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Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler: Writings of the Vienna Actionists

1999, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First 1999 edition of the long collectible English-language anthology of Writings of the Vienna Actionists, published by the legendary Atlas Press.

Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. These four artists from the sixties created a form of performance art which has become legendary for the extreme violence of its expression. Fined, gaoled, forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day only to now be hailed as one of Europe's most outstanding contributions to post-war art. This anthology of their writings and documentation, brought together with the collaboration of the artists, Brus, Nitsch and Muehl, illustrates their intentions for the first time and shows how they established and explored a new territory for art.

Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. "Four artists who, during the Sixties, became notorious for pushing the definition of art to an extreme which has yet to be surpassed.

Variously fined, gaoled, and forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day, only to be hailed in recent years as one of the most outstanding and unique contributions to post-war art in Europe. Exaggeration and myth still obscure their activities, however, and their actual motives for an art centred on the examination of taboos, the "hidden" secrets of the body, the aesthetics of destruction and the possibilities of regeneration have remained elusive. Subsequent generations of artists have claimed them as their forefathers or unscrupulously borrowed their ideas (but without approaching the intensity of their actions), and while international exhibitions have reclaimed their work for the visual arts, their writings have remained largely unpublished since they first appeared in small mimeographed editions, or are long since out of print.

This anthology of photo-documentation and writings - which includes manifestos, theoretical texts, action scores, even police and psychiatric reports - has been assembled in collaboration with the three surviving artists. It provides the first comprehensive survey of their work, and for the first time illuminates their differing intentions. These texts employ humour and vitriol to elaborate a position in total opposition to contemporary social, political and aesthetic mores. A lucid narrative emerges of a determined exploration of these conditioning factors, by means of an art that used life itself as its material.

The Vienna Actionists were indeed unique - at the very outset of post-war performance art they trod a path very different from the "Happenings" in the USA or the belated neo-Dada pranks of many of their contemporaries. They not only established a new territory for art but they explored it so thoroughly as to make most subsequent "body art" simply irrelevant.

Very Good copy.

File under: Günter Brus Otto Mühl Hermann Nitsch Rudolf Schwarzkogler Malcolm Green Atlas Press / London Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Painting Drawing

Pierre Molinier

?, Japanese
Softcover, 72 pages, 20 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Space Mireiju / Tokyo

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Scarce Japanese exhibition catalogue published by Art Space Mireiju, in Shibuya, on the occasion of a major exhibition of French Surrealist artist Pierre Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, and drawings. Alongside b/w reproductions of many of his works are many texts in Japanese, a testimony from Emmanuel Arson, hommages from Japanese artists and poets inspired by Molinier, Breton translations from French, chronology, bibliography, and more. Contributions from master Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya in discussion with the book's editor Kunio Iwaya, a Japanese art critic and scholar specializing in surrealism and fairy tales, who also contributed a major essay, and an introduction by Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French literature and student of demonology, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa.

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good copy with some spine tanning.

File under: Pierre Molinier Simon Yotsuya Kunio Iwaya Andre Breton André Breton Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Art Space Mireiju / Tokyo Art Drawing Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Eros LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Surrealism Painting

Pierre Molinier (+ lithograph)
by André Breton

1980, Japanese / French
Softcover (w. dust jacket + lithograph + appendix), unpaginated, 25.5 x 17.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Gakutokan / Japan

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1980 hand-numbered, limited edition of Pierre Molinier's Studio, an exquisite book of Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, and drawings, with texts by André Breton, translated from French to Japanese by Kosaku Ikuta, imagery from "Molinier" (1966) film by Raymond Borde, beautifully designed and printed in Japan where Molinier's artworks had a particular resonance. This hand-numbered edition (of 970 copies) features inlayed plate to dust-jacket, added appendix booklet, and the very rare lithographic insert of Molinier's "Réveil de l'Ange" etching, just as the first copies of André Breton and Raymond Borde's book published in 1964 by Terrain Vague included (dimension: (25.2 x 16.6 cm).

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good—Near Fine copy in VG dust jacket with VG-NF lithograph and appendix.

File under: Pierre Molinier Raymond Borde Andre Breton Raymond Borde Gakutokan / Japan Surrealism LGBTQ+ Eros Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Film / Video Painting Drawing Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Pierre Molinier
by André Breton

1989, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and original plastic wrap), 80 pages, 22.8 x 16.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gakutokan / Japan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of The World of Pierre Molinier, published in 1989 in Japan. An exquisite book of Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, and drawings, fittingly wrapped in "stocking" dust jacket, with texts by André Breton, translated from French to Japanese by Kosaku Ikuta, imagery from "Molinier" (1966) film by Raymond Borde, beautifully designed and printed in Japan where Molinier's artworks had a particular resonance.

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good copy in original plastic jacket.

File under: Pierre Molinier André Breton Raymond Borde Kosaku Ikuta Gakutokan / Japan Surrealism Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Painting Drawing Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Performance / Dance / Theater

Pierre Molinier

1969, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 92 pages, 20 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris

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Excellent copy of the first monograph ever published on the work of Pierre Molinier, published by the great Jean-Jacques Pauvert in Paris, 1969. The only book published on his work while Molinier was alive. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, drawings, and much more. Features texts by Andre Breton and Emmanuelle Arsan, also bibliography and biography. Texts in French.

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket, preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Pierre Molinier Andre Breton Emmanuelle Arsan Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris Art Drawing Painting Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Eros LGBTQ+ Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Pierre Molinier
by Jean-Luc Mercié

2010, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 24 x 31 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris

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The Molinier bible! A mammoth, crucial 400 page book on the method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's provocative, gender-bending photos and artwork. Beautifully printed and prodigiously illustrated with over 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete (nearly 100-page) chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.Molinier. Essential publication on Molinier, the most comprehensive to date, and a must for any fan.

Rare English edition translated from the French by Edward Penwarden.

Pierre Molinier is an unknown of worldwide renown. Every book and every exhibition on the body, gender confusion or sexual excess seems to feature at least one work by this artist whose “genius” was acclaimed by André Breton in a memorable text published in 1956. But the bulk of his work has remained inaccessible. A number of pictures have never been shown and a corpus of only 160 prints has been published. The ensemble revealed by the artist's archives is much more extensive. It includes numerous proofs made to prepare his photomontages and working prints given to friends, but also notebooks and personal letters. Here, precise links emerge between his paintings, photographs and scandalous life. The myth carefully constructed by the artist begins to crumble before the reality of the work.

An inveterate seducer, thoroughgoing fetishist, unrepentant transvestite and inadvertent bisexual, to the very last Molinier remained haunted by two obsessions: pleasure, meaning immediate access to la petite mort, and “leaving a trace in the infinity of time.” This book charts the aesthetic incarnation of his passions. Its 819 photographs, most of them never published before, reveal the method, shed light on the procedures and give details of the origin and alchemy of his latent or composed images. Finally, an exhaustive chronology offers a new biography of Molinier, based on his letters: for it is in the intimacy of these writings that the shaman's heart beats closest to the truth.

In a career shared between the university (fifteen years) and publishing (twenty) Jean-Luc Mercié has written widely on painting and photography. This monograph is his fourth book about Pierre Molinier, the master from Bordeaux.

Born 1900 in Agen (France), Pierre Molinier, surrealistic painter and photographer, a precursor to body art, died in 1976 after having thought out radical and pornographic artwork.

File under: Pierre Molinier Jean-Luc Mercié Edward Penwarden Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Mennour / Paris Art Surrealism Eros LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Pierre Klossowski

1989, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 168 pages, 26 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Adam Biro / Paris

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First 1989 edition of Jacques Henric's monographic volume on the great Pierre Klossowski. One of the most comprehensive books ever published on the artist, with beautiful large reproductions of artworks in colour and b/w heavily featured throughout, alongside Henric's text (in original French) with a full catalogue of works and bibliography. First hardcover printing in original dust jacket.

Jacques Henric (b. 1938) is a French literary critic, essayist and novelist.

Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a significant and influential philosopher, writer, translator and artist who befriended Georges Bataille and formulated an original stance on many theological issues, as well as the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. His first novel, Roberte, ce soir, appeared in 1954 as a limited edition containing six of his own erotic illustrations, after he rejected drawings by his younger brother, the painter Balthus. Following the encouragement of Robert Lebel, Andre Masson and Alberto Giacometti, Klossowski held his first exhibition in Paris in 1956, and subsequently produced numerous life-size drawings of erotic scenes imbued with mythological, allegorical and philosophical connotations. By the 1970s, he had won the acclaim of such eminent thinkers as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Felix Guattari. Of Klossowski, Gilles Deleuze once said, "That bodies speak has been known for a long time."

Near Fine copy of book and dj, preserved in archival mylar wrap.

File under: Pierre Klossowski Adam Biro / Paris Drawing Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Eros

Engelhardt/Seef/Davis
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LP Album, 2025
Ed. of 230
Published by Hakkı / US

$50.00 - In stock -

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File under: Kai Althoff Hakkı / US Painting Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art

FLOOR BAG
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Bagged set of 19 booklets, softcover (staple-bound), 4-56 pages each, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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FLOOR BAG, bagged complete set of 18 artist booklets/catalogues published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. This bagged set includes all 18 booklets, plus additional cover-hand-stamped text booklet, including exhibition text by Nixon and Tønsberg, along with biographies of all artists involved. All artists included : Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

Only one copy available.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: Stephen Bram Tine Borg Vicente Butron A.D.S. Donaldson Jørgen Fog Leonard Forslund Marco Fusinato Signe Guttormsen Kent Hansen Peter Holm Henrik Jørgensen Torben Kapper Stephen Little Anne-Marie May John Nixon Rose Nolan Ivar Tønsberg Gary Wilson Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Curatorial Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Painting Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Australian Art

Australia: Familiar and Strange

1996, English
Softcover, 36 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne / Carlton

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Australia: Familiar and Strange, curated by Timothy Morrell for the Seoul Arts Center in 1996, published by Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne, Carlton. The exhibition and catalogue include the work of Howard Arkley, Eugene Carchesio, Dale Frank, Tim Johnson, Maria Kozic, John Nelson, Madonna Staunton, Kathy Temin, Judy Watson, Judith Wright, illustrated with colour plates accompanied by texts and biographies.

Very Good copy.

File under: Howard Arkley Eugene Carchesio Dale Frank Tim Johnson Maria Kozic John Nelson Madonna Staunton Kathy Temin Judy Watson Judith Wright Timothy Morrell Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne / Carlton Group Shows / Collections Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial

Antoni Tàpies

2004, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 62 pages, 31.5 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa S. A. / Barcelona

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2004 hardcover English monograph on Tàpies, profusely illustrated throughout in colour with accompanying texts by Jean-Luc Chalumeau.

"Antoni Tapies belongs to the first generation of modern artists whose careers developed in Spain, and in Catalonia particularly, after the Civil War. The leading role played by materials and textures within his creative universe, combined with his distinctive sense of colour, provide fine examples of the nature of his work, in which nothing proves insignificant and everything has a profound meaning expressing the true reality of the world. Tapies inhabits an uncertain territory halfway between perceptive experience and transcendental contemplation. His œuvre contains frequent references to Paul Klee, one of the masters of the historical avant-garde whose work exerted a greater influence on his career, and to Joan Miró, with whom he shared his Surrealist roots. In fact the links between Miró and Tapies reconstruct a specifically Catalan modernist tradition, interrupted though not invalidated by the Civil War and the ensuing Franco régime."

Antoni Tàpies (1923 – 2012) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist. At 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal heart attack caused by tuberculosis and spent two years as a convalescent in the mountains, reading widely and pursuing an interest in art. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. At this time he also became increasingly interested in philosophy, especially that of Sartre as well as Eastern thought. In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau al Set, alongside poet Joan Brossa, which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. In 1953 he began working in mixed media as a member of the Art Informal school; this is considered his most original contribution to art. Working in a style known as pintura matèrica, in which non artistic materials are incorporated into paintings (clay, marble dust, waste paper, string, and rags), he became known as one of Spain's most renowned artists in the second half of the 20th century. Social themes run throughout his highly textured and tactile paintings, which were influenced by his experience of the politics and environment of the wartime and the postwar state of the Spanish government. His abstract and avant-garde works were displayed in many major museums all over the world. “If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination,” he reflected.

VG in VG dust jacket.

File under: Antoni Tapies Antoni Tàpies Jean-Luc Chalumeau Ediciones Poligrafa S. A. / Barcelona Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare

Tintoretto: the Gonzaga cycle

2000, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 256 pages, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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First hardcover edition of Tintoretto: the Gonzaga Cycle, edited by Cornelia Syre with essays by Andreas Burmeister, Peter Dreyer, and others. Jacopo Tintoretto is one of the most famous 16th-century Venetian painters alongside Titian and Veronese. His "Gonzaga Cycle" is in the Alte Pinakothek (Münich). It was Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga who commissioned Tintoretto to paint a series of eight paintings for two rooms in the Palazzo Ducale at Mantova.

This text features an analysis of the finished paintings as compared to radiographic images, thus providing insights into Tintoretto's method and allowing for assessment of the complete cycle. With articles about aspects of the cycle's history, iconography, style and technique, this monograph and its critical catalogue should make a contribution to extending the knowledge of Tintoretto and the "Gonzaga Cycle".

VG in VG dust jacket.

File under: Tintoretto Jacopo Tintoretto Cornelia Syre Andreas Burmeister Peter Dreyer Hatje Cantz / Berlin Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Painting Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: A Shock To The Senses
Ulrich Bischoff and Luc Tuymans

2013, English / German
Softcover, 214 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Dresden

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First bi-lingual English/German edition of this lavish exhibition catalogue.

John Constable (1776–1837), Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) and Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) were vital in shaping modern art at the threshold of the 18th to the 19th century and they had a formative influence on the age of Romanticism in Europe. Their outstanding paintings continue to serve as sources of inspiration and visual instruction for the generations of artists that have followed in their wake. In this special exhibition, Luc Tuymans, one of the most influential contemporary painters, and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bischoff trace the influence of these four exceptional artists by presenting paintings by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Adolph Menzel (1815-1905), Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Gerhard Richter (* 1932) alongside masterpieces of the Romantic period. Works by 16 artists will be presented in sometimes surprising combinations, thus enabling historical references and contexts spanning some 200 years of art history to be explored from new perspectives. The idea at the core of the exhibition is to present the museum as both an artistic workshop and a source of inspiration. The curators demonstrate that art does not come into being solely as the result of a creative act in the artist’s studio, but can often be traced back to the artist’s direct engagement with freely chosen models from art history.

Very Good copy.

File under: Luc Tuymans Francisco Goya Francisco de Goya John Constable Eugène Delacroix Caspar David Friedrich Adolf Menzel Per Kirkeby Max Liebermann David Claerbout Vilhelm Hammershøi Jeff Wall Max Ernst Paul Cézanne Mark Rothko Gerhard Richter Ulrich Bischoff Luc Tuymans Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Dresden Group Shows / Collections Painting Art Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Curatorial Theory / Essay

Dürer to Veronese – Sixteenth Century Painting in the National Gallery

2002, English
Softcover, 324 pages, 30 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven National Gallery / London

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This beautiful and eagerly awaited volume, companion to the earlier, highly regarded Giotto to Drer, is a guide to the sixteenth-century paintings of Londons National Gallery. The sumptuously illustrated book examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, and Bronzino and provides fascinating insights into the individual masterpieces and their makers.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Albrecht Dürer Paolo Veronese Raphael Hans Holbein the Younger Titian Bronzino Lucas Cranach the Elder Jan Gossaert Yale University Press / New Haven National Gallery / London Painting Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Out-of-print / Rare Art

LIP No. 2 + 3 1977

1977, English
Softcover, 132 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by LIP / Melbourne

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The incredible book-sized 1977 double-issue (No. 2 + 3) edition of Melbourne's great LIP journal, with die-cut cover artwork Mary Callaghan and Angela Gee. Published out of Carlton between 1976-1984, LIP encapsulated Australian feminist artistic practice of the period, publishing articles and interviews by women on women in film, sound, theatre, painting, photography, poetry, criticism, activism, journalism, publishing, sculpture, design, education, and much more.

In this issue: Film Interview Supplement: Australian Women Filmmakers 1920-1977, Suzanne Spunner,
Antionette Starkweicz interviewed by Christine Johnston, Phyllis McDonagh interviewed by Sue Johnston & Suzanne Spunner, Martha Ansara interviewed by Sarah Gibson & Diana Simpson, Jane Oehr interviewed by Ann Stephen & Suzanne Spunner, Corrine Cantrill interviewed by Christine Johnston, Joan Long interviewed by Sue Johnston & Suzanne Spunner; Film Reviews: Autbiography of A Princess - Meredith Borthwick, A Woman Under The Influence/Face to Face - Maureen Kurpinsky, Wives: 'We can't stop now' - Kate Veitch; Theatre: Sylvia Plath in Performance - Suzanne Spunner, Golden Oldies/ Chidley: Private Problems - Bronwen Handyside, Directing The Women's Theatre Group - Alison Richards, She'll Be Right Mate: The Migrant Women's Show - Sylvie Leber, Script of She'll Be Right Mate, W. T.G., A Tribute to May Gibbs (1876-1969) - Bronwen Handyside, Rediscovering Old Women's Magazines - Beverley Kingston, Gossip: A Vindication of Bitches - Judy Brett, Meredith Jelbart; Interviews with Women Artists: Ailsa O'Connor interviewed by Janine Burke, Jan Mackay interviewed by Barbara Hall; Art: With One Pair Of Hands and a Single Mind: Australian Women's Work Exhibition 1907 - Ann Stephen, The Migrant Women's Handicraft Programme (Report) - Karen Armstrong, The Fancywork Of The Great Goddess - Frances Budden & Marie McMahon, "I Think That Would Be A Nice Exhibition To Do": The 1976 Sydney Biennale - Barbara Hall, American Patchwork Quilts - Janine Burke, New York Women Artists: Their Work and Feminism - Jenny Watson, An Exhibition Of Women's Work

Laurel Wilkinson, Women In Art Schools: Careers For Women - Jeanette Fenelon, Review Of Lucy Lippard's "From The Centre" - Jude Adams, Our Mums And Us: Photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Sydney Women's Art Register - Jenny Barber, Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Woman - Bonita Ely, Blood Poster - Mary Callaghan & Angela Gee, and much more...

LIP Collective members: Annette Blonski, Janine Burke, Isabel Davies, Suzanne Davies, Lesley Dumbrell, Jeannette Fenelon, Freda Freiberg, Christine Johnston, Elizabeth Owen, Cathy Peake, Meredith Rogers, Suzanne Spunner, Lynne Wilkinson.

Good-Very Good copy. Bump to one corner, light wear/tanning.

File under: LIP / Melbourne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Australian Art Australian Photography Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Conceptual Art LGBTQ+ Poetry Textiles

Australian Perspecta 1981

1981, English
Softcover, 188 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Scarce catalogue published to accompany Australian Perspecta '81, the first biennale review of recent Australian art that focuses on more experimental expression as an alternative to the Sydney Biennale, showcasing the work of 65 artists. Micky Allan, Tom Arthur, Davida Allen, David Aspden, Suzanne Archer, Vivienne Binns, Howard Arkley, Tony Bishop, Brian Blanchflower, Gunter Christmann, Peter Booth, Giorgio Colombo, Anna Paci, Mike Brown, Peter Corrigan, Edmond & Corrigan, Peter Callas, Virginia Coventry, Marleen Creaser, Bonita Ely, Sue Ford, John Davis, Rosalie Gascoigne, Lesley Dumbrell, Elizabeth Gower, Richard Dunn, Denise Green, Ivan Durrant, Marr Grounds, Fiona Hall, Douglas Holleley, Marion Hardman, Robert Jacks, Bill Henson, Lorraine Jenyns, Robert Jenyns, Dale Hickey, Stephen Jones, Geoffrey Hogg, Peter Kennedy, Kerrie Lester, Robert Owen, Bea Maddock, Mike Parr, Mandy Martin, Paul Partos, Kevin Mortensen, Ann Newmarch, Lutz Presser, Robert Randall, Frank Bendinelli, Imants Tillers, Sally Robinson, Clifford Possum, Tjapaltjarri Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Charlie Tjapangati, Stelarc,Tony Trembath, Colin Suggett, Stephen Turpie, Peter Taylor, Ken Unsworth, Vicki Varvaressos, Frank Watters, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Ken Whisson, Dick Watkins, Paul Winkler, Jenny Watson, Ray Woolard…. The expansive catalogue features images and texts on each artist, statements, a full list of exhibited works, and artist biographies. Illustrated in colour and b/w.

Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Micky Allan Tom Arthur Davida Allen David Aspden Suzanne Archer Vivienne Binns Howard Arkley Tony Bishop Brian Blanchflower Gunter Christmann Peter Booth Giorgio Colombo Anna Paci Mike Brown Peter Corrigan Edmond & Corrigan Peter Callas Virginia Coventry Marleen Creaser Bonita Ely Sue Ford John Davis Rosalie Gascoigne Lesley Dumbrell Elizabeth Gower Richard Dunn Denise Green Ivan Durrant Marr Grounds Fiona Hall Douglas Holleley Marion Hardman Robert Jacks Bill Henson Lorraine Jenyns Robert Jenyns Dale Hickey Stephen Jones Geoffrey Hogg Peter Kennedy Kerrie Lester Robert Owen Bea Maddock Mike Parr Mandy Martin Paul Partos Kevin Mortensen Ann Newmarch Lutz Presser Robert Randall Frank Bendinelli Imants Tillers Sally Robinson Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Charlie Tjapangati Stelarc Tony Trembath Colin Suggett Stephen Turpie Peter Taylor Ken Unsworth Vicki Varvaressos Frank Watters Robin Wallace-Crabbe Ken Whisson Dick Watkins Paul Winkler Jenny Watson Ray Woolard Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Australian Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Conceptual Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Art Minimal Art Sound / Music Feminism

Raum Zeit Stille / Space Time Silence
Edited by Wulf Herzogenrath

1985, German
Hardcover, 184 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln

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Lovely 1985 hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, March 23—June 2, 1985, curated by German art historian and curator Wulf Herzogenrath, featuring Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Carl Gustav Carus, Marcel Duchamp, Jannis Kounellis, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevich, La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela, Barnett Newman, Nam June Paik, Arnulf Rainer, Odilon Redon, Mark Rothko, Reiner Ruthenbeck, and Georges Seurat. Heavily illustrated in colour and b/w with accompanying texts in German.

Good copy with some rubbing/flaking to silkscreened carbon black hardcovers, otherwise Very Good throughout. Previous owner's name to title page (that of Melbourne artist Bernhard Sachs).

File under: Josef Albers Joseph Beuys John Cage Carl Gustav Carus Marcel Duchamp Jannis Kounellis René Magritte Kasimir Malevich La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela Barnett Newman Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Odilon Redon Mark Rothko Reiner Ruthenbeck Georges Seurat Wulf Herzogenrath Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Art Sound / Music Fluxus Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Surrealism

STATIONS

1987, English / French
Softcover, 208 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Centre International D'Art Contemporain De Montréal / Montréal

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition STATIONS, Les cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal, an ambitious series of exhibitions that ran from August 1 to November 2, 1987, around the eternal inspiration of The Fourteen Stations of the Cross, the series of 14 devotions or images depicting events in Jesus Christ's last day on Earth, specifically his passion and death. Heavily illustrated with the works, texts and installations of the broad array of contemporary artists featured, including Ulay and Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Betty Goodwin, John Heward, Marcel Lemyre, Duane Michals, Joseph Felix Müller, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer, Nancy Spero, Duane Michals, Joseph Felix Müller, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer, Nancy Spero, Robert Adrian, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Daniel Buren, Michel Goulet, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Ron Huebner, Peter Krausz, Raimund Kummer, Serge Lemoyne, Sol Lewitt, Gerhard Merz, Guido Molinari, Hermann Pitz, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Susan Schelle, Françoise Sullivan, Ian Wallace, Francesco Clemente, and more. Accompanying essays are in both French and English.

Good-Very Good copy.

File under: Centre International D'Art Contemporain De Montréal / Montréal Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Conceptual Art Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Art Curatorial Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay

Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982
Vision in Disbelief

1982, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982, 7 April – 23 May 1982. Under the artistic direction of William Wright the 1982 Biennale was titled "Vision in Disbelief" and featured the work of Jörg Immendorff, Dan Graham, Brian Eno, Sue Ford, Joan Jonas, Lyndal Jones, John Baldessari, Robert Ashley, Billy Apple, Gary Hill, Fiona Hall, Philip Guston, General Idea, Bill Henson, Slave Guitars, Michael Snow, Severed Heads, Martha Rosler, Nam June Paik, Mike Parr, Tony Oursler, Davida Allen, Dale Frank, Rebecca Horn, Gareth Sansom, Lucas Samaras, Pe Kirkeby, Maria Kozik, Laughing Hands, Bertrand Lavier, Liz Magor, Anne Marsh, Markus Lupertz, William Wegman, Bill viola, Niele Toroni, Ken Unsworth, Marina Abramovic, John Ahearn, Vivienne Binns, Ian Breakwell, Georg Baselitz, Frank Auerbach, Claus Bohmler, Sydney Ball, Anti-Music, Laurie Anderson, Terry Allen, →↑→ and many more.

This catalogue includes colour and black and white examples of the work of all participating artists alongside texts and biographies.

Good copy, no spine creases, general light age, wear, tanning.

File under: Jörg Immendorff Dan Graham Brian Eno Sue Ford Joan Jonas Lyndal Jones John Baldessari Robert Ashley Billy Apple Gary Hill Fiona Hall Philip Guston General Idea Bill Henson Slave Guitars Michael Snow Severed Heads Martha Rosler Nam June Paik Mike Parr Tony Oursler Davida Allen Dale Frank Rebecca Horn Gareth Sansom Lucas Samaras Laughing Hands Bertrand Lavier Liz Magor Anne Marsh Markus Lupertz William Wegman Bill viola Niele Toroni Ken Unsworth John Ahearn Vivienne Binns Ian Breakwell Georg Baselitz Frank Auerbach Claus Bohmler Sydney Ball Anti-Music Laurie Anderson Terry Allen →↑→ Marina Abramovič Per Kirkeby Maria Kozic Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Painting

Isa Genzken
Retrospective

2013, English
Hardcover, 336 pages, ‎24.1 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Out-of-print first edition hardcover Isa Genzken retrospective catalogue published by MoMA in 2013. Text by Sabine Breitwieser, Laura Hoptman, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Grove, Lisa Lee.

"Isa Genzken (b. 1948) is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years, yet the breadth of her achievement—which spans sculptures, paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist’s books, films, installations and public works—is still largely unknown in the United States. Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s epically diverse body of work, this publication encompasses Genzken’s work in all media over the past 40 years and is the most complete monograph on the artist available in English. Genzken has been part of the artistic discourse since she began exhibiting in the mid-1970s, but over the last decade a new generation of artists has been inspired by her radical inventiveness. The past ten years have been particularly productive for Genzken, who has created several bodies of work that have redefined assemblage for a new era. The catalogue presents Genzken’s career, through essays exploring the unfolding of her practice from 1973 until today, as well as an expansive plate section that provides a chronological overview of all her most important bodies of work and key exhibitions."

Born in Germany in 1948, Isa Genzken is one of Germany’s most important living artists. In the mid-1970s, as a student at Düsseldorf’s renowned Kunstakademie, she created geometric wood sculptures, which gained her early international acclaim (she exhibited these works at Documenta 7 and the Venice Biennale in 1982). Since then, she has made sculptures in plaster, concrete and epoxy resin. Ranging in size from maquettes to monumental, these abstract works are influenced by Minimalism, but are decidedly narrative. Paintings that examine ideas of surface and light, as well as photographs, collages, artist’s books and films, followed in the 1990s. From the late 90s on, Genzken began to create increasingly complex sculptural installations.

Good—VG copy with some light wear to extremities and corner bumping to overhung boards, not affecting content.

File under: Isa Genzken Michael Darling Jeffrey Grove Laura Hoptman Sabine Breitwieser Lisa Lee MoMA / New York Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Photography Conceptual Art

Erotische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
Edited by Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen

1972, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 205 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Heyne Verlag / Münich

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful 1972 German book of erotic art selected by Phyllis and Dr. Eberhard Kronhausen, rightly considered international experts in the field. "Their exhibition "Erotic Art," which has been shown in many countries around the world, formed the basis for this illustrated volume. Because this exhibition included loans from museums and galleries, as well as works from the Kronhausen couple's collection and other private collections, it was possible to present images that had previously been inaccessible to the public. In selecting works for this volume, care was taken, on the one hand, to depict these unknown works, and, on the other, to provide a reliable overview of the erotic work of the leading artists (painting, graphic art, and sculpture) of our century. Thus, this book is a fortunate exception; it is a precious document, but also a demonstration of the sexual and cultural revolution of our century."

Features the work of Franz von Bayros, Hans Bellmer, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Otto Dix, J. Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Ernst Fuchs, Willi Geiger, George Grosz, Horst Janssen, Allen Jones, Gustav Klimt, Felix Labisse, Jan Lebenstein, Edward Munch, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Herbert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Max Walter Swanberg, Tomi Ungerer, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann.

Good—VG copy with some laminate seperation to cover extremities and slight corner bump.

File under: Franz von Bayros Hans Bellmer Marc Chagall Lovis Corinth Salvador Dali Paul Delvaux Otto Dix J. Dubuffet Max Ernst Ernst Fuchs Willi Geiger George Grosz Horst Janssen Allen Jones Gustav Klimt Felix Labisse Jan Lebenstein Edward Munch Claes Oldenburg Pablo Picasso Herbert Rauschenberg George Segal Max Walter Swanberg Tomi Ungerer Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen Heyne Verlag / Münich Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Surrealism Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Painting LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM

Zdzisław Beksiński
The Fantastic Art of Beksinski

1998 / 2008, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 72 pages, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Morpheus International / US

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"Beksinski's powerfully unique paintings are such as I have never before seen"—H.R. Giger

Wonderful, scarce and collectible monograph capturing 30 years of the work of the great Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński, published by Galerie Morpheus in Las Vegas. First issued in 1998, this lavishly illustrated hardcover monograph reproduces Beksiński's surreal dystopian paintings spanning his entire career, alongside an introduction by James Cowen, texts by Tadeusz Nyczek, and great quotes and reflections throughout by Beksiński himself.

Zdzisław Beksiński (1929 – 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor. Beksiński had no formal training as an artist. Born in Sanok, he studied architecture in Kraków and worked as a construction site supervisor before turning to his passion for art, sculpting with construction site materials for his medium. His early photography would be a precursor to his paintings, often referred to as dystopian surrealism. Beksiński claimed, "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". Beksiński undertook painting with a passion, working intensely whilst listening to classical music and quickly becoming a leading figure in contemporary Polish art. In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his "fantastic period", which lasted up to the mid-1980s, during which he created his famed images of desolate, surrealistic landscapes with intricate depictions of anxious, abstracted figures and architecture in states of decay, mutation and decomposition. Although Beksiński's art was often dark, he himself was known to be a pleasant person with a keen sense of humour. Modest and somewhat shy, he avoided public events such as the openings of his own exhibitions and almost never visited museums or exhibitions in general. He always credited music as his main source of inspiration. Beksiński avoided concrete analysis of the content of his work, saying "I cannot conceive of a sensible statement on painting". Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005 by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money.

"In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh – whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish – thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust." — Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director

Very Good copy of the later expanded edition, now long out-of-print. With VG—Fine dust jacket, light wear.

File under: Zdzisław Beksiński Morpheus International / US Art Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare

Dorothea Tanning

1979, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Editions Filipacchi / Paris

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First 1979 softcover English-edition of the great Editions Filipacchi monograph on artist Dorothea Tanning. Profusely illustrated with Tanning's incredible paintings in colour and b/w, accompanied by photography, biography and texts in English by author Gilles Plazy.

Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) was born in the United States in the town of Galesburg, Illinois to Swedish émigré parents. Largely self-taught as an artist, Tanning moved to New York in 1935 where she began working as a freelance illustrator, creating advertisement designs for Macy’s department store and other clients. In 1936 she visited the ground-breaking MoMA exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism. Surrealism had a profound effect on her. Travelling to France in July 1939, she found a country on the brink of war and Paris empty of the artists with whom she had hoped to be acquainted. Refugees from Nazi occupied France, she would meet the surrealists back in New York through her first art dealer, Julien Levy. Late in 1942 Max Ernst visited her studio, saw a painting, (Birthday), and stayed to play chess. In a double wedding with artist Man Ray and dancer Juliet P. Browner, Tanning and Ernst married in October 1946. They would have 34 years together, moving to the town of Sedona, Arizona, to build a house set within a group of huge red rocks in the Verde Valley. Sedona captivated Tanning’s imagination. Here she would continue to write and paint her enigmatic versions of life on the inside, looking out. By 1956 Max and Dorothea had moved to France. Around 1955 Tanning’s paintings moved away from meticulously rendered figurative dreamscapes, increasingly employing confident gestural flow and movement in the wake of her work as a costume and stage designer for the ballets of the Russian choreographer George Blanchine – Night Shadow (1946), The Witch (1950) and Bayou (1952). In the late 1960s Tanning’s practice shifted once again, moving from drawing, design and painting to three-dimensional sculptural works fashioned from soft textiles and found items. When Ernst died in Paris in 1976, Tanning was bereft. ‘There is no light in the studio,’ she wrote, ‘nothing moves and the colored jokes are fading fast. The disorder is grievous. (Is the heart condemned to break each day?)'. In 1979 Tanning began her return to New York, where she gave full rein to her long felt compulsion to write. Her published works include two memoirs, Birthday and Between Lives, a collection of poems, A Table of Content, and a novel, Chasm. Tanning died in New York on 21 January 2012, aged 101.

Average—Good copy with cover laminate slightly separating at the extremities and upon any creases. Bump to top right corner, light tanning/foxing.

File under: Dorothea Tanning Gilles Plazy Editions Filipacchi / Paris Surrealism Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare

Francis Bacon
by Michel Leiris

1988, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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"Changes in reality... lies that are truer than the literal truth. This is the only possible way the painter can bring back the intensity of the reality which he is trying to capture.... Reality in art is something profoundly artificial"—Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon is indisputably one of Britain's greatest living artists. His work, always controversial, has a unique power and an astonishing ability to disturb, shock and obsess the viewer.

Here is the most comprehensive introduction to his work available in paperback. The colour reproductions have been selected by Bacon himself and include all his best-known and most important works. The distinguished French writer, Michel Leiris, introduces the illustrations with a perceptive essay on the artist and his work.

With 258 colour illustrations

First 1988 UK edition.

File under: Francis Bacon Michel Leiris Thames and Hudson / London Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare