World Food Books

Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity
by Christoph Asendorf

1993, English
HArdcover (w. dust jacket), 248 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First hardcover edition.

Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a battery. Now German art historian Christoph Asendorf explores this transformation of human sense perception in the industrial age and contributes to a new understanding of European culture and modernity.

Drawing from literature, painting, architecture, film, philosophy, anthropology, and popular culture, Asendorf offers rich analyses of works by Manet, Baudelaire, Monet, Zola, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Duchamp. These close readings are combined with a montage of key cultural images and events ranging from Paxton's Crystal Palace to the introduction of electricity. The result is a striking account of the emergence of consumer culture within the developing commodity economy of modern Europe.

Certain to challenge the mono-disciplinary perspectives of many specialists, this book will interest historians of art, culture, literature, science, and technology.

Illustrated throughout.

Contents; 1. The Body, the Economy, and the World of Things. 1. L'homme machine. 2. Vathek, or Disintegration. 3. German Romanticism: Money and Happiness, or the Eroticism of the World of Things -- 2. From the "Ego Crystal Forest" To the Crystal Palace -- 3. Economy and Metamorphosis. Excursus: Grandville, or Laputa in the July Monarchy -- 4. On the Physiognomy of the World of the Commodity and the Machine. 1. The Myth of the Living Machine. 2. The Commodity Spectacle circa 1850. 3. The Collector and His Treasure: "An Entirely Furtive Private Relationship" -- 5. Circulation as a Way of Life -- 6. Impressionism. 1. Manet. 2. Degas. 3. Monet. 4. On the Historical Site of the Impressionist Way of Seeing -- 7. Commodities and the Erotic. 1. Paradise in the Department Store. 2. The Eroticism of Machines -- 8. The Decay of the World of Things and Its Restoration in Art -- 9. The Interieur, Or Things in the Everyday Life of the Bourgeoisie. 1. Materials: Artificial Nature and Synthetics. 2. The Production of the "Faculty for Delusion" 3. The Role of Things -- 10. The Production of "Homogeneous and Empty Time" -- 11. Nerves and Electricity. 1. On the Romantic Image of Electricity. 2. Polarity and Sexual Attraction. 3. The Image of Electricity between Hegel's Phenomenology and Kleist: The "Liberation of Predicates from Subjects" and Electrical Epiphany. 4. Andersen: Electricity on the "Romantic-Technological Knife-Edge". 5. Siemens, Edison, and the History of Mentalities of Electric Light, Ornament and Psychic Streams. 6. "Telegram Style of the Soul" and Cosmic Energies. 7. Nerves: Mach, Bahr, and Freud. 8. Strindberg and Electro-Hysteria -- 12. The Constitution of Perception from 1900 to 1914. 1. Mach, Simmel, and Hofmannsthal. 2. Silence. 3. Ornament. 4. The Life of Things: Rilke's Thing-Poems, Animism, and Silent Film. 5. Animated Thought. 6. Abstraction and Empathy. 7. The Lord Chandos Letter -- Epilogue: The Emancipation of Material from the Subject.

VG copy in G–VG dust jacket w. tanning to spine, small closed tear, light wear, preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Édouard Manet Gustave Doré Marcel Duchamp Joseph Paxton Rainer Maria Rilke Charles Baudelaire Walter Benjamin Émile Zola Martin Heidegger Christoph Asendorf University of California Press / Berkley Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Dada Sociology / Politics Eros Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Out-of-print / Rare Protest / Revolt Fiction / Poetry Poetry Architecture / Interior Philosophy Psychoanalysis Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
Edited by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

1946 / 1968, English
Hardcover, 272 pages, 26 x 19 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arno Press / New York MoMA / New York

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1968 re-print of the 1947 third edition of this monumental exhibition catalogue from the seminal Museum of Modern Art exhibition that ran from December 1936 to January 1937, New York, an amazing exhibition that no–one could agree on. Edited by museum director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., this edition includes his essay, plus essays by the French poet and critic Georges Hugnet that had arrived too late for inclusion in the first edition. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the exhibition included "more than 700 objects. The earliest date of any object shown will be about 1450; the latest, 1936. More than 157 American and European artists will be represented, ranging from such extremes as Giovanni di Paolo and Leonardo da Vinci of the fifteenth century to Walt Disney, Rube Goldberg and Thurber of the twentieth century, and including such famous names both old and modern as Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, Arcimboldo, Hogarth, William Blake, Cruickshank, Lewis Carrol, Daumier, Delacroix, Edward Lear, Redon, Chagall, de Chirico, Duchamp, Picasso, Arp, Dali, Ernst, Grosz, Magritte, Miro, Klee, Man Ray, Tanguy, Peter Blume, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alexander Calder."

The exhibition encompasses the history of the fantastic in art, "the main body of the exhibition is devoted to the Dada and Surrealist movements of the past twenty years together with certain pioneers. [...] There are also special sections on fantastic architecture and on comparative material, including the art of children, and the insane." It includes the work of Arcimboldo, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Peter Huys, Leonardo Da Vinci, Giovanni Battista Bracelli, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Cole, Eugène Delacroix, James Ensor, Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya, Victor Marie Hugo, Edward Lear, Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Hans Arp, Johannes Baader, J. T. Baargeld, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Edward Burra, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Raoul Haussmann, Hannah Höch, Valentine Hugo, Marcel Jean, René Magritte, André Masson, Edouard Mesens, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Richard Oelze, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Dr. Grace Pailthorpe, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Christian Schad, Kurt Schwitters, Yves Tanguy, Sophie Henriette Täuber-Arp, Peter Blume, Alexander Calder, Federico Castellón, Arthur Dove, Walker Evans, Wyndham Lewis, Georgia O’Keefe, Wallace Putnam, David Alfaro Siqueiros, James Thurber, Antonio Gaudi, Kurt Schwitters, and many more.

"Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art’s first exhibition to focus on Dada, was organized by founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in 1936. It was the most comprehensive presentation of Dada works since the Dadaists’ own exhibitions. It was also the first to be organized by a nonparticipant and the first to present Dada as a historical movement. The exhibition was rife with controversy and provoked fierce reactions from battling factions among the Dadaists and the Surrealists. For example, Tristan Tzara, a leader of the Dada movement and one of the exhibition’s most important lenders, threatened to forbid Barr from exhibiting his loans when he learned that the exhibition’s title had been changed from The Fantastic in Art to include Surrealism and that the French Surrealist André Breton was to write the catalogue preface. For their part, Breton and French Surrealist poet Paul Éluard disapproved of the final format of the exhibition; they wanted it to be an official Surrealist “manifestation.” Critical response to the exhibition was mixed. In 1937, when the show circulated around the country, lender Katherine Dreier withdrew her artworks and feuded with Barr over his inclusion of works by children and “the insane,” and A. Conger Goodyear, President of the Museum’s board of trustees, requested that other items be removed." [MoMA]

Very Good copy w/o dust jacket. Light age/dustiness.

File under: Giuseppe Arcimboldo Hieronymous Bosch Albrecht Dürer Peter Huys Leonardo Da Vinci Giovanni Battista Bracelli William Hogarth Giovanni Battista Piranesi William Blake Lewis Carroll Thomas Cole Eugène Delacroix James Ensor Henry Fuseli Francisco Goya Victor Marie Hugo Edward Lear Odilon Redon Henri Rousseau Marc Chagall Giorgio de Chirico Marcel Duchamp Vasily Kandinsky Paul Klee Pablo Picasso Hans Arp Johannes Baader J. T. Baargeld Max Ernst Hans Bellmer Edward Burra Joseph Cornell Salvador Dali Leonor Fini Alberto Giacometti George Grosz Raoul Haussmann Hannah Höch Valentine Hugo Marcel Jean René Magritte André Masson Edouard Mesens Joan Miro Henry Moore Richard Oelze Meret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Dr. Grace Pailthorpe Francis Picabia Man Ray Christian Schad Kurt Schwitters Yves Tanguy Sophie Henriette Täuber-Arp Peter Blume Alexander Calder Federico Castellón Arthur Dove Walker Evans Wyndham Lewis Wallace Putnam David Alfaro Siqueiros James Thurber Antonio Gaudi Alfred H. Barr Jr. Georges Hugnet Arno Press / New York MoMA / New York Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Painting Sculpture / Installation Poetry Art

Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology
Edited by Mary Ann Caws

2001, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 530 pages, 23.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Scarce first 2001 HC edition. Long out–of–print incredible anthology of art and writings by Surrealist painters and poets from a wide range of countries, edited by American author, translator, art historian and literary critic, Mary Ann Caws.

In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval.

The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists—their convictions, styles, and spirit—from the movement's beginnings in France just after World War I to its second flowering in America after World War II. The book includes writers and artists from Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Uruguay, and the United States. Caws's main criterion for inclusion was that the works be the best and most representative of the different forms of Surrealism. Among others, the artists and writers include Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, Raymond Queneau, Joyce Mansour, Eileen Agar, René Char, Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, Dorothea Tanning, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Fernando Arrabal, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Hans Bellmer, Yves Bonnefoy, Kay Boyle, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Claude Cahun, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Malcolm de Chazal, Arthur Cravan, René Crevel, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, Alberto Giacometti, David Hare, Maurice Henry, Frida Kahlo, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Paul Nougé, Benjamin Péret, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Roussel, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Schwob, Louis Scutenaire, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Georges Bataille, Kurt Seligmann, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Jacques Vaché, Wolfgang Paalen, Marianne Van Hirtum, Gisèle Prassinos, and Tristan Tzara.

Fine–NF copy in Fine–NF dust jacket. Preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Leonora Carrington Meret Oppenheim Joyce Mansour Raymond Queneau Dorothea Tanning Marcel Duchamp Rrose Selavy Max Ernst Mina Loy Francis Picabia Tristan Tzara Eileen Agar René Char Giorgio de Chirico René Magritte Man Ray André Masson Philippe Soupault Hans Bellmer Victor Brauner Joseph Cornell Alberto Giacometti David Hare Frida Kahlo Guillaume Apollinaire Hans Arp Antonin Artaud Claude Cahun Maurice Henry Joan Miró Pablo Picasso Kurt Schwitters Kurt Seligmann Marianne Van Hirtum Salvador Dali Wolfgang Paalen Marcel Mariën Jean-Pierre Duprey Mary Ann Caws Joyce Mansour Leonora Carrington Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Mina Loy Robert Desnos Tristan Tzara Francis Picabia Raymond Queneau Dorothea Tanning Eileen Agar René Char Giorgio de Chirico René Magritte Man Ray André Masson Philippe Soupault Aime Cesaire Louis Aragon Fernando Arrabal Georges Bataille Yves Bonnefoy Kay Boyle André Breton Suzanne Césaire Malcolm de Chazal Arthur Cravan René Crevel Paul Éluard Michel Leiris Paul Nougé Benjamin Péret Raymond Roussel Marcel Schwob Louis Scutenaire Léopold Sédar Senghor Jacques Vaché Guillaume Apollinaire Hans Arp Antonin Artaud Claude Cahun Maurice Henry Joan Miró Pablo Picasso Kurt Schwitters Kurt Seligmann Marianne Van Hirtum Salvador Dali Jean-Pierre Duprey George Bataille Gisèle Prassinos Marcel Mariën The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Painting Poetry Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Dada Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas
Edited by Ann Noel and Emmett Williams

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24.9 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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First 1997 HC edition, first printing.

The first biography of George Maciunas, a key figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s.

George Maciunas was the founding member and leader of the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, Fluxus. Its members rejected the traditional systems of high art, practicing an extraordinary form of anti-art that encompassed everything from photography and pavement art to poetry and drama.

Mr. Fluxus, the first biography of this key figure in twentieth-century art, reveals the story of an unorthodox, contradictory, and elusive genius. Maciunas attempted to rule Fluxus in totalitarian fashion, yet he laughed at himself and provoked others to laughter, poking fun at the incurable illnesses and painful realities that afflicted him throughout his relatively short life. What emerges from this collection of anecdotes and impressions, coaxed from many of his former Fluxus colleagues and from an array of friends and enemies, is an informative portrait of an inspiring crusader whose mission was to change the world, beginning with the world of art.

Near Fine copy in Near Fine DJ, preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: George Maciunas Emmett Williams Yoko Ono Daniel Spoerri Claes Oldenburg John Cage Dick Higgins Alison Knowles George Brecht Ben Vautier Robert Filliou Nam June Paik Joseph Beuys Wolf Vostell Benjamin Patterson Carolee Schneemann George Maciunas Ann Noel Emmett Williams Thames and Hudson / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Fluxus Dada Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Poetry

The Dada Almanac (Atlas Arkhive, 1)
Edited by Richard Huelsenbeck

1993, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 23 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

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First 1993 English edition from the legendary Atlas Press, London. First printing.

"DADA MEANS NOTHING!" So proclaimed Tristan Tzara, the movement's tireless publicist. Yet this did not prevent the most fanatical and talented artists and writers across Europe from rushing to join its ranks. Anti-war, anti-art, anti-dada, from its beginnings in Zurich during the first World War the dadas swept aside the cultural, philosophical and political norms of their time. Utter disgust with a society that had created the war (and then expected to survive the peace) spurred them to ever greater demonstrations of revulsion and derision. Yet it was not all nihilism: many factions worked within the Dada Movement and it was Huelsenbeck's intention to embody most of them in the Dada Almanac. The largest collection of Dadaist texts ever assembled by the movement, it was originally published in 1920 in a mixture of French and German.

The Dada Almanac was truly international in scope, with substantial sections from the Swiss and French sections of the movement, it embodies Dada's failings as well as its successes, its excesses, its seriousness, its idiocy, but above all the anarchic vitality which made it such a vital precondition for so much that followed in the fields of art, literature and general cultural terrorism.

The editors of this first English translation have added dozens of other relevant texts, documents, portraits etc, as well as explaining contemporary references and events and providing biographies of the numerous personalities involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Richard Huelsenbeck Atlas Press / London Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
by Hugo Ball

2014, English
Softcover, 170 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Wakefield Press / Cambridge

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In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto," launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor, which would be published two years later. Drawing from his pre-Dada period of struggle and poverty in the vaudeville circuit, Ball immerses us in the rise and fall of Max Flametti and his vaudeville company. Fishing in the local river to feed his company, dabbling in drugs, strolling through the vegetable market on the Gemusebrucke in Zurich, ducking into a side street to avoid running into the police, Flametti marches through the pages of Ball's novel passionately pursuing a career that culminates in the presentation of the theatrical extravaganza The Indians at the Krokodil in Zurich (a locale that still exists today as a Spanish restaurant). Overcoming odds and alternately averting, succumbing to and embracing financial ruin, Flametti ultimately emerges as a tragic figure--a Willy Loman of vaudeville. Flametti portrays a frenetic Zurich that had been the backdrop to the Dada movement, and is comparable to other such literary cities and eras as Christopher Isherwood's Berlin.

File under: Tal R Hugo Ball Wakefield Press / Cambridge Dada Fiction / Poetry

Winter Journeys
Georges Perec and the Oulipo

2013, English
Hardcover, 344 pages, 19.8 x 17.5 cm
Published by Atlas Press / London

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By Georges Perec, Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, Paul Braffort, François Caradec, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Etienne Lécroart, Daniel Levin Becker, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Hervé Le Tellier, Jacques Roubaud.
Introduction by Alastair Brotchie.
Translation by John Sturrock, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk.

In 1979, Georges Perec wrote a brief entertainment for a publisher’s catalogue, and “The Winter Journey” quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of the Second World War, it recounts the discovery of a great literary masterpiece that conceals a scandalous secret at the heart of modern French literature. Every aspect of literary history will have to be rewritten in consequence. However, the War intervenes, and the work is lost forever.

The Oulipo is comprised mainly of French writers who are interested in exploiting “constraints” in literature (Oulipo stands for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle which means, roughly, Workshop for Potential Literature). Its members have included luminaries of the calibre of Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Queneau, but it was Perec who perhaps became its most celebrated practitioner. The present volume includes, and then extends Perec’s brief parable. Over two decades his fellow Oulipians have written twenty sequels to this tale, between 1992 and the year of publication. It turns out to be a story resonant with possibilities, and the result is a sort of “hyper-novel”, a novel of digressions, gradual elaboration and bizarre forays into the unexpected. Winter Journeys has grown to become one of the most extended and congenial literary experiments of recent times, and includes meditations on the literary tastes of worms, book-burning in the Nazi period, the delights of plagiarism and the twisted rationality of bibliophilia. It is also a monument to the friendship, ingenuity and collective creativity of this uniquely long-lived group of writers.

File under: Raymond Queneau Georges Perec Michèle Audin Marcel Bénabou Jacques Bens Paul Braffort François Caradec Frédéric Forte Paul Fournel Michelle Grangaud Jacques Jouet Etienne Lécroart Daniel Levin Becker Harry Mathews Ian Monk Hervé Le Tellier Jacques Roubaud Alastair Brotchie John Sturrock Atlas Press / London 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Surrealism Dada Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. 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.

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.

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 Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

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

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

Francis Picabia
1999/2000 + 391

1999, English / French / Japanese
Softcover (2 Vols in curregated cardboard slip-case), 226 + 120 pages, 18 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by APT International / Tokyo Isetan Museum of Art / Tokyo

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First Edition of this long out-of-print, comprehensive, beautifully produced Japanese two-volume publication on the life and work of the great French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist, Francis Picabia.

Published by APT International in 1999 for a major Japanese travelling exhibition on Francis Picabia, starting at the Isetan Museum of Art in Tokyo in 1999, then to Fukushima and Osaka throughout 1999-2000.

Two Volumes bound in french-fold wraps, both housed in protective corrugated cardboard slip-case with scarlet label wrapped around spine. Slipcase itself is now protected under plastic sleeve.

First volume (226 page) forms a comprehensive retrospective of Picabia's life and prolific and defying work across painting, drawing, printing, poetry and film. Extensive colour and b&w reproductions of a vast collection of his painting, illustration and publishing projects are presented alongside a folio of his poems and drawings, plus photo documentation of his studio and private/social life. Also includes a biography and bibliography, as well as an insightful conversation between Olga Picabia (Francis Picabia's widow), Pierre Calté (director of Comité Picabia), Hans Ulrich Obrist (independent curator) and Stefan Banz (independent curator), about Picabia's life (text in English and Japanese). Introductory essays in Japanese and French by Beverley Calte and Arnauld Pierre.

Second volume (120 pages) "391" is a very special book made up of collated facsimiles of the 19 issues of Picabia's famous Dada periodical, "391", dating 1917-1924. 391 first appeared in January 1917 in Barcelona, published and edited by Picabia, assisted in assembling by Olga Sacharoff, a Georgian emigre residing in Barcelona. The title of the magazine derives from Alfred Stieglitz's New York periodical 291 (to which Picabia had contributed), and bore no relation to its contents. Despite Picabia's renown as an artist, it was mostly literary in content, with a wide-ranging aggressive tone, possibly influenced by Alfred Jarry and Apollinaire. There were contributions by two men new to Dada: Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. However 391 remained essentially the expression of the inventive, energetic and wealthy Picabia, who stated of it: "Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify."

Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. His was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

Very Good copy in Good slipcase that has discoloured with sun-tanning to spine, corregation has some wear. Books VG both.

File under: Francis Picabia Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Arnauld Pierre Beverley Calte Francis Picabia Hans Ulrich Obrist Stefan Banz APT International / Tokyo Isetan Museum of Art / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Surrealism Fiction / Poetry

Francis Picabia
Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning

2025, English / French
Hardcover (clothbound), 224 pages, 29.5 x 25 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

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Documenting the great, late, neglected work of a modernist master.

Prefaced by Beverley Calté, president of the Comité Picabia, this book delves into Picabia’s practice between the years 1945 to 1952—an incredibly rich period during which Picabia created paintings unlike anything he had produced before, working alongside the growing Art Informel movement in Paris.

Essays by art historians Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements shed new light on the hidden signs and symbols buried in his abstractions, the new painting techniques he employed, and the mysterious and fantastical reappearance of the “dot” in his work.

'Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning' is an essential resource, marking the first focused exploration of a crucial chapter of Picabia’s practice.

File under: Francis Picabia Francis Picabia Beverley Calté Arnauld Pierre Candace Clements Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Painting Dada Drawing Art

Man Ray
To create is divine

2026, English
Hardcover, 460 pages, 26.1 x 19.9 cm
Published by Larkin Erdmann Gallery / Zürich Walther König / Köln

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This most comprehensive overview of Man Ray's art and life to date features around 150 works, each discussed in detail and fully catalogued. This book on Man Ray brings together works by the artist that range in date from his high school years to works made a few years before his death in 1976. Each work reproduced is discussed in a text by Francis M. Naumann, renowned expert on the work of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, and fully catalogued by Andrew Strauss, director of the Man Ray Expertise Committee in Paris. Together with colour photographs by Eric Lehmann of Man Ray's studio on the Rue Ferou in Paris, the book reflects the enjoyment and endless creativity of the famous surrealist.

Edited by Larkin Erdmann.

File under: Eric Lehmann Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Francis M. Naumann Andrew Strauss Larkin Erdmann Larkin Erdmann Gallery / Zürich Walther König / Köln Surrealism Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Dada

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

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

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

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

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

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

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

Happenings and Other Acts
Edited By Mariellen Sandford

1995, English
Softcover, 398 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Routledge / London

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First 1995 edition.

Happenings and Other Acts collects seminal essays, interviews, and performance texts by and about Happenings and Fluxus artists. The anthology reprints, in its entirety, the 1965 Happenings issue of The Drama Review (TDR), which was co-edited by Michael Kirby and Richard Schechner, supplemented by articles from subsequent TDR numbers; Kirby's introduction to his own Happenings anthology; excerpts from Allan Kaprow's Assemblages, Environments & Happenings; sections from Carolee Schneemann's More Than Meat Joy; and the concluding essay, written for this volume by Günter Berghaus, which offers the first overview of European Happenings written in English.

Published at the height of the Happenings and Fluxus movements, these are invaluable documents from a period that radically changed our perception of the function of the artist, the role of the observer, and the relation between art and everyday life. All boundaries of conventional art genres were broken by artists such as John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Anna Halprin, Ken Dewey, George Maciunas, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, Yvonne Rainer, Dick Higgins, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Carolee Schneemann.

Mariellen R.Sandford has been Associate Editor of TDR since 1985.

VG copy with some wear to board extremities.

File under: John Cage Allan Kaprow Claes Oldenburg Anna Halprin Ken Dewey George Maciunas Alison Knowles Jackson Mac Low La Monte Young Yvonne Rainer Dick Higgins Jean-Jacques Lebel Carolee Schneemann Mariellen Sandford Günter Berghaus Michael Kirby Richard Schechner Routledge / London Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Dada

Schriftenreihe Für Künstlerpublikationen Band 3: Sound Art
Edited by Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sabine Breitsameter, Winfried Pauleit

2006, English / German
Softcover (w. CD), 240 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Salon Verlag / Cologne

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‘Sound Art between Avant-Garde and Pop Culture’, a documentation of a conference in 2005.

“Sound Art … is inconceivable without the acoustic, sound-related, tonal, onomatopoeic, auditive or radiophonic aspect. Yet Sound Art is not constituted by this aspect alone, but emerges only in association withmusical, artistic and literary concepts. Sound Art encompasses works characterized by acoustic interdisciplinarity, regardless of the context. Attempts to draw the boundaries of Sound Art from the perspective of art or music theory are thus doomed to failure. It is its uncompromising, subversive openness which accounts for the fascination of Sound Art.”

With text contributions besides by the editors by Barbara Barthelmes, Julia Kursell, Martin Maurach, Daniel Gethmann, Wolfgang Hagen, Peter Frank, Stan Hanson, Heidi Grundmann, Barbara Flückiger, with a CD with audio examples of more than 42 minutes by Majakovskij, Schwitters, Hausmann, Artaud and others, text in German and English.

VG copy, complete with CD.

File under: Antonin Artaud Kurt Schwitters Raoul Hausmann Vladimir Mayakovsky Barbara Barthelmes Julia Kursell Martin Maurach Daniel Gethmann Wolfgang Hagen Peter Frank Stan Hanson Heidi Grundmann Barbara Flückiger Anne Thurmann-Jajes Sabine Breitsameter Winfried Pauleit Antonin Artaud Vladimir Mayakovsky Salon Verlag / Cologne Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Concrete Poetry Poetry Dada Situationism / Lettrism

Oulipo Compendium
Edited by Harry Mathews & Alistair Brotchie

1998, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 23 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

$130.00 - Out of stock

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"Oulipians: rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape."—Raymond Queneau

What do Marcel Duchamp and Italo Calvino have in common? The Oulipo, or Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle. This “Workshop for Potential Literature” was founded by Raymond Queneau and friends in 1960 to find out how abstract restrictions could be combined with imaginative writing (as in Georges Perec’s celebrated novel written without the letter e). Still formidably active, the Oulipo is now recognised as the most original, productive and provocative literary enterprise to appear since the last war. This Compendium is the first comprehensive survey of the group in any language. It includes extensive selections from the work of Oulipians, analyses of their important works, and descriptions of their methods. Further sections cover related groups working in the fields of art, detective fiction, comic strips, even cuisine. A vital resource for creativity in all areas.

The result of a five year collaboration with the literary group that was still almost unknown in the English-speaking world, this is the most extensive exploration of the group’s methods, intentions and history. Includes works by/about Noël Arnaud, John Ashbery, Jacques Barine, Tristan Bastit, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, André Blavier, Paul Braffort, Italo Calvino, François Caradec, Jacques Carelman, Bernard Cerquiglini, Richard Curtis, Francis Debyser, Jacques Duchateau, Marcel Duchamp, Luc Étienne, Thieri Foulc, Paul Fournel, Paul Gayot, Michelle Grangaud, Thierry Groensteen, Jacques Jouet, François Le Lionnais, Hervé Le Tellier, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Oskar Pastior, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Jacques Roubaud, Gilbert Sorrentino, Stefan Themerson, Keith Waldrop, Dallas Wiebe, and more.

“Oulipo Compendium is a late 20th-century kabala, a labyrinth of literary secrets that will lure the unitiated into rethinking everything they know about books and writing. A nutty, one-of-a-kind book, the definitive encyclopaedia of contemporary word-magic.”–Paul Auster

“An indispensable book for everyone who cares about literature.”–Susan Sontag

“Book of the year.”–Giles Foden in The Guardian.

"By substituting formidably strict forms for Surrealism's controversial notion of "total liberty," the Oulipo has created an amazingly beautiful and profound body of literature, which this long-awaited volume at last brings to the attention of English-speaking readers."—John Ashbery

VG copy with light wear/marking to block edges/extremities, no spine creases.

File under: Harry Mathews Alistair Brotchie Noël Arnaud John Ashbery Jacques Barine Tristan Bastit Marcel Bénabou Jacques Bens André Blavier Paul Braffort Italo Calvino François Caradec Jacques Carelman Bernard Cerquiglini Richard Curtis Francis Debyser Jacques Duchateau Marcel Duchamp Luc Étienne Thieri Foulc Paul Fournel Paul Gayot Michelle Grangaud Thierry Groensteen Jacques Jouet François Le Lionnais Hervé Le Tellier Ian Monk Oskar Pastior Georges Perec Raymond Queneau Pierre Rosenstiehl Jacques Roubaud Gilbert Sorrentino Stefan Themerson Dallas Wiebe Keith Waldrop Atlas Press / London 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Dada Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Poetry

OULIPO COMPENDIUM
Edited by Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie

2005, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 23 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

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"Oulipians: rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape."—Raymond Queneau

The Oulipo Compendium first appeared in 1998, the result of a five year collaboration with the literary group that was still almost unknown in the English-speaking world. This 2005 version updated certain information in the original and remains to this day the most extensive exploration of the group’s methods, intentions and history.

What do Marcel Duchamp and Italo Calvino have in common? The Oulipo, or Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle. This “Workshop for Potential Literature” was founded by Raymond Queneau and friends in 1960 to find out how abstract restrictions could be combined with imaginative writing (as in Georges Perec’s celebrated novel written without the letter e). Still formidably active, the Oulipo is now recognised as the most original, productive and provocative literary enterprise to appear since the last war. This Compendium is the first comprehensive survey of the group in any language. It includes extensive selections from the work of Oulipians, analyses of their important works, and descriptions of their methods. Further sections cover related groups working in the fields of art, detective fiction, comic strips, even cuisine. A vital resource for creativity in all areas.

Includes works by/about Noël Arnaud, John Ashbery, Jacques Barine, Tristan Bastit, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, André Blavier, Paul Braffort, Italo Calvino, François Caradec, Jacques Carelman, Bernard Cerquiglini, Richard Curtis, Francis Debyser, Jacques Duchateau, Marcel Duchamp, Luc Étienne, Thieri Foulc, Paul Fournel, Paul Gayot, Michelle Grangaud, Thierry Groensteen, Jacques Jouet, François Le Lionnais, Hervé Le Tellier, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Oskar Pastior, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Jacques Roubaud, Gilbert Sorrentino, Stefan Themerson, Keith Waldrop, Dallas Wiebe, and more.

“Oulipo Compendium is a late 20th-century kabala, a labyrinth of literary secrets that will lure the unitiated into rethinking everything they know about books and writing. A nutty, one-of-a-kind book, the definitive encyclopaedia of contemporary word-magic.”–Paul Auster

“An indispensable book for everyone who cares about literature.”–Susan Sontag

“Book of the year.”–Giles Foden in The Guardian.

"By substituting formidably strict forms for Surrealism's controversial notion of "total liberty," the Oulipo has created an amazingly beautiful and profound body of literature, which this long-awaited volume at last brings to the attention of English-speaking readers."—John Ashbery

VG copy, light wear to boards edges.

File under: Keith Waldrop Alastair Brotchie Noël Arnaud John Ashbery Jacques Barine Tristan Bastit Marcel Bénabou Jacques Bens André Blavier Paul Braffort Italo Calvino François Caradec Jacques Carelman Bernard Cerquiglini Richard Curtis Francis Debyser Jacques Duchateau Marcel Duchamp Luc Étienne Thieri Foulc Paul Fournel Paul Gayot Michelle Grangaud Thierry Groensteen Jacques Jouet François Le Lionnais Hervé Le Tellier Harry Mathews Ian Monk Oskar Pastior Georges Perec Raymond Queneau Pierre Rosenstiehl Jacques Roubaud Gilbert Sorrentino Stefan Themerson Dallas Wiebe Atlas Press / London 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Dada Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Art

Atlas Anthology 3
Edited by Alastair Brotchie & Malcolm Green

1985, English
Softcover (w. paste-ins), 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

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"A chrestomathy of dicey enchantments.'—CITY LIMITS

Now rare, long out-of-print 1985 Atlas Anthology 3, edited by Alastair Brotchie & Malcolm Green. "Benign Pollution, Enthused Writing". The third production from the legendary Atlas Press, the third general anthology and the first book to be actually typeset (a very expensive business in those days).

Features: Hans Carl Artmann, Pierre Albert-Birot, Wolfgang Bauer, Konrad Bayer, Pierre Bettencourt, Peter Blegvad, Andre Breton, Jean-Pierre Brisset, Günter Brus, René Crevel, David Gascoyne, Alfred Jarry, James Kirkup, Karl Kraus, Jean Lorrain, Harry Mathews, Gustave Meyrink, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Georges Perec, Benjamin Peret, Oskar Panizza, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Rigaut, Herbert Rosendorfer, Raymond Roussel, Paul Scheerbart, Mathew Phipps Shiel, Kurt Schwitters, Boris Vian, Austryn Wainhouse, Robert Walser, Unica Zürn, Etcetera Etc.

"Here is a prose based on Romanticism, in this century focused around the early Expressionism and the Surrealist movement. It is a literature of unusual beauty and bitter humour, political (in the widest sense), it asserts a complete freedom of form and content. Neither 'cool', restrained nor boring! An important collection of unjustly neglected authors, past and present, which includes many who are seldom translated into English."

Highest recommendation.
Good—Very Good copy complete with all the paste-ins. General wear and tanning.

File under: Peter Blegvad Kurt Schwitters Günter Brus Pier Paolo Pasolini Unica Zürn Alastair Brotchie Malcolm Green Hans Carl Artmann Pierre Albert-Birot Wolfgang Bauer Konrad Bayer Andre Breton André Breton Unica Zürn Pierre Bettencourt Peter Blegvad Günter Brus René Crevel Jean-Pierre Brisset David Gascoyne Alfred Jarry James Kirkup Karl Kraus Jean Lorrain Robert Walser Georges Perec Benjamin Péret Gustave Meyrink Harry Mathews Raymond Queneau Jacques Rigaut Raymond Roussel Paul Scheerbart Boris Vian Oskar Panizza Herbert Rosendorfer Mathew Phipps Shiel Kurt Schwitters Austryn Wainhouse Atlas Press / London Dada Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Art Concrete Poetry Poetry Philosophy Situationism / Lettrism Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The Identity of Things
Edited by Michael Richardson

1993, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 20 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Dedalus / Cambs

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In the the public mind surrealism is associated primarily with its visual imagery: and this has served to obscure the richness of surrealist contributions in other spheres. This has been particularly so in respect of its rich storytelling tradition...Surrealism draws on older traditions of storytelling, most notably the fairy tale and the Gothic novel...it seeks to capture the mysterious essence of reality and to embody myth and the forces set free by desire.

"The range is impressive, and includes several women...Gisele Prassinos...Leonora Carrington and Meret Oppenheim; contemporary writers like Rikki Ducornet. Richardson makes available in English several early treasures, such as Salvador Dali's Reverie and Pierre Unik's Long Live the Bride, a wonderful tale of mistaken identity and metonymical transfer of meaning." —Fiona Bradley in the Times Literary Supplement

"'I went to fetch my car, but my chauffeur, who has no sense at all, had just buried it,' writes Leonora Carrington in this captivating collection of tales from 17 languages."—The Observer

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File under: Leonora Carrington Meret Oppenheim Mary Low Marcel Mariën Philippe Soupault Andre Breton André Breton Meret Oppenheim Gisèle Prassinos Agustín Espinosa Anneliese Hager François Valorbe Irène Hamoir Jean Ferry Jindřich Štyrský Juan Breá Léo Malet Leonora Carrington Marcel Noll Mary Low Paul Nougé Pierre Unik Rikki Ducornet Marcel Mariën Julien Gracq Benjamin Péret Raymond Queneau René Crevel Dedalus / Cambs Surrealism Eros Dada Out-of-print / Rare Art Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica

Marcel Duchamp

2026, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 388 pages, ‎27.2 x 23.5 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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An essential and lavishly illustrated visual compendium on the epoch-shifting artist whose radical vision reshaped art―and the museum―forever.

More than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than 50 years, the volume features the world's largest collection of Duchamp's work, bringing together such iconic works as Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase for the first time in decades. Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 works spanning six decades―including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography and ephemera―and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp's revolutionary and provocative work, strongly associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. An expansive introduction by curators Ann Temkin, Michelle Kuo and Matthew Affron explores Duchamp's radical rethinking of art and the museum, transformation of authorship, innovative exhibition and installation displays, and lifelong dedication to changing the relationship between art and life. Revealing new dimensions of his conceptual brilliance, subversive wit and lasting impact on generations of artists, Marcel Duchamp is a rich visual compendium and an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand an artist who changed the course of modern art.

Although Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968) defied definition or association with any single movement, he is perhaps the most impactful artist of the modern era in Europe as well as in the United States. Despite his place as a central figure in numerous artistic groups in both countries―including Cubism, Dada and Surrealism―Duchamp resisted categorization, prioritizing creative individuality. Though he is primarily remembered as an artist, he was also a curator, conservator, art advisor, professional chess player, writer, inventor and celebrity.

"Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love―love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, love of freedom, love of what art can be, love of women, queerdom, poetry, and chance―is what makes 'Marcel Duchamp' such a wonder."—Hilton Als, The New Yorker

File under: Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Ann Temkin Michelle Kuo Matthew Affron MoMA / New York Surrealism Dada Theory / Essay Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
by Alastair Brotchie

2015, English
Softcover, 426 pages, 23 x 18 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical.

When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris-but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde.

Even so, most people today tend to think of Alfred Jarry only as the author of the play Ubu Roi, and of his life as a string of outlandish "ubuesque" anecdotes, often recounted with wild inaccuracy. In this first full-length critical biography of Jarry in English, Alastair Brotchie reconstructs the life of a man intent on inventing (and destroying) himself, not to mention his world, and the "philosophy" that defined their relation.

Brotchie alternates chapters of biographical narrative with chapters that connect themes, obsessions, and undercurrents that relate to the life. The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented- Jarry's assumption of the "ubuesque," his inversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backward, from cheese to soup), his exploits with gun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry's purposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and his thought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day.

"Alastair Brotchie brilliantly evokes the avant-garde artistic movements of fin-de-siecle Paris in all their glittering grubbiness."—Charlotte Keith, Varsity

"An enthralling, scrupulously researched, and elegantly written biography."—Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books

"[Brotchie] gives us an unmatched and vivid picture of the belle epoque's avant-garde, of which Jarry was an important, original part."—Michael Moorcock, The Guardian

"[Brotchie] skilfully moves between providing a relatively straightforward and sympathetic account of the writer's life and critically sorting through the narratives that have sustained and shaped the long-standing image of Jarry... Brotchie's refusal to mythologise stands as the book's greatest strength, and as a fitting testament to the manifold complexity of Alfred Jarry."—Karl Whitney, 3:AM Magazine

"How a schoolboy caricature evolved into Jarry's best-known creation, his monstrous 'every-man', Pere Ubu, is a fascinating story which Brotchie tells with impressive scholarship, sympathy and wit."—Peter Blegvad, The Spectator

"Brotchie's painstaking and drily funny biography is now the most ample account of Jarry and his importance that is available in our language; it is unlikely ever to be bettered."—Kevin Jackson, The Literary Review

File under: Alfred Jarry Alastair Brotchie Alfred Jarry The MIT Press / Massachusetts Dada Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Fiction / Poetry

Alfred Jarry: A Critical and Biographical Study
by Keith Beaumont

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 364 pages, 24 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Leicester University Press / Leicester

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First 1984 hardcover edition.

This comprehensive study of Jarry's work examines in detail all of his writings from the early schoolboy farces and the Ubu plays, through his poetry, novels, critical writings and journalism, to the musical comedies of his later years. Jarry emerges as a figure of considerable importance on the European cultural scene, not just as playwright and poet, but also as novelist, critic and pataphysician with insights into the nature of literature and language which make him a forerunner of much of the literature and critical theory of recent years. English translations of the extensive quotes from Jarry's writings are provided alongside the French text throughout.

Keith Beaumont was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1944, and educated there, graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1966 in French with German. He was awarded the degree of Ph.D. by the University of Warwick in 1971 for a thesis on Nihilism in French Literature, 1880-1900. Since 1970 he has been Lecturer in French at the University of Leicester.

Dr. Beaumont's interest in Jarry dates from his undergraduate days. He has written a number of articles on Jarry and on pataphysics. He is a member of the Collège de Pataphysique and the Société des Amis d'Alfred Jarry.

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File under: Alfred Jarry Keith Beaumont Leicester University Press / Leicester 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Dada Art

Myself and My Aims : Writings on Art and Criticism
by Kurt Schwitters

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 656 pages, 23 x 18 cm
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures—collaged and assembled from the scrap materials of popular culture and the debris of the studio, such as newspaper clippings, wood, cardboard, fabric, and paint—reflect a lifelong interest in collection, fragmentation, and abstraction, techniques he also applied to language and graphic design.

As the first anthology in English of the critical and theoretical writings of this influential artist, Myself and My Aims makes the case for Schwitters as one of the most creative thinkers of his generation. Including material that has never before been published, this volume presents the full range of his prolific writing on the art and attitudes of his time, joining existing translations of his children’s stories, poetry, and fiction to give new readers unprecedented access to his literary imagination. With an accessible introduction by Megan R. Luke and elegant English translations by Timothy Grundy, this book will prove an exceptional resource for artists, scholars, and enthusiasts of his art.

"This indispensable collection follows Schwitters' swiftly changing thought on a diverse range of subjects from architecture and painting to graphic art and poetry. In each case Schwitters delivers his canny diagnosis with rigor, humor, and unflinching belligerence. No figure was able to reconcile Dadaist nihilism with constructivist optimism quite like Schwitters, and his striking insights about the hollow metaphysics of consumer society will not fail to resonate with anyone torn between the positions of critique and complicity today."—Devin Fore, Princeton University

File under: Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters Megan R. Luke University of Chicago Press / Chicago Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Theory / Essay Dada Art Painting