World Food Books

Before or After, at the Same Time
Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968

2019, English
Paperback (w. corrugated board wrap), 212 pages, 21.1 x 25.9 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

$95.00 - In stock -

Before or After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948–1968 is a landmark publication from Hauser & Wirth Publishers exploring post-war Italian art through the cultural lens of remarkable 20th-century thinkers and artists. Discover the fascinating narrative of Fabio Mauri, an artist, writer, producer and intellectual, alongside the history of his family, a publishing dynasty which thrived on close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and literature. Mauri’s story becomes a starting point from which to explore Italian visual culture, its influences and the defining ideas behind it. The title refers to Mauri’s statement: "I can’t stay in step with my time. I am either before or after it, at the same time." (Fabio Mauri, Ideology and Memory).

The social and political aftermath of the Second World War engendered two highly energetic pockets of creativity in the cities of Rome and Milan. Uncover a tale of these two cities, with Mauri—a multi-disciplinary artist who resisted categorisation—acting as the point of introduction to the artistic practices that emerged from each of these distinct cultural, economic and political scenes. The book examines and, in cases, re-examines the artistic milieu surrounding Mauri which included Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Alberto Burri, Alighiero Boetti, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Piero Dorazio, Tano Festa, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Gastone Novelli, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Giulio Turcato and Cy Twombly.

Edited by Ben Eastham, the publication features essays and newly commissioned texts by Giorgio Agamben, Ilaria Bernardi, Barbara Casavecchia, Pierre Testard, Andrea Viliani and Laura Cherubini; an interview between Achille and Sebastiano Mauri discussing the enduring and near unbelievable family history; a historic article by Fabio Mauri "In 1960 the 1950s Were 10 Years Old," bringing his prescient character to life; never before published and translated letters between Silvana Mauri, Fabio’s eldest sister, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker, writer and poet expressing a remarkable intimacy and honesty

File under: Fabio Mauri Carla Accardi Franco Angeli Enrico Baj Alberto Burri Alighiero Boetti Enrico Castellani Dadamaino Piero Dorazio Tano Festa Lucio Fontana Jannis Kounellis Piero Manzoni Gastone Novelli Mimmo Rotella Mario Schifano Giulio Turcato Cy Twombly Pier Paolo Pasolini Ben Eastham Giorgio Agamben Ilaria Bernardi Barbara Casavecchia Laura Cherubini Andrea Viliani Achille Mauri Sebastiano Mauri Silvana Mauri Fabio Mauri Pier Paolo Pasolini Pierre Testard Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Film / Video

The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art
Gunter Christmann, Richard Dunn, Marr Roy Grounds and Paul Pholeros, Kerrie Lester, Paul Partos, Sam Schoenbaum

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 20 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition, The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art, 26 April – 24 May 1978, Monash University Exhibition Gallery. Curated by Grazia Gunn and featuring the work of artists Gunter Christmann, Richard Dunn, Marr Roy Grounds and Paul Pholeros, Kerrie Lester, Paul Partos, and Sam Schoenbaum. Illustrated throughout with artworks, accompanied by artists texts, biographies, texts by Sandra McGrath, Gary Catalano, and an introductory essay by Grazia Gunn.

Very Good copy, light general wear, tanning to pages.

File under: Gunter Christmann Richard Dunn Marr Roy Grounds Paul Pholeros Kerrie Lester Paul Partos Sam Schoenbaum Sandra McGrath Gary Catalano Grazia Gunn Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Conceptual Art Art Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare

Some Recent American Art

1973, English
Softcover (denim-bound, stitched and silk-screened), 96 pages, 24 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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The art catalogue wearing denim! Fantastic, scarce exhibition catalogue from 1973 for "Some Recent American Art", a major contemporary survey exhibition that toured Australia and New Zealand, organised under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York with the assistance of Graeme Sturgeon, David Sampietro, and Peter Cripps. Wrapped in jeans denim covers (screen-printed and stitched), and profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with the work of exhibiting artists Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Robery Irwin, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner. Each artist section includes a list of works, biographical information and text(s) from the artist. Opening text by curator Jennifer Licht, acknowledgments by NGV director Gordon Thomson, with further sections on exhibited Video Tapes, bibliography and artist index.

Good copy, with tanning/fading to spine and some light fraying to cover edges.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre John Baldessari Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Dan Flavin Eva Hesse Robery Irwin Donald Judd Joseph Kosuth Sol LeWitt Brice Marden Agnes Martin Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Dorothea Rockburne Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jennifer Licht Gordon Thomson NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Le Surréalisme en 1947
Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp

1947, French
Softcover, 142 pages, 24 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Maeght Editeur / Paris

$650.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce copy of the legendary "Le Surréalisme en 1947 : Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp", published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, in conjunction with an important exhibition of Surrealist artists in 1947. Features the cover design by Marcel Duchamp - a photographic reproduction by Rémy Duval of "Prière de toucher (Please touch)", the famous Duchamp rubber breast edition, created with Italian-born painter Enrico Donati, that adorned the first 999 copies of the catalogue. This gorgeous catalogue features the work of artists from 24 countries including Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Jacqueline Lamba, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Joan Miró, Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Maria Martins, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Arp, Frederick Kiesler, Alberto Giacometti, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Brignoni, Alexander Calder, Bruno Capacci, Elizabeth van Damme, Jacques Halpern, Julio de Diego, Enrico Donati, Francis Bouvet, David Hare, Iaroslav Serpan, Jacqueline Lamba, Taro Okamoto, Roberto Matta, Kay Sage, Toyen, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Leonard Baskin, Jindrich Heisler, Jeanne Reynal, Isabelle Waldberg, Roger Brielle, Jindrich Styrsky, Bruno Capacci, Jean Guerin, Isamu Noguchi, Gerome Kamrowski, Frédéric Delanglade, Eugenio Granell, Francis Picabia, Remedios Varo, Hans Richter, Arshile Gorky, and many more, along with the folding sheet catalogue, and newspaper clipping about the show inserted.

Good copy considering age. Tanned edges and wear to corners, edges and spine. Some spine chipping.

File under: Victor Brauner Max Ernst Leonora Carrington Jacqueline Lamba Jacques Hérold Wilfredo Lam Joan Miró Hans Bellmer Marcel Jean Maria Martins Yves Tanguy Hans Arp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Dorothea Tanning Frederick Kiesler Alberto Giacometti Hector Hyppolite Serge Brignoni Alexander Calder Bruno Capacci Elizabeth van Damme Jacques Halpern Julio de Diego Enrico Donati Francis Bouvet David Hare Iaroslav Serpan Taro Okamoto Roberto Matta Kay Sage Toyen Frédéric Delanglade Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Jindřich Štyrský Leonard Baskin Jindrich Heisler Jeanne Reynal Isabelle Waldberg Roger Brielle Jean Guerin Isamu Noguchi Gerome Kamrowski Eugenio Granell Francis Picabia Remedios Varo Hans Richter Arshile Gorky Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Maeght Editeur / Paris Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Theory / Essay

Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post (lot of 5 issues)
July 1989—January 1990; Edited by Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence

1989—1990, English
5 publications, softcover (staple-bound + rubber-stamped), approx 20 pages ea., 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood

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Rare lot of 5 issues of Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post — dating between July 1989—January 1990. Rare Visual Poetry / Mail Art zine issued by post in the late 1980s—early 1990s by Australian visual poets Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence, each issue packed with border-busting international postal network contributions of photocopy artworks (collages, photographs, etc.) and texual collage/poetry, prose works, with notes, "missing peoples", radical texts, and classifieds/call-outs for other international mail-art publications. Contributors amongst these issues include: Shozo Shimamoto (Japan), Satan Panonski (Jugoslavia), Julie Clarke-Powell (Australia), Guy Bleus (Belgium), Ry Nikonova (USSR), STOP AIDS (USA), Ivica Čuljak (Yugoslavia), Géza Perneczky (West Germany), Monty Cantsin (Canada), David Powell (Australia), Ruggero Maggi (Italy), Shaun Robert (England), Jonas Nekrašius (USSR), Pete Spence (Australia), Emilio Morandi (Italy), Sándor Fodor (Romania), Miroslav Janoušek (Czech), Javant Biarujia (Australia), to name a few... Back cover of each issue features multi-coloured original rubber stamp/print gocco art. An important piece of the very under-documented Melbourne visual poetry / mail art “scene”.

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 one staple.

File under: Shozo Shimamoto Satan Panonski Pete Spence Guy Bleus Ry Nikonova STOP AIDS Ivica Čuljak Géza Perneczky David Powell Monty Cantsin Sándor Fodor Miroslav Janoušek Cerebral Shorts (Charles Roberts) Pete Spence Julie Clarke-Powell David Powell Javant Biarujia Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Australian Art Counterculture Protest / Revolt Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Concrete Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections

Arte Povera
Edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 29.2 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Phaidon / London

$120.00 - In stock -

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First 1999 edition of Arte Povera, the most complete overview of this movement ever published, edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject.

Arte Povera is Italy's most important and influential post-war art movement. Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant, it included internationally recognized artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, this book is the most complete overview of the artworks and writings associated with Arte Povera, an art movement that explored the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artifacts, and experienced through the body.

"This is now the definitive English-language sourcebook on Merz, Pistoletto, Paolini and company, thanks to its rich selection of images and texts."―Bookforum

"Get hold of Arte Povera... It is both compendium and critique, with artists' statements, a chronology and commentary. It contextualizes the work, and the pictures are great."―Adrian Searle, Guardian

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a writer and curator living in Rome, who has become an internationally recognized scholar of late twentieth-century Italian art. She has written extensively on the Arte Povera movement and published interviews and texts on artists such as Boetti, Pistoletto, Merz, Fabro and Kounellis. Bakargiev is also a noted curator of contemporary art internationally: her exhibitions include 'Molteplici Culture', Rome, 1992 and a homage to John Cage which she co-curated with Alanna Heiss for the 1993 Venice Biennale.

She was part of the curatorial team for the 'Antwerp 93 European Capital of Culture', devising the major international survey, 'On Taking a Normal Situation and Re-translating it into Overlapping and Multiple Readings of Conditions Past and Present'. In 1996 Bakargiev curated a large-scale survey on Italian post-war artist Alberto Burri in Rome, Brussels and Munich. In 1997, she curated 'Citta-Natura': a city-wide exhibition of international artists including Anselmo, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pascali and Kounellis, held in Rome.

She is Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and was formerly Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She was co-curator, with Iwona Blazwick, of Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2004 5.

Good copy with some corner knocking, small tear to top of spine dust jacket, otherwise very good throughout.

File under: Pino Pascali Mario Merz Marisa Merz Giovanni Anselmo Jannis Kounellis Alighiero Boetti Michelangelo Pistoletto Piero Gilardi Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Phaidon / London Arte Povera Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial

Words on Walls: A Survey of Contemporary Visual Poetry
by Barrett Reid

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 22 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce but important exhibition catalogue of visual poetry in Australia, held at Heide Park and Art Gallery on 7 March—23 April 1989. Features the work of π.o., Mike Parr, Pete Spence, Richard Kelly Tipping, Alan Riddell, Alex Selenitsch, Christopher Brennan, Karen Cherry, Ruth Cowen, R.J. Deeble, Dryblower (Iroz), Jas H. Duke, James Gleeson, Garrie Hutchinson, Frederick May, Peter Murphy, thalia, Sweeney Reed. Illustrated throughout with visual examples of all featured artists/poets, alongside artists statements, biographies, catalogue of works, bibliography, list of important periodicals, articles, etc. An excellent reference for any library of Australian visual/concrete/experimental poetry. Introductory essay by Australian librarian, poet, and literary editor, Barrett Reid (1926–1995).

VG copy, light wear.

File under: Alex Selenitsch Sweeney Reed Jas H. Duke James Gleeson Alan Riddell Pete Spence π.O. Barrett Reid Alex Selenitsch Sweeney Reed Jas H. Duke thalia Alan Riddell R.J. Deeble Richard Tipping Pete Spence π.O. Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Concrete Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Poetry Art Australian Art

Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image)

1970, German / French
Softcover, 118 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, important exhibition catalogue designed by Walter Diethelm, published on the occasion of the exceptional exhibition Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image), held at the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich, July 11—August 23, 1970. Preface by Felix Andreas Baumann. "The point is to present this literature, which is located between writing and images, text and graphics and around the tertium comparationis of typography, to an audience that is probably not too familiar with the techniques and variants of “concrete literature”—from the preface. An incredible and varied anthology of the experimental, poetic, graphic interplay of text and image, profusely illustrated in b/w, accompanied by texts in German and French by Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Oyvind Fahlström, El Lissitzky, André Breton, Eugen Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Carlfriedrich Claus, Seiichi Niikuni, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Jiri Kolár, and Bob Cobbing.

Artists included: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Holz, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, Carlo Carrà, Lacerba, Ardengo Soffici, Hugo Ball, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Amédée Ozenfant, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, Fernand Léger, Richard Hülsenbeck, Vincente Huidobro, Francis Picabia, Jean Pougny, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Bruno Adler, Jean Epstein, Theo Van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Jozef Peeters, Sonja Delaunay-Terk, Iliazd, Friedrich Kiesler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Käthe Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Henryk Berlewi, Farkas Molnár, Zenit, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, and Georges Hugnet.

Very Good ex-NGV library copy, well preserved with only light wear and "National Gallery of Victoria" light stamp to block edge and lower back-cover. No internal stamping/marking.

File under: Carlo Carrà F.T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Arno Holz Christian Morgenstern Lacerba Ardengo Soffici Hugo Ball Georges Braque Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Amédée Ozenfant Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Fernand Léger Richard Hülsenbeck Vincente Huidobro Francis Picabia Jean Pougny Kurt Schwitters Paul Klee Bruno Adler Jean Epstein Theo Van Doesburg El Lissitzky Jozef Peeters Sonja Delaunay-Terk Iliazd Friedrich Kiesler Man Ray László Moholy-Nagy Käthe Steinitz Theo van Doesburg Hans Arp Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Henryk Berlewi Farkas Molnár Zenit Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann Walter Gropius John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Le Corbusier Georges Hugnet Walter Diethelm Jiří Kolář Öyvind Fahlström Stéphane Mallarmé F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti André Breton Haroldo de Campos Jan Hamilton Finlay Pierre Garnier Max Bense Reinhard Döhl Carlfriedrich Claus Seiichi Niikuni Henri Chopin Franz Mon Bob Cobbing Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Eugen Gomringer Felix Andreas Baumann Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich Group Shows / Collections Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Dada Fluxus Art Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Bauhaus

Sound : Space
Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008

2008, English
Softcover (staple-bound + cd), unpaginated, 21 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Australasian Computer Music Conference / Sydney

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Privately issued catalogue, programme of concerts and schedule of proceedings published to accompany the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008, entitled 'SOUND : SPACE', 10—12 July 2008 Sydney Conservatorium of Music Sydney, Australia. Features Tristram Cary, William Barton, Ros Bandt, Warren Burt, and many many others. Compact disc accompaniment with digital version of this publication and dance track samples to support Wooller and Brown - 'A framework for discussing tonality in electronic dance music'.

VG copy.

File under: Tristram Cary William Barton Ros Bandt Warren Burt Warren Burt Ros Bandt Australasian Computer Music Conference / Sydney Sound / Music Australian Art Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Licences n°0
Henri Chopin, William Burroughs, Nicolas Zurrbrugg, Elisabeth Prouvost, Raoul Haussmann, Alexandre Yterce

1999, French
Softcover (+ audio cd), 68 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Limited edition, numbered,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Éditions Licences / Paris

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Scarce issue 0 from 1999 of the French journal/concert series/exhibition program Licences, the short-lived Revue-Disque periodical established by French composer Alexandre Yterce (b. 1959) devoted to Perversions, Voluptuousness and Sexualities, presenting unseen erotic works by artists, alongside rare interviews, texts and recorded performances and unreleased audio recordings, melding the worlds of transgressive, transformative sound, word and body. Texts, interviews photography, artworks and audio recordings by Henri Chopin, William Burroughs, Nicolas Zurrbrugg, Elisabeth Prouvost, Raoul Haussmann, Alexandre Yterce, Kenneth Gaburo, François Dufrène, and more.

Published in a limited edition, this copy hand-numbered "581". CD included. Also includes many laid-in ephemeral pieces — concert programs, promotional items for the periodical, business card, etc.

VG—NF copy.

File under: Henri Chopin William Burroughs Elisabeth Prouvost Raoul Haussmann Alexandre Yterce François Dufrêne Kenneth Gaburo Henri Chopin William Burroughs Nicolas Zurrbrugg Éditions Licences / Paris Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Painting Art Drawing Eros Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Concrete Poetry Surrealism Situationism / Lettrism Photography

Surrealism: The Centenary Exhibition

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 334 pages, 32 x 22 cm
Published by Centre Pompidou / Paris

$110.00 - Out of stock

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The defining book for the centenary of Surrealism. From September 2024 to January 2025, the Centre Pompidou will celebrate the 100th anniversary of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto. For the next two years, their unprecedented Surrealist exhibition will tour the art galleries of the world, accompanied by this special catalogue.

Perhaps more than any other artistic movement, Surrealism had a cataclysmic effect on the modern mind, changing forever the way we think about experiencing the world. By rejecting the gross linearity that typified several centuries of preceding artworks, the legendary Surrealists Magritte, Ernst, Carrington, Dali, Tanning and so many others reached beyond the facade of that which is patently visible and found something more. Featuring original essays from leading academics and excerpts from the Surrealist Manifesto itself, this stands among the most essential Surrealist catalogues ever published.

File under: Centre Pompidou / Paris Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Group Shows / Collections Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Feminism Film / Video Photography Eros

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

The Italian Photobook 1931-1941
Giorgio Grillo

2020, English / Italian
Softcover (w. booklet), 300 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Danilo Montanari Editore / Ravenna

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The volume examines the most interesting and innovative photographic books that appeared in Italy in the decade in which "modern" photography developed in our country. A boundary publishing industry, which oscillates between autonomous visual research (starting from the rediscovered experimentalism in the futurist field) and a 'functional' use of photographic illustration, in the two parallel and often crossed fields of advertising and propaganda.

The large Italian companies (Olivetti, Fiat, Snia Viscosa, Montecatini, etc.) recognized in those years the importance of linking their image to innovative graphic projects, in which photography plays a much more effective role than drawing; at the same time the fascist regime, having concluded its first phase of expansion and consolidation, discovers the power of photography and avant-garde techniques, especially photomontage, in the context of those promotional and self-celebrating practices which it increasingly needs to drive and maintain consent.

The book collects and illustrates about one hundred works, which emerge from an almost forgotten (if not removed), but conspicuous and often high-level editorial production, many of which due to the work of leading artists of the period, including Antonio Boggeri, Erberto Carboni, Franco Grignani, Bruno Munari, Giuseppe Pagano, Luigi Veronesi: tracing, we can say, the brief and intense history of graphic and photographic modernism in Italy.

Giorgio Grillo lives and works in Florence. He has dealt with Italian literature of the twentieth century, including the critical edition of Dino Campana's Canti Orfici. For some time he has been collecting photographs and photographic books, with particular attention to the photography of the origins and the historical avant-gardes of the last century.

File under: Antonio Boggeri Erberto Carboni Franco Grignani Bruno Munari Giuseppe Pagano Luigi Veronesi Giorgio Grillo Danilo Montanari Editore / Ravenna Art Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections SALE

SERIAL KILLER ART
ARTWORK BY AND ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH SERIAL KILLERS

2016, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Vanilla Gallery / Tokyo

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Rare catalogue from the first exhibition of Serial Killer Art at Vanilla Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, in 2016, from the HN collection. From John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Henry Lee Lucas, and Ronnie Clay, the featured artworks, self-portraits, letters, and documents of serial killers in Europe and America whose heinous personalities and numerous crimes have served as models for novels and films, becoming known the world over.

"The world portrayed by murderers who committed crimes that make you want to look away is like a dreadful, lonely, impermanent feeling that looks into the depths of the viewer's heart, and is like when confronted with something unknown. It's full of tension."

Collected by Mr. HN (H. Nakajima), over 200 items were displayed in Tokyo on the occasion of these exhibits, with this catalogue available at the exhibition only. Illustrated with examples throughout in colour and b/w, texts in Japanese by film critic Kiichirō Yanashita, Orihara Ichi, and collector/curator H. Nakajima.

Killers included in the exhibitions: John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Peter Sutcliffe, Danny Rowling, Keith Jasperson, James Earl Ray, Thomas Pitera, Henry Hill, Nicholas Crowe, Dorothy Puente, Haddon Clarke, Gerald Shaffer, Anthony Shore, James Munro, Gary Ray Balls, Hudson Graham, Carroll Bundy, Otis Toole, Charles Watson, Lawrence Bittaker, Herbert Mullin, Arthur Shawcross, Rod Ferrell, Ted Bundy, Jim Jones, Christa Pike, Harvard Baumeister, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Ronnie Clay, Irene Wuornos, Wayne Low, Dana Sue Gray, Roy Norris, Kenneth Bianchi, Michael Alig, Veronica Compton, Joe Roy Metheny, Gary Heidnik, Charles Manson, Jeremy Jones, Jack Trawick, Carl Drew, Wayne Harton, Rosemary West, Theodore Kaczynski, Thomas Heyer, Ed Gein, Ferrell Mykers, Douglas Clark, Richard Clarey, Ian Brady, Jack Kevorkian, Bonnie & Clyde, Philip Jacobinski, Daniel Siebert, Tommy Lynn Sells.

Very Good with only light wear.

File under: Kiichirō Yanashita Orihara Ichi H. Nakajima Vanilla Gallery / Tokyo Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections Drawing Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

John Nixon
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 4 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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John Nixon catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial SALE

Gary Wilson
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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Gary Wilson catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: Gary Wilson John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Curatorial SALE

A.D.S. Donaldson
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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A.D.S. Donaldson catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Minimal Art Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial SALE

Stephen Little
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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Stephen Little catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: Stephen Little John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Conceptual Art SALE

HEROES – Fanfiction (Centre for Style)
Fayen d’Evie, Matthew Linde, Spencer Lai, Jake Swinson (Eds.)

2016, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 23.5 x 30 cm
Published by 3-Ply / Victoria Centre for Style / Melbourne

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Edited by Fayen d’Evie, Matthew Linde, Spencer Lai and Jake Swinson
Design by Toby Tam

Contents include a feature text “The Banquet” by Monicas’s Gallery with Jessie Kiely, and image contributions from: Adam Wood, Anna-Sophie Berger, Aurelia Guo, Brendan Morris, Bror August, Caley Feeney, Chloé Elizabeth Maratta, Claire Barrow, D&K, Dara Allen, Eric Mack, Galen Erickson thanks to Matthew Drury, Callum Hawke, Oscar Khan and Arthur Marie, George Egerton-Warbuton, Giovanna Flores, Grace Anderson, H.B. Peace, Hamishi Farah, Hana Earles, Harry Burke, Jake Levy, Jessie Kiely, Joseph Geagan, Josey Kidd-Crowe, Kate Meakin, Kulisek-Lieske, Laura Fanning, Matty Bovan, Mel Paget, Milo Conroy, Misty Pollen, Nora Slade and Peter Guffield Linden, Rafael Delacruz, Rare Candy, Richard Malone,Ruth O’Leary, Ryohei Kawanishi, Sasha Geyer, Shahan Assadourian, Sophie Hardeman, Spencer Lai, Stefan Schwartzman, and Wiley Guillot.

Initiated by 3-ply and Centre for Style, HEROES conflates the artist book and the fashion magazine. The ‘hero look’ is a term used to describe the penultimate outfit of a designer’s collection. Often the most conceptually-driven moment of the runway, the hero outfit serves as a signpost for a designer’s signature style, not quotidian wearability. For this inaugural issue of HEROES, contributors were invited to approach the act of fashion design as a narrative of fanfiction, identifying as readers and fans of their own canon to generate a character or caricature of their personal style. With timeframes restricted to a day, techniques of assemblage and improvisation were privileged, as contributors constructed visceral manifestations of subjectivity through self-fashioned hero looks.

HEROES/Fanfiction includes a feature text “The Banquet” written by Monica’s Gallery with Jessie Kiely, that opens: “ACT I. It was within the candle-lit caverns beneath the wondrous castle bestowed upon The Fat Baron Oörif that the banquet took place. The air thick with magic…” Appropriating the fanfiction trope as a codified lookbook, the text weaves elaborate descriptions of characters and fantastical sub-plots, over the course of a banquet hosted for fifteen guests by a former trade tycoon, within his castle of soft provincial feel. Spiralling through philosophical, intersubjective and social commentary, this parallel universe lookbook interlaces acute reflections on meta-trends, personal freedoms and nested human artefacts.

Edition of 1000

File under: Anna-Sophie Berger Aurelia Guo Brendan Morris Jessie Kiely Josey Kidd-Crowe Kate Meakin Kulisek-Lieske Laura Fanning Monica's Gallery Rafael Delacruz Rare Candy Ruth O’Leary Spencer Lai Aurelia Guo Fayen d'Evie Harry Burke Jake Swinson Matthew Linde Spencer Lai 3-Ply / Victoria Centre for Style / Melbourne Art Fashion Photography Australian Art SALE Group Shows / Collections

Artfan No. 5 (Autumn 1996) "Public Art"
Edited by A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe)

1996, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by A Constructed World / St. Kilda

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Artfan No. 5 (Autumn 1996) — "Public Art" issue. Features contributions by Callum Morton, Rose Nolan, Mutlu Çerkez, John Nixon, Eliza Hutchison and David Noonan, Charlotte Day, Jon Campbell, and many others. "The global is often represented as an oppressive culturally controlling influence yet it has often been known to relieve oppression from overly uniform and diminishing alternatives. Apart from audience, Public Art is usually, in some way, about place and in this issue of Artfan there are contributions from many places including Estonia, India, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Sweden, Jordan, and Israel.”—From the editors (Jacqueline Riva, Geoff Lowe, D. H. Thomas)

Artfan (Contemporary Art Review Magazine to Read) is a magazine published by artists Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva in St. Kilda, Melbourne, who have been working together as A Constructed World since 1993 when they founded the magazine. Each issue is an international collaboration between the contributing editors, filled with artworks and texts, the magazine is largely centred around illustrated exhibition reviews by artists and writers, and many memories of a bygone Melbourne.

A Constructed World is the collaborative project, founded in 1993, of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, based in Paris, France. ACW believe in the notion of collectivity. Their practice is concerned with the multiple narratives we use to construct and understand our world. They encourage the exchange of ideas and embrace the idea of chaos. Influenced by post-structuralism and relational aesthetics, ACW explores how reality is perceived through cultural models.

As New.

File under: Katherine Huang Joachim Koester Maurizio Cattelan A Constructed World Callum Morton Rose Nolan Mutlu Çerkez John Nixon Eliza Hutchison David Noonan Jon Campbell Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe Charlotte Day A Constructed World Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe D. H. Thomas A Constructed World / St. Kilda Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Art Painting Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Film / Video

Artfan No. 7 (Autumn 1998) "Rock On"
Edited by A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe)

1998, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Artfan / Melbourne A Constructed World / St. Kilda

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Artfan No. 7 (Autumn 1998) — "Rock On" issue. Features artworks by Callum Morton, Marco Fuscinato, Stephen Prina, Mutlu Çerkez, and many others. "Rock and Roll’s utopian drive, charged by solid state and valve technology, sexuality, pleasure and drugs, has powered a global sense of desire and community since the 50’s. Artfan 7 is a collaboration between contributing editors, Callum Morton (Melbourne), Sarah Seager (Los Angeles), and Terry Urbahn (Wellington). Using Rock On as the point of entry, artists from three countries tell something about their recent history, vinyl, unfulfilled desires, and other sexy stuff."

Artfan (Contemporary Art Review Magazine to Read) is a magazine published by artists Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva in St. Kilda, Melbourne, who have been working together as A Constructed World since 1993 when they founded the magazine. Each issue is an international collaboration between the contributing editors, filled with artworks and texts, the magazine is largely centred around illustrated exhibition reviews by artists and writers, and many memories of a bygone Melbourne.

A Constructed World is the collaborative project, founded in 1993, of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, based in Paris, France. ACW believe in the notion of collectivity. Their practice is concerned with the multiple narratives we use to construct and understand our world. They encourage the exchange of ideas and embrace the idea of chaos. Influenced by post-structuralism and relational aesthetics, ACW explores how reality is perceived through cultural models.

As New.

File under: A Constructed World Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe Callum Morton Terry Urbahn Marco Fuscinato Stephen Prina Mutlu Çerkez Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe A Constructed World Sarah Seager Artfan / Melbourne A Constructed World / St. Kilda Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Australian Photography Photography Australian Art Concrete Poetry Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art

Artfan No. 9 (Autumn 1999) "Hot Tub"
Edited by A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe)

1999, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by A Constructed World / St. Kilda

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Artfan No. 9 (Autumn 1999) — "Hot Tub" issue. Features contributions by Constance Zikos, Sharon Goodwin, John Wolseley, and many others. "This issue of Artfon began with ACW's involvement in the XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal in Brazil 1998. Its theme of cannibalism - a sprawling hymn to a practice we haven't seen and yet know about - is celebrated in a Hot Tub insert and Q&A that anticipate the dangers and pleasures of cultural cannibalism."—The Editors (Jacqueline Riva, Geoff Lowe)

Artfan (Contemporary Art Review Magazine to Read) is a magazine published by artists Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva in St. Kilda, Melbourne, who have been working together as A Constructed World since 1993 when they founded the magazine. Each issue is an international collaboration between the contributing editors, filled with artworks and texts, the magazine is largely centred around illustrated exhibition reviews by artists and writers, and many memories of a bygone Melbourne.

A Constructed World is the collaborative project, founded in 1993, of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, based in Paris, France. ACW believe in the notion of collectivity. Their practice is concerned with the multiple narratives we use to construct and understand our world. They encourage the exchange of ideas and embrace the idea of chaos. Influenced by post-structuralism and relational aesthetics, ACW explores how reality is perceived through cultural models.

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File under: A Constructed World Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe Constance Zikos DAMP Mary Teague Robert Pulie John Spiteri Sharon Goodwin John Brack John Wolseley A Constructed World Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe A Constructed World / St. Kilda Australian Art Australian Photography Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Conceptual Art Minimal Art Film / Video

Mondrian, de Stijl and their impact

1964, English
Softcover (w. printed vinyl dust jacket), 60 pages, 23 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marlborough Fine Art / New York

$35.00 - In stock -

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First edition of this exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition that ran April 1964, Marlborough Fine Art, New York. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, featuring an introduction by Professor A.M. Hammacher. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations. Printed vinyl dust jacket. Features Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Vilmos Huszár, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Gorin, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, John Cecil Stephenson, Marlow Moss, Joost Baljeu, Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski, Władysław Strzemiński, Erik Olsen, Charles Biederman, Fritz Glarner, Charmion von Wiegand, et al.

Very Good copy, light wear to vinyl, age.

File under: Kurt Schwitters Piet Mondrian Bart van der Leck Vilmos Huszár Jean Gorin Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart John Cecil Stephenson Marlow Moss Władysław Strzemiński Wladyslaw Strzeminski Henryk Stazewski Katarzyna Kobro Joost Baljeu Erik Olsen Charles Biederman Fritz Glarner Charmion von Wiegand Professor A.M. Hammacher Marlborough Fine Art / New York Group Shows / Collections Painting Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare

Eau de Cologne Nr. 1
Edited by Monika Sprüth

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 40 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Monika Sprüth / Cologne

$800.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, inaugural issue of the iconic and enormously influential magazine published and edited by Cologne-based gallery owner Monika Sprüth, who opened her first gallery in 1983 with a focus on female artists. Emblematic of this perspective, Sprüth launched Eau de Cologne, an “effervescent, shape-shifting magazine, featuring almost exclusively women artists and art practitioners.” Three issues were published between 1985 and 1989, along with accompanying exhibitions, representing an international female discourse on art. With early cover artwork by Cindy Sherman, this first issue was published on the occasion of an all-female exhibition presentation of the same name, held by Monika Sprüth Galerie in Cologne in 1985, featuring the work of Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, and Anne Loch. Combining theoretical discourse with visual practice, the large-format magazine was created in collaboration with the artists Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, and Rosemarie Trockel, featuring artist pages, essays, interviews, texts, quotes, portraits by an incredible list of contributors including Louise Bourgeois, Hanne Darboven, Cady Noland, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Ileana Sonnabend, Annette Messager, Susan Hiller, Ulrike Rosenbach, Elaine Sturtevant, Kathe Burkhart, Marian Goodman, Mary Boone, Georgia O'Keefe, Marisa Merz, Astrid Klein, Jutta Koether, Jenny Holzer, Maria Lassnig, Holly Solomon, Nancy Spero, Jo-Anna Isaak, Hilary Lloyd, Holly Solomon, Bärbel Grässlin, Annina Nosei, Tanja Grunert, Pat Hearn, Bice Curiger, Edit DeAk, Rosalind Krauss, Isabelle Graw, Linda Nochlin, Ingrid Oppenheim, Barbara Gladstone, and many more. Texts in German and English. It really doesn't get much better!

“The exhibition and the catalogue “Eau de Cologne” fulfil the claim of my gallery to show the most interesting aspects of contemporaneous art. This exhibition presents five female artists: Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel, and the catalogue which includes many more young and older female artists, writers, critics and art-dealers want to show art in its social context. I see this exhibition as an example. According to my subjective observation and based on the experiences and contacts of almost three years work as art-dealer I have made a selection. The time of working on this catalogue was limited, too, and it is for these reasons that some artists, curators and art-critics are not mentioned. I approve of realizing this “idea” now, 1985.”—from introduction by Monika Sprüth

Very Good copy with light wear and age to extremities, small chip to back-cover edge.

File under: Ina Barfuss Jenny Holzer Barbara Kruger Cindy Sherman Rosemarie Trockel Anne Loch Louise Lawler Louise Bourgeois Hanne Darboven Cady Noland Dominique Gonzalez Foerster Ileana Sonnabend Annette Messager Susan Hiller Ulrike Rosenbach Elaine Sturtevant Kathe Burkhart Marian Goodman Mary Boone Georgia O'Keefe Marisa Merz Astrid Klein Jutta Koether Maria Lassnig Holly Solomon Nancy Spero Jo-Anna Isaak Hilary Lloyd Bärbel Grässlin Annina Nosei Tanja Grunert Pat Hearn Bice Curiger Edit DeAk Rosalind Krauss Isabelle Graw Linda Nochlin Ingrid Oppenheim Barbara Gladstone Monika Sprüth Ileana Sonnabend Barbara Gladstone Jo-Anna Isaak Holly Solomon Isabelle Graw Pat Hearn Bice Curiger Rosalind Krauss Bärbel Grässlin Marian Goodman Mary Boone Monika Sprüth / Cologne Periodicals Feminism Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Photography Painting Minimal Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare