World Food Books

Post Punk Diary, 1980-1982
by George Gimarc

1997, English
Softcover (foiled faux leather w. CD), 374 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by St. Martin's Press / New York

$85.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Post Punk Diary, 1980-1982, by George Gimarc; a day-by-day, eyewitness account of the underground music scene. A brilliant reference that documents the record releases from the major to the obscure and other events that shaped this often misunderstood rock music era — over three years/900 bands/3,300 recordings. Millions of Dead Cops, Orange Juice, The Fall, Nurse with Wound, Marine Girls, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle, Discharge, Go Go's, D.A.F., Iggy Pop, G.B.H., Death in June, Legendary Pink Dots, Crass, S.P.K., Psychic TV, Xmal Deutchland, Public Image Limited, Durutti Column, The Germs, Anti-Pasti, Pere Ubu, Cocteau Twins, XTC, Bow Wow Wow, Exploited, Swell Maps, Tuxedomoon, Adam Ant, Gang of Four, The Bush Tetras, The Saints, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Black Flag, Minutemen, Flying Lizards, The Go-Betweens, Hüsker Dü, Cabaret Voltaire, The Damned, Family Fodder, Alien Sex Fiend, Killing Joke, Raincoats, Lydia Lunch, Minor Threat....... you get the idea, plus hundreds more...

This copy with original accompanying compilation CD present, featuring music by many of the groups in the book: The Bangles, Psychedelic Furs, Gang Of Four, Exploited, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Oingo Boingo, Eyeless In Gaza, U2, Stray Cats, Meteors, Go Gos, Ramones, Squeeze, Comsat Angels, Devo, O.M.D., Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, 4 Skins, The Alarm, Pete Shelley, The Buzzcocks, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, The Church, Lords Of The New Church, Attila The Stockbroker, XTC, The Damned, Everything But The Girl, Birthday Party, R.E.M., Paul Weller, The Cure, Chameleons, Southern Death Cult, Elvis Costello, The Teardrop Explodes....

George Douglas Gimarc is an American disc jockey, record and radio program producer and author based in Texas and is in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. He is known for his extensive and authoritative knowledge about the classic rock radio format, recorded music in general, and specifically the era of punk rock.

Very Good with some light wear/creasing. Includes the often missing CD, this copy unplayed and still sealed.

File under: Millions of Dead Cops Orange Juice The Fall Nurse with Wound Marine Girls Joy Division Throbbing Gristle Discharge Go Go's D.A.F. Iggy Pop G.B.H. Death in June Legendary Pink Dots Crass S.P.K. Psychic TV Xmal Deutchland Public Image Limited Durutti Column The Germs Anti-Pasti Pere Ubu Cocteau Twins XTC Bow Wow Wow Exploited Swell Maps Tuxedomoon Adam Ant Gang of Four The Bush Tetras The Saints Siouxsie and The Banshees Black Flag Minutemen Flying Lizards The Go-Betweens Hüsker Dü Cabaret Voltaire The Damned Family Fodder Alien Sex Fiend Killing Joke Raincoats Lydia Lunch Minor Threat George Gimarc St. Martin's Press / New York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Hölle
by Rainald Goetz

2019, English
Poster (double-sided, folded) in envelope, 59.5 x 63 cm
Published by Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

$30.00 - In stock -

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Limited edition poster with the transcript of Rainald Goetz’s presentation of the English translation of his novel Insane, published on the occasion of the exhibition opening for the group exhibition Hölle in September 2018 at Galerie Buchholz New York, featuring new or selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji Shin.

Rainald Maria Goetz (b. 1954) is a German author, playwright and essayist.

File under: Lutz Bacher Caleb Considine Vincent Fecteau Rainald Goetz Sergej Jensen Jutta Koether Michael Krebber Monica Majoli Albert Oehlen Henrik Olesen Heji Shin Rainald Goetz Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Fiction / Poetry Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Photography

'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies
Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, Sam Schoenbaum

1983, English
Single-sheet (folded into 8-panels, double-sided), 64 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Excellent, rare, over-sized single sheet/poster catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition and lecture series, 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, at the Exhibition Gallery, Monash University Department of Visual Arts, curated and designed by artist Peter Cripps in 1983, featuring the work of Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, and Sam Schoenbaum. In what could easily be the precursor to Cripps' wonderful "Recession Art & Other Strategies" (1986), 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, as Cripps states in his catalogue text, "locates an approach which emerged in this period (but which has yet to be acknowledged) and attempts to show how it informs the new Australian Art of the Eighties. The essence of this new approach was in its reformulation of the idea of what could constitute the 'parts' of a work. "Masterpieces" is thus not only an exhibition composed of parts but also an exhibition about 'parts'. There are 5 artists in the exhibition and they are represented by works produced 7 to 10 years ago as well as by more recent works. The first 21 weeks of the 8-week exhibition are devoted to contemporary works, followed by 1 'historical' work by each artist per week for the remaining 5 weeks."

Illustrated with documentation of some of the works alongside texts by the artists, portraits, drawings, full exhibition catalogue, biographies...
First, only edition of this rare historical piece, As New copy with light tanning and wear.

File under: Peter Tyndall Imants Tillers Peter Cripps John Nixon Sam Schoenbaum Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Australian Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Group Shows / Collections

Granma Weekly Review
January 11, 1970 (Year 5, No. 2)

1970, English
Newspaper (folded folio), 12 pages, 55 x 38 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee / Havana

$45.00 - In stock -

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Granma is the "Official Organ of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party". It was formed in Havana in 1965 by the merger of two previous papers, Revolución and Hoy. Its name comes from the yacht Granma that carried Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels to Cuba's shores in 1956, launching the Cuban Revolution. Cuban journalist, historian, historical fiction writer, and revolutionary heroine, Marta Rojas (b. 1928) worked for the paper since its founding. A witness to the 26 July 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks, she reported on the subject of censorship to Revista Bohemia.

Early English copies are seldom seen/preserved, this rare special issue celebrates the 11th anniversary of the Cuban rebellion and features messages from communist leaders, as well as many articles on the "As in Vietnam" anniversary activities celebrating "Ten Years of Anti-Yankee Struggle, Ten Million Tons of Sugar Campaign of Solidarity" including the unveiling of the new campaign poster, the 10 million ton calendar, and in-depth photo-reportage of Fidel Castro working in the canefields with Vietnamese Students, articles on the rear-guard workers, the victory of the Camilo Cienfuegos Sugar Mill, agriculture in Havana, the construction of the Cuban Pavilion in Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, international reports and much more. Heavily illustrated. Gramma Weekly Review was published in English, French, and Spanish, printed in red and black on newsprint. This edition is published in the English-language.

Good copy, with general ageing to paper stock, toning and light chipping/cracking at fold points and some edges. Overall very nice, nothing affecting the content.

File under: Marta Rojas Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee / Havana Objects / Ephemera / A/V Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals

JUTTA KOETHER
HOW GOES IT?

2022, English
Printed envelope w. 10 cards, 22.5 x 15 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

$38.00 - In stock -

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Catalogue published to accompany Jutta Koether’s exhibition How goes it? at Galerie Buchholz, Köln in September 2021. This orange envelope contains 5 colour plate reproductions of the paintings featured in the exhibition, alongside 5 black and white text cards with a written correspondence between Sabeth Buchmann and the artist.

File under: Jutta Koether Sabeth Buchmann Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Painting Objects / Ephemera / A/V

PROVENCE AW 21/22 : The Poster Issue
Olamiju Fajemisin, Philip Pilekjær, Tobias Kaspar (Eds.)

2022, English
Softcover box folio + posters
Published by Provence / Nice

$48.00 - Out of stock

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This limited edition of PROVENCE comes in the form of box folio filled with posters by contributing artists, galleries, historians, fashion designers, critics, enterprises, etc. including: Marc Asekhame, Brigade, Merlin Carpenter, CFGNY, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Rhea Dahl, Damien & The Love Guru, DAY6, Simon Denny, galeriepcp — Perks and Mini, Gessnerallee, Edgars Gluhovs, Samuel Haitz & Leda Bourgogne & Anne Fellner, Gloria Hasnay & Moritz NebenfuÌuehr, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Valeria Herklotz, Nina Hollensteiner & Albrecht Pischel, Karma International, Vera Kaspar, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Marie Karlberg, Milena Langer, Lulli 2020 — Jim C. Nedd — Nina Hollensteiner, Midway Contemporary Art, Olaf Nicolai, D’Ette Nogle, O-Town House, Walter Pfeiffer, Plymouth Rock, Sam Pulitzer, Ottolinger — Julien Ceccaldi, Marine Serre, Chen Shen featuring Gao Han, Wei Longwen & XYZ Lab, Kathrin Sonntag, suns.works, Swiss Art Awards, Una Szeemann, Galerie Tschudi, Hamish Fulton, Ilaria Vinci, Edition VFO, Nina Zimmer — Meret Oppenheim.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Merlin Carpenter Julien Ceccaldi Sam Pulitzer Walter Pfeiffer Marie Karlberg Olaf Nicolai Calla Henkel Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff Max Pitegoff Hamish Fulton PAM (Perks and Mini) Simon Denny Marc Asekhame D’Ette Nogle Anne Fellner Leda Bourgogne Ottolinger Marine Serre Nina Zimmer Samuel Haitz Provence / Nice Periodicals Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Painting Photography

ENDLESS LONELY PLANET 3

2014, English
Transparent plastic shopping bag, C90 audio cassette, autumnal leaves, loose-leaf A4 printed pages, envelope with edition, various other materials
Edition of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

$15.00 $5.00 - Out of stock

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Endless Lonely Planet is a yearly periodical of print and data from Melbourne, Australia.

ELP3 features: "a c90 tape from Porpoise Torture, an edition work and poem from Virginia Overell, a vine channel from Fictitious Sighs and Bunyip Trax, including at least 52 artists throughout the coming year, a selection of poetry from Internetemotions, a seasonal treat from Christopher L G Hill, a calender of contributors birthdays from Discipline, a poem by George Egerton-Warburton, an edition work by David Homewood, artist pages from James Deutsher, Kain Picken, Matthew Benjamin, and Dan Arps, an excerpt from a possible novella by Fayen d'Evie, two beautiful text works from Alex Vivian, a posy of poems from Adelle Mills, cover art as always by the illustrious Joshua Petherick"

Self published by Christopher LG Hill and contributors, each copy of Endless Lonely Planet issue III comes with all collateral bound together in a transparent plastic shopping bag.

Limited to 100 copies.

Contributors to this issue in full and counting: Adelle Mills, Alex Vivian, Christopher L G Hill, Dan Arps, David Homewood, Disciple, Fayen K X d'Evie. George Egerton-Warburton, Giles Fielke, Molly Dyson, Julian Schwarmer, Aurelia Guo, Jessica Yu, Trevelyan Clay, Anastsia Klose, Eva Birch, Clare Wöhlnick, Alice Jamerson, Jarved Costa, Tim Cøstẽr, Hamish M Macdonald, Holly Childs, Kate Meakin, Lipstick Larry, Simon Zoric, Brennen Oliver, Jessica van Hecke, Ruth O'Leary, Maffew Linde, Kain Picken, James Deutsher, Joshua Petherick, Matthew Benjamin, Porpoise Torture, Virginia Overell, Endless Lonely Planet III vine channel, Matthew P Hopkins, Kieran Hegarty, Air Max '97, and more to come.....

File under: Adelle Mills Aurelia Guo Brennen Oliver Christopher LG Hill Dan Arps Fayen d'Evie George Egerton-Warburton Giles Fielke Holly Childs James Deutsher Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Kate Meakin Kieran Hegarty Matthew Benjamin Matthew Linde Matthew P Hopkins Molly Dyson Mouving Porpoise Torture Simon Zoric Tim Coster Trevelyan Clay VDO Virginia Overell Clare Wöhlnick Fayen d'Evie Holly Childs Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Fiction / Poetry Objects / Ephemera / A/V Periodicals Australian Art SALE

Martyn Bates
Port Of Stormy Lights

1989, English
Softcover, 16 pages + 4-track 3" MINI-CD, 28 x 19.5 cm
No. ed of 5000 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sordide Sentimental / France

$25.00 - In stock -

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Martyn Bates — Port Of Stormy Lights booklet and 4-track 3" MINI-CD issued in 1989/1990 by Sordide Sentimental in a limited and machine-numbered No. 001622 out of 5000 copies. Booklet combines photographs, album covers and graphics with a parallel French/English texts by Muriel Quoniam and Jean-Pierre Turmel, discussing themes, links and symbology in Bates' work, tying it to the Cashmere region, Third Ear Band, and much more. Martyn Bates (b. 1960) is an English singer, musician and songwriter. After releasing tapes of experimental, industrial music as Migraine Inducers Bates formed post-punk duo Eyeless In Gaza with Peter Becker in January 1980. The duo became known for their unconventional instrumentation and arrangements, and for Bates’s passionate vocals, which at times were whispered, howled, or stammered. During his 20+ year career producing countless releases under Eyeless In Gaza, solo recordings and various collaborations with film-maker Derek Jarman, poet Anne Clark, This Mortal Coil's Deirdre Rutkowski, Napalm Death's Mick Harris, Orchis/Temple Music/Nurse With Wound collaborator Alan Trench, et al), Bates managed to shape a unique, instantly recognizable form of music based on a deeply rooted, 100% English folk tradition.

Very Good copy, booklet with some light spine pinching, in plastic sleeve, CD sleeve opened but CD VG.

File under: Martyn Bates Eyeless In Gaza Sordide Sentimental / France Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

Loren Chasse
an ear afoot

1997, English
Softcover (wire-bound), 12 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Unique Ancient Tavern / San Francisco

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare copy of Loren Chasse's "an ear afoot", a very early publication of "object/area sonologies", published in 1997 in an unknown small edition by Unique Ancient Tavern in San Francisco. We cannot locate another copy. Lovely hand-made publication of Chasse's drawings and writings, bound with thin wire. Loren Chasse is an American musician, sound artist, field recordist and teacher, most notable for his association with Jewelled Antler and his work with Thuja, The Blithe Sons, The Child Readers, Of and many others.

Good copy with some wear and tanning to raw stock covers. Bound by light wire, traces of something organic possibly once attached to cover.

File under: Loren Chasse Loren Chasse Unique Ancient Tavern / San Francisco Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Rolf Julius
Wind (w. CD)

1993, German
Softcover, 20 pages + CD, 29 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verlag Das Beispiel GmbH Darmstadt / Darmstadt

$140.00 $90.00 - In stock -

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Rare first, only edition of Rolf Julius ‎– Wind, beautiful artist book published with accompanying CD by Verlag Das Beispiel GmbH Darmstadt in 1993. Includes book with texts (score) by sound artist Rolf Julius (1939 — 2011), and Helga de la Motte-Haber (essay), and b/w illustrations (drawings and photographs) throughout. CD includes the pieces : Sommerstück (Belèm) - 1993 and Neues Klavierkonzert - 1992.

Rolf Julius has frequently been compared to John Cage for his attempts of integrating the world of common noises into the realm of sounds. "The surface of a sound interests me. Is it round or angled, grinding and raw, or smooth, etc." Julius thus creates extraordinary sound installations which can be described as "music for the eyes" and have secured him an unmistakeable place in the spectrum of contemporary art. An important book for anyone interested in Julius or Cage's concept of "Small Music" or ambient/field recording in general.

Very Good copy.

File under: Rolf Julius Rolf Julius Helga de la Motte-Haber Verlag Das Beispiel GmbH Darmstadt / Darmstadt Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V SALE

Edward Kienholz
1960-1970

1970, English / German
Softcover (soft flexible silver cloth cover bound w. screws into metal case), 150 pages (inc. numerous fold-outs), 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Düsseldorf

$100.00 - Out of stock

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The fantastic Edward Kienholz "1960-1970" book-object/catalogue, published for a show curated by Pontus Hulten that toured to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf in 1970. Designed by Kienholz himself, this book functions as a sort-of bound archive/artist's book of Kienholz's major sculptural works and installations throughout the 1960's. Wrapped in a printed, soft, silver "faux-leather" cloth cover, bound with metal screws into a galvanised metal case, this folio compiles and surveys the work of American installation-artist/sculptor Ed Kienholz between 1960-1970, each work illustrated through colour fold-out gloss pages and multiple black and white images, accompanied by introductory texts by Jürgen Harten in English and German and a foreword by Karl Ruhrberg. Also features a biography and bibliography. An incredible, rare book on Kienholz and an enormously valuable reference source on the artist's amazing early works. First edition.

Edward Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and fifth wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Throughout much of their career, the work of the Kienholzes was more appreciated in Europe than in their native United States, though American museums have featured their art more prominently since the 1990s.

Art critic Brian Sewell called Edward Kienholz "the least known, most neglected and forgotten American artist of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation of the 1950s, a contemporary of the writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Norman Mailer, his visual imagery at least as grim, gritty, sordid and depressing as their literary vocabulary".

Very Good with light wear, light curling/creasing to cover edges - common with this book material.

File under: Edward Kienholz Nancy Reddin Kienholz Jürgen Harten Karl Ruhrberg Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Düsseldorf Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Resonance Volume 4 No.2
"Special Japanese Issue" + 7"

1995, English
Softcover (w. 7" single), 60 pages, 30 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by London Musician's Collective / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Rare "Special Japanese Issue" (Volume 4 No.2) of Resonance magazine, published by the London Musician's Collective in 1996 with exclusive 7" single of seven untitled pieces by Otomo Yoshihide and Yamatsuka Eye, recorded live in London, Spring 1995. Magazine includes articles by Otomo Yoshihide on the 1970s Japanese improvised scene (Kaoru Abe, Masayuki Takayanagi, Keiji Hano, et al.), Thurston Moore on Japan, Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Recommended Records, et al.) on Haniwa Chan, Richard Scott on Hôgaku (Traditional Japanese Music), Steve Beresford (Derek Bailey's Company, et al.) on The Honeymoons, David Toop, Boredoms interview by Stefan Jaworzyn (including a Boredoms discography and family tree), Eckhart Derschmidt on Japanese jazz, Stefan Jaworzyn interviews Derek Bailey about working in Japan, live and record reviews and much more.

Very Good copy with Near mint, As New 7" single.

File under: Yamantaka Eye EYƎ Chris Cutler Thurston Moore Kaoru Abe Masayuki Takayanagi Keiji Hano David Toop Derek Bailey Stefan Jaworzyn Steve Beresford Otomo Yoshihide Chris Cutler Thurston Moore David Toop Eckhart Derschmidt Stefan Jaworzyn Steve Beresford Richard Scott Otomo Yoshihide London Musician's Collective / London Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Robert MacPherson
"20 Frog Poems: Distant Thunder (A Memorial) For D.M." 1987-1989

1989, English
Softcover (bi-fold single sheet, double-sided), 63 x 29.7 (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by IMA / Brisbane

$55.00 - In stock -

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Rare catalogue/bulletin from the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, to accompany the solo exhibition "20 Frog Poems: Distant Thunder (A Memorial) For D.M." 1987-1989, by Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson, curated by Sue Cramer. This bi-fold-out single sheet catalogue includes b/w illustrations of Robert's work with extensive essay by Ingrid Periz, followed by artist biography.

Over the course of his 40 plus-year career, Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson (1937–2021) explored the philosophical propositions of what constitutes a work of art. He often incorporated familiar imagery, everyday materials and visual elements from daily life, honouring the beauty of the mundane. MacPherson’s fascination with systems of objects and language is manifested through broad fields of knowledge, including art history and social history, biology and mythology.

Good copy with mail-out fold through middle and light Australia Post register stamp on front face.

File under: Robert MacPherson IMA / Brisbane Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Australian Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Robert MacPherson
"Four Works" exhibition postcard, 1976

1976, English
Printed postcard, 15.7 x 12.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ray Hughes Gallery / Sydney

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Rare "Four Works" exhibition invite postcard produced to accompany early solo exhibition of Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson at Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, March 6th—25th, 1976. This early exhibition (only his second year of exhibiting) possibly presented MacPherson's "Sarah's Merle" or "Scale From The Tool" paintings (?).

Over the course of his 40 plus-year career, Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson (1937–2021) explored the philosophical propositions of what constitutes a work of art. He often incorporated familiar imagery, everyday materials and visual elements from daily life, honouring the beauty of the mundane. MacPherson’s fascination with systems of objects and language is manifested through broad fields of knowledge, including art history and social history, biology and mythology.

Established in 1970 by Australian grazier, art collector, gallerist, art dealer, and art patron Chandler ("Channy") Phillip Coventry AM (1924–1999), The Coventry Gallery was a landmark in Australian gallery history, energetically showing new and emerging Australian artists, notably abstract, colourfield and hard-edge artists (in the early years), as well as staging exhibitions by leading overseas artists such as Bridget Riley and David Hockney.

Very Good unposted, clean copy.

File under: Robert MacPherson Ray Hughes Gallery / Sydney Objects / Ephemera / A/V Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Art

Robert MacPherson

1977, English
Single sheet, 33.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Coventry Gallery / Sydney

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Rare exhibition release and price-list produced to accompany early solo exhibition of Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson at the Coventry Gallery on Sutherland Street, Paddington, April 19th—May 7th, 1977. This early exhibition presented MacPherson's iconic "Scale From The Tool" works on canvas (1976-77), whose proportions and scale dictated by the use of the artist's tool, a four inch Oldfield housepainters brush, the brush-stroke, and the artist's reach. Includes biography, collections list, artist's statement, work-list with prices, and gallery information.

Over the course of his 40 plus-year career, Australian conceptual artist Robert MacPherson (1937–2021) explored the philosophical propositions of what constitutes a work of art. He often incorporated familiar imagery, everyday materials and visual elements from daily life, honouring the beauty of the mundane. MacPherson’s fascination with systems of objects and language is manifested through broad fields of knowledge, including art history and social history, biology and mythology.

Established in 1970 by Australian grazier, art collector, gallerist, art dealer, and art patron Chandler ("Channy") Phillip Coventry AM (1924–1999), The Coventry Gallery was a landmark in Australian gallery history, energetically showing new and emerging Australian artists, notably abstract, colourfield and hard-edge artists (in the early years), as well as staging exhibitions by leading overseas artists such as Bridget Riley and David Hockney.

Very Good, light tanning, light wear.

File under: Robert MacPherson Coventry Gallery / Sydney Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Australian Art Painting

Beatles Press Book

1969, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 28 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Apple Press Office / London

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Very rare original 1969 Beatles Press book, issued privately by the Apple Records Press Office on Saville Road and not available for commercial sale. Contains all record releases, tour dates and performances, and diary of events 1962 to 1969. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the band and wrapped in stiff airbrushed covers.

Very Good copy with some light marking, light cover wear.

File under: The Beatles Paul McCartney John Lennon George Harrison Ringo Star Apple Press Office / London Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Broken Music

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

$65.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Magma "Kobaïa" promotional poster

1970,
Offset poster, 77 x 116 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Vertigo Records / London

$450.00 - Out of stock

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Stunning and extremely rare original vintage Magma poster, produced by Vertigo Records to promote their "Kobaïa" LP in 1970. Magma were a French progressive rock group founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, inventor of the musical style termed Zeuhl, and creator of the fictional language, Kobaïan.

Dimensions : 77 x 116 cm
Very Good, with light markings and edge wear. Photos upon request.

File under: Magma Christian Vander Vertigo Records / London Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Josh Smith
Japan 2009

2009, English
Softcover (hand-painted/drawn), 96 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 1000 (each unique),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hiromi Yoshii Gallery / Tokyo

$100.00 $40.00 - Out of stock

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Hand-painted artist book by Josh Smith. "Designed in New York by Josh Smith, Todd Amicon and 38th Street Publishers for Hiromi Yoshii Gallery." Printed in Japan in an edition of 1000 copies. Smith has treated each book's glossy, white covers as a blank canvas, painting and illustrating each on the front and back, making them unique editions. Content is entirely made up of a rich selection of cropped black and white reproductions of Smith's paintings, drawings, stamps, collages, xeroxes, scans of his signature fish, leaves, faces, name (JOSH SMITH), etc. Published to accompany the exhibition "Paintings", Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2009.

Almost as new copy, light tanning to cover edge, otherwise tight and clean throughout. Paint and marker on covers. Some shelf scratching to marker line work.

File under: Josh Smith Hiromi Yoshii Gallery / Tokyo Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books SALE Art

Anne Truitt

1973, English
Softcover (folding card), 4 pages, 18 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / New York

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Rare catalogue folding-card to accompany the exhibition Anne Truitt Sculpture and Drawings, 1961 — 1973, Whitney Museum of American Art. Typeset list of works and bio, illustrated front.

Anne Truitt was a major figure in American art for more than forty years, and her bold use of geometry and color signaled a new direction for modern sculpture. Abstract yet rich with feeling, her work is grounded in memories and sensations accumulated over a lifetime. This referentiality is in stark contrast to the literalness of Minimalism, a movement with which her work is sometimes associated. For Truitt, abstraction provided a syntax for her impressions — of people, places, ideas, and events. She wielded color and form as metaphors for thought, developing a visual grammar that remains unique in the history of art. As she explained, “What is important to me is not geometrical shape per se, or color per se, but to make a relationship between shape and color which feels to me like my experience. To make what feels to me like reality.”

Anne Truitt (1921–2004) grew up in Easton, Maryland, and spent most of her adult life in Washington, DC. The large-scale, meticulously painted wood sculptures for which she is best known were first exhibited in 1963 at the André Emmerich Gallery in New York. She lived in Japan from 1964 to 1967, and the legendary curator Walter Hopps organized her first museum retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington mounted the first posthumous retrospective of her work in 2009, and a survey exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid is scheduled for 2022. Truitt received numerous awards during her lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and five honorary doctorates. Today she is renowned not just for her art but also for her three books — Daybook (1982), Turn (1986), and Prospect (1996) — which distilled years of journal entries into a vivid account of her life as an artist.

Lightly tanned with age. Very Good copy.

File under: Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Minimal Art Art

National Koorier Vol. 1 No. 7
Edited by Bruce McGuinness

1969, English
Softcover, 26 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Koorier / Reservoir

$150.00 - In stock -

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Extremely rare copy of National Koorier (Vol. 1 No. 7), the first Aboriginal-initiated national news-sheet (also known as Koorier and Jumbunna) produced by Aboriginal activist Bruce McGuinness between 1968 and 1971, and printed monthly at 41 Gertrude St. Fitzroy, Melbourne. McGuinness used National Koorier, 'the organ of the National Tribal Council' to reach out to Aboriginal people around Australia, lobbying for Aboriginal control of Aboriginal organisations. It was the first truly confrontational Indigenous publication, reflecting McGuinness' Black Power consciousness. Australian Aboriginal Gumbainggir activist and writer Gary Foley described The Koorier as "a gestetnered, stapled thing", alluding to its amateur presentation, that had a significant impact on him personally as a young emerging Aboriginal leader, and also on its readership: "It fucking grabs you and it shakes you up." In the late 1960s, when the issue of Indigenous control of organisations was being debated, McGuinness (1939-2003) played a leading role both in Victoria and nationally. He became president of the Australian Aborigines' League, which became the Aboriginal branch of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League. Through his publishing and activism, Bruce and other young Indigenous activists, such as Foley and Denis Walker, understood the Aboriginal struggle as a part of a broader struggle against colonialism and white power and argued for Indigenous control of their own affairs. Bruce McGuinness was the Victorian State Director of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1969. He argued for Indigenous control of that organisation at the 1970 annual conference and, when that failed, a new organisation, the National Tribal Council, was formalised, asserting the importance of pride in identity. While The Koorier was primarily produced for an Aboriginal audience, McGuinness also used the publication to "…clarify and educate uninformed people of the atrocities committed against the Aborigines…" and to demand change.

National Koorier (Vol. 1 No. 7) includes news, announcements, extensive Letters section, Q&A between McGuinness, Kath Walker, Ken Brindle and Dulchie Flower at the FCAATSI executive meeting in 1969, reviews, extracts from Coalition of "Black and White Australians", "Summary of US president's message to the congress on goals and programs for the American Indian", anonymous poetry from "Gub Mousey" and "El Rodent", seminar and social news, etc.

Very Good, rust to staples, small closed edge cover tear.

File under: Bruce McGuinness The Koorier / Reservoir Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Australian Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Free Zarb protest print

1969, English
Silkscreened print, 28 x 32.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Unknown / Melbourne

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Silk-screened print/flyer/placard printed and distributed in 1969 protesting the imprisonment of conscientious objector John Zarb.

Dimensions : 28 x 32.5 cm

John Francis Zarb was a postman from Pascoe Vale South in Victoria and he registered under the NSA. He then made application to be exempted from all military duties as a conscientious objector. The magistrate Mr CM Elvish heard his application on 2 November 1967. The magistrate stated he was satisfied that John was sincere in his beliefs and that he was a conscientious objector. However, he dismissed the application because the NSA did not permit an exemption based on objection to a particular conflict. In this case the Vietnam War. John then decided on non-compliance of the NSA. He was convicted on14 October 1968 at the City Court Melbourne for failure to obey a call-up notice and was sentenced to two years imprisonment.

On 14 October 1969, John Francis Zarb, a 21 year old postal worker in Pascoe Vale South and part-time student, was the first man to be found guilty of having failed to comply with his Vietnam War call up notice and was sent to a civilian goal for non-compliance with the National Service Act. When Zarb had applied to be registered as a conscientious objector, the magistrate said that Zarb had established that he had sincere and conscientious objections to service in Vietnam, but the Act did not recognise objections to a particular war. As a conscientious objector, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment in Pentridge Prison in October 1968. Months of sustained protest followed his arrest by many sectors of the community who viewed Zarb as a martyr to the anti-war cause. "Free Zarb" echoed through the anti-war demonstrations, counter-culture publications and graffitied walls of Melbourne. Zarb was released after 10 months and seven days in Pentridge, in August 1969 on compassionate grounds due to the distress his imprisonment caused his family.

A wonderful historical piece of Australian ephemera from the anti-war movement.

Average copy, has some chipping loss and hard creases, puncture holes and tape marks (verso) from previous use.

File under: Unknown / Melbourne Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

New Initiative for Peace in Vietnam

1971, English
Softcover (folded leaflet), 4 pages, 21 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Christians for Peace / NSW

$25.00 - In stock -

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Leaflet published and distributed in Australia, circa 1971, on 'The Third Force', a non-violent "third solution to the problems in Vietnam, for those millions of Vietnamese who support neither the National Liberation Front nor the Saigon regime." 'The Third Force' consists mainly of Buddhists, Catholics, students and other neutralists wanting peace and to escape the unprecedented destruction that the US war brought to the Vietnamese people. It outlines the Buddhist proposals to end the war in Vietnam, the objectives of The Third Force, a history of their international activities (peaceful demonstrations, delegations, processions, fasts, and subsequent arrests and deaths at the hands of government), and actions to take in demanding an immediate cease-fire. Lists contacts for the Christians for Peace and others.

"Peace will only come when enough people demand it".

A wonderful historical piece of Australian ephemera from the anti-war movement.

Very Good, with one small insect hole to back, some light marks/creases.

File under: Christians for Peace / NSW Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

Evade The Draft: Refuse To Register

1968, English
Softcover (folded leaflet), 4 pages, 20.5 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Young Socialist League / Melbourne

$100.00 - In stock -

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Anti-conscription leaflet printed and published in October 1968 in Carlton by the Young Socialist League, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). Written and Authorised by political and union activists Max Ogden and Adrian (‘Free Za…’) Desailly, the leaflet, distributed at Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and on the steps of the GPO in Melbourne, urges young men not to register for conscription, outlining the untruths of Military propaganda with statistics, quotes, and advice on how to get out of conscription and object to the invasion of Vietnam.

A wonderful historical piece of Australian ephemera from the anti-war movement.

Average copy with a curious typed message on the back, with general light wear, old light fold marks.

File under: Young Socialist League / Melbourne Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare