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Franz Erhard Walther
Arbeiten 1955–1963, 1972, Exhibition Poster

1972, German
Poster, 86 x 61 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld

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Rare original 1972 poster produced on the occasion of the solo exhibition, Arbeiten 1955–1963, of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, August 6 – October 1, 1972, a major survey presentation of his early trajectory, the same year as his participation in Harald Szeemann’s legendary Documenta 5. Oversized monochrome black screen–printed poster on heavy, warm paper stock depicting an example of Franz Erhard Walther's Wand–Ecken (Wall–Corner) muslin fabric pieces from 1963. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 86 (h) x 61 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities, a few old pin–holes, single closed tear.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld Posters / Prints Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Textiles Arte Povera

Franz Erhard Walther
Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, 1971, Event Poster

1971, German
Poster, 60 x 60 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spot–Kiel University / Kiel

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Rare original 1971 poster produced on the occasion of Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, a performance of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther in the foyer of the Kiel University Library, as part of the Spot event series. The event was a demonstration by the artist of his first set of works (process material), followed by a discussion with German art critic Bazob Brock, designer Dietrich Helms, and German sociologist Lars Clausen. The poster features a performance photo taken by Tim Rautert. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 60 (h) x 60 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities.

Artist: Walther, Franz Erhard. Date: 1971. Exhibition poster for the exhibition in the foyer of the University Library. Franz Erhard Walther demonstrated and explained parts of his first set of works (process material). A discussion followed with Bazob Brock, Dietrich Helms, and Lars Clausen. Part of the Spot event series of Kiel University and the Cultural Senate of the City of Kiel. 60 x 60 cm, illustration: photo by Tim Rautert. Mint condition.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Bazob Brock Tim Rautert Dietrich Helms Lars Clausen Spot–Kiel University / Kiel Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
by Lawrence Weschler

1982, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First 1982 edition.

"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted this journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."–Calvin Tomkins

In May 1980, Robert Irwin returned to Market Street in Venice, California, to the block where he'd kept a studio until 1970, the year he abandoned studio work altogether. Malinda Wyatt was opening a gallery in the building next door to his former work space and invited Irwin to create an installation. He cleaned out the large rectangular room, adjusted the skylights, painted the walls and ceiling an even white, and then knocked out the wall facing the street, replacing it with a sheer, semi-transparent white scrim. The room seemed to change its aspect with the passing day: people came and sat on the opposite curb, watching, sometimes for hours at a time, The piece was up for two weeks in one of the more derelict beachfront neighborhoods of Los Angeles: no one so much as laid a hand on it.

Good copy with some corner creasing/light wear to boards.

File under: Robert Irwin Lawrence Weschler University of California Press / Berkley Conceptual Art Minimal Art Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Isa Genzken
Catalogue Raisonné 1961–1996

2026, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket + slipcase), 702 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln Walther König / Köln

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The first volume of Isa Genzken’s (b. 1948) catalogue raisonné serves as the definitive scholarly resource on the artist’s early works, including her Ellipsoids, Hyperbolos, plastic sculptures and Basic Research paintings. This exhaustive hardcover, slipcased volume documents works produced between 1961 and 1996, the first 35 years of her career, encompassing more than 1,200 individual chronological entries, providing documentation of her oeuvre all media (sculpture, painting, installation, works on paper, and film) with detailed descriptions, photographic documentation and bibliographic references.

Edited by Daniel Buchholz with Michael Sanchez, Katharina Forero de Mund and Christopher Müller. The book includes an introductory essay by Manfred Hermes, as well as a biographical timeline, exhibition history and bibliography.

File under: Isa Genzken Manfred Hermes Daniel Buchholz Michael Sanchez Katharina Forero de Mund Christopher Müller Galerie Buchholz / Köln Walther König / Köln Art Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Broken Music

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

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Broken Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music
Number 1, Winter 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 28 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney

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Extremely rare first 1989 issue of Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music, published in Sydney by the Fellowship of Australian Composers. Led by the Sydney–based Australian composer, pure mathematician, and chess problemist/chess composer, Ian Shanahan (1962–2021) with an editorial panel including fellow composers Paul Brown, Michael Whiticker and Justine Wilkinson, Ossia was an independent musical periodical founded in 1989 to serve as a forum for avant-garde music theory, compositional analysis, interviews with living composers, and aesthetic debates during the late 20th century in Australia. In musical terminology, "ossia" refers to an alternative passage of music that can be played instead of the original text—reflecting the publication's mission to highlight alternative, contemporary voices in classical music.

This inaugural issue's contents: Editorial, Paul Brown - After the Party: Australian Music in the Bicentennial Year, Michael Whiticker - Morton Feldman: Conversation without Cage, Justine Wilkinson - Ricardo Formosa's Domino, lan Shanahan - The Theory of Bitones, Liza Lim - ISCM World Music Days Festival 1988, Richard Toop - New Music on CD: Recent Releases, The Inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, and more.

VG copy with light wear. Includes hand written "with compliments" note from editor and president of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, lan Shanahan, to Australian avant–garde composer Warren Burt, whose work inspired his article on Bitones, plus a membership application to the Fellowship of Australian Composers.

File under: Morton Feldman John Cage Ric Formosa Larry Sitsky Paul Brown Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson lan Shanahan Paul Brown lan Shanahan Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Minimal Art Australian Art

Kerb Your Dog TEXTBOOK 1992
Edited by John Nixon and John Young

1992, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 84 pages, 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kerb Your Dog / Sydney

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Rare copy of Kerb Your Dog, the experimental Australian artist-edited anthology of artist pages, published in Sydney, Australia. Edited by John Nixon and John Young and published in an edition of 500 copies, this volume from 1992 – "TEXTBOOK" – addresses the question "what is contemporary art?", featuring pages by John Barbour, Eugene Carchesio, Tony Clark, Peter Cripps, Aleks Danko, John Dunkley-Smith, Clinton Garofano, Ross Harley, Tim Johnson, Lyndal Jones, Maria Kozic, Rosemary Laing, Shelley Lasica, Lindy Lee, Geoff Lowe, Robert Macpherson, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Susan Norrie, David O'Halloran, Robert Owen, Mike Parr, Jacky Redgate, Carole Roberts, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth, Geoffrey Weary, Wood / Marsh Architecture Pty. Ltd., John Young, and an essay by Janet Shanks. An invaluable collection of artist's "texts" from Australia in this very scarce document.

As New copy, light wear only.

File under: Aleks Danko Carole Roberts Clinton Garofano David O'Halloran Eugene Carchesio Geoff Lowe Geoffrey Weary Jacky Redgate John Barbour John Dunkley-Smith John Nixon John Young Ken Unsworth Lindy Lee Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Mike Parr Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Macpherson Robert Owen Rose Nolan Rosemary Laing Ross Harley Shelley Lasica Susan Norrie Tim Johnson Tony Clark Vivienne Shark LeWitt Janet Shanks Kerb Your Dog / Sydney Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Poetry Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Sculpture / Installation

The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss

1986, English
Softcover, 319 pages, 175 x 229 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor at Columbia University and an editor and cofounder of October magazine, is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious (1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), and Bachelors (1999), all published by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User's Guide (Zone Books, 1997).

"All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative."—Art Documentation

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

File under: Jackson Pollock Richard Serra Sol Lewitt Agnes Martin Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Man Ray Robert Ryman Caspar David Friedrich Eugene Atget Auguste Rodin Gordon Matta-Clark Alberto Giacometti Max Ernst Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Minimal Art Conceptual Art Dada Surrealism

Lars Fredrikson

2019, English / French
Softcover (w. CD), 288 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mousse / Milan

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“If one were to highlight one single trait traversing Fredrikson’s entire work, it would perhaps be this dangerous and productive challenge: the absolute singularity of the invention / intervention, the extreme attentiveness and the avoidance of repetition; an intense tension . . . where ‘he nothing / the hand passes’ and ‘space is a sentence reassembled by the point.’”—Jonas Magnusson

Published on the occasion of Lars Fredrikson’s retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice, organized in collaboration with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and the artist’s son, this book is the first monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound art (1926–1997). Over his long career the artist produced a vast and multidisciplinary corpus of works that aimed to question our perception—the borders between the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, inside and outside. The publication plays on the multiple rebounds and echoes in Fredrikson’s works, in particular his nonlinear approach to art, his bodily exploration of vibrations, and his constant aim to grasp the invisible waves and frequencies that surround us—to render palpable the unseen that is actually right before our eyes.

Edited by Cristiano Raimondi, Floriane Spinetta, Hélène Guenin, Rébecca François
Texts by Éléonore Bak, Michael Doser, Léa Dreyer, Eva Fabbris, Rébecca François, Jonas Magnusson

Good copy. Knock to bottom of spine, not affecting interior content, small loss to print of cover edge. Otherwise VG copy. Includes CD (VG).

File under: Lars Fredrikson Éléonore Bak Michael Doser Léa Dreyer Eva Fabbris Rébecca François Jonas Magnusson Cristiano Raimondi Floriane Spinetta Hélène Guenin Mousse / Milan Art Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Conceptual Art
by Ursula Meyer

1972, English
Softcover, 228 pages, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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"The function of the critic and the function of the artist have been traditionally divided; the artist's concern was the production of the work and the critic's was its evaluation and interpretation. During the past several years a group of young artists evolved the idiom of Conceptual Art, which eliminated this division. Conceptual artists take over the role of the critic in terms of framing their own propositions, ideas, and concepts.

An essential aspect of Conceptual Art is its self-reference; often the artists define the intentions of their work as part of their art. Thus, many Conceptual artists advance propositions or investigations. It is in keeping, then, with Conceptual Art that it is best explained through itself, i.e., through the examination of Conceptual Art, rather than through any assumptions outside of itself. In this sense, this book is not a 'critical anthology' by a documentation of Conceptual Art and Statements."

Includes : Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Alain Kirili, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Iain Baxter, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perreault, Adrian Piper, Mel Ramsden, Edward Ruscha, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, Vito Acconci, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Gregory Battcock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Rosemarie Castoro, Roger Cutforth, Jan Dibbets, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke.

Ex–libris copy from the personal collection of Australian artist, educator, historian, writer, art critic, environmentalist, plumber, Noel Hutchinson (1940-2020), name penned to reverse front cover. Average–Good copy, Wear/light creasing to extremities.

File under: Douglas Huebler Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Alain Kirili Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov Sol LeWitt Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Iain Baxter Dennis Oppenheim John Perreault Adrian Piper Mel Ramsden Edward Ruscha Bernar Venet Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Vito Acconci Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge Michael Baldwin Harold Hurrell John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Gregory Battcock Bernd and Hilla Becher Mel Bochner Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Rosemarie Castoro Roger Cutforth Jan Dibbets Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Dan Graham Hans Haacke E P Dutton / New York Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Fabio Mauri
Catalogue Raisonné

2026, English
Hardcover (in box), 884 pages, 3705 colour photos, 38 x 31 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Texts by: Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Laura Cherubini, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Giacomo Marramao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrea Viliani

This catalogue raisonné of works by Italian artist Fabio Mauri (Rome, 1926–2009) is edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Comprising an introductory essay by the author and images of over 3,600 works accompanied by extended captions, it constitutes the most comprehensive study of the artist’s oeuvre to date.

One of the leading figures of the post-war Italian avant-garde, artist Fabio Mauri’s practice encompasses performance, film, installation, found-object sculpture, mixed media works and theoretical writings to question readings of history and the associated power of language and ideology associated with the Second World War and the Holocaust. Sobering, direct, and poetically reflective, Mauri’s art addresses themes of communication and manipulation, and brings light to the ‘political dimension of the image,’ as it is projected and proliferated throughout contemporary society.

Born in Rome in 1926, Mauri’s youth was marked by the events of war and Fascism—traumas and horrors that would profoundly impact and influence his life and work. Raised among writers and painters, Mauri befriended intellectuals in Italy’s new avant-garde, among them the novelist Italo Calvino, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco, film director and aficionado Pier Paolo Pasolini, visual artist Jannis Kounellis, art historian Maurizio Calvesi and the writer Edoardo Sanguineti. ‘I patiently recompose,’ the artist commented, ‘with my own hands, the experience of the shameful. I explore its mental possibilities… I behave as if that reality (that history) had not had its final condemnation, but were still adding further data right up to our time today.’

The screen as a symbol emerges as early as 1957 and remains essential to the articulation of his work. Whether cinema, television or computer it allows for an exploration of meaning, images and codes. Through this Mauri proposes to his audience an examination, a critique and an experience of the ‘real.’

Mauri worked for the family company, the publishing house Bompiani, from 1957 to 1975 as director of the Milan and Rome headquarters. Along with Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti, he founded the magazine Quindici (1967) and the magazine for arts criticism, La citta di Riga in 1976. Such as his oeuvre, Mauri is undefinable practicing as artist, playwright, publisher, critic and teacher throughout his career. He never belonged to any specific artistic movement but kept a close proximity to various artists and discourses. Mauri has exhibited his work internationally in prominent institutions.

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Fabio Mauri Fabio Mauri Francesca Alfano Miglietti Laura Cherubini Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Giacomo Marramao Hans Ulrich Obrist Andrea Viliani Pier Paolo Pasolini Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Hatje Cantz / Berlin Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Art Painting

Design Now: Industry or Art?
by Volker Fischer, Volker Albus, Jochen Gros, Matteo Thun

1989, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 325 pages (619 colour and b/w ill.), 23 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Published by Prestel Munich, in 1989, this wonderful, richly illustrated and stylishly designed book covers the entire range of design in the late 1980's and it's predecessors. With sections dedicated to themes and subjects such as Exemplars; High Tech; Trans High Tech; Alchimia/Memphis; Post-Modernism; Minimalism; Archetypes; plus dense profile chapters on Dieter Rams, Stefan Wewerka and Holger Scheel; and essay sections from Matteo Thun ("Neo-Baroque Yardsticks"; "Micro-Architecture"; "Banal Design"), Volker Albus ("Rolex and Manhattan: Skyscraper Symbolism in Advertising") and Jochen Gros ("Small but Sophisticated: Microelectronics and Design"). Featuring fantastic photo-documentation and archival imagery of some of the finest and most radical design-objects of the period, including work by Frank Gehry, Hans Hollien, Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Norbert Berghof, Aldo Rossi, Zeus, Shiro Kuramata, Philippe Starck, Dakota Jackson, Stanley Tigerman, Marcus Brotsch, Jorg Hieronymous, Michael Matuschka, Stefan Ambrozus, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, Ron Arad, Gaetano Pesce, George J. Sowden, Peter Shire, Martine Bedin, Carla Ceccariglia, Alessandro Mendini, Bruno Gregori, Ingo Maurer, Till Lesser, Gerard Kuijpers, Mario Botta, Jean-Marc da Costa, Piero Vendruscolo, Heide Warlamis, Robert A.M. Stern, Robert and Trix Hausmann, Stanley Tigerman, Margaret McCurry, Steven Holl, Danilo Silvestrin, Dieter Rams, Stefan Wewerka, Daniel Weil, Holger Scheel, Matteo Thun, SITE, and so many more, this generous publication is a must for any enthusiast of design from this period.

Edited by Volker Fischer, deputy director of the German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt.

Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

File under: Aldo Rossi Alessandro Mendini Bruno Gregori Carla Ceccariglia Dakota Jackson Daniel Weil Danilo Silvestrin Dieter Rams Ettore Sottsass Frank Gehry Gaetano Pesce George Sowden Gerard Kuijpers Hans Hollein Heide Warlamis Holger Scheel Ingo Maurer Jean-Marc da Costa Jorg Hieronymous Marcus Brotsch Margaret McCurry Mario Botta Martine Bedin Matteo Thun Memphis Michael Graves Michael Matuschka Michele de Lucchi Norbert Berghof Peter Shire Philippe Starck Piero Vendruscolo Robert A.M. Stern Robert and Trix Haussmann Robert Venturi Ron Arad Shiro Kuramata SITE Stanley Tigerman Stefan Ambrozus Stefan Wewerka Steven Holl Till Lesser Zeus Studio Alchimia Jochen Gros Matteo Thun Volker Albus Prestel / Munich Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Gianni Piacentino
Painting and sculpture 1965–1981 / Bilder und Objekte

1981, German
Softcover (+ compliments card), 217 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by GAK / Bremen

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Rare and very comprehensive catalogue published on the occasion of Gianni Piacentino's exhibition at GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst), Bremen, 1981, a comprehensive survey marking his return to Europe from living in New York between 1980–81. With accompanying texts in bi–lingual English/German by esteemed collectors Marcello Levi and Reinhard Onnasch (the first German art dealer to open a gallery in New York City following World War II), the catalogue traces the entire career of Italian artist Gianni Piacentino (b. 1945). A sidecar champion, model airplane and car builder, industrial painter (for work) and philosophy student, a young Piacentino was one of the first artists involved in the Arte Povera movement at its infancy, exhibiting with Pistoletto and Gilardi at Galleria Sperone, Turin in 1966 and then in Milan the following year. During the late 1960s, his meticulously crafted, highly finished minimal sculptures and canvases had more in common with West Coast American Minimalists and solidified his differences with other Arte Povera artists, and by 1969 Piacentino began his "Vehicles" and "Wings" series that would become some of his most enduring and captivating works, spanning the 1970s. His refined minimal surfaces would take on engineered form and the language of mass–production in a highly personalised manner that predated the developments of American minimalists such as Robert Grosvenor, and the later post–minimal pop–assemblages of Ashley Bickerton. Piacentino's work would appear at DOCUMENTA (6) in Kassel (1977), the XLV Venice Biennale (1993) and the Quadrennial in Rome (1973 and 2005).

In the words of Germano Celant: "It is in this historical climate of oscillation between art and design, handcrafts and industry, the useful and the useless, the one-off piece and the mass-produced object, and between the autonomy and heteronomy of pure creation, that we can place the contribution of Piacentino, whose otherness and uniqueness lie precisely in the dialectic between the two poles, Pop and Minimal. Since 1966 his sculptures have been aiming for a result that transcends the functional object, even though the latter remains recognizable as a possible industrial product with decorative characteristics, as it is derived from a culture steeped in applied science, handicrafts and the precision of mechanics and sophisticated engineering processes."

This copy with Berlin–based gallerist and contributing collector Reinhard Onnasch's with compliments card pasted to the first blank.
Good copy with some wear to boards, light knocking to spine ends, light tanning.

File under: Marcello Levi Reinhard Onnasch GAK / Bremen Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Minimal Art Arte Povera Pop Art

Daan van Golden
Overzichtstentoonstelling 1963-1982

1982, Dutch
Softcover, 56 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam

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Rare 1982 catalogue published to accompany the solo survey exhibition, Daan van Golden, Overzichtstentoonstelling 1963-1982, at Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Profusely illustrated throughout with Daan van Golden's works, accompanied by texts in Dutch and biography.

Daniël (Daan) van Golden (1936-2017) was a Dutch artist, who has been active as a painter, photographer, collagist, installation artist, wall painter and graphic artist. He is known for his meticulous paintings of motives and details of everyday life and every day images. Daan van Golden developed his style in Japan in 1963. Having previously painted abstract-expressionistic works, between 1963 and 1965 in Japan he refined a technique that involved Japanese enamel paints and enabled him to give his works an unimagined colourfulness and presence. He began painting textile and paper patterns with extreme precision and at an almost meditative speed. His models included tablecloths, fabrics and packaging. He generally focussed on everyday items which he experienced in his surroundings, transferring them to an artistic context in his unique way and thereby unifying life and art. Van Golden is often linked with Pop Art or Minimal Art, but in fact his art hovered between all these tendencies and positions. It was frequently exhibited in the same context, to which he was considered to be formally suited. But at the same time, he clearly pointed up the limits of the respective stylistic trend.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Daan Van Golden Daan van Golden Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art Minimal Art Pop Art Photography

Barnett Newman: Here
by Amy Newman

2026, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 728 pages, 23.5 x 15.88 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York

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The definitive biography of a transformational American artist and the city that shaped him.

Barnett Newman (1905–1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the Second World War. Barnett Newman is the definitive biography of a charismatic New Yorker who defied the rules and created an art of the sublime.

This landmark book features original research conducted over decades, using scores of interviews, oral histories, and previously unseen correspondence to paint a richly textured portrait of a creative sage who became an exemplar of the artist-citizen. Born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he grandly aspired to involve himself in every detail of the city’s life. He was a crusader for the civil service, ran against La Guardia for mayor, worked as a teacher, wrote poetry, criticism, and manifestos, produced political plays, and promoted other artists—all before painting a mature work of his own in his early forties. Newman began with none of the qualities once considered indispensable for a master artist, such as training, apprenticeship, or natural facility. But he possessed a galvanizing intellect and a conviction that aesthetic expression is an ecstatic declaration of existence and an assertion of human dignity.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources gleaned from full access to Newman’s archives, Amy Newman presents a portrait of a maverick whose works are among the most enduring of the twentieth century and whose influence continues to this day.

Amy Newman is an art historian and journalist. She is the author of Challenging Art: “Artforum” 1962–1974 and the editor (with Irving Sandler) of Defining Modern Art: Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. She is not related to Barnett Newman.

File under: Barnett Newman Amy Newman Princeton University Press / New York Minimal Art Painting Art Theory / Essay

European Decoration
Creative Contemporary Interiors

1969, English
Hardcover, 186 page, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Reynal & Company / New York

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First English edition of this wonderful hardcover volume of European interiors from the 1960s, edited by L'ŒIL creators Georges and Rosamond Bernier. Profusely illustrated throughout, all the material in this volume was selected from the pages of France's L'ŒIL magazine. "This book leads the reader into some of the most distinguished and original homes of Europe. Here are glimpses into the lives of gifted, glamorous people whose taste sets style around the globe. Whether Lombard palazzo or Paris roof-top, highly diversified interiors are the source of stimulating ideas that can often be translated into American terms."

L'ŒIL (French: The Eye) is a French magazine created by Rosamond Bernier (née Rosenbaum) and her second husband, Georges Bernier, in 1955 to celebrate and reflect contemporary art creation. It was one of the finest documents of interior design, architecture, fine and applied arts and design in the 1950s-1970s, marrying the historical with the modern and profiling many artists and designers in France for the first time.

Includes large chapters on each of the following: the Villar Perosa villa of Signor & Signora Giovanni (Marella) Agnelli; London apartment of Mr & Mrs Stanley Rubin designed by Jon Bannenberg; a Milanese apartment designed by Marcello Pietrantoni & Carla Venosta; architect J. Anthony Cloughley's London apartment, designed with help from Rubin de C. Albrizzi; Karl Lagerfeld's Paris apartment; a one-story modern country house designed by Martine Dufour and Caumont & Collard for Monsieur & Madame Claude Labouret; The Villa Montecchia; decorator Isabelle Hebey's Marais apartment; Palazzo Brandolini in Venice (Renzo Mongiardino); Saint-Tropez apartment designed by Andree Putman; the Parisian apartment of Marc Bohan (of Christian Dior); The house of David Hicks in the South of France; Prince Bao-Long's Isabelle Hebey-designed apartment; Hugh Chisolm's Paris apartment (designed by Charles Sevigny); the Villa Fiorentina at St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, belonging to Lady Kenmare & her son Roderick Cameron; Leonard Goulandris's London apartment designed by Jon Bannenberg; Van Day Truex's Vaucuse home; Philippe Guibourge's Paris apartment; Eugene Berman's Rome apartment; the Villa La Tana; Jacques Chazot's Paris apartment; Jacques & Andree Putman's Saint-Tropez home.

Good copy with foxing and wear to hardcover edges/corners.

File under: David Hicks Isabelle Hebey Martine Dufour Karl Lagerfeld Jon Bannenberg Marcello Pietrantoni Carla Venosta Christian Dior Charles Sevigny Renzo Mongiardino Quasar Khanh Verner Panton Charles Eames Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Dubuffet Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Pablo Picasso Joe Colombo Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Eero Saarinen Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Olivier Mourgue Carlo Scarpa Jim Dine Kurt Schwitters Jean Fautrier Max Ernst Wassily Kandinsky Joan Miró Lucio Fontana Andrée Putman César Georges Bernier Rosamond Bernier Reynal & Company / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art

Bruce Nauman
Catalogue Raisonné

1994, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 392 pages, 30.5 x 23.5 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by D.A.P. / New York Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Very rare, first 1994 limited deluxe hardcover edition catalogue raisonné of American artist Bruce Nauman, published on the occasion of the major 1994-1995 touring retrospective that stunned critics by bringing together the full and largely underrated range of Bruce Naman's work, first held at Nuseo Nacioal Centro de Arte Rena Sofía, Madrid, before travelling to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

A most vital reference on the artist's oeuvre, this (deluxe) hardbound version of the exhibition catalogue was issued in limited edition (1000 copies), almost doubling in page-count to contain the full illustrated catalogue raisonné of over five hundred works created (and in some instances destroyed) by the artist between 1965 and 1993. With provenance and notes for each, the work spans sculptures, films, videos, performances, drawings, neons, holograms, texts, installations, photographic pieces, et al. Profusely illustrated throughout with enlarged exhibition plates, along with a full exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and bibliography, alongside texts by Neal Benezra, Kathy Halbreich, Paul Schimmel, Robert Storr, Laurie Haycock Makela and Kristen McDougal. Edited by Joan Simon and designed by Laurie Haycock Makela and Kristen McDougall. Still the most indispensable book reference on Nauman.

Very Good copy only with minimal unobtrusive ex-libris stamps to preliminary pages, not affecting content. No library markings to outside, spine or edges. Very Good throughout with Very Good dust jacket protected under removable mylar wrap.

File under: Bruce Nauman Neal Benezra Kathy Halbreich Paul Schimmel Robert Storr Laurie Haycock Makela Kristen McDougal D.A.P. / New York Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera

Paradis
Edited by Marie Angeletti with Gianmaria Andreetta and Camilla Wills

2023, English / French
Softcover, 416 pages, 28.5 x 21 cm
Ed. of 840,
Published by Claude Balls Int. / France

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Paradis is a continuation of the eponymous exhibition conceived by artist Marie Angeletti in Marseilles in 2021. The exhibition brought together 56 artists of different origins and generations. More than just a transcription of this event, this catalogue brings together some one hundred contributions, combining critical texts, poetry, artists' writings and new translations, alongside an equally large number of visual contributions and ad hoc works, most of them previously unpublished.
Published following the exhibition Paradis, curated by Marie Angeletti at Maison R&C, Marseille, in 2021.

Works by Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, John Kelsey, Matthew Pang, Cathy Wilkes, Sarah Rapson, Gene Beery, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Sara Dereadt, Kari Rittenbach, Maria Nordman, Olga Balema, Louise Lawler, Adrian Morris, John Miller, Enver Hadzijaj, Enzo Shalom, Bedros Yeretzian, Marie Angeletti, Morag Keil, Michael Callies, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, Hélène Fauquet, Andy Robert, El Hadji Sy, Henrik Olesen, Aurélien Potier, Peter Fend, Megan Francis Sullivan, Sturtevant, Tonio Kröner, Bernard Bazile, Gladys Clover, Jimmie Durham, Michael Asher, Camilla Wills, Matthew Langan-Peck, Dan Graham, Nina Könnemann, Win McCarthy, Anna Rubin, Heji Shin, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Simone Forti, Morgan O'Hara, Ye Xe, Yuki Kumura, Lily van der Stokker, Eva Steinmetz, Michael Van den Abeele, Marc Kokopeli, Robert Grosvenor, Samuel Jeffery, Charlotte Houette, Bradley Kronz, Adam Martin, Wade Guyton, Chloe Truong-Jones.

Edited by Marie Angeletti with Gianmaria Andreetta and Camilla Wills.

Contributions by Georgia Sagri, Nick Irvin, Anne Dressen, Anne Pontégnie, Anne Rorimer, Kari Rittenbach, Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Matt Browning, John Miller, Helmut Draxler, Steve Cannon, Rae Armentrout, Zoe Hitzig, Lola Sinreich, Fanny Howe, Richard Hawkins, Alexander García Düttmann, Daniel Horn, Stéphane Barbier Bouvet, Jill Johnston, Maria Wutz, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Jérome Pantalacci, Anne Rorimer, Michael Asher, Steven Warwick, Dan Graham, Hans-Christian Dany & Valérie Knoll, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Inka Meißner, Simone Forti, Angharad Williams, Peter Wächtler, Michael Van den Abeele, Charlotte Houette, James Tiptree Jr.

Graphic design: Marie Angeletti and Marietta Eugster.

Published by Claude Balls Int.

Edition of 840 copies.

File under: Nicole-Antonia Spagnola John Kelsey Matthew Pang Cathy Wilkes Sarah Rapson Gene Beery Jacqueline Mesmaeker Sara Dereadt Kari Rittenbach Maria Nordman Olga Balema Louise Lawler Adrian Morris John Miller Enver Hadzijaj Enzo Shalom Bedros Yeretzian Marie Angeletti Morag Keil Michael Callies Gianna Surangkanjanajai Hélène Fauquet Andy Robert El Hadji Sy Henrik Olesen Aurélien Potier Peter Fend Megan Francis Sullivan Sturtevant Tonio Kröner Bernard Bazile Gladys Clover Jimmie Durham Michael Asher Camilla Wills Matthew Langan-Peck Dan Graham Nina Könnemann Win McCarthy Anna Rubin Heji Shin Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter Simone Forti Morgan O'Hara Ye Xe Yuki Kumura Lily van der Stokker Eva Steinmetz Michael Van den Abeele Marc Kokopeli Robert Grosvenor Samuel Jeffery Charlotte Houette Bradley Kronz Adam Martin Wade Guyton Chloe Truong-Jones Georgia Sagri Nick Irvin Anne Dressen Anne Pontégnie Anne Rorimer Kari Rittenbach Julie Ault Martin Beck Matt Browning John Miller Helmut Draxler Steve Cannon Rae Armentrout Zoe Hitzig Lola Sinreich Fanny Howe Richard Hawkins Alexander García Düttmann Daniel Horn Stéphane Barbier Bouvet Jill Johnston Maria Wutz Pierre Bal-Blanc Jérome Pantalacci Michael Asher Steven Warwick Dan Graham Hans-Christian Dany & Valérie Knoll Eleanor Ivory Weber Inka Meißner Simone Forti Angharad Williams Peter Wächtler Michael Van den Abeele Charlotte Houette James Tiptree Jr Claude Balls Int. / France Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Art Curatorial Painting Drawing Minimal Art Film / Video

Tell Them I Said No
by Martin Herbert

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.8 x 19.7 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. A large part of the artist’s role in today’s professionalized art system is being present. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a deliberate conceptual act, or out of necessity. By illuminating these motives, Tell Them I Said No offers a unique perspective on where and how the needs of the artist and the needs of the art world diverge. Essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York.

Martin Herbert is a writer and critic living in Berlin. He is associate editor of ArtReview and writes for international art journals. Previous books include The Uncertainty Principle (2014) and Mark Wallinger (2011).

Design by Fraser Muggeridge studio

File under: Lutz Bacher Stanley Brouwn Christopher D’Arcangelo Trisha Donnelly David Hammons Agnes Martin Cady Noland Laurie Parsons Charlotte Posenenske Albert York Martin Herbert Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

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

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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

Live In Your Head
'Curated by' Robert Nickas

1993, English / German
Softcover + invitation, unpaginated, 26.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna

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Exceptionally rare, incredible 1993 catalogue for this elusive group exhibition 'curated by' Robert "Bob" Nickas, at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna, 1993, featuring the work of Vito Acconci, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Bill Bitting, Gudrun Wolfgruber, Laurie Parsons, Steve DiBenedetto, Gretchen Faust, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Scott Grodesky, Peter Halley, Jon Kessler, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, John Miller, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, David Robbins, Lisa Ruyter, Sam Samore, Michael Scott, Rudolf Stingel, Joan Wallace, Dan Walsh. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour, accompanied by Nickas' introduction (in bi-lingual English and German), which alone makes the catalogue special.

Exhibition invitation card inserted.
Very Good copy.

File under: ito Acconci John Armleder Robert Barry Bill Bitting Gudrun Wolfgruber Laurie Parsons Steve DiBenedetto Gretchen Faust Robert Gober Felix Gonzalez-Torres Scott Grodesky Peter Halley Jon Kessler Jutta Koether Louise Lawler Ken Lum John Miller Olivier Mosset Chuck Nanney Cady Noland Steven Parrino Raymond Pettibon David Robbins Lisa Ruyter Sam Samore Michael Scott Rudolf Stingel Joan Wallace Dan Walsh Bob Nickas Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

Michael Asher
Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979

2021, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21.5 x 30.5 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 is an essential document of a decade of formative work by Michael Asher. Originally published in 1983, the book presents 33 works through the artist’s writings, photographic documentation, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera.

Asher did not create traditional art objects; instead, he chose to alter the existing institutional apparatus through which art is presented, creating work dependent on the architectural, social, or economic systems that undergird how art is produced and experienced. For example, in 1974, he removed the partition wall dividing the office and gallery space of the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles. In another work from 1978, Asher had a bronze replica of a nineteenth-century sculpture of George Washington moved from the exterior of the Art Institute of Chicago to a room in the museum that housed eighteenth-century art, changing its location, but also its function from a public monument to an indoor sculpture, as it was originally intended.

Due to its site specificity and immateriality, Asher’s work ceased to exist after an exhibition, which makes this highly sought-after book the definitive mode through which one can gain insight into the work he made during this period. As the artist states in the introduction: “This book as a finished product will have a material permanence that contradicts the actual impermanence of the art-work, yet paradoxically functions as a testimony to that impermanence of my production.”

Initiated by Kasper König, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 was originally co-published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and was largely shaped by Asher’s close collaboration with art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, who succeeded König as editor of the press.

Managing Editor: James Hoff
Managing Designer: Rick Myers

File under: Michael Asher Michael Asher Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Primary Information / New York Art Theory / Essay Minimal Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Brice Marden
Work Books 1964-1995

1996, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 232 pages, 30 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Richter Verlag / Dusseldorf

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Rare first hardcover edition of Brice Marden — Work Books 1964-1995, published by Harvard University Art Museum and Richter Verlag on the occasion of the major travelling exhibition of 1997—1998 (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Wexner Center for the Arts, The State University of Ohio, Harvard University Art Museum). Profusely illustrated throughout presenting the comprehensive and important workbooks and sketchpads of American minimalist Brice Marden (b. 1938) together in one volume. With illustrated essays by Dieter Schwarz and Michael Semff. With an exhibition history, bibliography, biography, and list of works. Bi-lingual texts in German and English.

Brice Marden (b. 1938) is an American artist known for his subtle explorations of colour and gestural lines. Marden, who rose to prominence in 1960s New York, is renowned for an ever-evolving abstract practice with roots in Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, and calligraphic traditions. Throughout his lyrical canvases, Marden paints colourful networks of serpentine lines that flow hypnotically throughout the picture plane. He sometimes replaces his paintbrush with a stick, giving his lines a more organic appearance. Such interest in line, gesture, and material experimentation is at the heart of Marden’s drawing and painting practices; early in his career, he painted with a kitchen spatula.

First hardcover edition, VG—Near Fine. VG—NF dust jacket.

File under: Brice Marden Dieter Schwarz Michael Semff Richter Verlag / Dusseldorf Art Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art