World Food Books

The Dome Cookbook
by Steve Baer

1969, English
Softcover (newsprint newspaper), 40 pages, 28 x 38 cm
1st Edition, third print,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cookbook Fund — Lama Foundation / New Mexico

$490.00 - In stock -

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The seminal, and very rare, Dome Cookbook — the first widely-read dome instruction manual, created by the founder of Zomeworks Corp, Solar Pioneer, a resident of Drop City, and beatnik architect and engineer Steve Baer in New Mexico in 1968, and a legendary piece of counterculture publishing. Baer’s eccentric, over-sized, hand-lettered 1968 work was written with daring, unskilled builders in mind as its audience — the back-to-the-land movement. "You don’t need to know that much, you just need to go ahead and try it out." Filled with diagram's and photographs, particularly in Drop City, a hippie community founded in 1966 in southern Colorado, Dome Cookbook encouraged the resourcefulness and innovation Baer found essential in his own experiments and elaborations on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic forms and the creation of his own geodesic-inspired "zome". Published by Cookbook Fund — Lama Foundation, in New Mexico in 1969, in this first edition, third print.

Very Good copy with tanning and some light edge wear.

File under: Steve Baer Steve Baer Cookbook Fund — Lama Foundation / New Mexico Counterculture Ecology Anarchism Out-of-print / Rare Ecology / Earth

Music of the Whole Earth
by David Reck

1977, English
Softcover, 545 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Scribners / New York

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Music of the Whole Earth from 1977.

"I look upon the musician/composer," David Reck has said, "as a carpenter of sound (also a poet/philosopher/and highwire artist). I am delighted by the processes of making and building (the bricks can be invisible) and doing and thinking. I like to be surprised (by myself and others). But I study music, and play it, primarily for that magical touch, an emotional contact with music itself that mystically makes me (and others) more human, more attuned to the ecology of ourselves and the world."

In this extraordinary 545-page book, ethnomusicologist David Reck "invites you to discover the musical universe. MUSIC OF THE WHOLE EARTH explores the richness and variety of sound, instruments, and music from many different cultures and a great variety of musical traditions. Tribal, folk, and classical music of India, Tibet, China, Japan, the American Indians, Southeast Asia, Java and Bali, Oceania/Polynesia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas — including pop, rock, jazz, soul, and country. The mythical origins of music, endangered musics, ensembles, the ecology of sound, and music in relation to art, magic, ritual, theater, dance, and life-styles. The anatomy and mechanics of instruments, with special sections on how to make them yourself. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps, and diagrams, MUSIC OF THE WHOLE EARTH narrows the gap between the audience and the performer and between our own musical culture and that of other peoples."

Very Good copy.

File under: David Reck Scribners / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Ecology Ecology / Earth Occult / Esoterica Art

Against Civilization : Readings and Reflections
by John Zerzan

1999 / 2005, English
Softcover, 260 pages, 21.5 x 13.2 cm
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

$35.00 - In stock -

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Against Civilization, first published in 1999 by Uncivilized Books and out of print for several years, is the well-regarded primer to Green Anarchism, Anarcho-Primitivism and the most radical but relevant form of anarchism to develop in the past decade. Anarcho-primitivism is a shorthand term for a radical current that critiques the totality of civilisation from an anarchist perspective and seeks to initiate a comprehensive transformation of human life. Revised and expanded edition.

File under: John Zerzan Feral House / Los Angeles Theory / Essay Anarchism Ecology / Earth Animal Rights / Veganism

Future Primitive Revisited
by John Zerzan

1994 / 2012, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

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As our society is stricken with repeated technological disasters, and the apocalyptic problems that go with them, the "neo-primitivist" essays of John Zerzan seem more relevant than ever.

"Future Primitive," (1994) the core innovative essay of Future Primitive Revisited, has been out of print for years. This new edition is updated with never-before-printed essays that speak to a youthful political movement and influential writers such as Derrick Jensen and Paul Theroux.

An active participant in the contemporary anarchist resurgence, John Zerzan has been an invited speaker at both radical and conventional events on several continents. His weekly Anarchy Radio broadcast streams live on KWVA radio.

"Anyone who travels with his eyes open understands the sense of much of what you have written, and the longer I live the greater my contempt for the opportunists who run governments and dictate our lives with technology."—Paul Theroux

"Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious."—Derrick Jensen

"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift for us all."—Enrico Manicardi, author of Liberi dalla Civiltá (Free from Civilization)

"Of course we should go primitive. This doesn't mean abandoning material needs, tools, or skills, but ending our obsession with such concerns. Declaring for community, our true origin: personal autonomy, trust, mutual support in pursuit of all the joys and troubles of life. Society was a trap—massive, demanding, impersonal and debilitating from day one. So hurry back to the community, friends, and welcome all the consequences of such an orientation. The reasons for fear and despair will only multiply if we remain in this brutal and dangerous state of civilization."—Blok 45 publishing, Belgrade

File under: John Zerzan Feral House / Los Angeles Anarchism Ecology Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Counterculture Theory / Essay

INFORMATION
by Kynaston McShine, Lucy Lippard, et al.

1970, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Extremely rare first 1970 edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art, published to accompany this groundbreaking avant-garde show.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear, single spine crack, all crisp, clean interior and tightly bound copy of a book that usually sees serious page detachments. Best copy we have seen.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Newspaper Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Ettore Sottsass Jr. Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Kynaston McShine Lucy Lippard MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Fluxus Minimal Art Arte Povera Photography Curatorial Art Counterculture Ecology / Earth Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Earth House Hold
Poetry by Gary Snyder

1969, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by New Directions / New York

$25.00 - Out of stock

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First 1969 edition of Earth House Hold by Gary Snyder. Both Pound and Williams have shown how a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meanings of “ecology”) drawn from Gary Snyder’s essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. “As a poet," Snyder tells us, “I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth; the love and Ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.” He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures, a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to “growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation . . . the coming revolution will close the circle––and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past.”

Good—Very Good copy with tanning, previous owners name to title page.

File under: Gary Snyder New Directions / New York Fiction / Poetry Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts

Radical Futurisms : Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come
by T. J. Demos

2023, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21.5 x 14.8 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$48.00 - Out of stock

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What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end--of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. Drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed--Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist--as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, in this book. T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives, arguing that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance.

How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency's cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

File under: T. J. Demos Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Ecology / Earth Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

Gashō Yamamura
Plants

1976, Japanese
Hardcover, 88 pages, 26 x 23.7 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by TB Design Institute / Japan

$380.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, first, limited edition printing of Gashō Yamamura's 1976 masterpiece, "Plants", for which he won the 1st Ina Nobuo Award in the same year. After Yamamura (b. Osaka, 1939—1987) began photographing plants in 1974, he published two incredible, largely unknown collections of his otherworldly botanical photo-studies before his sudden death by suicide in 1987 — “Plants” (1976) and “Botanical Planetarium” (1988). Yamamura's plant photography is like no-other. "Caught in stroboscopic light, the plants stiffen momentarily; they emerge as strange shapes not seen in natural light, rising up and towering high as if by desire." [...] "The perspective is different to how we usually see flower beds and plants; there are no downwards, surveying gazes. Instead, many of Yamamura’s photographs employ an upwards angle, taken in close vicinity to the plants, the way a bug would see them. Here, even the tenderest of flowers appear as bold, towering structures. With this insectuous, un-human perspective, Yamamura carves out the strange and unfamiliar hiding in everyday reality and questions a way of looking that turns its subjects into mere trivialities." [...] "The sights that Yamamura captured expose plants as strange entities that exist in indifference towards human life. At the same time, they let us imagine a world before the presence of human life, or perhaps the world after our disappearance from this earth."—Mika Kobayashi, photography researcher

Includes poetry by Yasuo Fujitomi.
Highly recommended, an absolute favourite.

Yamamura began photographing in high school, focusing mainly on the children in his neighborhood. In 1959, he turned his attention to Americans living in Washington Heights, a residential area in central Tokyo that housed soldiers and their families. His images of American children, shot through fences or wearing masks, convey not only a sense of sinister strangeness and distance, but also the stark economic differences between American and Japanese children immediately after the war. He began photographing plants in the mid-1970s and continued to do so until his suicide at age 47 in 1987.

Very Good copy, light cover wear. Limited edition of 600.

File under: Gashō Yamamura Yasuo Fujitomi TB Design Institute / Japan Ecology / Earth Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Gashō Yamamura
Botanical Planetarium

1988, Japanese
Hardcover, (w. slipcase and obi), 31.5 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ADV communication / Tokyo

$320.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, first edition printing of Gashō Yamamura's 1988 masterpiece, Botanical Planetarium, published posthumously in this lavish, over-sized slip-case edition the year after the photographer's sudden death. After Yamamura (b. Osaka, 1939—1987) began photographing plants in 1974, he published two incredible, largely unknown collections of his otherworldly botanical photo-studies before his sudden death by suicide in 1987 — “Plants” (1976) and “Botanical Planetarium” (1988). Yamamura's plant photography is like no-other. "Caught in stroboscopic light, the plants stiffen momentarily; they emerge as strange shapes not seen in natural light, rising up and towering high as if by desire." “Botanical Planetarium”, which can be translated from the Japanese as “Hunting Flowers”, is Yamamura's photobook of colour plant photography, focussing exclusively on blossoms, the plants’ reproductive organs. "The perspective is different to how we usually see flower beds and plants; there are no downwards, surveying gazes. Instead, many of Yamamura’s photographs employ an upwards angle, taken in close vicinity to the plants, the way a bug would see them. Here, even the tenderest of flowers appear as bold, towering structures. With this insectuous, un-human perspective, Yamamura carves out the strange and unfamiliar hiding in everyday reality and questions a way of looking that turns its subjects into mere trivialities." [...] "The sights that Yamamura captured expose plants as strange entities that exist in indifference towards human life. At the same time, they let us imagine a world before the presence of human life, or perhaps the world after our disappearance from this earth."—Mika Kobayashi, photography researcher

Highly recommended.

Yamamura began photographing in high school, focusing mainly on the children in his neighborhood. In 1959, he turned his attention to Americans living in Washington Heights, a residential area in central Tokyo that housed soldiers and their families. His images of American children, shot through fences or wearing masks, convey not only a sense of sinister strangeness and distance, but also the stark economic differences between American and Japanese children immediately after the war. He began photographing plants in the mid-1970s and continued to do so until his suicide at age 47 in 1987.

Very Good—Near Fine copy preserved in original illustrated slip-case w. original obi-strip, light case/obi wear. Book fine.

File under: Gashō Yamamura ADV communication / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Ecology / Earth

Infernal Proteus (A Musical Herbal)

2002, English
Hardcover + 4 CD, 96 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Anja Offensive / Oregon

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of this luxurious hardcover book and 4 x CD cross-pollination of sound and botany, published in 2022 by Anja Offensive in Oregon. 40 artists are invited to choose a plant, herb or tree they resonate with and craft a song to honour it. From free folk to industrial, neoclassical to dark ambient, each artist contributes to 4 discs with a playtime averaging 67 minutes per disc, as well as artwork, texts, passages, lyrics, quotations, credits to the lavish full-colour art book — a directory of artistic botanical dedications. Includes Makoto Kawabata, Steve Roden, Aube, Lotus Eaters, In Gowan Ring, Allerseelen, Troum, Michael Northam, Apoptose, and many more.

Very Good—Fine copy, all CDs fine.

File under: Makoto Kawabata Steve Roden Aube Lotus Eaters In Gowan Ring Allerseelen Troum Michael Northam Apoptose The Anja Offensive / Oregon Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Ecology / Earth Occult / Esoterica

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$70.00 - Out of stock

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

The Form of Becoming : Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760–1830
by Janina Wellmann

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 424 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Zone Books / New York

$60.00 - Out of stock

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First edition HC, out-of-print.

The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of embryology and a new notion of development, one based on the epistemology of rhythm. It argues that between 1760 and 1830, the concept of rhythm became crucial to many fields of knowledge, including the study of life and living processes.

The book juxtaposes the history of rhythm in music theory, literary theory, and philosophy with the concurrent turn in biology to understanding the living world in terms of rhythmic patterns, rhythmic movement, and rhythmic representations. Common to all these fields was their view of rhythm as a means of organizing time — and of ordering the development of organisms.

Janina Wellmann, a historian of science, has written the first systematic study of visualization in embryology. Embryological development circa 1800 was imagined through the pictorial technique of the series, still prevalent in the field today. Tracing the origins of the developmental series back to seventeenth-century instructional graphics for military maneuvers, dance, and craft work, The Form of Becoming reveals the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life.

Translated by Kate Sturge

As New copy.

File under: Janina Wellmann Zone Books / New York Ecology / Earth Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud
Edited by Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Richard Johns

2019, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 26 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Paul Holberton Publishing / London

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Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud presents new writing on John Ruskin’s vision of art and its relationship with modern society and a changing environment. As part of the re-evaluation of Ruskin, 200 years after his birth in 1819, art historians, scientists, geographers, artists and curators explore the critic’s lifelong commitment to the painted landscapes of JMW Turner and his own artistic ambitions, as well as his prophetic concerns about the world’s darkening skies, pollution and psychological turbulence.

In 1884 John Ruskin spoke out against an encroaching “Storm Cloud”—a darkening of the skies that he attributed to the belching chimneys of the modern world. The imagery of the pollution-stained sky also allowed Ruskin to articulate the internal distress that seemed to engulf him. His analysis of a “blanched sun, blighted grass [and] blinded man” overwhelmed by a modern “plague-wind” expresses both the visible climatic effects of industrialization and the effects of his own worsening mental health. Propelled by bereavement and anxieties over his religious faith, Ruskin became fixated on the skies, “watching a cloud from four in the afternoon to four in the morning”.

This collection of essays examining Ruskin’s distinctive blend of meteorology, morality and social criticism brings new perspectives to one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. Ruskin’s deep and personal engagement with Turner’s work over many decades emerges as a recurring theme. In Turner, Ruskin found the ideal “Modern Painter”—an artist whose powerful sunrises and sunsets, mountains and storms, inspired his own critical engagement with the natural world.

As an artist and critic, Ruskin consistently challenged the way others experienced the world, encouraging his audiences to recognise and record nature’s transient beauty, and doing the same with his own intimately observed drawings of animals, flora and weathered buildings. As an environmentalist, he witnessed a natural world changing before his eyes, as the landscapes, buildings and skies he had seen as a young man came under threat. As an ethical provocateur ahead of his time, he condemned the throwaway culture that spoilt the towns and rivers he loved, urging his audiences to take responsibility for these changes.

Responding to this rich and troubled legacy, the book brings together original contributions by artists and curators, art historians, geographers and climate change specialists, each of whom shares new insights into Ruskin’s concerns about the changing weather patterns and shifting landscapes of the modern world. Individual essays reconsider Ruskin alongside a range of contemporary issues, encompassing mental health, technology, environmental pollution and climate change. The collection’s diverse voices make a compelling case for the continuing relevance of Ruskin and his ways of seeing in the twenty-first century.

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud accompanies a major exhibition at York Art Gallery and Abbot Hall Art Gallery.

As New, out-of-print.

File under: J. M. W. Turner John Ruskin John Ruskin ruskin Paul Holberton Publishing / London Painting Theory / Essay Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Drawing Ecology Ecology / Earth SALE

Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer

2019, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 262 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North – a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination – offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “nonsite,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts – and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art’s very legitimacy.

Into the White uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and unmasterable, something beyond the idea of image itself.

“Making a major contribution to conversations about globalism, art, and ecology, Heuer challenges the complacent understanding of ‘the global Renaissance’ and generates new ways of thinking across disciplinary boundaries.”—Rebecca E. Zorach

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Christopher P. Heuer Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Art Architecture / Interior Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Painting Ecology / Earth

Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance
by Hanna Rose Shell

2012, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more — a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention.

Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage — the static, the serial, and the dynamic — and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind — photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie suits, and instructional films.

Beginning in the domains of natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight.

"There is much to enjoy in all four chapters and without doubt this book, detailing interrelationships of technological advances in photography and film and developments in camouflage media and camouflage consciousness, will live into the future as readers scrutinise it, evaluate it and take its useful and imaginative store of ideas in additional directions."—Ann Elias * History of Photography

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hanna Rose Shell Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Photography Art Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Film / Video Sociology / Politics Painting Crime / Violence Ecology / Earth

Gathering Geographies
Edited by Mara Schwerdtfeger

2022, English
Softcover, , 56 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 50,
Published by Self-Published / Sydney

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Movements, imprints and textures of environmental and anthropologic research built the world of Gathering Geographies – an exhibition at Darren Knight Gallery curated by Mara Schwerdtfeger in 2022. The collection of works questioned how the Earth's movements – weather, time, resources – shape how we gather, act, and move through space, in turn influencing our creativity and history.

Illustrated throughout.
Artists : Arini Byng, Jessie Gall, and Rebecca Jensen (VIC), Marianna Ebersoll (NSW), Lisa Lerkenfeldt (NSW), Nina Nowak (DE / PL), oceanfloor.group (DK), Mara Schwerdtfeger (NSW), Heather Shannon (NSW), Mardi Reardon-Smith (QLD), Lydia Trappenberg (DE). The exhibition reader features essays from Mara Schwerdtfeger, Marianna Ebersoll, and Sally Molloy alongside poetry from Jess Gall, Maira Wilkie, and oceanfloor.group and a score for solo piano by Heather Shannon.

Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies.

File under: Mara Schwerdtfeger Marianna Ebersoll Sally Molloy Heather Shannon Arini Byng Jessie Gall Rebecca Jensen Lisa Lerkenfeldt Nina Nowak oceanfloor.group Mardi Reardon-Smith Lydia Trappenberg Jess Gall Maira Wilkie oceanfloor.group Self-Published / Sydney Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Group Shows / Collections Ecology / Earth

The Great Mother : An Analysis of the Archetype
by Erich Neumann

1963 / 1974, English
Softcover, 565 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Princeton University Press / New York

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Early 1974 Princeton printing of this landmark book exploring the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche.

In this profound and enduring work the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has been represented as goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds. Neumann discerns a universal experience of the maternal as both nurturing and fearsome, an experience rooted in the dialectical relation of growing consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the unconscious and the unknown, symbolized by the Great Mother.

"Neumann's creative intuition has enabled him to read in these records of the past a content and meaning that throws a beam of light on the psychological history of [hu]mankind."—Journal of Analytical Psychology

Very Good copy with erasable light pencil marginalia.

File under: Erich Neumann Princeton University Press / New York Psychoanalysis Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Theory / Essay Whole Earth / Crafts Occult / Esoterica Health Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Ecology / Earth Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism

The Illustrated Anthology of Sorcery, Magic and Alchemy
by Émile Grillot de Givry

1991, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 394 pages, 29 x 23 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zachary Kwinter / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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1991 edition of The Illustrated Anthology of Sorcery, Magic and Alchemy by noted scholar of the occult, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, first published in French in 1929 and in English in 1931 and again 1963. This reprint volume is published in the original size giving full value to the hundreds of illustrations. From raising the dead and foretelling the future to possession, curses, Kabbalah, alchemy, and more, this historical tour of the occult offers a captivating exploration of sorcery and ceremonial magic. Prepared by a noted French historian, it ventures into virtually all of the classical arts, with illustrations derived from paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and architecture, as well as a vast body of literature that includes many rare and beautiful manuscripts from private collections.

Émile Jules Grillot called Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry (1874—1929) was a French Catholic man of letters and occultist, Freemason and pacifist, translator into French of numerous alchemical works including those of Paracelsus.

Very Good copy.

File under: Émile Grillot de Givry Zachary Kwinter / London Art Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Ecology / Earth Health

The Source Family Scrapbook
By Isis Aquarian; Edited by Jodi Wille

2022, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 29.5 x 27.5 cm

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FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group's dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel. Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions by Isis Aquarian, reveal the Source Family's astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod's spiritual awakening to the group's wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group's paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s.

File under: The Source Family Father Yod Jodi Wille Isis Aquarian Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Animal Rights / Veganism Occult / Esoterica Sociology / Politics Photography

Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

2023, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 19 x 25.4 cm
Published by Inventory Press / New York

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Milford Graves (1941–2021) was a revelatory force in music beginning in the mid-1960s, liberating the drummer from the role of time-keeper to instrumental improviser. A pivotal figure in the free jazz movement, he created groundbreaking work with Albert Ayler, the New York Art Quartet, Min Tanaka, and John Zorn, and led the way in artistic self-production. But his kaleidoscopic genius was not bound by music, and it led him to develop an oeuvre unprecedented in its breadth—from healing arts to botany, cardiac research to martial arts.

This fully illustrated catalogue includes documentation from the exhibition A Mind-Body Deal, including hand-painted album covers and posters, idiosyncratic drum sets, recording ephemera, multimedia sculptures, photographs, costumes, and artifacts from his scientific studies. This first-ever overview of Graves as a creative polymath attempts to unlock his unique habitat by gathering his intricate, multifaceted work and exploring the practices and predilections of this extraordinary jazz mind.

Edited by Anthony Elms, Celeste DiNucci, and Mark Christman
Co-Published by Inventory Press and Ars Nova Workshop

File under: Milford Graves Anthony Elms Celeste DiNucci Mark Christman Inventory Press / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Ecology / Earth Health

TOSHI-JUTAKU May 1971
Haus-Rucker-Co cover feature

1971, Japanese
Softcover, 120 pages, 29.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kajima Institute / Tokyo

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Scarce May 1971 issue of Japanese monthly journal of urban housing, Toshi-Jutaku, edited by Masahiro Yoshida. This issue with a cover feature on Haus-Rucker-Co, the Viennese group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter, later joined by Manfred Ortner. Their work explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic structures or prosthetic devices that altered perceptions of space. Such concerns fit with the utopian architectural experiments of the 1960s by groups such as Superstudio, Archizoom, Ant Farm and Coop Himmelblau. Alongside these groups, Haus-Rucker-Co were exploring on the one hand, the potential of architecture as a form of critique, and on the other the possibility of creating designs for technically mediated experimental environments and utopian cities. Includes a fold-out chronology of their projects. The other incredible feature being "Decoration, Urban Decoration & Do-It-Yourself", tracing histories of self-organisation and expression in the form of urban decoration, from William Morris, Art Nouveau and sub-cities to Drop City, road-side attractions, pop interiors and building facades, murals, the city as a dress-up doll, playgrounds, and a wonderful photographic diagram pull-out feature on Tokyo's Ameyoko Shopping Street. Also included articles on Osaka's Senri New Town living environment project, Palawan Hill people's tree houses, architect Atsushi Ueda, toilet design and much more. Published and printed in Japan, Toshi-Jutaku was an important, heavily researched resource of international architecture and urban planning, each issue rich with in-depth articles, technical studies, plans, elevations, profiles, interviews, and much more, spanning the most innovative historical and contemporary developments in the field. Japanese text, only occasional English.

Good copy, light age, wear.

File under: Haus-Rucker-Co Claes Oldenburg Kajima Institute / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Sculpture / Installation Whole Earth / Crafts Ecology / Earth Pop Art

Peter Fend
Africa-Arctic Flyway : Physiocratic States

2022, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Museo Nivola / Orani

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What if art holds solutions to the ecological crises of our time?

For forty-six years, Peter Fend has argued that art premonitions material culture, therefore the means of production, ensuing changes in social relations. Hence, in his view, works by Marcel Duchamp, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Beth Edelson, Paul Sharits, and others, can prefigure ecological restoration and cohabitation. In the late 1970s, artists in New York initiated teams—first Colab, The Offices, and later Ocean Earth and Space Force—to move from critique into effecting real-world change. Initiatives came from Jenny Holzer, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Taro Suzuki, Joan Waltemath, and Eve Vaterlaus, among others, who linked up with scientists to produce reports and analyses with satellite imagery for news media.
Africa-Arctic Flyway: Physiocratic States gathers documents of Peter Fend’s efforts through Ocean Earth for a planet organized according to hydrology—water basins—rather than national and colonial borders. It lays out tools and technologies derived from art, architecture, and science to replace fossil fuels, dams, nuclear industry, and industrial farming. The ensuing proposal for governance builds on what is identified as the first school of economic thought: physiocracy. Here, via satellite-aided eco-taxation, governance pursues an increase in the numbers of fish, marine mammals, migratory birds, and insects. For instance, ideas from Earth art are applied to restoring wetlands and flyways in three swaths—the Americas, East Asia, and Eurafrica—converging on the Arctic. This book focuses on the Eurafrica flyway and surveys four decades of work. It asks, “How do we go from visual art to reality?” Fend answers: “Through architecture.”

Edited by Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff
Foreword by Eve Vaterlaus & Joan Waltemath

File under: Peter Fend Elisa R. Linn Lennart Wolff Eve Vaterlaus Joan Waltemath Sternberg Press / Berlin Museo Nivola / Orani Ecology Ecology / Earth Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Wolfgang Müller
Hausmusik — Stare aus Hjertøya singen Kurt Schwitters

2000, German
Softcover (staple-bound + CD), 32 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Galerie Katze 5 / Berlin

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In the summer of 1997, Wolfgang Müller discovered the house on the small island of Hjertøya opposite the western Norwegian city of Molde, where Kurt Schwitters spent the summer months from 1932. It's full of peeling collages, inscriptions, and painted, crumbling plaster pillars. Up until a few years ago, the door wasn't locked and anyone could get in.

Lying in the grass in front of the house, Wolfgang Müller suddenly heard a starling making strange noises. Somehow, what the bird said seemed familiar to him: they were passages from the Ursonate that an unknown and distant ancestor had overheard from Schwitters many years ago. Starlings are known to be masters of imitation. Coincidentally, Wolfgang Müller had a recording device with him and had the "Ursonate" pressed onto the enclosed CD. It didn't take long for the rights holders to contact Schwitters' work. The case is still ongoing...

Wolfgang Müller is a German artist, author and musician, born 24 October 1957 in Wolfsburg, based in Berlin and Reykjavík, Iceland. Brother of Max Müller.

Out-of-print first only edition of 500 copies, with audio field recording CD. Profusely illustrated throughout with full colour photography by Müller of the interior details of Hjertøya opposite the western Norwegian city of Molde, where Kurt Schwitters' Hjertøya house.

File under: Wolfgang Müller Galerie Katze 5 / Berlin Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Ecology Ecology / Earth Photography

Bruno Munari
A Flower with Love

1973, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 22 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company / New York

$280.00 - Out of stock

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Bruno Munari's one and only A Flower with Love, in the collectable 1973 first hardcover "square" edition, published in English by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. A Flower with Love is beloved Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari's personal ikebana design book. The best ikebana book in the West. Munari's humour and creative playfulness is overflowing in this beautifully illustrated volume, with photographic spreads accompanying Munari's texts and drawings, presenting his whimsical and inventive creations in the Japanese art of flower arrangement, such as arranging dandelions and herbs in wine glasses, the use of a potato as a floral pin frog. Flipping the measured restraint of traditional ikebana on its head and eliminating the elitism we might associate with expensive flower arrangements. There is no force in A Flower With Love. It’s a really gentle, colourful presentation of joy. "...what really matters is the love with which a little daisy, a lavender sprig or some moss are chosen, that one there in particular and not that other one." For the child and adult alike, like most of Munari's wonderful books, A Flower with Love gives us a renewed awareness of the beauty of the world around us.

Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907, Milan – September 30, 1998, Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.

Very Good Copy, Good—VG dust jacket, with single chip to back-top of dj and small closed tears, preserved under mylar. Only mild wear/ageing.

File under: Bruno Munari Bruno Munari Thomas Y. Crowell Company / New York Graphic Design / Typography Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Whole Earth / Crafts Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Ecology / Earth