World Food Books

Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990-2018

2019, English
Softcover, 560 pages, 17.3 x 27.5 cm
Published by A.R.T. Press / New York Koenig Books / London

$60.00 - Out of stock

Since the 1980s Andrea Fraser has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social structures with humor and pathos, aligning herself with feminism and institutional critique. While Fraser’s video and performance works are often associated with investigations of art institutions, her performances since the early 2000s evidence a turn toward analyzing the intersection between sociopolitical and psychological structures as they produce individual and group identity.

The extensive collection of conversations with fellow artists and curators provides access to Andrea Fraser's work and reception. The interview format gives a very personal insight into her artistic practice. Central ideas and topics of her work are explained from different perspectives. The chronological composition of the minimal editorial intervention covers three decades.

This volume was published on the occasion of Andrea Fraser's exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angelis in May- September 2019.

Contributors include: Judith Batalion, Helmut Draxler, Vincenzo de Bellis, Gregg Bordowitz, Sabine Breitwieser, Stuart Comer, Joshua Decter, Yilmaz Dziewior, Andrea Fraser, Jorg Heiser, Miwon Kwon, Bennett Simpson et al.

File under: Andrea Fraser Rhea Anastas Alejandro Cesarco Judith Batalion Vincenzo de Bellis Gregg Bordowitz Sabine Breitwieser Stuart Comer Joshua Decter Yilmaz Dziewior Andrea Fraser Jorg Heiser Miwon Kwon Bennett Simpson Helmut Draxler A.R.T. Press / New York Koenig Books / London Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Film / Video

Sophia Al-Maria
Sad Sack : Collected Writing

2019, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Book Works / London

$40.00 - Out of stock

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'Sad Sack' is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic. Encompassing more than a decade of work, 'Sad Sack' tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her "premature" memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up, and sucking dry.

Sophia Al-Maria is an artist and writer living in London.

File under: Sophia Al-Maria Sophia Al-Maria Book Works / London Fiction / Poetry Feminism Art

Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
Temptation to Co-Exist

2019, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley - Temptation to Co-Exist", curated by Sue Cramer at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 6 April - 14 July 2019 and the most comprehensive monograph of the artists to date. Essays contributions by Sue Cramer, Justin Clemens, Helen Hughes, Juan Davila, Kyla McFarlane and Rex Butler.

Working together since the early 1980s, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have developed an expansive framework of formal and thematic concerns drawing broadly on the histories of art and design, film, literature and cultural theory. Influenced by feminism, and applying an appreciation and critique of modernism, they make visually stunning artworks across an ever-expanding repertoire of mediums—from painting and sculpture, photography and printmaking, to neon light and textile works.

This exhibition delves into the startling diversity of their artistic production, and their philosophy of ‘material conceptualism’, which highlights the spaces between objects, images and ideas. It will reveal the free spirit of enquiry and invention that has underpinned their practice from the 1980s up until today. Borrowing and adapting its title from an earlier group of photographs and installations, Temptation to Co-Exist celebrates the achievement of these innovative artists, and the collaborative partnership they have sustained over several decades.

Profusely illustrated with full documentation of the exhibition, past exhibitions, individual works, plus biographies, bibliographies, list of works and more.

File under: Janet Burchill Jennifer McCamley Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Sue Cramer Justin Clemens Helen Hughes Juan Davila Kyla McFarlane Rex Butler Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Film / Video Feminism Australian Art

Rosemarie Trockel
The Same Different

2019, English / Swedish
Softcover, 172 pages, 23.5 x 17 cm
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm Koenig Books / London

$68.00 - Out of stock

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New lavishly illustrated monographic catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: The Same Different at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (29 September 2018 – 10 March 2019).

Rosemarie Trockel’s breakthrough came in the 1980s, and ever since she has been critically examining art, the structures of society, and gender roles with analytical acuity and humour and with a sensuality that is all her own. Anyone who looks for a recognisable style in her work is looking in vain. She evades anything that might lock her down and confine her. The catalogue allows the reader to follow the artist’s career from her feminist examinations of the 1990s to later works in which she addresses issues of animal ethics, artistic processes, and what art can be. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: The Same Different at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (29 September 2018 – 10 March 2019).

English and Swedish text.
Co-published by Koenig Books and Moderna Museet.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Jo Applin Ann-Sofi Noring Iris Muller-Westermann Moderna Museet / Stockholm Koenig Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Drawing Feminism

TENSION 8
The Road To Utopia : September 1985

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 8 (The Road To Utopia : September 1985) features Scritti Politti (by McKenzie Wark), Gilbert & George (by Sue Cramer), artist contributions by Mike Parr and Peter Tyndall, Dale Frank (by Paul Groot), "Civilization and Its Discontents" by Paul Taylor, "The Road to Utopia" by Adrian Martin, with contributions by Philip Brophy, Ingrid Periz, and many more.

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

File under: Scritti Politti Mike Parr Peter Tyndall Dale Frank Gilbert & George McKenzie Wark Ashley Crawford Philip Brophy Ingrid Periz Paul Groot Sue Cramer Tension / South Yarra Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Painting Sculpture / Installation Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music

TENSION 11
Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 50 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 11 (Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987) features Brett Whiteley (interview by Phillip Adams), Stieg Persson (interview by Ashley Crawford), Jean-Marc Lepechoux (interview by Ashley Crawford), Peter Greenaway (interview by Ashley Crawford), Derek Jarman (interview by Melanie Brellis), "Godard, Mieville" (by Adrian Martin), Elfi Mikesch & Monika Trent (interview by Amree Hewitt), Neil Jordon, gallerists Mary Boone & Michael Werner (by Paul Taylor), RAW : Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (interview by Kerri Phillips), Run DMC / Def Jam Records (by Peter Grace), and much more.

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

File under: Stieg Persson Brett Whiteley Peter Greenaway Derek Jarman Jean-Luc Godard Elfi Mikesch Monika Trent Jean-Marc Lepechoux Neil Jordon Art Spiegelman Francoise Mouly Anne-Marie Miéville Ashley Crawford Melanie Brellis Paul Taylor Amree Hewitt Tension / South Yarra Art Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Photography Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

TENSION 12
Australian and International Arts : December 1987

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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Tension 12 (Australian and International Arts : December 1987) features Geoff Lowe (interview by Ashley Crawford), Jim Jarmusch (interview by Kerry Doole), Lindy Lee (by Ted Colless), Wim Wenders (by Melanie Brellis), "Images from Japan" (by Ashley Crawford), Nick Cave (interview by Melanie Brellis), 4AD Records (interview by Bruce Elder), Trisha Brown (interview by Shelley Lasica), Syd Mead (interview by Chad Taylor), "Dennis Hopper: Out of the Sixties" by Robin Barden, "Television: A New Aesthetic", Paul Morley's ASK reviewed by McKenzie Wark, and much more.

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

File under: Paul Morley Shelley Lasica Trisha Brown Nick Cave Jim Jarmusch Lindy Lee Wim Wenders Dennis Hopper Geoff Lowe Syd Mead Paul Morley McKenzie Wark Robin Barden Melanie Brellis Ted Colless Kerry Doole Tension / South Yarra Art Australian Art Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Feminism Film / Video Sound / Music Conceptual Art Curatorial Photography Architecture / Interior

TENSION 13
Australian and International Arts : June 1988

1988, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 44 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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Tension 13 (Australian and International Arts : June 1988) features John Nixon (by Sue Cramer), Maria Kozic (by Adrian Martin), Jenny Watson (by Rose Lang), Robert Mapplethorpe (by Paul Taylor), Julian Schnabel (by Paul Taylor), "Masterpieces of Medical Photography", "Curatorial Strategies", exhibition reviews, and much more.

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

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe John Nixon Jenny Watson Maria Kozic Julian Schnabel Paul Taylor Adrian Martin Sue Cramer Ashley Crawford Tension / South Yarra Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Periodicals Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Feminism Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Architecture / Interior

TENSION 16
Australian and International Arts : May 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 56 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$25.00 - Out of stock

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TENSION 16 (Australian and International Arts : May 1989) features articles on Robert Hunter, Lyndal Jones, Malcolm McLaren, Robert Pearce, Andy Warhol, "AIDS, ARTS & SOCIETY", "Trash & Junk Culture" by Adrian Martin w. Philip Brophy, Maria Kozic, Andrew and Ian Haig, "The Liberated Page", "Nightwatch" by Ted Colless, Tim Burns, Angus Jones, Bette Mifsud, and more.

Good copy but cover torn.

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

File under: Robert Hunter Lyndal Jones Malcolm McLaren Andy Warhol Philip Brophy Maria Kozic Andrew Haig Ian Haig Tim Burns Angus Jones Bette Mifsud Robert Pearce Ashley Crawford Ted Colless Adrian Martin Charles Green Paul Taylor Rex Butler Mary Anne Staniszewski Tension / South Yarra Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Australian Art Curatorial Conceptual Art Counterculture Feminism

TENSION 17
Australian and International Arts : August 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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TENSION 17 (Australian and International Arts : August 1989) features articles on Mike Brown, Peter Halley, Cindy Sherman, Jon Cattapan, Jan Nelson, Paul Boston, Adam Rish, Carole Roberts, Luke Roberts, Carlo Mollino, "The Art of Photography", "Video", Horst, "The Designers' Designers" by Emma Dent Coed (on the art directors, designers, and visual marketing behind fashion designers such as Yohji Yamamoto, Dries Van Noten, John Galliano, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons, etc. inc. Peter Saville, Nick Knight, etc.), and "Aboriginal Art Now : A Survey of Artists and Issues", inc. the work of Gordon Bennett, Jarinyanu David Downs, Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls, Tim Johnson, a review by Lin Onus, and more.

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

File under: Gordon Bennett Tim Johnson Horst P. Horst Jarinyanu David Downs Trevor Nickolls Rover Thomas Mike Brown Peter Halley Cindy Sherman Jon Cattapan Jan Nelson Paul Boston Adam Rish Carole Roberts Luke Roberts Carlo Mollino John Barbour Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons John Galliano Dries Van Noten Yohji Yamamoto Nick Knight Peter Saville Dirk Bikkembergs Ashley Crawford Rex Butler John Barbour Catherine Lumby Paul Taylor Bob Lingard Vivien Johnson Adrian Martin Richard Haese Lin Onus Tension / South Yarra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Painting Feminism Photography Sound / Music Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

TENSION 19
SPECIAL EDITION : A CHRONICLE OF AUSTRALIAN ART 1980-1989

1990, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 88 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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TENSION 19 (SPECIAL EDITION : FROM LEANTIME TO DREAMTIME - A CHRONICLE OF AUSTRALIAN ART 1980-1989) packs a concise year-by-year look-back at the exhibitions, artists, galleries, concerts, performances, publications, clubs, politics, influences that shaped Australian Art in the 1980s, compiled "in one week". Features contributions from writers Catherine Lumby, Charles Green, Chris McAuliffe, and Francis Pound (looking at NZ Art) and features the work of far too many artists to mention.

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

File under: Geoff Lowe John Nixon Jenny Watson David Chesworth Philip Brophy Maria Kozic Albert Tucker Arthur Boyd Robert Macpherson Imants Tillers Gunter Christmann John Davis Peter Tyndall Tony Clark Jillian Orr Mike Parr Robert Klippel Peter Cripps Richard Dunn Juan Davila John Walker Robert Owen Gareth Sansom Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Tim Johnson Susan Norrie Fred Williams Fraser Fair Robert Rooney Julie Brown-Rrap John Dunkley-Smith Dale Frank Peter Booth Janet Burchill Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley Carole Roberts Lindy Lee Stieg Persson John Olsen Howard Arkley Fiona McDonald John Young Bill Henson Linda Marrinon Lyndal Jones Ken Unsworth Vivienne Shark LeWitt John Brack Ernie Althoff Warren Burt Essendon Airport The Connotations Use No Hooks Primitive Calcultors Severed Heads Slugfuckers SPK Laughing Hands Anne Zahalka Elizabeth Gower Robert Jacks Michael Johnson Elizabeth Pulie A.D.S. Donaldson Melinda Harper Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Elizabeth Newman Stephen Bram Vivien Johnson Wally Caruana Debra Dawes Lin Onus Makers of the Dead Travel Fast Sidney Nolan Paul Foss Rex Butler Sue Cramer Catherine Lumby Charles Green Chris McAuliffe Francis Pound Ashley Crawford Ted Colless Paul Taylor Tension / South Yarra Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Theory / Essay Film / Video Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Fashion Photography Art

Just Another Asshole #6

2018, English
Softcover, 192 pages,
Edition of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Just Another Asshole was an influential and now-legendary mixed-media publication series edited by Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987. The submission process was open and collaborative, and each issue was produced in a different format (e.g., limited-edition zine by Ess, tabloid-sized graphic arts magazine, 4 pages in an issue of Artforum, photography book, LP record album, paperback book). Several were edited with Jane Sherry or Glenn Branca.

Issue 6 of the magazine, co-edited with Branca, was published in the form of a pulp paperback book with writings by sixty-one artists from the early-80s downtown scene. It includes short stories, performance transcripts, aphorisms, plays, monologues, screenplays, and essays that offer a window into the gritty and dynamic culture of New York City before gentrification pushed the underground out of Lower Manhattan.

Contributors include Kathy Acker, Lindsay Amos, Constance Ash, Josh Baer, Barbara Barg, Judith Barry, Nan Becker, Eric Bogosian, Glenn Branca, Brian Buczak, Mitch Corber, Peter Cummings, Margaret De Wys, Bradley Eros, Barbara Ess, Richard Fantina, Dorothea Franck, Matthew Geller, Michael Gira, Jack Goldstein, Dan Graham, Rudolph Grey, Sue Hanel, Jenny Holzer, Peggy Katz, Barbara Kruger, Beth Lapides, Joe Lewis, Amanda Linn, Carla Liss, Meredith Lund, Matthew Maguire, Aline Psyche Mare, Sam Marshall Harvey, Alan Moore, Richard Morrison, Cookie Mueller, Peter Nadin, Joseph Nechvatal, Richard Prince, Lee Ranaldo, David Rattray, Mike Roddy, David Rosenbloom, Ann Rower, Arleen Schloss, Jane Sherry, Kiki Smith, Michael Smith, Jim Sutcliffe, Fiona Templeton, Wharton Tiers, Lynne Tillman, Anne Turyn, Gail Vachon, S.Weisser, Sally A. White, Reese Williams, Martha Wilson, Stephan Wischerth, David Wojnarowicz, and Linda Yablonsky.

Barbara Ess is an artist living and working in New York City and upstate New York. She uses photography, video, and sound to make her work, which has been shown widely in the United States and Europe. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College.

Glenn Branca was a composer whose work included music for experimental rock bands, large ensemble instrumentals for electric guitars, symphonies for both electric instrumentation and acoustic orchestras, chamber ensemble pieces, an opera, a ballet, choral works, and music for film, dance, theater, and art installations. He was an early pioneer of the no wave punk scene that emerged in downtown New York in the late ’70s.

Edition of 2000

File under: David Wojnarowicz Kiki Smith Michael Smith Glenn Branca Judith Barry Richard Prince Jack Goldstein Dan Graham Barbara Kruger Jenny Holzer Kathy Acker Lindsay Amos Constance Ash Josh Baer Barbara Barg Judith Barry Nan Becker Eric Bogosian Glenn Branca Brian Buczak Mitch Corber Peter Cummings Margaret De Wys Bradley Eros Barbara Ess Richard Fantina Dorothea Franck Matthew Geller Michael Gira Jack Goldstein Dan Graham Rudolph Grey Sue Hanel Jenny Holzer Peggy Katz Barbara Kruger Beth Lapides Joe Lewis Amanda Linn Carla Liss Meredith Lund Matthew Maguire Aline Psyche Mare Sam Marshall Harvey Alan Moore Richard Morrison Cookie Mueller Peter Nadin Joseph Nechvatal Richard Prince Lee Ranaldo David Rattray Mike Roddy David Rosenbloom Ann Rower Arleen Schloss Jane Sherry Kiki Smith Michael Smith Jim Sutcliffe Fiona Templeton Wharton Tiers Lynne Tillman Anne Turyn Gail Vachon S.Weisser Sally A. White Reese Williams Martha Wilson Stephan Wischerth David Wojnarowicz Linda Yablonsky. Primary Information / New York Fiction / Poetry Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Alex Martinis Roe
To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice

2018, English
Softcover, 280 pages
Published by Archive Books / Berlin Casco / Utrecht If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam

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To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice offers a narrative of artist Alex Martinis Roe’s research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia from the seventies until today. These practices include those of the Milan Women’s Bookstore co-operative; Psychanalyse et Politique, Paris; Gender Studies (formerly Women’s Studies) at Utrecht University; a network in Sydney including people involved in the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, Feminist Film Workers, Working Papers Collective, and the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University; and Duoda – Women’s Research Centre and Ca la Dona, a women’s documentation centre and encounter space in Barcelona. Drawing from their practices and experiences, Martinis Roe’s research forms a proposal for a transgenerational approach to feminist politics. This is further developed as a practical handbook of twenty new propositions for feminist collective practice, which were formed in collaboration with a network of contributors through experiments with these historical practices.

File under: Alex Martinis Roe Archive Books / Berlin Casco / Utrecht If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video

Larnook 70

1970, English
Softcover, 27.5 x 21 cm, 70 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Larnook Teachers College / Armadale

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Wonderful 1970 yearbook from Larnook Teachers College. Larnook Domestic Arts Teachers' College at the Larnook mansion, in Armadale, was founded in 1950 and later became Larnook Teachers College, specialising in the domestic arts. Filled with columns, illustrations, collages, photography, articles and questionnaires, these spirited and incredibly witty annual school magazines rallied the voices of educators and students/future educators around the changing role of women in society, the politics of the time, and challenging attitudes towards education and Home Economics in early 1970s Australia. Includes articles such as "How to Be Poor", "Floral Art or Science", "Consume or Be Consumed", "Nuclear Stranglehold", a large number of theatre reviews, abstract artworks, needlecraft, design, poetry, and the results of a group discussion covering Australia's involvement in Vietnam, government policy, voting age, censorship, marijuana, abortion, homosexuality, plus much much more. A wonderful time capsule.

"GAIL: I think we should do an editorial about the role of women.
ANNA: Well I really think it should be on education and its . . .
SUZANNE: Why not have it about attitudes to authority, surely this is a big issue today.
FELICITY: That's chronic! Personal values are the big issue today.
GAIL: We've got to have an editorial about the role of women today because it's women we'll
be teaching. Look, the family's declining, more married women are going out to work, women are asserting their independence and demanding to be treated as human beings. So, it's obvious, we must teach them how to avoid stagnating at home, nursing their neuroses.
FELICITY: Oh, come off it, can't you see you're just enforcing and imposing your own values. This limits the individual's ability to develop her own values. What we should be doing is presenting a series of alternatives from which students can choose. Don't you think education should involve students working out their personal values from a variety which you present?
ANNA: No, no, no. This is not the purpose of education. A teacher must make valued judgements. It's hypocritical just to present students with a cold set of alternatives. If the teacher is too frightened to make her values known, students become confused and unconvinced. Teachers can't help showing what their values are. They are obvious from the way they dress, talk and generally carry on.
SUZANNE: No, you're all wrong, because you're setting the teacher up as an infallible authority, and I don't think he should be. Too many people today have an unquestioning attitude to authority and this leads to apathy and the trouble with apathy is that people can be manipulated too easily.
GAlL: Listen, we've got right off the track . . ." - editor's introduction.

Printed at the Port Phillip Press.

Very Good copy.

File under: Larnook Teachers College / Armadale Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Art Australian Art

Larnook Teachers College 1972

1972, English
Softcover, 27.5 x 21 cm, 54 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Larnook Teachers College / Armadale

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Wonderful 1972 yearbook from Larnook Teachers College. Larnook Domestic Arts Teachers' College at the Larnook mansion, in Armadale, was founded in 1950 and later became Larnook Teachers College, specialising in the domestic arts. Filled with columns, illustrations, collages, photography, articles and questionnaires, these spirited and incredibly witty annual school magazines rallied the voices of educators and students/future educators around the changing role of women in society, the politics of the time, and challenging attitudes towards education and Home Economics in early 1970s Australia. Includes an article by a student about entering the "Miss Australia Quest", an article on the depiction of women in women's magazines in Australia (Dolly, New Idea, Woman's Day, etc.), a multiple answer questionnaire (covering topics of femininity/masculinity, abortion, the female eunuch, women drinking beer, homosexuality, women swearing, etc.), "For Better"/"For Worse" (a discussion about marriage), much much more. A wonderful time capsule.

"Women are now thinking about themselves and questioning their roles-the results of this questioning have yet to be seen but big changes in our whole society are sure to result. To try and examine some of these issues we have provided a theme to our magazine - The Role of Women Today. Our aim has been merely to explore (not to provide answers) some of the things which interest us, as as women, as future teachers and Home Economics students." - from editor's introduction.

Printed at the Port Phillip Press.

Very Good copy.

File under: Larnook Teachers College / Armadale Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Art Australian Art

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Lee Lozano
Private Book 4

2018, English
Softcover (spiral-bound), 198 pages, 7.6 x 12.7 cm
Published by Karma / New York

$48.00 - Out of stock

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This is the fourth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. It is primarily a calendar of Lozano's personal, artistic and chemical interactions in 1969-70. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York's SoHo neighbourhood. In 1972 she rigourously edited these books, thus completing the project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on Lozano's work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humorous asides from daily life.

Printed as facsimiles with spiral binding, the notebooks contain notes on her work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humourous asides from daily life. In the decade before her infamous "dropout piece" -- culminating in a move to Dallas where she would remain until her death -- Lozano returned to these notebooks, editing the entries, sometimes blacking out entire pages.

File under: Lee Lozano Karma / New York Art Painting Feminism Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

The Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book

2004 / 2012, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 24 x 19 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Printed Matter Inc. / New York

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Artist's book by the legendary Guerrilla Girls, now very collectable in both 2004 and 2012 editions.

The Guerrilla Girls square up with the 1% who run museums and call out the failures and rife corruption of the major art institutions with a comic-book style call to action meant to parody the cutesy books produced by museums to teach children to respect High Culture. After sleuthing around in the galleries, board-rooms and financial portfolios of the Met, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, the Guerrilla Girls present seven fun and funny activities designed to encourage readers to fight discrimination, unethical behaviour and conflicts of interest in museums everywhere. Included are quizzes, a connect-the-dots museum floor plan, and a do-it-yourself museum store complete with arty sex toys and t-shirts with slogans the museums don’t want you to see.

Why do museums raise hundreds of millions for new buildings, and then complain that they don’t have enough money to buy art? Why do they blow a fortune on a single painting by a white male genius when they could acquire hundreds of great works by women and people of colour instead? Why do museum store execs get paid more than curators?

A bunch of anonymous females who fight discrimination with facts, humor and fake fur, The Guerrilla Girls have been re-inventing the F-word – feminism – since 1985. Using the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms, they appear in public wearing gorilla masks. They have produced over one hundred posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism, racism and corruption in the worlds of art, film, politics, and the culture at large.

Good copy with creasing/handling.

File under: Guerrilla Girls Printed Matter Inc. / New York Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Feminism Out-of-print / Rare

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

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

$50.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

Vrouwen Van Amsterdam

1970, Dutch
Softcover, 128 pages, 21 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Foton / Amsterdam

$50.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of "Vrouwen Van Amsterdam" published by Foton Amsterdam in 1970 - a folio of photography by Dutch artists celebrating the women of Amsterdam. Features the work of Ed van der Elsken, Mattheus Engel, Claude van Heye, Cor Jaring, Suki Langereis, Henk van der Leeden, Philip Mechanicus, Marian Morris, Hans Pelgrom, Wim Renes, Jutka Rona, Matthijs Schofer, Nico van der Stam, Chris Paul Stapels, Koen Wessing, Marian Zijlstra. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, mostly full bleed images, with opening interviews with each photographer (in Dutch) with Hanneke Meerum Terwogt.

File under: Ed van der Elsken Mattheus Engel Claude van Heye Cor Jaring Suki Langereis Henk van der Leeden Philip Mechanicus Marian Morris Hans Pelgrom Wim Renes Jutka Rona Matthijs Schofer Nico van der Stam Chris Paul Stapels Koen Wessing Marian Zijlstra Foton / Amsterdam Photography Eros Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater

PROP ART
Over 1000 Contemporary Political Posters

1972, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 31 x 23 cm
Published by New York Graphic Society / New York Darien House / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1972 and now long out of print, this heavy over-sized book details a complete and colourful history of the propaganda poster. Propaganda art - persuasion through visual means - is as old as man. In PROP ART, Gary Yanker examines the recent political poster as a vehicle for conveying the propaganda message. Posters, which can be duplicated on a vast scale or quickly and crudely made by hand, are the cheapest medium for the dissemination of ideas. National governments, political parties, pressure groups of all persuasions, rely on posters for much of their propaganda. Today, thanks largely to the highly visible efforts of students around the world - notably in France, Czechoslovakia, Mexico and the United States - posters have become more widespread than ever. As "cult" objects and as purely decorative designs they appear as frequently in living rooms as on billboards, fostering a new "poster consciousness."

Contents include: Part 1: The propaganda poster: The international propaganda phenomen. Poster literature. Poster types and function. Basic elements of political graphic design. (labelling symbols, right-wing symbols, left-wing symbols) The PLANT approach. Production and distribution (the French student experience,) Poster substitutes (buttons and bumperstickers, the sticker as a sabotage device,) The law and Prop Art. Part 2: The Poster Gallery: Election campaigns 1967-1971. Election campaign issues. Major political events (cultural revolution in China '66 - '69, Greek Junta '67, Arab-Israeli conflict '67 - '71, Assassination of Che Guevara '67, Assassination of Martin Luther King, '68, Paris May revolt, '68, Resurrection City '68, Invasion of Czechoslovakia '68, Cambodian invasion '70, Rockefeller's visit to South America '68, Nationalization of the copper mines in Chile '71) major political themes (Vietnam, Liberation : blacks, Puerto Ricans, women, Indians; ecology, communist celebrations,) Minor themes (peace, Cuba, anti-establishment, the army Nixon, solidarity, free all political prisoners), Poster substitutes: buttons, patches, bumperstickers, stickers. Includes the SO WHAT newspaper cover with moon landing, Hippie pissing on stockbroker, Alfred E. Neuman as Uncle Sam: Who Needs YOU?, lots of tricky D. & Spiro, white power bumper stickers, "win with Dick" bubble gum cigar box. An amazing collection in one book!

Very Good copy w/o dust jacket.

File under: Alfred E. Neuman Peter Max Gary Yanker New York Graphic Society / New York Darien House / New York Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Anarchism Ecology

The LIP Anthology
An Australian Feminist Arts Journal 1976-1984

2013, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Kunstverein / Amsterdam Macmillan / Melbourne

$45.00 - Out of stock

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By reviewing the adventurous projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with the LIP Collective based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this exciting anthology co-published by Kunstverein Publishing Amsterdam and Macmillan Art Publishing: Melbourne discloses for the first time the scope of the movement. It published Lip: A Feminist Arts Journal; the Earthworks Poster Collective; The Women’s Theatre Group; The Women’s Film Group and a host of exhibitions and critical writings connecting Australian women artists with the activities of their counterparts overseas.

Among the many contributors are Janine Burke, Annette Blonski, Suzanne Davies, Helen Grace, Ponch Hawkes, Sue Johnston, Laleen Jayamanne, Suzanne Spunner and Ann Stephen.

As editor Vivian Ziherl writes:
“Lip magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice over the ‘Women Liberation’ era. The art and ideas expressed over Lip’s lifetime track, with ground-breaking moves into performance, ecology, social-engagement and labor politics, stood at an intersection with local realities. The Lip Anthology seeks a figuration of Lip as a composite feminist entity produced with relation to the situational conditions of its production.

The anthology selection is not proposed as a ‘best of’, but rather as cumulative array of materials indicating the range and dynamism of the Lip project. The diversity of the periodical is privileged across multiple disciplinary vantages, as well as among the varied feminist positions brought together through the discursive space afforded by Lip. Collecting and presenting the materials of Lip for the first time since their original appearance, the anthology seeks (re/de)construction and routes of (re)circulation towards points of (re)commencement.

Vivian Ziherl is a curator at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, as well as undertaking independent projects, research and writing. Recent projects include Landings (2013-14) – a research project co-curated with Natasha Ginwala that seeks cross-over readings of land history, geomorphology, rurality and corporeality; and StageIt! (2012-13), a performance series co-curated with Hendrik Folkerts at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Ziherl will be the seventh guest curator invited to the David Roberts Art Foundation ‘Curator Series’ for 2014.

‘The Lip Anthology’ is published by Kunstverein Publishing and Macmillan Art Publishing, co-produced with Grazer Kunstverein and with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts and the TEWRR.

File under: Ann Newmarch Elizabeth Gower Jenny Watson Joan Grounds Jude Adams Lip Collective Lyndal Jones Nancy Spero Vivienne Binns Isabel Davies Ann Stephen Annette Blonski Helen Grace Janine Burke Jude Adams Laleen Jayamanne Ponch Hawkes Sue Johnston Suzanne Davies Suzanne Spunner Vivian Ziherl Kunstverein / Amsterdam Macmillan / Melbourne Art Australian Art Feminism Photography Theory / Essay

Our Bodies, Ourselves : A Book By and For Women

1973, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Simon and Schuster / New York

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First edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Hailed as a seminal feminist classic, the revolutionary book arose out of a 35-cent, 136-page booklet called Women and Their Bodies, published in 1970 by the New England Free Press, and written by 12 women who met during a women’s liberation conference at Emmanuel College in Boston. They formed what was originally known as the “Doctor’s Group”—later it would be called the Boston Women’s Health Collective— where they discussed their research into women’s health.
Our Bodies Ourselves published information related to sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and childbirth, nutrition, violence and abuse, self-defence, and menopause. Women and Their Bodies calmly dismantled taboos surrounding women’s sexuality and anatomy, offering non-judgmental discussions of topics like pregnancy, birth control and abortion. At the time it was first published, neither birth control nor abortion had been legalized for all citizens of the United States. The book was revolutionary in that it encouraged women to celebrate their sexuality, including chapters on reproductive rights, lesbian sexuality, and sexual independence. In 1971, Women and Their Bodies was republished independently as Our Bodies, Ourselves by New England Free Press. The work, priced at 40 cents, quickly sold 250,000 copies. In 1973, the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves was published by Simon & Schuster. Since then, the book has been translated into 31 languages and sold 4 million copies.

"Sharing our experiences with one another, we of The Boston Women's Health Book Collective discovered that there is an imperative need for women everywhere to learn together about our bodies in order to have control over them, and over our lives. Our Bodies, Ourselves is written by women for women, to communicate our excitement about the power of shared information, to assert that, in an age of professionals, we are the best experts on ourselves and our feelings, to begin the collective struggle for adequate health care. We seek to stimulate women (and men also) to discussion and to action, always making room for new ideas and for continuing change and growth."

Good copy of the first commercial edition from 1973, published by Simon & Schuster. General tanning and reading wear but still a good, tightly bound copy without any stamps or markings.

File under: The Boston Women’s Health Collective Simon and Schuster / New York Out-of-print / Rare Feminism

The Artist as Curator - An Anthology
Edited by Elena Filipovic

2017, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln

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With texts by Alexander Alberro, Monica Amor and Carlos Basualdo, Biljana Ciric, Ekaterina Degot, Elena Filipovic, Claire Grace, Anthony Huberman, Dean Inkster, Alhena Katsof, William Krieger, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ana Longoni, James Meyer, Isabelle Moffat, Nina Möntmann, Natalie Musteata, Sandra Skurvida, Dirk Snauwaert, Lucy Steeds, Monika Szewczyk, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Edited by Elena Filipovic.

Taking that ontologically ambiguous thing we call “the exhibition” as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. This anthology surveys seminal examples of such exhibitions from the postwar to the present, including rare documents and illustrations. It includes an introduction and the twenty essays that first appeared in Mousse, a newly commissioned afterword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and two additional essays that appear here for the first time.

The publication focuses on the following artists: Avant-Garde, the Argentinean artist group - Mel Bochner - Marcel Broodthaers - Hank Bull, Shen Fan, Zhou Tiehai, Shi Yong, and Ding Yi - John Cage - Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, and the CalArt's Feminist Art Program - Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) - Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, and Max Jorge Hinderer - Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno - Group Material - Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore - David Hammons - Martin Kippenberger - Mark Leckey - Goshka Macuga - Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska - Hélio Oiticica - Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari - Martha Rosler - Avdey Ter-Oganyan - Philippe Thomas - Andy Warhol.

File under: Cosima von Bonin Group Material Marcel Broodthaers Martin Kippenberger Faith Wilding Mladen Stilinovic Sandra Orgel Judy Chicago Miriam Schapiro CalArt's Feminist Art Program Mel Bochner Hank Bull Shen Fan Zhou Tiehai Shi Yong Ding Yi John Cage Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) Alice Creischer Andreas Siekmann Max Jorge Hinderer Liam Gillick Philippe Parreno Richard Hamilton Victor Pasmore David Hammons Mark Leckey Goshka Macuga Lucy McKenzie Paulina Olowska Hélio Oiticica Walid Raad Akram Zaatari Martha Rosler Avdey Ter-Oganyan Philippe Thomas Andy Warhol Hans Ulrich Obrist Alexander Alberro Biljana Ciric Ekaterina Degot Elena Filipovic Claire Grace Anthony Huberman Dean Inkster Alhena Katsof William Krieger Elisabeth Lebovici Ana Longoni James Meyer Isabelle Moffat Nina Möntmann Natalie Musteata Sandra Skurvida Dirk Snauwaert Lucy Steeds Monika Szewczyk Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Monica Amor Carlos Basualdo Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections