World Food Books

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

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

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, out-of-print.

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

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

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

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

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

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

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

Eros Fantasy: Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room
by Yoshiki Yamamoto

1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 236 pages, 20.4 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Self-published / Kobe City

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this stunning privately-issued 1979 Japanese hardcover collection of erotic fantasy art, edited and written by Yoshiki Yamamoto. Upon retiring from the Sanyo Electric Railway Company in 1976, Yamamoto devoted himself to the art that he loved and to complete an intimate book study that traces an important lineage of artists of "eros fantasy", focussing on 16 key artists through profusely illustrated chapters, linking artists of the fin de siècle, symbolism, surrealism, and their descendants. A total labour of love. There is no other book like it. "Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room" features profusely illustrated full chapters on Gustave Moreau, Félicien Rops, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Bayros, Egon Schiele, Paul Delvaux, Hans Bellmer, Felix Labisse, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Leonor Fini, Paul Wunderlich, Ernst Fuchs, Tomi Ungerer, H.R. Giger, Raymond Bertrand, Gilles Rimbault, including profiles, many artworks, portraits and texts by Yamamoto, closing with a chronology of further artists and authors through the centuries.

Average—Good copy due to the back hardcover board being reattached. Good dust jacket with the usual wear and tanning of this title, otherwise the book block is VG throughout — crisp and clean.

File under: Gustave Moreau Félicien Rops Gustav Klimt Franz von Bayros Egon Schiele Paul Delvaux Hans Bellmer Felix Labisse Pierre-Yves Trémois Leonor Fini Paul Wunderlich Ernst Fuchs Tomi Ungerer H.R. Giger Raymond Bertrand Gilles Rimbault Yoshiki Yamamoto Self-published / Kobe City Eros Out-of-print / Rare Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Fetishism / BDSM Art Drawing Painting Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Group Shows / Collections Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Ellen Cantor
"I’m Still Coming" : COMING TO POWER 2016 & 1993

2017, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Capricious / New York

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A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor, in 1993, along with its re-staging in 2016 by curator Pati Hertling and artist, Julie Tolentino.

The book also chronicles the unprecedented partnership amongst five New York City institutions. Exhibitions and programming of Cantor’s work were offered by 80WSWE, Maccarone, Foxy Productions, Participant Inc., Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Skowhegan School of Painting, and MOMA—highlighting the lush, visionary, and audacious aspects of Cantor’s drawings, paintings, curatorial projects, sculpture, assemblage, video, film, and evocative writing. Another section features a reprint of an interview between Cantor and Cerith Wyn Evans, a conversation between Lia Gangitano/Jonathan Berger and Julie Tolentino/Pati Hertling, as well as archival material from Cantor’s diary entries and never-seen sketches from Cantor’s personal papers.

LIST OF ARTISTS:

PAINTING/SCULPTURE/PHOTOGRAPHS: Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Fried, Nan Goldin, Nancy Grossman, Pnina Jalon, G.B. Jones, Doris Kloster, Joyce Kozloff, Zoe Leonard, Monica Majoli, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke

VIDEO/FILM: Peggy Ahwesh, Maria Beatty, Lynda Benglis, Abigail Child, Cicciolina, Kate Dymond, Azian Nurudin, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Julia Kunin, Blush Productions, Annie Sprinkle, and Ona Zee

PERFORMANCES: FlucT, luciana achugar, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom, Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado, Jim Fletcher, Narcissister, niv Acosta, and Jen Rosenblit and their collaborators

File under: Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Louise Bourgeois Ellen Cantor Patricia Cronin Mary Beth Edelson Nicole Eisenman Nancy Fried Nan Goldin Nancy Grossman Pnina Jalon G.B. Jones Doris Kloster Joyce Kozloff Zoe Leonard Monica Majoli Marilyn Minter Alice Neel Lorraine O’Grady Yoko Ono Carolee Schneemann Joan Semmel Cindy Sherman Nancy Spero Hannah Wilke Julie Tolentino Peggy Ahwesh Maria Beatty Abigail Child Cicciolina Kate Dymond Azian Nurudin Barbara Hammer Holly Hughes Julia Kunin Blush Productions Annie Sprinkle Ona Zee FlucT luciana achugar Kia Labeija Xandra Ibarra / La Chica Boom Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado Jim Fletcher Narcissister niv Acosta Jen Rosenblit Pati Hertling Capricious / New York Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Film / Video Feminism Curatorial Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+

Women At Work
A Week of Women's Performance June 1980

1980, English
Softcover (staple bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by George Paton Gallery / Parkville

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Very rare copy of Women At Work, an important catalogue published to accompany a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia held at the George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union, June 2—6, 1980. Includes valuable transcriptions of the seminars — 'Feminism in Performance' : An open discussion led by women from the Women's Art Movement, Adelaide (featuring: Cath Cherry, Peg Maguire, Judy Annear, Denise McGrath, Jan Hunter, Ann Marsh, Jane Kent, Shan Short, Ann Fogarty, Lorraine Bennington, Jackie Lawes, Bonita Ely, Helen Sherriff, Joan Grounds), plus a general discussion reflecting on the activities of the week (Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, Vineta Lagzdina, Anna Paci, Aleks Danko, Jan Ferrari). Heavily illustrated artist's pages with texts and performance documentation follows, featuring: Cath Cherry, Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Joan Grounds, Jan Hunter, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Jackie Lawes, Ann Marsh, Jill Orr, Anna Paci, Liz Paterson, WIMMINS CIRCUS, plus photographic documentation of the exhibition, and a detailed catalogue of the videos and slides shown.

"In 1979, Jane Kent, from the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide, had a three week installation in the Ewing Gallery. She and Ann Marsh, also from WAM suggested a weekend get together later in 1979 for Adelaide and Melbourne women artists. After discussion with Kiffy Rubbo and Judy Annear, the idea developed into a week long event of performances, seminars and documentation from women around Australia to be held June 2-6, 1980. The eventual make-up of the week was 14 performances by 12 women, plus a performance by the WIMMINS CIRCUS (courtesy Union Council). The women who performed were Cath Cherry, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Ann Marsh, from Adelaide; Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Jill Orr, Liz Paterson, from Melbourne; Joan Grounds, Jackie Lawes, Anna Paci, from Sydney, and Jan Hunter from Hobart. Documentation of performances by the above women and many others was exhibited in the gallery: this took the form of written material, videotapes, slides and installation."—Judy Annear and Aleks Danko, October 1980

Fair copy with moisture staining, damage and general tanning to extremities, rippling along spine.

File under: Cath Cherry Jane Kent Vineta Lagzdina Ann Marsh Bonita Ely Ann Fogarty Jill Orr Liz Paterson Joan Grounds Jackie Lawes Anna Paci Jan Hunter Peg Maguire Judy Annear Denise McGrath Shan Short Lorraine Bennington Helen Sherriff Joan Grounds) Aleks Danko Jan Ferrari George Paton Gallery / Parkville Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Sociology / Politics

The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History
by Bernard Smith

1976, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Oxford University Press / Melbourne

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this important and now very scarce volume of essays by Australian art historian, Bernard Smith (1916—2011), The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History, published by Oxford in 1976. The book centres around the controversial title essay "The Antipodean Manifesto", first published on the occasion of the Antipodean group's only exhibition, held in Melbourne in August 1959. The Antipodeans were a group of Australian modern artists (Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh) who asserted the importance of figurative art, and protested against abstract expressionism. Though they staged but a single exhibition, they were noted internationally and the manifesto provoked strong reaction. Smith was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department (1955–1967) during this time. Smith's collection continues with texts on Perceiving the Australian Suburb, William Morris, Whitlam government arts funding, Coleridge and Cook, the Myth of Isolation, and much more.

"This book contains a selection of essays and articles written by Bernard Smith during the past thirty years. They have been written in the belief that art is concerned more with what it is to be human than with aesthetic, formal or monetary values, though such factors do play a part, often too great a part, in the evaluation of works of art. Bernard Smith has always been an outspoken commentator on controversial issues, and many of the hard-hitting articles he has written over the years are still very relevant today. His views on the 'myth' of Australia's isolation from the influence of the mainstream of Western art, for example, and on the dubious value of a National Art Gallery in fostering an appreciation of the arts, are stimulating and incisive. Also included here are essays on the work of individual artists such as William Dobell and Henry Moore; on issues peculiar to Australian art and on more general matters, such as Government support for the arts, art and history, art and the industrial society, art and romanticism; and finally Professor Smith's long and fascinating paper which reveals that Coleridge's poem The Ancient Mariner was almost certainly based on Cook's second voyage around the world."—book blurb

Bernard William Smith (1916—2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, and influence on Robert Hughes. Smith was associated with the Communist Party of Australia, and after leaving the party remained a prominent left-wing intellectual and Marxist thinker. Following the death of his wife in 1989, he sold much of their art collection to establish the Kate Challis RAKA, one of the first prizes in the country for Indigenous artists and writers.

Good copy with tanning to spine and edges, general wear.

File under: Charles Blackman Arthur Boyd David Boyd John Brack Robert Dickerson John Perceval. Clifton Pugh The Antipodeans William Morris William Dobell Henry Moore Bernard Smith Clark Coolidge Oxford University Press / Melbourne Australian Art Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Reinventing the Grid
Curated by Rachel Kent

1994, English
Softcover (fold-out six panels w. double-sided price list insert), 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne

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grid- 1. A grating.. A network of lines on a map... A network of electrical lines, etc.—The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol.1, 1984

Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition REINVENTING THE GRID curated by Rachel Kent, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 5—29 October, 1994, in association with the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, featuring the works of Angela Brennan, lan Burn, Debra Dawes, Rosalie Gascoigne, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Martin King, Hilarie Mais, Deborah Ostrow, Robert Owen, Louise Paramor, Rodney Spooner, John Young. Illustrated six-panel fold-out card catalogue with essay by Rachel Kent, illustrated with works from the exhibition and complete catalogue of works, plus the original price-list inserted, with prices.

"While it has been a theme for research and exhibition internationally, the grid has received less critical attention in Australia. One of the intentions of this exhibition, therefore, is to explore some of the ways in which the grid is figured in the art of a selection of fourteen Australian artists, from the mid—1960s to the present day."

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Angela Brennan lan Burn Debra Dawes Rosalie Gascoigne Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Martin King Hilarie Mais Deborah Ostrow Robert Owen Louise Paramor Rodney Spooner John Young Rachel Kent Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

Art Povera : Conceptual, Actual or Impossible Art?
Edited by Germano Celant

1969, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio Vista / London

$320.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1969 printing of the seminal "Art Povera", the phenomenal and now legendary critical/photographic book by the great Italian art historian, critic and curator Germano Celant (1940—2020) that internationally established the so-called Art Povera / Arte Povera movement (meaning "poor art", coined by Celant in 1967) and published by Studio Vista, London and printed in Italy.

Includes profiles of major artists of the movement, including a short text followed by pages of full-page photographs for each artist. Artists featured: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

"This book does not aim at being an objective and general analysis of the phenomenon of art or life, but is rather an attempt to flank (both art and life) as accomplices of the changes and attitudes in the development of their daily becoming. This book does not attempt to be objective since the awareness of objectivity is false consciousness. The book, made up of photographs and written documents, bases its critical and editorial assumptions on the knowledge that criticism and iconographic documents give limited vision and partial perception of artistic work. The book, when it reproduces the documents of artistic work, refutes the linguistic mediation of photography. The book, even though it wants to avoid the logic of consumption, is a consumer's item. ... This book produces a collection of already old material. ... In this book there is no need to reflect in order to seek a unitary and reassuring value, immediately refuted by the the authors themselves, rather there is the necessity to look into it for the changes, limits, precariousness and instability of artistic work." — text from Celant's introduction "Stating That."

A must.

Very Good copy, usual tanning.

File under: Alighiero Boetti Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Dennis Oppenheim Douglas Huebler Emilio Prini Eva Hesse Franz Erhard Walther Ger van Elk Gilberto Zorio Giovanni Anselmo Giulio Paolini Giuseppe Penone Hans Haacke Jan Dibbets Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Luciano Fabro Marinus Boezem Mario Merz Michael Heizer Michelangelo Pistoletto Pier Paolo Calzolari Reiner Ruthenbeck Richard Long Richard Serra Robert Barry Robert Morris Robert Smithson Stephen Kaltenbach Walter de Maria Germano Celant Studio Vista / London Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Broken Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Very Good copy with light wear.

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

OBJET — Deviant Materials

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

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

Good copy, some wear, light foxing.

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

Minimal Art in Australia

1987, English
Softcover, 46 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MOCA / Brisbane

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Rare catalogue for the 1987 exhibition Minimal Art In Australia: A Contemplative Art, edited by curator and founder of Melbourne's legendary Pinacotheca Gallery, Bruce Pollard, and published by MOCA, Brisbane. Illustrated throughout with the work of exhibiting artists Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Michael Johnson, Tony McGillick, Paul Partos, John Peart, Trevor Vickers, Dale Watkins, accompanied by biographies, an introduction by Pollard, plus reproduced notes for the Minimalism Exhibition at Ewing Gallery (1973) by Pollard and Minimal Art Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (1976) by Jennifer Phipps, bibliography, plus additional text extracts by Doris L. Bell and Hal Foster.

Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinacotheca Gallery in a dark St Kilda bayside Edwardian mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an "austere, almost dungeon like" old hat factory in Richmond in 1970. Pinacotheca's avant-garde stance was paralleled only by Sydney's Inhibodress and Watters galleries, and was the only gallery in Victoria showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s, exhibiting works by Art Language artists Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth and Mel Ramsden, Dale Hickey, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter and Robert Rooney. Pinacotheca's exhibitors were in the vanguard of Conceptualism; during The Field, the controversial NGV show of Australian conceptual abstraction, Pinacotheca concurrently advertised 'for viewing' 15 of The Field artists in its stockroom alongside a solo by Rollin Schlicht. Focussing on artists interested in post-object, conceptual and other non-traditional art forms, amongst the more than 300 artists who showed there included Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Ti Parks, John Nixon, Bill Henson, Tim Johnson, Tony Tuckson, Paul Partos, Joseph Kosuth, Stelarc... Purposely, there was little documentation accompanying exhibitions.

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Peter Booth Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Michael Johnson Tony McGillick Paul Partos John Peart Trevor Vickers Dale Watkins Bruce Pollard Jennifer Phipps Doris L. Bell Hal Foster MOCA / Brisbane Art Australian Art Painting Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Witness To Her Art
Adrian Piper, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Mona Hatoum, Daniela Rossell, Eau de Cologne ...

2006, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 26 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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First edition of this very special, now very rare catalogue published in 2006 on the occasion of the major survey exhibition Witness To Her Art, featuring the work of Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and the seminal magazine Eau de Cologne, published by gallerist Monika Sprüth between 1985 and 1989. Profusely illustrated throughout with artworks by all artists, reproductions of important artist publications, installation views, and many works by other related artists, alongside texts by Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Monika Sprüth, Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson, Norton Batkin, Johanna Burton, Aruna D’Souza, Pamela Franks, Janet Kraynak, David Levi Strauss, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ann Reynolds, Hamza Walker, and many more.

Publisher's blurb:
"This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen—all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, "Witness to Her Art" presents works by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and "Eau de Cologne," a magazine published by gallerist Monika Sprüth. The artworks are accompanied by original writings by the artists, contemporaneous criticism and newly commissioned essays by Pamela Franks, Aruna D'Souza, Johanna Burton, David Levi Strauss, Hamza Walker and Cuauhtémoc Medina. The ambitious works presented and interpreted herein invite us to consider the impact of the feminist revolution across generations while rendering obsolete any stigma associated with shows or catalogues limited to women artists. Taking its lead from Conceptualism, feminism, and from its included artists, "Witness to Her Art" reaches for art history's capacity as a medium of world-making."

Highly recommended. Very Good copy with light edge wear/rounding to stiff overlay boards.

File under: Adrian Piper Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Monika Sprüth Adrian Piper Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Rhea Anastas Michael Brenson Norton Batkin Johanna Burton Pamela Franks Janet Kraynak David Levi Strauss Ann Reynolds Hamza Walker Aruna D'Souza Cuauhtémoc Medina Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Photography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Studio Access Project
A 1981 Festival of Sydney Event

1981, English
Softcover (staple bound w. brochure), 64 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creative Space / Chippendale

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Including the Video Plus Group and the 'Sydney Artists Video and Sound Tape, 1979—1980' performances (Laughing Hands, David Chesworth, → ↑ → (Tsk Tsk Tsk), Warren Burt, Chris Wyatt, Eva Karczag, Robert Randall, and Frank Bendinelli) this rare catalogue published on the occasion of the Studio Access Project, an expansive Sydney-wide event during the 1981 Festival of Sydney and a solution to the desperate situation in the arts competing with industry, commerce and residential expansion in the inner city. "If the city is to remain a lively centre for the arts, room must be found for the artist to work." The first show of its kind in Australia, the project, organised by the volunteer-run Creative Space and Art Network attacked the problem by surveying the needs of artists in Sydney, revealing no less than 400 artists from a multitude of disciplines in urgent need of space, then identifying and investigating unused spaces for studios and presentations. "The redevelopment process is continuous and it leaves many buildings empty for long periods of time. In England and America artists have been found to be the perfect in between tenants for these type of properties."

"The Studio Access Project which this catalogue documents, was initiated to introduce the public to some of the artists in Sydney who are working in studios. It is hoped that in this way some idea of the process and not just the product can be communicated resulting in a greater understanding of artist space needs as well as providing the artists themselves with an exhibiting opportunity."

Sadly nothing has changed. If anything it's exceptionally worse, but this document is an important insight into the battle of Australian cultural initiatives to push back against the rampant redevelopment squeeze in this country and reclaim property waste.

With a map of the city and schedules of concerts and exhibitions, the book profiles all of the artists and utilising the many disparate buildings (shop fronts, garages, basements, warehouses...) profusely illustrated with their artworks, graphics, and biographies.

Includes Creative Space brochure inserted.
Very Good with some creasing to top of inserted brochure.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Laughing Hands David Chesworth Warren Burt Chris Wyatt Eva Karczag Robert Randall Frank Bendinelli → ↑ → → ↑ → (Tsk Tsk Tsk) Creative Space / Chippendale Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Art Painting

Queen Street Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1, Issue 7, 8, 9
"Language & Structure in North America" issue

1975, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Queen Street Magazine / Toronto

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Queen Street Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1, Issue 7, 8, 9, a 'Multi-media Journal of the Arts' from Canada that covered the experimental and conceptual arts in Toronto's historic Queen Street West neighborhood, which grew into a vibrant arts district in the 1970s. Edited by Angelo Sgabellone, associate edited by Beth Learn, this issue of particular interest for Learn's Language & Structure in North America on Language Art to accompany the first, large, definitive survey of North American Language Art curated by Richard Kostelanetz in Toronto in 1975. This issue gathers many works by North American Language Artists including Bill Bissett, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Barry, Brion Gysin, Mario Diacono, Agnes Denes, Thomas Ockerse, Steve McCaffery, Claes Oldenburg, Ernest & Marion Robson, Garry Gilbert, Larry Miller, Richard Kostelanetz, Hans Jewinski, Joe Rosenblatt, Gerry Shikatani, and more. Plus Mary Janitch, Read '75: Language & Structure in North America, Chuck Stake Enterprizes and the Junk Mail Art Show, The State of Magazine Distribution In Canada, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Learn/Yeats Second Coming Band, Small Magazine Press Scene, and much more.

Good copy with wear.

File under: Bill Bissett Jackson Mac Low Robert Barry Brion Gysin Mario Diacono Agnes Denes Thomas Ockerse Steve McCaffery Claes Oldenburg Ernest & Marion Robson Garry Gilbert Larry Miller Richard Kostelanetz Hans Jewinski Joe Rosenblatt Gerry Shikatani Mary Janitch Beth Learn Queen Street Magazine / Toronto Periodicals Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Poetry Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay

KITSCH 1 + 2 (all volumes)

1970/1971, French
Softcover, 2 volumes, unpaginated, 28.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marie Concorde / Paris

$380.00 - Out of stock

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Both of the only volumes ever produced of this wonderful French avant-garde journal, published in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s. A visual manifesto against the prudishness of the times, KITSCH presented hundreds of illustrations of mostly erotic, fetish and fantastic/grotesque artwork by artists from all over the world, and spanning generations, with both issues wrapped in the most striking Tom Wesselmann covers. KITSCH 1 includes Toshio Saeki, Guido Crepax, Richard Linder, Robert Crumb, Guy Bourdin, Petr Herel, Hannes Jahn, Roman Cieślewicz, Ben Vautier, Christian Bour, Jacques Sternberg, Roland Topor, Jim, Allen Jones, Thomas Weir, alongside photo essays on upskirt polaroids, Satanik, Diabolik, fashion and more. KITSCH 2 includes Aslan, Roy Lichtenstein, Virgil Finlay, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Greg Irons, George Grosz, Egon Schiele, Mel Ramos, alongside photo essays on subjects such as "Pop Art", "Human Concern" and Paris' "Pigalle" district, further featuring work by H.C.Westermann, Paul Thek, Edward Keinholz, William Tunberg, Christian Schad, William Weegee, James Rosenquist, Frank Gallo, Tom Wesselmann, and many more.

Very good copies both, light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Guido Crepax Richard Linder Robert Crumb Guy Bourdin Petr Herel Hannes Jahn Roman Cieślewicz Ben Vautier Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Roland Topor Jim Allen Jones Thomas Weir Aslan Roy Lichtenstein Virgil Finlay Jim Osborne Ronald Lipking Greg Irons George Grosz Egon Schiele Mel Ramos H.C.Westermann Paul Thek Edward Keinholz William Tunberg Christian Schad William Weegee James Rosenquist Frank Gallo Tom Wesselmann Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Marie Concorde / Paris Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Photography Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Uncanny
by Mike Kelley

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$550.00 - Out of stock

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First 1993 edition of one of the great art books, by one of the great artists. This provocative, copiously illustrated catalogue by renowned American artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published to accompany the exhibition curated by Kelley as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 5 - September 26, 1993, Kelley presents (like a photo scrapbook) an arresting mix of modern and contemporary artists alongside bizarre figurative, prosthesis, animatronic, and mannequin-related imagery throughout history. Artists included : Hans Bellmer, Robert Gober, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Nayland Blake, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Duane Hanson, Man Ray, Guillaume Bijl, Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Degas, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Broodthaers, Goya, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothea Lange, Thom Puckey, Charles Ray, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Laurie Simmons, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Thek, Mike Kelley himself, and many more. Includes Kelley's accompanying essay, "Playing with Dead Things". The exhibition took on mythical status and was re-staged in Liverpool in 2004. The Uncanny has become one of the most desired of Kelley's books.

Very Good copy with only light cover wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Robert Gober Tetsumi Kudo Zoe Leonard Paul McCarthy Nayland Blake Duane Hanson Edward Kienholz Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons John Miller Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Paul Thek Mike Kelley Laurie Simmons Guillaume Bijl Thom Puckey Dennis Oppenheim Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Dorothea Lange Yayoi Kusama Francisco Goya Edgar Degas Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Mike Kelley Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art Surrealism Theory / Essay

OBJECT & IDEA
New Work by Australian Artists

1973, English
Softcover (staple-bound),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

$240.00 - Out of stock

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Extremely rare catalogue of the great OBJECT & IDEA exhibition, presented at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1973, curated by Brian Finemore (Curator of Australian Art and co-curator of The Field in 1968). With the assistance of Graeme Sturgeon (Exhibitions Officer 1970–1980), this important survey exhibition helped in defining radical new shifts in contemporary Australian art at the start of the 1970s by bringing together new work by 6 young Australian artists; John Armstrong, Tony Coleing, Aleks Danko, Nigel Lendon, Ti Parks and Imants Tillers, all of whom are profiled here in-depth with illustrations of many of their works, along with biographies, portraits, and notes. Introduction by Finemore and Sturgeon, with texts by Brian Finemore, Gregory Heath, Ian Millis and John Stringer. Designed by Graeme Sturgeon and Melbourne artist Peter Cripps. "This book records an exhibition and poses some questions for Australian Art in 1973. New Art? New Aesthetic? New Artist? New Museum?". One of the finest, yet seldom seen Australian art catalogues. Highly recommended.

“[...] The new art was to be a new reality. It was to be what Duchamp called a cervellite that is a "brainfact". It is from that stream of tradition with its influxions from the tributaries of De Stijl and the Russian Constructivists, this Australian exhibition and "Object and Idea" ultimately comes. I do not say that these six artists are disciples of Duchamp, or that their work is imitative of his art style. What l do say is that their work is in the stylistic and cultural tradition which developed from taking up the options his work proposed. This exhibition is not a manifesto, the artists are not group artists. But it is well to remember that a fundamental revision of collective sensibility, of attitudes to life, often finds its first expression in art and the philosophical disciplines. In the work of these men one may perhaps examine the tides which will direct the future. Their art is of the present yet hints of change.” — from Finemore’s “New Art?” essay.

Very Good, tightly bound copy. Light tanning.

File under: John Armstrong Tony Coleing Aleks Danko Nigel Lendon Ti Parks Imants Tillers Peter Cripps Brian Finemore Gregory Heath Ian Millis John Stringer Graeme Sturgeon NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Dada Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art

Institute of Modern Art Brisbane 1986
Three volume book series (Ed. Bob Lingard, Peter Cripps, Graham Coulter-Smith)

1986—1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages/40 pages/24 pages, , 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 250 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by IMA / Brisbane

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Complete set of three volumes published in a series by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 1986—1987. These now scarce, historical publications, initiated and handsomely designed by (then) IMA director Peter Cripps and typeset by Ian Hodgkiss, were produced in an edition of only 250 copies each. The series consists of : Interviews with nine Queensland artists (edited by IMA president Bob Lingard); Peter Cripps interviews nine exhibiting artists at the Institute (edited by IMA director Peter Cripps); Art Criticism in Queensland: Forum Papers (edited by Graham Coulter-Smith).

Interviews with nine Queensland artists (Edited by Bob Lingard) features Michelle Andringa interviewed by Robert Whyte; Eugene Carchesio interviewed by Peter Bellas and Steven Grainger; Marian Drew interviewed by Graham Coulter-Smith; Jeanelle Hurst interviewed by Allan Furlong; Wayne Smith interviewed by Graham Coulter-Smith; John Stafford interviewed by Graham Coulter-Smith; Ross Thompson interviewed by Bob Lingard; Adam Wolter interviewed by Marta Troland; Jay Younger interviewed by Graham Coulter-Smith.

Peter Cripps Interviews... (edited by Peter Cripps) comprises nine short interviews with eight artists (Robert MacPherson, Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Tim Johnson, Geoff Lowe, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Scott Redford, Mark Webb) who had all exhibited at the IMA, and one with curator Robyn McKenzie, whose exhibition "The Gothic: Perversity and Its Pleasure" was held at the institute in 1986. Includes source references.

Art Criticism in Queensland: Forum Papers (edited by Graham Coulter-Smith) comprises the papers from the second in a series of three forums held at the IMA in 1985—1986, under the directorship of Cripps. Art Criticism in Queensland consists of : Peter Anderson Introduction: Art Criticism In Queensland; Sarah Follent — The Double Cringe; Keith Bradbury — Art Criticism in Brisbane Newspapers 1930-1940; Graham Coulter-Smith — Contemporary Art Versus Criticism: Criticism and the IMA; Kate Collins — Criticism and Censorship.

Fine—almost As New copies, only light tanning.

File under: Michelle Andringa Eugene Carchesio Jeanelle Hurst Marian Drew Wayne Smith John Stafford Ross Thompson Jay Younger Adam Wolter Peter Cripps Bob Lingard Graham Coulter-Smith Marta Troland Allan Furlong Peter Bellas Steven Grainger Robert Whyte Peter Anderson Sarah Follent Keith Bradbury Kate Collins IMA / Brisbane Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Australian Art Curatorial Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare

Q SPACE + Q SPACE ANNEX 1980 + 1981
Peter Cripps, John Nixon

1986, English
Softcover, 40 pages, 21 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by IMA / Brisbane

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Rare and historic publication produced by the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane on the occasion of the exhibition "Q SPACE + Q SPACE ANNEX 1980 + 1981", curated by Peter Cripps in 1986.

"In 1981+82 Q SPACE and Q SPACE ANNEX, directed by John Nixon, operated in Brisbane as part of a series of strategies by artists involved in the reorientation and remodelling of contemporary art practice. Over the two years that Q SPACE and Q SPACE ANNEX operated, seventy seven exhibitions were held. Q SPACE, as with the earlier V SPACE, derived its meaning from the state in which it operated ― Q standing for Queensland. Works by the following artists and groups were shown at these spaces: Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, Imants Tillers, Hilary Boscott, John Davis, Robert MacPherson, John Nixon, John Smith and Anti-Music. This exhibition and catalogue have been compiled from the Q SPACE archives. Where possible we have attempted to maintain the original method and feeling of this documentation." — Peter Cripps, Brisbane, June 1986

Includes texts by Peter Cripps and John Nixon, as well as an interview between the two artists, alongside exhibition photography of each exhibition held, shot by John Nixon and Robert MacPherson, and a complete exhibition history.

An important piece of Australian contemporary art history. Highly recommended.

Fine—As New copy.

File under: Imants Tillers Jenny Watson John Nixon John Smith Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Macpherson Hilary Boscott Peter Cripps IMA / Brisbane Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

The Field Revisited

2018, English
Softcover (2 volumes w. die-cut covers in plastic jacket), 144 / 96 pages, 32.8 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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The fast out-of-print two-volume publication published to accompany 'The Field Revisited' 50th anniversary exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, 27 April - 26 August, 2018. Housed in a transparent plastic jacket, the publication includes a complete facsimile of the rare and highly collectable original 1968 'The Field' exhibition publication and a new publication for 'The Field Revisited', which reflects on the importance of this exhibition over the past fifty years through new essays, colour documentation of the exhibited (and related) works and archival photographs of the 1968 exhibit. Designed by Stuart Geddes, with typography by Vincent Chan.

The National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural exhibition at its new premises on St Kilda Road in 1968 was The Field, the first comprehensive display of colour field painting and abstract sculpture in Australia. Regarded as a landmark exhibition in Australian art history, The Field was a radical presentation of 74 works by 40 artists who practised hard-edge, geometric, colour and flat abstraction, many of which were influenced by American stylistic tendencies of the time. With its silver foil–covered walls and geometric light fittings, The Field opened to much controversy and helped launch the careers of a generation of Australian artists, including Sydney Ball, Peter Booth, Janet Dawson and Robert Jacks. Eighteen of the exhibiting artists were under the age of thirty, with Robert Hunter the youngest at twenty-one years of age.

The Field Revisited recreated The Field exhibition for its fifty-year anniversary. By reassembling as many of the original 74 paintings and sculptures as possible, this restaging re-examined the exhibition’s impact and significance for Australian art history and allow a new generation to experience it for themselves. Because some works included in The Field are known to have been destroyed, the NGV has commissioned a number of artists, including Normana Wight and Col Jordan, to recreate their original works for The Field Revisited.

Artists : Sydney Ball, Peter Booth, Janet Dawson, Robert Jacks, James Doolin, David Aspden, Tony Bishop, Ian Burn, Gunter Christmann, Tony Coleing, Noel Dunn, Garry Foulkes, Dale Hickey, Michael Johnson, Col Jordan, Michael Kitching, Alun Leach-Jones, Nigel Lendon, Tony McGillick, Clement Meadmore, Michael Nicholson, Harald Noritis, Alan Oldfield, Wendy Paramor, Paul Partos, John Peart, Emanuel Raft, Melvyn Ramsden, R.C. Robertson-Swann, Robert Rooney, Rollin Schlicht, Udo Sellbach, Eric Shirley, Joseph Szabo, Vernon Treweeke, Trevor Vickers, Dick Watkins, John White, Normana Wight.

Out-of-print, As New copy.

File under: Sydney Ball Peter Booth Janet Dawson Robert Jacks James Doolin David Aspden Tony Bishop Ian Burn Gunter Christmann Tony Coleing Noel Dunn Garry Foulkes Dale Hickey Michael Johnson Col Jordan Michael Kitching Alun Leach-Jones Nigel Lendon Tony McGillick Clement Meadmore Michael Nicholson Harald Noritis Alan Oldfield Wendy Paramor Paul Partos John Peart Emanuel Raft Melvyn Ramsden R.C. Robertson-Swann Robert Rooney Rollin Schlicht Udo Sellbach Eric Shirley Joseph Szabo Vernon Treweeke Trevor Vickers Dick Watkins John White Normana Wight Stuart Geddes Vincent Chan Janet Dawson Jenny Bell Tony Ellwood Beckett Rozentals NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Australian Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Art Out-of-print / Rare

Patronen / Patterns

2003, English / Dutch
Hardcover, 228 pages, 26 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by MoMu / Antwerp Ludion / Brussels Ludion / Ghent

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Seldom seen first limited edition copy of the hardcover catalogue, Patronen / Patterns, published in 2003 on the occasion of the unique exhibition on pattern-making curated by Kaat Debo at MoMu - ModeMuseum Antwerp, 24.04.2003—10.08.2003 — almost immediately out-of-print. Showcasing the work of Haider Ackermann, Azzedine Alaïa, Balenciaga, Véronique Branquinho, Pierre Cardin, Hussein Chalayan, Courrèges, Ann Demeulemeester, Dior Haute Couture, Sevin Doering, Angelo Figus, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Romeo Gigli, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Josephus Thimister, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, A.F. Vandevorst, Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe, Madeleine Vionnet, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, and Yves Saint Laurent, along with the photographic work of artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang, this lavishly illustrated and well-researched volume gives rare insight into this fundamental, largely un-documented aspect of contemporary fashion design, illuminating the new avant-garde alongside the history of dress-making, most importantly reproducing the actual pattern designs of many of the featured designers.

"The pattern is traditionally seen as a technical drawing and therefore, in a museum context, only interesting for research or study. With regard to both purchasing and exhibition policies, fashion museums focus mainly on the end product – the garment – and in so doing rarely exhibit the pattern, let alone acquire or purchase it. "Patterns" aims to explore both the technical and the artistic and cultural philosophy aspects of a clothing pattern."

Includes bi-lingual texts in English/Dutch by Kaat Debo, Dirk Lauwaert, Linda Loppa, Frieda Sorber, Christoph De Boeck, Neeltje ten Westenend, Karin De Coster, and more.

Average—Good copy. Cloth covers well-worn with marks, general age/tanning to book extremities, some (erasable) pencil underlining to text by previous owner. No dust jacket (as issued).

File under: Véronique Branquinho Courreges Jean-Paul Gaultier Haider Ackermann Balenciaga Pierre Cardin Hussein Chalayan Ann Demeulemeester Dior Sevin Doering Angelo Figus Romeo Gigli Hubert de Givenchy Christian Lacroix Martin Margiela Issey Miyake Josephus Thimister Walter Van Beirendonck Dirk Van Saene A.F. Vandevorst Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe Madeleine Vionnet Vivienne Westwood Yohji Yamamoto Yves Saint Laurent Azzedine Alaïa Dirk Lauwaert Linda Loppa Frieda Sorber Christoph De Boeck Neeltje ten Westenend Karin De Coster Kaat Debo MoMu / Antwerp Ludion / Brussels Ludion / Ghent Fashion Theory / Essay Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND II, 1999
Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki

1999, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 100,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 13 May — 4 July 1999, featuring the work of Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 100 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Alien Productions Thorsten Goldberg Christina Kubisch Akio Suzuki Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND III, 2001
Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz

2001, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 250,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 10 May — 1 July 2001, featuring the work of Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 250 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

Sound Art Festival UND III, 2001
10 May – 1 July 2001

Ulrich Eller , Christoph Lahl , Robin Minard ,
Alexander R. Titz
Festival Director: Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg

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Format: CD+Book [?]
Weight: 0.33kg
Label: Verein Zur Forderung Kunstl
4,990 yen
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A live performance from the 2001 Klang-Kunst Festival, a sound art festival in Berlin. An
acoustic installation by four cutting-edge sound art artists: Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, and Alexander R. Titz.
Comes with a 30 x 21.5 x 1.2cm book of photos and sketches of the installation.
German only.
Limited to 250!

Tracklist
1 - Ulrich Eller Titschen Und Schlagen 12:00
2 - Christoph Lahl OT (Musikmaschinen) 9:15
3 - Robin Minard Monochrome Mix 7:00
4 - Alexander R. Titz Licht Feld 10:20

File under: Ulrich Eller Christoph Lahl Robin Minard Alexander R. Titz Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Curatorial