World Food Books

Bertolt Brecht : Collected Plays Volume 5 : Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, and The Trial of Lucullus
Edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett

1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 467 pages, 22 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Pantheon / New York

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First 1972 hardcover English edition of Volume 5 of the immersive Collected Plays series by the legendary playwright Bertolt Brecht.

This volume of the 1972 authorized translation of the Collected Works of Bertolt Brecht contains three of his most important plays: Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, and The Trial of Lucullus. Under the editorship of Ralph Manheim, outstanding translator and winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Translation, and John Willett, planning editor of The Times Literary Supplement and author of a standard work on Brecht, the first volumes of the series present the plays in faithful and stage-worthy new translations, and in chronological order. Editorial notes have been provided, including Brecht's own state- ments and significant variants.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with some small wear and chipping to extremities.

File under: Bertolt Brecht Ralph Manheim John Willett Pantheon / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Art

The Gift of Death & Literature in Secret
by Jacques Derrida

2007, Englosh
Softcover, 160 pages, 22 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$35.00 - Out of stock

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The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Kierkegaard. One of Derrida’s major works, The Gift of Death resonates with much of his earlier writing, and this highly anticipated second edition is greatly enhanced by David Wills’s updated translation. This new edition also features the first-ever English translation of Derrida’s Literature in Secret. In it, Derrida continues his discussion of the sacrifice of Isaac, which leads to bracing meditations on secrecy, forgiveness, literature, and democracy. He also offers a reading of Kafka’s Letter to His Father and uses the story of the flood in Genesis as an embarkation point for a consideration of divine sovereignty. “An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida.”—Booklist, on the first edition

VG copy.

File under: Jacques Derrida University of Chicago Press / Chicago Philosophy Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Sarah Lucas
I SCREAM DADDIO

2015, English
Softycover, 152 pages, 28 x 21.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine

$90.00 - Out of stock

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"Here we were in a world that was defined by phallic shapes, a woman’s bottom, furniture recovered from the dust heap of memory, and a color. Yellow was the shows’ predominant colour – on nobs, walls – and of course yellow is the colour of eggs, and eggs connote fertility, and fertility connotes a woman’s private, and a woman’s privates are not fertile unless fertilised, and for that you need a nob."—Hilton Als

Sarah Lucas’, I SCREAM DADDIO catalogue accompanies Lucas’ British Pavilion solo show at the Venice Biennale in 2015 (9 May – 22 November 2015). Lucas’ works for the British Pavilion reprise and reinvent the themes that have come to define her powerfully irreverent art – gender, death, sex and the innuendo residing in everyday objects. This catalogue also includes text by Sarah Lucas and poems by D.H. Lawrence.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Sarah Lucas D.H. Lawrence Sarah Lucas Julian Simmons Sculpture / Installation Eros Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Art

Le Sang et La Rose No.1—4 1968—1969

1968 / 1969, Japanese / French
4 Vols., softcover, approx. 1000 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$350.00 - Out of stock

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Complete 4 issue run of Le Sang Et La Rose — a masterpiece of the Japanese underground! Opening with Kishin Shinoyama's photographic portraits of Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian and onward through one thousand pages exploring the outer limits of subversive human potential!

Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose was a groundbreaking, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The fourth final issue, and rarest of the four, edited by critic Masaaki Hiraoka and designed by self-taught painter, graphic designer and political activist, Kiyoshi Awazu (!) The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

All Good—VG copies with general wear and age.
Vol 1 with bumping and open chip to top of spine.

File under: Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Counterculture Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fiction / Poetry Occult / Esoterica Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Crime / Violence Dada Drawing Drugs / Psychedelia Ecology / Earth Ecology Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography LGBTQ+ Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Philosophy Photography Poetry Protest / Revolt Psychoanalysis Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Sociology / Politics Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Theory / Essay

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Rebecca Horn
The Glance of Infinity

1992, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 392 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover Scalo Publishers / Zürich

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, first printing of this beautiful and heavy 1997 monographic catalogue on Rebecca Horn, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. Rarer English language edition. Lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w surveying the artists' entire career (performances, films, sculptures and installations between 1968 and 1995) with large, gorgeous photographic reproductions accompanying Horn's own texts. Also includes texts by Carsten Ahrens, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Bruce W. Ferguson, Carl Haenlein and Katharina Schmidt. Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history, filmography and a bibliography. Edited by Carl Haenlein.

Fine copy with some wrinkling to front dust jacket from storage in original bookshop mylar sleeve. Now re-sleeved.

File under: Rebecca Horn Lynne Cooke Carsten Ahrens Doris von Drathen Bruce W. Ferguson Carl Haenlein Katharina Schmidt Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover Scalo Publishers / Zürich Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Yaso No. 31
Special Feature : Mannequins

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$65.00 - Out of stock

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"Mannequin" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, published in 1993, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese that look at the theme of the mannequin from fashion apparatus to fetish object, automatons to living dolls, including a panoramic photographic history of mannequins, a photo feature of French photographer Bernard Faucon's boy mannequin collection, a huge illustrated article on famous Japanese costume, stage and exhibition designer, and Issey Miyake collaborator Tomio Mohri, the wax anatomical models of dissected corpses by Clemente Michelangelo Susini of Florence (1754–1814) shot by Ryuji Miyamoto, Czech animator Jirí Barta's Klub odlozenych, Japanese model and actress Sayoko Yamaguchi, the living dolls of the Japanese theatre, medical mannequins, crash-test dummies, icons, "Doll Love" and erotic dolls, plus lots more and a lot more Bernard Faucon!

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Issey Miyake Tomio Mohri Bernard Faucon Clemente Michelangelo Susini Sayoko Yamaguchi Jirí Barta Ryūji Miyamoto Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Periodicals Film / Video Fashion Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Eros Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic LGBTQ+ Photography Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Sonsbeek '71

1971, Dutch / English
Softcover (2 volumes), 232 pages + 96 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce Sonsbeek '71 complete 2 volume catalogue set, published in conjunction with exhibition held at Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, June 19 - August 15, 1971. Sonsbeek Park had been the site of international sculpture exhibitions periodically from 1949. The concept of sonsbeek '71, which was described in the catalogue as an adventure and a dynamic manifestation, was both revolutionary and controversial. It made a radical departure from the usual format by expanding the conceptual and physical territory "beyond the boundaries" and commissioning site-specific works that appeared throughout all of Holland. Along with sculpture, installation, environmental works, and performances, the exhibition aimed to make visitors aware of the influence of (new) communication technologies, such as the telephone and the telex machine, on the perception of space, distance and time. An on-site film and audio studio produced new video works and an offset printing press where artists' plans could be printed was installed, with new artists' publications being sponsored by the exhibition (such as Ruscha's Dutch Details; the artist's book statement reproduced herein). This catalogue itself becomes a vital element of the conceptual activity, reproducing documentation of the works, statements, drawings, instructions, and many artist page-works created specifically for the publications. Edited by Geert van Beijeren and Coosje Kapteyn, with texts (in English and Dutch) by art historian Willem A. L. Beeren and others.

Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Ben d`Armagnac, Richard Artschwager, Bruce Baillie, Douwe Jan Bakker, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Javacheff Christo, Tony Conrad, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Ad Dekkers, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Pieter Engels, Groep Enschede, E. R. G., Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Ken Jacobs, joepat, Donald Judd, On Kawara, W. Knoebel, Hans Koetsier, Axel van der Kraan, Peter Kubelka, George Landlow, Standish Dyer Lawder, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Moving Mass, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Mario Merz, Moore, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Nelson, Groep Noord-Brabant, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Egbert Philips, Emilio Prini, Klaus Rinke, Peter Roehr, Ulrich Rückriem, Edward Ruscha, Fred Sandback, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Wim T. Schippers, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Eric Siegel, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Michael Snow, Ellen Edinoff, Koert Stuyf, Shinkichi Tajiri, Sajiki and Yokoyama Tenjo, Carel Visser, Andre Volten, Hans de Vries, Lex Wechgelaar, Lawrence Weiner, Joyce Wieland.

Very Good copies each, with light wear/tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.

File under: Sonsbeek / Arnhem Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Minimal Art Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Arte Povera Ecology Ecology / Earth Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

Sonsbeek '72

1972, English / Dutch
3 books, softcover, approx 360 photo cards, 13.5 x 17 cm
Ed of 700 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$280.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce, incredible Sonsbeek '72 complete 3 volume catalogue set, published in a limited edition of 700 copies by Sonsbeek, Arnhem, 1972. The tripartite catalogue arose from the notes and photos made of an important group exhibition where artists submitted installation or performance pieces, executed during the period November '71 - June '72. Each volume forms an alphabetical index of artist photographic cards (#1 A-H, #2 I-R, #3 S-Z), totalling approx. 360, each with the data of their artwork on the front and photographic documentation on the verso. Very beautifully executed.

Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Daniel Buren, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Edward Ruscha, Wim T. Schippers, Lawrence Weiner, Tenjo Sajiki, Michael Snow, Kenneth Snelson, Eric Siegel, Paul Sharits, Wim Crouwel, Yokoyama, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Jack Moore, Yutaka Mutsuzawa, Peter Kubelka, Hans Koetsier, Ken Jacobs, Walter de Maria, Dan Graham, Hanne Darboven, Marinus Boezem.

Very Good copies each, with light wear, spine tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Carl Andre Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Marinus Boezem Daniel Buren Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Ad Dekkers Ger van Elk Hans Eykelboom Barry Flanagan Hollis Frampton Dan Graham Douglas Huebler Donald Judd On Kawara Sol LeWitt Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Panamarenko Edward Ruscha Wim T. Schippers Lawrence Weiner Tenjo Sajiki Michael Snow Kenneth Snelson Eric Siegel Paul Sharits Wim Crouwel Yokoyama Claes Oldenburg Bruce Nauman Robert Morris Jack Moore Yutaka Mutsuzawa Peter Kubelka Hans Koetsier Hanne Darboven Ken Jacobs Paul Bonger Rick Vermeulen Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews

2021, English
Softcover, 398 pages, 16 x 24 cm
Published by Blank Forms Editions / NYC

$53.00 - Out of stock

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Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews represents the first ever book-length collection devoted to the composer, whose life and work are as vast as they are as yet unknown. From personal notes and letters to program notes, manifestos and unrealized project proposals, the documents are framed by longer interviews with Amacher that discuss corresponding periods of her life. Because Amacher worked across nearly every imaginable media format, this book will be of tremendous interest to theorists and practitioners in media and communications, urban design, contemporary art history, music studies, sound studies, film, radio, art criticism and performance studies.

As New sale item due to minor corner bumping from transit.

File under: Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher Blank Forms Editions / NYC Sound / Music Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer

2024, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 27.2 x 20 cm
Published by Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Phaidon / London

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The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

Copy Machine Manifestos captures the rich history of artists' zines as never before, placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this expansive book, bound as a paperback with a separate jacket, focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.

File under: Richard Kern Mark Morrisroe Beverly Buchanan Mark Gonzales G.B. Jones Miranda July Bruce LaBruce Terence Koh LTTR Ari Marcopoulos Raymond Pettibon Brontez Purnell Paul Mpagi Sepuya Kandis Williams Niagara Mike Kelley Destroy All Monsters Ed Templeton Barbara Ess Branden W. Joseph Drew Sawyer Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Phaidon / London Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Photography Sound / Music Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video Curatorial Drawing Drugs / Psychedelia Feminism Fiction / Poetry Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Poetry

David Hammons/Yves Klein

2014, English
Hardcover, 208 pages, 20 x 26 cm
Published by Aspen Art Museum / Aspen

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This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and performative expression, often touching on the metaphysical. Hammons (born 1943) is a conceptual artist whose works in performance, installation, sculpture, printmaking and other media confront contemporary realities with an often hard-hitting wit. This publication aims not to draw out any notion of influence or direct correlation between these bodies of work, but rather to elucidate a resonance between two artists who both engage transformative processes to invest the humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.

File under: Yves Klein David Hammons Michelle Piranio Klaus Ottmann Franklin Sirmans Phillippe Vergne Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Aspen Art Museum / Aspen Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Schizo-Culture: The Event, the Book
2 Volume boxset

2014, English
2 volume Softcover (in hardcover slip case), 240 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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The legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-’68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze’s first presentation of the concept of the “rhizome” to Foucault’s introduction of his History of Sexuality project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion “Schizo-Culture” revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture.

The “Schizo-Culture” issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green, it documented the chaotic creativity of an emerging downtown New York scene, and offered interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Foucault, R. D. Laing, and other conference participants.

This slip-cased edition includes The Book: 1978, a facsimile reproduction of the original Schizo-Culture publication; and The Event: 1975, a previously unpublished and comprehensive record of the conference that set it all off. It assembles many previously unpublished texts, including a detailed selection of interviews reconstructing the events, and features Félix Guattari, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michel Foucault, Sylvère Lotringer, Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze, John Rajchman, Robert Wilson, Joel Kovel, Jack Smith, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Ti-Grace Atkinson, François Peraldi, and John Cage.

File under: Jack Smith John Cage William S. Burroughs Felix Guattari Gilles Deleuze Guy Hocquenghem Jack Smith Jean-François Lyotard Joel Kovel John Cage John Rajchman Kathy Acker Michel Foucault Robert Wilson Sylvère Lotringer Ti-Grace Atkinson William S. Burroughs SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Theory / Essay Arte Povera Sound / Music Feminism Film / Video Counterculture LGBTQ+ Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus

Rag Vol. 1, No. 1
Spring/Summer 1986

1986, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 36.5 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cross Culture Foundation / Tokyo

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Rare inaugural issue of the almost unknown but incredible Japanese magazine, Rag. Was this the only issue? Published in 1986 in over-sized, staple-bound format, Rag issue 1 includes a beautiful photo feature on Butoh performer Goro Namerikawa, a large feature on "Art's Destroying Angel" Tadanori Yokoo, photography by Nobuyoshi Araki, Keiichi Tahara, Yasushi Handa, Shunji Kaida, Herbie Yamaguchi, Sachiko Kuro, Kaoru Ijima, experimental musician and playwright Koharu Kisaragi, costume designer Michiko Kitamura, designers Issey Miyake, Junko Shimada, musician Eitetsu Hayashi, and much more.

Good copy with some large format wear to spine/extremities.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Tadanori Yokoo Keiichi Tahara Yasushi Handa Shunji Kaida Herbie Yamaguchi Sachiko Kuro Kaoru Ijima Michiko Kitamura Issey Miyake Junko Shimada Eitetsu Hayashi Goro Namerikawa Cross Culture Foundation / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Photography Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Ana Mendieta
Search For Origin / Aux commencements

2024, English / French
Softcover, 216 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León

$70.00 - Out of stock

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An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta, with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.

The monograph devoted the Cuban born, American artist Ana Mendieta at MO.CO. Panacée in 2023 brings together about one hundred works from over fifteen years of production (1968-1985). The exhibition explores in particular how the artist never ceased to reinvent herself, developing an original, ephemeral sculptural language, at times performative in act, nourished by her research into primitive myths and rock art. It focuses especially on revealing her relationship to the visible and the invisible, her way of rendering the unspeakable intelligible through the trace of the body, and how it relates to nature. It is not intended to be a retrospective show, but rather to celebrate the relevance of such political and vibrant contemporary work.

Accompanying the exhibition, this richly illustrated publication is introduced by Numa Hambursin and Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, in addition to unpublished texts by Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo and Rahmouna Boutayeb, as well as an interview of Raquel Cecilia Mendieta with Vincent Honoré.

In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled "siluetas," are fugitive and potent traces of the artist's inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.

Contributions by Numa Hambursin, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Géraldine Gourbe, Carla Guardiola Bravo, Rahmouna Boutayeb, Vincent Honoré, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta.

Published with This Side Up and MUSAC, León.

File under: Ana Mendieta Numa Hambursin Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya Géraldine Gourbe Carla Guardiola Bravo Rahmouna Boutayeb Vincent Honoré Raquel Cecilia Mendieta MO.CO. Panacée La Panacée / Montpellier MUSAC / León Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Art Occult / Esoterica Feminism

Ballets... Without Music, Without Dancers, Without Anything
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

2024, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 22 x 13.5 cm
Published by Salitter Workings / New York

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From Salitter Workings' benign criminal enterprise in Lulu/Exoteric archiving. The English translation from the French by Thomas and Carol Christensen, published by Green Integer in 1999, and long out-of-print.

"Céline's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit, which he dedicated to the dancer Elisabeth Craig. At the time of his death, according to his wife—also a dancer—he was planning a book devoted to dance. "A man who doesn't dance confesses some disgraceful weakness," he wrote Milton Hindus. "I put dancing into everything."

In 1936, after finishing his monumental second novel, Mort a crédit, Céline visited Russia, where he hoped to have some of his ballets performed at the Theater Marinski in Leningrad. He failed to get any of them performed. But through this period he continued writing ballets. In 1959 five ballets were collected by Editions Gallimard with illustrations by Éliane Bonabel. The result is this edition, never before published in English, that reveals a central concern of éline's writing while simultaneously displaying his comic structures and the struggle between idyllic beauty and inescapable deterioration, death, and the grotesque of his great fictions."

File under: Éliane Bonabel Louis-Ferdinand Celine Thomas Christensen Carol Christensen Salitter Workings / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry

MAY #22
June 2024 (Dedicated to Sylvère Lotringer)

2024, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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Introduction to Sylvère Lotringer's Interviews by Chris Kraus, interviews with David Wojnarowicz and Kathy Acker by Sylvère Lotringer, Machines for Looking by Karl Holmqvist, Anette Freudenberger on Hélène Fauquet, Gianmaria Andreetta on Yuki Kimura, Nick Irvin on Sam Pulitzer, Annie Ochmanek on Marc Kokopeli, Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle on Nicolas Ceccaldi, Shiv Kotecha on Klara Lidén and Hannah Black, Anke Dyes on Marie Angeletti, E.C. Feiss on Andrea Fraser, Thea Westreich Wagner, Our Guide to Comedy-Adventure by Bernadette Van-Huy.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, once a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: David Wojnarowicz Kathy Acker Karl Holmqvist Bernadette Van-Huy Hélène Fauquet Yuki Kimura Sam Pulitzer Marc Kokopeli Nicolas Ceccaldi Klara Lidén Hannah Black Marie Angeletti Andrea Fraser David Wojnarowicz Chris Kraus Kathy Acker Sylvère Lotringer Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle Shiv Kotecha Anke Dyes E.C. Feiss Nick Irvin Anette Freudenberger Annie Ochmanek Gianmaria Andreetta May Revue / Paris Periodicals Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Philosophy Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Photography Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Ghost and Spirit

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 24.3 x 18.0 cm
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

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The first properly posthumous retrospective, this book highlights the significance of Kelley's influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s

Mike Kelley (1954-2012) liked to play with how an artist appears, exists, and inhabits a role and how an artwork "communes" with a viewer. Central to his ambitious explorations of memory, history, and the future is his consideration of how one's individual subjectivity is shaped by familial and institutional power structures within society. Ghost and Spirit highlights the significant and prescient questions about the role of art, and of the artist, and about gender and class, in terms that stem from Kelley's own position as a white, heterosexual man in postmodern, capitalist America. Featuring a diverse range of voices, it explores the major works and themes of Kelley's career, while drawing attention to aspects of his practice associated with performance, activism, and collaboration, to emphasize his continual deflation of his own authority, and his willingness to invent and inhabit several identities. Covering over four decades of Kelley's work spanning performance, sculpture, video and installation, and articulating challenges to power, gender, class, and sexuality, this book is a pertinent presentation of the breadth, complexity, and significance of Kelley's influential practice.

File under: Mike Kelley Catherine Wood Fiontán Moran The Tate Gallery / London Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Viscose 6
TEXT

2024, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 33 x 24.7 cm
Published by Viscose / Copenhagen

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The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

The fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their “expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe,” as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing— which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice— are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. And even today, in an age described by many as image-driven, this remains true: across various media platforms, language not only surrounds fashion but also continuously contributes to its creation.

The succinct, ephemeral poetry of the fashion writer still plays—nearly a century since Hughes’ observation—a transformative role in the seasonal turnover of fashion, but its role in the fashion industry remains seriously overlooked. Fashion invests substantially in seasonally refreshing the visual messaging accompanying its physical commodities, but language plays a similarly important support in this artful game of marketing. In this industrial context spanning from press releases to magazine production, writing is devoted to fashion promotion, prioritizing its fundamental traits of novelty, urgency, and semiotic complexity. In this context, fashion writing is a process of mystification, capable of revealing things that the image cannot. The material conditions of fashion writing—of being for fashion—generates a unique set of poetics and syntax. Fashion writing, or “written fashion,” as Roland Barthes asserts, is a form of signification that is simultaneously real and imaginary, connected to the real garment that it signifies, but largely unencumbered by its materiality. Given the constraints of economic, cultural, and political factors on fashion writing, it is perhaps more interesting to ask, what is fashion writing really encumbered by, and what would it mean to “unencumber” it?

Since Baudelaire, art critics have turned to fashion as source material for their practice, casting fashion in the role of art’s capitalist conspirator, temporal truth-sayer, or feminine alter-ego. This erratic history is one filled with both fraught politics (rooted in a gendered division of labor) as well as critical possibility: art writing gestures to a style of intellectualism and independence from industry that is largely foreign in fashion. Viscose Journal has, since its founding, aimed to detach fashion criticism from industrial frameworks that has historically premised it. At the same time, informed by a materialist politics of fashion labor, we wish to seriously level the largely female writing of commercial fashion publications with the masculine philosophical inquiries of fashion.

While “fashion writing” denotes a thematic category within the wider field of writing, our theme of “writing fashion” prompts an exploration of fashion writing as a mode of fashion production and critique. This issue aims to explore writing as a tool for shaping fashion and broaden its perspectives by presenting a survey of experimental, fictocritical, and poetic approaches to writing fashion. In this expanded field of writing, “fashion” unfolds as a ubiquitous and epistemologically complex phenomena of everyday life pertinent to all.

Accompanied by the exhibition “Writing Fashion“ at and published by the International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, Norway, staged in June 2024, Viscose Journal 06 strives to be a thought-provoking journey into the captivating intersection of fashion and language. We are grateful to the library’s fantastic team and collaborators for their ongoing support and collaboration.

with works by: Osman Ahmed, Alba Aragón, Katherine Bernard, Ricarda Bigolin, Eileen Chang, Dal Chodha, Eduardo Costa, Jose Unzueta Criale, Femke De Vries, Becket Flannery, Kennedy Fraser, Laura Gardner, Patrick Greaney, Bruce Hainley, Elizabeth Hawes, Nakako Hayashi, Devin Hentz, Elaine Wing-Ah Ho, Juje Hsiung, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Jamaica Kinkaid, Chantal Kirby, Jeremy Lewis, Davora Lindner, Hanne Lippard, Shanzhai Lyric, Shizuang Magazine, Celine Mathieu, Derek Mccormack, H.B. Peace, Julie Peeters, John Perrault, Vogue Runway Rag, Rachel Tashjian, Jeppe Ugelvig, Elizabeth VR, Hanna Weiner, Elizabeth Wilson, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruno Zhu

File under: Osman Ahmed Alba Aragón Katherine Bernard Ricarda Bigolin Eileen Chang Dal Chodha Eduardo Costa Jose Unzueta Criale Femke De Vries Becket Flannery Kennedy Fraser Laura Gardner Patrick Greaney Bruce Hainley Elizabeth Hawes Nakako Hayashi Devin Hentz Elaine Wing-Ah Ho Juje Hsiung Olivia Kan-Sperling Jamaica Kinkaid Chantal Kirby Jeremy Lewis Davora Lindner Hanne Lippard Shanzhai Lyric Shizuang Magazine Celine Mathieu Derek Mccormack H.B. Peace Julie Peeters John Perrault Vogue Runway Rag Rachel Tashjian Jeppe Ugelvig Elizabeth VR Hanna Weiner Elizabeth Wilson Yohji Yamamoto Bruno Zhu Viscose / Copenhagen Periodicals Fashion Fiction / Poetry Textiles Art Performance / Dance / Theater

To Note: Notation Across Disciplines

2017, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 18 x 11 cm
Edition of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Perimeter Editions / Melbourne

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Published in an edition 500 copies in 2017 and out-of-print.

Notation is part of our everyday. It is an act that records an observation for future reference. From a handwritten note, an electronic reminder or a quick sketch to a highlighted passage of text or post-it note, notation assumes many casual forms. It marks a moment of (anticipated) significance. Its audience may be its author or others. In time, it may or may not retain its (intended) significance. The motivation for the notation may be to capture something out of time for consideration at a later date – a reminder, a record, an instruction. It may be to convey something in the here and now by extracting (and abstracting) it from its original context and into the moment – to communicate. It may be a generative gesture, using a system of symbols to share a thought or proposition with peers for their interpretation or response.

In December 2015, notation became the focal point of a workshop presented at RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne entitled To Note: Notation Across Disciplines, which involved 25 practitioners working in and across the disciplines of sound, dance, visual art and design/architecture. Part reference, part exercise manual, this book is a collection of material that both informs and challenges our understanding of notation and how it exists both historically and currently within and across various fields and disciplines.

Editor: Hannah Matthews
Design: Žiga Testen & Stuart Geddes
Authors: Dr Michael Trudgeon, Erkki Veltheim, Dr Sally Gardner & Dr Alex Selenitsch
Participants: Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Georgina Criddle, Richie Cyngler, Matthew Day, Eliza Dyball, Benjamin Forster, Dr Sally Gardner, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Aurelia Guo, Melanie Irwin, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Mantsio, Phip Murray, Geoff Robinson, Jan van Schaik, Brooke Stamp, Lilian Steiner, Studio Apparatus, Studio Osk, Colby Vexler, Phoebe Whitman, Benjamin Woods

Very Good copy.

File under: Deanne Butterworth Lane Cormick Georgina Criddle Richie Cyngler Matthew Day Eliza Dyball Benjamin Forster Dr Sally Gardner Nathan Gray Helen Grogan Aurelia Guo Melanie Irwin Rebecca Jensen Shelley Lasica Michelle Mantsio Phip Murray Geoff Robinson Jan van Schaik Brooke Stamp Lilian Steiner Studio Apparatus Studio Osk Colby Vexler Phoebe Whitman Benjamin Woods Michael Trudgeon Erkki Veltheim Sally Gardner Alex Selenitsch Hannah Matthews Perimeter Editions / Melbourne Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Concrete Poetry

Felix Labisse
by Patrick Walberg

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 325 pages, 23 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Andre De Rache / Brussels

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First edition of the best, most comprehensive reference book on the work of French—Belgian Surrealist artist Felix Labisse, and one of the only publications on the artist in the English language. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, including many photographs of Labisse's life and artistic circles, with extensive accompanying essays by the great Surrealist biographer and author Patrick Walberg, including chapters: Gayant's child; The Ostend clan; The Wizard of Families; Behind the Scenes of the Party; Devil's Transvestites. Highly recommended.

Félix Labisse (1905—1982) was a self-taught French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He was born in Marchiennes. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, with whom he became friends for life. In 1927 he set up his own studio there, influenced by his contact with the Ostend artists Ensor, Constant Permeke and Léon Spilliaert. Labisse mainly worked with oil on canvas. Beginning in 1931 he designed extensively literature and for the theater. In 1951 he staged the play Le Diable et le Bon Dieu by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris and in 1954 he staged the play Les Mystères de Paris by Albert Vidalie under the direction of Georges Vitaly at the Theater La Bruyere in Paris. Labisse's work was also influenced by Paul Delvaux and René Magritte. Describing his own work as 'libidoscaphes', his paintings depict fantastical hybrid creatures, heavy with motifs of eroticism and Freudian themes. He painted the first of a series of his iconic blue women in 1960; among them is the Bain Turquoise. He was the subject of a film by Alain Resnais, Visite à Félix Labisse (1947). In 1966 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1973 his paintings were shown in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1982.

Patrick Waldberg (1913—1985) was a Franco-American art critic known for his profiles of Surrealist artists. Born in Santa Monica, California, Waldberg moved to Paris as a child with his family. In 1932, and while still a student (age 19), he joined Boris Souvarine's Democratic Communist Circle. There he met Georges Bataille and his friends Michel Leiris and André Masson, and was initiated by them into a wild night life. 1937 saw him back in California to take care of "family matters", however, a letter from Georges Bataille reached him there, urging him to return to Paris in order to take part in a Nietzschean secret society Bataille was then forming, called Acéphale ("headless"). Waldberg heeded the call in September 1938, and he says this permanently changed his life. From 1938 to 1940 Waldberg would serve as the secretary of Bataille's "official" group, the College of Sacred Sociology. In 1959 he left Paris to move to the French village of Seillans, where his second wife Line Jubelin was from. Max Ernst and his own second wife Dorothea Tanning joined him there. Their houses are now a Max Ernst museum and a Maison Waldberg museum.

Very Good in VG dust jacket — copy, light wear/age only.

File under: Felix Labisse Patrick Waldberg Andre De Rache / Brussels Surrealism Painting Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Shock Factory – Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
by Nicolas Ballet

2023, French
Softcover, 465 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly produced a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and the growing influence of technology. Originally British, its development grew in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by industrial bands—designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes recycled or conceived by the artists—were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. The saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, altered by a détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that invested polemical themes: mental control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who anticipated current issues concerning the media and their coercive power.

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Octopus Notes, Marges,OpticalSound, Volume !, Revue & Corrigée, Klima, in Cahiers du CAP and Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.

Foreword by Pascal Rousseau.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Pascal Rousseau Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video

Ellen Cantor
"I’m Still Coming" : COMING TO POWER 2016 & 1993

2017, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Capricious / New York

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A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor, in 1993, along with its re-staging in 2016 by curator Pati Hertling and artist, Julie Tolentino.

The book also chronicles the unprecedented partnership amongst five New York City institutions. Exhibitions and programming of Cantor’s work were offered by 80WSWE, Maccarone, Foxy Productions, Participant Inc., Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Skowhegan School of Painting, and MOMA—highlighting the lush, visionary, and audacious aspects of Cantor’s drawings, paintings, curatorial projects, sculpture, assemblage, video, film, and evocative writing. Another section features a reprint of an interview between Cantor and Cerith Wyn Evans, a conversation between Lia Gangitano/Jonathan Berger and Julie Tolentino/Pati Hertling, as well as archival material from Cantor’s diary entries and never-seen sketches from Cantor’s personal papers.

LIST OF ARTISTS:

PAINTING/SCULPTURE/PHOTOGRAPHS: Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Fried, Nan Goldin, Nancy Grossman, Pnina Jalon, G.B. Jones, Doris Kloster, Joyce Kozloff, Zoe Leonard, Monica Majoli, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke

VIDEO/FILM: Peggy Ahwesh, Maria Beatty, Lynda Benglis, Abigail Child, Cicciolina, Kate Dymond, Azian Nurudin, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Julia Kunin, Blush Productions, Annie Sprinkle, and Ona Zee

PERFORMANCES: FlucT, luciana achugar, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom, Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado, Jim Fletcher, Narcissister, niv Acosta, and Jen Rosenblit and their collaborators

File under: Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Louise Bourgeois Ellen Cantor Patricia Cronin Mary Beth Edelson Nicole Eisenman Nancy Fried Nan Goldin Nancy Grossman Pnina Jalon G.B. Jones Doris Kloster Joyce Kozloff Zoe Leonard Monica Majoli Marilyn Minter Alice Neel Lorraine O’Grady Yoko Ono Carolee Schneemann Joan Semmel Cindy Sherman Nancy Spero Hannah Wilke Julie Tolentino Peggy Ahwesh Maria Beatty Abigail Child Cicciolina Kate Dymond Azian Nurudin Barbara Hammer Holly Hughes Julia Kunin Blush Productions Annie Sprinkle Ona Zee FlucT luciana achugar Kia Labeija Xandra Ibarra / La Chica Boom Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado Jim Fletcher Narcissister niv Acosta Jen Rosenblit Pati Hertling Capricious / New York Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Film / Video Feminism Curatorial Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+