World Food Books

Dan Graham
Works & Collected Writings

2009, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 360 pages, 21 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Ediciones Polígrafa / Barcelona

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Since the mind-1960s, Dan Graham (Urbana, Illinois 1942) has produced an important body of art and theory that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historial, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. He is a highly influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both as a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. Graham s work questions the relationship between people and architecture and the psychological effects it has on us. His work highlights the awkwardness that occurs when intimate moments or details are rudimentarily broadcast in an impersonal manner, as he continues to investigate the voyeuristic act of seening onself reflected, whilst at the same time watching others. This monograph analyzes his main works and collects some of seminal writings by the artist.

With a text by Alexander Alberro.

First English hardcover edition, now out-of-print.

File under: Dan Graham Ediciones Polígrafa / Barcelona Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

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

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 series)
by Geeta Dayal

2008, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 12 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Continuum / London

$20.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Geeta Dayal's volume on Brian Eno's Another Green World from the 33 1/3 series, published by Continuum, London.

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as musical instrument," and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music.

In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World's abundant mysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was an album this cohesive and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way? How were electronics and layers of synthetic treatments used to create an album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cards figure into all of this? Here, through interviews and archival research, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green World formed the link to Eno's future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosis from unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter and producer.

Geeta Dayal's writing on music, visual art, and science has appeared in many major publications, including Bookforum, The Wire, The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, and The Village Voice. She is currently at work on a second book on the history of electronic music. She lives in Boston.

Good—VG copy.

File under: Brian Eno Geeta Dayal Continuum / London Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Minimal Art

Brian Eno — His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound
by Eric Tamm

1995, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Da Capo Press / New York

$38.00 - Out of stock

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First 1995 edition of Brian Eno — His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, published by De Capo, Eric Tamm's provocative and definitive biography, bibliography and discography of Eno, from Roxy Music to his pioneering ambient works, through to music for film and television and collaborations with Harold Budd, Cluster, David Bowie, Jos Hassell, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and various other classical and experimental composers, drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas. Heavily updated from the original 1990 Faber edition.

"One of the best appreciations of a modern popular musician that's ever been written. In sharp contrast to most of the literature on popular music, it is articulate, it is written by someone who actually knows what he is talking about (Tamm's knowledge of both the mechanics of a studio and a wide variety of music from classical through pop is awesome), it is amazingly free of the usual polemics, hysteria and rhetoric which characterize this kind of book, and it is carefully systematic in the way it deals with Eno and his work.... This book answers just about every question that any Eno fan could ever want to ask, and a few more just for luck."—Rolling Stone

"Intelligent, thorough, fair, factual and unpedantic... Tamm's musicological approach and Eno's sound philosophy can pay off in all sorts of rewarding ways."—James Hunter, LA Weekly

"I think it's a very good book. I heartily recommend it."—Brian Eno, Interview

Very Good copy, toned pages.

File under: Brian Eno Gavin Bryars Harold Budd Kluster David Bowie David Byrne Robert Fripp Roxy Music Cluster Dieter Moebius Hans-Joachim Roedelius Jon Hassell Laraaji Matching Mole Kevin Ayers John Cale Nico Phil Manzanera Eric Tamm Da Capo Press / New York Out-of-print / Rare Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Minimal 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

Isa Genzken

1986, German
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 22 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Fred Jahn / Münich

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful, scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Isa Genzken, held January 31 - March 31, 1986, at Galerie Fred Jahn, Münich. Illustrated throughout with Genzken's painted plaster and wood sculptures, alongside essay (in German) by Paul Groot, biography, bibliography, and exhibition history. Highly recommended.

Very Good copy.

File under: Isa Genzken Paul Groot Galerie Fred Jahn / Münich Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

Isa Genzken
Skizzen für einen Spielfilm

1993, German
Softcover, 68 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Bremen / Bremen

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Very rare, collectable artist's book / catalogue published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Isa Genzken, "Skizzen für einen Spielfilm", held at Kunsthalle Bremen, July - August 1993. Wonderful design with extensive text section in (mostly) German/(some) English, comprising of scenes/script excerpts/discussions between Genzken and Gerhard Richter, Dan Graham, Michael Hengsberg (gallerist Daniel Buchholz's then assistant), amongst others, followed by an image section of Genzken's previous exhibition installations, and closing with a text by art historian and exhibition curator Katerina Vatsella. Highly recommended.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Isa Genzken Katerina Vatsella Kunsthalle Bremen / Bremen Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

Phill Niblock
Nothing but working - A Retrospective

2023, English
Hardcover, 112 pages, 22 x 16.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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One of the great experimental composers of our time, Phill Niblock has during his sixty-year career produced minimalist music, structural cinema, dance performance, improvised theatre, systematic art, and ethnographic photography. Since 1985, Niblock has served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. In 2014 the artist received the John Cage Award.

This hardbound catalogue is devoted to Niblock’s wide intermedia art, including his masterpieces the Six Films (1966-69), the Environments (1968-72) and The Movement of People Working (1973-91). A thorough publication that includes Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, Elaine Summers, Yoko Ono, Sun Ra, The Open Theatre, Muna Tseng and Arthur Russell. Co-published with Copeland. Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Nothin’ But Working, Phill Niblock, A Retrospective’, 30 Jan – 12 May 2013, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, in partnership with Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne).

File under: Charles Mingus Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington Elaine Summers Yoko Ono Sun Ra The Open Theatre Muna Tseng Arthur Russell Phill Niblock Mathieu Copeland Walther König / Köln Art Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art

John Nixon
Editions 1 & 2

2023, English
Softcover, 24 x 17cm
Ed. of 300,
Published by Negative Press / Melbourne

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From 1982–2020, Nixon produced over 500 printed images in relief, intaglio, stencil and planographic processes. While many of the works in his print oeuvre are unique, Nixon also produced works in small editions. From 2015 till his passing in 2020, Nixon worked with printer and publisher Negative Press.

Known predominantly as a painter, John Nixon was also an inventive and prolific printmaker. This new book documents two exhibitions of Nixon’s editions at Negative Press, featuring works made from across the artist's career, alongside personal responses to the prints by curator Sue Cramer, archivist & designer Elizabeth Boon and artist & publisher Trent Walter.

Published in an edition of 300 copies.

File under: John Nixon Negative Press / Melbourne Painting Australian Art Conceptual Art Art Minimal 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

$70.00 - Out of stock

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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

Eva Hesse
Drawing

2006, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 21 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven The Drawing Center / New York

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First hardcover edition of this out-of-print volume on Eva Hesse's drawing practice. Hesse (1936—1970) was a highly experimental artist who continually challenged the conventions of her time. For Hesse, drawing played a unique role, providing the nexus between her works in all media. Eva Hesse Drawing is the first book to explore her drawing process, following her work from drawing to painting and sculpture, and always back to drawing. The book features important, recently rediscovered “working drawings,” providing an intimate look at Hesse’s everyday practice and methodology.

An accomplished draftswoman, Hesse began to develop her wandering, tentative line while studying at Yale University in the late 1950s. Her early 1960s works on paper engaged with visual vocabularies from geometry to biomorphic abstraction. In 1965, Hesse combined her tactile sensibility for materials with her stringlike line to achieve a breakthrough: her astonishing reliefs, which began to bridge the space between two and three dimensions. Balancing the disembodiment of line with its intensified materialization, Hesse went on to develop one of the most innovative oeuvres of the twentieth century, anticipating the hybridization of media and crossing borderlines linking one impossible space to another.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Eva Hesse Catherine De Zegher Yale University Press / New Haven The Drawing Center / New York Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Sculpture / Installation Art Arte Povera Minimal Art

Gordon Matta-Clark
Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It / Zeichnung Bei

1997, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna

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Rare first hardcover edition of the catalogue raisonné of Gordon Matta-Clark's incredible drawings published in conjunction with exhibition held at Generali Foundation, Vienna, May 7—August 10, 1997. Heavily illustrated throughout (243 colour and 548 b/w illustrations) with essays by Sabine Breitwiesser, Peter Fend, and Pamela M. Lee. Includes a biography and bibliography. Text in English and German.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943—1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art.

Fine copy in Fine DJ.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Sabine Breitwiesser Peter Fend Pamela M. Lee Generali Foundation / Vienna Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Minimal Art Drawing

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

Minimalism:Origins
by Edward Strickland

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages, 15.5 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London

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Long out-of-print first hardcover edition of Minimalism:Origins by Edward Strickland, published in 1993 by Indiana University Press.

... a landmark work, the first attempt to write a pre-history of minimalism that embraces all the arts. Its importance cannot be overestimated." —K. Robert Schwarz, Institute for Studies in American Music

All told, this book is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and nature of minimalism." —i/e/ NINE

The death of Minimalism is announced regularly, which may be the surest testimonial to its staying power." This is the opening sentence of Edward Strickland's study, the first to examine in detail Minimalist tendencies in the plastic arts and music.

The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd, both of whom detested the word. In the late 1970s it gained currency when applied to the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

In the first part of the book, "Paint", Strickland shows how Minimalism offered a rethinking of the main schools of abstract art to mid-century. Within Abstract Expressionism Barnett Newman opposed the stylistic complexity of confessional action painting with non-gestural, color-field painting. Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly reconceived the rhythmic construction of earlier Geometrical Abstraction in "invisible" and brilliant monochromes respectively; and Robert Rauschenberg created Dadaist anti-art in pure white panels. Next, Strickland surveys Minimal music from La Monte Young's long-tone compositions of the fifties to his drone works of the Theatre of Eternal Music. He examines the effect of foreign and nonclassical American musics on Terry Riley's motoric repetition developed from his tape experimentation, Steve Reich's formulation of phasing technique; and Philip Glass's unison modules. The third part of the book treats the development of Minimal sculpture and its critical reception. Strickland also discusses analogous Minimalist tendencies in dance, film, and literature as well as the incorporation of once-shocking Minimalist vocabulary into mass culture from fashion to advertising.

Investigating the origins of Minimalism in postwar American culture, Strickland redefines it as a movement the developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media over the third quarter of the twentieth century. A survey with wit.

Very Good—Fine copy w. VG dust jacket preserved under mylar.

File under: Barnett Newman Ellsworth Kelly Ad Reinhardt Robert Rauschenberg La Monte Young Terry Riley Donald Judd Steve Reich Philip Glass John Cage Robert Morris Edward Strickland Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London Minimal Art Painting Art Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy

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

$70.00 - Out of stock

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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

raster-noton.oacis
by Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender, Peter Kraut

2000, English / German
Softcover w. CD in printed bag, 104 pages, 23 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Raster-Noton / Chemnitz

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Deluxe edition of raster-noton.oacis, the experimental audio-visual book and CD project published in 2000 by Raster-Noton, the legendary electronic music label founded in Germany in 1996, on the occasion of taktlos-bern event, 15-16 September 2000, Dampfzentrale, Bern. Edition of 3000 copies. Acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Susanne Binas, Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how raster-noton works on the cutting edge of electronic music, computer graphics and video animation, with which supreme ease the label moves between pop/club culture and the fine arts. Archives all discographies and performances throughout the 1990s, with graphics and photographic illustrations throughout in colour/bw. Softcover book housed in printed plastic bag — creative cover flap includes enhanced CD with audiotracks from the artists and multimedia data for Macintosh to adequately complete this state-of-the-art project. Includes tracks by Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender, and others via projects Noto, Impulse, Byetone, Komet, CoH, Alva Noto...

Award for "Best Books of Switzerland" 2000.

Very Good all round, some wear to bag, otherwise all perfectly preserved.

File under: Carsten Nicolai Olaf Bender Peter Kraut Susanne Binas Rob Young Pinky Rose Peter Kraut Martin Pesch Raster-Noton / Chemnitz Sound / Music Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art Film / Video SALE

PAINTING AS MODEL
by Yve-Alain Bois

1990, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 358 pages, 17.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by October Books / New York

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First 1990 hardcover edition of this landmark collection of essays, Yve-Alain Bois’ Painting as Model remains to this day one of the most influential contemporary books on painting. Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts.

"A genuinely original contribution, in both style and approach, to a 'new history' of art which reconciles critical theory to historical research." - Louis Marin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal Macula, Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Very Good copy w. good dust jacket.

File under: Georges Braque Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Barnett Newman Robert Ryman Gerrit Rietveld Vilmos Huszár Jean-Luc Vilmouth Cornelis van Eesteren Theo van Doesburg Katarzyna Kobro Yve-Alain Bois October Books / New York Art Painting Minimal Art Conceptual Art Bauhaus Dada Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

An Oblique Autobiography
by Yve-Alain Bois

2023, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Essays and reminiscences by one of the preeminent art historians of our time, spanning more than four decades.

An Oblique Autobiography assembles a new collection of essays and reminiscences by one of the preeminent art historians of our time. Spanning more than four decades of Yve-Alain Bois's work as a scholar, journal editor, and occasional curator, this volume traces a deeply personal itinerary through an important era of art history, in which the discipline—in part occasioned by Bois's own journey from France to the United States—was significantly reformulated by new methodologies.

Detailing Bois's early relationships with figures such as Roland Barthes, Hubert Damisch, Lygia Clark, and Jacques Derrida, as well as his extended engagements with Rosalind Krauss, Ellsworth Kelly, and Martin Barré, these essays track Bois's intellectual commitments against the backdrop of an evolving academic field. With texts that range from academic journal articles to obituaries, written from 1976 to 2021, An Oblique Autobiography reveals the range of Bois's authorial voice and offers a remarkable self-portrait of one of art history's primary protagonists.

File under: Yve-Alain Bois Jordan Kantor No Place Press / US Art Painting Theory / Essay Philosophy Minimal Art

UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History
by Rex Butler & ADS Donaldson

2023, English
Hardcover, 275 pages, 24.8 x 17.2 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

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UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rather than identifying a national sensibility, Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson’s methods open Australian art history to an encyclopaedic multitude of hitherto excluded stories.

“This long-awaited volume is a true polemic. Its controversial arguments are squarely aimed at the practices of art museums, art historians and curators. The globalising of art in the current era requires such audacious rewriting of cultural exchanges.”—Ann Stephen, Senior Curator, Art, University of Sydney

“This book raises an important matter for artists subjected to a myopic nationalism in the arts. By proposing an ‘unAustralian art’, Butler and Donaldson show what and who is revealed with a hybrid concept of culture.”—Juan Davila

“Though its temporal and geographic scope is limited to twentieth-century Australian art, UnAustralian Art offers a striking and original model of art historiography for the global contemporary. Butler and Donaldson both critique national art history and present a new account of art on the continent now called ‘Australia’. Against ‘isolationist’ histories of national art, this is a story of connections: between artists, curators, galleries, and museums, between cities and countries. There is a political point at stake here. Reclaiming the term ‘unAustralian’ from the conservative former prime minister John Howard, who popularised it as a pejorative in the 1990s, Butler and Donaldson seek to open, not seal, Australia’s highly politicised borders.”—Helen Hughes, Monash University

File under: Rex Butler ADS Donaldson Power Publications / Sydney Art Australian Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Conceptual Art Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

The Necessity of Australian Art : An Essay About Interpretation
By Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Charles Merewether and Ann Stephen

1988, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 21 x 15 cm

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The Necessity of Australian Art : An Essay About Interpretation by Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Charles Merewether and Ann Stephen critically examines the art historical orthodoxies which have dominated Australian art during the twentieth century.

File under: Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Charles Merewether Ann Stephen Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Theory / Essay Art

Sol LeWitt
All Four Part Combinations of Six Geometric Figures

1980, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 30.5 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Galerie Watari / Tokyo

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Stunning, exceptionally rare Japanese Sol LeWitt artist book/catalogue, "All Four Part Combinations of Six Geometric Figures", published to accompany his 1980 solo exhibition at Galerie Watari, Tokyo. Handsome LeWitt book design of minimal title texts introducing this unusual staple-bound oblong book of 15 b/w drawings of Six Geometric Figures in variation by LeWitt, 1980. First and only edition, printed in Japan and only available at the exhibition itself.

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (1928 – 2007) was one of the most distinctive and influential American artists of the 20th century. He shaped and defined many of the century's most cerebral "isms", notably minimalism and conceptualism.

Near Fine copy with only light tanning to cover and page edges, otherwise beautifully preserved, no spine pinching.

File under: Sol LeWitt Galerie Watari / Tokyo Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Isa Genzken
Early Works

2014, English / German
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 25.3 x 18 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

$65.00 - Out of stock

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This beautiful catalogue is published on the occasion of Isa Genzken's exhibition "Early Works" that took place at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin in 2013. The book contains a new essay by B.H.D. Buchloh, both in English and in German as well as an extensive documentation on the artist's early work starting in the late 1960s.

Produced in an edition of 1000.

File under: Isa Genzken Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Minimal Art

DONALD JUDD SPACES

2023, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 30.5 x 22.9 cm
Published by Judd Foundation / New York

$199.00 - Out of stock

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This second expanded edition of the Donald Judd Spaces presents an unprecedented visual survey of the living and working spaces of the artist Donald Judd in New York and Texas. Filled with newly commissioned and archival photographs alongside five essays by the artist, this book provides an opportunity to explore Judd's personal locations. From a 19th-century cast-iron building in Manhattan to an extensive ranch in the mountains of western Texas, this book details the spaces that inspired Judd's work.

Readers will discover how Judd developed the concept of permanent installation at Spring Street in New York City, with artworks, furniture and decorative objects striking a balance between the building's historical qualities and his own architectural innovations.

His buildings in Marfa, Texas, demonstrate how Judd reiterated his concept of integrative living on a larger scale, extending to the reaches of the Chinati Mountains at Ayala de Chinati, his 33,000-acre ranch south of the town. Each of the spaces was thoroughly considered by Judd with resolute attention to function and design. From furniture to utilitarian structures that Judd designed himself, these residences reflect Judd's consistent aesthetic. His spaces underscore his deep interest in the preservation of buildings and his deliberate interventions within existing architecture.

Donald Judd (1928–94) was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. After serving in the United States Army, he attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; the Art Students League of New York; and Columbia University in New York, where he completed a BS in philosophy in 1953. Judd was a prolific critic for magazines including Arts, Art International and Art News; he continued to write throughout his career, addressing the relationship of art practice to architecture, design, political action and lived experience in letters and published essays. As an artist, he started out as a painter before turning to three-dimensional work. His radical work and thinking helped shape the art of the late 20th century and continues to influence artists, architects and designers.

File under: Donald Judd Judd Foundation / New York Minimal Art Furniture Architecture / Interior Art

Donald Judd
Furniture Retrospective

1994, English / Dutch
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 134 pages, 27 × 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam

$850.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of the the highly sought after Donald Judd Furniture Retrospective catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 1993.

The only published overview of Judd's furniture works, this clothbound (wrapped in kraft paper printed jacket), is profusely illustrated throughout and accompanied by Judd's essays "It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp", “Eichholteren, Switzerland” and “Marfa, Texas: Concrete Building”. "It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp" is partly an account of his first forays into chair and table making, having found it hard to buy the right furnishings for his own home in Marfa, Texas. It is also a meditation on the problems of designer, antique and mass-produced furniture in which Judd rails against the price and availability of decent furniture, while also examining what constitutes good and bad design.

Lovely copy of the original hardcover volume, much scarcer than the softcover.
Very Good copy with light tanning to edges in Very Good jacket with light tanning to spine.

File under: Donald Judd Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Furniture