World Food Books

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

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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.

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

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

International 3
August / September 1968

1968, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 26 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Revolutionary Marxist Tendency of the Fourth International / Balmain

$90.00 - In stock -

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Rare copy of Issue 3 (August / September 1968) of International : "A Revolutionary Socialist Magazine", published in Balmain, N.S.W, between 1960 — 1976. International was a Trotskyist magazine and the organ of the Australian Section of the Fourth International. Features articles on the Czech crisis, students and the Australian revolution, the policy of the French Communist Party in the May crisis, the C.P.A.s attitude when confronted with both developments in France and Czechoslovakia, international responses, publication lists, and more.

Good copy. Light wear/softening from age, rust to staples, some marking to front cover, creasing to back.

File under: Revolutionary Marxist Tendency of the Fourth International / Balmain Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Theory / Essay

International 7
May / June 1969

1969, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Revolutionary Marxist Tendency of the Fourth International / Balmain

$90.00 - In stock -

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Rare copy of Issue 7 (May / June 1969) of International : "A Revolutionary Socialist Magazine", published in Balmain, N.S.W, between 1960 — 1976. International was a Trotskyist magazine and the organ of the Australian Section of the Fourth International. Features articles on the resistance in Czechoslovakia, France : One year after the May '68 revolt, Australian politics (should Socialists support the A.L.P?), worker-student protest demonstration call-out to oppose the Australian visit of racist South African economics minister in solidarity with revolution in South Africa, the Sino-Soviet border dispute, and more.

Very Good copy. Light wear/softening from age, rust to staples.

File under: Revolutionary Marxist Tendency of the Fourth International / Balmain Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Theory / Essay

Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press 1966-1977 From Provo To Punk
E. De Donno, A. Martegani (Eds.)

2016, English / Italian
Softcover (w. dustjacket), 496 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by A+m Bookstore / Viaindustriae

$109.00 - Out of stock

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The ultimate compendium of counterculture press in the United States and the Netherlands during the heady decades of the 1960s and ’70s, this volume is the definition of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. From underground pornography, free love, anti-establishment anarchism, and Provo, to anti-war protests, spiritual empowerment, the Black Panthers, and women’s liberation, it’s all here. Page after page of magazine covers, articles, advertisements, and clippings encapsulate the era when academia revolted, gays marched in the streets, and hippies wondered if Jesus got high, too. Newspapers and magazines included are Aloha, American Avatar, Avatar, Bauls, Berkeley Barb, Berkeley Tribe, Big Muddy Gazette, Countdowm, East Village The Other, Fapto, Fire!, Freedom News, Friends, Gay, Gay Power, Gay Scene, Gay Sunshine, Georgia Straight, Good Times, Haight Ashbury Eye, Haight Ashbury Free Press, Haight Ashbury Love Street, Haight Ashbury Maverick, Haight Ashbury Tribune, Harbinger, Helix, Hitweek, Idiot International, Iets, Insekten Sekte, Juche, Kabouter Krant, Kaleidoscope, King Kong International, Kiss, Klaas Krant, Liberated Guardian, Los Angeles Free Press, Mondo Beat, Muhammad Speaks, Nola Express, Old Mole, Open City, Oracle Los Angeles, Oracle San Francisco, Other Scenes, Peninsula Observer, Pic up, Pleasure, Provo, Quicksilver Times, Rampage, Rat, Real Free Press, Re Nudo, Rising Up Angry, Royal World Countdown, San Francisco Ball, San Francisco Express Times, Screw, Search & Destroy, Sette Aprile, Sniffin' Glue, Southern Free Press, Spy-in, Styng, Suck, The Bird, The Black Dwarf, The Black Panther, The International Times, The New York Review of Sex, The Oracle, The Seed, Virginity, Washington Free Press, Witte Krant.

File under: A+m Bookstore / Viaindustriae Anarchism Art Counterculture Graphic Design / Typography Eros Fashion Feminism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Objects / Ephemera / A/V Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+ Protest / Revolt

Parallel Structures
David Pestorius / Liam Gillick

2002, English
Folding card, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Gertrude Contemporary / Melbourne David Pestorius / Brisbane

$5.00 - In stock -

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Exhibition card produced to accompany "Parallel Structures", organised by David Prestorius at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 5 April — 4 May, 2002. Folding card featuring text on the exhibition from gallerist/curator David Pestorius to Gertrude Contemporary director Max Delaney. Exhibition featured the work of Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Matthys Gerber, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Newman, Jens Haaning, Jenny Watson. Designed by Liam Gillick.

File under: Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Janet Burchill Jennifer McCamley Matthys Gerber Liam Gillick Elizabeth Newman Jens Haaning Jenny Watson Gertrude Contemporary / Melbourne David Pestorius / Brisbane Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting Art Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Arflex 1970s trade folio

1970, English / Italian / French / German / Spanish
Softcover, 16 bi- and tri-fold looseleaf brochures, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arflex / Milan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare original Arflex trade folio circa early 1970s. Compiles 16 fully illustrated bi- and tri-fold product brochures, featuring furniture by Cini Boeri, Marco Zanuso, Marcello Cuneo, Carlo Santi, Tito Agnoli, Fumio Okura, Mario Marenco, and more, including lavish colour and b/w full-bleed product photography, technical data/blurbs in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish. All brochures contained within brochure/folder introducing Alcantara, a new durable, synthetic microfibre textile material used in the upholstery of Arflex furniture of the period. An incredible, seldom seen lot of reference material for anyone interested in Italian furniture design from this period. Published in Mlian.

Founded in 1947, a group of technicians based in Pirelli in Italy began experimenting with new materials and technologies in the creation of cutting-edge, modern furniture. This was the beginning of the Arflex brand, established on the meeting of technology and aesthetic sensibilities, and driven by a high level of research and experimentation. Officially presented to the public in 1951, Arflex quickly gained recognition for their manufacturing philosophy and their collaboration with many of the leading figures in Italian modern design.

Very Good, with light wear, mostly to the outer Alcantara folder, other brochures very well preserved.

File under: Cini Boeri Fumio Okura Mario Marenco Arflex / Milan Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Afra and Tobia Scarpa
Maxalto Artona table trade brochure 1975

1975, English / Italian
Softcover, single folded brochure, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by B&B Italia / Italy

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Rare original catalogue for Afra & Tobia Scarpa's Artona collection for Maxalto from 1975. This folded brochure section (with ring binding holes) includes data on the beautiful Artona table in particular, documented along with the 'Africa' dining chairs, pictured in the two model variations. The Artona line by the Scarpa duo was in fact the first line ever produced by Maxalto, the specialist division of B&B Italia. Maxalto was originally set up in 1975 as a high-end division of B&B Italia to focus exclusively on the production of artisanal, mostly wood furniture. The Artona was their first project and also functions as a counter-message against the common prevailing use of plastics in furniture design during the Postwar period.

Born in Venice in 1935, Tobia Scarpa is the son of famed architect-designer Carlo Scarpa. Alongside his wife Afra (née Bianchin, born in Montebelluna in 1937), he began working with Venini glassworks in Murano in the 1950s. In 1960, the couple established their design office in Montebelluna. Together, they created works for companies such as Flos, Cassina, B&B Italia, and Knoll. They embraced a variety of materials and expanding technologies across a wide range of designs, from glass, furniture, and lighting to interiors and architecture.

Good copy with light wear.

File under: Afra and Tobia Scarpa B&B Italia / Italy Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Gaetano Pesce
Tramonto a New York, Sansone, Dalila, Sit Down (Cassina catalogue)

1980, English
Softcover, 24 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cassina / Italy

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful and very rare original catalogue pubished by Cassina in 1980 to promote legendary Italian designer Gaetano Pesce's iconic furniture pieces "Tramonto a New York" sofa, "Sansone" table, "Dalila" chair, and "Sit Down" armchair. Illustrated across 24 colour pages, including fold-outs, including specs and details on each piece. A very collectible archival piece of ephemera from Cassina.

Gaetano Pesce was born in Italy in 1939 and studied architecture at the University of Venice. After graduating in 1965, he moved between London, Padova, Helsinki, and Paris, before settling in New York in 1980. From the beginning, Pesce’s practice has straddled the boundaries between art, design, urban planning, and architecture, always using his work as a vehicle to communicate his perspective on the world today. With resin, foam, and plastics as his signature materials, Pesce has designed for companies such as Cassina, B&B Italia, and Vitra. His architectural work includes the Organic Building of Osaka, the Children’s House for Parc de la Villette, the Gallery Mourmons in Belgium, and the TBWA\Chiat\Day office in New York. Pesce has served as a visiting lecturer and professor at many prestigious institutions in America and abroad, principally the Cooper Union in New York. He is currently a faculty member at the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etude Urbaines in Strasbourg.

Good copy with some light bending.

File under: Gaetano Pesce Cassina / Italy Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Forms in Aggression
Formative Uprising of the 1960s

1987, English / Japanese
Softcover, 177 pages, 19 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo

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Very rare Japanese book published in 1987 to accompany a major exhibition surveying the expression of post-war Japanese craftspeople at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Features forward and three essays in Japanese and also translated English, plus a fantastic selection of important artists profiled in vivid full colour and black and white images throughout. Also features a chronology and list of works, making this an incredible reference for anyone interested in the subject.

Features the work of Kawamoto Goro, Kato Kiyoyuki, Ochi Kenzo, Kumakura Junkichi, Koie Ryoji, Sugie Jumpei, Suzuki Osamu, Suzuki Hyosaku III, Tsuji Shindo, Nakamura Kimpei, Isamu Noguchi, Hattori Shunsho, Hayashi Yasuo, Banura Shogo, Fujihira Shin, Miura Kageo, Mitsuhashi Kunitami, Miyata Rando III, Motono Toichi, Morino Hiroaki, Yagi Kazuo, Yanagihara Mutsuo, Yamada Hikaru, working across primarily ceramic, but also textile, metal and painting.

A wonderful, rare publication of well-known and very rarely seen wonders of post-war Japanese crafts.

Very Good copy.

File under: Banura Shogo Fujihira Shin Hattori Shunsho Hayashi Yasuo Isamu Noguchi Kato Kiyoyuki Kawamoto Goro Koie Ryoji Kumakura Junkichi Mitsuhashi Kunitami Miura Kageo Miyata Rando III Morino Hiroaki Motono Toichi Nakamura Kimpei Ochi Kenzo Sugie Jumpei Suzuki Hyosaku III Suzuki Osamu Tsuji Shindo Yagi Kazuo Yamada Hikaru Yanagihara Mutsuo National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo Art Ceramics / Glass Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Luigi Ghirri
Fondo Luigi Ghirri di Roberto Lombardi

2015, English
3 leporello books in slipcase, 24 photographs, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The Fondazione Querini Stampalia / Venice

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Wonderful first, only edition of this special catalogue of work by Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Carlo Scarpa designed Fondazione Querini Stampalia in 2015, organised by Italian collector Roberto Lombardi. Comprises of a collection of three double-sided leporello photographic books of 8 Ghirri photographs, each photo 21 x 15 cm, totalling 24 works, housed in a cardboard slipcase and only available via the exhibition. The exhibition established the Ghirri Fund at the Fondazione. The cycle is conceived as an "artist's book": a story, devoid of protagonists, of the landscape of the Po Valley between Veneto, Emilia and Lombardy in which, retracing the photographed places, the author does not respect the topographical location, but follows a itinerary all immersed in the associative memory: melancholy, imprecision of memory, a sense of suspension and enchantment are the feelings that animate this journey.

Luigi Ghirri (1943–92) was a celebrated Italian artist and photographer known for his color photographs of landscape and architecture. He published his first photography book, Kodachrome, in 1978, and continued to utilize a conceptual framework to interrogate the line between fiction and reality.

The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of Conte Giovanni (Count John), the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family. Architect Carlo Scarpa designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building.

As New.

File under: Luigi Ghirri The Fondazione Querini Stampalia / Venice Photography Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art

Tetsumi Kudo

1986, Japanese
Softcover (folded cardboard card w. inserted press clippings), 21 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo

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Very scarce Tetsumi Kudo exhibition card/publication produced on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Gallery Kobayashi in Ginza, Tokyo, in 1986. Alongside a detail shot of one of Kudo's "Chromosomes and Souls", and a text in Japanese, inserted into the folded card are copies of press clippings from Japanese newspapers relating to the exhibition.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Mondo Cane Visitor's Guide

2019, English
Softcover (leporello folded guide w. illustrations), 15 x 10 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Belgian Pavilion La Biennale Di Venezia / Venice

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Visitor's Guide (English edition) published to accompany the presentation "Mondo Cane" by Belgian art duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys for the 2019 Venice Biennale. This staple-bound booklet presents all the characters featured in "Mondo Cane" together with their biographies. Highly recommended.

The Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) have collaborated for more than two decades on artworks in a variety of media, including film, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture; they are known for thought-provoking works, often imbued with an antic sense of humor. Depression, autism, power games, psychosis, sexual tensions and idolatry are just a few of the interests that Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys have cited as crucial to their dark repertoire. The pair was selected to represent Belgium at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Its title, "Mondo Cane", refers to a 1962 Italian film that documented-in a style intended to provoke Western audiences-cultural practices from around the world.

File under: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Belgian Pavilion La Biennale Di Venezia / Venice Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Film / Video Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

...(illegible)...

2020, English
Metallic offset printed poster in hand-numbered sleeve, 59.4 x 84.1 cm (folded)
Ed. of 500.,
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

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Publication produced on the occasion the the exhibition ...(illegible)... at MADA Gallery, Monash University, 25 July – 24 August 2019, curated by Andrew Atchison and featuring the work of Briony Galligan, Mathew Jones, Paul McKenzie, John Meade, Fiona Macdonald and Scott Redford.

"...(illegible)... is an exhibition that explores queer abstraction as a contemporary conceptual methodology. The term 'queer abstraction' describes the potential of an artwork to communicate something of lived queer experience(s) through seemingly non-referential, abstract visual language. This position makes space for a critique of the notion that artworks should present as explicitly, legibly queer according to signs or qualities allocated to the art-historical category of Queer Art."

The exhibition will be curated by Andrew Atchison and will include artists Briony Galligan, Mathew Jones, Paul McKenzie, John Meade, Fiona Macdonald and Scott Redford.

In an individually numbered edition of 500, this fold-out A1 poster catalogue, printed in metallic ink and designed by Paul Mylecharane at Public Office, features documentation of the exhibition alongside curator's essay.

File under: Briony Galligan Mathew Jones Paul McKenzie John Meade Fiona Macdonald Scott Redford Andrew Atchison Self-Published / Melbourne Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V