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Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

Albert Mertz
Sound Experiments

1998,
Audio Compact Disc
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Document Records / Sydney

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Rarely heard sound recordings by Danish Constructivist painter Albert Mertz, recorded in Paris c. 1970, and issued by Australian artist John Nixon in 1998. Mertz – Sound Experiments comprises "Drinking Glass, Pencil, Saw, Coins, Block Of Wood" and "Voice". This limited edition private-issue was co-ordinated by Lone Mertz and John Nixon in 1998 for Nixon'e Document Records in Sydney.

Albert (Axel Tonndorff) Mertz (1920—1990) was a Danish painter, early experimental film maker and art theorist. He was a renowned figure in the Danish Constructivist scene and co-founder of the Linien II artists association in 1947. He had his debut exhibition at only thirteen years old in 1933 and started at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1936. Several years later he became a teaching professor at the same institution from 1979 until his death in 1990. Mertz was the first Danish artist to work with film, as early as the ’40s. In the late 1950s, he associated with the German-born Arthur Köpcke who opened a gallery in Copenhagen which became popular with artists working with Fluxus and Neo-Dada. From 1962 to 1976, Martz lived in France where he painted in his typical reds and blues, while in the 1980s, he created installations with Lone Mertz in Paris and Munich.

File under: John Nixon Albert Mertz Document Records / Sydney Sound / Music Painting Film / Video Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

A Handful of Dust
For Patti Smith

2003,
Audio Compact Disc
Published by Freewaysound / Melbourne

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Live recording of A Handful Of Dust (Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith) in Melbourne, Punters Club, 1999. For Patti Smith was recorded by and issued on Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato's Freewaysound label in 2002. Comprises "I Am God's Finger" (26:17) and "(From A Soundtrack To) Babelfield" (17:31). Artwork by Marco Fusinato and photograph by Chris Smith.

File under: A Handful of Dust Alastair Galbraith Bruce Russell Marco Fusinato Greg Wadley Chris Smith Freewaysound / Melbourne Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Documents on Works by Sadaharu Horio in 1980's
(signed w. painting by Sadaharu Horio)

1998, English / Japanese
Softcover, 22.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Korinsha Press / Japan

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The very rare, comprehensive monograph of Sadaharu Horio (1939–2018), one of Japan's most prominent avant-garde Gutai artists, this extremely special copy with original abstract painting on cardboard, signed by Sadaharu Horio in 1998 and pasted in as bookplate. Profusely illustrated volume of Horio's prolific artistic practice, accompanied by many texts in both English and Japanese by Tokuhiro Nakajima, Masaru Aguro, Takuro Kusano, Kazuo Yamawaki, Keiji Nakamura, Tohru Takahashi, Yuko Naka, Yasuhiko Okumura, Soshi Suzuki, and others, plus interviews with Horio, biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and much more. A valuable resource on this important post-war Japanese artist.

Sadaharu Horio studied with the founder of the movement Gutai Jirō Yoshihara and in the mid-1960s became one of the youngest members of the group, who sought to release the “cry of matter itself” through a combination of performance, painting, theater, music and installations. In the 1970s, Horio was a founding member of Bonkura, an art collective based in Paris, and in the 1980s he began his series “Atarimae no koto”, which included more than one hundred exhibitions and performances. Horio supported a decades-long practice in experimental work, using various found materials, and became a pioneer of Kobe’s modern performance art, while continuing to work in the factory at Mitsubishi until 1998. Like Gutai, his practice seeks to question the border between art and life.

Considered one of Japan’s most experimental artists of the 20th century, Sadaharu Horio (1939–2018) was one of Japan's most prominent Gutai artists and a pioneer in modern Kobe performance art. One of his best-known bodies of work is his sculptural paintings of found objects such as household detritus, string, bits of wood, branches, roots, planks, crates, boxes, stones, and leather. From the late 1960s on, his work increasingly included large-scale installation artworks, performances and interventions in urban and natural environments. His performances often spontaneously involved the audience in collective creative activities. His work is characterized by a strong connection between the act of painting and everyday life, his repudiation of distinction between high and low art, and the ease and humor with which he adapted his performances and installations to changing sites and cultural contexts, making them accessible and open for different audiences. Regardless of circumstances, Horio paints every single day in a ritual that completely integrates his art into his life. Eschewing the idea that the subject is in total control of the finished product, he follows the sequence of colours in the paint box—obeying a set formula in order to void the colours of any symbolism or implicit meaning. Horio is concerned with perpetuating the message that art-making is a day-to-day practice that anyone can engage in.

A very rare, valuable book — this copy exceptionally rare with original painting and signed by the artist!
Very Good—Fine copy, almost As New.

File under: Sadaharu Horio Tokuhiro Nakajima Masaru Aguro Takuro Kusano Kazuo Yamawaki Keiji Nakamura Tohru Takahashi Yuko Naka Yasuhiko Okumura Soshi Suzuki Korinsha Press / Japan Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Objects / Ephemera / A/V Conceptual Art

Hervé Di Rosa / Michel Redolfi
JUNGLE — Livre / Laser

1991, French
Hardcover (w. 14 leporello panel book, audio cd, 8 decals) 25.8 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Albin Michel / Paris

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Rare 1991 artist's edition by French painter Hervé Di Rosa (b. 1959), a key figure in the "Figuration Libre" movement. Published by Albin Michel, CIRM, and Paris Musées, this deluxe hardcover edition edition printed in Belgium includes a silkscreened CD containing music by French electroacoustic composer Michel Redolfi (b. 1951), 8 colour art decals, and an elaborate 14-panel double-sided leporello (concertina) fold-out book that forms a gigantic colour artwork, accompanied by texts in French.

Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa (b. 1959) is a French painter who brings to life unique characters who populate his work in the form of paintings, sculptures, installations and animations. His style is similar to that of American artists Haring, Basquiat, Scharf and incorporates influences from graffiti and comic books. Di Rosa is a key figure in the "Figuration Libre" movement of French painters. His work is often humorous and brash and shows his passion for kitsch or "Art Modeste." In 2000, Di Rosa built a Museum dedicated to Modest Art in Sète, France.

Michel Redolfi (b. 1951) is a French electroacoustic composer and experimental musician from Marseille, best known for the 'underwater music' concept. In 1969, he co-founded GMEM (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) with Marcel Frémiot and Georges Boeuf.

File under: Hervé Di Rosa Michel Redolfi Albin Michel / Paris Sound / Music Art Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V SALE

Die Tödliche Doris
Naturkatastrophen

1984, English / German
Softcover (w. 7" single-sided record), 38 pages, 22.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Limited edition 1984 book and single-sided 7" vinyl record by West German performance art and music group Die Tödliche Doris (Deadly Doris; a pun on tödliche Dosis, meaning lethal dose), published in an edition of 1000 by Ursula Block's Gelbe Musik, Berlin, to accompany the exhibition of Die Tödliche Doris's videos, objects, photographs, and texts. The 7" features recordings of a performance with the combustion of microphones, while the 38-page catalogue demonstrates how natural disasters can be created in your own home. "The instructions only require a few utensils: a few bells around the head, a couple of cups attached to the arms using household rubber bands, a thin offset sheet hung over the back, a metal lid between the knees, feet in water (of course, a puddle outside will do if the weather permits)."— Die Tödliche Doris. Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Text in English and German.

Die Tödliche Doris (Deadly Doris; a pun on tödliche Dosis, meaning lethal dose) was a performance art and music group based in West Berlin from 1980 to 1987. It was founded by band members Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen and later joined by Käthe Kruse. Rather than constructing a consistent identity, typically essential for pop music groups, Die Tödliche Doris challenged the notion of "convention" or "stereotype". Instead, they tried with each music piece and production not to follow a "style" or "image". Inspired by the post-structuralism of Baudrillard, Foucault, Guattarri and Lyotard, Die Tödliche Doris want to deConstruct ![sic] a sculpture, made by sounds. This musical, amusical or non-musical invisible sculpture should become the body of Doris itself.

Die Tödliche Doris was part of the Geniale Dilletanten movement (Ingenious Dilletantes (spelling error intentional)), which also included groups such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Tödliche Doris, Der Plan, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (F.S.K.), Palais Schaumburg, Ornament und Verbrechen, and the duo Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)

Berlin's gelbe MUSIK was the record store and gallery space run by Ursula Block between 1981 and 2014. During its tenure, the storefront exhibited work by artists and composers working at the intersection of art and sound, including Henning Christiansen, Maryanne Amacher, Akio Suzuki, Earle Brown and others

Near Fine copy.

File under: Die Tödliche Doris Ursula Block Gelbe Musik / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V

The Kevin Pappas Tear Out Postcard Book

1977, English
Softcover, 20 pages / 30 postcards (2 missing), 32 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Penguin / Ringwood

$50.00 $30.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce Oz publication by the Kevin Pappas collective from 1977 made up entirely of double-sided useable colour Australian postcards on perforated card, all designed by a group of mostly Melbourne-based artist larrikins of diverse cultural backgrounds. A satirical celebration of Australian culture as only the 1970's could produce. The designer's include none other than Mimmo Cozzolino, Fysh Rutherford, Geoff Cook, Izy Marmur, Neil Curtis, Meg Williams, Con Aslanis. From late 1972 they traded together as All Australian Graphics, for which Aslanis created their mascot and brand, the fictitious Greek man/Australian kangaroo hybrid 'Kevin Pappas'. Eschewing the austere international Swiss style, they determined to create design that was distinctly Australian in flavour. This is as distinctive as it gets!

A book of 32 postcards, this copy is missing 2 (30 present and bound as issued), otherwise Good copy, light wear.

File under: Penguin / Ringwood Australian Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V SALE

DREAM MAGAZINE #2
January 2002

2002, English
Softcover (w. audio CD), 96 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Dream Magazine / Nevada City

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Rare second issue of Dream Magazine, published in Nevada City, California, by visual artist, radio DJ, music fanatic, collector of detritus and magazine publisher, George Parson, with the help of contributor Mats Gustafsson (of The Broken Face) and other floating luminaries of the 00's psychedelic /weird renaissance, a fervent period of new experimental musical activity networked by grassroots mail-orders and CD-r labels. Dream Magazine was an essential platform for writings on avant-garde, psychedelic and outsider music of all sorts, focussing on interviews with the artists, as well as writings on underground comic books, art and film. Many issues of Dream also included a bonus CD featuring unreleased or unavailable cuts from featured artists.

Dream Magazine #2:
Holger Czukay Of Can, Tony Dale of Camera Obscura Records, John Duncan, Alan Jenkins, Magic Carpathians, Magical Power Mako, Mandible Chatter, Timothy Renner, Robin Storey Of Rapoon, Abuna, Richard Adams Of Hood, Filip Ring Andersen, Bid of Scarlet's Well, Peter Blegvad (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Faust, Kew.Rhone), Tim Bowness Of No-Man and Samuel Smiles, Terrastock 4, Top 5 Record Labels, Greg Weeks, Jim White, Jim Woodring, hundreds of reviews, artwork, and much more...

CD features unreleased or otherwise unavailable material by: Abunai!, Greg Weeks, Missy Roback, Magical Power Mako, Magic Carpathians, The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree, Dipsomaniacs, Jeffrey Lewis, Tanakh, es, Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers, The Thurston Lava Tube, Mandible Chatter, Ring, Glen Johnson, Kiila, and more.

VG, CD likely unplayed.

File under: Peter Blegvad Slapp Happy Henry Cow Faust Kew.Rhone Tim Bowness Holger Czukay Can Camera Obscura Records John Duncan Alan Jenkins Magic Carpathians Magical Power Mako Mandible Chatter Timothy Renner Rapoon Greg Weeks Jim White Jim Woodring George Parson Mats Gustafsson Dream Magazine / Nevada City Counterculture Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Dream Magazine #5
Spring 2005

2005, English
Softcover (w. audio CD), 128 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Dream Magazine / Nevada City

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Rare fifth issue of Dream Magazine, published in Nevada City, California, by visual artist, radio DJ, music fanatic, collector of detritus and magazine publisher, George Parson, with the help of contributor Mats Gustafsson (of The Broken Face) and other floating luminaries of the 00's psychedelic/weird renaissance, a fervent period of new experimental musical activity networked by grassroots mail-orders and CD-r labels. Dream Magazine was an essential platform for writings on avant-garde, psychedelic and outsider music of all sorts, focussing on interviews with the artists, as well as writings on underground comic books, art and film. Many issues of Dream also included a bonus CD featuring unreleased or unavailable cuts from featured artists.

Dream Magazine #5:
Robert Wyatt & Alfreda Benge, Gary Panter, Tom Rapp, Terry Riley, Sun City Girls, Testbild!, Bipolaroid, Crashing Dreams, Elf Power, Ghost, Rick Griffin, Mats Gustafsson of The Broken Face, Ed Hardy Of Eclipse Records, Kemalliset Ystavat, The Lost Domain, Mushroom, Marissa Nadler, 13 Nightmares, John Trubee, Jonny Trunk Of Trunk Records, Verdure, Julia Vorontsova, hundreds of reviews, artwork, and much more...

CD features previously unreleased material by: Jack Rose, Piano Magic, AqPop, Volcano the Bear, Testbild!, Julia Vorontsova, Verdure, The Lost Domain, Mushroom, and Bipolaroid. Also featuring Bob Moss doing a great previously unrecorded Tom Rapp song, and a rare John Trubee instrumental.

VG with light cover bends, CD likely unplayed.

File under: Robert Wyatt Soft Machine Matching Mole Alfreda Benge Gary Panter Tom Rapp Terry Riley Sun City Girls Testbild! Bipolaroid Crashing Dreams Elf Power Ghost Rick Griffin Mats Gustafsson Eclipse Records Kemalliset Ystavat The Lost Domain Mushroom Marissa Nadler 13 Nightmares John Trubee Jonny Trunk Julia Vorontsova George Parson Mats Gustafsson Dream Magazine / Nevada City Sound / Music Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Faces of Death 2 (John Alan Schwartz)
Japanese film booklet 1981

1981, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shochiku / Tokyo

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Wonderful, very rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Faces of Death 2, the controversial straight-to-video 1981 American mondo horror documentary film directed by John Alan Schwartz, the follow-up to 1978's Faces of Death, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" & "Alan Black" respectively. Mortuaries, accidents and police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Faces of Death II contained real footage of a dead body being pulled from under a pier, Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, Buddhist self-immolations, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian patients with leprosy, a death museum featuring Joaquin Murrieta's preserved head, a driver high on PCP and a boxer going down for his “final” count. Much like the PSA Aircraft crash, the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan occurred recently before the film's completion, and was included as well. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: John Alan Schwartz Shochiku / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Autopsy
Japanese film booklet 1973

1973, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Toho / Tokyo

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Wonderful, very rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Autopsia (Autopsy), a 1973 Spanish Mondo-style docudrama by director Juan Logar about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage. Heavily illustrated throughout with b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Juan Logar Toho / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Objects / Ephemera / A/V Crime / Violence

Sonsbeek '72

1972, English / Dutch
3 books, softcover, approx 360 photo cards, 13.5 x 17 cm
Ed of 700 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$280.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce, incredible Sonsbeek '72 complete 3 volume catalogue set, published in a limited edition of 700 copies by Sonsbeek, Arnhem, 1972. The tripartite catalogue arose from the notes and photos made of an important group exhibition where artists submitted installation or performance pieces, executed during the period November '71 - June '72. Each volume forms an alphabetical index of artist photographic cards (#1 A-H, #2 I-R, #3 S-Z), totalling approx. 360, each with the data of their artwork on the front and photographic documentation on the verso. Very beautifully executed.

Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Daniel Buren, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Edward Ruscha, Wim T. Schippers, Lawrence Weiner, Tenjo Sajiki, Michael Snow, Kenneth Snelson, Eric Siegel, Paul Sharits, Wim Crouwel, Yokoyama, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Jack Moore, Yutaka Mutsuzawa, Peter Kubelka, Hans Koetsier, Ken Jacobs, Walter de Maria, Dan Graham, Hanne Darboven, Marinus Boezem.

Very Good copies each, with light wear, spine tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Carl Andre Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Marinus Boezem Daniel Buren Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Ad Dekkers Ger van Elk Hans Eykelboom Barry Flanagan Hollis Frampton Dan Graham Douglas Huebler Donald Judd On Kawara Sol LeWitt Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Panamarenko Edward Ruscha Wim T. Schippers Lawrence Weiner Tenjo Sajiki Michael Snow Kenneth Snelson Eric Siegel Paul Sharits Wim Crouwel Yokoyama Claes Oldenburg Bruce Nauman Robert Morris Jack Moore Yutaka Mutsuzawa Peter Kubelka Hans Koetsier Hanne Darboven Ken Jacobs Paul Bonger Rick Vermeulen Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Scott Redford (limited edition)
1962: Selected works 1983–1992

2003, English
Softcover, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill overprinted in black.), 33 x 24 cm
Edition of 100, plus 10 A/P,
Published by UQ Art Museum / Brisbane

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Artists' edition (100 copies) of Scott Redford’s already limited edition publication "1962: Scott Redford - Selected works 1983–1992" that have been have been overprinted entirely in black with detail images of Redford's iconic ‘black’ works, in which Redford made large collages and painted them black, signed, numbered and with a 7 inch record from the artists collection attached. "1962: Scott Redford - Selected Works 1983 - 1992" is a wonderful monograph surveying the early work of Redford, published to accompany an exhibition surveying Redford's early work at the University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. 3 October - 22 November 2003. Beautifully designed and brilliantly illustrated, this monograph brings to life Redford’s diverse work across assemblage, sculpture, painting, installation, and much more. Includes essay by Andrew McNamara and interview with Scott Redford.

Scott Redford (b. 1962 Gold Coast, Queensland) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Redford's work is unique in its references to international art movements including colour-field painting, conceptual art and pop art, while engaging with local themes, such as Australian art history, beach culture and vernacular architecture, regularly commenting on issues of gender and identity.

File under: Scott Redford Andrew McNamara UQ Art Museum / Brisbane Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Signed Books

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

No Manifesto (Rosa Johanna, Wjm Kok, John Nixon)
22nd of February, 2018 Amsterdam

2018, English / Dutch
Staple bound, 4 pages, 15 x 10.5 cm
Ed. of 300,
Published by Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

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"No Manifesto" from artists Rosa Johanna, Wjm Kok, and John Nixon, published by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 22nd of February, 2018. This wonderful staple-bound publication takes the form of a Stedelijk Museum visitor's feedback form, asking "What Do You Think?", accompanied by the artist's "No Manifesto".

Limited edition of 300 copies.

File under: John Nixon Rosa Johanna Wjm Kok Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam Art Painting Objects / Ephemera / A/V Australian Art Minimal Art SALE

Alex Selenitsch
four 4-colour books

2008/2015, English
4 hand-sewn books in a plastic file (softcover books w. cut/folded coloured papers, white photocopy title sheet), each book 16 pages, 21 x 21 cm
Ed. of 32, numbered,
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

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Artist book edition published in an edition of 32 hand-numbered copies. Each edition is made up of 4 hand-sewn books in a plastic file. Each book comprises 16 pages of cut/folded coloured papers presenting a colour narrative: four pastel ‘primaries’ making colour tableaux, introduced and closed off by black and white covers.

The coloured pages are assembled from A3 sheets which have been halved: accurately in two cases (straight line orthogonal and straight line incline) or approximately (sinusoidal and horizontal tear). The cut-outs on the cover hint at the kind of division or halving that the coloured sheets have been subjected to. Both halves are used in the edition of each book, so that each edition of 32 copies with 4 folded sheets (giving 16 pages) uses 64 sheets. For the approximate cuts (sinusoidal and horizontal tear), there is some variation inside the edition.

File under: Alex Selenitsch Self-Published / Melbourne Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Objects / Ephemera / A/V Poetry

Gloria original film poster 1980

1980, French
Offset printed, 54 x 39 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Columbia Pictures / USA

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Original 1980 vintage film poster for John Cassavetes' Gloria, one of the greatest crime thrillers of all-time, starring Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Buck Henry, and John Adames. Written and directed by John Cassavetes, Gloria is an American thriller / pulp crime drama that follows a gangster's girlfriend (Gena Rowlands) who must slip the clutches of the mob with a young boy (John Adames) who is being hunted for information he may or may not have. One of the greatest gangster films ever made. Cited by Akira Kurosawa as one of his favourite films. Offset printed on fine warm white stock.

Dimensions : 54 x 39 cm

(Not a reproduction, original Columbia Pictures issue for theatre release)

Very Good copy, with light wear, standard folds and small pin-holes.

File under: John Cassavetes Gena Rowlands Columbia Pictures / USA Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

Tadanori Yokoo
Edogawa Ranpo commemorative Print Set (complete)

1968, Japanese
5 litho prints in letterpress envelope, 19 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

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Complete 5 card set of litho prints by legendary Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo, issued in letterpress, marbled envelope in 1968 to commemorate the release of the complete 12 volume collected works of Japanese author and critic Edogawa Ranpo (1894—1965), who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Yokoo contributed many illustrations to the book collection, alongside fellow artists Iwami Furusawa and others. This rare folio of prints (roughly the size of post cards) collects five of the finest examples of Yokoo's instantly recognisable 1960's psychedelic work — erotic, grotesque, and esoteric themes rendered in vivid graphic collage and pop colour.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over.

Very Good, perfectly preserved cards in aged envelope with some wear to edges and tanning.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Kodansha Int / Tokyo Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art

Hysteric Fifteen — Destroy All Monsters
by Sue Rynski

2006, English
Hardcover (debossed faux leather bound + 7"), 26 x 23 cm
600 numbered copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo

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Published in 2006 by fashion brand Hysteric Glamor in a numbered edition of 600 copies, bound in padded debossed faux leather hardcover with a 7" record, "the book is a monograph of my late 1970s photographs of my friends, the avant-garde rock group Destroy All Monsters."—Sue Rynski, Detroit photographer. Described by legendary critic Lester Bangs as "anti-rock", Destroy All Monsters was an influential Detroit rock band formed in 1973 by University of Michigan art students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, legendary femme fatale Niagara, and filmmaker Cary Loren, existing to 1985 with shifting personnel and sporadic performances since. Performing their first concert at a comic book convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on New Year's Eve of 1973, the group combined elements of punk, psych, metal and noise rock with a heavy dose of experimentation and performance art, influenced as much by ESP-Disk, Sun Ra and The Velvets, as monster movies and Futurism. The cult group earned a measure of notoriety through their coveted DAM Magazine, also due to members of The Stooges and MC5 joining the band, and Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore compiling a three compact disc set of the group's music in 1994.

"Born in 1954, year of the birth of rock and roll, I grew up immersed in the high energy music of my hometown Detroit. This loud, physical, emotional music took hold and became a part of me."—Sue Rynski

A stunning book published by Hysteric Glamor director Nobuhiko Kitamura, with editorial direction by : Osamu Wataya, Michitaka Ota (Sokyusha), and Koichi Hara. 7" includes the tracks "Rocking the Cradle" and "Little Boyfriend" by Destroy All Monsters.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Destroy All Monsters Sue Rynski Jim Shaw Mike Kelley Cary Loren Niagara Larry Miller Ben Miller Roger Miller Mike (Jett) Powers Ron Asheton Michael Davis The Stooges MC5 Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Painting Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Joseph Beuys
"Sonnenschlitten" (1984)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

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Joseph Beuys "Sonnenschlitten" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

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File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Posters / Prints

Joseph Beuys
"La rivoluzione siamo Noi" (1972)

German
Postcard, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Edition Staeck / Heidelberg

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Joseph Beuys "We Are The Revolution" postcard published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.

Joseph Beuys (1921—1986) was a German avant-garde artist. He was a sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. Beuys was heavily involved in Fluxus and happenings. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

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File under: Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck / Heidelberg Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater

Maison Martin Margiela '10' — '14' : Collection pour Homme Spring — Summer 2007

2007, English / French
Softcover (leporello fold)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Maison Martin Margiela / Paris

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Rare canvas covered leporello lookbook for Maison Martin Margiela '10' — '14' Spring/Summer 2007 Menswear Collection. The book features 24 photos by photographer Jacques Habbah. Each one of these lookbooks were handmade in the Parisian press office. The photos are printed and glued on a piece of white cotton cloth. They served both as an important communication tool and as an aid for wholesale clients to show perspective buyers the most representative looks of the collection.

Very Good copy.

File under: Maison Martin Margiela Martin Margiela Jacques Habbah Maison Martin Margiela / Paris Objects / Ephemera / A/V Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Textiles

Mladen Stilinović
My Sweet Little Lamb

2009, English
Softcover (leporello fold), 15.5 x 97 cm
Artist's Ed. of 200,
Published by Index / Stockholm

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Mladen Stilinović's "My Sweet Little Lamb" was first published as an artist's book in 1993. Produced with pen and rubber seal on printed paper, it is one of the many important published edition works of the late Croatian conceptual artist, and this recent Artist's edition was published in 2009 by Index, Stockholm, on the occasion of a major exhibition of the artist's books.

This Artist's edition was published by Stilinović in leporello format in an edition of 200 copies.

Mladen Stilinović (1947—2016) was one of the most significant representatives of neo-avant-garde art in Central and Eastern Europe. Stilinović was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. His polymorphic approach finds varied manifestations from collages, installations, photographs, books, performances, actions in public space as well as participations in collective actions. Through his works, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects. Using devices such as irony, paradox, and manipulation, the artist criticizes the language of politics, institutional hierarchy within art, and the role of money and labor in society. Language is central to his aesthetics; he associates it with graphic signs and other visual references to historical movement, such as geometric abstraction. His work is deeply rooted in the rites that reveal the interdependence of private and public spheres. He is particularly interested in the interaction between visual and linguistic signs as well as in the mechanisms of deconstruction in language. Stilinović also ran the Extended Media Gallery from 1981-1991. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

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File under: Mladen Stilinović Mladen Stilinović Index / Stockholm Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Mladen Stilinović
Frizeri / Hairdressers

2010, English / Croatian
Softcover (leporello fold), 11 x 166 cm
Artist's Ed. of 200,
Published by Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw

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Mladen Stilinović's "Frizeri / Hairdressers" was first published in 1975, when Stilinović was making many photographs and photographic series which he bound in leporello (accordion) format. Frizeri (Hairdressers) was one of these many important published edition works of the late Croatian conceptual artist, and this Artist's edition was published in 2010 to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

This Artist's edition was published by Stilinović by pasting together photographs in an edition of 200 copies.

Mladen Stilinović (1947—2016) was one of the most significant representatives of neo-avant-garde art in Central and Eastern Europe. Stilinović was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. His polymorphic approach finds varied manifestations from collages, installations, photographs, books, performances, actions in public space as well as participations in collective actions. Through his works, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects. Using devices such as irony, paradox, and manipulation, the artist criticizes the language of politics, institutional hierarchy within art, and the role of money and labor in society. Language is central to his aesthetics; he associates it with graphic signs and other visual references to historical movement, such as geometric abstraction. His work is deeply rooted in the rites that reveal the interdependence of private and public spheres. He is particularly interested in the interaction between visual and linguistic signs as well as in the mechanisms of deconstruction in language. Stilinović also ran the Extended Media Gallery from 1981-1991. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

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File under: Mladen Stilinović Mladen Stilinović Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art