File under: John Nixon Store 5 / Melbourne Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Conceptual Art

5/5. (Richard Dunn, John Lethbridge, Mike Parr, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth)
by René Block

1985, English / German
Softcover, 96 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin

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Excellent catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition of Five Australian artists exhibiting at Daadgalerie, Berlin, Sep 2—Oct 6, 1985, organised by René Block with Mike Parr. Extensive and heavily illustrated chapters on each artist, Richard Dunn, John Lethbridge, Mike Parr, Peter Tyndall, and Ken Unsworth, alongside illustrated texts by curators René Block and Anthony Bond, and independent artist texts by George Alexander, Bernice Murphy, John Barbour, and more, in both English and German. Installation photographs and all works in colour and b/w, plus biographies, and much more. Catalogue by René Block.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Richard Dunn John Lethbridge Mike Parr Peter Tyndall Ken Unsworth John Barbour René Block George Alexander Bernice Murphy John Barbour Daadgalerie / Berlin Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art

The Fluxus Newspaper

2024, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 26.7 x 35.6 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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The Fluxus Newspaper collects all eleven newspapers published by the Fluxus art collective between January 1964 and March 1979. The newspapers were edited by an ever-changing team of artists known as the Fluxus Editorial Council for Fluxus and every issue, except the last two, was designed by Fluxus founder George Maciunas.

Although published irregularly, the newspapers were used to promote Fluxus events and publications, especially the group’s famous multiples and Fluxkits, with advertising materials, order forms, and pricelists interspersed throughout. More than just a space for promotion and information, the Fluxus newspapers featured the work of over sixty artists as well as appropriated newspaper headlines, advertisements, articles, and comic strips that are indicative of the group’s anti-art sensibility and characteristic humour.

The Fluxus Newspaper is exemplative of the 'do-it-yourself' creative attitude characteristic of Fluxus – an approach that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, anti-commercial, humorous, and open to anyone. The periodical is also an early example of the artist newspaper, a medium which grew out of the underground press movement and flourished in the late 60s and 70s as artists began to seek new mediums for presenting and distributing their work.

Artists featured in The Fluxus Newspaper include: Ay-O, Carol Bergé, Joseph Beuys, Elaine Bloedow, George Brecht, Christo, Philip Corner, Walter De Maria, Willem de Ridder, Bern Erismann, Nye Ffarrabas [participating as Bici Forbes], Robert Filliou, Henry Flynt, Ken Friedman, Carolyn Krumm, Heinz Gappmayr, Eugen Gomringer, Raymond Hains, Dick Higgins, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Alice Hutchins, Tatsu Izumi, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Allan Kaprow, Milan Knížak, Alison Knowles, Arthur Köpcke, Takehisa Kosugi, Ruth Krauss, Philip Krumm, György Ligeti, George Maciunas, Angus MacLise, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Miller, Peter Moore, Hans Nordenström, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, James Riddle, Dieter Roth, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Tomas Schmit, Daniel Spoerri, Christer Strömholm, Yasunao Tone, Stan VanDerBeek, Ben Vautier, Jacques Villeglé, Wolf Vostell, Yoshimasa Wada, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, William S. Wilson, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela.

80 pages, 26.7 x 35.6cm, softcover, Primary Information (New York).

File under: George Maciunas Christer Strömholm Milan Knížák Jacques Villeglé Ay-O Carol Bergé Joseph Beuys Elaine Bloedow George Brecht Christo Philip Corner Walter De Maria Willem de Ridder Bern Erismann Nye Ffarrabas [participating as Bici Forbes] Robert Filliou Henry Flynt Ken Friedman Carolyn Krumm Heinz Gappmayr Eugen Gomringer Raymond Hains Dick Higgins Geoffrey Hendricks Jon Hendricks Alice Hutchins Tatsu Izumi Ray Johnson Joe Jones Allan Kaprow Arthur Køpcke György Ligeti Alison Knowles Angus MacLise Jackson Mac Low Larry Miller Peter Moore Hans Nordenström Yoko Ono Nam June Paik Benjamin Patterson James Riddle Dieter Roth Takako Saito Mieko Shiomi Tomas Schmit Daniel Spoerri Yasunao Tone Stan VanDerBeek Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Yoshimasa Wada Robert Watts Emmett Williams William S. Wilson La Monte Young Marian Zazeela Primary Information / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Art Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art

Recent Australian Art

1973, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 18.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the major exhibition "Recent Australian Art" held at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 October-18 November 1973, featuring new work (created between 1970-1973) by close to 50 Australian artists, including many of 'The Field' artists. Each exhibited artist is profiled with a photographic portrait, potted history and blck and white reproductions of their work. Includes a foreword by Peter Laverty, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and introduction by Frances McCarthy and Daniel Thomas.

Artists: Robert Hunter, Mel Ramsden, Ian Burn, Dick Watkins, Robert Rooney, Aleks Danko, Ewa Pachuka, Ti Parks, John Firth-Smith, Robert Jacks, Tim Johnson, Robert Hunter, Victor K, Donald Laycock, Mike Parr, Peter Kennedy, Paul Partos, Nigel Lendon, Rollin Schlicht, Alberr Shomaly, Guy Frank Stuart, William Anderson, David Aspden, Jonas Balsaitis, Peter Booth, Robert Boynes, Mike Brown, Tim Burns, Gunter Christmann, William Delafield Cook, John Davis, Bill Clements, Tony Coleing, Ross Grounds, Dale Hickey, Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Tony Kirkman, Richard Larter, Donald Laycock, Tony McGillick, Alan Oldfield, John Peart, Peter Powditch, Ron Robert-Swann, Rollin Schlicht, Alberr Shomaly, Guy Stuart, Michael Taylor, Imants Tillers, Tony Tuckson.

Very Good copy, light cover wear and tanning.

File under: Robert Hunter Mel Ramsden Ian Burn Dick Watkins Robert Rooney Aleks Danko Tony McGillick John Firth-Smith Robert Jacks Tim Johnson Victor K Donald Laycock Mike Parr Peter Kennedy Paul Partos Rollin Schlicht Alberr Shomaly Guy Frank Stuart Ti Parks Nigel Lendon William Anderson David Aspden Jonas Balsaitis Peter Booth Robert Boynes Mike Brown Tim Burns Gunter Christmann William Delafield Cook John Davis Bill Clements Tony Coleing Ross Grounds Dale Hickey Ian Howard Noel Hutchison Tony Kirkman Richard Larter Alan Oldfield John Peart Peter Powditch Ron Robert-Swann Guy Stuart Michael Taylor Imants Tillers Tony Tuckson Ewa Pachucka Peter Laverty Frances McCarthy Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Australian Art Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Textiles Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display

2022, English
Flexcover (clothbound), 248 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Zig Zag and Many Ribbons… at MAMC Saint-Etienne in 2022—2023, this reference monograph revisits the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s.

Includes a ribbon drawn by the artist as an inserted bookmark. Edited by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford. Text by Marie Canet. Designed by Zak Kyes.

Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, hundreds of exhibitions have featured the interiors series of this international artist.

Marie Canet is a French art critic, independent curator and professor of aesthetics at the Villa Arson (Nice).

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Anna Clifford Marie Canet Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Textiles Art

Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image)

1970, German / French
Softcover, 118 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich

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Rare, important exhibition catalogue designed by Walter Diethelm, published on the occasion of the exceptional exhibition Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image), held at the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich, July 11—August 23, 1970. Preface by Felix Andreas Baumann. "The point is to present this literature, which is located between writing and images, text and graphics and around the tertium comparationis of typography, to an audience that is probably not too familiar with the techniques and variants of “concrete literature”—from the preface. An incredible and varied anthology of the experimental, poetic, graphic interplay of text and image, profusely illustrated in b/w, accompanied by texts in German and French by Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Oyvind Fahlström, El Lissitzky, André Breton, Eugen Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Carlfriedrich Claus, Seiichi Niikuni, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Jiri Kolár, and Bob Cobbing.

Artists included: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Holz, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, Carlo Carrà, Lacerba, Ardengo Soffici, Hugo Ball, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Amédée Ozenfant, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, Fernand Léger, Richard Hülsenbeck, Vincente Huidobro, Francis Picabia, Jean Pougny, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Bruno Adler, Jean Epstein, Theo Van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Jozef Peeters, Sonja Delaunay-Terk, Iliazd, Friedrich Kiesler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Käthe Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Henryk Berlewi, Farkas Molnár, Zenit, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, and Georges Hugnet.

Very Good ex-NGV library copy, well preserved with only light wear and "National Gallery of Victoria" light stamp to block edge and lower back-cover. No internal stamping/marking.

File under: Carlo Carrà F.T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Arno Holz Christian Morgenstern Lacerba Ardengo Soffici Hugo Ball Georges Braque Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Amédée Ozenfant Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Fernand Léger Richard Hülsenbeck Vincente Huidobro Francis Picabia Jean Pougny Kurt Schwitters Paul Klee Bruno Adler Jean Epstein Theo Van Doesburg El Lissitzky Jozef Peeters Sonja Delaunay-Terk Iliazd Friedrich Kiesler Man Ray László Moholy-Nagy Käthe Steinitz Theo van Doesburg Hans Arp Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Henryk Berlewi Farkas Molnár Zenit Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann Walter Gropius John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Le Corbusier Georges Hugnet Walter Diethelm Jiří Kolář Öyvind Fahlström Stéphane Mallarmé F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti André Breton Haroldo de Campos Jan Hamilton Finlay Pierre Garnier Max Bense Reinhard Döhl Carlfriedrich Claus Seiichi Niikuni Henri Chopin Franz Mon Bob Cobbing Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Eugen Gomringer Felix Andreas Baumann Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich Group Shows / Collections Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Dada Fluxus Art Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Bauhaus

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
Edited by Emmett Williams

1967, English
Hardcover, 342 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf

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Rare first 1967 European hardcover edition of An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, published by the legendary edition hansjörg meyer. The book's editor, Emmett Williams, "as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance." An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry, published subsequently by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967 in America. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany–through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term “concrete” from the art of his mentor, Max Bill–and in Brazil, through the Noigandres group, which included the de Campos brothers and Decio Pignatari. Over the course of the 1960s it exploded across Europe, America and Japan, as other protagonists of the movement emerged, such as Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström, Ernst Jandl, bpNichol, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin and Kitasono Katue. By the late 1960s, poet Jonathan Williams could proclaim: “If there is such a thing as a worldwide movement in the art of poetry, Concrete is it.” The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book’s editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume–long out of print–the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.

Writers and artists included: Friedrich Achleitner, Alain Arias-Misson, H. C. Artmann, Ronaldo Azeredo, Stephen Bann, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Henri Chopin, Carl Friedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Paul de Vree, Reinhard Döhl, Torsten Ekbom, Öyvind Fahlström, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Larry Freifeld, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse and Pierre Garnier, Matthias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Ludwig Gosewitz, Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, José Lino Grünewald, Brion Gysin, Al Hansen, Václav Havel, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Åke Hodell, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Hiro Kamimura, Kitasono Katue, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjörg Mayer, Cavan McCarthy, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, bp Nichol, Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Yuksel Pazarkaya, Décio Pignatari, Vlademir Dias Pino, Luiz Angelo Pinto, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, John J. Sharkey, Edward Lucie Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Daniel Spoerri, Vagn Steen, Andre Thomkins, Enrique Uribe Valdivielso, Franz Van Der Linde, Franco Verdi, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Pedro Xisto and Fujitomi Yasuo.

"Emmett Williams, as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance. However it is far too soon to regard any anthology of Concrete Poetry as being definitive since the movement is extremely active and major new works have yet to appear in this most interesting of current poetry movements." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white.

Very Good copy with some light edge wear to thick covers, general light age/tanning.

File under: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Jiri Kolar Ferdinand Kriwet Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo André Thomkins André Thomkins Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Brion Gysin Al Hansen Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Andre Thomkins Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Jiří Kolář Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Ferdinand Kriwet edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Minimal Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Fluxus

Formalism and Historicity : Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

2015, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 592 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$89.00 - Out of stock

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Essays spanning three decades by one of the most rigorous art thinkers of our time grapple with formal and historical paradigms in twentieth century art.

These influential essays by the noted critic and art historian Benjamin Buchloh have had a significant impact on the theory and practice of art history. Written over the course of three decades and now collected in one volume, they trace a history of crucial artistic transitions, iterations, and paradigmatic shifts in the twentieth century, considering both the evolution and emergence of artistic forms and the specific historical moment in which they occurred.

Buchloh's subject matter ranges through various moments in the history of twentieth-century American and European art, from the moment of the retour à l'ordre of 1915 to developments in the Soviet Union in the 1920s to the beginnings of Conceptual art in the late 1960s to the appropriation artists of the 1980s. He discusses conflicts resulting from historical repetitions (such as the monochrome and collage/montage aesthetics in the 1910s, 1950s, and 1980s), the emergence of crucial neo-avantgarde typologies, and the resuscitation of obsolete genres (including the portrait and landscape, revived by 1980s photography). Although these essays are less monographic than those in Buchloh's earlier collection, Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry, two essays in this volume are devoted to Marcel Broodthaers, whose work remains central to Buchloh's theoretical concerns. Engaging with both formal and historical paradigms, Buchloh situates himself productively between the force fields of formal theory and historical narrative, embracing the discrepancies and contradictions between them and within individual artistic trajectories.

Contents
Formalism and Historicity (1977) • Marcel Broodthaers: Allegories of the Avant-Garde (1980) • Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression: Notes on the Return of Representation in European Painting (1981) • Allegorical Procedures: Appropriations and Montage in Contemporary Art (1982) • The Museum Fictions of Marcel Broodthaers (1983) • From Faktura to Factography (1984) • Readymade, Objet Trouvé, Idée Reçue (1985) • The Primary Colors for the Second Time: A Paradigm Repetition of the Neo-Avantgarde (1986) • Cold War Constructivism (1986) • Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions (1989) • Residual Resemblance: Three Notes on the Ends of Portraiture (1994) • Sculpture: Publicity and the Poverty of Experience (1996)

File under: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Bernadette Mayer
Memory

2020, English
Hardcover, 368 pages, 17.8 x 24.8 cm
Published by Siglio Press / Los Angeles

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In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet who is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of her generation. Presaging Mayer’s durational and constraint-based diaristic works of poetry, it also evinces her extraordinary—and unheralded—contribution to conceptual art.

Mayer has called Memory “an emotional science project,” but it is far from confessional. Rather, this boldly experimental record follows the poet’s eye as she traverses early morning into night, as quotidian minutiae metamorphose into the lyrical, as her stream of consciousness becomes incantatory. The space of memory in Mayer’s work is hyper-precise but also evanescent and expansive. In both text and image, Mayer constructs the mercurial, fleeting consciousness of the present moment from which memory is—as she says—“always there, to be entered, like the world of dreams or an ongoing TV show.”

This publication brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible. Originally exhibited in 1972 by pioneering gallerist Holly Solomon, it was not shown again in its entirety until 2016. The text was published without the photographs in 1975 and has been long out of print.

ABOUT BERNADETTE MAYER

Bernadette Mayer (b. 1945, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over thirty books including the acclaimed Midwinter Day (1982), a book-length poem written during a single day in Lenox, Massachusetts, as well as the The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), and most recently Works and Days (2016) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Associated with the New York School as well as the Language poets, Mayer has also been an influential teacher and editor. In the art world, she is best known for her collaboration with Vito Acconci as editors of the influential mimeographed magazine 0 TO 9.

File under: Bernadette Mayer Bernadette Mayer Siglio Press / Los Angeles Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Photography Art SALE

Art & Project : A History

2023, English / Dutch
Softcover, 512 pages, 21 × 29.7 cm
Published by Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam

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A comprehensive volume on the influential Dutch gallery that united American and European conceptualism For more than 33 years, the Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968-2001) played a pivotal role in the development of contemporary art within the Netherlands and beyond. Founders Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) and Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) presented a pioneering program of work by both national and international artists, including Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Charlotte Posenenske, Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner and Sol LeWitt, among many others. The cofounders published a total of 156 bulletins to draw attention to their exhibitions, and the bulletins quickly evolved into an experimental medium—from carriers of conceptual artists' ideas to conceptual artworks themselves.

Art & Project: A History examines the gallery's exhibitions, bulletins, social networks and international legacy. Replete with extensive research and previously unpublished visual material, this massive book provides an indispensable overview of the history of conceptual art in the Netherlands.

Text by Jip Hinten, Isabelle Bisseling, Ton Geerts, Regine Ehleither.

Already out-of-print at source.

File under: Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Ian Wilson Bas Jan Ader Yutaka Matsuzawa Jan Dibbets Gilbert & George Richard Long Ger van Elk Charlotte Posenenske Lawrence Weiner Stanley Brouwn Sol LeWitt Jip Hinten Isabelle Bisseling Ton Geerts Regine Ehleither Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Conceptual Art Photography Art Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Painting Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Theory / Essay

Beuys + Palermo

2021, Japanese / English
Hardcover (with obi), 368 pages, 20 x 30 cm
Published by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful hardcover catalogue published in Japan to the exhibition Beuys + Palermo touring three venues across Japan in 2021.

Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo were from different generations, but both experienced WWII and the postwar reconstruction, as teacher and pupil. One of the most important artists since World War II, Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) asserted that true capital lies in the creativity of human beings, and viewing the whole of society as sculpture, set out to change it. Beuys is also known for his role in nurturing numerous artists in his capacity as an educator. One such pupil was Blinky Palermo (1943–1977). The modest abstract works that form the legacy of this painter active for just a short few years from the mid-1960s up to his early demise, were an attempt to quietly overturn our perceptions, and social systems, via the visceral experience of color and form, all the while reconstructing the compositional elements of painting. The works of these two superficially contrasting German artists were alike in that both Beuys and Palermo endeavored to restore art to the status of a raw, live endeavor, Beuys indeed later acknowledging his former student to be the artist closest to himself. Composed primarily of works from the 1960s and ‘70s, documentation from the period and detailed texts, “Beuys + Palermo” explores the features of each of these two artists, while simultaneously searching for the latent power of their praxis in their involvement and overlap with each other.

File under: Joseph Beuys Blinky Palermo Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi Art Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Arte Povera Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Carl Andre
Sculptor 1996

1996, English / German
Softcover, 288 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Oktagon Verlag / Stuttgart

$220.00 $100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of one of the most sought after of Andre books, this large, heavily illustrated exhibition catalogue was published in conjunction with major exhibition conceived by Carl Andre with curator Eva Meyer-Hermann and held in Germany at Krefeld at Home, Wolfsburg at Large in 1996. The book forms an extensive exhibition chronology and detailed catalogue raisonné of works (including texts/notations and specs to accompany each work - illustrated in both colour and b/w throughout), alongside essays by Eva Meyer-Hermann and Paul Sutinen, as well as an interview with the artist conducted by Phyllis Tuchman, and a letter from Hollis Frampton to Enno Develing.
All texts in both German and English.

Carl Andre (b. 1935) is an American Minimal sculptor and poet associated with Minimalism. Andre is known for abstract work made of repetitive blocks, bricks, and metal plates arranged directly on the floor. Like other Minimalists of his generation, Andre constructed his works out of industrial materials that called attention to the inherent physical structure of the piece and to the architecture of the surrounding space. Eschewing metaphor and symbolism, Andre’s work operates as a set of purely physical and perceptual concerns. Moving to New York in 1957, he became associated with friend Frank Stella and worked in Stella’s studio while developing his own drawings and sculpture. Stella’s abstract paintings of that period were an important influence on Andre’s developing aesthetic, as was the work of modern sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. A number of experiences—including four years of work in railyards in the early 1960s and a trip to the prehistoric archaeological site of Stonehenge in England—solidified Andre’s determination to work with modular units, from wood to metals. Placing square metal tiles onto larger squares, upon which he invited viewers to walk, challenged the museum audience, who were more accustomed to keeping their distance from artworks and to observing sculptures on pedestals.

First edition, very scarce. Very Good copy, clean and tight throughout, only light corner bumping to bottom and tanning to spine, otherwise a crisp copy.

File under: Carl Andre Carl Andre Eva Meyer-Hermann Phyllis Tuchman Paul Sutinen Hollis Frampton Enno Develing Oktagon Verlag / Stuttgart Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation SALE

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

1974, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 21 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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Environments and Happenings by painter and poet Adrian Henri, published by Thames & Hudson in 1974, forms one of the first mainstream book surveys to trace the phenomenon of environmental/performative/total living artworks that became prevalent in the 1960s/70s. This historical study is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many international works from Fluxus to Zero to Dolle Mina to Nouveau Réalisme to Provo to Gutai to The Situationists and much more. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Clarence Schmidt, Ray Johnson, Öyvind Fahlström, Paul Thek, Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Hans Haacke, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Guerllia Art Action Group, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Peter Kuttner, Jackson Pollock, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Situationist International, Ferdinand Kriwet, Klaus Rinke, Duane Hanson, A-Yo, Meret Oppenheim, Space Structure Workshop, Ferdinand Cheval, Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), Robert Smithson, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan Wewerka, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Vladimir Tatlin, Provo, Barry Flanagan, Andy Warhol, Meredith Monk, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Ed Keinholz, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Gilardi, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, James Rosenquist, Red Grooms, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Eduardo Paolozzi, and many many more. Includes reproductions of performance scripts, partial chronology, etc.

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

File under: Guerilla Art Action Group Joseph Beuys Clarence Schmidt Ray Johnson Öyvind Fahlström Paul Thek Yves Klein Hans Haacke Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Guerllia Art Action Group Daniel Spoerri Wolf Vostell Gustav Metzger Peter Kuttner Jackson Pollock Alison Knowles Dick Higgins Robert Morris Situationist International Ferdinand Kriwet Klaus Rinke Duane Hanson A-Yo Meret Oppenheim Space Structure Workshop Ferdinand Cheval Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) Robert Smithson Jeff Nuttall Stefan Wewerka Christo Dennis Oppenheim Vladimir Tatlin Provo Barry Flanagan Andy Warhol Meredith Monk Atsuko Tanaka Kazuo Shiraga Ed Keinholz Yayoi Kusama Piero Gilardi Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely Claes Oldenburg Les Levine James Rosenquist Red Grooms Tom Wesselmann George Segal Eduardo Paolozzi Allan Kaprow Adrian Henri Thames and Hudson / London Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Dada Counterculture Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music

Mind over Matter: Concept and Object

1991, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 25 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / New York

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Great catalogue published in 1991 on the occasion of the exhibition Mind over Matter: Concept and Object, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, October 3, 1990 - January 6, 1991. Curated by Richard Armstrong the exhibition showcased the work of Ashley Bickerton, Ronald Jones, Nayland Blake, Liz Larner, Tishan Hsu, and Annette Lemieux. These young artists use objects and materials to create idea-oriented painting and sculpture. Representatives of a third generation of conceptual artists, they have turned from the self-conscious absorption of formalist art, addressing instead social as well as aesthetic issues. This articulate generation, conversant with art historical precedents, explores larger fields of knowledge, in a conscious rejection of Modernism and post-Modernism.

Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with extensive sections devoted to each artist, including interviews and statements, alongside curator's essay and a full list of exhibited works.

Good copy with some wear to cover and spine. Very Good throughout interior.

File under: Ashley Bickerton Ronald Jones Nayland Blake Liz Larner Tishan Hsu Annette Lemieux Richard Armstrong Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Art

1945—1985 : Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Edited by Dominik Bartmann

1985, German
Softcover, 736 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nationalgalerie / Berlin

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Enormous 700+ page volume about "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945—1985", published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 27, 1985—January 21, 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour with many works by Vostell, Baselitz, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Palermo, Klapheck, Darboven, Schultze, Uecker, Horn, Lüpertz, Haacke, Ruthenbeck, Antes, the Bechers, Rinke, Gerz, Erhard Walther, Penck, Knowles, Higgins, June Paik, Maciunas, Christiansen, Filliou, Brecht, Kriwet, Roth, Ulrichs, and many more, accompanied by texts in German, bibliography and index.

Good copy, some rubbing to the cover boards, light wear, bumping with age/size.

File under: Wolf Vostell A.R. Penck Joseph Beuys Rainer Ruthenbeck Sigmar Polke Horst Antes Robert Filliou Hanne Darboven Ferdinand Kriwet Nam June Paik Alison Knowles Blinky Palermo George Brecht George Maciunas Dick Higgins Gerhard Richter Konrad Klapheck Rebecca Horn Hans Haacke Bernhard Schultze Bernhard & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla and Bernd Becher Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Timm Ulrichs Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Henning Christiansen Franz Erhard Walther Jochen Gerz Klaus Rinke Günter Uecker Günther Uecker Gunther Uecker Vostell Baselitz Beuys Polke Richter Palermo Klapheck Schultze Uecker Horn Lüpertz Darbhoven Haacke Ruthenbeck Antes the Bechers Rinke Gerz Erhard Walther Penck Knowles Higgins June Paik Maciunas Christiansen Filliou Brecht Kriwet Roth Ulruchs Dominik Bartmann Nationalgalerie / Berlin Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drawing Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Curatorial Fluxus Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Photography Theory / Essay

Genpei Akasegawa
1985-1990 : From the Perspective of Genpei Akasegawa

2023, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 20.5 x 20.5 cm
Published by Ribonsha / Japan

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Photo book of works by Japanese avant-garde artist and writer, Genpei Akasegawa (1937—2014), refreshing his legacy as an artist who pioneered ways of thinking about art under capitalism that still feel like trenchant critiques decades later.

Genpei Akasegawa was not only an artist who successfully transitioned from the avant-garde to the broader realm of popular culture but also an award-winning writer and photographer. He emerged in the Japanese art scene in the 1960s. Best known internationally as a member of the influential, anti-art collective Hi-Red Center (1963–64), Genpei Akasegawa is one of the all-time trickster figures of Japanese art history. The famous Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident (1963), which involved a real-life police investigation and trial, solidified his reputation as an inspired conceptualist. In 1986, Akasegawa, and his collaborators, including the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori, formed a new group called the Rojō Kansatsu Gakkai (Street Observation Society). Within this group, Akasegawa showcased a series of photographs featuring Tokyo's bizarre and overlooked architectural features. These structures, referred to by Akasegawa as 'Thommasons', were often disregarded by society but were repurposed by Akasegawa as objects of artistic value.

Keiko Toyoda, of Shiseido Gallery, invited six midcareer artists to select photographs from 40,000 unexhibited 35mm reversal film prints, shot between 1985 and 2006, which Akasegawa kept carefully filed in his study. Shuta Hasunuma, Zon Ito, Sachiko Kazama, Yuko Mohri, Yuta Nakamura and Yasuhiro Suzuki each chose around 20 prints each, presented in this first survey book of Akasegawa's photography, from his ‘Hyperart Thomasson’ project of the 1970s onward: photographs of functionless objects embedded and preserved in everyday spaces despite their lack of utility, to capturing everything from odd lines scored into a patch of green asphalt to table settings and cat portraits (in pre-meme-era 1993).

In addition to his artistic work, Akasegawa was also a prolific writer and critic, having authored over 20 publications on art and culture.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Ribonsha / Japan Japanese Photography Conceptual Art Photography Dada Art

Rose Nolan
Working Models For / From Someone's Life

2022, English
Softcover (thread-bound), 28 pages + A3 insert, 29.7 x 21 cm
Ed. of 100, hand-initialed and numbered.,
Published by Rose Nolan / Melbourne

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Working Models For / From Someone's Life is a new artist's book by Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, each hand-numbered and initialed by Nolan, designed by the artist with Warren Taylor. The volume comprises photographic documentation by Christian Capurro of Nolan's "models", accompanied by text by Ingrid Periz. "Rose Nolan calls the constructions pictured here working models, taking the name of similar objects used in the architectural design process where they are used to check proportion, volume and shape. Occasionally this process of checking prompts a rethink, and a drawing is corrected. Unlike their namesakes, Nolan's models won't prompt any design rethink or correction.Theirs may be a harder task.As she tells me, electronically: "My small models don't have to function (in Real Life) in anyway, other than to stand up for themselves:""—from text by Periz.

"We can think of the models as Cubist "portraits" of fictitious buildings; they are additionally self-portraits of Rose Nolan, Rose Nolan the architect of the buildings and Rose Nolan the consumer, buyer of Apple products, fine French candles, Chanel, Marimekko and Fab, the laundry detergent."

Includes A3 insert of all models as folded poster / catalogue.

Rose Nolan (b. 1959) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne working across painting, installation, sculpture, photography, prints and book production. Her practice regularly oscillates between the discrete and the monumental and is informed by a strong interest in architecture, interior and graphic design – combining formal concerns with the legacies of modernism. Nolan’s practice is known for its investigation of the formal and linguistic qualities of words, directly using language to transform the architectural space they inhabit. By making language concrete in this way meaning is allowed to be approached differently.

Nolan employs a radically reduced palette of red and white, and simple utilitarian materials and methods, in an exploration of personal, playful and often self-effacing narratives. Each work describes a concern for economy; a desire to be responsive to site; an interest in seriality and repetition; and the importance of language, interactivity, and the experience of the viewer.

File under: Rose Nolan Ingrid Periz Rose Nolan / Melbourne Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Conceptual Art

Memo Magazine No. 1
2023/24

2023, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 16.6 x 23 cm
Published by Memo Review / Naarm

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Issue 1 of Memo’s first glossy annual magazine features an extended artist focus on Archie Moore, the 2024 Venice Biennale Australian Representative, with essays by Rex Butler, Tara Heffernan, Tristen Harwood, and Hilary Thurlow.

Audrey Schmidt unveils a covetous history of tall-poppy takedowns in the Melbourne art world. Philip Brophy rips into Hollywood’s shallow art-world playbook, while Cameron Hurst checks-in with the once-celebrated Spike magazine cultural critic, Dean Kissick, in his post-zenith era. The Manhattan Art Review’s Sean Tatol visits the Dutch artist group, KIRAC, reporting on their legal woes with French literature’s ageing enfant terrible, Michel Houellebecq.

We also have essays and reviews on art from all around Australia and the world. Amelia Winata turns up the heat on Melbourne’s public museums as Callum McGrath uncovers a typically Eurocentric failure at the heart of British art historian Claire Bishop’s recent Artforum essay on research-based art. Helen Hughes writes on Helen Johnson’s The Birth of an Institution (2022) and Chelsea Hopper and Shaune Lakin on Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993). Stars like Isa Genzken, Royal Academy graduates like Anna Higgins, cult-favourites like Jas H. Duke — Memo features all this and more.

Texts by Adam Ford, Aimee Dodds, Amelia Winata, Anastasia Murney, Andrew Harper, Audrey Schmidt, Callum McGrath, Cameron Hurst, Camille Orel, Chelsea Hopper, Darren Jorgensen, Gemma Topliss, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, Lévi McLean, Loren Kronemyer, Maraya Takoniatis, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rayleen Forester, Rebecca Edwards, Rex Butler, Sam Beard, Sean Tatol, Shaune Lakin, Susie Russell, Tara Heffernan, Tristen Harwood, Verónica Tello, Victoria Perin.

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The American Trip
Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Cady Noland, Richard Prince

1996, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 23 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Power Plant / Canada

$240.00 - Out of stock

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The rare, excellent and infamous catalogue documenting the 1996 Canadian exhibition entitled "The American Trip". Organized by curator Philip Monk, "The American Trip looks at the continuing fascination of artists with the margins of American society. The exhibition is devoted to the persistence of the “theme of the outlaw” in the works of the contemporary artists Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Cady Noland, and Richard Prince." This very substantial four person show was particularly notable as it represents one of Cady Noland's final authorized exhibitions before calculatedly withdrawing from the gallery and Museum system at the turn of the Century. Despite the fact that Cady Noland is increasingly seen as one of the most influential American artists of the period, there are no monographs on her work. This catalogue is one of the few books to include a critical text specific to Noland or to reproduce a significant number of works at the time, including her iconic contribution to the exhibition of nine free standing ink-on-aluminum pieces featuring imagery of Lee Harvey Oswald, Patty "Tanya" Hearst, and The Charles Manson Family. Additionally notable about the publication is that due to potential legal issues surrounding some of the Larry Clark photographs, the Power Plant was forced to obscure them by permanently glueing facing pages 20 and 21 together as an alternative to destroying the entire print run. A publisher's slip inserted declares: Due to legal issues, pages 20-21 have been permanently sealed. Profusely illustrated throughout with the works of all the artists (many unsealed, uncensored Clark photographs, Richard Prince's biker chicks series, Goldin's NY transgender photographs, et al) along with accompanying essay by Monk on American culture's fascination with the outlaw, outcasts, and margins of society. It recognizes the role artists have played in the dialogue between the mainstream and margins in normalizing the image of the outcast. The title refers to a constant theme in American cultural dynamics of the rejection of family and reformation of community, now expressed in the subcultures of the margins. What starts as a celebration by artists, is appropriated by the mainstream media and ends as a panic in the press. Nowhere is the fear greater than in the heart of the American family that the enemy is within and that the kids are not "alright." The images of individuals in the exhibition show them not to be traditional outlaws. They are, as the artists celebrate, the girl-or boy-next door.

Very Good copy.

File under: Larry Clark Nan Goldin Cady Noland Richard Prince The Power Plant / Canada Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

F.R. David Spring 2023 (Zeros and Ones)
Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung

2023, English
Softcover, 180 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

$25.00 - In stock -

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Riffing off the title, this volume includes Catherine Damman interviewing Carolyn Lazard – an artist whose conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full amplitude of relation, in addition a feature on contemporary artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the “embodiment of technology”, plus contributions by time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. [...] Lee Lozano, Sturtevant, Margarethe Raspé, Jef Geys, Martin Wong, Bernadette Mayer, Louise Lawler, Sarah Rapson, Ketty La Rocca, Stanley Brouwn, Lutz Bacher, Hanne Darboven, Pope L., Silvia Kolbowski, Ilmari Kalkkinen, Henrik Olesen, Otto Wagner...

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