World Food Books

Daniel Spoerri

2021, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 30 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

This extensive hardcover overview of Swiss Romanian artist Daniel Spoerri's (b. 1930) 60-year-long career, presents reproductions of archival material as well as rarely seen artworks from Spoerri's incredible artistic history of installations, assemblages, (including his famous "snare works"), performances, editions, and other activities as a protagonist of Fluxus, Nouveau réalisme and Eat Art. Includes texts by Ingried Brugger, Veronika Rudorfer, Hans Peter Hahn, Barbara Räderscheidt, Daniel Spoerri, Katerina Vatsella.

File under: Daniel Spoerri Ingried Brugger Veronika Rudorfer Hans Peter Hahn Barbara Räderscheidt Daniel Spoerri Katerina Vatsella Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Polartis 2000

2000, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Polartis / Victoria

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Rare Visual Poetry / Mail Art zine issued in 2000 by Australian poet Pete Spence, featuring texual collage/poetry works spanning many french-fold photocopied pages by Warren Burt (Australia), Ben Vautier (France), Dave Baptise Chirot (USA), Cornelis Vleeskens (Australia), Javant Biarujia (Australia), Betty Danon (Italy), Hugo Pontes (Brazil), Neil M. Hennessy (Canada), Pete Spence (Australia), David Dellafiora (Australia), Hans Braumuller (Chile/Germany), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Phillip Sipp (Australia), Tim Gaze (Australia), Cornelis Vleeskens (Holland/Australia), Karl Kempton (USA), J. Ricart (Spain), Lajos Kassak (Hungary), and others.

Based in Kyneton, Victoria, Pete Spence (b. 1946) has been internationally active in Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Experimental Film, and Lyric Verse throughout the 1980s—2000s, founding Post Neo Publications in 1984 to publish works by Luc Fierens, Hannah Weiner, Berni Janssen, Alex Selenitsch, and others. His own first book, FIVE Poems, was published in 1986 by Nosukomo. For over four decades he has been quietly pursuing his own direction in this multiplicity of art forms but in particular in his witty, idiosyncratic, entertaining poetry.

Good—VG copy, rusting to staples.

File under: Warren Burt Warren Burt Ben Vautier Dave Baptise Chirot Cornelis Vleeskens Neil M. Hennessy Pete Spence David Dellafiora Hans Braumuller Clemente Padin Phillip Sipp Tim Gaze Karl Kempton J. Ricart Lajos Kassak Polartis / Victoria Australian Art Poetry Concrete Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Fluxus

Living Building Thinking: Art & Expressionism

2017, English / French
Softcover,‎ 280 pages, 29.3 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ‎ McMaster Museum of Art / Ontario

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First English and French bi-lingual edition. This fully illustrated publication explores the development and trajectories of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to present day.

The term Expressionism is most often associated with art and social activism in Germany between 1905 and 1937. It encompasses visual art, literature, philosophy, theatre, film and photography, and architecture of that era. These original essays expand the view on the subject, showing how the impulses behind and results of Expressionism suggest that it remains relevant today. The relationship between artists and society, the visual expressions that circulate through shared hopes for social awareness and change across national borders, these all prompt artists to respond in the spirit of a moment and trigger impulses to express the human condition through art. Drawn from the extensive collection of the McMaster Museum of Art, the book features nearly 100 paintings, drawings, prints, books, camera work and video: from formative historical works of the 19th century by artists such as William Blake, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele and Wassily Kandinsky, through German Expressionists by the likes of Otto Dix, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Kathe Kollewitz, George Grosz and Max Beckmann to contemporary works by Canadian artists such as Gershon Iskowitz, Gary Pearson, and Natalka Husar that underscore Expressionism's relevance in society today.

Very Good copy.

File under: William Blake Paul Gauguin Edvard Munch Egon Schiele Wassily Kandinsky Otto Dix Emil Nolde Erich Heckel Kathe Kollewitz George Grosz Max Beckmann Joseph Beuys Robert Belton Dietmar Elger Reinhold Heller Ihor Holubizky ‎ McMaster Museum of Art / Ontario Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Group Shows / Collections

Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

DOMUS
No. 505 Dicembre 1971

1971, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 505 Dicembre 1971
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames, Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
features :
architectural projects by Vittorio Gregotti, Valentino Parmini, Franco Paulis; Lorenzino Cremonini; Angelo Mangiarotti; Alberto Salvati, Ambrogio Tresoldi; Ugo de Pietra; Claudio Dini, Valerio Di Battista; Cini Boeri for Gavina; design objects bby Richard Sapper; Tom Ahlström, Hans Enrich; interiors by Arne Jacobsen; Shiro Kuramata; Gérard-Roger Ifert, Rudolf Meyer; furniture by Angelo Mangiorotti; Kho Liang Ie; Cini Boeri; Joseph Beuys; book reviews; and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

Good copy with edge wear and foxing/page edge damages from age.

File under: Vittorio Gregotti Valentino Parmini Franco Paulis Lorenzino Cremonini Angelo Mangiarotti Alberto Salvati Ambrogio Tresoldi Ugo de Pietra Claudio Dini Valerio Di Battista Gavina Richard Sapper Tom Ahlström Hans Enrich Arne Jacobsen Shiro Kuramata Gérard-Roger Ifert Rudolf Meyer Angelo Mangiorotti Kho Liang Ie Cini Boeri Joseph Beuys Cesare Casati Pierre Restany Agnoldomenico Pica Carmela Haerdtl Joseph Rykwert Ettore Sottsass jr. Charles and Ray Eames Kho Liang je Bernard Rudofsky George Nelson Fausto Melotti Tommaso Trini Tapio Wirkkalaand Rut Bryk Hans Hollein Editoriale Domus / Milan Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Theory / Essay Art Arte Povera Pop Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Fluxus Ceramics / Glass

Resonance Vol 9 No 2

2002, English
Softcover (staple-bound + audio cd), 54 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by London Musicians Collective / London

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Vol 9 No 2 (2002) issue of Resonance magazine, the legendary periodical of contemporary, experimental and improvised music that grew out of Musics (1975—1979) and The London Musicians Collective (LMC), a cultural charity and collective based in London, England, founded in 1975.

This issue features Toshimaru Nakamura, Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins, Xentos Fray Bentos, Knut Aufermann, David Lee Myers, Phil Durrant, Michael Prime, Matt Rogalsky and Barry G. Nichols. Plus record & book reviews + obituary of Gareth Williams (This Heat) by Ed Baxter + photographs by Kathrin Brunnert of the 10th Annual LMC Festival, and much much more.

78 minute CD includes music by David Tudor, John Cage, plus all the magazine article contributors (Myers, Aufermann, Nakamura, Collins, Lucier, Prime, Rogalsky, Durrant, Xentos, ECM:323 & TunkSystems)

Very Good copy, light cover wear.

File under: Toshimaru Nakamura Alvin Lucier Nicolas Collins Xentos Fray Bentos Knut Aufermann David Lee Myers Phil Durrant Michael Prime Gareth Williams This Heat David Tudor John Cage Xentos Fray Bentos Ed Baxter London Musicians Collective / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Fluxus

Resonance Vol 6 No 1

1999, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 54 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by London Musicians Collective / London

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Vol 6 No 1 (1997) issue of Resonance magazine, the legendary periodical of contemporary, experimental and improvised music that grew out of Musics (1975—1979) and The London Musicians Collective (LMC), a cultural charity and collective based in London, England, founded in 1975.

This issue guest edited by Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow, The Work, et al.) features Butch Morris interviewed by Steve Beresford, lancu Dumitrescu interviewed by Tim Hodgkinson, Heiner Goebbels interviewed by Kersten Glandien, John Zorn interviewed by Howard Mandel, Form is emptiness... Simon H. Fell, Charles Hayward, Tim Hodgkinson and Phil England - with Richard Barrett, Chris Burn, John Butcher, John Bisset, George Lewis interviewed by Lawrence Casserley, Behind Trout Mask by John French, The Great British Record Fair by Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil), Improvisation as form by Michael Ratté, Thai classical music, and much much more. Bonus CD missing.

Good—Very Good copy, light cover wear.

File under: Captain Beefheart Tim Hodgkinson Henry Cow The Work Steve Beresford lancu Dumitrescu Heiner Goebbels John Zorn Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil) George Lewis Lawrence Casserley Charles Hayward This Heat Phil England Richard Barrett Chris Burn John Butcher John Bisset Kersten Glandien Howard Mandel Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil) Phil England London Musicians Collective / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Fluxus

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

Schizo-Culture: The Event, the Book
2 Volume boxset

2014, English
2 volume Softcover (in hardcover slip case), 240 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

$95.00 - Out of stock

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The legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-’68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze’s first presentation of the concept of the “rhizome” to Foucault’s introduction of his History of Sexuality project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion “Schizo-Culture” revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture.

The “Schizo-Culture” issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green, it documented the chaotic creativity of an emerging downtown New York scene, and offered interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Foucault, R. D. Laing, and other conference participants.

This slip-cased edition includes The Book: 1978, a facsimile reproduction of the original Schizo-Culture publication; and The Event: 1975, a previously unpublished and comprehensive record of the conference that set it all off. It assembles many previously unpublished texts, including a detailed selection of interviews reconstructing the events, and features Félix Guattari, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michel Foucault, Sylvère Lotringer, Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze, John Rajchman, Robert Wilson, Joel Kovel, Jack Smith, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Ti-Grace Atkinson, François Peraldi, and John Cage.

File under: Jack Smith John Cage William S. Burroughs Felix Guattari Gilles Deleuze Guy Hocquenghem Jack Smith Jean-François Lyotard Joel Kovel John Cage John Rajchman Kathy Acker Michel Foucault Robert Wilson Sylvère Lotringer Ti-Grace Atkinson William S. Burroughs SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Theory / Essay Arte Povera Sound / Music Feminism Film / Video Counterculture LGBTQ+ Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

$OUL — DÉCADA DEL 70 — INTERCÂMBIO ENTRE MAC E CAYC
Organised by Jorge Glusberg

1976, Portuguese
Double-sided fold-out, 4 panels, 47 x 30 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo

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Very rare fold-out catalogue for the important international art exhibition surveying conceptual art, concrete poetry, experimental art, performance art, mail art ("activity with a critical view of society") in the 1970s organized by Argentine author, publisher, curator, professor, and conceptual artist, Jorge Glusberg, who was director of the Center for Art and Communication of Buenos Aires (CAYC). With text by Brazilian professor, historian, art critic and curator by Walter Zanini, director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MAC). With a number of the exhibited heliographic documents from the exhibition illustrated throughout, the brochure catalogues the exhibited works by participants including: Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, Öyvind Fahlström, Július Koller, Tim Ullrichs, Luis Fernando Benedit, Jaime Davidovich, Jorge Glusberg, Víctor Grippo, Lea Lublin, Luis Pazos, Julio Plaza, Jonier Marin, Jiří Valoch, Guillermo Deisler, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Manuel Barbadillo, MH de Ossorno, Valcárcel Medina, Felipe Ehrenberg, César Bolaños, Pawel Petasz, José Urbach, Lydia Okumura, Haroldo González, Les Levine, and many others.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Dan Graham Lawrence Weiner Genesis P-Orridge Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Öyvind Fahlström Július Koller Walter Zanini Jorge Glusberg Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Art Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Poetry Protest / Revolt Sound / Music

OBJET — Deviant Materials

1987, Japanese
Softcover (w. wax dust jacket), 56 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo

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Rare copy of the 1987 exhibition cataloue OBJET — Deviant Materials, published on the occasion of the group exhibition at Seibu Museum of Art and curated by Tatehata Satoshi, exploring postwar sculptural art in Japan from around 1960 to the present day through the work of 21 artists, an attempt to provide an opportunity to see the expansion and transformation of the so-called object itself. Heavily illustrated throughout with worksm biographies adn statements from artists including Genpei Akasegawa, Kazunori Ono, Mokuma Kikubata, Ryo Kitatsuji, Yayoi Kusama, Tetsumi Kudo, Yumiko Kanno, Shuzo Takiguchi, Kyoji Takubo, Atsuko Tanaka, Satomi Tim, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Shiro Matsui, Tomio Miki, Kimiyo Mishima, Toyoji Miyazaki, Saburo Muraoka, Tatsumi Yoshino, Masunobu Yoshimura, Isamu Wakabayashi...

Good copy, some wear, light foxing.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Kazunori Ono Mokuma Kikubata Ryo Kitatsuji Yayoi Kusama Tetsumi Kudo Yumiko Kanno Shuzo Takiguchi Kyoji Takubo Atsuko Tanaka Satomi Tim Natsuyuki Nakanishi Shiro Matsui Tomio Miki Kimiyo Mishima Toyoji Miyazaki Saburo Muraoka Tatsumi Yoshino Masunobu Yoshimura Isamu Wakabayashi Tatehata Satoshi Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada SALE

Terminal Body Play
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 220 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seikyūsha / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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New Tribalism In Sexual City, Prick Up, Rubbers, Gay Fetishism, Consensual SM, Modern Primitives, Pre-Tech Tattoo, Fakir Musafar, Ignore the White Culture, Body Manipulation, Hyper Pornography, Harrison Marks, Allen Jones, She-Male, Mannequin, Kinbaku, Seppuku, Kyoko Hamura, Rightbrain, Trevor Brown, Roman Slocombe, Medical Art, Forest Of Guts, Auto Erotic, J. P. Witkin, Anatomic Images, Discipline, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkoglar, Aktion, Meat Performance, Trans-Gender, Transmutation, John Gacy, Ed Gain, Death ...

First hardcover edition of "Terminal Body Play", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1993. Covering all the above subjects with b/w illustrations, "Terminal Body Play" explores a plethora of physical utopias, including a revived ancient culture of body decoration and manipulation, the pleasure of the body perverted by BDSM, the dematerialised body of performance art, the aesthetics of murder, medicine and anatomy, and so much more. Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Terminal Body Play" is one of these very books.

First edition, Japanese text, fine copy with fine "textured" and illustrated dust jacket.

File under: Joel Peter Witkin Harrison Marks Piero Manzoni Yves Klein Allen Jones Otto Mühl Hermann Nitsch Rudolf Schwarzkoglar Merzbow Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Fluxus Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Conceptual Art Counterculture Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Semiotext(e) The German Issue
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

1982, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 255.5 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Rare copy of one of the remarkable special book issues of the original Semiotext(e) journal — the Semiotext(e) The German Issue, published in 1982, edited by Sylvère Lotringer, featuring the work of Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger, Félix Guattari, Fritz Teufel, André Gorz, Helke Sander...

First edition. Not the 2009 reprint.

The German Issue (1982) was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)’s Autonomia/Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. The German Issue is the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own country by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is also the complex evocation of the rebelling youth—squatters, punks, artists and radicals, theorists and ex-terrorists—who gathered all their energy and creativity in order to outlive a hostile environment.

Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers. The book opens with Christo's “Wrapping Up of Germany” and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall (“Mauer”). Since it has been published in many languages, The German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Founded in 1974, Semiotext(e) began as a journal that emerged from a semiotics reading group led by Sylvère Lotringer at the Columbia University philosophy department. Initially, the magazine was devoted to readings of thinkers like Nietzsche and Saussure. In 1978, Lotringer and his collaborators published a special issue, Schizo-Culture, in the wake of a conference of the same name he had organized two years before at Columbia University. The magazine brought together artists and thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Kathy Acker, John Cage, Michel Foucault, Jack Smith, Martine Barrat and Lee Breuer. Schizo-Culture brought out connections between high theory and underground culture that had not yet been made, and forged the "high/low" aesthetic that remains central to the Semiotext(e) project.

Good—Very Good copy with general cover wear.

File under: Joseph Beuys Christo Joseph Beuys Michel Foucault Christo Christa Wolf Walter Abish Alexander Kluge Paul Virilio Ulrilke Meinhof William Burroughs Jean Baudrillard Hans Magnus Enzenberger Maurice Blanchot Hans Jürgen Syberberg André Gorz Helke Sander Martin Heidegger Félix Guattari Fritz Teufel SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Out-of-print / Rare Anarchism Art Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Philosophy Psychoanalysis Crime / Violence Feminism Fluxus Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt

Tetsumi Kudo
Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective

2013, English / Japanese
Softcover, 642 pages, 18.8 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Aomori Museum of Art / Aomori

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This enormous and exhaustive (now out of print) volume on the work and life of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo was produced to accompany the recent, most comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work, "Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective", that toured Japan throughout 2013-2014 (The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori).

Like the exhibition, this wonderfully designed and compiled book is the most comprehensive publication on Tetsumi Kudo ever published. The book breaks-down the periods of production, activity and major bodies of work/installations in Tetsumi Kudo's career alongside his ever-evolving philosophy of complex ideas thus: "1956-1962 "From Anti-art to the Philosophy of Impotence"; 1962-1969 "From Your Portrait to Cultivation by Radioactivity"; 1969-1970 "A Brief Return To Japan and The Making of Monument to Metamorphosis"; 1970-1975 "From Portrait of Ionesco to Pollution-Cultivation-New Ecology"; 1975-1979 "From Portrait of Artist in the Crisis to Waiting for the Revelation in the Rain of Heredity-Chromosome"; 1980-1990 "From Paradise and the Structure of the Emperor Systme to the Soul of the Avant-garde Artist".

Amongst an endless stream of visual documentation of Kudo's individual artworks, installations and performances, the book comprises of many republished texts by the artist himself throughout his career, as well as texts by Atsuhiko Shima, Yasuyuki Nakai, Takashi Fukumoto, Tomohiro Masuda, Takayo Lida, Toru Ikeda.

The book also includes a list of works for the exhibition, a thorough biography/exhibitions/bibliography section, Tetsumi Kudo's notes (including the many drawings and plans Kudo made for his installations, artworks and exhibition designs), and a photographic catalogue of works by Tetsumi Kudo, 1955-1988.

By far the most exhaustive document on the prolific work and unique vision of this important Japanese artist.

All texts are in both English and Japanese.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

Near-Fine copy.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Aomori Museum of Art / Aomori Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage
by Branden W. Joseph

2008, English
Softcover, 489 pages, 15.3 x 22.8 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt’s radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has significantly impacted cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, “concept art,” postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure.

Rather, by drawing on Deleuzian notions of the “minor” and the Foucauldian problematization of authorship found in Conrad’s own artistic/musical project, Early Minimalism, it disperses him into an “author function.” Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad’s collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections amongst the arts of the time.

“A tour de force of both interpretative and historiographic acuity.”—Art Bulletin

File under: Jack Smith Henry Flynt Tony Conrad The Velvet Underground John Cage Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Cindy Sherman The Theatre of Eternal Music Branden W. Joseph Zone Books / New York Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Minimal Art Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video

Roland Topor
Souvenir

1975, —
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 10.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by De Harmonie / Amsterdam

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1975 edition of the mysterious artist's book and "Fluxus" classic conceived in 1971 by Roland Topor. All sentences were scratched, making this "Fluxus" book unreadable and therefore "unsaleable".

In 1971, the artist was talking with publisher Jaco Groot in a Paris cafe. The conversation was about illegible books. "I made a book like that," said Topor, "tomorrow, same time, same cafe, I'll bring it." When Groot saw the book the next day, he said to Topor's stupid astonishment: "We'll publish it!"
Three years after, Topor was interviewed by Adriaan van Dis in his book program. Van Dis handed Topor the illegible book and asked him to read a piece. Topor, unprepared for this, spontaneously put a hand to his mouth and began to read, muttering and incomprehensible.

Roland Topor (1938—1997) was one of the most unique and versatile French artists of the second half of the 20th century, working prolifically as a provocative and spirited illustrator, author, humorist, satirist, poet, painter, performer, sculptor, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, and much more. A founder of the Panic Movement, an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962, Topor was known for the surreal and absurdist nature of his work.

Very Good copy with edge tanning.

File under: Roland Topor Roland Topor De Harmonie / Amsterdam Fluxus Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare

Roland Topor
Laid Poulet

1978, French
Softcover, 80 pages, 9.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Chez Yves Rivière / Paris

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first (only) 1978 edition of Roland Topor's artist book, Laid Poulet, a unique book of illustrated oblique absurdist rebuses, beautifully lithograph printed on the presses of the Arte printing company (Adrien Maeght) with the legendary Yves Riviere and filled with Topor's colourful illustrations made specifically for this publication. Published by Chez Yves Rivière, Paris. Edition of 1950 copies, after an initial 50 numbered and signed.

Roland Topor (1938—1997) was one of the most unique and versatile French artists of the second half of the 20th century, working prolifically as a provocative and spirited illustrator, author, humorist, satirist, poet, painter, performer, sculptor, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, and much more. A founder of the Panic Movement, an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962, Topor was known for the surreal and absurdist nature of his work.

Fine copy with light tanning.

File under: Roland Topor Chez Yves Rivière / Paris Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fluxus Art Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism

Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962

2012, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 287 pages, 24 x 31.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York MOCA / Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago

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First and only edition of this incredible out-of-print book, Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962 is the first book (and exhibition) to focus on one of the most significant transnational developments in contemporary abstract painting: the artist’s literal assault on the picture plane. Responding to the physical and psychological destruction wrought by World War II—especially the existential crisis resulting from the atomic bomb—artists ripped, cut, burned, and affixed objects to the canvas in lieu of paint. Destroy the Picture emphasizes this internationally shared artistic sensibility in the context of devastating global change and dynamic artistic dialogues, offering an innovative and expansive view of art making in the postwar period.

As artists from war-torn countries like Italy and Japan—including Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Kazuo Shiraga, and Shozo Shimamoto—channeled their ruined surroundings into artistic form; artists throughout the world—such as Yves Klein and Niki de Saint Phalle in France, John Latham in the United Kingdom, Robert Rauschenberg and Lee Bontecou in the United States, Otto Müehl in Austria, and Manolo Millares in Spain, among others—pursued similar approaches and strategies. Destroy the Picture presents an opportunity to reconsider the profound repercussions of this remarkably coherent approach in painting, from artists’ early experiments with translating gestures into materials to their emphasis on a rupture between two and three dimensions, as well as the expansion of the painting medium to incorporate performance, assemblage, and time-based strategies. In many cases, the exhibition places the work of now-established artists back into the radical context in which it originally emerged.

Organised by Paul Schimmel, former Chief Curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the exhibition and this remarkable accompanying hardcover catalogue mark the first time that these strategies have been considered together as a coherent mode of artistic production, expanding the scholarship on this critical moment in history. Alongside major essays by Paul Schimmel, Nicholas Cullinan, Astrid Handa-Gagnard, Shoichi Hirai, Sarah-Neel Smith, and Robert Storr, Destroy the Picture is heavily illustrated throughout with works dating 1949 and 1962 by artists from eight countries, including Lee Bontecou, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Salvatore Scarpitta, Kazuo Shiraga, Gérard Deschamps, François Dufrêne, Jean Fautrier, Adolf Frohner, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, John Latham, Gustav Metzger, Otto Müehl, Manolo Millares, Saburo Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Shozo Shimamoto, Antoni Tàpies, Chiyu Uemae, Jacques Villeglé, Wolf Vostell, and Michio Yoshihara.

Very Good—Near Fine copy in Very Good—Near Fine dust-jacket.

File under: Lee Bontecou Alberto Burri Lucio Fontana Salvatore Scarpitta and Kazuo Shiraga François Dufrêne Jean Fautrier Adolf Frohner Raymond Hains Yves Klein John Latham Gustav Metzger Otto Müehl Manolo Millares Saburo Murakami Robert Rauschenberg Niki de Saint Phalle Shozo Shimamoto Antoni Tàpies Chiyu Uemae Jacques Villeglé Wolf Vostell and Michio Yoshihara Gérard Deschamps Michio Yoshihara Paul Schimmel Nicholas Cullinan Astrid Handa-Gagnard Shoichi Hirai Sarah-Neel Smith Robert Storr Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York MOCA / Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Fluxus

Joseph Beuys
"Sonnenschlitten" (1984)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

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Joseph Beuys "Sonnenschlitten" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

As New.

File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Posters / Prints

Joseph Beuys
"La rivoluzione siamo Noi" (1972)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

$5.00 - Out of stock

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Joseph Beuys "We Are The Revolution" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

As New.

File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater

Roland Topor
Die Masochisten

1970, German
Softcover, unpaginated, 18 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch / Köln

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first 1970 German edition of Roland Topor's famous book collection Die Masochisten (The Masochists), one of the finest examples of the artist's profound command of illustrated dark humour. Almost entirely made up of wordless b/w illustrations, with a foreword in german by German designer, illustrator and typographer, Hannes Jähn.

Roland Topor (1938—1997) was one of the most unique and versatile French artists of the second half of the 20th century, working prolifically as a provocative and spirited illustrator, author, humorist, satirist, poet, painter, performer, sculptor, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, and much more. A founder of the Panic Movement, an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962, Topor was known for the surreal and absurdist nature of his work.

Very Good copy. A crisp, solidly bound copy with some foxing/tanning to pages, usual spine edge tanning to bright fluro pink boards (most often bleached out).

File under: Roland Topor Hannes Jahn Hannes Jähn Kiepenheuer & Witsch / Köln Surrealism Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

Roland Topor
Qui est Topor?

1974, Flemish / French
Softcover, unpaginated (100 pages approx), 15 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lens Fine Art / Antwerp

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce 1974 catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of Roland Topor at Lens Fine Art, Antwerp, 25 April — 31 May, 1974. Profusely illustrated throughout with a catalogue of Topor's artworks from this paeriod, accompanied by texts by Topor and Arrabal (in Flemish/French).

Roland Topor (1938—1997) was one of the most unique and versatile French artists of the second half of the 20th century, working prolifically as a provocative and spirited illustrator, author, humorist, satirist, poet, painter, performer, sculptor, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, and much more. A founder of the Panic Movement, an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962, Topor was known for the surreal and absurdist nature of his work.

Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, poet and founder of the Panic Movement, an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962.

Very Good copy.

File under: Roland Topor Roland Topor Fernando Arrabal Lens Fine Art / Antwerp Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing Surrealism Fluxus