World Food Books

Noise Receptor Journal Issue No. 10

2022, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Noise Receptor / Melbourne

$15.00 - In stock -

Noise Receptor Journal Issue No. 10 features... -: Long-form interviews with: Browning Mummery, Cipher Productions, Dødsmaskin, Geography of Hell, Infinexhuma & Raison D’être, plus 60+ reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Cover artwork by Peter Andersson. Edited by Richard Stevenson.

Limited to 600 copies.

File under: Browning Mummery Cipher Productions Dødsmaskin Geography of Hell Infinexhuma Raison D’être Noise Receptor / Melbourne Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater

Noise Receptor Journal Issue No. 9

2021, English
Softcover, 98 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Noise Receptor / Melbourne

$13.00 - In stock -

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Noise Receptor Journal Issue no. 9 features long-form interviews with: Contrastate, Die Kombination, Linekraft, Live Bait Recording Foundation, Martin Bladh, Murderous Vision and Nil By Mouth. Original cover artwork and review section artwork by Martin Bladh, accompanying 60 detailed reviews (ambient/industrial/experimental/power electronics etc.). Edited by Richard Stevenson.

Limited to 600 copies.

File under: Contrastate Die Kombination Linekraft Live Bait Recording Foundation Martin Bladh Murderous Vision Nil By Mouth Noise Receptor / Melbourne Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals

Noise Receptor Journal Issue No. 8

2020, English
Softcover, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Noise Receptor / Melbourne

$13.00 - In stock -

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Noise Receptor Journal Issue No. 8 features long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr. Edited by Richard Stevenson.

Limited to 600 copies.

File under: Moral Order Post Scriptvm Total Black Nordvargr Noise Receptor / Melbourne Periodicals Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Ubu Roi
by Alfred Jarry

1961, English
Softcover, 186 pages, 13.5 x 17.8 cm
Revised reprint,
Out of print title / used / good
Published by New Directions / New York

$38.00 - In stock -

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One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage. To some of those who were in the audience on opening night, including W. B. Yeats and the poet and essayist Catulle Mendès, it seemed an event of revolutionary importance, but many were mystified and outraged by the seeming childishness, obscenity, and disrespect of the piece. It is now seen by some to have opened the door for what became known as modernism in the twentieth century. It is a precursor to Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed, and their evil practices—in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeoisie to abuse the authority engendered by success.

Barbara Wright's witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.

File under: Franciszka Themerson Alfred Jarry Barbara Wright New Directions / New York Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater

The Powers of The Word : Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943
by René Daumal

1991, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by City Lights Books / San Francisco

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First 1991 City Lights edition of The Powers of The Word : Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 by early 20th-century French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic, poet, and early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics, René Daumal (1908-1944). Edited, translated and with introduction by Mark Polizzotti.

"Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the Grand Jeu group. He was iconoclastic and eclectic, able to embrace simultaneously Alfred Jarry's Pataphysics and Hindu teachings.

Daumal's two major works in English translation, Mount Analogue and A Night of Serious Drinking, have long been classics in this country; but until now, readers have not had access to the full range of his thought. The Powers of the Word spans a lifetime of essays and notes-many here translated for the first time-from the earliest incitements to drug use and revolt; through Daumal's unique readings of literary works; to his more mature, but no less ardent, meditations." — publisher's blurb

Fine copy. First 1991 Ed.

File under: Rene Daumal Mark Polizzotti City Lights Books / San Francisco Out-of-print / Rare Art Surrealism 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Philosophy Drugs / Psychedelia Dada Performance / Dance / Theater

Rasa, or Knowledge of the Self
by René Daumal

1982, English
Softcover, 108 pages, 20.2 x 13.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by New Directions / New York

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first New Directions 1982 edition of Rasa, or Knowledge of the Self, by early 20th-century French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic, poet, and early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics, René Daumal (1908-1944). Translated with an introduction by Louise Landes Levi.

Rasa, or Knowledge of the Self; is the remarkable, and now very scarce, first gathering in English translation of essays and review articles on Hindu aesthetics and translations from the Sanskrit by the French writer Rene Daumal. A member of the Simplist group associated from 1928 to 1932 with the journal Le Grand feu ("The Great Game"), he began cultivating his East Indian studies as an extension of his active pursuit of the avant-garde. In 1932, he made the acquaintance of Uday Shankar, becoming secretary to the latter's Hindu dance troupe and accompanying it that year on its premier American tour. In his efforts to make Shankar's music and dance comprehensible to Western audiences, Daumal developed into a passionate spokesman for Indian culture, and his subsequent writings on the subject are far removed from the usual dry philological speculations of academic Orientalists. "To Approach the Hindu Poetic Art" differentiates between the Indian and European views of aesthetic experience, with special emphasis on the concept of rasa—that is, "taste" or "savor"—which Daumal sees at the heart of all Hindu art. Two essays—"On Indian Music" and "Concerning Uday Shankar"—were written at the time of Shankar's Western tour, while the selection of Daumal's "Oriental Book Reviews" deals with topics, such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which were only to spark general interest in the West decades later. The remaining sections of the collection are translations from the Sanskrit that attempt to resonate against language's deepest core.

Good copy with insect nibbles to cover edges.

File under: Uday Shankar Rene Daumal Louise Landes Levi New Directions / New York Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Whole Earth / Crafts Sound / Music Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Performance / Dance / Theater Art 'Pataphysics / Oulipo

Adrian Piper
A Retrospective

1999, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fine Arts Gallery - University of Maryland / Baltimore

$150.00 - In stock -

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Scarce first extensive monographic catalogue published in conjunction with Adrian Piper's major survey exhibition held at the Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, October 14, 1999 - January 15, 2000. Traveled to the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, October 4, 2001 - January 13, 2002. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and colour, alongside accompanying texts by Piper, Maurice Berger, Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer, Laura Cottingham, and Dara Meyers-Kingsley. With illustrated checklist and bibliography. Cover features her "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981) work.

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (b. 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial passing and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media. The only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s, she has profoundly influenced the language and form of Conceptual art in America and is widely recognised today through her equally important writings.

Very Good-Fine first edition. Light tanning to edges and light bump to top-right corner.

File under: Adrian Piper Adrian Piper Maurice Berger Jean Fisher Kobena Mercer Laura Cottingham Dara Meyers-Kingsley Fine Arts Gallery - University of Maryland / Baltimore Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Feminism Out-of-print / Rare

Birth Death : The Come Organisation Compendium
by WHITEHOUSE / COME ORGANISATION

1986, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Strength Through Joy / Seattle

$200.00 - Out of stock

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The incredibly rare 1986 bible of Come Organisation (1979—1985) — a 350+ page collection of Come Org. and Whitehouse material, including all issues of Kata (the official organ publication of Come Org.), "The Story of Come Organisation", Live Action booklets, interviews, the complete Come Org. discography, littered with b/w reproductions of photos, posters, flyers, ephemera, and lots of serial killers. Features Come, Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi), Consumer Electronics, Nurse With Wound, Heinrich Himmler, Etat Brut, DDV, P.16D.4, Ramleh, Esplendor Geometrico, Kleistwahr, Krang, Aleister Crowley, William Bennett, Peter McKay, Paul Reuter, Philip Best, Glenn Michael Wallis, John Murphy, Kevin Tomkins, Steven Stapleton, Gary Mundy, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Charles Manson, Ed Gein, Peter Sutcliffe... The Come Organisation was a record label founded in London in 1979, initially as a vehicle for founder William Bennett's group Come, then Whitehouse, issuing many now legendary records and cassettes (and publications) that shaped experimental noise, industrial and power electronics to come.

THE resource. Very Good copy with light tanning and only light wear.

File under: MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Come Whitehouse Sutcliffe Jugend Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Consumer Electronics Nurse With Wound Heinrich Himmler Etat Brut DDV P.16D.4 Ramleh Esplendor Geométrico Kleistwahr Krang Aleister Crowley William Bennett Peter McKay Paul Reuter Philip Best Glenn Michael Wallis John Murphy Kevin Tomkins Steven Stapleton Gary Mundy Charles Manson Aleister Crowley Ted Bundy Ed Kemper Ed Gein Peter Sutcliffe Peter Sotos Philip Best Strength Through Joy / Seattle Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence

Coumplete Poems - 1960's & 70's
by Genesis P-Orridge

2023, English
Softcover, 212 pages, ‎21.5 x 14 cm
Published by Heartworm Press / New York

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Genesis P-Orridge, the mind and voice behind Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions, began their artistic journey in the 1960’s writing poetry.

This collection introduces Genesis as a thoughtful innovator and irreverent provocateur with over two decades of poetry, from beat to concrete, and shows the progression of the self, beginning the book under the given name of Neil Megson and eventually growing into the enigmatic Genesis P-Orridge.

Heartworm Press is proud to present hundreds of never before seen or published poems including 50 images with an intro by friend and collaborator Wesley Eisold.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge COUM Transmissions Throbbing Gristle Psychic TV Genesis P-Orridge Heartworm Press / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Counterculture

Site Of Sound : Of Architecture & The Ear
Edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden

English / German
Softcover (+ CD), 188 pages, 18 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Errant Bodies / Berlin Smart Art Press / Michigan

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition, long out-of-print. CD included.

Site of Sound is an anthology focusing on current trends in experimental music, sound art and audio theories, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, and architects whose work concerns itself with architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity. Complementing this are theoretical, fictional and diaristic writings by contemporary authors, cartographers and ecologists."—publisher's statement.

Edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden. Artists and contributors include Alison Knowles, Achim Wollscheid, Jalal Toufic, Hildegard Westerkamp, Phillip Corner, Christina Kubisch, Giancarlo Toniutti, Jake Tilson, Brandon LaBelle, Rolf Julius, Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Steve Peters, Ralf Wehowsky, David Dunn, Christof Migone, Loren Chasse, Moniek Darge, Michael Brewster, Max Eastley, Tim Robinson, Steve Roden, Rupert Loydell, Tom Marioni, Pierre Koenig, the Stalacpipe Organ at Luray Caverns, WrK, Minoru Sato, Toshiya Tsunoda, and Jio Shimizu. Includes audio CD featuring many of the featured works.

As New.

File under: Alison Knowles Achim Wollscheid Hildegard Westerkamp Phillip Corner Christina Kubisch Giancarlo Toniutti Jake Tilson Brandon LaBelle Rolf Julius Leif Elggren CM von Hausswolff Steve Peters Ralf Wehowsky David Dunn Christof Migone Loren Chasse Moniek Darge Michael Brewster Max Eastley Tim Robinson Steve Roden Rupert Loydell Tom Marioni Pierre Koenig the Stalacpipe Organ at Luray Caverns WrK Minoru Sato Toshiya Tsunoda Jio Shimizu Jalal Toufic Brandon LaBelle Steve Roden Jalal Toufic John Hudak Richard Lerman Giancarlo Toniutti Steve Peters David Dunn Leif Elggren CM von Hausswolff Michael Brewster Christof Migone Rupert Loydell Tim Robinson Pierre Koenig Rolf Julius Hildegard Westerkamp Loren Chasse WrK Christina Kubisch Moniek Darge Max Eastley Errant Bodies / Berlin Smart Art Press / Michigan Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fluxus Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

TOKYO 1970 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS 9
Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe

2013, Japanese
Softcover, 212 pages, 28.2 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Amana / Japan

$160.00 - In stock -

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First edition of this wonderful collection of Japanese photographers that captured 1970s Tokyo, now out-of-print. In the world of fine art photography, post-war Japanese photography is continuing to gather attention. Many Japanese photographers were active specifically during the large cultural and political development of the 70s as the country experienced rapid economic growth. At the time, new styles of expression with a strong focus on the individual viewpoint were beginning to develop, which were distinct to the social documentary photography prior to that. This also coincided with the development of photography within the fashion and advertising field, reflecting a period where the works of many unique photographers and styles began to grow. A careful selection of 160 bodies of works by 9 prominent photographers of the time, each individually portraying the excitement and rapid growth which symbolised the era. Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe.

Very Good copy with good dust jacket.

File under: Taiji Arita Eikoh Hosie Daido Moriyama Masatoshi Naito Hajime Sawatari Issei Suda Yoshihiro Tatsuki Shuji Terayama Katsumi Watanabe Amana / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater

PANSY December 1978 Edition 11

1978, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Queer Kids / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Super rare glam rock issue of the super rare PANSY fanzine, published by Queer Kids in Tokyo in the 1970s. Never seen another issue ever before (apparently 12 were produced), PANSY applies the queer gaze to the world of glam rock, post punk, new romantic... T-Rex/Marc Bolan, New York Dolls, David Bowie, Japan, Slade, Roxy Music, Raped, Brats ... photographing, interviewing, and profiling the princes of the new androgynous wave with school diary visual sensibility and DIY hand-collage aesthetic throughout. Includes a New York Dolls family tree, loads of magazine clipped pictures, and hand-written Japanese texts. Very obscure, very charming, very Japanese.

Very Good copy with small previous sticker damage to top of spine (front/back), otherwise only light edge wear and age.

File under: T-Rex Marc Bolan New York Dolls David Bowie Japan Slade Roxy Music Raped Brats Queer Kids / Tokyo Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+

Tadanori Yokoo
PUSH

1972, Japanese
Softcover (w. french-fold dust jacket and printed cardboard slipcase w. original obistrip), 246 pages, 13 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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The very scarce and unique PUSH by Tadanori Yokoo, published in 1972 and featuring photography by Kishin Shinoyama and Daido Moriyama.

After a car accident in 1972 Tadanori Yokoo decided to take a two year hiatus from work at the height of his fame. PUSH is a visually inventive dairy of this period beautifully designed by Yokoo himself with colour nude girl photographs and b/w self-portraits of the artist by none other than Kishin Shinoyama, Daido Moriyama and Tadashi Krahashi. A gorgeous and curious production with humorous over-printing and incredible design, housed in original printed slipcase with the original publisher's obi-strip.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy, with only light wear and age. Very well preserved and complete.

File under: Daido Moriyama Kishin Shinoyama Tadashi Krahashi Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo Kodansha Int / Tokyo Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Photography Drugs / Psychedelia Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater

SALE2 No.30
SPECIAL ISSUE

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Issue No.30 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.30, the "Special Issue" features Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Richard Cerf, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul Wunderlich, Robert Maplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Lewis Carroll, John Willie, Bernard Montorgueil, Guido Crepax, Van Rod, Carlo, Betty Page, Tealdo, clippings from periodicals such as Amateur Bondage, Bondage Life, Bondage Fantasies, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy with tanning to pages.

File under: Andy Warhol Bernard Montorgueil Betty Page Carlo Guido Crepax Hans Bellmer John Willie Leonor Fini Lewis Carroll Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Richard Cerf Robert Mapplethorpe Tealdo Van Rod Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Counterculture Eros Fashion Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

The Theatre and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud

1985, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 13.5 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by John Calder / London

$30.00 - Out of stock

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This collection of essays remains the most radical text on performance in print today. This volume contains the famous Manifestos of the Theatre of Cruelty and the definitions of this theatre; the underlying impulses of performance (described by Artaud as its 'metaphysics'); some suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses; a long appreciation of the expressive values of Eastern dance drama. Also included is Seraphim's Theatre, in which Artaud attempts an actor's application of the Taoist principles of fullness and emptiness. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger," Artaud wrote. He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalism he found anathema to the very concept of theater. He sought to use theater to transcend writing, "to break through the language in order to touch life." The Theatre and Its Double is widely read throughout the world as a source of inspiration for new drama, for those in search of the meaning of the theatre, as well as for the beauty of its lines. This remarkable French playwright and poet was born in 1896. He was a leading figure in the Surrealist movement and despite a divergence of ideas remained a dedicated Surrealist all his life, devoting his time to the study of problems of conflict between man's physical and intellectual natures. He died in 1948.

Very Good copy of 1985 English edition.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud John Calder / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Surrealism

Crossings – Kunst zum Hören und Sehen (Art to Hear and See)

1999, German
Softcover + CD, 230 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

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First edition w. CD, published in 1998 to accompany the exhibition Crossings – Art to Hear and See, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Cathrin Pichler and Edek Bartz. "CROSSINGS" is about the meeting of music and visual arts. An encounter that was expressed in many facets and forms in the 20th century, featuring works by: Mario Airò, Richard Artschwager, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Daniel Egg, Angus Fairhurst, Jochen Gerz, Douglas Gordon, Franz Graf, Dan Graham, Henrik Hakansson, Russel Haswell, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Arto Lindsay, Stephan von Huene, Lee Jaffe, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Milan Knízák, Bernhard Leitner, Hans-Peter Litscher, Christian Marclay, Charles Long, Alvin Lucier, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB, Yoko Ono, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Paul Panhuysen, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Prina, Alan Rath, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sarkís, Christoph Steinbrener, Wolfgang Stengel, Ned Sublette, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Weibel.

Very Good with audio CD featuring many of the artists above.

File under: Mario Airò Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Angela Bulloch John Cage Henning Christiansen Martin Creed Jeremy Deller Stan Douglas Daniel Egg Angus Fairhurst Jochen Gerz Douglas Gordon Franz Graf Dan Graham Henrik Hakansson Russel Haswell Carl Michael von Hausswolff Dick Higgins Gary Hill Noritoshi Hirakawa Arto Lindsay Stephan von Huene Lee Jaffe Mike Kelley Jon Kessler Milan Knížák Sarkis Bernhard Leitner Hans-Peter Litscher Christian Marclay Charles Long Alvin Lucier Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB Yoko Ono Albert Oehlen Nam June Paik Paul Panhuysen Michelangelo Pistoletto Stephen Prina Alan Rath Gerwald Rockenschaub Christoph Steinbrener Wolfgang Stengel Ned Sublette Lawrence Weiner Peter Weibel Cathrin Pichler Edek Bartz Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Art Sound / Music

A Journey Through Other Spaces : Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
by Tadeusz Kantor

1993, English
Softcover, 456 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of California / Berkeley

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Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Grotowski. Known in the United States primarily for his visually stunning productions, he is also highly regarded throughout Europe for his theoretically adventurous writings. Michal Kobialka, whom Kantor authorized to translate his work, provides us with the first collection of Kantor's essays in English, together with his analysis of the corpus of Kantor's work, both written and staged.

"Without a doubt Kobialka's work on Kantor is definitive. He explores every aspect of Kantor's search for a "truer reality" and leads the reader through the dense thicket of Kantor's explorations. Kobialka's prose is lucid, even though his subject is complex and at times almost ethereal. To those who have not seen a Kantor production, no better guide can be found than Kobialka's penetrating and exhaustive study."—World Literature Today

Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.

Edited and Translated by Michael Kobialka.

VG copy with come cover corner wear.

File under: Tadeusz Kantor Michael Kobialka Tadeusz Kantor University of California / Berkeley Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism Summer 1989
Vol. 19, No. 2

1989, English
Softcover, 106 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by John Hopkins University Press / Baltimore

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Summer 1989 issue of philosophy journal Diacritics, Vol. 19, No. 2, published by John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Contents include : Srinivas Aravamudan — "Being God's postman is no fun, yaar": reviewing Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Victoria Kahn — Rhetoric and the Law, Marc W. Redfield — Humanizing de Man, Norman Finkelstein — The Utopian Function and the reviewing Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Refunctioning of Marxism, George A. Trey — The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Habermas's Postmodern Adventure, John H. Smith — The Transcendance of the Individual, and more...

Founded in 1971 at Johns Hopkins University (later moving to Cornell), Diacritics is a journal focused on critical theory and contemporary continental philosophy — one of the major organs of “high theory,” especially as derived from French philosophy of language (Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, and Badiou).

Good copy with wear.

File under: Srinivas Aravamudan Paul de Man Ernst Bloch Jürgen Habermas Victoria Kahn Marc W. Redfield Norman Finkelstein George A. Trey John H. Smith John Hopkins University Press / Baltimore Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Philosophy

Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism Fall—Winter 1992
Vol. 23, No. 3-4 (Commemorating Walter Benjamin)

1992, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by John Hopkins University Press / Baltimore

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Special double issue of philosophy journal Diacritics "Commemorating Walter Benjamin", Vol. 23, No. 3-4, published by John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Fall—Winter 1992. Contents include: Fritz Gutbrodt — Poedelaire: Translation and the Volatility of the Letter, Ian Balfour — Commemorating Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber — Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt, Carol Jacobs — Benjamin's Readings, Anselm Haverkamp — Benjamin's Tessera: "Myslowitz—Braunschweig—Marseille", Karlheinz Barck — Walter Benjamin and Erich Auerbach: Fragments of a Correspondence, Eduardo Cadava — Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Christopher Fynsk — The Claim of History, Elissa Marder — Flat Death: Snapshots of History, Rainer Nagele — The Poetic Ground Laid Bare (Benjamin Reading Baudelaire), Irving Wohlfarth — The Politics of Youth: Walter Benjamin's Reading of The Idiot, plus more...

Founded in 1971 at Johns Hopkins University (later moving to Cornell), Diacritics is a journal focused on critical theory and contemporary continental philosophy — one of the major organs of “high theory,” especially as derived from French philosophy of language (Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, and Badiou).

Good copy with wear.

File under: Walter Benjamin Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Edgar Allan Poe Bettine Menke Fritz Gutbrodt Charles Baudelaire Ian Balfour Samuel Weber Carl Schmitt Carol Jacobs Anselm Haverkamp Karlheinz Barck Erich Auerbach Eduardo Cadava Christopher Fynsk Rainer Nagele Irving Wohlfarth John Hopkins University Press / Baltimore Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services
Edited by Kata Krasznahorkai and Sylvia Sasse

2023, English
Softcover, 686 pages, 21.6 x 17 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Subversion does not belong to anyone. It can come from artists who outwit the state or from intelligence agencies who infiltrate the art scene on behalf of the state. But what happens when the two sides meet? After the old state security archives in many Eastern European countries were opened, it became possible for this interaction to be studied in detail. Drawing on scientific essays and artistic contributions, the book shows how the secret police monitored happenings, performance art, and action art and looks at the debates they had about the new art form; it also demonstrates not only how the police documented artistic actions in detail using forensic techniques but also how they manipulated them and sought to thwart them with counter-actions. In addition to this, the book also reveals how artists dealt with the possibility that they were being observed by the secret police and how they now work with the material stored in the archives maintained by the intelligence services.

File under: Spector Books / Leipzig Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Art

Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich)
Le degré 41 sinapisé – Lecture on Pearl Disease, Paris 1922

2022, Englih
Softcover, 48 pages, 11 x 17 cm
Published by Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki

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The first volume in bie bao series dedicated to militant investigations on Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich), who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.

This publication presents Zdanevich's talk Le degré 41 sinapisé on the "pearl disease" in language, reporting on the potential of zaum to destroy not only social and national barriers, but also the ones dividing humans and animals. This first English translation of the talk from 1922 is introduced together with a short note by Marzio Marzaduri, an Italian scholar who first published the sinapisé lecture from the manuscript in its original Russian. The volume also includes an experimental essay by Elvin Brandhi, a Welsh musician who sent her text from Istanbul, while on a long layover on the way to Beirut on February 22nd 2022, exactly one hundred years on from the date Zdanevich initially gave the lecture.

The bie bao series will include eight publications, covering many layers of Zdanevich's rich theoretical and artistic output. Each volume consists of a bio-bibliographical introduction, a commentary, a translation with annotations, and artistic intervention.

Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975) was a Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, art critic, and publisher, close to the avant-garde circles and one of the promoters of Futurism in Russia, author of a poetic work, drama written in zaum abstract poetic trans-sense or "transrational" language, and novels.

Introduction by Marzio Marzaduri, essay by Elvin Brandhi.
Graphic design: Bardhi Haliti.

File under: Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich) Marzio Marzaduri Elvin Brandhi Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich) Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki Dada Poetry Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Graphic Design / Typography Theory / Essay Art

Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich)
Iliazda at the Birthday Party – Autobiographical Lecture, 1922

2022, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 11 x 17 cm
Published by Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki

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The English translation of Zdanevich's Dadaist autobiographical lecture in Paris in 1922, where he adopts the name Iliazda. In this entertaining lecture, the achievements of the avant-garde is presented as a combination of zaum, polymorphous sexuality, aleatory forms and scatological interpretation of culture.

The second volume of the bie bao series presents a eulogy entitled Iliazda at the Birthday Party, a pseudo-autobiographical lecture delivered by Ilya Zdanevich in Paris in 1922. It reports on Zdanevich's artistic and political adventures up until then. Along with an autobiography full of self-admiration, in this lecture Zdanevich gives an interpretation of his zaum dramas inspired by Freudianism, and humorously describes a colourful image of the Russian microcosm in Montparnasse.

Additionally, this second volume also includes Iliazd's letter to Ardengo Soffici from 1964, where one can read, in the most unambiguous terms, about Zdanevich's positions against war, imperialism, and all forms of nationalism. Subtitled 50 Years of Russian Futurism, the letter to Soffici presents us with an altogether new Zdanevich—a "fellow traveller" in both leftist and avant-garde circles. As well as the extended introduction and extensive annotations, the texts are further contextualised with Johanna Drucker's visual presentation of the birth of the Iliazd cult.
The bie bao series will include eight publications, covering many layers of Zdanevich's rich theoretical and artistic output. Each volume consists of a bio-bibliographical introduction, a commentary, a translation with annotations, and artistic intervention.

Translated by Pavels Smišlajevs and Michel Chevalier.
Graphic design: Bardhi Haliti.

Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975) was a Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, art critic, and publisher, close to the avant-garde circles and one of the promoters of Futurism in Russia, author of a poetic work, drama written in zaum abstract poetic trans-sense or "transrational" language, and novels.

File under: Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich) Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich) Pavels Smišlajevs Michel Chevalier Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki Art Dada 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Graphic Design / Typography Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry