World Food Books

un 20.1 Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons
Edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce

2026, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 20 x 14.5 cm
Published by un / Naarm

$30.00 - In stock -

un Magazine 20.1: Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons gathers artists, writers and thinkers imagining technology beyond extraction, surveillance and corporate control — and treats the commons as a working method rather than a metaphor.

Guest edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce of the cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix, this issue of un Magazine asks what art can do with technology beyond critique. Its contributors approach artificial intelligence through anti-racist, decolonial and transfeminist perspectives, holding the mineral and the computational in a single frame — stones and circuits, land and infrastructure, extraction and inference. Essays, interviews, scores and artist pages move between Indigenous epistemologies of dreaming and cognition, the labour and waste of machine systems, and the intimacies that form between humans, organisms and machines. What emerges is a publication in which art is not simply responding to technology but actively reshaping it.

Contributors: V Barratt, Julianne Pierce, Suzanne Kite, Francesca da Rimini, Xanthe Dobbie, Katy IIonka Gero, Angela Ka Ki Lee, Chris Tegho, Bianca Tainsh, OMSK Social Club, Make or Break, Sarah Kantrowitz, Petja Ivanova, Tayer Stead, Amit German, Lexei Sasha Salpeter, Thomas Capogreco, Jemimah Widdicombe, Mara Schwerdtfeger, Dave Court, Jen Mathews

File under: VNS Matrix V Barratt Julianne Pierce Suzanne Kite Francesca da Rimini Xanthe Dobbie Katy IIonka Gero Angela Ka Ki Lee Chris Tegho Bianca Tainsh OMSK Social Club Make or Break Sarah Kantrowitz Petja Ivanova Tayer Stead Amit German Lexei Sasha Salpeter Thomas Capogreco Jemimah Widdicombe Mara Schwerdtfeger Dave Court Jen Mathews un / Naarm Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay Feminism Film / Video

John Davis
The Sculpture of John Davis: Places and Locations

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 26 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hyland House / Victoria

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First edition of this major hardcover monograph on Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art John Davis' work, deeply and personally researched with documentation of his works rarely seen anywhere else.

"The Sculpture of John Davis traces the development of his work from the early wood carvings produced while he was a young man living in Mildura in the early 1960's through many changes of style, until he became a major Australian sculptor exhibiting in Venice, Delhi, Tokyo and Los Angeles. John Davis moved through a variety of styles and media from 'Organic Wood Carvings' to an interest in 'Repetitions, Grids, Multiples and Processes' before becoming fascinated by 'Low Technology and Cheap Materials', using 'Twigs, Paper and String'."

John Davis (1936–1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art. An Australian exponent of Arte povera, he famously developed a new mode of Site-specific art at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial in the early 1970s. John Davis established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. Davis travelled widely and exhibited regularly in America, Japan and Australia. As well as participating in the inaugural Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978. Davis initially worked in wood and later in fibreglass and aluminium, becoming known for his multiples and for his distinctive formalist style. By 1973, Davis had become increasingly interested in conceptual, process-based and land art practices, and his mature works reflect his sensitivity to elemental forces, the organic world, and his profound connection to the ecological fragility and beauty of landscape.

VG in VG DJ.

File under: John Davis Ken Scarlett Hyland House / Victoria Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Ecology Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera

Terry Fox
The Eye is not the Only Glass that Burns the Mind

2018, English
Hardcover, 192 pages, 24 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$50.00 - Out of stock

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The retrospective Terry Fox: Elemental Gestures, which opened at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2015 before being shown in Mons, Wuppertal, and the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2017, clearly demonstrated Fox’s key role in the development of art since the 1970s. It not only revealed him as a pioneer of performance, video art, and sound installation but also presented his experimental exploration of language and space. A symposium held in conjunction with the Bern exhibition adopted a variety of approaches to reflect on the performances and installations of this European American based in Switzerland. This is the starting point for the publication in which scholars, artists, and close associates seek to define more precisely the often silent “situations” at work between object and word, sound and sculpture, labyrinth and experience, body and action. Thanks to Spector Books (Leipzig).

Out–of–print, NF copy.

File under: Terry Fox Terry Fox Michael Glasmeier Carsten Seiffarth Spector Books / Leipzig Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Terry Fox
Works with Sound

2003, English / German
Hardcover (w. CD), 120 pages, 24.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg

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"Works with Sound" presents a complex body of work, comprising thirty years of sculptures, drawings, environments, and performances. Fox, who since the 1960s radically rejected traditional art forms and sought new ways of artistic expression, has been increasingly concerned with investigating the seldom-observed energetic aspects of materials. Hence, sound gained a central significance in his works. The artist is dedicated to finding sounds that make energies palpable and connect the listener and his physical surroundings. Profusely illustrated rich chronology of all works with sound, including extensive biography and accompanying texts by Terry Fox and contributions by Matthias Osterwold and Eva Schmidt. Edited by Bernd Schulz. Bi-lingual English and German texts.

Accompanied by an audio CD with excerpts from six sound performances since 1975.

NF copy with unplayed CD.
Signed dedication to historian and sound theorist Douglas Kahn, from the book's author Matthias Osterwold, a prominent German curator and artistic director who shared a long-standing creative relationship with Terry Fox (1943–2008).

File under: Terry Fox Joseph Beuys Terry Fox Matthias Osterwold Eva Schmidt Bernd Schulz Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Objects / Ephemera / A/V Signed Books

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1985, Dutch
Softcover (fold–out), 27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Very rare 1985 fold–out exhibition guide/programme published in conjunction with Echo : The Images of Sound 1, held November 22—January 6, 1985. A complete guide to all of the concerts and installations, illustrated throughout with profiles of all the artists, and accompanying text by Paul Panhuysen. Artists featured: Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.

"From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects."

Good copy, light general wear, some creasing. Folded as issued.
27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)

File under: Julius Ellen Fullman HUM Max Eastley Takehisa Kosugi Hugh Davies Godfried-Willem Reas STEIM The Simulated Wood VANDALIA Arnold Dreyblatt Richard Lerman Leon van Noorden Paul Panhuysen Johan Goedhart Hans-Karsten Raecke Jon Rose George Smits Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Sound / Music Art Sculpture / Installation

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1987, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1987 exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 22—January 6, 1985. Illustrated throughout with texts by Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Anton van Gemert, Bart Lootsma, Arnold Dreyblatt, Leon van Noorden, George Smits, and Hugh Davies. Artists include Max Eastly, Takeisha Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Horst Rickels, Rik van Lersel, Giancarlo Cardini, Juan Hidalgo, Jon Rose, and others. Includes selected bibliography, discography, and index.

blurb: "From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects. In addition to a photographic report of this festival 'ECHO. The images of Sound I', this book contains a general survey of the development of sound arts and cassettes that have been published in the field of sound art. This section is written by Hugh Davies. Photographs, scores, drawings of articles describing the development of their own work are supplied by Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.[...]"

Very Good—Near Fine copy

File under: Max Eastly Takeisha Kosugi Walter Marchetti Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Horst Rickels Rik van Lersel Giancarlo Cardini Juan Hidalgo Jon Rose Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Anton van Gemert Bart Lootsma Arnold Dreyblatt Leon van Noorden George Smits Hugh Davies Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Fuck Journal
by Bob Flanagan

2026, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 7.6 x 10.5 cm
Published by Hanuman Editions / US

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I LOVE THE PAIN. I TELL HER HOW WONDERFUL PAIN CAN BE. HOW SHE SHOULD USE IT ON ME. I'M RAVING. I'M TRIPPING. I'M COMING.

Since his on-screen 'death' by erogenous torture device in Nine Inch Nails’ notorious 'Happiness in Slavery' music video, writer and artist Bob Flanagan has been a looming legend in domains of art, pain and sex. First published by Hanuman Books in 1987, Fuck Journal chronicles Flanagan’s liaisons with his beloved romantic and artistic partner Sheree Rose over the course of a year. Composed at Rose’s prompting and anticipating Flanagan’s extraordinary Pain Journal, the volume is so direct in its account of the couple’s conjugal life that the Indian authorities tossed its original print run into the ocean before the books could ship from Chennai to New York. By luck, 300 copies which had traveled with the editors to the US remained in circulation: an origin story that chimes with Flanagan’s aura of irreverence. Fuck Journal is characterised by a transfixing rhythm of total divulsion, a document of union amid, and through, pain with resonances in current discourses around sadomasochistic desire, crip experience, gender politics and beyond.

With a foreword by Sheree Rose
Introduction by Johanna Hedva

Based in Southern California, Bob Flanagan (1952-1996) was an provocateur of the highest order, known for poems and performances centreing on BDSM activity and living with cystic fibrosis. Famously featured in censored videos for Danzig and Nine Inch Nails, Flanagan achieved a unique pitch of sexual spectacle and tender expression through visceral collaborations with the photographer, artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. Flanagan’s published writings include Pain Journal (1996) and the anthology Fun to be dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan (2024), edited by Sabrina Tarasoff.

The steward of Flanagan’s legacy and an icon in her own right, the photographer and performance artist Sheree Rose has been a leading figure in Los Angeles underground culture since the 1980s. Through her partnership with Flanagan and ongoing projects, Rose has brought to the fore a new form of heterosexual politics, an erotics of intimacy as it intersects with the personal and social.

Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician from Los Angeles. Their most recent essay collection is How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. They are also the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell. Their art has been exhibited internationally, and their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon.

File under: Bob Flanagan Bob Flanagan Hanuman Editions / US Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Garden of Ashes
by Cookie Mueller

2026, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 7.6 x 10.5 cm
Published by Hanuman Editions / US

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Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller's second entry into the Hanuman Books canon(following 1988's Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical accounts of her ascent to cult-cinema superstardom, with tales dedicated to several of her fellow Dreamlanders, including "Edith Massey: A Star" and "Divine".'

Cookie Mueller (1949–1989) was an American writer, actress, and advice columnist, best remembered as a regular cast member of some of the director John Waters's groundbreaking films, including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living. She died from AIDS-related complications in 1989.

File under: Cookie Mueller Cookie Mueller Hanuman Editions / US Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

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

Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas
Edited by Ann Noel and Emmett Williams

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24.9 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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First 1997 HC edition, first printing.

The first biography of George Maciunas, a key figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s.

George Maciunas was the founding member and leader of the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, Fluxus. Its members rejected the traditional systems of high art, practicing an extraordinary form of anti-art that encompassed everything from photography and pavement art to poetry and drama.

Mr. Fluxus, the first biography of this key figure in twentieth-century art, reveals the story of an unorthodox, contradictory, and elusive genius. Maciunas attempted to rule Fluxus in totalitarian fashion, yet he laughed at himself and provoked others to laughter, poking fun at the incurable illnesses and painful realities that afflicted him throughout his relatively short life. What emerges from this collection of anecdotes and impressions, coaxed from many of his former Fluxus colleagues and from an array of friends and enemies, is an informative portrait of an inspiring crusader whose mission was to change the world, beginning with the world of art.

Near Fine copy in Near Fine DJ, preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: George Maciunas Emmett Williams Yoko Ono Daniel Spoerri Claes Oldenburg John Cage Dick Higgins Alison Knowles George Brecht Ben Vautier Robert Filliou Nam June Paik Joseph Beuys Wolf Vostell Benjamin Patterson Carolee Schneemann George Maciunas Ann Noel Emmett Williams Thames and Hudson / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Fluxus Dada Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Poetry

Franz Erhard Walther
Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, 1971, Event Poster

1971, German
Poster, 60 x 60 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spot–Kiel University / Kiel

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Rare original 1971 poster produced on the occasion of Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, a performance of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther in the foyer of the Kiel University Library, as part of the Spot event series. The event was a demonstration by the artist of his first set of works (process material), followed by a discussion with German art critic Bazob Brock, designer Dietrich Helms, and German sociologist Lars Clausen. The poster features a performance photo taken by Tim Rautert. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 60 (h) x 60 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities.

Artist: Walther, Franz Erhard. Date: 1971. Exhibition poster for the exhibition in the foyer of the University Library. Franz Erhard Walther demonstrated and explained parts of his first set of works (process material). A discussion followed with Bazob Brock, Dietrich Helms, and Lars Clausen. Part of the Spot event series of Kiel University and the Cultural Senate of the City of Kiel. 60 x 60 cm, illustration: photo by Tim Rautert. Mint condition.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Bazob Brock Tim Rautert Dietrich Helms Lars Clausen Spot–Kiel University / Kiel Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V

The Dada Almanac (Atlas Arkhive, 1)
Edited by Richard Huelsenbeck

1993, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 23 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

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First 1993 English edition from the legendary Atlas Press, London. First printing.

"DADA MEANS NOTHING!" So proclaimed Tristan Tzara, the movement's tireless publicist. Yet this did not prevent the most fanatical and talented artists and writers across Europe from rushing to join its ranks. Anti-war, anti-art, anti-dada, from its beginnings in Zurich during the first World War the dadas swept aside the cultural, philosophical and political norms of their time. Utter disgust with a society that had created the war (and then expected to survive the peace) spurred them to ever greater demonstrations of revulsion and derision. Yet it was not all nihilism: many factions worked within the Dada Movement and it was Huelsenbeck's intention to embody most of them in the Dada Almanac. The largest collection of Dadaist texts ever assembled by the movement, it was originally published in 1920 in a mixture of French and German.

The Dada Almanac was truly international in scope, with substantial sections from the Swiss and French sections of the movement, it embodies Dada's failings as well as its successes, its excesses, its seriousness, its idiocy, but above all the anarchic vitality which made it such a vital precondition for so much that followed in the fields of art, literature and general cultural terrorism.

The editors of this first English translation have added dozens of other relevant texts, documents, portraits etc, as well as explaining contemporary references and events and providing biographies of the numerous personalities involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Richard Huelsenbeck Atlas Press / London Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Into Performance
by Midori Yoshimoto

2005, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rutgers University / New Jersey

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The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is the inordinate amount of revolutionary art that was created by women.

Into Performance fills a critical gap in both American and Japanese art history as it brings to light the historical significance of five women artists–Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota. Unusually courageous and self-determined, they were among the first Japanese women to leave their country-and its male-dominated, conservative art world-to explore the artistic possibilities in New York. They not only benefited from the New York art scene, however, they played a major role in the development of international performance and intermedia art by bridging avant garde movements in Tokyo and New York.

This book traces the pioneering work of these five women artists and the socio-cultural issues that shaped their careers. Into Performance also explores the transformation of these artists' lifestyle from traditionally confined Japanese women to internationally active artists. Yoshimoto demonstrates how their work paved the way for younger Japanese women artists who continue to seek opportunities in the West today.

VG copy, tanning to spine.

File under: Yoko Ono Yayoi Kusama Takako Saito Mieko Shiomi Shigeko Kubota Midori Yoshimoto Rutgers University / New Jersey Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Pop Art

Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events, Objects, Documents
by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Judith F. Rodenbeck

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 26.5 x 18. 4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallach Art Gallery / New York

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First 1999 edition, long out–of–print.

In pairing Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, Experiments in the Everyday offers a critical examination of a key sequence in the development of contemporary art practices. The shift from form to process embraced by these artists, who were at the forefront of the 1960s avant-garde, made a lasting contribution to advanced art practices in the latter half of the century.

Benjamin Buchloh, in his essay on Watts, addresses the relation between advanced forms of fetishization in consumer culture and the artistic responses given by Watts and his Fluxus colleagues. Judith Rodenbeck's essay, a close reading of textual and photographic aspects of Kaprow's production, provides a new model for approaching happenings and event structures and their relation to contemporaneous art. Robert E. Haywood examines postwar artistic production and Kaprow's work in relation to the critique of capital. Also included are an inteview with the two artists by Sidney Simon and one with Watts by Larry Miller. Heavily illustrated in colour / b&w throughout.

VG copy, light wear to extremities. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Judith F. Rodenbeck Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Robert E. Haywood Wallach Art Gallery / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Terry Fox
(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c.

2003, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel

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"(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c." was a major exhibition by the American conceptual, Fluxus, and sound artist Terry Fox (1943 – 2008), May 31–July 13, 2003, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive exhibition catalogue accompanied the show, with contributions by Ulli Seegers and Nikola Dietrich, foreword by Rene Block. Bi–lingual German and English texts. A figure in the conceptual and performance art movements, Fox's work frequently integrated bodily experiences, political actions, and intricate multi-layered audio environments. (RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c. highlighted his ongoing thematic preoccupations with restructuring spaces, transforming materials, and analyzing sounds. This was an important late survey of the artist's work.

Terry Alan Fox (1943 – 2008) was an American conceptual and fluxus artist known for his work in performance art, video art and sculpture. He was one of the first generation conceptual artists and was a central participant in West Coast conceptual art movements and fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 120 performances - the first of which took place in Germany in 1970 at the invitation and with the assistance of Joseph Beuys - and numerous museum exhibitions have made him internationally known, especially in museum and artistic circles. He was represented three times at documenta in Kassel. Fox was active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe, living and working in Liège, Belgium in the later part of his life.

G–VG copy, some wear to extremities.

File under: Terry Fox René Block Ulli Seegers Nikola Dietrich Fridericianum / Kassel Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki

2011, English
Softcover, 169 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PAJ Communications / New York

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In this ground-breaking look at a new art genre, Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves brings together a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Here is a fascinating account of the ingenuity and creativity of artists who have made new discoveries in broadcast, public works, performance composition, sound, and text, stretching the boundaries of both transmitter and receiver. At a time when public access struggles with corporate control of the airwaves, artists have combined activism and communications technologies to represent alternative worlds on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Artists featured include Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Delia Derbyshire, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Maryanne Amacher, Ray Johnson, Scanner, Videofreex, Valie Export, William Basinski, Marshall McLuhan, Bertolt Brecht, Pierre Schaefer, Negativland, Antoni Muntadas, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Piene, Robert Whitman, Hildegard Westerkamp, Wolf Vostell, Orson Welles, Brandon LaBelle, Tetsuo Kogawa, Max Neuhaus, Keith Sonnier, Ezra Pound, Nam June Paik, Lucio Fontana, Alison Knowles, Chris Burden, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Delia Derbyshire John Cage Allan Kaprow Maryanne Amacher Ray Johnson Scanner Videofreex Valie Export William Basinski Bertolt Brecht Pierre Schaefer Negativland Antoni Muntadas László Moholy-Nagy Otto Piene Robert Whitman Hildegard Westerkamp Wolf Vostell Orson Welles Brandon LaBelle Tetsuo Kogawa Max Neuhaus Keith Sonnier Ezra Pound Nam June Paik Lucio Fontana Alison Knowles Chris Burden Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Karlheinz Stockhausen Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Walter Benjamin Galen Joseph-Hunter Penny Duff Maria Papadomanolaki Marshall McLuhan PAJ Communications / New York Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

THE BECKETT TRILOGY : Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett

1997, English
Softcover, 418 pages, 22 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by John Calder / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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1997 reprint of this 1959 Calder collection of Beckett's classic trilogy of novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969.

The trilogy has always been considered the central work of Samuel Beckett's fiction, the three novels that have been most admired and have received the greatest amount of critical comment, just as Waiting for Godot, written in the same period of concentrated creativity between 1947 and 1949, is central to Beckett's drama. After Proust's great many-volumed novel, Joyce's Ulysses and the masterworks of Kafka, it dominates twentieth-century literature, and much as Beckett's pre-war fiction and the late minimalist novellas are admired, it is on the trilogy that the author's reputation will chiefly depend.

Molloy was a new departure for Samuel Beckett; written in the first person, it consists of two monologues, that of bedridden Molloy on his odyssey towards his mother, lost in town and country and finally emerging from the forest, and that of Moran, a private detective who is sent to find him. The two narrowly miss each other, but the contrast between their characters, and the similarity of their decline give the reader much ground to speculate and much humour towards understanding both the grimness and the comedy of the human situation.

Malone Dies pictures the decrepit Malone, also bedridden, waiting to die and filling his mind and his remaining time with memories, stories and bitter comment, while waiting for 'the throes'. The novel disintegrates as the protagonist does.

The Unnamable seems to contain and encompass its predecessors and the characters of earlier Beckett novels. Its power of language and breadth of imagination make it a tour de force that recalls Dante as it moves into an ever greater void of despair and panic, a metaphysical work that must take its place among the very greatest works of literature. Its dramatic power has been proved by the successful endeavours of those actors who have specialised in Beckett's work to bring it, and earlier parts of the trilogy, to the stage, or to life on the radio. Patrick Magee, Jack Magowran, Jack Emery, Barry McGovern and Max Wall are only a few of the actors who have become closely associated, with all or parts of the trilogy.

G—VG copy. Very light wear/very light rippling to a few initial page edges.

File under: Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett John Calder / London Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Australian Fiction

Collier Schorr: Writing a Letter, Akerman Ballet, Act 1

2026, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 19.5 x 13.9 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

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Introduction by Peggy Phelan.

For many years, Collier Schorr has been creating a ballet inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film Je tu il elle. Following the film’s themes of transparency, sexuality, shame, and love, Schorr has directed a piece consisting of videotaped dances in which she includes herself as a character alongside her fellow dancers. “Akerman played herself in Je tu il elle,” she says, “because she knew no actress could be as awkward as she was. I feel the same.”

Incredibly intimate, risky, and questioning aspects of age, gender, and racial norms historically underrepresented in ballet, Schorr wanted “to tell another story, based on the ones that Chantal Akerman had told me, about power and desire and compulsion and essentially free speech in the male-dominated field...” In Writing a Letter: Akerman Ballet, Act 1, Schorr has pulled a large collection of film stills from the first act of this ballet. Published as a stand-alone document of one artist vigorously in conversation with another’s work, it is also an example of the way queer histories can be shared and cared for through adoration, adaptation, and repetition. A heady act of love, in itself.

File under: Collier Schorr Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Peggy Phelan The Song Cave / New York Performance / Dance / Theater LGBTQ+ Photography Film / Video

Antonin Artaud
Drawings and Portraits

2019, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 19.2 x 24.6 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual artist - was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist movement for his refusal to renounce the theatre, he founded the Theater of Cruelty and wrote The Theater and Its Double, one of the key twentieth-century texts on the topic. Artaud spent nine years at the end of his life in asylums, undergoing electroshock treatments. Released to the care of his friends in 1946, he began to draw again. This book presents drawings and portraits from this late resurgence, in colour reproductions. Accompanying the images are texts by by Artaud's longtime friend and editor Paule Thévenin and the philosopher Jacques Derrida.

“We won't be describing any paintings,” Derrida warns the reader. Derrida struggles with Artaud's peculiar language, punctuating his text with agitated footnotes and asides (asking at one point, “How will they translate this?”). Thévenin offers a more straightforward biographical and historical account. (It was on the walls of her apartment that Derrida first saw Artaud's paintings and drawings.) These two texts were previously published by the MIT Press in The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud without the artwork that is their subject. This book brings together art and text for the first time in English.

Paule Thévenin (1918–1993) knew Antonin Artaud well and edited many his complete writings for the French publisher Éditions Gallimard.

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), an enormously influential philosopher, theoretician, critic, and deconstructionist, is the author of Of Grammatology, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Aporias, and many other books.

File under: Antonin Artaud Jacques Derrida Paule Thévenin Antonin Artaud The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater

Alison Knowles
Footnotes

2000, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 17.15 x 24.13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Granary Books / New York

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First edition of this out-of-print volume of Alison Knowles collage journal spanning 30 years.

Once upon a time [composer] Jim Tenney and I went walking in the woods. We came to a clearing and there under a tree was an arrangement of toy locomotives in the middle of nowhere. Pausing, we mused, where were they going, where had they been?

Attempting to write just such an imaginative history of her own life, and its comings and goings, New York artist Alison Knowles has compiled Footnotes—a collection of collage pages made from small, red travel books collected over 30 years, then pasted up and redrawn, in no definite or logical order. The settings of these collages range from Germany to Japan (but always coming back to New York), with a loosely woven context provided by jotted-down ideas and overheard conversations between her friends. These delicate pencil drawings convey a sense of time lost and regained, displacement and reorientation, of the scattered nature of our interior lives.

Alison Knowles (b. 1933) is an American visual artist and a founding member of the Fluxus movement, internationally known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications.

Very Good copy with light tanning to edges of book block.

File under: Alison Knowles Granary Books / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music

Spaghetti Nightmares : Italian Fantasy-Horrors As Seen Through the Eyes of Their Protagonists
by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta

1996, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fantasma Books / US

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First edition of Spaghetti Nightmares, published in 1996, an invaluable reference book on the subject of Italian horror-fantasy films – often referred to as Giallo films. Compiled by horror aficionados Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta, the book consists of texts, mainly of interviews (translated into English) with major genre icons, filmography, illustrated throughout with stills and movie posters in colour and b/w. An outstanding and rare insight into the artists (directors, screenwriters, actresses, actors, special effects artists, make-up artists ...) and stories behind some of the greatest Italian films and collaborations of the 1970s and 1980s. Includes interviews with Fabrizio de Angelis, Claudio Argento, Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Mario Caiano, Stefania Casini, Luigi Cozzi, Armando Crispino, Ruggero Deodato, Mimsy Farmer, Franco Ferrini, Claudio Fragasso, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Aristide Massaccessi, Luigi Montefiori (George Eastman), Daria Nicolodi, Giannetto de Rossi, Dardano Sacchetti, Tom Savini, Romano Scavolini, Michele Soavi, Terence Stamp, David Warbeck, Bernardino Zapponi.

Very Good copy with crease to back cover.

File under: Fabrizio de Angelis Claudio Argento Dario Argento Lamberto Bava Mario Caiano Stefania Casini Luigi Cozzi Armando Crispino Ruggero Deodato Mimsy Farmer Franco Ferrini Claudio Fragasso Lucio Fulci Umberto Lenzi Antonio Margheriti Aristide Massaccessi Luigi Montefiori (George Eastman) Daria Nicolodi Giannetto de Rossi Dardano Sacchetti Tom Savini Romano Scavolini Michele Soavi Terence Stamp David Warbeck Bernardino Zapponi Luca M. Palmerini Gaetano Mistretta Fantasma Books / US Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Performance / Dance / Theater

Ana Mendieta
A Book of Works

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 74 pages, 26.7 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Grassfield Press / Florida

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Rare first edition of Ana Mendieta's posthumous artist's book, A Book of Works, beautifully produced in an edition of 2,400 copies, edited by Bonnie Clearwater, and long out-of-print.

Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta was working on many important projects that were left incomplete at the time of her tragic death in 1985 at age 36. Among these was a beautiful book of photo etchings of her carvings of female figures in remote caves on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. These sculptures were inspired by the myths and beliefs of the Tainos, pre-Columbian inhabitants of the West Indies. This publication reproduces in facsimile Mendieta's unfinished book of photo etchings and related works and publishes, for the first time, her notes and writings for this important project.

Mencdieta's work crosses the categories of earth art, body art, performance and conceptual photography. As her works generally were site specific and ephemeral, they became know primarily through the photographic documentation she exhibited in galleries and museums. She intended her intimate book of photo etchings to capture the experience of viewing her elusive life-size sculptures in the close quarters of the caves.

Illustrated with many never-before published photographs, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of his extraordinary artist.

"...the authors have honored (Mendieta's) desires by crating a book that speaks softly an genuinely in the artist's voice."
by Alexandra Tager --Art & Auction magazine

"When Ana Mendieta died in 1983, she was working on a book similar to this one, a slim volume of photo etchings of the life-size figures she carved into the stone walls of caves in Cuba's Jaruco State Park. The artist, a "Pedro Pan" child who was sent out of Cuba in the early days of Castro's reign, spent her short art life seeking expression for her personal exile. Inspired by Taino mythology, these pre-Columbian islanders believed the first humans emerged from a cave-Mendieta identified the Cuban caves with birth,including her own. Her entire body of work, largely a collection of photographs documenting such ephemeral art forms as earth works, performance pieces and body art, was spun on this theme of self-identity, a return to her roots, to mother earth. Unlike her other photographic artifacts, however, these photo etchings were destined for a book, of which this is a facsimile. Her montes on the Taino myths appear as if in her own hand on these pages, along with her thoughts about how the book should be arranged. The result is an intimate experience with the artist's hand and mind and a unique act of closure for a career that ended in a still-unexplained fall from a New york high-rise."—Helen L. Kohen—Miami Herald (1993)

Bonnie Clearwater is the Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the former curator of the Mark Rothko Foundation, New York. Among her publications are "Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules"; "Defining the Nineties: New York,Los Angeles,Miami"; "Mark Rothko: Works on Paper"; "Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go"; and "David Smith: Stop/Action".

Fine copy in VG—NF dust jacket with sunning to spine.

File under: Ana Mendieta Bonnie Clearwater Grassfield Press / Florida Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Broken Music

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

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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

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

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

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

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

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

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

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

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