World Food Books

The Conditions of Being Art
Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co.

2018, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press

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The Conditions of Being Art is the first book to examine the activities of groundbreaking contemporary art galleries Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004), and the transnational milieu of artists, dealers and critics that surrounded them.

Drawing on the archives of dealers Pat Hearn and Colin de Land—both, independently, legendary players on the New York art scene of the 1980s and '90s, and one of the great love stories of the art world—this publication illustrates their distinctive artistic practices, significant exhibitions and events, and daily business. Hearn and de Land championed art that challenged the business of running an art gallery; artists like Renée Green and Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser and Cady Noland, who employed conceptualism and installation, social and institutional critique.

Contributing to the history of exhibitions, institutions and curating, The Conditions of Being Art addresses a significant gap in this literature around experimental commercial spaces in recent art history. This publication is the first book-length critical account of the alternative commercial gallery practices of the 1990s, a moment and a scene that is extremely influential to many of today's art dealers, curators and artists.

Hearn and de Land's gallery practices explored new experimental and ethical possibilities within the selling of art, testing the relationship of contemporary art to its markets. In this volume, full-colour images, in-depth scholarly investigations and detailed gallery histories vibrantly document how Hearn and de Land tested new notions of what an art gallery could be.

Edited with text by Jeannine Tang, Lia Gangitano, Ann Butler. Text by Johanna Burton, Jill Casid, Lauren Cornell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jennifer King, Mason Leaver-Yap, Kobena Mercer.

Features the work of: Mark Morrisroe, Jimmy de Sana, Art Club 2000, Moyra Davey, Alex Bag, Lutz Bacher, John Knight, J. St. Bernard, John Miller, Renée Green, Jutta Koether, Phillip Taaffe, Christian Philipp Müller, Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser, Cady Noland, Mark Dion, Julia Scher, Kirsten Mosher, Dan Flavin, Jack Pierson, Stephen Dillemuth, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, Jessica Diamond, Rapid Response (Christina Cobb, Peter Fend, Julia Fischer, William Meyer), Lincoln Tobier, Ted Byfield, and many others.

File under: Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press Group Shows / Collections Art Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Café du Reve

1985, English
Softcover (w. dust-jacket), 200 pages, 21 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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The exquisite "Café du Reve" book by the British-based artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz (b. post-war Paris). This is a copy of the first English printing from 1985.

Scarce these days, this beautiful artists book's content is entirely composed, designed and collated from cover to cover by Chaimowicz in the style of a somewhat autobiographical scrap-book. Each page is designed by hand and illustrated with Chaimowicz's decorative motifs and patterns that carry upon them his hotel letterhead correspondence, writings and poetry, paired with photographs of objects, places and people - snapshots taken by Chaimowicz or appropriated from magazines.
"Café du Reve" remains a perfect early example of Chaimowicz's encompassing artistic practice that is immersed in the spatial and emotional experience of environments and décor, literature, the domestic sphere, interior design, ceramics, applied art, wallpaper and textiles.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present. His works are in the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum collections.

Highly recommended.
Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Marc Camille Chaimowicz Thames and Hudson / London Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater

Renée Green
Ongoing Becomings – Retrospective 1989-2009

2009, English / French
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 24 x 29 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne

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The first overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Renée Green over the past twenty years.

This reference monograph provides the first overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Renée Green over the past twenty years through mediums as varied as film, video, installation, sound-related works, photographs, prints, banners, texts, websites, and ephemera.

The essays by Nora Alter, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Quéloz, Gloria Sutton, Elvan Zabunyan, and the interview between Julian Renbentisch and Renée Green not only give an historical overview of the artist's work, but engage with issues central to her practice such as questions of genealogy and memory, archives and their reworkings, movements and displacements, site-specificity and location, positionalities and perceptions. They offer new insight into the artist's specific use of images, sound and text, and her inscription in art history.

Born 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green lives and works in New York and San Francisco. Her work is located both within the legacy of the most ambitious achievements of Conceptual and post-Minimal art, and within a post-colonial critique of culture. It often takes the form of complex, multi-layered archive-like installations that employ a vast array of sources, and point to a variety of issues, always involving the spectator as active participant through multiple points of access.

Edited by Nicole Schweizer.
Texts by Nora Alter, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Renée Green, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Quéloz, Juliane Rebentisch, Gloria Sutton, Elvan Zabunyan.

Published in collaboration with the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.

File under: Renée Green Nora Alter Diedrich Diedrichsen Kobena Mercer Catherine Quéloz Gloria Sutton Elvan Zabunyan Julian Renbentisch JRP Ringier / Zürich Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Minimal Art Sound / Music

Gustav Metzger Writings (1953–2016)

2020, English
Softcover, 680 pages, 19 x 13.2 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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Bringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953 and 2016, this comprehensive volume establishes artist and activist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) as a towering figure of the 20th century, a long-overdue recognition of the artist’s influential vision.

Renowned for his use of unstable materials and chemical reactions to create artworks that embody processes of change, destruction, and renewal, Metzger was also a prolific writer, theoretician, and satirist.

His interest in technology and science lead him to create such concepts as auto-destructive and auto-creative art—terms he coined with his manifestos on ‘Auto-destructive Art’ in 1959 and ‘Auto-creative Art’ in 1961. He put these ideas into action with artworks made to decay, disintegrate, or change following natural processes.

Edited by Gustav’s long-time friend and curator Mathieu Copeland, this anthology of writings makes Metzger’s key thinking from the 1950s onward available to a wide audience.

It includes seminal writings such as his manifestos of auto-destructive and auto-creative art (both 1961), ‘On Random Activity in Material/Transforming Works of Art’ (1964), ‘The Possibility of Auto-Destructive Architecture’ (1966), his inspiring interview with R. Buckminster Fuller from 1970, ‘The Artist in the Face of Social Collapse’ (1998), and his legacy manifesto entitled ‘Remember Nature’ from 2013, as well as art criticism, political satires, and lecture transcriptions.

His writing allows a challenging reading of the contemporary (art) period as analysed by one of its most discerning figures—a pioneering artist and thinker involved in environmental and societal issues very early on.

File under: Gustav Metzger Mathieu Copeland Gustav Metzger JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Fluxus

Gustav Metzger
Act Or Perish! (A Retrospective)

2016, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Nero / Rome

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The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).

If the retrospective, which started at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Torun before travelling to Oslo, was presented in distinctively different formats—the former providing audiences with a wide overview of Metzger's career and works, including attention to his early years of political activism and engagement and concomitant radicalization, and the latter focusing upon deeper researched aspects of the artist's production,—the exhibition catalogue provides readers with a rich array of theoretical contributions, including a conversation between Dobrila Denegri and Yoko Ono, Ivor Davies, Hermann Nitsch and Jon Hendricks, as well as Metzger's own writings.

The contributors Pontus Kyander, Andrew Wilson, Mathieu Copeland, Dobrila Denegri, Leanne Dmyterko, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Manuel Olveira take up different aspects of Metzger's work, from the artist's early political activism, to his experimentation with painting to his drafting of the manifestoes for Auto-Destructive Art, providing us with an invaluable and much awaited document for consultation in contemporary art.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland, from November 8, 2015, to January 17, 2016, and the joint exhibition “Gustav Metzger in Oslo – Extremes Touch and Liquid Crystal Environment” at Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, from November 14, 2015 to January 31st, 2016.

The artistic oeuvre of Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), in which the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike hold a central role, is considered as one of the most important in the 20th century.

File under: Yoko Ono Hermann Nitsch Gustav Metzger Pontus Kyander Andrew Wilson Mathieu Copeland Dobrila Denegri Leanne Dmyterko Hans Ulrich Obrist Manuel Olveira Gustav Metzger Yoko Ono Ivor Davies Hermann Nitsch Jon Hendricks Nero / Rome Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Not without My Ghosts

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 112 pages, 22.23 x 14.61 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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The abiding presence of spiritualism in art, from af Klint to Susan Hiller.

Bringing together more than 30 international artists from the late 19th century to the present day, Not without My Ghosts surveys work inspired by spiritualism and its rich cultural history.

With original essays by art historian Susan L. Aberth and curators Simon Grant and Lars Bang Larsen, this publication explores the anti-authoritarian political agendas of 19th-century spiritualism and the movement’s close association to the history of feminism, as well as its continued influence on contemporary practitioners. Spanning diverse artistic approaches, Not without My Ghosts offers a unique insight into the ties that bind spirit and mediumistic art across the centuries.

Artists: William Blake, Cameron, Ann Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Despont, Casimiro Domingo, Madame Fondrillon, Chiara Fumai, Madge Gill, Susan Hiller, Barbara Honywood, Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt, Victor Hugo, Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindman, Ann Lislegaard, André Masson, Grace Pailthorpe, František Jaroslav Pecka, Olivia Plender, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Austin Osman Spare, Yves Tanguy, Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective

File under: William Blake Cameron Ann Churchill Ithell Colquhoun Louise Despont Casimiro Domingo Madame Fondrillon Chiara Fumai Madge Gill Susan Hiller Barbara Honywood Georgiana Houghton Anna Mary Howitt Victor Hugo Augustin Lesage Pia Lindman Ann Lislegaard André Masson Grace Pailthorpe František Jaroslav Pecka Olivia Plender Sigmar Polke Lea Porsager Austin Osman Spare Yves Tanguy Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective Susan Aberth Simon Grant Lars Bang Larsen Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Feminism

Antonin Artaud
Drawings and Portraits

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

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

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

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

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

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

Broken Music

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

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucio Fontana
by Enrico Crispolti

1999, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 28 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Charta / Milan

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First edition of one of the largest and most comprehensive English-language books on Lucio Fontana, edited by esteemed Italian art critic and leading Fontana author Enrico Crispolti and published on the occasion of a major Lucio Fontana retrospective exhibition held in Milan, 23 April—30 June, 1999. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with a huge array of Fontana's works, accompanied by texts from Enrico Crispolti, Antonello Negri, Luciano Caramel, Paolo Biscottini, Tommaso Trini, and a conversation between art critics Guido Ballo and Tommaso Trini, together covering every dimension of this highly original and influential artist's career. Also includes an incredible photo album edited by Nini Ardemagni Laurini and Valeria Ernesti, documenting the artist's world, studio, exhibitions, social life through the lens of many photographers, including many by the great Ugo Mulas, whose photographs adorn the covers. Includes a biography, list of works, exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A rare and in-depth insight into the life and work of a rare artist.

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one the most innovative artists of the 20th century. A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Fontana blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. The founder of Spatialism, a movement focused on the spatial qualities of sculpture and paintings with the goal of breaking through the two-dimensionality of the traditional picture plane, he pushed the painterly into the sculptural and redefined the relationship between the arts. He was best known for his monochrome canvases known as Concetti Spaziale that he would cut or puncture, leaving distinctive gaping slash marks and holes that imbued the finished work with an almost violent energy. In his seminal writing, White Manifesto (1946), the artist traced ideas for creating a new medium that blended architecture, painting, and sculpture. “I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture,” he said of his work. Fontana had widespread impact on the following generation of artists, who began to use installation media more aggressively to address the dynamics of space in gallery environments and Land Art. Fontana died on September 7, 1968 in Varese, Italy at the age of 69, just two years after being awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Lucio Fontana Ugo Mulas Lucio Fontana Enrico Crispolti Antonello Negri Luciano Caramel Paolo Biscottini Tommaso Trini Guido Ballo Charta / Milan Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Painting Ceramics / Glass Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

PROVOKE
Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960 / 1975

2016, English
Softcover, 680 pages, 190 x 250 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Steidl / Göttingen

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The short-lived Japanese magazine "Provoke," founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country's finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues overall. The magazine's goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the country's first large-scale student protests. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively "poor" materials. The writings and images by "Provoke"'s members-critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyama-were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life.

This enormous, and long out-of-print "Provoke" book accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held on the magazine and its creators. Illuminating the various uses of photography in Japan at the time, the catalogue focuses on selected projects undertaken between 1960 and 1975 that offer a strongly interpretative account of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.

Out of Print. As New.

File under: Daido Moriyama Eikoh Hosoe Nobuyoshi Araki Shomei Tomatsu Takuma Nakahira Yakata Takanashi Diane Dufour Pierre Hourquet Steidl / Göttingen Art Counterculture Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Kishin Shinoyama
Sounding Carib : Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Jamaica

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound w. map insert), 25.5 x 36.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shogakukan / Tokyo

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Incredible over-sized 1977 photo book by Kishin Shinoyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. "Sounding Carib" is a photographic special "seperate" edition of 1970s Japanese men's magazine GORO, and one of his lesser-known masterpieces that crosses over into his 1970's "Gekisha" works, a phrase Shinoyama coined for his “risqué photography” of the period. For this wonderful collection Kishin Shinoyama travelled to Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, with camera and Olympus micro tape recorder in hand, to record the sights and sounds of the Caribbean. As the title suggests, the explosive photographic imagery follows the rhythm of the local music and festivities, with chapters titles "Trinidad : Carnival", "Puerto Rico : Salsa", and "Jamaica : Reggae", each exquisitely capturing the heat, the colour and the atmosphere of the islands. From the extravagant costumes and dizzying colour of the parades to the street markets, the beaches to the bedrooms, Shinoyama's saturated, deep contrast photographs, candid and uncensored, are a love-letter to the Caribbean of the 1970s. This special publication comes complete with a map insert to follow the journey, also musical listings to accompany the pictures. Kishin also recorded all the sounds of the trip and separately issued an LP of the same name, also through GORO magazine.

Very Good with some light general wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shogakukan / Tokyo Art Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater

The Rap Attack
by David Toop

1985, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 21 x 18.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Pluto Press / London-Sydney

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The Rap Attack : African Jive to New York Hip Hop, first published in Britain in 1984, is David Toop's seminal, super early and important account on the evolution of rap music and hip hop culture, exploring its roots and various manifestations, from the music's African heritage to the electro-funk revolution. Toop's ever intelligent and in depth overview of the culture goes a lot further than introducing the seminal artists, it studies the socio-political and diverse musical landscape that shaped one of the most innovative movements in sound. The clubs (Roxy, Danceteria, Funhouse, etc.), the radio stations, the record stores, the video arcades, Beat Bop, Jive, Doo Wop, it's all here. Full of references, quotes, bibliography, discography, lots of background information on countless pioneering artists, the mcs, djs, breakdancers, producers, Afrika Bambaata, Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Kool Herc, The Sequence, Sylvia Robinson, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Double Trouble..., complimented with superb black and white photographs throughout by Patricia Bates. There's even a vocabulary section compiled by Monica Lynch from Tommy Boy Records. A pioneering book on the rise of hip-hop culture, and very scarce in the original British edition with vivid Dennis Morris cover. This is the second print of this edition (1985).

Good copy with only light cover wear/ageing. Very Good interior throughout.

File under: David Toop Pluto Press / London-Sydney Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

Texte Zur Kunst #123
SEPTEMBER 2021 "ENVY"

2021, English / German
Softcover, 224 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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This September issue of Texte zur Kunst examines envy as the operating system of an art world based largely on networking, competition, and interdependencies. Envy, as understood here, develops when individuals orient and compare themselves to others. One could characterize the art world as a prototype for a competition-driven, envy-generating society; achievement in art is difficult to measure and counts less than success. Issue #123 takes a closer look at the productive as well as destructive potentials of envy in the field of art and examines the extent to which the diagnosis of envy plays into the competitive nature of work and life today. The specific social effects of contemporary forms of online communication are discussed here, as well as the political economy of envy with particular regard to art.

File under: Katharina Hausladen Isabelle Graw Jorg Heiser Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov Laura Raicovich Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Periodicals Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Photography Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

IN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARSW
Adam Cruickshank / Open Spatial Workshop

2017, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by True Belief / Melbourne

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A publication instigated in response to perceived inadequacies in traditional artist monography conventions. A response to the practice of Melbourne based artist collective Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), this publication began as a manipulation of the monograph form.

Adam Cruickshank
Cruickshank is an artist and designer based in Melbourne. His work examines the foundational frameworks that structure understandings of artworks. Currently this revolves around publishing and design's relationship to exhibition making and its conventions of explication and archiving. He teaches at Monash University, has a Masters of Fine Art at Monash and is a current PhD candidate at RMIT University.

File under: Adam Cruickshank Bianca Hester Open Spatial Workshop Scott Mitchell Terri Bird True Belief / Melbourne Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Australian Art SALE

Heman Chong
Ifs, Ands, or Buts

2017, English / Simplified Chinese
Hardcover (cloth binding), 204 pages, 16.7 x 23.4 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) / Shanghai

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Edited by Li Qi
Texts by Larys Frogier, Heman Chong, Li Qi, Ken Liu, Xiaoyu Weng, Pauline J. Yao

The catalogue for Heman Chong’s first solo museum exhibition in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, provides an insightful and critical look into the Singaporean artist’s recent practice. To address the centrality of language, books, and the act of reading in Chong’s oeuvre, this publication features newly commissioned texts from a variety of contributors: an introduction by museum director Larys Frogier, and essays by the exhibition’s curator Li Qi, Hong Kong–based curator and critic Pauline J. Yao, and New York–based curator Weng Xiaoyu. These are rounded out with a piece of semifiction by Ken Liu, Boston-based lawyer, science-fiction writer, and translator, who played a central role in realizing Legal Bookshop (Shanghai), one of the works featured in the exhibition.

Ifs, Ands, or Buts is illustrated with images of the entirety of works included in the show at Rockbund Art Museum reproduced alongside documentation of Chong’s correspondence and collaboration with Liu, as well as a section dedicated to the humorous tabloid stories from Chong’s work Papaya Daily.

Copublished by Sternberg Press with Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, on the occasion of the exhibition “Heman Chong: Ifs, Ands, or Buts,” January 23–May 3, 2016.

Design by Wang Jiayi

File under: Heman Chong Larys Frogier Heman Chong Li Qi Ken Liu Xiaoyu Weng Pauline J. Yao Sternberg Press / Berlin Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) / Shanghai Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Memo Review 02 : 2018

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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These are the reviews from 2018, the second year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

As readers engage with this second year of reviews, they might see a group of art writers coming to grips with the particular limitations and opportunities of the weekly review format and even the particularities of its online delivery. Some will track the successive mentions of the same artist or gallery space, seeing what different writers make of them. Others will follow the progress of individual writers, finding and developing their own style and argument.

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Benison Kilby, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Eva Birch, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hester Lyon, Jane Eckett, Kate Warren, Nicholas Tammens, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Shelley Mcspedden, Sophie Knezic, Tiarney Miekus, Tim Alves, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Benison Kilby Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Eva Birch Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen Hughes Hester Lyon Jane Eckett Kate Warren Nicholas Tammens Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Shelley Mcspedden Sophie Knezic Tiarney Miekus Tim Alves Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Photography Australian Photography Sculpture / Installation Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals

Memo Review 03 : 2019

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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The third hardcopy Memo publication, collecting the 52 reviews from 2017 published by Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Aneta Trajkoski, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Brendan Casey, Chelsea Hopper, David Homewood, David Wlazlo, Ella Cattach, Elyssia Bugg, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen O'toole, Jane Eckett, Luke Smythe, Maddee Clark, Marnie Edmiston, Matthew Linde, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Sophie Knezic, Stephen Palmer, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Aneta Trajkoski Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Brendan Casey Chelsea Hopper David Homewood David Wlazlo Ella Cattach Elyssia Bugg Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen O'toole Jane Eckett Luke Smythe Maddee Clark Marnie Edmiston Matthew Linde Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sophie Knezic Stephen Palmer Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Film / Video Australian Photography Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Photography

Memo Review 04 : 2020

2020, English
Softcover, 269 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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These are the reviews from 2020, the third year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

"There is no getting around it: 2020 was the year of COVID. It was something that all kinds of cultural activities tried to make sense of. We could quote, to show it has all apparently happened before, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year at you. Or, like everybody else, you could read some prominent philosopher or cultural theorist try to make sense of it. Slavoj Žižek wrote no fewer than two books on the subject during the year, which made us realise that at least he was doing what he usually does during lockdown."

"And we for our part at Memo Review also did what we usually do. Here are the forty-seven reviews we published during the year—a year when virtually every show we reviewed was only available online."

Contributions by Amelia Wallin, Amelia Winata, Amy May Stuart, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Benison Kilby, Bianca Winataputri, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hester Lyon, Jane Eckett, Kate Meakin, Levi Mclean, Lisa Radford, Luke Smythe, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Robert Schubert, Sarinah Masukor, Tara Heffernan, Victoria Perin, Vincent Le.

File under: Amelia Wallin Amelia Winata Amy May Stuart Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Benison Kilby Bianca Winataputri Cameron Hurst Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Giles Fielke Helen Hughes Hester Lyon Jane Eckett Kate Meakin Levi Mclean Lisa Radford Luke Smythe Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Robert Schubert Sarinah Masukor Tara Heffernan Victoria Perin Vincent Le Monash Art Projects / Victoria Art Australian Art Australian Photography Photography Theory / Essay Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Periodicals Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections

Julius Eastman
We Have Delivered Ourselves From The Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman

2021, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 13 x 20 cm
Published by Archive Books / Berlin

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This publication presents a collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman, who was among the first composers to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. The book investigates his legacy beyond the predominantly Western musicological format of the tonal or harmonic and the framework of what is today understood as minimalist music. By trying to complicate, deny or expatiate on the notions of the harmonic, tonal hierarchy, the triadic, or even the tonal centre, Eastman's compositions explore strategies and technologies of attaining the atonal. One might be tempted to see Eastman in the legacy of Bartok, Schoenberg, Berg and others, but here too, it is worth shifting the geography of minimal tendencies and minimalism in music. It is worth listening and reading Eastman's music within the scope of what Oluwaseyi Kehinde describes as the application of chromatic forms such as polytonality, atonality, dissonance as the fulcrum in analysing some elements of African music such as melody, harmony, instruments and instrumentation. This publication constructs a non-linear genealogy of Eastman's practice and his cultural, political and social relevance, while situating his work within a broader rhizomatic relation of musical epistemologies and practices.

Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was an American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer whose work fell under minimalism. He was among the first composers to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. John Cage, Christian Wolff, and finally Morton Feldman, came from this school in New York. Only Julius Eastman remained outside, the last figure, the most solitary and enigmatic—undoubtedly also one of the most powerful. In the 1970s and 1980s, Eastman was one of the very few African-Americans to gain recognition in the New York avant-garde music scene. He was politically committed, a figure of queer culture and a solar and solitary poet whose melancholy influenced his genius as well as his tragic destiny: suffering from various addictions, declared missing, actually homeless. During Winter of 1981-82, he got deported from his apartment by the police, who destroyed most of what he owned—including scores and recordings. He was found dead in 1990, on the streets of Buffalo, after years of vagrancy.

Edited by Federica Bueti, Antonia Alampi, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.
Contributions by Antonia Alampi, Rocco Di Pietro, Kodwo Eshun, Federica Bueti, Sean Griffin, Sumanth Gopinath, Jean-Christophe Marti, Josh Kun, Elaine Mitchener, Malak Helmy, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Jane Leach, George E. Lewis, Berno Odo Polzer, Pungwe, Christine Rusiniak.

File under: Julius Eastman Julius Eastman Federica Bueti Antonia Alampi Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Rocco Di Pietro Kodwo Eshun Sean Griffin Sumanth Gopinath Jean-Christophe Marti Josh Kun Elaine Mitchener Malak Helmy Marie Jane Leach George E. Lewis Berno Odo Polzer Pungwe Christine Rusiniak Archive Books / Berlin Sound / Music Art Theory / Essay LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater

S&M Sniper
March 1992

1992, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

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March 1992 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Tadao Chigusa, Kenichi Yamakawa, Sachiko Nakamura, Guido Crepax "Story of O" comic instalment, How to Tattoo, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Guido Crepax Tadao Chigusa Kenichi Yamakawa Sachiko Nakamura Million Publishing / Tokyo Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+ Fashion Counterculture Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM

Art Club Monthly 10
January 1973

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Club Monthly / Japan

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Scarce January 1973 issue of Japan's monthly periodical of art criticism, featuring a cover by Japanese avant garde artist Natsuyuki Nakanishi depicting one of his “Compact Objects”. This issue also features a coloured artwork section by Tadanori Yokoo, and contributions by/about director Michio Okabe, composer John Cage, director Sergei Eisenstein, Tenjō Sajiki / Shūji Terayama, critic Yoshida Yoshie, composer Yūji Takahashi, composer Tōru Takemitsu, art critic Isamu Kurita, and many more.

Good copy with some cover wear and tanning.

File under: Tenjo Sajiki Tadanori Yokoo Shūji Terayama Shuji Terayama Natsuyuki Nakanishi Michio Okabe John Cage Sergei Eisenstein Yūji Takahashi Tōru Takemitsu Isamu Kurita Yoshida Yoshie Art Club Monthly / Japan Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Conceptual Art Fluxus Surrealism

Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970
by David Toop

2016, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Bloomsbury Academic / London

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In this first instalment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

“Maelstrom indeed ... [This] is an encyclopedic vortex of musicology, memoir and speculative extemporisation on the nature of improvisation and freedom in music ... crammed with detail and fascinating observations ... A captivating reading experience that perfectly embodies its subject in form.” – The Wire

“Any discussion of free improvisation, as an essential (anti?)-discipline of creative music, is an amusing balance between considering an unruly child and a sacred cow. History has come into a wild favor towards a genre that perpetually defies definition and prediction. David Toop, with a critical facility informed by over forty years of activity on and off the bandstand, sets his ruminations in the service of the music. Essaying on free improvisation in the mode of composition can result in didactic chin scratch. Thankfully Toop engages the readers interest with a sentient breath of prose charged by academic insight where poetic space becomes the page. It's only the beginning.” – Thurston Moore

“David Toop has dived into the Maelstrom that is the genesis of improvised music and come up with a string of pearls. There is so much here that will be new to even those of us who thought we knew the subject. A remarkable piece of real scholarship that relies on painstaking research with a refreshing absence of jargon.” – Evan Parker

“Into the Maelstrom gives an astonishing, vivid history of improvised music across the 20th century before 1970, tracing its transnational criss-crossings, trans-arts contagions, the folds between Cream and AMM, 'musicking' and John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Nuova Consonanza and For a Few Dollars More. David Toop's panoramic account makes obvious how urgently we have needed this alternative history, attuned to musical sounds as they resonate with artistic, cultural and political currents. A landmark book, Into the Maelstrom re-centres those vast and auspicious margins deserted by previous music histories.” – Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

File under: Percy Grainger Group Ongaku Nuova Consonanza MEV AMM Spontaneous Music Ensemble Roscoe Mitchell Peter Brötzmann Han Bennink Misha Mengelberg Sidney Bechet Ornette Coleman Luciano Berio John Cage Edgard Varèse Pink Floyd Pauline Oliveros David Toop Bloomsbury Academic / London Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

The Living Daylights
Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1974

1974, English
Newspaper, 28 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne

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Rare February 1974 issue of The Living Daylights, a radical, riotous weekly counter-culture magazine out of North Melbourne in the 1970's, edited by Oz magazine founder Richard Neville, along with Terence Maher, Michael Morris, and graphic designer Laurel Olszewski, and published by Neville's fellow OZ colleague, Richard Walsh, between 1973-4. The Living Daylights was packed with all happening things in youth counter-culture, filled with articles, cartoons, artwork, sex, drugs, rock n roll and protest. A provocative, humorous and controversial anti-establishment bulletin in the tradition of Oz, regularly featuring the artwork of Martin Sharp, Michael Luenig, Dickie, and Neil McLean! This issue features 186 Years of Penal Outrage, activists against the closure of Lameroo "Free Beach" in Darwin, Bondi photography by Syd Shelton, dodgy Adelaide drug squad, Melbourne marijuana activists, Nimbin news, female singers, women's liberation and beauty trends by Margaret Smith, Confessions of a Working Class Shit Eater by poet Eric Beach, Taiwanese actress Angela Mao, Fritz the Cat, and so much more.

A wonderful, very seldom seen, historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing.

Very Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Syd Shelton Robert Crumb Neil McLean Eric Beach Richard Neville Terence Maher Margaret Smith Richard Walsh Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne Eros Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Feminism Art Australian Art Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Film / Video Ecology Ecology / Earth Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE

The Living Daylights
Vol. 2, No. 11, March 1974

1974, English
Newspaper, 28 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne

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Rare March 1974 issue of The Living Daylights, a radical, riotous weekly counter-culture magazine out of North Melbourne in the 1970's, edited by Oz magazine founder Richard Neville, along with Terence Maher, Michael Morris, and graphic designer Laurel Olszewski, and published by Neville's fellow OZ colleague, Richard Walsh, between 1973-4. The Living Daylights was packed with all happening things in youth counter-culture, filled with articles, cartoons, artwork, sex, drugs, rock n roll and protest. A provocative, humorous and controversial anti-establishment bulletin in the tradition of Oz, regularly featuring the artwork of Martin Sharp, Michael Luenig, Dickie, and Neil McLean! This issue features Ian Stocks in conversation with science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke, a guide to smuggling, Allen Ginsberg on cocaine and Abbie Hoffman, Heroin, Pentridge prison, Magic Mushrooms, police brutality against black Australians, Cherry Ripe on the pioneering drag queen anarchy of Sylvia and the Synthetics, meditation, Veronica Perry on the ecology of Shit, the Bitch newspaper, Miles Davis, and so much more.

A wonderful, very seldom seen, historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing.

Very Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Miles Davis Laurel Olszewski Sylvia and the Synthetics Neil McLean Allen Ginsberg Arthur C. Clarke Abbie Hoffman Veronica Perry Cherry Ripe Ian Stocks Richard Neville Terence Maher Richard Walsh Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture Film / Video Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Australian Art Theory / Essay Art Ecology LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Protest / Revolt Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Feminism Eros Ecology / Earth Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées SALE