World Food Books

NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America
by Constance Penley

1997, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 18.8 x 13.72 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verso / London

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How Star Trek came to represent both scientific perfection and sexual experimentation in modern-day America.

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show’s fans who rewrite its storylines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation be accompanied by social and sexual experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

"Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Penley’s hands, popular science is a place to launch an inquiry into moral, cultural and political stakes in a world ‘where no man has gone before.'"–Donna Haraway

"NASA/TREK is happily both enjoyable and insightful, and explores some intricate correspondences between science and sex. Among other things it offers a new and persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: ‘slash’ fiction."–Samuel R. Delany

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

File under: Constance Penley Verso / London Theory / Essay Film / Video Gender Studies / Sexuality Eros

Tony Conrad
Writings

2019, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

$54.00 - In stock -

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I want art to stand strong, to display how it manipulates its audience. I want it to take up their expectations, their sense of the world, their predispositions toward the way they think or use their language, and then to use these things perversely, politically, colorfully, “expressively.”

—Tony Conrad, “Dolomite: Having No Trust in Readers”

Writings is the first collection to widely survey this singular polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras, and Music and the Mind of the World, as well as that of his peers: Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham, and Henry Flynt, among others. He devotes critical essays both to grand subjects—horology, neurolinguistics, and the historical development of Western music—and more quotidian topics, such as television advertising and camouflage. He also writes on media activism, network communications, censorship, and the political and cultural implications of corporate and global media. No matter the topic or theme, Conrad always approaches his subjects with erudition, precision, and a healthy twist of humor.

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them.

Re-print.

File under: Tony Conrad Constance DeJong Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Art Fluxus

My Mother Laughs
By Chantal Akerman

2019, English
Softcover, 175 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

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"With pride because I finally believed in my ability to say something that I’d had trouble saying. I told myself, I am strong for once, I speak. I tell the truth."

In this unforgettable and moving memoir, the last book written before her death, the legendary film director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) blends her matter-of-fact writing style with family photographs and stills from her own films in order to better describe and speak toward the most tender of human elements: her family, her lovers, and, most urgently, the deterioration of her mother’s health along with her own mental health.

While addressing universal experiences–the pain found woven into love, the end of relationships, difficult family histories, self-doubt, the end of life–Akerman‘s sharp eye toward memory raises questions about what it means to love and care for oneself and for another, and in the end, what the personal cost of those decisions can be.

Chantal Akerman was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and professor. She is best known for her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by the New York Times. During her 42 years of active filmmaking, Akerman's influence on queer, feminist, and avant-garde cinema remains unmatched, her films highlighting a near physical passage of time.

Translated by Corina Copp

File under: Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Corina Copp The Song Cave / New York Art Theory / Essay Film / Video

Yaso
Special Feature: Jan Svankmajer

2007, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 24 x 18.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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"Jan Svankmajer" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, published in 2007, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Profusely illustrated in colour with texts in Japanese that look at the genius of Jan Švankmajer, the Czech filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist, a self-labeled surrealist celebrated for his innovative stop–motion animations and feature films, his extensive collaboration with wife painter and author Eva Švankmajerová, his collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. Packed with his drawings, film stills, artworks, photographs, interviews, articles on Svankmajer's motifs, artists inspired by Svankmajer and their works, a Svanmkajer filmography, and a section on Travel Tips to the Czech Republic. In typical Japanese magazine fashion, and Yaso in particular, this volume is incredibly comprehensive.

Good–VG copy. Some cover creasing. Sample image only.

File under: Jan Svankmajer Eva Švankmajerová Eva Švankmajerová Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Periodicals Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Art Surrealism Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sculpture / Installation

Mauro Restiffe
Santo Sospir

2021, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 24 x 29 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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A series of images of Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the "Tattooed Villa" transformed into an artwork by Jean Cocteau, whose Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe reveals the hidden details during a residency.

The Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat is not a Gesamtkunstwerk, and stands out in particular from the now-mythical realizations by Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier at Cap-Martin, just a stone's throw away. Far from a manifesto, Cocteau invests a pre-existing and rather unremarkable architecture, then conceives his intervention in the villa through a process of accumulation, mixing souvenirs and objects belonging to Francine Weisweiller or himself with the furniture of their friend Madeleine Castaing. Inspired by Greek mythology and the Mediterranean landscapes that surrounded the Villa, this late pictorial work, resolutely anti-modern, has long been ignored or vilified by historians. While Cocteau's entire literary, theatrical and cinematographic work deals with the representation of self, it always takes place in a particular setting. The interiors imagined by Cocteau provide accurate portraits of their occupants. In the 1950s, Jean Cocteau split his time between Paris, Milly la Forêt, and Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat. It is at Santo Sospir that most of his TV interviews were made. It is above all the only house he filmed in his last two cinematographic opuses: La Villa Santo Sospir (filmée et commentée par Jean Cocteau) and Le Testament d'Orphée (Ne me demandez pas pourquoi). Santo Sospir can thus be viewed from the angle of a movie set, which allows him to introduce the world to the other Jean Cocteau—the Mediterranean poet, the craftsman.

Architecture, and Modernism in particular, has always been a source of inspiration for Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe. In his photographs, Restiffe has been exploring how every side of the built environment is imbued with life, all the more so in the unobserved details and even when no one is framed. In 2018, at the beginning of a multi-year restoration, he was invited to reside at the villa.

Mauro Restiffe (born 1970, lives and works in São Paulo) captures large format photographs of landscapes, modernist interiors, iconic architectures, and urban life, as well as exploring issues of representation in images that reproduce existing works of art. His work, exhibited internationally, is part is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Tate Modern (London), MASP (São Paulo), among others.

File under: Jean Cocteau Mauro Restiffe Lenz Press / Milan Architecture / Interior Photography Painting Drawing Film / Video Art

Act 1
an exhibition of performance and participatory art

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 29.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ANU Arts Centre / Canberra

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of Act 1: an exhibition of performance and participatory art, 4—12 November 1978, spanning the ANU Arts Centre, Commonwealth Gardens and Civic Centre, Canberra. Organised by the ANU Arts Centre, Act I drew Australian artists to Canberra for the "first of a series of exhibitions directed towards specific aspects of recent and experimental art". Profusely illustrated artist pages throughout with photo documentation, collage, drawings, and artist's texts. Artists include Mike Parr, Ian Hamilton, Terry Smith and Media Action Group (Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Terry Smith, Michael Dolk, Kieren Finnane, Mary Kinney, Ian Milliss, Anne Sutherland...), Leigh Hobba, Kevin Mortensen, John Nixon, John Davis, Marr Grounds, Ken Unsworth, John Fisher, Liz Honybun, David Kerr, Richard and Pat Larter, Tony Twigg, Lesley Savage, Terry Smith, Tony Twigg, Bob Ramsay, Noel Sheridan, Arthur Wicks, Jillian Orr, Richard Tipping, Jim Cowley, Donald Walters... Includes critical essays by Paul McGillick and Terry Smith on performance art and private and public work, plus further texts by organisers Ingo Kleinert, Diana Ashcroft Johnson, Mildred Kirk. The catalogue also operates in as a document of the exchanges between the organisers and the artists, laying bare the operations and budget, reproducing the open letter to the invited artists along with a selection of the signed responses outlining the artistic concepts, all reproduced in full facsimile. Signatures and transcribed concept responses of contributing artists also make up the wrap-around cover design. Also of particular interest for the contribution by Terry Smith and Media Action Group, who formed in 1977 at Sydney University around the Australian members of the Art & Language group, who had recently returned to Australia. The group produced slide shows on the ideological bias in media treatment of advertising, uranium mining, new technology and the history of May Day. This work is stamped "withdrawn because titled 'performance'" in the contents.

Very Good copy with light wear to cover extremities/light spine pinching. Toned pages from age.

File under: Mike Parr Ian Hamilton Leigh Hobba Kevin Mortensen John Nixon John Davis Marr Grounds Ken Unsworth John Fisher Liz Honybun David Kerr Richard and Pat Larter Tony Twigg Lesley Savage Terry Smith Bob Ramsay Noel Sheridan Arthur Wicks Jillian Orr Richard Tipping Jim Cowley Donald Walters Pat Larter Richard Larter Media Action Group Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Michael Dolk Kieren Finnane Mary Kinney Ian Milliss Anne Sutherland Paul McGillick Terry Smith ANU Arts Centre / Canberra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera

G-Modern Vol. 8
Spring '95 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 110 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 8 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Spring 1995, this early issue features Albert Ayler, Kenji Endo, AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, Can / Holger Czukay, Stever Beresford, LAFMS, Miles Davis, Hawkwind, Butch Morris, The Pop Group, Television, Hiroshi Mikami, Q-65, unknown masterpieces, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, cover wear.

File under: Albert Ayler Kenji Endo AMM Nihilist Spasm Band Can / Holger Czukay Stever Beresford LAFMS Miles Davis Hawkwind Butch Morris The Pop Group Television Hiroshi Mikami Q-65 Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

G-Modern Vol. 17
Winter '97-'98 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 17 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter '97-'98, this early issue features Jutok Kaneko, Congregation, Current 93, Arthur Doyle, Klaus Dinger, Kikuchi Kōji, Barre Phillips, Chu Ishikawa, Nelly Pouget, Screamin' Mee-Mees, Solmania, Mike Whilhelm, Sumegma, unknown psychedelia, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Fine copy.

File under: Jutok Kaneko Congregation Current 93 Arthur Doyle Klaus Dinger Kikuchi Kōji Barre Phillips Chu Ishikawa Nelly Pouget Screamin' Mee-Mees Solmania Mike Whilhelm Sumegma Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Sound / Music Film / Video Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

G-Modern Vol. 5
Winter '94 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 108 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 5 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter 1994, this early issue features Derek Bailey, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Captain Beefheart, George A. Romero, Keiji Haino, Smegma, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Hawkwind, Pierre Henry, Shinro Ohtake, Shoichi Ozawa, Alvin Lucier, Frank Zappa, history/discography of Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label, articles on extremely obscure psych from around the world, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, light cover wear.

File under: Derek Bailey Captain Beefheart George A. Romero Keiji Haino Smegma Patti Smith Jean-Luc Godard Hawkwind Pierre Henry Shinro Ohtake Shoichi Ozawa Alvin Lucier Frank Zappa Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) Aube Motoharu Yoshizawa Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Screensound
Organised by Rebecca Coyle

1995, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

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Rare pocket publication issued on the occasion of Screensound, a program of screenings at the MCA, Sydney, July 1995. The program was part of the exhibition, Sound in Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art, curated by Rebecca Coyle and Alessio Cavallaro, and brought the dimension of video and film into their exploration of sound and audio art practice in Australia. Illustrated with accompanying texts throughout, featuring the works of Philip Brophy, Rik Rue, Severed Heads, Derek Kreckler, Tom Ellard, Laurie Mc Innes, Fincher Trist, Noel Cunningham, Jane Campion, Itch-E and Scratch-E, Arf Arf, Battleship Potato, Melissa Juhanson, Sonia Leber, David Chesworth, and many more.

Good copy.

File under: Philip Brophy Rik Rue Severed Heads Sonia Leber David Chesworth ARF ARF Rebecca Coyle Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Australian Art Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Nightmare USA : The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
by Stephen Thrower

2007, English
Hardcover, 528 pages, 25 x 28.9 cm
Published by FAB Press / UK

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Running to 528 large-format pages, Nightmare USA is a veritable encyclopedia of grindhouse cinema - it's one of the most acclaimed genre film books ever published, and after having Sold Out three times over already, it's finally back in print!

From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. With censorship relaxed, and the gate to excess wide open, horror offered a vibrant alternative to the mainstream of American cinema. Luridly titled wonders like The Headless Eyes, Scream Bloody Murder and Hitch Hike to Hell were everywhere, from the drive-ins of Texas to the grindhouses of New York. Massively popular around the world, American exploitation movies added immensely to the richness of the nation's cinema.

Built on five years of research, Nightmare USA explores the development of America's subterranean horror film industry, spotlighting some of the wildest films imaginable from an era unchecked by censorship or 'good taste.' Ranging from cult favourites like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil and shockers like Don't Go in the House, Nightmare USA goes where no other in-depth study has gone before, revealing the fascinating true stories behind classics and obscurities alike. Author Stephen Thrower has explored the attics and cellars of American cinema, delved beneath the floorboards, peered between the walls, searching for the strangest, most exotic cine-lifeforms... Nightmare USA is the reader's guide to what lies beyond the mainstream of American horror, dispelling the shadows to meet the men and women behind fifteen years of screen terror: the Exploitation Independents!

This massive overview of the Horror genre's development through the 1970s and 1980s features: In-depth EXCLUSIVE interviews with twenty-five grindhouse movie makers, many of whom are discussing their work for the first time ever in print, including David Durston (I Drink Your Blood), Robert Endelson (Fight for Your Life), Frederick Friedel (Axe), Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains); and Joseph Ellison (Don't Go in the House). Over 175 individual films reviewed, with full cast and crew credits. Vast quantities of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from the filmmakers' own collections.

File under: Stephen Thrower FAB Press / UK Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
by Jasper Sharp

2025, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 416 pages, 26 x 19.8 cm
Published by FAB Press / UK

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Back in print at last! Exclusively re-issued in hardcover. First published in 2008, this is the Updated and Amended re-issue of Behind the Pink Curtain, the definitive study of Japan's pinku eiga film genre.

Behind the Pink Curtain takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the country’s distinctive sex film movements.

Jasper Sharp’s definitive study focuses on one of the most notorious sectors of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink Film, or pinku eiga genre, and the closely related Roman Porno films produced by Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988. From the early ’60s onwards major Japanese film studios and independent producers alike have kept up a conveyor belt level of output of pornographic features intended purely for cinema release. Up until the 2010s, just short of 100 such titles were shot on 35mm every year intended for screening in a specialist network of adult cinemas across the nation. Many such films have been released on home video in the West or screened at international film festivals, while a significant number of Japan’s most noted filmmakers today cut their teeth in this industry.

Based on extensive interviews with many of the leading figures in the field, Behind the Pink Curtain is a colourful and exhaustive exposé of Japan’s most vibrant and prolific filmmaking sector.

Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Jasper Sharp is a writer and filmmaker based in the UK and co-founder, with Tom Mes, of Midnight Eye (www.midnighteye.com), the first online resource on Japanese cinema in the English language. His other books include The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2003, with Mes), The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011) and The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds (Alchimia, 2015). His doctorate degree from the University of Sheffield was on the subject of 'Japanese Widescreen Cinema: Commerce, Technology and Aesthetics.'

File under: Koji Wakamatsu Masao Adachi Jasper Sharp FAB Press / UK Film / Video Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Counterculture Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Fetishism / BDSM

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

Theorem
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2023, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.2 x 12.7 cm
Published by The New York Review of Books / New York

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Theorem is the most enigmatic of Pier Paolo Pasolini's four novels. The book started as a poem and took shape as a film, also called Theorem, before turning at last into a work of fiction. In short prose chapters interspersed with stark passages of poetry, Pasolini tells a story of transfiguration and trauma.

To the suburban mansion of a prosperous Milanese businessman comes a mysterious and beautiful young man who invites himself to stay. From the beginning he exercises a strange fascination on the inhabitants of the house, and soon everyone, from the busy father to the frustrated mother, from the yearning daughter to the weak-willed son to the housemaid from the country, has fallen in love with him. Then, as mysteriously as he appeared, the infatuating young man departs. How will these people he has touched so deeply do without him? Is there a passage out of the spiritual desert of modern capitalism into a new awakening, both of the senses and of the soul? Only questions remain at the end of a book that is at once a bedroom comedy, a political novel, and a religious parable.

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini The New York Review of Books / New York Art Film / Video Fiction / Poetry

Rosemarie Trockel

2026, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 27.9 x 22.2 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Edited with text by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Valeria Gordeev, Quinn Latimer, Christoph Menke, Cord Riechelmann, Ann-Charlotte Gunzel.

From “knitting pictures” to upside down palm trees and mannequin heads in glass boxes, Trockel’s caustic oeuvre defies classification.

Finally here, the enormous MMK catalogue! German multimedia artist Rosemarie Trockel rose to fame in the 1980s with her “knitting pictures” made with industrial weaving machines. In 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit at the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The brutality and absurdity of normative regimes emerge openly in the work of Rosemarie Trockel. Definitions, restrictions, paternalism, and violence due to gender become visible and transparent. Her advance is a risky, courageous, combative, and humorous one. In all media—drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and film—Trockel’s sociological gaze is as much directed at social regimes and political structures as it is at nature. Her observations and studies of processionary caterpillars, starlings, chickens, or lice, while scientifically sound and precise, always include her own critical gaze as a vital component. She appropriates the ambivalences in her work, capturing them decidedly.

The comprehensive exhibition and catalogue displays works from all periods of Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre, from the 1970s to the new works created especially for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Susanne Pfeffer Valeria Gordeev Quinn Latimer Christoph Menke Cord Riechelmann Ann-Charlotte Gunzel Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art

Rosemarie Trockel
Post Menopause

2005, English / German
Softcover (w. folded poster dust-jacket), 192 pages, 22.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Rare 2006 edition (w. original fold-out dust-jacket poster) of Rosemarie Trockel's Post Menopause catalogue (raisonné), published on the occasion of the major 2005—2006 exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: Menopause, at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, and MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

This wonderful, major survey disappeared from print very fast, quickly becoming a valuable item in the mid-2000s. A catalogue raisonné of sorts, collecting Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980—2005 (sculpture, wool works, drawings, publications, garments, photography, video — including many very rarely seen objects), Post Menopause remains one the best, most comprehensive, and Trockel-esque books produced on one of Germany's most important and influential conceptual artists. Not surprisingly, since Post Menopause was realised in close collaboration between Trockel herself with Museum Ludwig curator Barbara Engelbach, and designed by her regular design collaborator, and sometimes muse, the great graphic designer Yvonne Quirmbach. Extensive chronological cataloguing of all works, biography, bibliography, and bilingual (English and German) essays by Brigid Doherty, Silvia Eiblmayr, Barbara Engelbach, Kasper König, and Gregory Williams.

A highly recommended and invaluable resource on the artist.

Rosemarie Trockel (*1952) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

VG/VG.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Barbara Engelbach Brigid Doherty Gregory Williams Silvia Eiblmayr Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Drawing Conceptual Art Film / Video

Paul McCarthy
Propo

1999, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 18.5 x 18.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Charta / Milan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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The great Propo artist's book by Paul McCarthy, published by Charta in 1999. Comprised entirely of photos of everyday objects, soiled, dirtied and ruined, shot against colourful backdrops that contrast with the mysterious nature of the decontextualized objects. Children's toys, condiment bottles, latex masks, dolls ... these objects are in fact props from McCarthy's legendary performances, and their visual inventory here reads like a book of modernity's detritus. A photo book document of residual sculptural objects of performance. One of his best books, like no other!

Born in Salt Lake City in 1945, Paul McCarthy has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area since 1970. Originally formally trained as a painter, McCarthy's main interest lies in everyday activities and the mess created by them. Much of his work in the late 1960s, such as Mountain Bowling (1969) and Hold an Apple in Your Armpit (1970), are similar to the work of Happenings founder Allan Kaprow, with whom McCarthy had a professional relationship. From 1982 to 2002 he taught performance, video, installation, and performance art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. McCarthy currently works mainly in video and sculpture. His work has been widely exhibited throughout Europe and the U.S. including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Very Good copy with only light wear.

File under: Paul McCarthy Charta / Milan Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Photography

A History of Violence (1973)
by David Cotner

2022, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 23.5 x 19 cm
Published by Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia

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Once in a century, a book comes along that both defines a genre - and defies it. This is that century. This is that book.

The book is A History of Violence (1973). A memoir of the human race. Its concept is simple: take the date in 1973 on which a violent film was first screened - and go beyond the film to see the world that exists outside the theatre. It's a book that realizes that the line between life and cinema is as much a horizon as it is a terminator. A History of Violence (1973) takes you across that horizon to places in time you never even imagined existed. Because bombs don't explode in only one direction.

169 films. The brutal and transgressive sex films (Forced Entry; High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft; Teenage Jailbait). The films of cinematic masters like Brian De Palma (Sisters), Terence Malick (Badlands), and Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now). The Italian crime films (Death Carries a Cane; The Flower With the Deadly Sting; Torso). The police procedurals (Blade; The Laughing Policeman; The Marcus-Nelson Murders). The flat-out shocking and bizarre films that can only be appreciated by surviving them (The Hunchback of the Morgue; The Night God Screamed; The Sinful Dwarf).

1973: The year that the War in Vietnam ends, military coups convulse Afghanistan and Chile and Rwanda, and the spectre of Watergate looms large.1973. The year that a teen thinks his neighbor is using telepathy to make him gay - so he strips him nude, kills him and his entire family, and burns down their house. The year that a husband kidnaps young men and holds them at gunpoint - while they have sex with his wife. The year that a man goes out for a night on the town with a friend - and comes home to find that his wife has murdered their children, then killed herself. 1973. The year of the deaths of writers W.H. Auden and Victor Jara; actors Bruce Lee and Lon Chaney Jr.; and artists Robert Smithson and Pablo Picasso. The year of Skylab and Pioneer and Kohoutek. The year of the mass murders of Edmund Emil Kemper, Herbert William Mullin, Charlie Chop-Off, and The Alphabet Killer. A History of Violence (1973) also stands as a testament to the tireless efforts of law enforcement to solve the violent crimes that grip America. In 1973, America sees the first blue flashing lights that complete the lightbars of today's police cruisers; the breathalyzer comes into common usage; and Dr. Lester Luntz becomes the first forensic odontologist to try to crack a case by obtaining a search warrant to get a cast of a suspect's teeth.

A History of Violence (1973). A history book for the history books.

A History of Violence (1973) represents the culmination of 20 years of exhaustive research, employing the digital advances that have thrown wide the doors of archives everywhere for a greater understanding of the human condition - both scaling the heights of creation and plunging to the depths of annihilation. With an audience as wide-ranging as true-crime enthusiasts, police detectives and horror movie buffs, A History of Violence (1973) also presents a seething array of lurid and alluring movie advertising art - some unseen for more than 40 years.

This isn't the book about violence you thought you wanted. This is the book about violence you knew you needed.

“An incisive autopsy of concentrated cultural psychosis. Like Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip, A History of Violence (1973) is an association-tripping chronicle of misery – but filtered through David Cotner’s intimate prose, it reveals a strange hopefulness that counteracts its despair.”—Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

David Cotner is a culture critic, composer, and conceptual artist. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. He lives in and around the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area.

File under: David Cotner Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Counterculture Eros Film / Video

"... And You Will Live In Terror!"
John Martin Explores 'The Beyond' by Lucio Fulci

1994, English
Softcover (staple bound), 68 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yellow Press / UK

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Rare English film digest / fanzine by celebrated genre writer and editor of Giallo Pages, John Martin, "... And You Will Live In Terror!", published by Yellow Press is devoted entirely to Italian master Lucio Fulci's incredible 1981 Southern Gothic supernatural horror film, The Beyond, story created. Written by Dardano Sacchetti, and starring Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck, its plot follows a woman who inherits a hotel in rural Louisiana that was once the site of a horrific murder, and which may be a gateway to hell. It is the second film in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead (1980), and was followed by The House by the Cemetery (1981). The Beyond ranks among Fulci's most celebrated films, and has gained an international cult following. This little book reproduces all of its glory in glossy full-colour and b/w, packed with film stills, lobby cards, posters and other visual documents, accompanying Martin's texts and production details. Martin is an author, editor and authority on the British "video nasties" phenomenon and all things exploitation all'italiana.

Very Good copy.

File under: Lucio Fulci John Martin Yellow Press / UK Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

ART! TRASH! TERROR!: Adventures in Strange Cinema
by Chris Alexander

2025, English
Softcover, 455 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Headpress / Oxford

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From filmmaker, former Fangoria editor-in-chief, and Corman/Poe author Chris Alexander comes ART! TRASH! TERROR! Adventures in Strange Cinema, a treasure trove of in-depth essays and edifying interviews that celebrate some of the most eccentric and unforgettable movies in cult cinema history. From recognized classics (George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, David Lynch's The Elephant Man) to misunderstood masterpieces (Michael Mann's The Keep, Boris Sagal's The Omega Man) to unfairly maligned curios (Kostas Karagiannis' Land Of The Minotaur, Brett Leonard's Hideaway), the author takes an alternately serious and playful but always personal look at several strains of international horror, dark fantasy, and exploitation film -- motion pictures that transform, transgress, challenge, infuriate, shock, and entertain.

Connecting these passionate and critical essays are insightful interviews with revered talents, such as John Waters (writer/director, Cecil B. Demented), Michael Winner (director, The Sentinel), Nicolas Cage (actor, Vampire's Kiss), Gene Simmons (co-founder/bassist, KISS), William Crain (director, Blacula), William Lustig (director, Maniac), Werner Herzog (director, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht) and many more, as well as witty, heartfelt memoirs charting the author's oddball experiences on the fringes of Hollywood and beyond.

Illustrated with more than 200 startling photographs!

File under: Chris Alexander Headpress / Oxford Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

The Only House: A Novel
by Ed Wood

2024, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 cm
Published by Severin / Los Angeles Encyclopocalypse / Los Angeles

$25.00 - Out of stock

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“Do you think I was born just before I came through that door?
Baby, I know exactly what this place is
and you better get it through your head what it is!”

Only their sick sexual hangups could bring young newlyweds Danny and Shirley Carpenter to the house at 9 Devil Lane. For it is here, in this musty old mansion, that the necromancer Madame Heles and her sensual assistant Tanya perform their strange rites of the erotic occult. There will be those who serve, those who must be serviced, and when the clock strikes midnight, the dark ceremony of carnal desire can officially begin. But will this nightmare of ecstasy unleash the ultimate torrent of lewd hungers or reveal the most depraved secrets of all?

First published in 1972, The Only House follows the central plot and characters of Wood’s adult feature NECROMANIA: A TALE OF WEIRD LOVE! with jaw-dropping detours into additional sordid scenarios. It is a literary odyssey of feverish melodrama, pink angora sweaters, and perversely delectable filth that could come only from the mind of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

File under: Ed Wood Ed Wood Severin / Los Angeles Encyclopocalypse / Los Angeles Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Occult / Esoterica Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Incredibly Strange Films

1986 / 2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 25.4 x 20.32 cm
Published by RE/SEARCH / San Francisco

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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good taste"–Pablo Picasso

"Exploitation films are the only ones that come close to the dreaded word "art". I still wonder why film students babble on about Orson Welles or Howard Hawks when they ignore the greatest masters in film history: Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Even the worst films by these two directors are infinitely more interesting than Citizen Kane?"–John Waters

First published in 1986, guest edited by Jim Morton, with associate editor Boyd Rice, in the RE/Search series edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Incredibly Strange Films is a cult classic of underground film that caused the re-issue of hundreds of films! A functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors – Hershell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels and others – who have been critically consigned to the ghettos of gore and sexploitation films. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. The guide includes biographies, genre overviews, filmographies, bibliography, quotations, an A-Z of film personalities, lists of recommended films, sources, index, as well as 172 photos.

Essays and articles by Jim Morton, Boyd Rice, Andrea Juno, V. Vale, Mark Pauline, Colette Coleman, Mark Spainhower, Rick Prelinger. Heavily illustrated. Includes Jim Morton and Boyd Rice's list of favourite films.

File under: Hershell Gordon Lewis Russ Meyer Larry Cohen Ray Dennis Steckler Ted V. Mikels Jim Morton Boyd Rice Andrea Juno V. Vale Mark Pauline Colette Coleman Mark Spainhower Rick Prelinger RE/SEARCH / San Francisco Film / Video Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Eros LGBTQ+ Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

Conceptual Art
by Ursula Meyer

1972, English
Softcover, 228 pages, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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"The function of the critic and the function of the artist have been traditionally divided; the artist's concern was the production of the work and the critic's was its evaluation and interpretation. During the past several years a group of young artists evolved the idiom of Conceptual Art, which eliminated this division. Conceptual artists take over the role of the critic in terms of framing their own propositions, ideas, and concepts.

An essential aspect of Conceptual Art is its self-reference; often the artists define the intentions of their work as part of their art. Thus, many Conceptual artists advance propositions or investigations. It is in keeping, then, with Conceptual Art that it is best explained through itself, i.e., through the examination of Conceptual Art, rather than through any assumptions outside of itself. In this sense, this book is not a 'critical anthology' by a documentation of Conceptual Art and Statements."

Includes : Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Alain Kirili, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Iain Baxter, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perreault, Adrian Piper, Mel Ramsden, Edward Ruscha, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, Vito Acconci, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Gregory Battcock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Rosemarie Castoro, Roger Cutforth, Jan Dibbets, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke.

Ex–libris copy from the personal collection of Australian artist, educator, historian, writer, art critic, environmentalist, plumber, Noel Hutchinson (1940-2020), name penned to reverse front cover. Average–Good copy, Wear/light creasing to extremities.

File under: Douglas Huebler Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Alain Kirili Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov Sol LeWitt Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Iain Baxter Dennis Oppenheim John Perreault Adrian Piper Mel Ramsden Edward Ruscha Bernar Venet Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Vito Acconci Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge Michael Baldwin Harold Hurrell John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Gregory Battcock Bernd and Hilla Becher Mel Bochner Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Rosemarie Castoro Roger Cutforth Jan Dibbets Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Dan Graham Hans Haacke E P Dutton / New York Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater