World Food Books

Into Performance
by Midori Yoshimoto

2005, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rutgers University / New Jersey

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The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is the inordinate amount of revolutionary art that was created by women.

Into Performance fills a critical gap in both American and Japanese art history as it brings to light the historical significance of five women artists–Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota. Unusually courageous and self-determined, they were among the first Japanese women to leave their country-and its male-dominated, conservative art world-to explore the artistic possibilities in New York. They not only benefited from the New York art scene, however, they played a major role in the development of international performance and intermedia art by bridging avant garde movements in Tokyo and New York.

This book traces the pioneering work of these five women artists and the socio-cultural issues that shaped their careers. Into Performance also explores the transformation of these artists' lifestyle from traditionally confined Japanese women to internationally active artists. Yoshimoto demonstrates how their work paved the way for younger Japanese women artists who continue to seek opportunities in the West today.

VG copy, tanning to spine.

File under: Yoko Ono Yayoi Kusama Takako Saito Mieko Shiomi Shigeko Kubota Midori Yoshimoto Rutgers University / New Jersey Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Pop Art

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki

2011, English
Softcover, 169 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PAJ Communications / New York

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In this ground-breaking look at a new art genre, Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves brings together a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Here is a fascinating account of the ingenuity and creativity of artists who have made new discoveries in broadcast, public works, performance composition, sound, and text, stretching the boundaries of both transmitter and receiver. At a time when public access struggles with corporate control of the airwaves, artists have combined activism and communications technologies to represent alternative worlds on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Artists featured include Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Delia Derbyshire, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Maryanne Amacher, Ray Johnson, Scanner, Videofreex, Valie Export, William Basinski, Marshall McLuhan, Bertolt Brecht, Pierre Schaefer, Negativland, Antoni Muntadas, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Piene, Robert Whitman, Hildegard Westerkamp, Wolf Vostell, Orson Welles, Brandon LaBelle, Tetsuo Kogawa, Max Neuhaus, Keith Sonnier, Ezra Pound, Nam June Paik, Lucio Fontana, Alison Knowles, Chris Burden, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Delia Derbyshire John Cage Allan Kaprow Maryanne Amacher Ray Johnson Scanner Videofreex Valie Export William Basinski Bertolt Brecht Pierre Schaefer Negativland Antoni Muntadas László Moholy-Nagy Otto Piene Robert Whitman Hildegard Westerkamp Wolf Vostell Orson Welles Brandon LaBelle Tetsuo Kogawa Max Neuhaus Keith Sonnier Ezra Pound Nam June Paik Lucio Fontana Alison Knowles Chris Burden Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Karlheinz Stockhausen Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Walter Benjamin Galen Joseph-Hunter Penny Duff Maria Papadomanolaki Marshall McLuhan PAJ Communications / New York Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Rosa Luxemburg's Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation
By Claudia Horn

2026, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 20.3 x 15.2 cm
Published by OR Books / New York

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Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium presents the first-ever translation of the radical icon’s little-known collection of pressed plants, offering a fascinating window into her ecological perspective.

Preface by Peter Hudis.

“This beautiful book sheds new light on Rosa Luxemburg. It is an inspiring contribution to ecosocialist thought and reflections on plant science and environmental justice.”—Silvia Federici

“What does a revolutionary pacifist do in prison during WWI? Collect plants—not as a hobby but to study the world. This book opens a window onto Luxemburg’s life and theories of imperialism and capitalism.”—Isabella Weber

“A beguiling book, brimming with beauty and urgency . . . makes a compelling case for a radical political ecology that encompasses the ironies and urgencies of our environmental crisis.”—Jonathan Bach

“Such a look at nature and the cruelty around us can only inspire more radical politics, daring us to include beauty and diversity as propellers for a better socialist society.”—Sabrina Fernandes

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a leading figure in the European socialist movement, known for her internationalism and anti-militarism. Despite facing exile, political persecution, anti-Semitism, and gender discrimination as a Jewish, Polish, and disabled woman, Luxemburg's work remains a powerful voice for liberation and change.

Better known for her revolutionary politics, Rosa Luxemburg was also an avid botanist. Between 1913 and 1918, even while incarcerated in Poland and Germany for her anti-war organizing, Luxemburg collected plants sent to her by friends or found in the prison grounds. With care and expertise, she pressed and annotated close to four hundred varieties of leaves and flowers. She continued to collect plants until her assassination by the Freikorps in 1919.

Her herbarium offers a feminist, decolonial eco-Marxist critique of botany and conservationism – historically colonial and bourgeois institutions – and reimagines nature preservation beyond elitist, racially exclusive frameworks.

This lavishly illustrated study, the first of its kind, brings together pages from Luxemburg’s herbarium, personal letters that richly detail her fascination with nature, and a discussion of her ecological critique of colonial capitalism.

Through the lens of the herbarium, Claudia Horn illuminates the connections between the study of flora, the naturalist movement, and the plantation economy, showing that the decolonization of botany and global environmental justice are both possible and necessary.

Claudia Horn is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Crisis, Risks, and Responses at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on socioenvironmental justice, climate, and natural resource politics. Horn's second book, based on her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, critically examines environmental foreign aid for Amazon conservation in Brazil.

She holds master’s degrees in sociology from the New School for Social Research and the University Dresden. From 2012 to 2016, she managed international projects at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation NYC. Horn has also worked with social movements and the progressive city government in Belém, Brazil, where she contributed to the launch of Jacobin Brazil.

File under: Rosa Luxemburg Claudia Horn Peter Hudis OR Books / New York Ecology / Earth Occult / Esoterica Feminism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Protest / Revolt

Italian Female Filmmakers in the Sixties and Seventies
Edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata

2026, English
Softcover, 504 pages, 21 x 13 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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Edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata
Texts by Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Teresa Kittler, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti, Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky, Giovanna Zapperi
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio

A project by Fondazione In Between Art Film, edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata, this illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.

With 18 newly commissioned essays about artists and filmmakers Valentina Berardinone, Anna Valeria Borsari, Pia Epremian, Giosetta Fioroni, Rosa Foschi, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Le Nemesiache, Cecilia Mangini, Federica Marangoni, Marisa Merz, Gina Pane, Marinella Pirelli, and Angela Ricci Lucchi, it charts a captivating, multifaceted period, the elements of which have now been compiled for the first time in this publication.

File under: alentina Berardinone Anna Valeria Borsari Pia Epremian Giosetta Fioroni Rosa Foschi Laura Grisi Ketty La Rocca Le Nemesiache Cecilia Mangini Federica Marangoni Marisa Merz Gina Pane Marinella Pirelli Angela Ricci Lucchi Carla Subrizi Paola Ugolini Maria Alicata Lucia Aspesi Silvia Bottinelli Lara Conte Flavia Frigeri Francesca Gallo Sharon Hecker Laura Iamurri Caterina Iaquinta Teresa Kittler Jennifer Malvezzi Iolanda Ratti Giulia Kimberly Colombo Valentine Umansky Giovanna Zapperi Lenz Press / Milan Film / Video Feminism Gender Studies / Sexuality Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (GMP)
by Gertrude Stein

1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 278 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First 1972 US hardcover edition of this 1933 collection featuring descriptive artist essays alongside two major experimental pieces, A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women (often grouped under G.M.P.).

"This is the unmentionable book in the mature Stein canon. For one thing, it's about homosexuality, and for another thing, it's written in her most difficult, "cubist" style. For both reasons it has utterly baffled her (mostly male) critics.

A discreet title it has. But the title shows its sham immediately: each of the two "shorter" stories is longer than the title story. The first, "A Long Gay Book," can pretty well speak for itself.

It opens with a powerful statement of how a very mature person feels on entering into a life in which her style and her sexuality will not be geared towards having babies. Many people know, from the Autobiography and elsewhere, that as a medical student she delivered a number of babies, that she wrote the book by watching couples and groups on the street and imagining about them But until one has read the book, the fantasies sound abstract when one tries to describe them.

The myth about "A Long Gay Book" is that it's a cerebral spin-off of The Making of Americans, uneven and unsustained. The fact is that it contains much of Stein's most fascinating writing and observation, and that only resistance to the subject matter has prevented people from seeing what a self-contained masterpiece it is.

The second story, Many Many Women," is a sort of sequel to "A Long Gay Book." It is purely about days and women. And identity, which is the touchstone of Stein's special cosmology. There are no men, other than by reference or implication, in the entire 80 + page novella. None of the personae have names-they are simply and exclusively women. To see how positive her statement is, try the final two pages of the story. It's like brushing out your hair.

The third, "G.M.P.," is rather more bizzare. In it she tries to fantasize a love between Matisse and Picasso, including a very uncharacteristic string of symbols (for Stein) whenever she wants to avoid explicit sexual descriptions (as on page 264), and to draw a connection between this and the different kind of love that was shared among herself, Matisse and Picasso. It is an unusual work in the corpus of Stein works: another well-known piece with symbols is Four Saints in Three Acts. But there are only a very few others. As a work it registers as comparatively awkward, but it provides the beard for the book, and that has its place too in Steinian humor.

In this book we're spared the tiresome tea-party self-interrogations of the early novel, Things As They Are (Q.E.D.), and we don't get the full-fledged eroticism of "Lifting Belly" the later poem cycle. What we get instead in this volume is frank exposition and joy, the view of things from inside things (as good cubism ought to be). It is not an easy book, but it is a very human one and today there is absolutely no excuse for not recognizing it as one of the very great ones."–dust jacket

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, light age/wear. Well preserved copy now in mylar wrap.

File under: Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Gertrude Stein Something Else Press / New York Theory / Essay Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Art Painting

Useful Knowledge
by Gertrude Stein

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 207 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Station Hill Press / Barrytown

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First hardcover 1988 Station Hill edition of Useful Knowledge by Gertrude Stein, a 1928 collection of experimental prose pieces, portraits, and linguistic investigations that serves as a tender, humorous, and satirical paean to America, here with new material including a foreword by Edward Burns and introduction by Keith Waldrop.

"Useful Knowledge is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed," writes Gertrude Stein in her Advertisement for this book-an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. This rare yet quintessential Stein supplies an indispensable link in her rich serial portrait of America and its inhabitants. Despite her long expatriation, she "always remained," in her words, "firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania." Indeed physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance that is both tender and humorous. War, Woodrow Wilson, Chicago, Sherwood Anderson— such is the range of her intimate concerns. As for the significant questions to which her writing responds: "Wherein Iowa Differs from Kansas and Indiana" and "Wherein the South Differs from the North," useful knowledge indeed, when the thought, along with the word, is opened up in these extraordinary prose inventions.

Keith Waldrop's Introduction furnishes new insight into the process and development of Stein's infamous style always more intricately evolving than is recognized. And Edward Burns provides "useful knowledge about Useful Knowledge," the kind of close-up, detailed information about Stein's text that we rarely find when we most want it. All of which makes this a useful book.

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, some light knocking to edges, light wear/dustiness to extremities.

File under: Gertrude Stein Keith Waldrop Edward Burns Station Hill Press / Barrytown Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Art

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

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

$55.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

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

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

Feminist Avant-Garde
Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 672 pages, 29 x 24 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan "The personal is political", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women--mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasize the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists–Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others–as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

Features the work of: Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Annekke Barger, Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Teresa Burga, Marcella Campagnano, Judy Chicago, Linda Christanell, Lili Dujourie, Mary Beth Edelson, Renate Eisenegger, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Iveković, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Katalin Ladik, Brigitte Lang, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Karin Mack, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Lorraine O’Grady, Orlan, Gina Pane, Letítia Parente, Ewa Partum, Friederike Pezold, Margot Pilz, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Suzanne Santoro, Carolee Schneemann, Lydia Schouten, Cindy Sherman, Penny Slinger, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter...

File under: Helena Almeida Eleanor Antin Annekke Barger Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Renate Bertlmann Teresa Burga Marcella Campagnano Judy Chicago Linda Christanell Lili Dujourie Mary Beth Edelson Renate Eisenegger Valie Export Esther Ferrer Lynn Hershman Leeson Alexis Hunter Sanja Iveković Birgit Jürgenssen Kirsten Justesen Ketty La Rocca Leslie Labowitz Katalin Ladik Brigitte Lang Suzanne Lacy Suzy Lake Karin Mack Ana Mendieta Rita Myers Lorraine O’Grady Orlan Gina Pane Letítia Parente Ewa Partum Friederike Pezold Margot Pilz Ulrike Rosenbach Martha Rosler Suzanne Santoro Carolee Schneemann Lydia Schouten Cindy Sherman Penny Slinger Annegret Soltau Hannah Wilke Martha Wilson Francesca Woodman Nil Yalter Gabriele Schor Prestel / Munich Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sociology / Politics Gender Studies / Sexuality Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Film / Video

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

1968, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Olympia Press / New York

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Very rare 1st Olympia Press edition of S.C.U.M by Valerie Solanas, published in New York shortly after her arrest for the shooting of Andy Warhol.

"Warhol...the ultimate voyeur...felled by S.C.U.M...."–Time

S.C.U.M Manifesto is a legendary radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms first published in 1967 as a mimeographed edition of 2,000 copies. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of S.C.U.M, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol by shooting him at The Factory in 1968. This event brought significant public attention to the Manifesto and Solanas herself.

Published by the legendary French publisher Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press, with a foreword by Girodias, and a commentary by Paul Krassner.

VG copy with no spine creases, well–bound, light wear to board extremities, toned pulp pages. An uncommonly well preserved copy.

File under: Valerie Solanas Paul Krassner Maurice Girodias Olympia Press / New York Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

1971, English
Softcover, 52 pages, 18 x 12 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Olympia Press / Paris

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Rare 1st Olympia Press UK edition of S.C.U.M by Valerie Solanas.

S.C.U.M Manifesto is a legendary radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms first published in 1967 as a mimeographed edition of 2,000 copies. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of S.C.U.M, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol by shooting him at The Factory in 1968. This event brought significant public attention to the Manifesto and Solanas herself.

This edition was published when legendary French publisher Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press briefly relocated to Britain and came out the year Solanas’ left prison for attempted murder.

With a foreword by publisher Maurice Girodias and an introduction by radical feminist critic and essayist, Vivian Gornick.

VG some general light wear.

File under: Valerie Solanas Vivian Gornick Maurice Girodias Olympia Press / Paris Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Nancy Grossman

1991, English
Softcover, 143 pages, 27 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hillwood Art Gallery / New York

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this monographic book on the incredible work of American artist, Nancy Grossman. Grossman is best known for her wood and leather heads, using the leather, as well as straps, zippers, and string, to create sculptures that appear bound and restrained. She describes her work as autobiographical, and while others have reviewed her work as seemingly sexual and reminiscent of sadism and masochism, Grossman says her work challenges the ideas of gender identity and gender fluidity and refer to her "bondage in childhood". She is also well known for her mixed-media wall assemblages, drawings, collages and paintings, all of which are illustrated throughout this catalogue of her work from the late 1960s-early 1990s. Produced to accompany the first comprehensive survey of Grossman's extensive provocative career that opened at the Hillwood Art Museum in 1991, this book also features texts throughout by feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, curator and co-founder of the Feminist Studio Workshop, Arlene Raven.

Good—VG copy. Some general wear.

File under: Nancy Grossman Arlene Raven Hillwood Art Gallery / New York Art Drawing Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Fetishism / BDSM Painting

Nelly’s Version
by Eva Figes

2026, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Dalkey Archive Press / US

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Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the psychological thriller, Nelly's Version–part dark comedy, part mystery novel–offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty woman stuck in a pastless present.

A middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia checks into a small-town hotel under the pseudonym Nelly Dean with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it, or she, came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to the store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she is part of a conspiracy. At the same time, however, she remains strangely indifferent to the clues that might explain her puzzling circumstances and is unaffected by the many assaults, robberies, arsons, and other crimes occurring around her.

Named after the housekeeper in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Nelly Dean is an endearingly unhinged character who will fascinate and excite readers in this deranged literary thriller, featuring an introduction by Susan Faludi.

Eva Figes (1932–2012) is the author of over a dozen novels as well as written works on literary criticism, feminism, and memoirs. Born in Berlin in 1932, Figes was a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany before her family relocated to the UK in 1939. In the 1960s she was inducted into an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall that included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin, and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Double Take, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.

File under: Eva Figes Susan Faludi Dalkey Archive Press / US Fiction / Poetry Feminism

Why Different?: A Culture of Two Subjects
by Luce Irigaray

1999 / 2000, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 18 x 11.5 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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A collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, the sexuation of language, the symbolic order, and the importance of both history and philosophy for the liberation of the feminine subject.

For Luce Irigaray, one of the most original French feminist theorists, deconstructing the patriarchal tradition is not enough. She admits that it is not an easy task, but she believes that it is necessary to also define new values directly or indirectly suitable to feminine subjectivity and to feminine identity. She begins this project by analyzing and interpreting the absence of the feminine subject in the definition of dominant cultural values. She then wonders how these new values can be constructed without simply reversing the roles. Far from implying a hierarchy, difference affirms the coexistence and fruitful encounter of two different identities. These two heterogeneous identities, masculine and feminine, are not socially but ontologically constructed and describing the feminine requires establishing methods other than those already used by the masculine subject. Why Different? is a collection of interviews, conducted in both France and Italy, that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, the sexuation of language, the symbolic order, and the importance of both history and philosophy for the liberation of the feminine subject. In Why Different? Irigaray elaborates on issues brought up in her other books, Speaking is Never Neutral, I Love to You, Thinking the Difference, and To Be Two and brings them to fruition.

File under: Luce Irigaray SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Philosophy Theory / Essay Feminism

Barbara Hammer – Evidentiary Bodies
Edited by Staci Bu Shea and Carmel Curtis

2018, English
Hardcover, 112 pages, 25.4 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hirmer / Münich

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Barbara Hammer is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. In concert with an exhibition of her work at the Leslie Homan Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, this volume seeks to celebrate the depth and expanse of Hammer’s five decades of art making.

Bringing together both known and previously unseen works of film and video, installations, works on paper, and material from her archive, this volume addresses critical themes that appear throughout Hammer’s work, including sensation and intimacy, lesbian representation, and the maintenance of illness, in addition to exploring the artist’s relationship to experimental queer cinema, feminist history, and environmental activism. Featuring a wide range of responses, from personal anecdotes to academic analysis and poetic interpretation, this volume highlights the resonating impact of Hammer’s artistic narrative across cinema studies, art history, queer theory, and feminist thought.

VG–NF copy, previous store sticker to back cover, light wear to boards.

File under: Barbara Hammer Staci Bu Shea Carmel Curtis Hirmer / Münich Film / Video Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Art LGBTQ+

Hatred of Capitalism (A Semiotext(e) Reader)
Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer (Eds.)

2002, English
Softcover, 430 pages, 15.2 x 23 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.

Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)’s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)’s three-decade history mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvere Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding French theory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.

Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her “one of the most subversive voices in American fiction.” Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability and dazzling speed.

Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja, California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007).

File under: John Cage Assata Shakur Bob Flanagan Chris Kraus Cookie Mueller Eileen Myles Fanny Howe Gilles Deleuze Jean Baudrillard John Cage Kate Millet Michel Foucault Michelle Tea Paul Virilio Sylvère Lotringer Ulrike Meinhof William S. Burroughs Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Feminism Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

925 no. 14

1982, English
Softcover (screen printed, staple bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

$40.00 - Out of stock

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 14 (with screen printed covers) of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

VG copy with some tanning/foxing to screen printed covers, overall well preserved.

File under: π.O. Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald π.O. John Giorno Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism Concrete Poetry Fiction / Poetry Poetry

925 no. 17

1982, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 20 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 17 of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

VG copy, light wear, light foxing to block edges.

File under: Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism

925 no. 20

1983, English
Softcover (staple–bound), unpaginated, 21 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 20 (the final issue) of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

Issue No 20 was reflective, with important statements of review by π.o., Jas H. Duke, Thalia, Allan Jurd, Barry McDonald, Cathy Johns and Jeltje, alongside photo documentation, correspondence and announcements.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

VG copy tanning/general light wear.

File under: π.O. Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald π.O. Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism Concrete Poetry Fiction / Poetry Poetry

925 no. 12

1981, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

$35.00 - Out of stock

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 12 of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

G–VG copy with tanning/light wear, small amount of buggery (insect nibbles) to back cover corner but not holes.

File under: Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism

925 no. 18

1983, English
Softcover (hand–painted, lipstick kissed, staple bound), unpaginated, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

$40.00 - Out of stock

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 18 (with hand–made, lip–kissed covers) of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

VG copy, beautifully preserved. Hand–made covers with paint splatter, coloured texta and biro, and lipstick kiss!

File under: Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism

925 no. 8

1980, English
Softcover (staple–bound), unpaginated, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 8 of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

G–VG copy with some marking/wear to cover extremities, light foxing and tanning to edges.

File under: π.O. Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald π.O. Jenny Boult Charles Bukowski 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism Concrete Poetry Fiction / Poetry Poetry

925 no. 9

1980, English
Softcover (staple–bound), unpaginated, 21 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by 925 / Melbourne

$35.00 - Out of stock

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"poetry for the workers, by the workers, about the workers' work!"

Issue 9 of 925 (or 9-2–5), the pioneering Australian workers poetry magazine published between 1978 and 1983. Primarily edited and spearheaded by the Melbourne-based, anarchist poet π.o., the magazine collectively involved the efforts of many, including thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Jas H. Duke, Barry McDonald, and Cathy Messenger, each of whom was also a contributor. Each wonderful issue featured poetry, prose, photography, drawings, collage, etcetera by/about/& for the workers, about WORK.

As π.o. (Pi.O) described in the editorial in the first issue: "There are 2 types of Poetry: "pure" & "Applied". This magazine's aim is the latter: applied. It is written by poets who use the "raw materials" of their jobs, as the bases of their poems, & by poets who don't believe that the 'productive process' ('work') should be separated from their 'art'. Many of the regular contributors were connected to the anarchist movement in Melbourne, and 925 enabled worker poets to gain access to radio, both in the public broadcasting sector and national radio via the ABC, and to Arts festivals, prisons, and workplaces. Although the subject was 'work', it was always stressed that this included the experience of being unemployed or housework. 925 encouraged blue-collar, service workers, houseworkers and unemployed workers to write about their own experiences whilst championing radical and experimental Australian poetry through DIY publishing. The poets of 925 made a vital contribution to the radical tradition in Australia.

Among the contributors included π.o., Jas H. Duke, thalia, Jeltje Fanoy, Letizia Mondello, Allan Jard, Peter Murphy, Barry McDonald, Jenny Boult, Michael Wilding, Jas H. Duke, Nigel Roberts, Lindsay Clements, Cliff Smyth, Rex Butler, John Zizys, Rory Harris, Judith Rodriguez, Kevin Brophy, Julie Clarke, Robert C. Boyce, “DGH”, Rae Desmond Jones, Peter Lyssiotis, Pam Brown, Myron Lysenko, Dane Thwaites, Damien White, Bill Tibben, Chris Mann, Mal Morgan, Michael Sharkey, Billy Jones, Richard Tipping, “Mayo” Costello, and Richard Allen, amongst many others.

G copy with spot–colour printed newsprint, heavy foxing to covers, light rippling to back cover, light tanning to edges.

File under: π.O. Jas H. Duke thalia Jeltje Fanoy Letizia Mondello Allan Jard Peter Murphy Barry McDonald π.O. Jenny Boult 925 / Melbourne Australian Poetry Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Feminism Concrete Poetry Poetry Fiction / Poetry

Photography/Politics: One
Edited by Jo Spence and Terry Dennett

1979, English
Softcover, 202 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Photography Workshop / London

$180.00 - Out of stock

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How does photography contribute to the defence of the old order? How may it be used to help hasten the arrival of the new?

Very rare first edition, published in London by the Photography Workshop, 1979. Edited by Jo Spence and Terry Dennett, this rare and sought after landmark collection compiles 23 chapters of perceptive and incisive analysis of the contemporary and historical role of photography in society which remain even more relevant today than they were 40 years ago. Heavily illustrated throughout. Contents include: Against the Dominant Ideology — Sylvia Harvey; Images of Women — Gen Doy, Stuart Hall, Jo Spence, Eckhard Siepmann, Judith Williamson; Left Photography Between the Wars: The International Worker Photographer Movement — Introduction; Tasks and Aims — Willi Munzenberg; Germany: Arbeiter-Fotografie — W. Körner & J. Stüber; Holland: Vereeniging van Arbeiders-Fotografen — Bert Hogenkamp; Belgium: Willy Kessels and the Borinage Film — Bert Hogenkamp; America: The (Workers') Film and Photo League — Russell Campbell; Scotland: Workers' Photography — Douglas Allen; England: The (Workers') Film and Photo League — Terry Dennett; The Hugh Cuthbertson Collection — Victoria Wegg-Prosser; Left Photography Today; Hackney Flashers Collective: Who's Still Holding the Camera? — Liz Heron; Interview — Film and Poster Collective; Why Socialist Photography? — Minda & Robert Golden; Charity Begins at Home: The SHELTER Photographs — Jean Mohr & John Berger, Nick Hedges; Working for the Council — Trisha Ziff; Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation) — Allan Sekula; Ideology: The 'Base and Superstructure' Debate; The Camera Against the Paris Commune; The Social Eye of Picture Post (extract); What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? Class and Gender in...; Heartfield's 'Millions' Montage: (Attempt at) a Structural Analysis; The History that Photographs Mislaid; Postscript; Contacts/Worksheets: Notes on Photography, History and Representation — John Tagg.

"We need this book now even more than before."–Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

"A seminal work of history and theory."–Duncan Forbes, Head of Photography, V&A Museum

Ex–library copy of Micky Allen (b. 1944), a pioneering Australian photographer and artist. "Micky Allen" penned to top of first blank. Good copy with heavy tanning to board edges, some mild creasing/closed tear to back cover, foxing to edges/initials.

File under: Allan Sekula Jo Spence Victor Burgin Martha Rosler Sylvia Harvey Gen Doy Stuart Hall Jo Spence Eckhard Siepmann Judith Williamson Willi Munzenberg W. Körner J. Stüber Bert Hogenkamp Russell Campbell Douglas Allen Terry Dennett Victoria Wegg-Prosser Liz Heron Film and Poster Collective Minda Robert Golden Jean Mohr John Berger Nick Hedges Trisha Ziff Allan Sekula John Tagg Photography Workshop / London Photography Feminism Anarchism Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Protest / Revolt Crime / Violence Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

2013, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Published by AK Press / Edinburgh

$28.00 - Out of stock

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First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action--a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Tea.

"To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. It's not. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon... It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful."—Michelle Tea

"Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out."—Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

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