World Food Books

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

Tony Conrad
Writings

2019, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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I want art to stand strong, to display how it manipulates its audience. I want it to take up their expectations, their sense of the world, their predispositions toward the way they think or use their language, and then to use these things perversely, politically, colorfully, “expressively.”

—Tony Conrad, “Dolomite: Having No Trust in Readers”

Writings is the first collection to widely survey this singular polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras, and Music and the Mind of the World, as well as that of his peers: Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham, and Henry Flynt, among others. He devotes critical essays both to grand subjects—horology, neurolinguistics, and the historical development of Western music—and more quotidian topics, such as television advertising and camouflage. He also writes on media activism, network communications, censorship, and the political and cultural implications of corporate and global media. No matter the topic or theme, Conrad always approaches his subjects with erudition, precision, and a healthy twist of humor.

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them.

Re-print.

File under: Tony Conrad Constance DeJong Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Art Fluxus

Interviews With Sound Artists
Edited by René van Peer

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Ed. of 750,
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this wonderful collection of interviews with sound artists taking part in the festival ECHO, The Images of Sound II, in 1987, highlighting New Music and Sound Art, compiled by René van Peer. "This [accompanying] book has become an autonomous account of the personal histories of a number of sound artists, and thus it aims at providing an impression of the origins of Sound Art and New Music"—Paul Panhuysen, March 1993. Comprised entirely of in-depth interviews with Joe Jones, Richard Lerman, Jean Weinfeld, Martin Riches, Takehisa Kosugi, Horst Rickels, Johan Goedhart, Terry Fox, Christina Kubisch, Jim Pomeroy, Walter Fahndrich, Yoshi Wada, Paul Panhuysen.

Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. A valuable resource.

René van Peer is a journalist specializing in non-mainstream music.

Very Good copy.

File under: Joe Jones Richard Lerman Jean Weinfeld Martin Riches Takehisa Kosugi Horst Rickels Johan Goedhart Terry Fox Christina Kubisch Jim Pomeroy Walter Fahndrich Yoshi Wada Paul Panhuysen René van Peer Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik

2002, English / German
Softcover (spiral–bound), 76 pages + 2 x audio CD, 26.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin

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Spiral–bound book and double CD set published to accompany the exhibition, Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik, Klanginstallationen - Akusmatische Konzerte, 2000, organised by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, lead by Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth. The publication comprises two CDs housed in a polyurethane sleeve inside a 76 page spiral-bound book in bi–lingual English/German containing liner notes, essays, biographies and full-colour photographs of the participants, installations and performances.

CDs feature: François Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Tom Johnson/Martin Riches, José Antonio Orts, Ed Osborn, Christina Kubisch, Wolfgang Mitterer

As New copy.

File under: François Donato Adrian Moore David Prior Mario Verandi Alvin Lucier Ron Kuivila Tom Johnson/Martin Riches José Antonio Orts Ed Osborn Christina Kubisch Wolfgang Mitterer Andreas Bernnat Frank Gertich George Goodman Herbert Velasquez Laurie Schwartz Silke Borgstedt Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Het Apollohuis 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001
(Lot of 3 books)

1985–2001, English
Softcover (3 volumes), 144 + 152 + 102 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Lot of 3 books. Each book is a five year compendium documenting the programme series at the legendary sound arts venue Het Apollohuis between the years 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001. Founded by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in 1980, Het Apollohuis was a unique space dedicated to experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in a former nineteenth century cigar-factory. Between 1980 and 2001, Het Apollohuis organized 253 art exhibitions, 476 concerts and performances, 46 public lectures, symposia and several festivals (as "ECHO: images of sound II" in 1987 or FLEA Festival in 1997). Alongside an ambitious programme, Het Apollohuis also published prints, artist books, multiples, audio-cassette tapes, LPs, and CDs. This wasn't a museum or a traditional gallery. It was an independent space operating outside institutional structures, able to take risks and follow intuitions.

These books document all of these activities through profuse photo documentation, floor–plans, descriptions (in English), invites and biographies, all indexed. Includes accompanying essays. All in English.

For anyone interested in the history of experimental music and sound art in the 1980s–1990s, these books are essential. Not as nostalgia, but as documentation of a moment when possibilities were opening up, when artists were finding each other, when spaces like Het Apollohuis proved that independent platforms could operate at the highest level of ambition and seriousness. An indispensable reference.

Artists include: Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Merzbow, Jerry Hunt, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada, Christian Marclay, Terry Fox, Akio Suzuki, Junko Wada, Paul Panhuysen, Michael Parsons, Alvin Curran, Bernard Villers, Takashi Kazamaki, Iva Bittová, Borbetomagus, Jon Rose, Rhys Chatham, Junko Ueda, Paul Gees, Tibor Szemző, Richard Lerman, Joe Jones, Christina Kubisch, Pascal Comelade, Jon Gibson, Tari Ito, Jim O'Rourke, David Shea, Rolf Julius, Gordon Monahan, Warren Burt, Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, Goji Hamada, Rafael Toral, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk, Roman Signer, Ikue Mori, Felix Hess, Pierre Bastien, Goji Hamada, Herman De Vries, Ellen Fullman, Hugh Davies, Jan Boerman, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Jürgen Olbrich, Remko Scha, Jackson MacLow, Anne Tardos, Paul Dutton, J.H. Kocman, Eric Andersen, Alison Knowles, the Maciunas Ensemble, Hideharu Matsueda, Tokihiro Sato, Trimpin... just the tip of the iceberg.

All Very Good copies with some light wear to boards, light knocking.

File under: Eliane Radigue Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Merzbow Jerry Hunt Elliott Sharp Alvin Lucier Yoshi Wada Christian Marclay Terry Fox Akio Suzuki Junko Wada Paul Panhuysen Michael Parsons Alvin Curran Bernard Villers Takashi Kazamaki Iva Bittová Borbetomagus Jon Rose Rhys Chatham Junko Ueda Paul Gees Tibor Szemző Richard Lerman Joe Jones Christina Kubisch Pascal Comelade Jon Gibson Tari Ito Jim O'Rourke David Shea Rolf Julius Gordon Monahan Warren Burt Keiji Haino Eugene Chadbourne Goji Hamada Rafael Toral David Behrman Zeena Parkins Jaap Blonk Roman Signer Ikue Mori Felix Hess Pierre Bastien Herman De Vries Ellen Fullman Hugh Davies Jan Boerman Esther Ferrer Boris Nieslony Arnold Dreyblatt Phil Jürgen Olbrich Remko Scha Jackson MacLow Anne Tardos Paul Dutton J.H. Kocman Eric Andersen Alison Knowles the Maciunas Ensemble Hideharu Matsueda Tokihiro Sato Trimpin Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Group Shows / Collections Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

Music, Language and Environment
Writings by David Dunn

c. 1989, English
Softcover (spiral bound), unpaginated, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Dunn / California

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, privately issued anthology of writings by pioneering experimental/environmental composer and researcher, Harry Partch's assistant, and Harry Partch Ensemble member, David Dunn. Around this time Dunn privately issued a series of 4 staple-bound publications that documented his pioneering work of electronic and acoustic, collected and reflected in his own words. This much larger anthology brings together a most vital compilation of his major technical and philosophical writings and sound research around human and non–human language, music, composition, and bio–acoustics that shaped his work and philosophy, opening with his 1984 essay Music, Language and Environment, followed by An Expository Journal of Extractions from Wilderness: Notes Toward an Environmental Language (1981), Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior (1983), Mappings and Entrainments (1984), Synchronisms: Toward a Phenomenological Science (1986), The Self-Referring Universe: Identity, Nonlocality and Evolution (Allyn B. Brodsky and David Dunn), Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature, Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond, Environment, Consciousness, and Magic (An Interview with David Dunn, 1988).

Composer David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research. His compositions and soundscape recordings have appeared in many international forums, concerts, broadcasts, and exhibitions. In addition to his multiple books, recordings and soundtracks, he has been anthologized in over 50 books and journals. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Good–Very Good copy, light wear to cover pages.

File under: David Dunn Chris Mann David Dunn Chris Mann Allyn B. Brodsky David Dunn / California Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology / Earth

Interviews with David Rosenboom 1976–1983

c. 1980s, English
Softcover (spiral–bound), unpaginated, 28 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Self-Published

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A privately–published, spiral–bound compilation of interviews with American experimental music pioneer, David Rosenboom, spanning 1976–1983. Includes extensive interviews by Larry Polansky, Eva Soltes, Richard Teitelbaum, Walter Zimmermann, Symposium on Computer Music Composition (questions from C. Roads), Recent Cybernetic Insights from Synapse magazine, and more. Compiled around the time Rosenboom toured Europe with Anthony Braxton Quartet and was teaching at Mills College, Oakland.

David Rosenboom (b. Fairfield, Iowa, in 1947) is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback: in the 1970s he built systems in which the brainwaves of performers shaped the music, documented on Brainwave Music (1976) and in his book Biofeedback and the Arts. He has also worked with cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms, and has performed with the mridangam master Trichy Sankaran. He studied composition, performance and electronic music at the University of Illinois with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller and Kenneth Gaburo among others, taught at Mills College and for three decades was dean of music at CalArts, where his students have included several generations of experimental composers.

VG with only very light age/wear.

File under: Larry Polansky David Rosenboom David Rosenboom Larry Polansky Richard Teitelbaum Walter Zimmermann Eva Soltes Self-Published Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Furnitures: The Magazine of North American Ideophonics (lot of 5 issues)

1989–1993, English
Softcover (staple–bound), various formats, unpaginated
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mark Nowak / Minnesota

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Rare, virtually undocumented issues of Mark Nowak's sound-art / poetry zine, Furnitures: The Magazine of North American Ideophonics, self-published in the late 1980's into the early 1990's. Issues 7, 8, 9, 11, & 12, c. 1989–1993. Photocopied and stapled, the issues feature visual scores, experimental/concrete/visual poetry, essays, mappings, performance pieces, reflections, reviews and research by experimental American poets, composers, artists, environmentalists, and anthropologists, bound in various formats and laid out to correspond with the contributors' work. A wonder of a publication from the world of American environmental sound and poetics.

No. 7: Stephen Ratcliffe, Pauline Oliveros, Ralph Knowles, Hugh Brody.
No. 8: Alan Drake, Philip Blackburn, David Dunn, Karl Young, Kenneth Gaburo.
No. 9: Rod Lohin.
No. 11: Joe Catalano, Elaine Equi, John Bradley, Lisa Jarnot, Maurice Kenny, Michelle Perez, Karl Kempton, Jim Barnes, George Albon, Kenneth Gaburo, Katie Yates, Dick Higgins, N. Sean Williams.
No. 12: Theodore Enslin, Diane Glancy, Elaine Barkin, R. Murray Schafer.

Mark Nowak is an American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York.

All G-VG copies with light wear/age to extremities, neat previous postage folds to some, some marking. Not post–marked.

File under: Pauline Oliveros David Dunn Kenneth Gaburo Elaine Barkin Stephen Ratcliffe Pauline Oliveros Ralph Knowles Hugh Brody Alan Drake Philip Blackburn David Dunn Karl Young Kenneth Gaburo Rod Lohin Joe Catalano Elaine Equi John Bradley Lisa Jarnot Maurice Kenny Michelle Perez Karl Kempton Jim Barnes George Albon Katie Yates Dick Higgins N. Sean Williams Theodore Enslin Diane Glancy Elaine Barkin R. Murray Schafer Mark Nowak / Minnesota Periodicals Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Poetry Art Ecology / Earth Anthropology

Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music
Number 1, Winter 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 28 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Extremely rare first 1989 issue of Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music, published in Sydney by the Fellowship of Australian Composers. Led by the Sydney–based Australian composer, pure mathematician, and chess problemist/chess composer, Ian Shanahan (1962–2021) with an editorial panel including fellow composers Paul Brown, Michael Whiticker and Justine Wilkinson, Ossia was an independent musical periodical founded in 1989 to serve as a forum for avant-garde music theory, compositional analysis, interviews with living composers, and aesthetic debates during the late 20th century in Australia. In musical terminology, "ossia" refers to an alternative passage of music that can be played instead of the original text—reflecting the publication's mission to highlight alternative, contemporary voices in classical music.

This inaugural issue's contents: Editorial, Paul Brown - After the Party: Australian Music in the Bicentennial Year, Michael Whiticker - Morton Feldman: Conversation without Cage, Justine Wilkinson - Ricardo Formosa's Domino, lan Shanahan - The Theory of Bitones, Liza Lim - ISCM World Music Days Festival 1988, Richard Toop - New Music on CD: Recent Releases, The Inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, and more.

VG copy with light wear. Includes hand written "with compliments" note from editor and president of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, lan Shanahan, to Australian avant–garde composer Warren Burt, whose work inspired his article on Bitones, plus a membership application to the Fellowship of Australian Composers.

File under: Morton Feldman John Cage Ric Formosa Larry Sitsky Paul Brown Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson lan Shanahan Paul Brown lan Shanahan Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Minimal Art Australian Art

Act 1
an exhibition of performance and participatory art

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 29.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ANU Arts Centre / Canberra

$200.00 - In stock -

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of Act 1: an exhibition of performance and participatory art, 4—12 November 1978, spanning the ANU Arts Centre, Commonwealth Gardens and Civic Centre, Canberra. Organised by the ANU Arts Centre, Act I drew Australian artists to Canberra for the "first of a series of exhibitions directed towards specific aspects of recent and experimental art". Profusely illustrated artist pages throughout with photo documentation, collage, drawings, and artist's texts. Artists include Mike Parr, Ian Hamilton, Terry Smith and Media Action Group (Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Terry Smith, Michael Dolk, Kieren Finnane, Mary Kinney, Ian Milliss, Anne Sutherland...), Leigh Hobba, Kevin Mortensen, John Nixon, John Davis, Marr Grounds, Ken Unsworth, John Fisher, Liz Honybun, David Kerr, Richard and Pat Larter, Tony Twigg, Lesley Savage, Terry Smith, Tony Twigg, Bob Ramsay, Noel Sheridan, Arthur Wicks, Jillian Orr, Richard Tipping, Jim Cowley, Donald Walters... Includes critical essays by Paul McGillick and Terry Smith on performance art and private and public work, plus further texts by organisers Ingo Kleinert, Diana Ashcroft Johnson, Mildred Kirk. The catalogue also operates in as a document of the exchanges between the organisers and the artists, laying bare the operations and budget, reproducing the open letter to the invited artists along with a selection of the signed responses outlining the artistic concepts, all reproduced in full facsimile. Signatures and transcribed concept responses of contributing artists also make up the wrap-around cover design. Also of particular interest for the contribution by Terry Smith and Media Action Group, who formed in 1977 at Sydney University around the Australian members of the Art & Language group, who had recently returned to Australia. The group produced slide shows on the ideological bias in media treatment of advertising, uranium mining, new technology and the history of May Day. This work is stamped "withdrawn because titled 'performance'" in the contents.

Very Good copy with light wear to cover extremities/light spine pinching. Toned pages from age.

File under: Mike Parr Ian Hamilton Leigh Hobba Kevin Mortensen John Nixon John Davis Marr Grounds Ken Unsworth John Fisher Liz Honybun David Kerr Richard and Pat Larter Tony Twigg Lesley Savage Terry Smith Bob Ramsay Noel Sheridan Arthur Wicks Jillian Orr Richard Tipping Jim Cowley Donald Walters Pat Larter Richard Larter Media Action Group Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Michael Dolk Kieren Finnane Mary Kinney Ian Milliss Anne Sutherland Paul McGillick Terry Smith ANU Arts Centre / Canberra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera

G-Modern Vol. 8
Spring '95 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 110 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 8 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Spring 1995, this early issue features Albert Ayler, Kenji Endo, AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, Can / Holger Czukay, Stever Beresford, LAFMS, Miles Davis, Hawkwind, Butch Morris, The Pop Group, Television, Hiroshi Mikami, Q-65, unknown masterpieces, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, cover wear.

File under: Albert Ayler Kenji Endo AMM Nihilist Spasm Band Can / Holger Czukay Stever Beresford LAFMS Miles Davis Hawkwind Butch Morris The Pop Group Television Hiroshi Mikami Q-65 Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

G-Modern Vol. 17
Winter '97-'98 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 17 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter '97-'98, this early issue features Jutok Kaneko, Congregation, Current 93, Arthur Doyle, Klaus Dinger, Kikuchi Kōji, Barre Phillips, Chu Ishikawa, Nelly Pouget, Screamin' Mee-Mees, Solmania, Mike Whilhelm, Sumegma, unknown psychedelia, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Fine copy.

File under: Jutok Kaneko Congregation Current 93 Arthur Doyle Klaus Dinger Kikuchi Kōji Barre Phillips Chu Ishikawa Nelly Pouget Screamin' Mee-Mees Solmania Mike Whilhelm Sumegma Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Sound / Music Film / Video Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

G-Modern Vol. 5
Winter '94 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 108 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Vol. 5 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter 1994, this early issue features Derek Bailey, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Captain Beefheart, George A. Romero, Keiji Haino, Smegma, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Hawkwind, Pierre Henry, Shinro Ohtake, Shoichi Ozawa, Alvin Lucier, Frank Zappa, history/discography of Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label, articles on extremely obscure psych from around the world, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, light cover wear.

File under: Derek Bailey Captain Beefheart George A. Romero Keiji Haino Smegma Patti Smith Jean-Luc Godard Hawkwind Pierre Henry Shinro Ohtake Shoichi Ozawa Alvin Lucier Frank Zappa Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) Aube Motoharu Yoshizawa Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay

AMC NEWS (Australian Music Centre Newsletter) No. 14
"Collaboration ?"

1987, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 24 pages + inserts, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Australian Music Centre / Melbourne

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January 1987 edition of the AMC NEWS (Australian Music Centre Newsletter), "Collaboration ?," guest edited by Corinne d'Aston. An important newsletter on the happenings around the AMC and Australian sound art in general, mailed out to members. Contents: Collaboration? – A Discussion Between Four Theatre Artists and Sarah de Jong; The Doll – Music Theatre Workshop, Caroline Wilkins; Creative Collaboration – Martin Wesley-Smith; Playing Around in Open Spaces – David Chesworth; Collaboration in Dance – Stephen Leek; Interdisciplinary Artistic Collaboration – A Survivor’s Account – Bruce Harper. Illustrated throughout.

Includes an inserted membership form and a listing of the scores received at the centre from December 1986 to January 1987.

Founded in 1974, the Australian Music Centre (AMC) is the national service organisation and archive dedicated to promoting and supporting Australian art music and its creators. Born out of the Whitlam era's cultural expansion, the centre champions a vast spectrum of creative expressions, including contemporary classical, jazz, experimental music, and sound art. It houses a living digital repository of tens of thousands of scores, recordings, and educational tools, while simultaneously facilitating professional development, distributing published music, and co-hosting the prestigious annual Art Music Awards.

G–VG copy with light wear to extremities.

File under: Sarah de Jong Caroline Wilkins Martin Wesley-Smith David Chesworth Stephen Leek Bruce Harper Sarah de Jong Corinne d'Aston Caroline Wilkins Martin Wesley-Smith David Chesworth Stephen Leek Bruce Harper Australian Music Centre / Melbourne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Jazz No. 20, Autumn 1973
Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Milford Graves, Don Cherry...

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 114 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, No. 20, Autumn 1973, with Don Cherry cover. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Sonny Rollins at the Village Vangaurd (photography by Seiichi Sugita), the Newport Jazz Festival New York — Archie Shepp, Milford Graves, Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, etc. (photography by Seiichi Sugita), Montreux Jazz Festival Summer 1973 (photography by Aoki), a message to Japanese music friends from Chick Corea (about Scientology!), articles on narcotics, improvisation, natural foods, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Chick Corea Seiichi Sugita Archie Shepp Milford Graves Don Cherry Lester Bowie Joseph Jarman Roscoe Mitchell Ella Fitzgerald Keith Jarrett Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Japanese Photography

Jazz No. 24, August 1974
John Coltrane special issue

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 130 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, No. 24, August 1974, a special John Coltrane issue. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special feature and homage to John Coltrane with a huge Coltrane interview, rare photographs, articles, a complete illustrated discography, a photo-report and interview with Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine in New York (photography by Seiichi Sugita), Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: John Coltrane Kosuke Mine Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art

Jazz September 1974
Herbie Hancock special

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 130 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, September 1974. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Herbie Hancock with a full chronology and discography, Montreux Jazz Festival 1974 w. Sonny Rollins, Johm McLaughlin, Gil Evans, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Jean-Luc Ponty, Rufus Harley, Don Moyer, Alphonse Mouzon, etc. (photography by Seiichi Sugita), interview with jazz pianist Mikio Masuda, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Seiichi Sugita Duke Ellington Eric Dolphy Herbie Hancock Miles Davis Mikio Masuda Sonny Rollins Johm McLaughlin Gil Evans Lester Bowie Joseph Jarman Roscoe Mitchell Jean-Luc Ponty Rufus Harley Don Moyer Alphonse Mouzon Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Jazz January 1975
Miles Davis Special

1975, Japanese
Softcover, 120 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$140.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, January 1975. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Miles Davis with loads of rare photographs (inc. Miles Davis at the Newport Festival 1969 shot by Seiichi Sugita), article on Miles, complete Mile Davis discography, Japanese jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in New York (photography by Seiichi Sugita), European Jazz report, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Seiichi Sugita Eric Dolphy Miles Davis Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Japanese Photography

OUT OF ACTIONS: Between Performance and The Object, 1949-1979
by Paul Schimmel

1998, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 31 x 22 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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First edition of Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, edited by Paul Schimmel, published in 1998. with essays by Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, and Paul Schimmel.

Published to coincide with the first major museum exhibition to examine the complex relationship linking the creative process, action or performance, and works of art in the postwar period. Featuring nearly one hundred and fifty artists and collaboratives from approximately twenty countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and North and South America—including figures associated with the New York School, Nouveaux Realistes, Fluxus, Viennese Actionists, Hi Red Center, Arte Povera, the Gutai group, happenings, process art, and performance art—the exhibition centered on how the possibilities and implications of using time and process as elements of art were realized by a number of international movements during this influential thirty-year period.

Covering three decades of significant and original art, this lavishly illustrated book features work by more than one hundred artists from across the world who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era.

Includes the work of: Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Araeen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Jerzy Beres, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle & Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Rhett Delford Brown, Günter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Jochen Gerz, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Hi Red Center, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maler, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Cusi Masuda, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujín, Jan Mlčoch, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Hélio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Ságlová, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Štembera, Wolfgang Stöerchle, Jirō Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijević, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, Zaj.

Their work encompasses sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and the ephemera that arises from the performance, as well as documentary film and video stills.

Published in conjunction with a major touring exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process, in essays by acclaimed art historians. Covering an unprecedented range of material, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated.

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

VG copy with light wear and "The Grid" written in red marker on the block side (?).

File under: Joseph Beuys Chris Burden John Cage Lygia Clark Yves Klein John Latham Bruce Nauman Hélio Oiticica Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Robert Rauschenberg Niki de Saint Phalle Carolee Schneemann Atsuko Tanaka Jean Tinguely Marina Abramovič Jerzy Bereś Zorka Saglova Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Rasa Todosijevic Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Araeen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Mark Boyle & Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Rhett Delford Brown Günter Brus James Lee Byars Marc Camille Chaimowicz Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista VALIE EXPORT Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Jochen Gerz Gilbert & George Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Leeson Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Hi Red Center Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Jürgen Klauke Milan Knížák Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maler Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Cusi Masuda Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Marta Minujín Jan Mlčoch Linda Montano Charlotte Moorman Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Orlan Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope.L Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Ora Sherk Shōzō Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Jirō Takamatsu Mark Thompson Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Thames and Hudson / London Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sound / Music Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Dada Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Painting Drawing

Feminist Avant-Garde
Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 672 pages, 29 x 24 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

$125.00 - Out of stock

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Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan "The personal is political", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women--mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasize the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists–Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others–as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

Features the work of: Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Annekke Barger, Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Teresa Burga, Marcella Campagnano, Judy Chicago, Linda Christanell, Lili Dujourie, Mary Beth Edelson, Renate Eisenegger, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Iveković, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Katalin Ladik, Brigitte Lang, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Karin Mack, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Lorraine O’Grady, Orlan, Gina Pane, Letítia Parente, Ewa Partum, Friederike Pezold, Margot Pilz, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Suzanne Santoro, Carolee Schneemann, Lydia Schouten, Cindy Sherman, Penny Slinger, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter...

File under: Helena Almeida Eleanor Antin Annekke Barger Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Renate Bertlmann Teresa Burga Marcella Campagnano Judy Chicago Linda Christanell Lili Dujourie Mary Beth Edelson Renate Eisenegger Valie Export Esther Ferrer Lynn Hershman Leeson Alexis Hunter Sanja Iveković Birgit Jürgenssen Kirsten Justesen Ketty La Rocca Leslie Labowitz Katalin Ladik Brigitte Lang Suzanne Lacy Suzy Lake Karin Mack Ana Mendieta Rita Myers Lorraine O’Grady Orlan Gina Pane Letítia Parente Ewa Partum Friederike Pezold Margot Pilz Ulrike Rosenbach Martha Rosler Suzanne Santoro Carolee Schneemann Lydia Schouten Cindy Sherman Penny Slinger Annegret Soltau Hannah Wilke Martha Wilson Francesca Woodman Nil Yalter Gabriele Schor Prestel / Munich Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sociology / Politics Gender Studies / Sexuality Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Film / Video

On the Verge of Nothing: Pessimism’s Impossible Beyond
by Gary J. Shipley

2021, English
Softcover,‎ 202 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia

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"Gary Shipley’s On the Verge of Nothing moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we begin from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley’s ciphers – Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art – pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading On the Verge of Nothing, the primordial philosophical question of “how to live” now takes on contours that are colder, more detached, and yet, somehow, deeply engaged."– Eugene Thacker, author of Infinite Resignation

"Beginning insistently with the end of thought, this panegyric of the pointless offers a withering post-pessimistic ethics and aesthetics of diversionary tactics for life in the void. Territories traversed include dreams and delusions, the limits and purpose of self-consciousness, human animality, and the paradox of feeling-thinking. Gary J Shipley’s lucid, often pitiless diagnoses; rigorous, informed, and tight arguments; bons mots and essential apercus – larded with a rich compost of quotation (Pessoa, Lispector, Cioran, Kafka, etc.) – pursue a relentless thrashing of thought, sketching both a Bartlett’s and a Baedeker of our inevitable doom. These essays, aphorisms, fragments, and quotations have been shored not against but amidst ruin. Experimental, exploratory soundings and performances, a fantasia for the end of the world: this word horde is an essential drug for addicts of the impossible."–Stuart Kendall, author of Georges Bataille

"Pessimism is the tenor of our times, even if it is rarely fully embraced. Gary J. Shipley’s important book not only embraces pessimism, it offers a way to make life liveable not in the modality of morose resignation, but with enthusiasm. This is an achievement, even for pessimists who regard all achievement as ultimately futile."–Scott Wilson, author of The Order of Joy (from the Foreword)

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