World Food Books

Gianni Piacentino
Painting and sculpture 1965–1981 / Bilder und Objekte

1981, German
Softcover (+ compliments card), 217 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by GAK / Bremen

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Rare and very comprehensive catalogue published on the occasion of Gianni Piacentino's exhibition at GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst), Bremen, 1981, a comprehensive survey marking his return to Europe from living in New York between 1980–81. With accompanying texts in bi–lingual English/German by esteemed collectors Marcello Levi and Reinhard Onnasch (the first German art dealer to open a gallery in New York City following World War II), the catalogue traces the entire career of Italian artist Gianni Piacentino (b. 1945). A sidecar champion, model airplane and car builder, industrial painter (for work) and philosophy student, a young Piacentino was one of the first artists involved in the Arte Povera movement at its infancy, exhibiting with Pistoletto and Gilardi at Galleria Sperone, Turin in 1966 and then in Milan the following year. During the late 1960s, his meticulously crafted, highly finished minimal sculptures and canvases had more in common with West Coast American Minimalists and solidified his differences with other Arte Povera artists, and by 1969 Piacentino began his "Vehicles" and "Wings" series that would become some of his most enduring and captivating works, spanning the 1970s. His refined minimal surfaces would take on engineered form and the language of mass–production in a highly personalised manner that predated the developments of American minimalists such as Robert Grosvenor, and the later post–minimal pop–assemblages of Ashley Bickerton. Piacentino's work would appear at DOCUMENTA (6) in Kassel (1977), the XLV Venice Biennale (1993) and the Quadrennial in Rome (1973 and 2005).

In the words of Germano Celant: "It is in this historical climate of oscillation between art and design, handcrafts and industry, the useful and the useless, the one-off piece and the mass-produced object, and between the autonomy and heteronomy of pure creation, that we can place the contribution of Piacentino, whose otherness and uniqueness lie precisely in the dialectic between the two poles, Pop and Minimal. Since 1966 his sculptures have been aiming for a result that transcends the functional object, even though the latter remains recognizable as a possible industrial product with decorative characteristics, as it is derived from a culture steeped in applied science, handicrafts and the precision of mechanics and sophisticated engineering processes."

This copy with Berlin–based gallerist and contributing collector Reinhard Onnasch's with compliments card pasted to the first blank.
Good copy with some wear to boards, light knocking to spine ends, light tanning.

File under: Marcello Levi Reinhard Onnasch GAK / Bremen Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Minimal Art Arte Povera Pop Art

Plexus 30
December 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 130 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

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Issue 30 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 30, December 1969. Cover by Bonneville. Features a gallery of art by Max Savy, the first ever pornography fair in Copenhagen, Contemporary art and the sexual revolution (Niki de Saint Phalle, Mel Ramos, Alina Szapocznikow, Martial Raysse, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Tom Wesselmann, Yves Klein, David Hockney, Richard Lindner, Bernard Rancillac, James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, etc. by Pierre Restany, French author Catherine de Prémonville, Edgar Morin, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Max Savy Alina Szapocznikow Niki de Saint Phalle Martial Raysse Christo Yves Klein David Hockney Richard Lindner James Rosenquist Larry Rivers Roy Lichtenstein Tom Wesselmann Pierre Restany Jacques Sternberg Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sociology / Politics Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art

Broken Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daan van Golden
Overzichtstentoonstelling 1963-1982

1982, Dutch
Softcover, 56 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam

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Rare 1982 catalogue published to accompany the solo survey exhibition, Daan van Golden, Overzichtstentoonstelling 1963-1982, at Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Profusely illustrated throughout with Daan van Golden's works, accompanied by texts in Dutch and biography.

Daniël (Daan) van Golden (1936-2017) was a Dutch artist, who has been active as a painter, photographer, collagist, installation artist, wall painter and graphic artist. He is known for his meticulous paintings of motives and details of everyday life and every day images. Daan van Golden developed his style in Japan in 1963. Having previously painted abstract-expressionistic works, between 1963 and 1965 in Japan he refined a technique that involved Japanese enamel paints and enabled him to give his works an unimagined colourfulness and presence. He began painting textile and paper patterns with extreme precision and at an almost meditative speed. His models included tablecloths, fabrics and packaging. He generally focussed on everyday items which he experienced in his surroundings, transferring them to an artistic context in his unique way and thereby unifying life and art. Van Golden is often linked with Pop Art or Minimal Art, but in fact his art hovered between all these tendencies and positions. It was frequently exhibited in the same context, to which he was considered to be formally suited. But at the same time, he clearly pointed up the limits of the respective stylistic trend.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Daan Van Golden Daan van Golden Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art Minimal Art Pop Art Photography

Tetsumi Kudo
Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective

2013, English / Japanese
Softcover, 642 pages, 18.8 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Aomori Museum of Art / Aomori

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This enormous and exhaustive (now out of print) volume on the work and life of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo was produced to accompany the recent, most comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work, "Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective", that toured Japan throughout 2013-2014 (The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori).

Like the exhibition, this wonderfully designed and compiled book is the most comprehensive publication on Tetsumi Kudo ever published. The book breaks-down the periods of production, activity and major bodies of work/installations in Tetsumi Kudo's career alongside his ever-evolving philosophy of complex ideas thus: "1956-1962 "From Anti-art to the Philosophy of Impotence"; 1962-1969 "From Your Portrait to Cultivation by Radioactivity"; 1969-1970 "A Brief Return To Japan and The Making of Monument to Metamorphosis"; 1970-1975 "From Portrait of Ionesco to Pollution-Cultivation-New Ecology"; 1975-1979 "From Portrait of Artist in the Crisis to Waiting for the Revelation in the Rain of Heredity-Chromosome"; 1980-1990 "From Paradise and the Structure of the Emperor Systme to the Soul of the Avant-garde Artist".

Amongst an endless stream of visual documentation of Kudo's individual artworks, installations and performances, the book comprises of many republished texts by the artist himself throughout his career, as well as texts by Atsuhiko Shima, Yasuyuki Nakai, Takashi Fukumoto, Tomohiro Masuda, Takayo Lida, Toru Ikeda.

The book also includes a list of works for the exhibition, a thorough biography/exhibitions/bibliography section, Tetsumi Kudo's notes (including the many drawings and plans Kudo made for his installations, artworks and exhibition designs), and a photographic catalogue of works by Tetsumi Kudo, 1955-1988.

By far the most exhaustive document on the prolific work and unique vision of this important Japanese artist.

All texts are in both English and Japanese.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

Near-Fine copy.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Aomori Museum of Art / Aomori Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Pink Department Store
Edited by Hajime Sorayama

1985, Japanese
Softcover, 260 pages, 19 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Data House / Tokyo

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Possibly the most fun you can cram into 260-odd pages! A now very collectible volume edited by none other than Japanese master of erotic superrealism, Hajime Sorayama, Pink Department Store is a wild book digest of visual sex — straight out of 1985! A compendium of remarkable erotic imagery packed into this one-stop look-book of kink compiled by Sorayama, all reproduced in full-colour on beautiful warm raw paper stock, designed by Hisao Iguchi. From the Tokyo sex clubs, phone-booths and toilet stalls, Shibari photography to pink film posters, x-rated manga to wildlife fornication, leather daddys to dominatrixes, Pink Department Store is a safari through graphic perversion and joyous visual innuendo. Alongside archival material and international works the book generously features an abundance of works by over 100 contemporary Japanese illustrators and photographers, including Aimei Ozaki, Harumi Yamaguchi, Takashi Nemoto, Yosuke Onishi, Suehiro Maruo, Hajime Sorayama, Mizumaru Anzai, Yokoyama Akira, Keiichi Ota, Akira Ishigaki, Kaoru Ueda, Teruhiko Yumura, Yoshiharu Ebisu, Arata Taga, to name but a few. There is also a directory list to contact them all!

Very Good—NF copy in VG original dust jacket and rarely preserved publisher's obi-strip.

File under: Hajime Sorayama Aimei Ozaki Harumi Yamaguchi Yosuke Onishi Suehiro Maruo Mizumaru Anzai Yokoyama Akira Keiichi Ota Akira Ishigaki Kaoru Ueda Teruhiko Yumura Arata Taga Takashi Nemoto Yoshiharu Ebisu Data House / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Photography Japanese Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject LGBTQ+ Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Graphic Design / Typography

Circuit No. 5
Winter 1968

1968, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 64 pages, 28.5 x 12.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Ranelagh Press / Hampstead

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Very rare copy of Circuit, issue 5 of only 12, a short–lived British magazine of arts and culture, founded by university students in Cambridge, England, in 1965. With a cover featuring Henry Crowdog of the Brulé Sioux, photographed at the Rosebud Indian Reserve in South Dakota by Ray Carpenter, who is also the designer of the magazine. Circuits stated intent was "to avoid the well-known categories behind which most small magazines shelter, and to aim for a spectrum of ideas, opinions and concerns that are not purely critical, but creative." Articles on Latin American revolutions, painters Francis Bacon and Allen Jones, conference on the Dialectic of Liberation featuring Stokeley Carmichael, Gregory Bateson, Lucien Goldmann, and Ronald Laing, critic George Steiner, interview with Jim Haynes, Jack Moore, and David Medalla of the Arts Laboratory in London, drawings by Polish artist Feliks Topolski and Malcolm Dean, poetry and plays by Spike Hawkins, Peter Ansorge, Raymond Durgnat, David Page, photography by David Bailey, and more.

Good overall copy with dusty/foxed/worn boards, rusted staples, otherwise VG throughout.

File under: Francis Bacon David Bailey Allen Jones Feliks Topolski Spike Hawkins Peter Ansorge Raymond Durgnat David Page Stokeley Carmichael Gregory Bateson Lucien Goldmann Ronald Laing George Steiner Ranelagh Press / Hampstead Counterculture Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Painting Eros Fetishism / BDSM Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973

1994 / 1998, French
Softcover, 158 pages, 28.7 × 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels

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The great "L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973", first published in Brussels and France in 1994 by Fondation pour l'Architecture and Norma Editions. Long out of print, this comprehensive volume quickly became an invaluable bible of sorts for plastic collectors of the 1960s, 1970s period. In 1994, on the occasion of a major exhibition in Brussels, editors Philippe Decelle, Diane Hennebert, and Pierre Loze compiled the most detailed printed survey of plastic products to date, from Art, Functional Furniture, Fiberglass, Inflatable PVC, Transparent PMMA, Pop and Radical Design, Cookware, Electronics, Mod Fashions, Utopian Architecture. Heavily researched and lavishly illustrated throughout with close to 200 of the finest examples, L’ Utopie has become the standard reference on 1960s plastic design - an essential aid in identifying the designers, companies and manufacture details of many classic plastic objects from this era.

Includes detailed biographies of the artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, plus a chronology and bibliography.

Translated blurb:
"The sixties are marked by unprecedented prosperity and technological progress. To this optimism corresponds an extraordinary freedom of creation until the oil crisis of 1973 which tempers this enthusiasm. The vogue of plastic is linked to this society of abundance. Yellow, red, orange, soft, hard, inflatable, it identifies with cheap, serial and disposable productions. Starting from a private collection unique in the world, the book offers a selection of plastic objects created between 1960 and 1973. Tupperware box, Kelton watch, Courrèges dress, Ettore Sottsass portable typewriter Valentine for Olivetti, first chair of Verner Panton, Joe Colombo ABS plastic chair, Niki de Saint Phalle's Nana, Caesar's Compression, cupola of the United States Pavilion by Richard Buckminster Fuller at the Montreal World's Fair or Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch overhead roof for the stadium of the Olympic Games in Munich, all show their diversity, their spirit and sometimes their beauty of the inventiveness of the time."

Features the work of Pierre Paulin, Sergio Mazza, Vico Magistretti, César, Studio 65, Nicola L, Piero Gilardi, Verner Panton, Arman, Gianfranco Frattini, Jonathan De Pas, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gae Aulenti, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Joe Colombo, Enzo Mari, Iseo Hosoe, Mario Bellini, Dorothée Maurer-Becker, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Günter Beltzig, Maurice Calka, Eero Aarnio, Wendell Castle, Alberto Rosselli, Quasar Khanh, Rossi Molinary, Ennio Lucini, Ugo la Pietra, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Roy Adzak, Studio Gruppo 14, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss, Marco Zanuso, Rodolfo Bonetto, Roger Tallon, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Maneval, Paolo Soleri, Archigram, and many more.

Second edition, published in 1998 on the occasion of Plastiques: Matieres e créér at l'lnstitut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux a la Saline Royale de Arc et Senans-France, October 1997—March 1998. Rare and immediately out-of-print. Very good copy with some light tanning, ageing.

File under: Pierre Paulin Sergio Mazza Vico Magistretti César Studio 65 Nicola L Piero Gilardi Verner Panton Arman Gianfranco Frattini Jonathan De Pas Donato d'Urbino Paolo Lomazzi Gae Aulenti Anna Castelli Ferrieri Joe Colombo Enzo Mari Isao Hosoe Mario Bellini Dorothée Maurer-Becker Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi Günter Beltzig Maurice Calka Eero Aarnio Wendell Castle Alberto Rosselli Quasar Khanh Rossi Molinary Ennio Lucini Ugo la Pietra Ettore Sottsass Superstudio Archizoom Roy Adzak Studio Gruppo 14 Dieter Rams Reinhold Weiss Marco Zanuso Rodolfo Bonetto Roger Tallon Pierre Cardin Courreges Frei Otto Buckminster Fuller Jean Benjamin Maneval Paolo Soleri Archigram Philippe Decelle Diane Hennebert Pierre Loze Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Arte Povera Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

European Decoration
Creative Contemporary Interiors

1969, English
Hardcover, 186 page, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Reynal & Company / New York

$85.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition of this wonderful hardcover volume of European interiors from the 1960s, edited by L'ŒIL creators Georges and Rosamond Bernier. Profusely illustrated throughout, all the material in this volume was selected from the pages of France's L'ŒIL magazine. "This book leads the reader into some of the most distinguished and original homes of Europe. Here are glimpses into the lives of gifted, glamorous people whose taste sets style around the globe. Whether Lombard palazzo or Paris roof-top, highly diversified interiors are the source of stimulating ideas that can often be translated into American terms."

L'ŒIL (French: The Eye) is a French magazine created by Rosamond Bernier (née Rosenbaum) and her second husband, Georges Bernier, in 1955 to celebrate and reflect contemporary art creation. It was one of the finest documents of interior design, architecture, fine and applied arts and design in the 1950s-1970s, marrying the historical with the modern and profiling many artists and designers in France for the first time.

Includes large chapters on each of the following: the Villar Perosa villa of Signor & Signora Giovanni (Marella) Agnelli; London apartment of Mr & Mrs Stanley Rubin designed by Jon Bannenberg; a Milanese apartment designed by Marcello Pietrantoni & Carla Venosta; architect J. Anthony Cloughley's London apartment, designed with help from Rubin de C. Albrizzi; Karl Lagerfeld's Paris apartment; a one-story modern country house designed by Martine Dufour and Caumont & Collard for Monsieur & Madame Claude Labouret; The Villa Montecchia; decorator Isabelle Hebey's Marais apartment; Palazzo Brandolini in Venice (Renzo Mongiardino); Saint-Tropez apartment designed by Andree Putman; the Parisian apartment of Marc Bohan (of Christian Dior); The house of David Hicks in the South of France; Prince Bao-Long's Isabelle Hebey-designed apartment; Hugh Chisolm's Paris apartment (designed by Charles Sevigny); the Villa Fiorentina at St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, belonging to Lady Kenmare & her son Roderick Cameron; Leonard Goulandris's London apartment designed by Jon Bannenberg; Van Day Truex's Vaucuse home; Philippe Guibourge's Paris apartment; Eugene Berman's Rome apartment; the Villa La Tana; Jacques Chazot's Paris apartment; Jacques & Andree Putman's Saint-Tropez home.

Good copy with foxing and wear to hardcover edges/corners.

File under: David Hicks Isabelle Hebey Martine Dufour Karl Lagerfeld Jon Bannenberg Marcello Pietrantoni Carla Venosta Christian Dior Charles Sevigny Renzo Mongiardino Quasar Khanh Verner Panton Charles Eames Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Dubuffet Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Pablo Picasso Joe Colombo Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Eero Saarinen Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Olivier Mourgue Carlo Scarpa Jim Dine Kurt Schwitters Jean Fautrier Max Ernst Wassily Kandinsky Joan Miró Lucio Fontana Andrée Putman César Georges Bernier Rosamond Bernier Reynal & Company / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art

Corrected Proofs. Previously Unpublished, Uncollected, Unwanted
by Bob Nickas

2023, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by At Last Books / Copenhagen

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Revenge publishing - a new genre or as old as writing itself? Isn’t all writing, to some extent, a way to avenge an oversight or rejection, aiming to set the record straight? Many pieces in this collection were commissioned, accepted, and paid for but never published - whether due to common mishaps or more devious reasons. 'Corrected Proofs' seeks to remedy this. Alongside previously unpublished works, this collection includes newly written essays and interviews on figures like Lutz Bacher, Charles Ray, and Arnold J. Kemp. Heroes and villains - John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, and Steven Parrino - share the stage with familiar names in unexpected contexts: Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol. Rediscovered artists like Bob Smith and Stephen Varble appear alongside Lee Lozano, the January 6 insurrection, and The Fall.

Foreword by Randy Kennedy.

Bob Nickas is a writer and curator based in New York, where he has lived since 1984. He is the author of four collections of essays and interviews, Live Free or Die, The Department of Corrections, Komplaint Dept., and Corrected Proofs: Previously Unpublished, Uncollected, Unwanted, as well as Yesterworld: 2019 Diary.

File under: Bob Nickas Randy Kennedy At Last Books / Copenhagen Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Pop Art

Clovis Trouille

1972, Japanese
Hardcover (in slipcase with dust jacket + obi), 80 pages, 32 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seven Sha / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful 1972 slip-cased hardcover monograph on seldom documented, elusive French artist Clovis Trouille. Bound in pink cloth and wrapped in illustrated original dust-jacket, this heavily illustrated book surveys Trouille's vibrant and controversial paintings through beautiful colour and monochrome gravure reproductions, alongside various texts, biography, bibliography and portrait of the artist — a most complete copy including all insert booklets. Published as volume 4 of the deluxe La Septième Face du Dé series by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in Japan in the 1970s after the Editions Filipacchi series. All editions now out-of-print.

Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)—Trouille in colloquial French means fear—was a French artist known for paintings of erotic and anti-clerical subjects. Trouille was born in La Fère, France, and was trained at the École des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He was drafted on 2 August, 1914. His service in World War I made him an anarchist and his painting followed suit. His hatred of the military, paired with his contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution, provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of work. Trouille always paddled upstream in a river of Christian morality, military patriotism and bourgeois ostentation with lightness, irony and obstinacy. His erotic and gaudy work delivered a slap in the face to both religion and war. Trouille has often been classed as a "Sunday painter." He's also been referred to as an "Angel of Bad Taste," and a purveyor of "horrotica", with Trouille's other common subjects being sex, perversion and all manner of depravity (ala de Sade). After his work was seen by Louis Aragon and Salvador Dalí, Trouille was declared a Surrealist by André Breton, though Trouille was rather ambivalent, accepting the designation to have his work reach an audience rather than embracing the movement. He was always his own painter. He worked primarily for himself, did not like to sell his paintings, had no interest in self-promotion or the art world, and made his living as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins. Nonetheless, he maintained contact with the surrealists, including Breton and Marcel Jean. Trouille died on 24 September 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Marne.

Most complete copy of this 1972

File under: Clovis Trouille Seven Sha / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Painting Surrealism Pop Art

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

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The wonderful 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 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

Tadanori Yokoo
1971-1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover (French-fold cover), 80 pages, 21 x 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mainichi Shinbun / Japan

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Rarely seen gorgeous book on the poster work of the legendary Japanese graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo at the height of his powers. Printed and published by Mainichi Shinbun in Japan in 1974, this volume carries very little text and is made up almost 100% with beautiful full-page reproductions of Yokoo's major poster works from the years 1971-1974, in which his iconic photo-montage and print-making had a distinct psychedelic, erotic and esoteric spirit rendered in his vivid pop colours. One of the nicest books on this period of his work, designed by Yokoo himself and adorned with adorable self-portrait in Disneyland sweater. Rare even in Japan.

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 copy with foxing to first blank page. Light corner/spine wear.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Mainichi Shinbun / Japan Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia

Tadanori Yokoo
Edogawa Ranpo commemorative Print Set (complete)

1968, Japanese
5 litho prints in letterpress envelope, 19 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

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Complete 5 card set of litho prints by legendary Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo, issued in letterpress, marbled envelope in 1968 to commemorate the release of the complete 12 volume collected works of Japanese author and critic Edogawa Ranpo (1894—1965), who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Yokoo contributed many illustrations to the book collection, alongside fellow artists Iwami Furusawa and others. This rare folio of prints (roughly the size of post cards) collects five of the finest examples of Yokoo's instantly recognisable 1960's psychedelic work — erotic, grotesque, and esoteric themes rendered in vivid graphic collage and pop colour.

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.

Very Good, perfectly preserved cards in aged envelope with some wear to edges and tanning.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Kodansha Int / Tokyo Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art

Keiichi Tanaami
Aggressive Eroticism (Illustration NOW) with poster!

1974, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket, poster and obi), 127 pages, 29 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rippu Shobo / Japan

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Rare copy of the best book on Japanese master graphic artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936—2024), one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan. The first volume from the legendary Illustration NOW series published by Rippu Shobo between 1974—1975, this lavishly produced book collects the best of Tanaami's psychedelic "Aggressive Eroticism" from the 1960s—1970s, showcasing many of his most sexually provocative and anti-authoritarian/anti-war graphic works, printed beautifully with spot colour chapters and full-colour lavish reproductions. Most complete copy with fold-out poster and obi. Highly recommended volume on an artist seldom spoken of outside Japan.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket w. obi and poster included.

File under: Keiichi Tanaami Rippu Shobo / Japan Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Pop Art Graphic Design / Typography Art Drawing Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Erotische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
Edited by Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen

1972, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 205 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Heyne Verlag / Münich

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful 1972 German book of erotic art selected by Phyllis and Dr. Eberhard Kronhausen, rightly considered international experts in the field. "Their exhibition "Erotic Art," which has been shown in many countries around the world, formed the basis for this illustrated volume. Because this exhibition included loans from museums and galleries, as well as works from the Kronhausen couple's collection and other private collections, it was possible to present images that had previously been inaccessible to the public. In selecting works for this volume, care was taken, on the one hand, to depict these unknown works, and, on the other, to provide a reliable overview of the erotic work of the leading artists (painting, graphic art, and sculpture) of our century. Thus, this book is a fortunate exception; it is a precious document, but also a demonstration of the sexual and cultural revolution of our century."

Features the work of Franz von Bayros, Hans Bellmer, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Otto Dix, J. Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Ernst Fuchs, Willi Geiger, George Grosz, Horst Janssen, Allen Jones, Gustav Klimt, Felix Labisse, Jan Lebenstein, Edward Munch, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Herbert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Max Walter Swanberg, Tomi Ungerer, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann.

Good—VG copy with some laminate seperation to cover extremities and slight corner bump.

File under: Franz von Bayros Hans Bellmer Marc Chagall Lovis Corinth Salvador Dali Paul Delvaux Otto Dix J. Dubuffet Max Ernst Ernst Fuchs Willi Geiger George Grosz Horst Janssen Allen Jones Gustav Klimt Felix Labisse Jan Lebenstein Edward Munch Claes Oldenburg Pablo Picasso Herbert Rauschenberg George Segal Max Walter Swanberg Tomi Ungerer Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen Heyne Verlag / Münich Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Surrealism Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Painting LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

François Dufrêne
affichiste, poeta sonoro = affichiste, poete sonore = affichiste, sound poet

2007, English / Portuguese / French
Softcover (w. CD), 250 pages, 27 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto

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Scarce and wonderful, out-of-print, comprehensive monographic catalogue on François Dufrêne (1930 – 1982), the French Nouveau realist visual artist, Lettrist and Ultra-Lettrist poet. Francois Dufrene joined Isidore Isou and the Lettrist movement in 1946 and continued to participate until 1964. Dufrene's talent was evident in the fact that he was already a member of the Lettrist Group at only 16 years old. He is primarily known as a pioneer in sound poetry and for his use of décollage within Nouveau réalisme, the art group he helped found in 1960 with friends Pierre Restany, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Arman, Hains and Villeglé. He is considered one of the important artists in that Neo-Dada art movement. Published in 2007 on the occasion of a major survey exhibition at Museu Serralve, Porto, this volume is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with Dufrêne's works alongside many texts in English, Portuguese, French by Alain Jouffroy, Guy Schraenen, Joao Fernandes, and others, accompanying audio CD of sound works.

Very Good copy of book and CD.

File under: François Dufrêne Alain Jouffroy Guy Schraenen Joao Fernandes Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Dada Pop Art Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare

Franz West
Early Works

2025, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
Published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zürich Walther König / Köln

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This profusely illustrated catalogue focuses on early sculptures and objects by Austrian artist Franz West (1947—2012), created between 1975 and 1990. Many of the works are drawn from important private collections, including those belonging to West’s longtime mentor, former gallerist and curator Peter Pakesch, and to Galerie Eva Presenhuber.

File under: Franz West Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zürich Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Painting Pop Art

Sigmar Polke
Beneath the Cobblestones, the Earth

2025, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 30 × 24.5 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles / Arles

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Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) has been hailed as one of the world’s preeminent artists of the twentieth century. In his oeuvre, Polke worked through experiences of war, militarization and forced migration, and reflected on the image and the mass media in which it circulated. Taking an interest early on in the visual information contained in pictures and their agency, Polke set standards that younger generations of artists continue to emulate, and his work remains as relevant as ever—what might seem its historic dimension in fact turns out to speak directly to present-day concerns.

Beneath the Cobblestones, the Earth is the catalogue for the exhibition devoted to Sigmar Polke at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. Bice Curiger, curator of the exhibition and a specialist in Polke’s work, is editing the book. It gathers paintings, photographs, and films plus graphic art from 1960 to 2009 to illustrate the multifaceted quality of the artist’s output, which is informed by astute observations and powerful creative choices that reflect the artist’s sense of irony and love of experimentation. One focus of the selection of works is on the political dimension of Polke’s oeuvre; he was an exacting analyst of the world around him and commented critically on politics, art, and history.

The extensive essay section includes the main contribution by Bice Curiger, and texts by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, Nina Pohl, Kathy Halbreich, Friedrich W. Heubach, Maria Stavrinaki, Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel. Poems by Thomas Kling and statements by artists Anne Imhof, Alvaro Barrington, Michael Krebber, Helen Marten, Trajal Harrell, and Laura Owens provide further insight into Polke’s work.

File under: Sigmar Polke Anne Imhof Alvaro Barrington Michael Krebber Helen Marten Trajal Harrell Laura Owens Bice Curiger Helen Marten Ulf Erdmann Ziegler Nina Pohl Kathy Halbreich Friedrich W. Heubach Maria Stavrinaki Petra Lange-Berndt Dietmar Rübel Distanz / Berlin Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles / Arles Painting Art Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography

Art-Rite

2019, English
Softcover, 678 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Ed. of 2000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Primary Information / New York

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As New still-sealed copy. Out of print.

Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn, Art-Rite was published in New York City between 1973 and 1978. The periodical has long been celebrated for its underground/overground position and its cutting, humorous, on-the-streets coverage and critique of the art world. Art-Rite moved easily through the expansive community it mapped out, paying homage to an emergent generation of artists, including many who were—or would soon become—the defining voices of the era. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books—Art-Rite’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to spotlighting the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York City and beyond.

All issues of Art-Rite are collected and published here.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert & George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Peter Grass, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Rifka, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Alan Suicide (Vega), David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, Yuri, and Irene von Zahn.

File under: Vito Acconci Kathy Acker Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson John Baldessari Gregory Battcock Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Marcel Broodthaers Trisha Brown Chris Burden Scott Burton Ulises Carrión Judy Chicago Lucinda Childs Christo Diego Cortez Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Ralston Farina Richard Foreman Peggy Gale Gilbert & George John Giorno Philip Glass Leon Golub Peter Grass Julia Heyward Nancy Holt Ray Johnson Joan Jonas Richard Kern Lee Krasner Shigeko Kubota Les Levine Sol LeWitt Babette Mangolte Brice Marden Agnes Martin Gordon Matta-Clark Rosemary Mayer Annette Messager Genesis P-Orridge Brian O'Doherty Judy Pfaff Lil Picard Yvonne Rainer Judy Rifka Dorothea Rockburne Ed Ruscha Robert Ryman David Salle Carolee Schneemann Richard Serra Jack Smith Patti Smith Robert Smithson Holly Solomon Naomi Spector Nancy Spero Pat Steir Frank Stella David Tremlett Richard Tuttle Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Hannah Wilke Robert Wilson Yuri Irene von Zahn Elizabeth Murray Alice Neel Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine Alan Vega Gregory Battcock Brian O’Doherty John Giorno Patti Smith Kathy Acker Lucy R. Lippard Babette Mangolte Primary Information / New York Feminism Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Painting Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

KITSCH 1 + 2 (all volumes)

1970/1971, French
Softcover, 2 volumes, unpaginated, 28.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Marie Concorde / Paris

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Both of the only volumes ever produced of this wonderful French avant-garde journal, published in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s. A visual manifesto against the prudishness of the times, KITSCH presented hundreds of illustrations of mostly erotic, fetish and fantastic/grotesque artwork by artists from all over the world, and spanning generations, with both issues wrapped in the most striking Tom Wesselmann covers. KITSCH 1 includes Toshio Saeki, Guido Crepax, Richard Linder, Robert Crumb, Guy Bourdin, Petr Herel, Hannes Jahn, Roman Cieślewicz, Ben Vautier, Christian Bour, Jacques Sternberg, Roland Topor, Jim, Allen Jones, Thomas Weir, alongside photo essays on upskirt polaroids, Satanik, Diabolik, fashion and more. KITSCH 2 includes Aslan, Roy Lichtenstein, Virgil Finlay, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Greg Irons, George Grosz, Egon Schiele, Mel Ramos, alongside photo essays on subjects such as "Pop Art", "Human Concern" and Paris' "Pigalle" district, further featuring work by H.C.Westermann, Paul Thek, Edward Keinholz, William Tunberg, Christian Schad, William Weegee, James Rosenquist, Frank Gallo, Tom Wesselmann, and many more.

Very good copies both, light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Guido Crepax Richard Linder Robert Crumb Guy Bourdin Petr Herel Hannes Jahn Roman Cieślewicz Ben Vautier Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Roland Topor Jim Allen Jones Thomas Weir Aslan Roy Lichtenstein Virgil Finlay Jim Osborne Ronald Lipking Greg Irons George Grosz Egon Schiele Mel Ramos H.C.Westermann Paul Thek Edward Keinholz William Tunberg Christian Schad William Weegee James Rosenquist Frank Gallo Tom Wesselmann Christian Bour Jacques Sternberg Marie Concorde / Paris Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Photography Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Richardson Issue A12
The California Issue

2025, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 30.5 x 22.6 cm
Published by Richardson / New York

$77.00 - Out of stock

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New "California" themed issue of of Richardson magazine, the cult magazine that navigates the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). Featuring Sky Bri, Photographed by Harley Weir. With additional work by Frances Stark, Mario Ayala, Andy Capper, Bruce Wagner, Ed Ruscha, Bruce LaBruce, Chivas Clem, Alex Kekesi, Delicious Tacos, Jack Mason, Kazumi, Karley Sciortino, Noah Kumin, Taylor Lorenz, Weirdo Dave / Fuck This Life, William E. Jones, Scarlett Kapella, Stewart Home, Rosie Marks, A. Kircher, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

File under: Dasha Nekrasova Harley Weir Frances Stark Sky Bri Ed Ruscha Bruce LaBruce Weirdo Dave (Fuck This Life) William E. Jones Anna Khachiyan Dasha Nekrasova Bruce Wagner William E. Jones Delicious Tacos Karley Sciortino Noah Kumin Stewart Home Rosie Marks Richardson / New York Eros LGBTQ+ Pop Art Art Painting Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM Photography Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

The Way of the Avant-Garde
by Ushio Shinohara

1968, Japanese
Softcover (lenticular cover w. illustrated slipcase), 244 pages, 18.5 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bijyutsu Shuppan / Tokyo

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Rare first 1968 slipcase edition of legendary Japanese Neo-Dadaist Ushio Shinohara's autobiography art-book, published right before he left Japan for New York City. With endorsement on the slipcase from Japanese artist and theorist Tarō Okamoto, the book is as explosively designed as an iconic Shinohara boxing performance. Wrapped in a lenticular cover and spanning many different paper stocks and fold-out plates, "The Way of the Avant-Garde" is profusely illustrated with bold graphics, exhibition and performance photographs, cartoons and collages accompanying Shinohara's texts that document his post-war avant-garde work in Tokyo — a violent blend of Japanese unrest, Action Art and American Pop.

Ushio Shinohara (b. 1932), nicknamed “Gyu-chan” (Little Cow) for his iconic Mohawk haircut, was a pivotal member of the Neo-Dada movement (or Neo-Dada Organizers) in Japan along with artists Genpei Akasegawa, Masunobu Yoshimura, Shūsaku Arakawa, Sayako Kishimoto, Tetsumi Kudō, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, etc. The book focuses on his struggling years as a young artist in Japan, the early radical performances, actions, and exhibitions staged by himself and his peers in the avant-garde — impulsive spectacles, often involving physical destruction of objects, that the art critic Ichirō Hariu deemed "savagely meaningless," and that inspired another art critic, Yoshiaki Tōno, to coin the term "anti-art" (han-geijutsu). The term group member Genpei Akasegawa would later use was "creative destruction" whereby the group sought to create a space for new types of art to emerge by systematically seeking out and destroying all existing artistic norms and conventions. Examples included filling galleries with piles of garbage, smashing furniture to the beat of jazz music, and prancing the streets of Tokyo in various states of dress and undress. Using the human body as their medium of art, their violent performances reflected both their dissatisfaction with the restrictive environment of the Japanese art world at the time, as well as contemporary social developments, most notably the massive 1960 Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.

In June 1960, Akasegawa read out the group's "manifesto" (written by Ushio Shinohara) to a group of reporters:

"No matter how much we fantasize about procreation in the year 1960, a single atomic explosion will casually solve everything for us, so Picasso’s fighting bulls no longer move us any more than the spray of blood from a run-over stray cat. As we enter the blood-soaked ring in this 20th century—a century which has trampled on sincere works of art—the only way to avoid being butchered is to become butchers ourselves."

This statement conveyed a sense of hopeless desperation that, at a time when attempts to create new forms of art were being suffocated by oppressive ideologies and hide-bound institutions, the only way to save art was to kill it.

Shinohara embraced Pop Art as early as 1963. In 1964, Shinohara was inspired to creatively “copy” Robert Rauschenberg’s “Coca-Cola Plan” (1958), having seen the work pictured in an article by the iconic Japanese critic Yoshiaki Tono in “Mizue” magazine. Shinohara explained: “As I was looking closely at how it was made, I noticed the use of three empty Coca-Cola bottles and realized there were tons of empty Coca-Cola bottles in my backyard.” Because the original work by Rauschenberg had been reproduced in the magazine in black-and-white, Shinohara invented the colors for his own duplicative assemblage (of which he made ten), incorporating bright white and accents of yellow and red. When Rauschenberg visited Shinohara’s studio with Tono while visiting Tokyo in the same year, he was surprised to see Shinohara’s reimagining of his work, joyfully exclaiming, “My son!”

The book features Robert's creative friendship with Shinohara and documents their events and discussions together in Tokyo, illustrated with wonderful visual spreads of the “Coca-Cola Plan(s)", which contributed to an important artistic questioning of authorship and consumer culture that pre-occupied both artists.

Ushio has lived and worked in New York since 1969, his work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, and others. Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, are the subjects of a documentary film by Zachary Heinzerling called Cutie and the Boxer.

Very Good copy in Good—VG slipcase (slipcase has some light marking an old damp-stains/toning, mostly to the back) otherwise well preserved.

File under: Ushio Shinohara Genpei Akasegawa Masunobu Yoshimura Shūsaku Arakawa Sayako Kishimoto Tetsumi Kudō Natsuyuki Nakanishi Taro Okamoto Robert Rauschenberg Tetsumi Kudo Bijyutsu Shuppan / Tokyo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Dada Painting Sculpture / Installation Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Pop Art