World Food Books

Into Performance
by Midori Yoshimoto

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

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

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

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

VG copy, tanning to spine.

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

Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events, Objects, Documents
by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Judith F. Rodenbeck

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 26.5 x 18. 4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallach Art Gallery / New York

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First 1999 edition, long out–of–print.

In pairing Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, Experiments in the Everyday offers a critical examination of a key sequence in the development of contemporary art practices. The shift from form to process embraced by these artists, who were at the forefront of the 1960s avant-garde, made a lasting contribution to advanced art practices in the latter half of the century.

Benjamin Buchloh, in his essay on Watts, addresses the relation between advanced forms of fetishization in consumer culture and the artistic responses given by Watts and his Fluxus colleagues. Judith Rodenbeck's essay, a close reading of textual and photographic aspects of Kaprow's production, provides a new model for approaching happenings and event structures and their relation to contemporaneous art. Robert E. Haywood examines postwar artistic production and Kaprow's work in relation to the critique of capital. Also included are an inteview with the two artists by Sidney Simon and one with Watts by Larry Miller. Heavily illustrated in colour / b&w throughout.

VG copy, light wear to extremities. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Judith F. Rodenbeck Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Robert E. Haywood Wallach Art Gallery / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Terry Fox
(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c.

2003, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel

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"(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c." was a major exhibition by the American conceptual, Fluxus, and sound artist Terry Fox (1943 – 2008), May 31–July 13, 2003, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive exhibition catalogue accompanied the show, with contributions by Ulli Seegers and Nikola Dietrich, foreword by Rene Block. Bi–lingual German and English texts. A figure in the conceptual and performance art movements, Fox's work frequently integrated bodily experiences, political actions, and intricate multi-layered audio environments. (RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c. highlighted his ongoing thematic preoccupations with restructuring spaces, transforming materials, and analyzing sounds. This was an important late survey of the artist's work.

Terry Alan Fox (1943 – 2008) was an American conceptual and fluxus artist known for his work in performance art, video art and sculpture. He was one of the first generation conceptual artists and was a central participant in West Coast conceptual art movements and fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 120 performances - the first of which took place in Germany in 1970 at the invitation and with the assistance of Joseph Beuys - and numerous museum exhibitions have made him internationally known, especially in museum and artistic circles. He was represented three times at documenta in Kassel. Fox was active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe, living and working in Liège, Belgium in the later part of his life.

G–VG copy, some wear to extremities.

File under: Terry Fox René Block Ulli Seegers Nikola Dietrich Fridericianum / Kassel Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

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

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

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

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

Very Good copy.

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

Alison Knowles
Footnotes

2000, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 17.15 x 24.13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Granary Books / New York

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First edition of this out-of-print volume of Alison Knowles collage journal spanning 30 years.

Once upon a time [composer] Jim Tenney and I went walking in the woods. We came to a clearing and there under a tree was an arrangement of toy locomotives in the middle of nowhere. Pausing, we mused, where were they going, where had they been?

Attempting to write just such an imaginative history of her own life, and its comings and goings, New York artist Alison Knowles has compiled Footnotes—a collection of collage pages made from small, red travel books collected over 30 years, then pasted up and redrawn, in no definite or logical order. The settings of these collages range from Germany to Japan (but always coming back to New York), with a loosely woven context provided by jotted-down ideas and overheard conversations between her friends. These delicate pencil drawings convey a sense of time lost and regained, displacement and reorientation, of the scattered nature of our interior lives.

Alison Knowles (b. 1933) is an American visual artist and a founding member of the Fluxus movement, internationally known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications.

Very Good copy with light tanning to edges of book block.

File under: Alison Knowles Granary Books / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. 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.

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.

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 Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

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

Tony Conrad
Writings

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

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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

Het Apollohuis 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001
(Lot of 3 books)

1985–2001, English
Softcover (3 volumes), 144 + 152 + 102 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Lot of 3 books. Each book is a five year compendium documenting the programme series at the legendary sound arts venue Het Apollohuis between the years 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001. Founded by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in 1980, Het Apollohuis was a unique space dedicated to experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in a former nineteenth century cigar-factory. Between 1980 and 2001, Het Apollohuis organized 253 art exhibitions, 476 concerts and performances, 46 public lectures, symposia and several festivals (as "ECHO: images of sound II" in 1987 or FLEA Festival in 1997). Alongside an ambitious programme, Het Apollohuis also published prints, artist books, multiples, audio-cassette tapes, LPs, and CDs. This wasn't a museum or a traditional gallery. It was an independent space operating outside institutional structures, able to take risks and follow intuitions.

These books document all of these activities through profuse photo documentation, floor–plans, descriptions (in English), invites and biographies, all indexed. Includes accompanying essays. All in English.

For anyone interested in the history of experimental music and sound art in the 1980s–1990s, these books are essential. Not as nostalgia, but as documentation of a moment when possibilities were opening up, when artists were finding each other, when spaces like Het Apollohuis proved that independent platforms could operate at the highest level of ambition and seriousness. An indispensable reference.

Artists include: Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Merzbow, Jerry Hunt, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada, Christian Marclay, Terry Fox, Akio Suzuki, Junko Wada, Paul Panhuysen, Michael Parsons, Alvin Curran, Bernard Villers, Takashi Kazamaki, Iva Bittová, Borbetomagus, Jon Rose, Rhys Chatham, Junko Ueda, Paul Gees, Tibor Szemző, Richard Lerman, Joe Jones, Christina Kubisch, Pascal Comelade, Jon Gibson, Tari Ito, Jim O'Rourke, David Shea, Rolf Julius, Gordon Monahan, Warren Burt, Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, Goji Hamada, Rafael Toral, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk, Roman Signer, Ikue Mori, Felix Hess, Pierre Bastien, Goji Hamada, Herman De Vries, Ellen Fullman, Hugh Davies, Jan Boerman, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Jürgen Olbrich, Remko Scha, Jackson MacLow, Anne Tardos, Paul Dutton, J.H. Kocman, Eric Andersen, Alison Knowles, the Maciunas Ensemble, Hideharu Matsueda, Tokihiro Sato, Trimpin... just the tip of the iceberg.

All Very Good copies with some light wear to boards, light knocking.

File under: Eliane Radigue Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Merzbow Jerry Hunt Elliott Sharp Alvin Lucier Yoshi Wada Christian Marclay Terry Fox Akio Suzuki Junko Wada Paul Panhuysen Michael Parsons Alvin Curran Bernard Villers Takashi Kazamaki Iva Bittová Borbetomagus Jon Rose Rhys Chatham Junko Ueda Paul Gees Tibor Szemző Richard Lerman Joe Jones Christina Kubisch Pascal Comelade Jon Gibson Tari Ito Jim O'Rourke David Shea Rolf Julius Gordon Monahan Warren Burt Keiji Haino Eugene Chadbourne Goji Hamada Rafael Toral David Behrman Zeena Parkins Jaap Blonk Roman Signer Ikue Mori Felix Hess Pierre Bastien Herman De Vries Ellen Fullman Hugh Davies Jan Boerman Esther Ferrer Boris Nieslony Arnold Dreyblatt Phil Jürgen Olbrich Remko Scha Jackson MacLow Anne Tardos Paul Dutton J.H. Kocman Eric Andersen Alison Knowles the Maciunas Ensemble Hideharu Matsueda Tokihiro Sato Trimpin Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Group Shows / Collections Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

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

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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

Fluxus After Fluxus (Visible Language 40.1)
Edited by Ken Friedman and Owen F. Smith

2006, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rhode Island (Rhode Island School of Design) / Providence

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Fluxus After Fluxus is a special 2006 issue (Volume 40, Number 1) of the peer-reviewed design and visual communication journal Visible Language, edited by notable Fluxus scholars Ken Friedman and Owen F. Smith.

Contents:
The Dialectics of Legacy - Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, What Has Fluxus Created? - Ann Klefstad, Introduction: Signatures, Music, Computers, Paranoia, Smells, Danger & the Sky - Lisa Moren, Artists’ Statements: Space, Process & Shakers... - David Cologgiovani, Fluxus & the far end of the Freeformfreakout Organization - Alan Bowman, A False History of Fluxus - Eryk Salvaggio, Networking Interaction - Ruud Janssen, Evolving Fluxus - Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Openness & Interaction - Litsa Spathi, Philosophical Poetics - Sol Nte, Thirty Years of Fluxing Around - Cecil Touchon, Invisible Fluxus - mIEKAL aND, (MY) FLUXUS EXPERIENCE (2005) - Walter Cianciusi, Technology Ephemera & Zen Forevers - David-Baptiste Chirot, Wink - MTAA, Games as Art: The Aesthetics of Play - Celia Pearce, The Literature of Fluxus - Ken Friedman, A Fluxus Bibliography - Ken Friedman and Owen Smith.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Ken Friedman Owen F. Smith David Cologgiovani David-Baptiste Chirot Celia Pearce Bibiana Padilla Maltos Litsa Spathi Walter Cianciusi Ruud Janssen Eryk Salvaggio Alan Bowman Ann Klefstad Lisa Moren Sol Nte Rhode Island (Rhode Island School of Design) / Providence Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fluxus Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Happenings and Other Acts
Edited By Mariellen Sandford

1995, English
Softcover, 398 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Routledge / London

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First 1995 edition.

Happenings and Other Acts collects seminal essays, interviews, and performance texts by and about Happenings and Fluxus artists. The anthology reprints, in its entirety, the 1965 Happenings issue of The Drama Review (TDR), which was co-edited by Michael Kirby and Richard Schechner, supplemented by articles from subsequent TDR numbers; Kirby's introduction to his own Happenings anthology; excerpts from Allan Kaprow's Assemblages, Environments & Happenings; sections from Carolee Schneemann's More Than Meat Joy; and the concluding essay, written for this volume by Günter Berghaus, which offers the first overview of European Happenings written in English.

Published at the height of the Happenings and Fluxus movements, these are invaluable documents from a period that radically changed our perception of the function of the artist, the role of the observer, and the relation between art and everyday life. All boundaries of conventional art genres were broken by artists such as John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Anna Halprin, Ken Dewey, George Maciunas, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, Yvonne Rainer, Dick Higgins, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Carolee Schneemann.

Mariellen R.Sandford has been Associate Editor of TDR since 1985.

VG copy with some wear to board extremities.

File under: John Cage Allan Kaprow Claes Oldenburg Anna Halprin Ken Dewey George Maciunas Alison Knowles Jackson Mac Low La Monte Young Yvonne Rainer Dick Higgins Jean-Jacques Lebel Carolee Schneemann Mariellen Sandford Günter Berghaus Michael Kirby Richard Schechner Routledge / London Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Dada

Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
by Joan Rothfuss; Foreword by Yoko Ono

2014, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 448 pages, 24 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First 2014 hardcover edition.

The first book to explore the extraordinary career of musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, whose work combined classical rigor, avant-garde experiment, and madcap daring.

The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from helium-filled balloons, and deployed an array of instruments on The Mike Douglas Show that included her cello, a whistle, a cap gun, a gong, and a belch. She did a striptease while playing Bach in Nam June Paik's Sonata for Adults Only. In the 1960s, Moorman (1933–1991) became famous for her madcap (and often unclothed) performance antics; less famous but more significant is Moorman's transformative influence on contemporary performance practice—and her dedication to the idea that avant-garde art should reach the widest possible audience. In Topless Cellist, the first book to explore Moorman's life and work, Joan Rothfuss rediscovers, and recovers, the legacy of an extraordinary American artist.

Moorman's arrest in 1967 for performing topless made her a water-cooler conversation-starter, but before her tabloid fame she was a star of the avant-garde performance circuit, with a repertoire of pieces by, among others, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Paik, her main artistic partner. Moorman invented a new mode of performance that combined classical rigor, jazz improvisation, and avant-garde experiment—informed by intuition, daring, and love of spectacle. Moorman's annual festival of the avant-garde offered the public a lively sampler of contemporary art in performance, music, dance, poetry, film, and other media.

Rothfuss chronicles Moorman's life from her youth in Little Rock, Arkansas (where she was “Miss City Beautiful” of 1952) through her career in New York's avant-garde to her death from breast cancer in 1991. (Typically, she approached her treatment as if it were a performance.) Deeply researched and profusely illustrated, Topless Cellist offers a fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious story of an artist whose importance was more than the sum of her performances.

Fine in Fine dust jacket.

File under: Charlotte Moorman Yoko Ono Nam June Paik Joseph Beuys John Cage Joan Rothfuss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Fluxus Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

RUINOUS SPIRITUALITY
by Henry Flynt

2022, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17.1 x 23.4 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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Ruinous Spirituality can be seen as the sequel to my recent Three Essays on Spirituality and Art. The abstract for Three Essays on Spirituality and Art said that ruinous spirituality needs to be studied as carefully as admirable spirituality: it discloses personness as much as admirable spirituality does. Ruinous Spirituality is a lengthy and aggressive contribution to this study. It goes without saying that myths about supernatural sources of evil, and myths about impiety, are rejected. Indeed, they are ignored: except when they comprise part of the object of study. There have been self-avowed Satanist enterprises for centuries. (And Satanic has a vivid metaphorical use in English. As shorthand for eerily malicious.) As for religion, it has to be appraised as a ruinously spiritual institution (more carefully, as an amalgam).

The study wants to go beyond “decrying the bad.” It wants to go beyond listing public manifestations which exhibit ruinous spirituality. (E.g. cultural works.) What needs to be answered is how ruinous spirituality is assembled in individual interiority at all. It needs a “reality-picture” beyond today’s conventional wisdom: that would be personalysis. What constituents must personness have to give rise to ruinous spirituality? Five cases are found of spiritually ruinous interiority. (The cases outline a principal axis). The SUFFERER, the PERFORMER, the WRECKER, the SEDUCER, the PARTICIPANT. The SUFFERER is a victim of themself. Three cases are agents acting on targets: their success is the ruin of the target. The PARTICIPANT is a SEDUCER who also participates in the revels. In a postscript, the book finds another axis, with admirable and ruinous as its poles. It takes up amalgams, mixtures in the middle of this axis. Indeed, amalgams comprise much of what faces us. Not because admirable and ruinous are vague. Quite the contrary. The appropriate metaphor would be a clothed person. Clothes and humans go together even though they are distinct.

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt João Simões / Lisbon Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fluxus Art Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Occult / Esoterica Conceptual Art

THREE ESSAYS ON SPIRITUALITY AND ART
by Henry Flynt

2020, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 17.2 x 24.3 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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Three Essays may be the first book ever published that offers a panoramic account of spirituality without reference to religion or comic-book supernaturalism. Of course, that means redefining spirituality. The redefinition has to have a foundation (“ontology”), and that is supplied by personalysis, a discipline I have spelled out on record. No. spirituality is not an “it”: it is a heterogeneous family of mutually supportive modalities. But there is a further differentiation. There is affirmative spirituality and there is ruinous spirituality.

Three Essays focuses on affirmative spirituality, but I hold that ruinous spirituality also needs to be closely studied; it discloses personness as much as affirmative spirituality does.

Modern authors on art have been unable to write about emotion and spirituality in art (unless they are satisfied to offer kitsch about associations which a work is supposed to elicit in some audiences). I begin with Bharata-Muni as a precedent, with a nod to Aristotle’s Poetics. Again, the foundation is personalysis: it entitles us not to be mechanistic, to speak of the (human) affections. art is a generic label for the arts. In Three Essays I am laying an analytical groundwork for the topic, and speak of sensitization to artistic languages. Instances range from those cited for their splendor, to the dubiously revered, to famous targets of disapproval, to commercial successes.

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt Henry Flynt João Simões / Lisbon Sound / Music Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Art Conceptual Art Philosophy

About Transformations
by Henry Flynt

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 114 pages, 23.5 x 14 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by João Simões / Lisbon

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"I have chosen, in this study, to go deeply into my 1961 Transformations, to note the guises in which it appeared, to identify its issues and to sort them out.

I will not rush toward an explanatory description of the piece as it is found in An Anthology (La Monte Young, ed., La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low, New York, 1963).
I prefer to establish its context and to explore correlative issues. I want to explore fully how Transformations is positioned:

.i as a diversion from absurdist computationalist music
.ii as a diversion from the derivations of exact science
.iii as a cognitive nihilist object-lesson to exact science regarding derivations"

—Henry Flynt, 2021, New York

Henry Flynt (b. 1940) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, anti-art activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper. In 1962, Flynt began to campaign for an anti-art position. He advocated that avant-garde art and its institutions be superseded by the terms of veramusement and brend—neologisms meaning approximately pure recreation. He demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York in 1963 with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and against the composer Stockhausen twice in 1964 (accusing Stockhausen of white supremacy and cultural imperialism). Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963. In the mid 1960s, Flynt converted himself to Marxism and published the article "Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture" in collaboration with George Maciunas, criticizing the white supremacist cultural touchstones of the left-wing tradition and championing African-American music. Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to nihilism, science, mathematical logic, post-capitalist economics, and personhood. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse hillbilly music with avant-garde techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as La Monte Young, the Velvet Underground, C.C. Hennix, George Maciunas, and others.

File under: Henry Flynt Henry Flynt Christian Xatrec João Simões / Lisbon Theory / Essay Fluxus Sound / Music Art Philosophy Conceptual Art

Schriftenreihe Für Künstlerpublikationen Band 3: Sound Art
Edited by Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sabine Breitsameter, Winfried Pauleit

2006, English / German
Softcover (w. CD), 240 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Salon Verlag / Cologne

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‘Sound Art between Avant-Garde and Pop Culture’, a documentation of a conference in 2005.

“Sound Art … is inconceivable without the acoustic, sound-related, tonal, onomatopoeic, auditive or radiophonic aspect. Yet Sound Art is not constituted by this aspect alone, but emerges only in association withmusical, artistic and literary concepts. Sound Art encompasses works characterized by acoustic interdisciplinarity, regardless of the context. Attempts to draw the boundaries of Sound Art from the perspective of art or music theory are thus doomed to failure. It is its uncompromising, subversive openness which accounts for the fascination of Sound Art.”

With text contributions besides by the editors by Barbara Barthelmes, Julia Kursell, Martin Maurach, Daniel Gethmann, Wolfgang Hagen, Peter Frank, Stan Hanson, Heidi Grundmann, Barbara Flückiger, with a CD with audio examples of more than 42 minutes by Majakovskij, Schwitters, Hausmann, Artaud and others, text in German and English.

VG copy, complete with CD.

File under: Antonin Artaud Kurt Schwitters Raoul Hausmann Vladimir Mayakovsky Barbara Barthelmes Julia Kursell Martin Maurach Daniel Gethmann Wolfgang Hagen Peter Frank Stan Hanson Heidi Grundmann Barbara Flückiger Anne Thurmann-Jajes Sabine Breitsameter Winfried Pauleit Antonin Artaud Vladimir Mayakovsky Salon Verlag / Cologne Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Concrete Poetry Poetry Dada Situationism / Lettrism

Daniel Spoerri
I Like Contradictions

2026, English / German
Softcover, 192 pages, 24 x 18 cm
Published by Snoeck / Cologne Sammlung Falckenberg / Hamburg

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The exhibition » I Like Contradictions« at the Sammlung Falckenberg offers a new perspective on the work of Daniel Spoerri (1930- 2024) and the enduring relevance of his artistic thinking. After his first career as a classical dancer, Spoerri co-founded the Nouveaux Réalistes group in Paris in 1960 together with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and other fellow artists, evolving into a formative representative of object art. Distancing himself from abstract art and building on the readymades and Neo-Dada of the 1960s, Spoerri created his own art genre with his »snare pictures« and established Eat Art in the 1970s.

In dialogue with works from the Sammlung Falckenberg, the diverse connections between Daniel Spoerri's artistic approach and the consumer-critical and socially critical stances found in the collection unfold. Artists like Dieter Roth or Emmett Williams were companions of Spoerri's during the 1960s and 70s; Gianfranco Baruchello, Öyvind Fahlstorm, and Spoerri exhibited together with the Nouveaux Réalistes for the first time in New York in 1962. Material-aesthetic and conceptual parallels can in turn be found in the work of Mark Dion, Mariella Mosler, Pope.L, Thomas Grünfeld, Cosima von Bonin, or John Miller - for instance, the play with everyday materials typical of Spoerri, the critique of the concept of the artwork, and the ironic handling of the significance of authorship. The works in the Sammlung Falckenberg reflect interdisciplinary interconnections with Spoerri's art, which developed across national boundaries through Fluxus, Nouveau Réalisme, and Conceptual Art right up to the present day.

With works by Daniel Spoerri, Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, John Bock, Birgit Brenner, Christo, Hanne Darboven, Stephan Dillemuth, Nils Norman, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Erro, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, Fischli & Weiss, Nan Goldin, Thomas Grünfeld, Richard Hamilton, Egbert Haneke, Marcus Harvey, Horst Hellinger, Georg Herold, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Arthur Köpcke, Nikolaus Lang, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Meese, Bjarne Melgaard, Vera Mercer, John Miller, Polly Morgan, Mariella Moster, C. O. Paeffgen, Anne & Patrick Poirier, William Pope. L, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Paul Thek, Nicola Torke, Gavin Turk, Cosima von Bonin, Emmett Williams, Erwin Wurm.

File under: Arthur Køpcke Erró Daniel Spoerri Gianfranco Baruchello Joseph Beuys John Bock Birgit Brenner Christo Hanne Darboven Stephan Dillemuth Nils Norman Mark Dion Jimmie Durham Öyvind Fahlström Robert Filliou Fischli & Weiss Nan Goldin Thomas Grünfeld Richard Hamilton Egbert Haneke Marcus Harvey Horst Hellinger Georg Herold Ray Johnson Mike Kelley Nikolaus Lang Paul McCarthy Jonathan Meese Bjarne Melgaard Vera Mercer John Miller Polly Morgan Mariella Moster C. O. Paeffgen Anne & Patrick Poirier William Pope. L Robert Rauschenberg Dieter Roth Roman Signer Andreas Slominski Paul Thek Nicola Torke Gavin Turk Cosima von Bonin Emmett Williams Erwin Wurm Snoeck / Cologne Sammlung Falckenberg / Hamburg Sculpture / Installation Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Photography

AN ANECDOTED TOPOGRAPHY OF CHANCE (Atlas Arkhive 4)
Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth & Roland Topor

1995, English
Softcover (w. foldout map), 240 pages, 23 x 120.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Atlas Press / London

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first 1995 Atlas Press edition of "An Anecdoted Topography of Chance", arguably the most important and entertaining "Artist's Book" of the post-war period. A unique collaborative work by four artists associated with the FLUXUS and Nouveau Realisme movements, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, and Roland Topor. In Atlas Arkhive anti-tradition, this edition is substantially larger than the three previous versions published in France, the USA and Germany. German translation by Malcolm Green, introduced by Alastair Brotchie and Malcolm Green.

What is the Topography? Hard to explain an idea so simple yet so brilliantly executed. Following a rambling conversation with his dear friend Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri one day mapped the objects lying at random on the table in his room, adding a rigorously scientific description of each. These objects subsequently evoked associations, memories, anecdotes; not only from the original author, but from his friends as well: a beguiling creation was born.

Many of the principal participants of FLUXUS make an appearance (and texts by Higgins, Jouffroy, Kaprow, Restany, and Tinguely are included, among others). It is a novel of digressions in the manner of Tristram Shandy or Robbe-Grillet; it's a game, a poem, an encyclopaedia, a cabinet of wonders: a celebration of friendship and creativity.

The Topography personifies (and pre-dates) the whole FLUXUS spirit and constitutes one of the strangest and most compelling insights into the artist's life. From out of the banal detritus of the everyday a virtual autobiography emerges: of four perceptive, witty and eloquent members of the human species.

Good—VG copy with sticker to the back cover and some wear to the extremities of the boards, otherwise Near Fine throughout. Includes map.

File under: Daniel Spoerri Robert Filliou Emmett Williams Dieter Roth Roland Topor Roland Topor Daniel Spoerri Robert Filliou Emmett Williams Alastair Brotchie Malcolm Green Atlas Press / London Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Art Theory / Essay

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

The Bible
Edited by Yuzuru Agi

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 330 pages, 26 x 18.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rock Magazine / Osaka

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, highly collectible copy of The Bible, published and edited by the legendary Japanese music critic, editor and Vanity Records label owner Yuzuru Agi. Published in 1981 as a special edition of Agi's highly influential Rock Magazine (1976—1984), The Bible is his grimoire of modern music. It sets out, for the first time in the world, to comprehensively catalogue and document in one book the developments of Western alternative and modern music spanning 15 years (Avant Garde, Psychedelic, Progressive, Contemporary, Experimental, Folk, Industrial, Electronic, Punk, Dub, Noise, New Wave, Free Music...) "I have mainly followed the trend of Western music today, mainly in England, France, Italy, and Germany, but what I am most interested in their music is Hellenism, which flows at the root of their spirit"–Yuzuru Agi, from the introduction

The Bible catalogues, profiles, interviews, and maps the genealogy of the artists and labels from Italian prog to Canterbury rock to Scadinavian free jazz to US psych to reggae and dub. Virgin, Brain, Charisma, Cobra, Pole, Cramps, Dawn, Obscure, Actuel, Bead, BVHaast, ICP, Free Music Productions, Incus, Ogun... An exhaustive discography, complete with family trees of group members, all lavishly cut–n-paste designed, illustrated with photographs of all of the artists, all the record cover artwork, mediaeval etchings, and even a gallery of artwork by H.R. Giger!

Editorial committee includes Yumiko Nakano, Ichiro Karube, Mamoru Shibuya, Yukiko Ode, Ayako Fujii, Eriko Murakami, Shinichi Nakanishi.

A must!

Good–Very Good copy with some wear to boards edges, tanning, light age and handling wear.

File under: H. R. Giger H.R. Giger Yuzuru Agi Yumiko Nakano Ichiro Karube Mamoru Shibuya Yukiko Ode Ayako Fujii Eriko Murakami Shinichi Nakanishi Rock Magazine / Osaka Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Counterculture Art Fluxus

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

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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 Eros

Roland Topor
Souvenir

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

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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, rusted staples. Original obi band with light tanning.

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