World Food Books

Unfinished
Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff

2016, English
Hardcover, 336 pages, 27 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York

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This groundbreaking, award-winning book, long out-of-print, presents a multidisciplinary analysis that illuminates the making, meaning, and reception of the unfinished in art, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, at The Met, New York, March18—September 4, 2016. Edited by Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff with further essays by Carmen C. Bambach, Thomas Beard, David Bomford, David Blayney Brown, Nicholas Cullinan, Michael Gallagher, Asher Ethan Miller, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Susan Stewart, and Nico Van Hout.

This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term "unfinished" in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cezanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory which can be traced back to the first century has had on modern and contemporary art. The book explores the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional, experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Very Good copy, only light wear/marks to boards.

File under: Rembrandt J. M. W. Turner Paul Cézanne Brice Marden Robert Gober Hanne Darboven Sol LeWitt Henry Fuseli James Abbott McNeill Whistler Jasper Johns Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Nicolas Poussin Edvard Munch Vija Celmins Felix González-Torres Cady Noland Robert Smithson Elizabeth Peyton Maria Lassnig Gustave Courbet Édouard Manet Alice Neel Alberto Giacometti Edgar Degas Janine Antoni Lygia Clark Jackson Pollock Robert Rauschenberg Titian Diego Velázquez Camille Corot Théodore Géricault Jacques-Louis David Piet Mondrian Kiki Picasso Piero Manzoni Barnett Newman Robert Morris Yayoi Kusama Kenneth Anger Sergei Eisenstein Hollis Frampton Helio Oiticica Hélio Oiticica Kerry James Marshall George Brecht Henri Matisse Vincent van Gogh Alina Szapocznikow Auguste Rodin Bruce Nauman Andy Warhol Hans Richter Rebecca Warren Luc Tuymans Marlene Dumas Honoré Daumier Kelly Baum Andrea Bayer and Sheena Wagstaff Carmen C. Bambach Thomas Beard David Bomford David Blayney Brown Nicholas Cullinan Michael Gallagher Asher Ethan Miller Nadine M. Orenstein Diana Widmaier Picasso Susan Stewart Nico Van Hout The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Hélène
Edited by Elein Fleiss

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover, 100 pages, 21.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rockin' On / Tokyo Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo

$300.00 - Out of stock

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First, only edition of Hélène, the hardcover photobook/catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Purple magazine co-founder Elein Fleiss at Tokyo gallery THE Deep in 1997. Named after actress and nineties icon Hélène Fillières, this book is the most perfect published time-capsule of what was 90s anti-fashion Paris, and probably the most brilliant fashion photobook of the decade. Published in Japan by Hysteric Glamour and Rockin' On, Hélène is cover-to-cover full-bleed gloss pages of photography by Mark Borthwick, Anette Aurell, Camille Vivier, Christophe Brunnquell, Laetitia Benat, Ronald Stoops, and Anders Edstrom, among others. Only available in Japan when published, and now very rare and sought after. This copy complete with bound-in Hysteric Glamour sticker!

Though she began her career as a curator of art exhibitions, Elein Fleiss founded the seminal Purple Magazine with Olivier Zahm at the age of 24. Purple and Fleiss' other editing/curatorial activities were the primary vehicles for the aesthetics of what became referred to as 1990's anti-fashion. Purple – in its various incantations, Purple Prose, Purple Fashion, Purple Sexe, Purple Journal, etc. – has gone down in publishing history and changed the relationship between art, literature, architecture and fashion, resisting the obvious and the commercial.

Very Good copy with some shelf-scratches to bottom edge, general light wear, light foxing to endpapers.

File under: Mark Borthwick Anette Aurell Camille Vivier Christophe Brunnquell Laetitia Benat Anders Edstrom Maison Martin Margiela Comme Des Garçons Comme des Garçons Claude Closky Ronald Stoops Elein Fleiss Rockin' On / Tokyo Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Group Shows / Collections

Computer Kunst aus Jugoslawien, Polen und Ungarn

1989, German
Softcover, fold-out brochure, 58.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nordico Stadtmuseum / Linz

$8.00 - Out of stock

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Fold-out catalogue published to accompany the 1989 exhibition, Computer Art from Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary, held at the Nordico Stadtmuseum, Linz, Austria. Text by Predrag Šidjanin, with illustrations (in colour and b/w) and biographies of featured artists János Vetö, Tamás Waliczky, Jozef Rácz, László Neumann, Franz Curk, Vojko Pogačar, Predrag Šidjanin, Svetislav Nikoličić...

Average—Good copy with storage wear.

File under: Janos Veto Tamás Waliczky Jozef Rácz László Neumann Franz Curk Vojko Pogačar Predrag Šidjanin Svetislav Nikoličić Predrag Šidjanin Nordico Stadtmuseum / Linz Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Film / Video

Videotapes by Women from the The Los Angeles Women's Video Centre.

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 19 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Parkville

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published in 1977 on the occasion of the exhibition Videotapes by Women from the Los Angeles Women's Video Centre, October 26—November 3, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Texts on each video work, screening program, with introduction by Kiffy Rubbo and Meredith Rogers, essay by Candace Compton. Works by Martha Roler, Candace Compton, Nancy Angelo, Anne Prutzman, Eileen Griffin, Jennifer Kotter, Holly O'Konski, Suzanne Lacy, Barbara Smith, Leslie Carslon, Claudia Queen, Adele Shaules, Linda Henry, Ilene Segalove Linda Montana, Nancy Heath Angelo, Marge Dean, Sandra Tabori, Susan Roberta Mogul, Sheila Ruth, Jan Zimmerman.

Los Angeles Women's Video Center founded in 1976 by Nancy Angelo, Candace Compton, and Annette Hunt in 1976 and joined by Jerri Allyn in 1977, was committed making video production accessible to women artists. Through its productions about socially concerned video art, documentation of WB programs, the LAWVC was active in informing the public about women's issues and concerns.

Very Good copy, light pinching to spine.

File under: Martha Roler Candace Compton Nancy Angelo Anne Prutzman Eileen Griffin Jennifer Kotter Holly O'Konski Suzanne Lacy Barbara Smith Leslie Carslon Claudia Queen Adele Shaules Linda Henry Ilene Segalove Linda Montana Nancy Heath Angelo Marge Dean Sandra Tabori Susan Roberta Mogul Sheila Ruth Jan Zimmerman Kiffy Rubbo Meredith Rogers Candace Compton George Paton Gallery / Parkville Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater

Order and Experience
Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Edda Renouf, Dorothea Rockburne

1975, English
Softcover (glassine covers, staple-bound), 30 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arts Council of Great Britain / London

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Scarce copy of Order and Experience — a guide to the exhibition of American minimalist prints, published by Arts Council of Great Britain in 1975 in the occasion of a group exhibition featuring the works of Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Edda Renouf, Dorothea Rockburne. Authored by Norbert Lynton (1927—2007), professor of the History of Art at the University of Sussex, this handsomely designed oblong catalogue, with printed glassine covers, is illustrated by works by the featured artists, Lynton provides two introductions, a discourse upon "Minimalism" in print-making.

Very Good copy.

File under: Agnes Martin Sol LeWitt Robert Ryman Robert Mangold Brice Marden Edda Renouf Dorothea Rockburne Norbert Lynton Arts Council of Great Britain / London Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Theory / Essay Painting Art Conceptual Art

Inscape
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eileen Lawrence, Will Maclean, Glen Onwin, Fred Stiven, Ainslie Yule

1976, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 48 pages, 15 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fruit Market Gallery / Edinburgh Scottish Arts Council / Edinburgh

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Lovely, rare catalogue published on the occasion of Inscape, a survey of Scottish landscape art at the Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh curated by critic Paul Overy in 1976. Illustrated throughout with examples of works by the featured artists — Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eileen Lawrence, Will Maclean, Glen Onwin, Fred Stiven and Ainslie Yule, accompanied by texts and biographies. Errata slip pasted to front end paper.

Very Good copy.

File under: Ian Hamilton Finlay Eileen Lawrence Will Maclean Glen Onwin Fred Stiven Ainslie Yule Paul Overy Fruit Market Gallery / Edinburgh Scottish Arts Council / Edinburgh Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Art Concrete Poetry Minimal Art Curatorial

Private Parts

1998, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

$10.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition, Private Parts, curated by Natalie King at Monash University Gallery, 22 April—23 May, 1998, featuring the work of Jane Burton, Bonita Ely, Deej Fabyc, Brent Harris, Lyndal Jones, Deborah Ostrow, David Rosetsky, Brett Vallance, Jenny Watson. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with text by Natalie King and artist biographies.

Good copy with cover rubbing, general wear.

File under: Jane Burton Bonita Ely Deej Fabyc Brent Harris Lyndal Jones Deborah Ostrow David Rosetsky Brett Vallance Jenny Watson Natalie King Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Group Shows / Collections Film / Video Australian Photography LGBTQ+ Art Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Australian Art Painting

7a Biennale di Parigi / 7e Biennale de Paris / 7th Paris Biennale

1971, English / Italian / French
Softcover, 150 pages, 24.5 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cento Di / Florence

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Rare exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the 7th Paris Biennale held at the Parc Floral de Paris, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France, September 24 — November 1, 1971, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. An important volume representing the Italian avant-garde of the various sectors of art (including music and architecture) in this critical period in history, including the work of Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Gino De Dominicis, Luciano Fabro, Mimmo Germanà, Giuseppe Penone, Emilio Prini, Gilberto Zorio, Jannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, Giorgio Pressburger, Achille Bonito Oliva, Mario Franco, Umberto Silva, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Frederic Rzewski, Marcello Panni, Archizoom, Superstudio, and Ufo. Illustrated throughout with many examples by each artist, alongside artists' biographies, exhibition histories, and bibliographies, and essay by Achille Bonito Oliva. Text in English, Italian, and French.

Achille Bonito Oliva (born 1939) is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art. Since 1968 he has taught history of contemporary art at La Sapienza, the university of Rome. He has written extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists; he originated the term Transavanguardia to describe the new direction taken in the late 1970s by artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino. He has organised or curated numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions; in 1993 he was artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia.

Good copy w. light wear/tanning/spotting.

File under: UFO UFO Group Lapo Binazzi Alighiero Boetti Pierpaolo Calzolari Gino De Dominicis Luciano Fabro Mimmo Germanà Giuseppe Penone Emilio Prini Gilberto Zorio Jannis Kounellis Giulio Paolini Giorgio Pressburger Achille Bonito Oliva Mario Franco Umberto Silva Paolo Mussat Sartor Frederic Rzewski Marcello Panni Archizoom Superstudio Achille Bonito Oliva Cento Di / Florence Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Art Arte Povera Furniture Architecture / Interior

ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1—3 (complete set)
Edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi

1989, English
3 Vols. softcovers, 500 + 560 + 584 pages, 23.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zone Books / New York

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Complete set (3 volumes) of ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, published in 1989 by Zone Books, and all long out-of-print. The forty-eight essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances — the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk, a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit.

Each volume emphasizes a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human body’s relationship to the divine, to the bestial, and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. Part 2 covers the junctures between the body’s “outside” and “inside” by studying the manifestations — or production — of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death. Part 3 brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human societies function and, conversely, how political and social functions tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a larger body — the social body or the universe as a whole.

Among the contributors to Fragments for a History of the Human Body are Mark Elvin, Catherine Gallagher, Françoise Héritier-Augé, Julia Kristeva, William R. LaFleur, Thomas W. Laqueur, Jacques Le Goff, Nicole Loraux, Mario Perniola, Hillel Schwartz, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Caroline Walker Bynum.

“ZONE is unequivocally the most innovative, informative, and intellectually stimulating journal I have ever encountered…It belongs in all but the smallest personal, public, and academic collections.” —Library Journal

Very Good copies all, only light wear, light page tanning. All first editions, second printings.

File under: Michel Feher Ramona Naddaff Nadia Tazi Hal Foster Mark Elvin Catherine Gallagher Françoise Héritier-Augé Julia Kristeva William R. LaFleur Thomas W. Laqueur Jacques Le Goff Nicole Loraux Mario Perniola Hillel Schwartz Jean Starobinski Jean-Pierre Vernant Caroline Walker Bynum Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Psychoanalysis Health Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Eros Fashion Group Shows / Collections Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Philosophy Periodicals Sociology / Politics Feminism LGBTQ+

ECM - A CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY

2012, English
Hardcover (faux leather w. illustrated obi-strip), 304 pages, 23 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Prestel / Munich

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Rare English edition of the lavish hardcover catalogue to the critically-acclaimed ECM exhibition at Munich’s Haus der Kunst in 2012, and fast out-of-print. As stunning and complex as the music it celebrates, this book presents essays, rare photographs, archival material, film stills, original album artwork, and artworks that pay tribute to one of the world's most daring and innovative record labels. Founded by the legendary producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, a moment when contemporary music was being redefined across all genres, ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) aimed to bring jazz, improvised, and written music out of the studio and into living rooms around the world. ECM's productions set new standards in sonic complexity, recording some of the world's most extraordinary music and it's enormous stable of artists includes some of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, such as Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Steve Reich, Carla Bley, Meredith Monk, Marion Brown, Codona, and Art Ensemble of Chicago - along with music from the New Series that includes Arvo Part's choral work as well as works by Komitas Vardapet and George Gurdjieff. This comprehensive volume showcases ECM's cultural breadth, not just in the music world but also within the broader artistic universe. It highlights aspects of African-American music of the 1960s in Europe at the height of the American Civil Rights Era, as well as the changing relationships between musicians, music, and listeners. Lavishly illustrated with essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Okwui Enwezor, Kodwo Eshun, Renée Green, Markus Müller, Wolfgang Sandner, and Jürg Stenzl, the book also contains a comprehensive chronology and discography of the ECM label, and biographies of artists and authors, as well as an extensive round-table talk with Manfred Eicher, Okwui Enwezor, Steve Lake, Karl Lippegaus, and Markus Müller. The most illuminating book ever published on the legendary label, and highly recommended.

Amongst the many artists included in the book are Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, Eberhard Weber, Gary Burton, Meredith Monk, Chick Corea, Wolfgang Dauner, Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Evan Parker, Annette Peacock, Gary Peacock, Terje Rypdal, Ralph Towner, and so many more.

Very Good-Fine copy with only light edge wear to heavy covers and light wear to obi-strip, depicting Don Cherry on the front and the Art Ensemble of Chicago on the verso.

File under: Renée Green Jan Garbarek Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Eberhard Weber Gary Burton Meredith Monk Chick Corea Wolfgang Dauner Carla Bley Keith Jarrett Paul Bley Pat Metheny John McLaughlin Evan Parker Annette Peacock Gary Peacock Terje Rypdal Ralph Towner Diedrich Diederichsen Okwui Enwezor Kodwo Eshun Renée Green Markus Müller Wolfgang Sandner Jürg Stenzl Prestel / Munich Art Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.

1969 / 2006, English / French / German / Italian
Softcover binder (w. spring-loaded plate), 170 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

$290.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great art documents of the 20th century, "Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form", curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, March 22 - April 27, 1969. This is the impeccably re-produced facsimile edition of the exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition honouring the legacy of Szeemann in 2006, published by the Kunsthalle Bern, the producers of the original. Strictly limited edition and immediately out-of-print, this most faithful reprint, with the unique die-cut alphabetically tabbed index bound with hardware-fittings, has become as collectible as the 1969 edition.

Sponsored by the Philip Morris tobacco company, this was an important, extensive and primary exhibition dedicated to the amalgam of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe and the United States. The catalogue itself is designed and produced by Szeemann, and printed in Switzerland by Stämpfli & Cie in Bern. Alongside those of Seth Siegelaub, Szeemann's now historical catalogues changed the way exhibition publishing performed. Presented as a indexical binder (spring-bound with a metal plate) forming an index of alphabetical artist pages and accompanying texts. Includes a biography, bibliography, illustrations and portrait for each artist.

Texts by Harald Szeemann, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini.

Artists include Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger Van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Jo Ann Kaplan, Eva Hesse, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary B. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Pechter, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Viner, Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, William Wiley and Gilberto Zorio.

Texts in English, French, German and Italian.

As New with only light creasing to the overhanging edges of the cover edges, otherwise a Fine copy.

File under: Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Richard Artschwager Thomas Bang Jared Bark Robert Barry Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Marinus Boezem Bill Bollinger Michael Buthe Pier Paolo Calzolari Paul Cotton Alighiero Boetti Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Ger Van Elk Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Hans Haacke Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Paolo Icaro Alain Jacquet Neil Jenney Jo Ann Kaplan Eva Hesse Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Gary B. Kuehn Sol LeWitt Richard Long Roelof Louw Bruce McLean Walter De Maria David Medalla Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Paul Pechter Panamarenko Michelangelo Pisteletto Emilio Prini Markus Raetz Allen Ruppersberg Reiner Ruthenbeck Robert Ryman Alan Saret Sarkis Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Fred Sandback Richard Serra Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Frank Viner Erhard Walther Lawrence Weiner William Wegman William Wiley Gilberto Zorio Harald Szeemann Scott Burton Tommaso Trini Gregoire Müller Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Conceptual Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Pop Art Photography Film / Video

Mark Tobey / Morris Graves / John Cage
Sounds of the Inner Eye / Klänge Des Inneren Auges

2002, German / English
Softcover, 280 pages, 22.2 x 27.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

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Published to accompany a 2002 exhibition of Mark Tobey / Morris Graves / John Cage appearing at the Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, Germany) and the Museum of Glass (Tacoma, Washington), this catalog is profusely illustrated throughout with many of the artists' works as well as interpretive and biographical essays and a chronology. The three artists were friends and collaborators linked by their connections with the Pacific Northwest, their appellation as Northwest Mystics, and, more deeply, by their shared artistic concerns. John Cage composer, philosopher, writer, and visual artist wrote extensively about Tobey and Graves, and his writings are included here as well.

Original German edition with many texts also in English, in particular Cage's.
Near Fine copy.

File under: Mark Tobey Morris Graves John Cage Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Minimal Art Fluxus Painting Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Writing As Sculpture, 1978—1987
by Louwrien Wijers (w. Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Dalai Lama, Robert Filliou...)

1996, English
Softcover (stiff french-folds), 280 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Academy Editions / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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"It was Joseph Beuys who made us think of thinking as sculpture. It was Robert Filliou who said that invention replaced composition and that this broke down the barriers between the arts. I found working with metal unique, I loved the materials and the tools. But vast sculpture that worked with the mental ability of living people seemed much more of a timely thing to me. That was 1977. I changed from metal sculpture to mental sculpture."—Louwrien Wijers

Rare first 1996 edition of this unique publication by Dutch Fluxus artist and writer Louwrien Wijers, published in London by Academy Editions.

Inspired by artists Joseph Beuys and Robert Filliou, this collection of interviews grew from the author's passionate belief that a meeting and cross-fertilisation of some of the world's greatest minds could help break down barriers between the different disciplines - art, science, spirituality and economics - leading to an increased global tolerance and understanding. This book contains ground-breaking interviews with some of the most significant thinkers of the late twentieth century including Dalai Lama, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Robert Filliou, David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, Sogyal Rinpoche, Rupert Sheldrake, Francisco Varela and Harish Johari. These previously unpublished documents date from the period 1978-1987. With the addition of a large number of rare archive photographs, this book constitutes a unique part of the history of the avant-garde as well as proposing a new holistic way of looking at the world.

Writing As Sculpture contains the longest interview ever given by Andy Warhol.

"This publication 'Writing as Sculpture' shows how Joseph Beuys sent me to Andy Warhol with the same questions I had put to him, and how Andy Warhol sent me on to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, again with the same questions. When the answers of the Dalai Lama were so very similar to the answers Joseph Beuys had given, I wrote him a postcard from Dharamsala, India, as soon as I let the Dalai Lama's abode. On the card - it was an Indian colourprint of the Tibetan flag - I said: 'Dear Joseph, you have a brother here in the Himalayas, who thinks exactly the same way about the problems of today as you do.' Back in Europe, talking to Joseph Beuys on the phone, he told me: 'Louwrien, I want to meet the Dalai Lama and I want to make a permanent co-operation with him. This way we will make Eurasia happen.'[...]"—Louwrien Wijers

File under: Nam June Paik Louwrien Wijers Joseph Beuys Andy Warhol Robert Filliou Louwrien Wijers Dalai Lama David Bohm Fritjof Capra Sogyal Rinpoche Rupert Sheldrake Francisco Varela Harish Johari Academy Editions / London Sculpture / Installation Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Painting Occult / Esoterica Sociology / Politics

Crafts of Australia
A Pictorial Anthology of Australian Crafts

1974, English / French / Japanese
Softcover (silkscreened handmade paper w. inserts), 80 pages, 30 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Crafts Council of Australia / Sydney

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful 1974 publication — a pictorial anthology of Australian Crafts — published by the Crafts Council of Australia on the occasion of the first World Crafts Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 1974. Edited by Joy Warren and designed by artist John Reid and Douglas Annand, Crafts of Australia is a lavishly tactile production, issued in unique silkscreened handmade paper covers (with inserted handmade paper map and letter to the reader) pressed by Kayes van Bodegraven, International College of Papermakers, Melbourne, and made from recycled envelopes from The Crafts Council of Australia offices, and containing paperbark from coastal Melaleuca trees, Cleveland Bay, Queensland. The Map paper containing clays from Scorsby, Knox Shire, Victoria. The book itself traces the historical background of indigenous crafts, modern attitudes and national identity in Australian craft, with texts by Marea Gazzard, Dr. H. C. Coombs, Mary White, Felicity Abraham, Ray Norman. Heavily illustrated in colour an b/w with the featured artists: Beryl Anderson, Douglas Annand, Vicky Barth, Frank Bauer, Robert Bell, Les Blakebrough, Janet Brown, Polly Blakney, Richard and Dilys Brecknock, Joan Campbell, Eric Car, Rinske Car, Margaret Dodd, Jutta Feddersen, Heather Dorrough, Susan Forsyth, Marea Gazzard, Elena Gee, Gary Greenwood, Joan Grounds, Ragnar Hansen, Mona Hessing, Harold Hughan, Jolanta Janavicius, Heather Joynes, Patricia Langford, Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers, Colin Levy, Ken Leveson, Janet Mansfield, Paula Martin, Ivan McMeekin, Pru Medlin, Hal Missingham, Mitinari, Milton Moon, Tim Moorhead, Joyce Noble, Ray Norman, Ewa Jarosynska Pachucka, Jan Strang Priest, Cedar Prest, Ron Rowe, Peter Rushforth, Tor Schwanck, Penny Smith, Pru Socha, Albert Steen, Hiroe Swen, Peter Travis, Kayes van Bodegraven, Wal van Heeckeren, Joy Warren, and many more.

Very good complete copy with some wear to the overhanging paper covers. Interior and inserts preserved.

File under: John Reid Douglas Annand Milton Moon Margaret Dodd Crafts Council of Australia / Sydney Whole Earth / Crafts Textiles Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Australian Art

Thoughts and Action
Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Bruce Mclean, Giulio Paolini

1982, English / Japanese / Italian / French
Softcover (w. wax dust jacket), 128 pages, 21 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Japan Foundation / Tokyo

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First edition of this wonderful Japanese catalogue published in 1982 to accompany an exhibition that brought together the work of 5 Western artists (Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Bruce Mclean, and Giulio Paolini) for a major group show held at the Laforet Museum, Tokyo and The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Each artist has many pages of work reproduced in black and white, accompanied by artists' statements, essays on each artist, and artists' biographies, in English, Japanese, Italian and French. Bound in various raw paper stocks and wrapped in printed wax paper dust-jacket.

Good-Very Good copy. Perfectly preserved with small chips and wear to dust jacket edges.

File under: Bruce McLean Dan Graham Daniel Buren Giulio Paolini Joseph Beuys The Japan Foundation / Tokyo Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Fluxus Minimal Art

INFORMATION
by Kynaston McShine, Lucy Lippard, et al.

1970, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Extremely rare first 1970 edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art, published to accompany this groundbreaking avant-garde show.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear, single spine crack, all crisp, clean interior and tightly bound copy of a book that usually sees serious page detachments. Best copy we have seen.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Newspaper Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Ettore Sottsass Jr. Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Kynaston McShine Lucy Lippard MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Fluxus Minimal Art Arte Povera Photography Curatorial Art Counterculture Ecology / Earth Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Works and Words
International Art Manifestation Amsterdam

2018, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 21 cm x 30 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation ‘Works and Words’. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Indicative of the early days of De Appel, the project reflects the groundbreaking forms of artistic practice it represented.

Artists: Franklin Aalders, Jaroslav Anděl, Gábor Attalai, Zoran Belic, Jerzy Bereś, Gábor Bódy, Branko Bubenik, Michel Cardena, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Ľubomír Ďurček, Miklós Erdély, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Tomislav Gotovac, Frank Gribling, Buky Grinberg, Vladimir Gudac, Tibor Hajas, Zlatko Hajdler, Janusz Haka, Károly Halasz, Ágnes Háy, Vladimír Havrilla, Nan Hoover, Sanja Iveković, Servie Janssen, Zoltan Jeney, Gyorgy Jovanovic, Cezary Jaworski, Jacek Jozwiak, Szigmond Károlyi, Karoly Kelemen, Michal Kern, Milan Knížák, Tomislav Kobija, Július Koller, Mirko Komosar, Tomasz Konart, Jiří Kovanda, Harrie de Kroon, Zofia Kulik, Romuald Kutera, Paweł Kwiek, Przemyslaw Kwiek, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz, Dušan Makavejev, Ivan Martinac, Dalibor Martinis, Raùl Marroquin, Dóra Maurer, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Teresa Murak, Vjekoslav Nakić, Mihovil Pansini, Aldo Paquola, Andrzej Paruzel, Sef Peeters, Vladimir Petek, Sandor Pinczehelyi, Reindeer Werk (Dirk Larsen & Tom Puckey), Jaroslav Richtr, Józef Robakowski, Vinco Rozman, Tomasz Sikorski, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Peter Timar, Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski, Goran Svob, Janusz Szczerek, István Sziranyi, Raša Todosijević, Endre Tot, Janos Toth, Sava Trifkovic, Ulay, Jiri Valoch, Ante Verzotti, Janos Veto, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Ryszard Waśko, Albert van der Weide, Dobroslav Zborník.

File under: Michel Cardena Nuša and Srečo Dragan Ľubomír Ďurček Miklós Erdély Ivan Ladislav Galeta Tomislav Gotovac Frank Gribling Buky Grinberg Vladimir Gudac Tibor Hajas Zlatko Hajdler Janusz Haka Károly Halasz Ágnes Háy Vladimír Havrilla Nan Hoover Sanja Iveković Servie Janssen Zoltan Jeney Gyorgy Jovanovic Cezary Jaworski Jacek Jozwiak Szigmond Károlyi Karoly Kelemen Michal Kern Milan Knížák Tomislav Kobija Július Koller Mirko Komosar Tomasz Konart Jiří Kovanda Harrie de Kroon Zofia Kulik Romuald Kutera Paweł Kwiek Przemyslaw Kwiek KwieKulik Natalia LL Andrzej Lachowicz Ivan Martinac Dalibor Martinis Raùl Marroquin Karel Miler Jan Mlčoch Teresa Murak Vjekoslav Nakić Mihovil Pansini Aldo Paquola Andrzej Paruzel Sef Peeters Vladimir Petek Sandor Pinczehelyi Reindeer Werk (Dirk Larsen & Tom Puckey) Jaroslav Richtr Józef Robakowski Vinco Rozman Tomasz Sikorski Petr Stembera Mladen Stilinović Peter Timar Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski Ryszard Waśko Albert van der Weide Dobroslav Zborník Sava Trifkovic Ulay Jiri Valoch Ante Verzotti Janos Veto Zbigniew Warpechowski Dušan Makavejev Josine van Droffelaar Piotr Olszanski Roma / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art SALE

Echo : The Images of Sound

1987, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Rare 1987 exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 22—January 6, 1985. Illustrated throughout with texts by Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Anton van Gemert, Bart Lootsma, Arnold Dreyblatt, Leon van Noorden, George Smits, and Hugh Davies. Artists include Max Eastly, Takeisha Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Horst Rickels, Rik van Lersel, Giancarlo Cardini, Juan Hidalgo, Jon Rose, and others. Includes selected bibliography, discography, and index.

blurb: "From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects. In addition to a photographic report of this festival 'ECHO. The images of Sound I', this book contains a general survey of the development of sound arts and cassettes that have been published in the field of sound art. This section is written by Hugh Davies. Photographs, scores, drawings of articles describing the development of their own work are supplied by Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.[...]"

Very Good—Near Fine copy

File under: Max Eastly Takeisha Kosugi Walter Marchetti Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Horst Rickels Rik van Lersel Giancarlo Cardini Juan Hidalgo Jon Rose Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Anton van Gemert Bart Lootsma Arnold Dreyblatt Leon van Noorden George Smits Hugh Davies Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Seth Siegelaub
Beyond Conceptual Art

2016, English
Softcover, 600 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Seth Siegelaub (1941–2013) is best known for his decisive role in the emergence and establishment of Conceptual Art in the late 1960s.

This extensively researched publication documents the first exhibition about his life and work, which reassess his role as one of the distinctive characters in twentieth-century exhibition-making, while recognizing his atypical, inquisitive, and free-spirited genius.

Siegelaub was also a gallerist, independent curator, publisher, researcher, archivist, collector, and bibliographer. Often credited as the ‘Father of Conceptual Art’, he was (and remains) a seminal influence on curators, artists, and cultural thinkers, internationally and in Amsterdam, where he settled in the 1990s.

With revolutionary projects such as the Xerox Book, he set the blueprint for the presentation and dissemination of conceptual practices. In the process, he redefined the exhibition space, which could now be a book, a poster, an announcement, or reality at large.

Siegelaub’s radical reassessment of the conditions of art resonated deeply with the iconoclastic views of his contemporaries Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, among others, with whom he developed close working relationships.

Texts by Beatrix Ruf, Leontine Coelewij , Sara Martinetti and more.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 – 17 April 2016.

File under: Carl Andre Daniel Buren Douglas Huebler Jan Dibbets Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Beatrix Ruf Leontine Coelewij Sara Martinetti Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Minimal Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Textiles Group Shows / Collections

Eight New Zealand Artists
Binney, Ellis, Garrity, Hanly, McCahon, Mrkusich, Ritchie, Twiss

1966, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 18 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Auckland City Art Gallery / Auckland

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Catalogue published in 1966 on the occasion of the exhibition Eight New Zealand Artists, Auckland City Art Gallery, February 1966, featuring Don Binney, Robert Ellis, Patrick Hanly, Colin McCahon, Milan Mrkusich, Ross Ritchie, Greer Twiss, Tim Garrity. Illustrated throughout with work by the artists, introductory essay by Hamish Keith, biographical information on each artist, including exhibition chronologies. Catalogue lists 40 works executed in the years just prior to 1966 when the exhibition was held.

Good copy with age/tanning.

File under: Don Binney Robert Ellis Patrick Hanly Colin McCahon Milan Mrkusich Ross Ritchie Greer Twiss Tim Garrity Hamish Keith Auckland City Art Gallery / Auckland Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Art

Site Of Sound : Of Architecture & The Ear
Edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden

English / German
Softcover (+ CD), 188 pages, 18 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Errant Bodies / Berlin Smart Art Press / Michigan

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First English edition, long out-of-print. CD included.

Site of Sound is an anthology focusing on current trends in experimental music, sound art and audio theories, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, and architects whose work concerns itself with architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity. Complementing this are theoretical, fictional and diaristic writings by contemporary authors, cartographers and ecologists."—publisher's statement.

Edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden. Artists and contributors include Alison Knowles, Achim Wollscheid, Jalal Toufic, Hildegard Westerkamp, Phillip Corner, Christina Kubisch, Giancarlo Toniutti, Jake Tilson, Brandon LaBelle, Rolf Julius, Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Steve Peters, Ralf Wehowsky, David Dunn, Christof Migone, Loren Chasse, Moniek Darge, Michael Brewster, Max Eastley, Tim Robinson, Steve Roden, Rupert Loydell, Tom Marioni, Pierre Koenig, the Stalacpipe Organ at Luray Caverns, WrK, Minoru Sato, Toshiya Tsunoda, and Jio Shimizu. Includes audio CD featuring many of the featured works.

As New.

File under: Alison Knowles Achim Wollscheid Hildegard Westerkamp Phillip Corner Christina Kubisch Giancarlo Toniutti Jake Tilson Brandon LaBelle Rolf Julius Leif Elggren CM von Hausswolff Steve Peters Ralf Wehowsky David Dunn Christof Migone Loren Chasse Moniek Darge Michael Brewster Max Eastley Tim Robinson Steve Roden Rupert Loydell Tom Marioni Pierre Koenig the Stalacpipe Organ at Luray Caverns WrK Minoru Sato Toshiya Tsunoda Jio Shimizu Jalal Toufic Brandon LaBelle Steve Roden Jalal Toufic John Hudak Richard Lerman Giancarlo Toniutti Steve Peters David Dunn Leif Elggren CM von Hausswolff Michael Brewster Christof Migone Rupert Loydell Tim Robinson Pierre Koenig Rolf Julius Hildegard Westerkamp Loren Chasse WrK Christina Kubisch Moniek Darge Max Eastley Errant Bodies / Berlin Smart Art Press / Michigan Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fluxus Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Crossings – Kunst zum Hören und Sehen (Art to Hear and See)

1999, German
Softcover + CD, 230 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

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First edition w. CD, published in 1998 to accompany the exhibition Crossings – Art to Hear and See, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Cathrin Pichler and Edek Bartz. "CROSSINGS" is about the meeting of music and visual arts. An encounter that was expressed in many facets and forms in the 20th century, featuring works by: Mario Airò, Richard Artschwager, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Daniel Egg, Angus Fairhurst, Jochen Gerz, Douglas Gordon, Franz Graf, Dan Graham, Henrik Hakansson, Russel Haswell, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Arto Lindsay, Stephan von Huene, Lee Jaffe, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Milan Knízák, Bernhard Leitner, Hans-Peter Litscher, Christian Marclay, Charles Long, Alvin Lucier, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB, Yoko Ono, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Paul Panhuysen, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Prina, Alan Rath, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sarkís, Christoph Steinbrener, Wolfgang Stengel, Ned Sublette, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Weibel.

Very Good with audio CD featuring many of the artists above.

File under: Mario Airò Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Angela Bulloch John Cage Henning Christiansen Martin Creed Jeremy Deller Stan Douglas Daniel Egg Angus Fairhurst Jochen Gerz Douglas Gordon Franz Graf Dan Graham Henrik Hakansson Russel Haswell Carl Michael von Hausswolff Dick Higgins Gary Hill Noritoshi Hirakawa Arto Lindsay Stephan von Huene Lee Jaffe Mike Kelley Jon Kessler Milan Knížák Sarkis Bernhard Leitner Hans-Peter Litscher Christian Marclay Charles Long Alvin Lucier Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB Yoko Ono Albert Oehlen Nam June Paik Paul Panhuysen Michelangelo Pistoletto Stephen Prina Alan Rath Gerwald Rockenschaub Christoph Steinbrener Wolfgang Stengel Ned Sublette Lawrence Weiner Peter Weibel Cathrin Pichler Edek Bartz Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Art Sound / Music

SERIAL KILLER ART
ARTWORK BY AND ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH SERIAL KILLERS (TWO CATALOGUES)

2016/2017, Japanese
2 softcover publications (staple-bound), 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Vanilla Gallery / Tokyo

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Rare 2 volume catalogue from the first exhibitions of Serial Killer Art at Vanilla Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, in 2016 and 2017, from the HN collection. From John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Henry Lee Lucas, and Ronnie Clay, these exhibitions 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 these pamphlets available at the exhibitions 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 Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Painting Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation