World Food Books

Percy Rainford : Duchamp's "Invisible" Photographer
By Michael R. Taylor

2019, English
Hardcover, 136 pages, 14.5 x 10.9 cm
Published by Verlag fur moderne Kunst / Nuremberg

$62.00 - Out of stock

Offering the first study of Jamaican-born American photographer Percy Rainford, this book draws from extensive archival research and interviews with the artist's family, showcasing his work and shedding light on his collaborations with Duchamp for View and Le Surréalisme.

Edited by Stefan Banz.
Text by Michael R. Taylor.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Percy Rainford Stefan Banz Michael R. Taylor Verlag fur moderne Kunst / Nuremberg Art Dada Surrealism Theory / Essay Photography

Duchamp: By Hand, Even
By Helen Molesworth

2018, English
Hardcover, 148 pages,
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst / Vienna

$48.00 - Out of stock

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In this essay, curator Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in the later years of Duchamp’s oeuvre, positioning this paradigmatic shift away from the readymade as the focal point of academic debate for the very first time.

By Helen Molesworth.
Edited with preface by Stefan Banz.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Helen Molesworth Stefan Banz Verlag für moderne Kunst / Vienna Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Dada Surrealism Theory / Essay

Francis Picabia

1984, Japanese / English / French
Softcover, 149 pages (112 ill.), 27 × 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Seibu / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce Japanese Francis Picabia catalogue produced on the occasion of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa 21 July-5 September 1984 and The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 9 September-21 October 1984.

Richly illustrated with many of Picabia's works spanning his entire oeuvre in painting, drawing, text and print, with texts in Japanese, with some English and French.

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 throughout.

File under: Francis Picabia Seibu / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Painting

Towards an Aesthetics of Production
by Sebastion Egenhofer

2018, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 14 x 22.5 cm

$57.00 - Out of stock

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Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze's readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Piet Mondrian. An aesthetics of production does not, he argues, imply a nostalgia for the artisanal or for a work of art's singularity, but a way to bring together elements of critical materialism with a thorough reevaluation of the modern art and abstraction.

File under: Michael Asher Marcel Duchamp Thomas Hirschhorn Piet Mondrian Art Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Dada

The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp
by T.J. Demos

2012, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 136 x 203 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$42.00 - Out of stock

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Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative reading, is more than a fact in Duchamp's biography. Exile--in the artist's own words, a "spirit of expatriation"--infuses Duchamp's entire artistic practice. Duchamp's readymade constructions, his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York, and his "portable museum" (the suggestively named La boite-en-valise), Demos writes, all manifest, define, and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways. Created while the artist was living variously in New York, Buenos Aires, and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism, these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness. The "portable museum," a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamp's works, for example, represented a complex meditation--both critical and joyful--on modern art's tendency toward itinerancy, whereas Duchamp's 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget. Duchamp's exile, writes Demos, defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism, offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience.

T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst.

File under: André Masson Francis Picabia Kurt Schwitters Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst T. J. Demos The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Dada Surrealism Theory / Essay

Man Ray
1966

1966, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 21.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by LACMA / Los Angeles

$55.00 - Out of stock

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The great catalogue for a major exhibition held in Los Angeles in 1966 on the work of Man Ray. Published by LACMA for the occasion, this 148 page English catalogue is very generous in its content, with reproductions of much of Man Ray's work across painting, sculpture and photography, amongst much more, it also features an introduction byJules Langsner, Man Ray's writings on his own work and observations, texts about Man Ray by his friends (Paul Éluard, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Rrose Sélavy, Tristan Tzara, Hans Richter), plus other texts, catalogue of the exhibition, Chronology, Major Exhibitions, and Selected Bibliography.

Good-Very Good copy.

File under: Hans Richter Marcel Duchamp Paul Éluard Rrose Sélavy Tristan Tzara Andre Breton Hans Richter Jules Langsner Marcel Duchamp Paul Eluard Rrose Sélavy Tristan Tzara LACMA / Los Angeles Art Dada Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Surrealism

The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp
by Elena Filipovic

2016, English
Hardcover, 360 pages, 17.8 x 25.4 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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This groundbreaking and richly illustrated book tells a new story of the twentieth century’s most influential artist, recounted not so much through his artwork as through his “non-art” work. Marcel Duchamp is largely understood in critical and popular discourse in terms of the objects he produced, whether readymade or meticulously fabricated. Elena Filipovic asks us instead to understand Duchamp’s art through activities not normally seen as artistic—from exhibition making and art dealing to administrating and publicizing. These were no occasional pursuits; Filipovic argues that for Duchamp, these fugitive tasks were a veritable lifework.

Drawing on many rarely seen images, Filipovic traces a variety of practices and projects undertaken by Duchamp from 1913 to 1969, from his invention of the readymade to the release of his last, posthumous work. She examines Duchamp’s note writing, archiving, and quasi-photographic activities, which resulted in the Box of 1914 and the Green Box; his art dealing, marketing, and curating that culminated in experimental exhibitions for the Surrealists and his miniature museum, The Boîte-en-valise; and his administrative efforts and clandestine maneuvering in order to posthumously embed his Étant donnés into a museum. Demonstrating how those activities reflect the artist’s questioning of reproduction and originality, as well as photography and the exhibition, Filipovic proposes that Duchamp’s “non-art” labor, and in particular his curatorial strategies, more than merely accompanied his more famous artworks; in a certain sense, they made them.

Through Duchamp’s elusive but vital activities he revised the idea of what a modern artist could be. With this fascinating book, Filipovic in turn revises the very idea of Duchamp.

About the Author
Elena Filipovic, an art historian, is Director and Chief Curator of the Kunsthalle Basel. Among her curatorial projects is the traveling retrospective “Marcel Duchamp: A Work That Is Not a Work ‘of Art'” (2008-2009).

Endorsements:
“In the 1970s Lucy Lippard remarked that Duchamp was already too much written about. How, then, is one to contribute effectively to the Duchamp literature today, given that it has become all the more voluminous since? In The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp Elena Filipovic finds a way, and does so with great intelligence. She claims, rightly, that the dominant readings of Duchamp have led to an occlusion of the ‘fugitive actions’ undertaken by Duchamp vis-à-vis the institution of art, and it is there that she locates her incisive study—specifically on ‘his role as administrator, archivist, art advisor, curator, publicist, reproduction maker, and salesman.’ Rather than see these activities as ancillary to his life as an artist, Filipovic locates them, brilliantly, at its center; they are indeed only ‘apparently marginal.’ This is just the book to reanimate discourse around Duchamp.”
—Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor, Princeton University, author of Compulsive Beauty and Prosthetic Gods

“When an artist becomes a curator today, the exhibition is often treated like an extension of the artist’s medium. A century ago when Duchamp, having ceased to consider himself a professional artist, undertook to help out his friends by designing their exhibitions, did he think like a modernist fixated on medium specificity? This is the classic question that lies behind Elena Filipovic’s careful research in the archives. In light of her new syntheses, she rewrites the question to read: just how did Duchamp open up new possibilities for curators? The answer: the medium was not his message. Duchamp worked without professing, in a series of small, nonretinal steps; he avoided creating a single, prototypical model. He left behind a panorama of new ideas. Filipovic has collected them into a book that curators will come to regard as a resource.”
—Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College, author of Their Common Sense

“In 1959, Marcel Duchamp referred to himself as ‘a non-artist.’ Exactly what he meant by this has never been fully explained until now, a lacuna in the vast literature on this artist that finally has been filled by Elena Filipovic’s marvelous new book, the first to deal with the various activities that preoccupied Duchamp when he wasn’t making art, particularly in the realm of curating (not only his own work, but that of his fellow artists in various exhibitions that he oversaw). Filipovic argues that these activities occur with such frequency and consistency in Duchamp’s life that they must be considered an integral component of his creative endeavors. The result is an entirely new way to look at the work of this important and highly influential artist.”
—Francis M. Naumann, author of The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost

“Yes, another Duchamp book. The one we least expected, but perhaps the one that we now need the most. Elena Filipovic’s brilliant book locates a ‘curatorial’ logic at the heart of Duchamp’s (deeply fascinating, often confusing, and impossibly disparate) activities. But more crucial even than its tracing of a long-ignored curatorial modernism, this book will in turn challenge what it might mean to curate today, at precisely the moment curators increasingly claim an artistic dimension for their own work.”
—George Baker, Professor of Art History, UCLA, author of The Artwork Caught by the Tail

File under: Marcel Duchamp Elena Filipovic The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Theory / Essay

TENSION 21
The Duchamp Factor / The Biennale Stripped Bare, June 1990

1990, English
Softcover, 76 pages, 23 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 21 (June 1990) features "The Readymade Disaster" by John Sampson, "Paraculture" by Chris McAuliffe, Neil Dawson by Jim and Mary Barr and Robert Leonard, Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals by John Sampson, 8th Biennale of Sydney : Certain Relations in 20th Century Art by Catharine Lumby, Christina Davidson, Max Delany, John Young and Dale Frank, Marcel Proust by Gerald Murnane, Martin Heidegger by Fergus Armstrong, Giorgio de Chirico by Tony Clark, Marcel Duchamp by Peter Tyndall, Surrealism by Rosslynd Piggott, Peter Ellis, and Jon Cattapan, "Rock'n'Roll" by Kevin Murray, Roger Taylor, Chris Dyson and Jon Campbell, "New Wave Cinema" by Ross Harley and Scott Murray, "Gilles Deleuze and Cinema" by Adrian Martin, Tim Jones by Ashley Crawford, reviews, and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Jon Campbell Neil Dawson Dale Frank Marcel Duchamp Giorgio de Chirico Peter Tyndall Rosslynd Piggott Jon Cattapan Tim Jones John Sampson Jim & Mary Barr Robert Leonard Catharine Lumby Christina Davidson Max Delany John Young Dale Frank Marcel Proust Gerald Murnane Martin Heidegger Fergus Armstrong Tony Clark Peter Tyndall Rosslynd Piggott Peter Ellis Jon Cattapan Kevin Murray Roger Taylor Chris Dyson Jon Campbell Ross Harley Scott Murray Gilles Deleuze drian Martin Ashley Crawford Tension / South Yarra Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Australian Art Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism

Documenta 6
Complete 3 volume boxset, plus booklet

1977, German
Heavy card slipcase (4 vols.), 323 pages; 357 pages; 378 pages; 40 pages; 21 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Paul Dierich / Kassel

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Complete 3 volume boxset exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta 6, the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, Germany, and the artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger. The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition.

Box contains volume 1: painting - sculpture - performance (320 pages) / volume 2: photography - film - video (357 pages) / volume 3: drawings - utopian design - books (376 pages + show) / special edition of exhibition information booklet (40 pages + show); essays by Lothar Romain, Bazon Brock, Karl Oskar Blase, Klaus Honnef, Evelyn Weiss, Manfred Schneckenburger, Arnold Bode, Wieland Schmied, and Lothar Lang.

Artists featured throughout include Francis Bacon, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerd Baukhage, Enzo Cacciola, Louis Cane, Chuck Close, Ulrich Erben, Winfred Gaul, Raimund Girke, Kuno Gonschior, Camille Graeser, Gotthard Graubner, Nancy Graves, Alan Green, Richard Hamilton, Heijo Hangen, Bernhard Heisig, Michael Heizer, Edgar Hofschen, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Attila Kovács, László Lakner, Roy Lichtenstein, Markus Lüpertz, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Gerhard Merz, Rune Mields, Carmengloria Morales, Malcolm Morley, Claudio Olivieri, Roman Opalka, Palermo, A.R. Penck, Lucio Pozzi, Hans-Peter Reuter, Gerhard Richter, Claude Rutault, Willi Sitte, Frank Stella, Werner Tübke, Bernar Venet, Andy Warhol, Reindert Wepko van de Wint, Gianfranco Zappetini, Jerry Zeniuk, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Christian Boltanski, Bettina Brand, Heinz Breloh, James Collins, Zdenek Felix, Reinhold Hohl, Gabrielle Honnef-Harling, Erich Kuby, Werner Lippert, Bernd Lohse, Felix H. Mann, Hilmar Pabel, Georg Reinhardt, Liselotte Strelow, Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Peter Ackermann, Michael von Biel, Fernando Botero, Miguel Condé, Renato Guttoso, Horst Janssen, Giacomo Manzù, Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Schmitz, Rudolf Schoofs, André Thomkins, Bodo Baumgarten, Blythe Bohnen, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Rupprecht Geiger, Hetum Gruber, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Nino Malfatti, Bob Ryman, Jan Schoonhoven, Lee U-Fan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick.

Texts in German.

Also includes an exhibition guide booklet in the same format as the 3 main catalogue volumes.
Good copy throughout with general tanning and age wear to box and books, some knocking and tape-mended cracking to the box binding corners and edging.

File under: Lothar Romain Arnold Bode Manfred Schneckenburger Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Lothar Lang Francis Bacon Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerd Baukhage Enzo Cacciola Louis Cane Chuck Close Ulrich Erben Winfred Gaul Raimund Girke Kuno Gonschior Camille Graeser Gotthard Graubner Nancy Graves Alan Green Richard Hamilton Heijo Hangen Bernhard Heisig Michael Heizer Edgar Hofschen Jasper Johns Willem de Kooning Attila Kovács László Lakner Roy Lichtenstein Markus Lüpertz Wolfgang Mattheuer Gerhard Merz Rune Mields Carmengloria Morales Malcolm Morley Claudio Olivieri Roman Opalka Palermo A.R. Penck Lucio Pozzi Hans-Peter Reuter Gerhard Richter Claude Rutault Willi Sitte Frank Stella Werner Tübke Bernar Venet Andy Warhol Reindert Wepko van de Wint Gianfranco Zappetini Jerry Zeniuk Bernhard Johannes Blume Christian Boltanski Bettina Brand Heinz Breloh James Collins Zdenek Felix Reinhold Hohl Gabrielle Honnef-Harling Erich Kuby Werner Lippert Bernd Lohse Felix H. Mann Hilmar Pabel Georg Reinhardt Liselotte Strelow Ann Wilde Jürgen Wilde Peter Ackermann Michael von Biel Fernando Botero Miguel Condé Renato Guttoso Horst Janssen Giacomo Manzù Pablo Picasso Wolfgang Schmitz Rudolf Schoofs André Thomkins Bodo Baumgarten Blythe Bohnen Pinchas Cohen Gan Rupprecht Geiger Hetum Gruber Eva Hesse Sol LeWitt Nino Malfatti Robert Ryman Jan Schoonhoven Lee U-Fan Wieland Schmied Rainer Werner Fassbinder Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Bernd and Hilla Becher Lothar Romain Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Manfred Schneckenburger Arnold Bode Wieland Schmied Lothar Lang Paul Dierich / Kassel Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Dada Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Pop Art Sound / Music Fluxus

The Blind Man
Edited by Marcel Duchamp & Beatrice Wood & Henri-Pierre Roché

2017, English
Printed card box containing publications and 2 posters
Published by Ugly Duckling Presse / New York

$125.00 - Out of stock

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Introduction by Sophie Seita. Translations by Elizabeth Zuba.

The Blind Man was a key magazine of the early 20th century, the product of a rich network of proto-Dada, modernist and other avant-garde New York salons and publications that introduced audiences to Dada in the US.

Produced by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood and Henri-Pierre Roché, only two issues of the Blind Man ever appeared, but these included a who’s who of the New York and Paris avant-gardes: Mina Loy, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Francis Picabia, Gabrielle Buffet, Allen Norton, Clara Tice, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Charles Duncan, Erik Satie, Carl Van Vechten and Louise Norton all appeared in its pages.

Allegedly, the fate of the Blind Man was decided in a chess game between Roché and Picabia (who was about to put out his own Dada publication, 391). And the magazine went out with a bang-its final issue has gone down in art history for featuring Stieglitz’s iconic photograph of Duchamp’s "Fountain" and a defense of that work, seen now as perhaps the most important artwork of the 20th century.

The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917 brings back the magazine in a facsimile reprint, along with reproductions of the Ridgefield Gazook and the poster for the Blind Man’s Ball designed by Beatrice Wood, all packaged together in a handsome boxed set.

File under: Mina Loy Louise Norton Robert Carlton Brown Erik Satie Walter Arensberg Francis Picabia Alfred Stieglitz Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Beatrice Wood Sophie Seita Marcel Duchamp Henri-Pierre Roché Ugly Duckling Presse / New York Art Periodicals Dada Fiction / Poetry

Max Ernst
Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher

1970, German
Softcover (printed cloth), 154 pages, 23 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of this wonderful cloth-covered, 1970 monograph on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany his solo exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein, in Stuttgart in 1970.

Max Ernst "Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher" ("Paintings, Sculptures, Collages, Frottage, Books") is a handsomely designed and profusely illustrated book covering much of his diverse career of work in full-colour and black and white plates. Includes a chronology (1909-1968), bibliography, list of works, and texts by Werner Spies, Lothar Pretzell, Helmut R. Leppien, Uwe M. Schneede, and a series of texts by Max Ernst himself, covering topics of Dada, Nature, Collage, Surrealism, etc. All texts in German.

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Very Good, well preserved and clean copy.

File under: Max Ernst Helmut R. Leppien Lothar Pretzell Uwe M. Schneede Werner Spies Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada

VINYL : Records & Covers by Artists
Edited by Guy Schraenen

2005, English / German
Softcover, 270 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen

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This large, detailed catalogue forms a unique and important document, which was produced to accompany an exhibition at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 21.8. - 27.11.2005 and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 16.5. - 1.10.2006 showcasing a selection of some 800 pieces from the collection of Guy Schraenen. The main of this collection comprises vinyl records and covers by artists, musicians and poets in LP, single and other formats, alongside other sound media (tapes and CDs). Posters and books are also included. The exhibition shows artists (such as Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley, Öyvind Fahlström, Art & Language and Hermann Nitsch) and artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century through this complex medium of the vinyl cover, with its dual visual and audible components. Here Guy Schraenen has edited together an extensive visual catalogue of these historical objects.

A wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of modern sound art and the artistic medium of the vinyl sleeve, especially in the fields of Avantgarde, Electro-Acoustic, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Sound-Poetry, Art Rock, Industrial, Power-Electronics....

Henri Chopin, A.R. Penck, Brion Gysin, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Arman, Karel Appel, Öyvind Fahlström, Pierre Henry, Art & Language, Peter Brötzmann, Red Krayola, Ernst Jandl, Vito Acconci, Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Tony Conrad, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Jean Tinguely, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Terry Fox, Terry Riley, Sun Ra, Pandit Pran Nath, Albrecht/d., Robert Ashley, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Poly Bury, Charlemagne Palestine, Carl Andre, Brian Eno, Mike Kelley, Sonic Youth, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Michael Snow, Roland Topor, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik ... just the tip of the iceberg.

Very Good copy of the rare first printing from Bremen.

File under: A.R. Penck Albrecht/d. Andy Warhol Arman Bob Cobbing Brian Eno Brion Gysin Carl Andre Charlemagne Palestine Derek Bailey Dieter Roth Ernst Jandl George Brecht Han Bennink Hanne Darboven Harold Budd Henri Chopin Henry Flynt Hermann Nitsch Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely John Cage Jon Gibson Joseph Beuys Karel Appel La Monte Young Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner Marcel Duchamp Marian Zazeela Meredith Monk Michael Nyman Michael Snow Mike Kelley Nam June Paik Pandit Pran Nath Peter Brötzmann Philip Glass Pierre Henry Pierre Schaeffer Pol Bury Red Krayola Robert Ashley Robert Filliou Roland Topor Roman Opalka Sonic Youth Steve Reich Sun Ra Terry Fox Terry Riley Tony Conrad Vito Acconci Yoko Ono Yves Klein Öyvind Fahlström Art & Language Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen Art Dada Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Pop Art Sound / Music Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Apostrophe Duchamp
Edited by Edward Colless (DOCUMENT SERIES No.1)

2018, English
Softcover, 179 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by A+A / Melbourne

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Apostrophe Duchamp is the first book in A+a Document Series. The book explores the effect of the touring exhibition of Marcel Duchamp’s work through-out Australia and New Zealand had on local artistic practice and debate.

Editor: Edward Colless
Authors: Donald Brook, Rex Butler, Edward Colless, A.D.S Donaldson, Monique Fong, Marcus Moore, Tom Picton-Warlow, Terry Smith, Daniel Thomas

In 1967 and 1968 an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking avant-garde art, from the Mary
Sisler Collection, toured New Zealand and Australia. The exhibition included some of the most famous of Duchamp’s readymades, such as the Bicycle Wheel and the inverted urinal, Fountain. The exhibition’s arrival in Sydney and Melbourne in 1968 coincided with the visit of the eminent and controversial US art critic Clement Greenberg, who delivered the first Power Lecture at the University of Sydney. In his lecture, Avantgarde Attitudes, Greenberg swiped at Duchamp’s ready-mades for being ‘easy’ art. The same year the National Gallery of Victoria re-opened on St Kilda Road with The Field, an exhibition of so-called colour field painting.

The following year Donald Brook delivered a riposte to Greenberg, and to the critical theory sustaining post-painterly abstraction, in his Power Lecture, Flight from the Object. A battleground had formed. This book, the first in the series of Documents from Art+Australia, charts the dramatic juncture of these competing and combative artistic orientations, and the stakes in what increasingly became, with the emergence of conceptual art and expanded artistic media, a challenge to modernist orthodoxy.

Contributors:
Donald Brook was active in establishing the Tin Sheds workshop, as Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide, he established the Experimental Art Foundation.

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History and teaches in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne. He has recently completed a history of UnAustralian art with A.D.S. Donaldson.

Edward Colless is a senior lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Monique Fong moved from Paris to the United States in 1951, where she met Marcel Duchamp. She wrote her first text on Duchamp in 1966, and then translated Octavio Paz’s first essay on Duchamp, ‘The Castle of Purity’, and later his second essay on the artist, ‘Appearance Stripped Bare’.

Marcus Moore earned his PhD in art history on the topic of Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand art, subsequently curating the important historical exhibition Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1965–2011 (Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2012).

Tom Picton-Warlow is a consultant in business analytics and strategy, program and project management and innovation in the areas of oil and gas, mining, e-commerce, merchant and retail banking, health, nutrition and exercise.

Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School.

Daniel Thomas AM became a curator (eventually chief curator) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1958. In 1978, he became founding head of Australian art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and from 1984 to 1990 was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. He is now based in Tasmania and writes occasionally on Australian art.

A+A Publishing, Art + Australia’s small book imprint, has been established to provide a new platform for critical writing around contemporary art and culture and to consider new ways of writing and reading art history. Publications out of A+A Publishing are speci cally conceived to to provoke debate about signi cant moments in the development of art in this country and to bring aspects of Australian visual culture to light, for both local and international audiences.

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Marcel Duchamp Donald Brook Rex Butler Edward Colless A.D.S Donaldson Monique Fong Marcus Moore Tom Picton-Warlow Terry Smith Daniel Thomas A+A / Melbourne Art Australian Art Dada Theory / Essay

Pioneers of Modern Typography
By Herbert Spencer

1969, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lund Humphries / London

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First edition of the iconic, very collectible, "Pioneers of Modern Typography" - the bible/standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography since it's original publication in 1969. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the "heroic" period of modern design and typography, the beginning of which he traces to the publication in Le Figaro of the Italian artist Marinetti's Futurist manifesto. He discusses the work of such "pioneers" as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He examines the artistic background of the new concepts in graphic design, and traces the influences of futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, suprematism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of the new typography, shown in genres that range from posters and magazine covers to Apollinaire's "figurative poetry." Spencer chose a wide variety of paper stocks for individual signatures, giving each spotlighted designer a unique look. The engravings and spot colour work match the super sharp design if the book, with many of the works printed in 4 colours. The printing of this first Lund Humphries edition far surpasses any of the MIT reprints that followed.

Features the work of : El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, H. N. Werkman, Piet Zwart, Paul Schuitema, Alexander Rodchenko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Jan Tschichold, Guillame Apollinaire, Max Bill, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Henryk Berlewi, Lewis Carroll, Walter Dexel, Lionel Feininger, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Vilmos Huszar, Iliazd, Johannes Itten, Oscar Jespers, Lajos Kassak, Senkin Klutisis, Fernand Leger, Wyndham Lewis, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Christian Morgenstern, Paul van Ostaijen, Jozef Peeters, Enrico Pramolini, Man Ray, Peter Rohl, Pietro Saga, Christian Schad, Joost Schmidt, Ardengo Soffici, Kate Steinitz, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Ladislav Sutnar, Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Karel Tiege, Lucio Venna, Teresa Zarnower.

Very Good-Fine copy in Very Good original dust jacket, preserved under plastic sleeve.

File under: El Lissitzky Theo van Doesburg Kurt Schwitters H. N. Werkman Piet Zwart Paul Schuitema Alexander Rodchenko László Moholy-Nagy Herbert Bayer Jan Tschichold Max Bill Alvin Langdon Coburn Henryk Berlewi Lewis Carroll Walter Dexel Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Hannah Hoch Vilmos Huszár Iliazd Johannes Itten Oscar Jespers Lajos Kassak Senkin Klutisis Fernand Leger Wyndham Lewis Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Christian Morgenstern Paul van Ostaijen Jozef Peeters Man Ray Peter Rohl Pietro Saga Christian Schad Joost Schmidt Ardengo Soffici Kate Steinitz Wladyslaw Strzeminski Ladislav Sutnar Mieczyslaw Szczuka Karel Tiege Lucio Venna Teresa Zarnower Lyonel Feininger Enrico Prampolini Guillaume Apollinaire Lund Humphries / London Art Bauhaus Graphic Design / Typography Dada Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Theory / Essay

Z
Lagerkatalog 1970

1970, German
Softcover, 92 pages, 11 x 17 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Galerie Rudolph Zwirner / Köln

$55.00 - Out of stock

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"Z" is a great, unsuspecting pocketbook from Galerie Rudolph Zwirner in 1970, collecting together a wonderful group of works by 78 artists (Yves Klein, Richard Tuttle, Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, René Magritte, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kenneth Noland, Daniel Spoerri, Frank Stella, Jean Tinguely, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Jasper Johns, Martial Raysse, Dieter Rot, Franz Erhart Walther, Bruno Goller, Morris Louis, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Konrad Klapheck, Lucio Fontana, Blinky Palermo, Hundertwasser, Gerhard Richter, Antoni Tapies, Andy Warhol, George Grosz, Robert Graham, Allen Jones, Henri Michaux, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Oskar Schlemmer, Yves Tanguy, Louis Soutter, Tom Wesselmann, Toyen, Wols, Larry Bell, Dan Flavin, Panamarenko, Sol Lewitt, etc.) across painting, sculpture, drawings, collage and multiples, all reproduced in black and white across this almost entirely visual volume.

Condition: Very good (light wear only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Allen Jones Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Blinky Palermo Bruno Goller Cy Twombly Dan Flavin Daniel Spoerri Dieter Roth Donald Judd Frank Stella Franz Erhard Walther George Grosz Gerhard Richter Henri Michaux Hundertwasser Jasper Johns Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jim Dine Kenneth Noland Konrad Klapheck Larry Bell László Moholy-Nagy Louis Soutter Lucio Fontana Martial Raysse Max Ernst Morris Louis Oskar Schlemmer Otto Dix Panamarenko René Magritte Richard Linder Richard Tuttle Robert Graham Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein Salvador Dalí Sol Lewitt Tom Wesselmann Toyen Wols Yves Klein Yves Tanguy Claes Oldenburg Galerie Rudolph Zwirner / Köln Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Surrealism Fluxus Minimal Art Dada

documenta-Dokumente 1955-1968

1972, German
Hardcover, 216 pages, 24.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel

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documenta - Dokumente 1955 - 1968 (Four International Exhibitions of Modern Art), was published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag, Kassel in 1972. This clothbound hardcover book of texts (by Dieter Westecker, Carl Eberth, Werner Lengemann, Erich Müller) and photographs of the first four documenta exhibitions, is quite a unique publication. Written at the suggestion of former students and collaborators of Documenta initiator Arnold Bode, it does not replace a documenta chronicle or a scientific study of individual facts. On the contrary, the textual and pictorial material is selected from a technical point of view, processed and presented in a comprehensible form to stimulate detailed investigations into the exhibition-presentations. The bulk of the photographic documentation is of visitor reception and interaction with the installations of artworks, including those of Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Lee Bontecou, Victor Pasmore, Marino Marini, Jean Dubuffet, Konrad Klapheck, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Walter de Maria, Eduardo Paolozzi, Phillip King, Erich Hauser, Ernest Trova, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Carl Andre, William Tucker, Peter Brüning, David Smith, Edward Keinholz, Dan Flavin, Morris Louis, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, James RosenquisThomas Lenck, Francis Bacon, Horst Antes, Shinkichi Tajiri, Christo, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Bernard Schultze, Otto Herbert Hajek, Jacques Lipchitz, Lynn Chadwick, Paul Delvaux, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Max Bill, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Giogio de Chirico, Victor Vasarley, Zoran Music, Giuseppe Capogrossi, and many others.

Texts in German. First and only edition.
Vert Good copy with original dust jacket.

File under: Constantin Brancusi Lee Bontecou Victor Pasmore Marino Marini Jean Dubuffet Konrad Klapheck George Segal Robert Indiana Claes Oldenburg Walter de Maria Eduardo Paolozzi Phillip King Erich Hauser Ernest Trova Michelangelo Pistoletto Carl Andre William Tucker Peter Brüning David Smith Edward Keinholz Dan Flavin Morris Louis Sol Lewitt Robert Morris Frank Stella Tom Wesselmann James RosenquisThomas Lenck Francis Bacon Horst Antes Shinkichi Tajiri Christo Jackson Pollock Karel Appel Bernard Schultze Otto Herbert Hajek Jacques Lipchitz Lynn Chadwick Paul Delvaux Helen Frankenthaler Wassily Kandinsky Fernand Leger Max Bill Joan Miro Henry Moore Pablo Picasso Robert Rauschenberg Giogio de Chirico Victor Vasarley Zoran Music Giuseppe Capogrossi Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Pop Art Bauhaus Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic SALE

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

Francis Picabia
I am a Beautiful Monster : Poetry, Prose, and Provocation

2012, English
Softcover, 486 pages, 17 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator. Picabia's poetry and prose is belligerent, abstract, polemical, radical, and sometimes simply baffling. For too long, Picabia's writings have been presented as raw events, rule-breaking manifestations of inspirational carpe diem. This book reveals them to be something entirely different: maddening in their resistance to meaning, full of outrageous posturing, and hiding a frail, confused, and fitful personality behind egoistic bravura.
I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of of Picabia's significant publications, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

File under: Francis Picabia Francis Picabia The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Dada Fiction / Poetry Painting Surrealism Drawing

Underground Film : A Critical History
By Parker Tyler

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 250 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd / London

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First hardcover edition of Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler and published in London in 1971.

Parker Tyler (1904-1974), one of the few great American film critics, was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book, Tyler evaluated the Underground in general (from "Le Folie de Docteur Tube" by Abel Gance (1915) to "I Am Curious (Yellow)" by Vilgot Sjoman (1969)) and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. Like Tyler's Screening of the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, Underground Film is one of the masterpieces of cinema literature.

From the book jacket:
Parker Tyler was the first critic to write seriously about the early Underground cinema, especially about Stan Brakhage, Sidney Peterson, Gregory Markopoulos, Willard Maas and Maya Deren. Here he assesses their work, together with that of Kenneth Anger, Stan Vanderbeek, Andy Warhol, Bruce Connor, Paul Sharis, Charles Boultenhouse and other new film-makers. He discusses specific films, showing the variety of aims and techniques, and tracing their origins in Dada and Surrealism and in the classics of Bunuel, Cocteau, Clair, Eisenstein and Wiene. Parker Tyler's early criticism (e.g. Magic and Myth of the Movies) was concerned with the hidden dreams within the Hollywood commercial "establishment". The dreams have now come to the surface in the Underground cinema, which is concerned with new ways of perceiving, new inventions in unusual form the sound, new experiences of a clandestine or libertine nature, new theories of aesthetics. With taste and judgement Mr Tyler picks his way through the achievements and failures of a desperate, fertile, explosive period in the history of the cinema.

Chapters:

The Underground versus the Taboo on Reality 2. The Exploding Peephole of the Underground /3. Toward Exhibition and Exhibitionism 4. Popularizing Peepshows: the Infantile Gimmick 5. No Establishment at all? 6. Underground Climb: from Exhibitionism to Art 7. Underground Infantilism: Surfacing Superstars 8. Superstar Space: the Playroom 9. Can the Technician Escape the Pad? 10. The Pad Can Be Commercialized 11. Performing Children, Performing Madmen 12. The Paranoiac-Critical Kick 13. The Pad's Predecessor: an Archetype 14. Underground Film Is Primitive Film 15. Where the Rub is 16. The Abstractness of Avant-Gardes 16. Extensive filmography from avant-garde to underground film, from "Le Folie de Docteur Tube" by Abel Gance (1915) to "I Am Curious (Yellow)" by Vilgot Sjoman (1969).

File under: Jean Cocteau Sergei Eisenstein Luis Buñuel Stan Brakhage Sidney Peterson Gregory Markopoulos Willard Maas Maya Deren Kenneth Anger Stan Vanderbeek Andy Warhol Paul Sharis Charles Boultenhouse Bruce Conner Parker Tyler Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd / London Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism Eros Out-of-print / Rare

Experimental Cinema
A Fifty-Year Evolution

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 168 pages, 25.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio Vista / London

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First hardcover edition of this classic book by David Curtis, published by the great Studio Vista in 1971.

"In this wide-ranging survey, David Curtis traces the development of film experimentation from the pioneer narrative efforts of Edwin S. Porter and the fantasmagoric and special effects of Emile Cohl and Norman Dawn early in the twentieth century to the New American Cinema films of Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Ron Rice, and Andy Warhol in the 1960s and now in the 1970s. Mr Curtis regards the experimental film as a dynamic contribution to modern art, and he describes the excitement and struggle of film-makers discovering and expanding their medium. Among the many forms, styles, and ways of working that he illustrates and analyses are Abel Gance's rapid-cutting technique, Walter Ruttmann's 'city symphonies', Oskar Fischinger's abstract approaches, Len Lye's hand-painted images and kinetic use of colour separations, Curtis Harrington's introspective cinema, Francis Thompson's artistry of distortion, the collage animations of Stan Vanderbeek, Mike Durford, and Victor and Silvio Loffredo, Bruce Conner's adaptation of montage, Scott Bartlett's and Pat O'Neill's use of the optical printer, the computer films of Vanderbeck, Ken Knowlton, Marc Adrian, and Denys Irving, and the structural films of Kurt Kren, George Landow, and Mike Snow. Also examined are the accomplishments of such significant figures as Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Man Ray, Fernand Léger, and Dimitri Kirsanov in the 1920s; Jean Cocteau, Watson and Webber, and Mary Ellen Bute in the 1930s, and the key American experimentalists Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and the Whitney Brothers among them, and the Canadian Norman McLaren in the 1940s, as well as the shifting cinematic approaches of Luis Buñuel. Represented are film-makers from Japan, England, Russia, Canada, and the United States, in addition to many previously uncharted independent film-makers of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries of Europe."

File under: Norman McLaren Viking Eggeling Hans Richter Man Ray Fernand Léger Dimitri Kirsanov Stan Vanderbeek Mike Durford Victor and Silvio Loffredo Kurt Kren George Landow Michael Snow Jean Cocteau James Sibley Watson Melville Webber Mary Ellen Bute Luis Buñuel Abel Gance Ken Knowlton Marc Adrian Denys Irving Oskar Fischinger Scott Bartlett Pat O'Neill Walter Ruttmann Edwin S. Porter Emile Cohl Norman Dawn Stan Brakhage Gregory Markopoulos Ron Rice Andy Warhol David Curtis Studio Vista / London Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Surrealism Dada Eros

Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Artists surveyed include Francis Alys, Arakawa, Rebecca Belmore, AA Bronson, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Andrea Fraser, Madeline Gins, Tehching Hsieh, Mary Kelly, Henri Michaux, Linda M. Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Raivo Puusemp, Rammellzee, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Gregory Sholette, Aliza Shvarts, Situationist International, Jonas Staal, Stelarc, Fiona Tan, Min Tanaka, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Cecilia Vicuña

Writers include Kathy Acker, Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Judith Butler, Jennifer Doyle, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya V. Hartman, Maulana Karenga, Julia Kristeva, Saba Mahmood, Viktor Misiano, Fred Moten, Paul B. Preciado, Lane Relyea, Suely Rolnik, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, Winnie Won Yin Wong

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

File under: Francis Alÿs Rebecca Belmore AA Bronson Judy Chicago Lygia Clark Andrea Fraser Madeline Gins Tehching Hsieh Mary Kelly Henri Michaux Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Adrian Piper Raivo Puusemp Rammellzee Gerhard Richter Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann Gregory Sholette Aliza Shvarts Situationist International Jonas Staal Stelarc Fiona Tan Min Tanaka Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Cecilia Vicuña Shusaku Arakawa Linda Montano The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus Dada

Marcel Duchamp
Two Series of Etchings : The Lovers, Large Glass and Related Works

1987, Japanese
Softcover (french-flaps), 32 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by M. Gallery / Tokyo

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Perfect copy of this very rare Japanese publication on Marcel Duchamp. Published to accompany an exhibition of Duchamp's work in Tokyo entitled "Etchings", 6 April-2 May, 1987, "Two Series of Etchings : The Lovers, Large Glass and Related Works" beautifully reproduces 35 etchings dating 1965 (Large Glass and Related Works) - 1967/68 (Lovers), complete with full details, captions and reference images.

Introductory text by Yoshiaki Tono and 1965 portrait of Duchamp by Ugo Mulas. Exhibition brochure inserted along with other ephemera.

Duchamp insisted that art should be at the service of the mind, as opposed to a particular skill or material, and he brought to his art an interest in traditionally non-art subject matter, such as linguistics, mathematics and game theory.

File under: Marcel Duchamp M. Gallery / Tokyo Art Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation

Art International
Vol. XIV/9 November 1970

1970, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by James Fitzsimmons / Lugano

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Art International, Vol. XIV/9 November 1970
Published and Edited by James Fitzsimmons
cover: Eugenio Carmi

Features: Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Aristide Maillol, Clement Meadmore, Lee Bontecou, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, R. B. Kitaj, Kurt Schwitters, Ross Woodman, Harry Soviak, The Israel Museum, James Rosati, Frances Picabia, Raffael Ferrer, Alexander Archipenko, Paolo Soleri, Ralph Goings, Alex Katz, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Hans Bellmer, Frank Stella, David Aspden, John Armstrong, Gunter Christmann, Ken Reinhard, Jorge Camacho, Tetsumi Kudo, Michael Heizer, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Pol Bury, Raoul Ubac, Antoni Tàpies, Llyn Foulkes, and many more.

Art International was a highly regarded international art journal based in Switzerland from 1957-1984. With international editors and contributing writers, A.I. was issued 10 times per year and was published and edited by James A. Fitzsimmons.

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