World Food Books

Jim Dine

1970, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 25 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Whitney Museum / New York

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1970 catalogue published to accompany the first major survey of Jim Dine at the Whitney Museum of American Art from February 27 to April 19, 1970. Illustrated profusely throughout with the works of Dine, along with many portraits (inc. by Lee Friedlander), essay by John Gordon, autobiographical note by Jim Dine, biography, bibliography, exhibition list, etc.

Jim Dine (b. 1935) is an American artist whose œuvre extends over sixty years. Dine’s work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings, gravure, intaglio, woodcuts, letterpress and linocuts), sculpture and photography; his early works encompassed assemblage and happenings. Dine has been associated with numerous art movements throughout his career including Neo-Dada (use of collage and found objects), Abstract Expressionism (the gestural nature of his painting), and Pop Art (affixing everyday objects including tools, rope, articles of clothing and even a bathroom sink) to his canvases, yet he has actively avoided such classifications. At the core of his art, regardless of the medium of the specific work, lies an intense process of autobiographical reflection, a relentless exploration and criticism of the self through a number of highly personal motifs which include: the heart, the bathrobe, tools, antique sculpture, and the character of Pinocchio. Dine’s approach is all-encompassing, incorporating his entire lived experience.

Good copy with light cover wear and creasing, including the very common split at the base of the die-cut heart motif (tape repaired from behind).

File under: Jim Dine Whitney Museum / New York Sculpture / Installation Painting Pop Art Out-of-print / Rare Art

domus
No. 466 Settembre 1968

1968, Italian / English
Softcover, 98 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 466 Settembre 1968
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames,
Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
features :
Archizoom; Lucio Fontana; "Tatlin" by Agnoldomenico Pica; "Apartment Building in Ramat Gan Tel Aviv" by architects Alfred Neumann, Zvi Hecker, Eldar Sharon, "The 18th Aspen Design Conference" by Hans Hollein; Olivetti store in Buenos Aires by architect Gae Aulenti; XIV Triennial of Milan "Il Grande Numero" (Arata Isozaki); "Venice Biennale 1968: A Failure in Attempted Suicide" by Pierre Restany; "For a New Biennale" by Tommaso Trini; Book reviews; and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

File under: Gae Aulenti Ettore Sottsass Archizoom Lucio Fontana Arata Isozaki Marisol Arman César Cesare Casati Bruno Munari Vico Magistretti Artemide Saul Bass Archizoom Associati Charles Eames Ray Eames Ugo La Pietra Paul Delvaux Bridget Riley Rodolfo Bonetto Ambrogio Pozzi Gino Marotta Enrico Castellani Eero Aarnio Jiro Takamatsu Hans Hollein Alfred Neumann Zvi Hecker Eldar Sharon Agnoldomenico Pica Carmela Haerdtl Kho Liang je George Nelson Fausto Melotti Tapio Wirkkalaand Rut Bryk Phillip King Gio Ponti Ettore Sottsass Pierre Restany Joseph Rykwert Bernard Rudofsky Fausto Melotti Tommaso Trini Hans Hollein Editoriale Domus / Milan Art Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Textiles

domus
No. 462 Maggio 1968

1968, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

domus No. 462 Maggio 1968
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames,
Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, and more.
features :
Archizoom; The Living Theatre; "The New Headquarters for the Ford Foundation in New York" by architects Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates; "National Aquarium in Washington" by architects Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates, with Office of Charles Eames; "Pneu: Inflatable Structures and Forms"; "A Mini Space" by Joe Colombo; new lamp edition from Didier Bernardin; Multiples by Franco Angeli, Lucio Fontana, Gino Marotta, Gianni Colombo, David Morris, Fabrizio Cocchia, etc. by Tommaso Trini; "Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1968; "Magistretti in Paris : the Cerruti 1881 styling centre"; Art exhibitions all over the world; Book reviews; Lourdes Castro / Cesar / Jean-Pierre Raynaud by Pierre Restany; "The House of Roger Tallon"; Pino Pascali; Giulio Paolini; and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

File under: Gio Ponti Cesare Casati Agnoldomenico Pica Carmela Haerdtl Kho Liang je George Nelson Fausto Melotti Tapio Wirkkalaand Rut Bryk César Charles Eames Ray Eames Ettore Sottsass Jean-Pierre Raynaud Charles Rennie Mackintosh Roger Tallon Pierre Restany Pino Pascali Giulio Paolini Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Lourdes Castro Franco Angeli Lucio Fontana Gino Marotta Gianni Colombo David Morris Fabrizio Cocchia Piero Manzoni Quasar Khanh Bernard Rudofsky Joseph Rykwert Fausto Melotti Tommaso Trini Gio Ponti Pierre Restany Editoriale Domus / Milan Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Textiles Conceptual Art

Before or After, at the Same Time
Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968

2019, English
Paperback (w. corrugated board wrap), 212 pages, 21.1 x 25.9 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

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Before or After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948–1968 is a landmark publication from Hauser & Wirth Publishers exploring post-war Italian art through the cultural lens of remarkable 20th-century thinkers and artists. Discover the fascinating narrative of Fabio Mauri, an artist, writer, producer and intellectual, alongside the history of his family, a publishing dynasty which thrived on close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and literature. Mauri’s story becomes a starting point from which to explore Italian visual culture, its influences and the defining ideas behind it. The title refers to Mauri’s statement: "I can’t stay in step with my time. I am either before or after it, at the same time." (Fabio Mauri, Ideology and Memory).

The social and political aftermath of the Second World War engendered two highly energetic pockets of creativity in the cities of Rome and Milan. Uncover a tale of these two cities, with Mauri—a multi-disciplinary artist who resisted categorisation—acting as the point of introduction to the artistic practices that emerged from each of these distinct cultural, economic and political scenes. The book examines and, in cases, re-examines the artistic milieu surrounding Mauri which included Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Alberto Burri, Alighiero Boetti, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Piero Dorazio, Tano Festa, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Gastone Novelli, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Giulio Turcato and Cy Twombly.

Edited by Ben Eastham, the publication features essays and newly commissioned texts by Giorgio Agamben, Ilaria Bernardi, Barbara Casavecchia, Pierre Testard, Andrea Viliani and Laura Cherubini; an interview between Achille and Sebastiano Mauri discussing the enduring and near unbelievable family history; a historic article by Fabio Mauri "In 1960 the 1950s Were 10 Years Old," bringing his prescient character to life; never before published and translated letters between Silvana Mauri, Fabio’s eldest sister, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker, writer and poet expressing a remarkable intimacy and honesty

File under: Fabio Mauri Carla Accardi Franco Angeli Enrico Baj Alberto Burri Alighiero Boetti Enrico Castellani Dadamaino Piero Dorazio Tano Festa Lucio Fontana Jannis Kounellis Piero Manzoni Gastone Novelli Mimmo Rotella Mario Schifano Giulio Turcato Cy Twombly Pier Paolo Pasolini Ben Eastham Giorgio Agamben Ilaria Bernardi Barbara Casavecchia Laura Cherubini Andrea Viliani Achille Mauri Sebastiano Mauri Silvana Mauri Fabio Mauri Pier Paolo Pasolini Pierre Testard Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Film / Video

Art-Rite

2019, English
Softcover, 678 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

$89.00 - Out of stock

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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

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

Interiors

1981, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 24 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Quick Fox / New York Omnibus Press / London

$320.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, first, only edition of one of the greatest interior design books ever published by one of the greatest interior design photographers ever. Tim Street-Porter (Domus, Underground Interiors, et al), compiled this, his first and most iconic book, in 1981. A wild book of his personal interior photographs with a fantastic design to match the fantastic interiors within. Capturing a multitude of architectural and interior styles, Interiors really is one of the rarest looks inside the homes you'd not usually see in glossy magazines nor coffee table books. From London, Los Angeles, New York, even Australia, from pop artists, stage designers, architects, animators, art dealers, stylists, textile designers, actresses... including the homes of Frank Gehry, Allen Jones, Zsa Zsa Gábor, Ward Bannett, Thea Porter, Duggie Fields, Harry Nilsson, James Coburn, Rudi Stern, Moira Lister, Luciana Martínez, Sally Sirkin Lewis, Lloyd Ziff, Philip Castle, Max Clendinning, Ralph Adron, and many more, including the photographer himself. A very rare, interior classic.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Tim Street-Porter Quick Fox / New York Omnibus Press / London Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Furniture Pop Art

Tetsumi Kudo
Retrospective

2021, English / German
Softcover, 356 pages, 26 x 19.5 cm
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel Koenig Books / London

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Bottled humanism, coloured neon contaminations, tattered flaps of skin, and limp penises bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical devastation is in fact an appeal to understand metamorphosis as a state of being.

Over a period of three decades, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935–1990) created a consistent body of work that serves as a model for contemporary conceptual approaches of Posthumanism and the New Materialism. The artist reflects upon the ideological boundaries between mankind, nature, and technology from the distanced perspective of an unsentimental observer.

In Japan, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki produced a caesura; their devastating effects revealed the vulnerability of the human organism. Nuclear disaster is equivalent to a demonstration of both absolute power and loss of control, exposing the paradox inherent in Humanism. Consequently, it becomes necessary to transform the human being. Kudo demonstrates how body parts, plants, and electrical devices converge to form post-human structures.

This catalogue brings together contributions by artists (such as Mike Kelley) and theorists and documents Kudo’s comprehensive oeuvre in work and archive images as well as exhibition views from the retrospective.

Published after the 2016/17 retrospective exhibition at Fridericianum, Kassel.

English and German text.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Mike Kelley Antje Krause-Wahl Susanne Pfeffer Reiko Tomii Fridericianum / Kassel Koenig Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art

Tetsumi Kudo
Cultivation

2020, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 19 x 28 cm
Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Denmark

$59.00 - Out of stock

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The eerily prescient work of a near-forgotten Japanese artist, whose 1960s and ’70s sculptures anticipate contemporary ecological anxieties. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Tine Colstrup. Texts by Tetsumi Kudo and Joshua Mack.

Contemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures seem to foretell today’s environmental concerns with their depictions of ecological decay. Born in Osaka, Kudo’s life was greatly impacted by the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945; this trauma compounded by the Vietnam War’s ever-present atmosphere of destruction led to a consistent focus on dystopia and decomposition in his work.

Kudo’s fluorescent birdcages and blacklight terrariums are furnished with an assortment of sculptures and found objects: melted plastic flowers, colorful phallic chrysalises and dismembered resin body parts come together to convey a distinctly modern anxiety in regard to our ailing world. Kudo’s work does not intend to provide comfort in the midst of crisis; rather, his pieces urge viewers to reflect on how we may or may not continue to survive in a world that we ourselves have ruined through pollution and consumerism.

As the artist’s work reaches a peak of topicality, this volume presents a focused selection of Kudo’s pieces from the 1960s and 1970s that demonstrate a postwar awareness of the atomic bomb’s effect on reproduction and the environment.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Joshua Mack Lærke Rydal Jørgensen Tine Colstrup Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Denmark Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Ecology

Na de beeldenstorm
by Carel Blotkamp

1970, Dutch
Hardcover, unpaginated, 27.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1970 by Dutch art historian and critic Carel Blotkamp (b. 1945), Na de beeldenstorm: drie opstellen over recente beeldende kunst (3 essays on recent visual art) surveys developments in art at the height of one of the most innovative periods in art history, the 1960s. Blotkamp traces the influence of historical avant gardes (Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich, Duchamp...) into new abstraction, hard-edge, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop, Op Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Povera, Land Art, et al. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with fine examples of work by Barnett Newman, Josef Albers, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Daan Van Golden, Richard Serra, Kenneth Nolan, Morris Louis, Jo Baer, Frank Stella, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Walter de Maria, Yves Klein, Robert Morris, Bridget Riley, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Weiner, Jan Dibbets, Armando, Panamarenko, Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons, Barry Flanagan, JCJ Vanderheyden, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse, Richard Long, Wim T. Schippers, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Mario Merz, Carl Andre, Pieter Engels, Andy Warhol, Edward Rushca, Jesús Rafael Soto, Peter Struycken, and many more...

Very Good copy without dust jacket (as issued), light tanning/wear to glossy, foiled boards.

File under: Barnett Newman Josef Albers Lucio Fontana Robert Rauschenberg Daan Van Golden Richard Serra Kenneth Nolan Morris Louis Jo Baer Frank Stella Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Jim Dine Walter de Maria Yves Klein Robert Morris Bridget Riley Jasper Johns Lawrence Weiner Jan Dibbets Armando Panamarenko Joseph Beuys Sol LeWitt Ellsworth Kelly Larry Poons Barry Flanagan JCJ Vanderheyden Robert Indiana Roy Lichtenstein Martial Raysse Richard Long Wim T. Schippers Marcel Duchamp Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Mario Merz Carl Andre Pieter Engels Andy Warhol Edward Rushca Peter Struycken Jesus Rafael Soto Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare

Boston Collects : Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

1986, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Museum of Fine Arts / Boston

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Exhibition catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1986, surveying their collection of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Illustrated throughout in full colour with works by Pierre Alechinsky, Miquel Barcelo, Alfonse Borysewicz, Terry Allen, Siah Armajani, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerry Bergstein, Troy Brauntuch, Jack Bush, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Anthony Caro, Joseph Cornell, Enzo Cucchi, Willem De Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Roy Deforest, Robert Freeman, Adolph Gottlieb, Al Held, Yves Klein, Michael Lucero, Louise Nevelson, Katherine Porter, Susan Rothenberg, Cy Twombly, Terry Winters, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Ralph Goings, Arshile Gorky, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Duane Hanson, Jess, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Michael Mazur, John Mcnamara, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neel, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, David Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Gary Stephan, Clyfford Still, Tom Wesselmann, William T. Wiley, Bill Woodrow, Robert Yarber, and many more.

File under: Terry Allen Siah Armajani Arman Richard Artschwager Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerry Bergstein Troy Brauntuch Jack Bush Pier Paolo Calzolari Anthony Caro Joseph Cornell Enzo Cucchi Willem De Kooning Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Roy Deforest Robert Freeman Adolph Gottlieb Al Held Yves Klein Michael Lucero Louise Nevelson Katherine Porter Susan Rothenberg Cy Twombly Terry Winters Gilbert & George Gregory Gillespie Ralph Goings Arshile Gorky Nancy Graves Philip Guston Duane Hanson Jess Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Franz Kline Joseph Kosuth Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Michael Mazur John Mcnamara Catherine Murphy Alice Neel A.R. Penck Sigmar Polke Robert Rauschenberg Gerhard Richter Mark Rothko Lucas Samaras George Segal David Smith Kenneth Snelson Joan Snyder Pat Steir Frank Stella Gary Stephan Clyfford Still Tom Wesselmann William T. Wiley Bill Woodrow Robert Yarber Pierre Alechinsky Miquel Barcelo Alfonse Borysewicz Museum of Fine Arts / Boston Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Recent British Painting

1970, English
Softcover (stapled), 28 pages, 25 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Peter Stuyvesant Trust / Australia

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published to accompany a touring exhibition of British Painting in the Peter Stuyvesant Trust in Australia. The exhibition toured across Adelaide, Perth, Launceston, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Newcastle, featuring the works of Ivon Hitchens, Ceri Richards, Francis Bacon, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Wynter, William Scott, Henry Mundy, Alan Davie, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Heron, Tess Jaray, Leon Kossoff, Peter Sedgley, Bridget Riley, Anthony Hill, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, etc. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout.

Good copy with only light handling/pitching.

File under: Alan Davie Anthony Hill Bridget Riley Bryan Wynter Ceri Richards David Hockney Francis Bacon Henry Mundy Howard Hodgkin Ivon Hitchens Leon Kossoff Patrick Heron Peter Sedgley R.B. Kitaj Tess Jaray Victor Pasmore William Scott Peter Stuyvesant Trust / Australia Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Pop Art

Art in BHP House

1971, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 25 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Specialty Press Ltd. / Melbourne

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Published in approximately 1971 by The Specialty Press Ltd., this scarce glossy colour booklet catalogues the Art collection of Melbourne's BHP House in the early 1970's. Features the work of Australian painters John Coburn, David Aspden, Fred Williams, Asher Bilu, Sydney Ball, Martin Collocott, W. Delafield-Cook, John Olsen, Lawrence Daws, Louis James, Stanislaus Rapotec, Ian Chandler, Jeremy Barrett, Col Jordan, Robert Boynes, Stephen Earle, Clifton Pugh, Albert Tucker, Jeremy Gordon, Alun Leach-Jones, Michael Shannon, plus a full catalogue of their paintings and prints at that time.

File under: John Coburn Fred Williams Asher Bilu Sydney Ball Martin Collocott W. Delafield-Cook John Olsen Lawrence Daws Louis James Stanislaus Rapotec Ian Chandler Jeremy Barrett Col Jordan Robert Boynes Stephen Earle Clifton Pugh Albert Tucker Jeremy Gordon Alun Leach-Jones Michael Shannon David Aspden The Specialty Press Ltd. / Melbourne Art Painting Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Pop Art

Explosion! : Painting as Action

2012, English / Swedish
Softcover, 224 pages, 28 x 21.7cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$68.00 - Out of stock

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In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was deemed as important as the painting that resulted from it, creating an energetic interzone between painting and performance in which chance procedures, the movement of bodies and the participation of spectators were all recruited as tools.

Explosion! Painting as Action explores the connections and cross fertilizations between painting, performance and conceptual art from the late 1940s to the present. Examining painting, photography, video, performance, dance and sound art, this volume includes works by Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Gutai Group, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Shozo Shimamoto, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

File under: Adel Abdessemed Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bruce Nauman Cai Guo-Qiang Ceal Floyer Francis Alÿs George Brecht Jackson Pollock Jean Tinguely John Baldessari John Cage Jutta Koether Lawrence Weiner Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul McCarthy Robert Rauschenberg Tony Conrad Yoko Ono Yves Klein Rivane Neuenschwander Carolee Schneemann Shozo Shimamoto Gutai Atsuko Tanaka Simone Forti Ann-Sofi Noring Daniel Birnbaum Julia Robinson Ming Tiampo Walther König / Köln Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections

Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
By Hal Foster

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 19.1 x 26 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington

$69.00 - Out of stock

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How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal aesthetics" adequate to the destruction around them.

With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does Jorn populate his paintings with "human animals"? What does Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban scrap?

A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in crisis, Brutal Aesthetics is an intriguing account of a difficult era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important implications for our own.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

File under: Jean Dubuffet Asger Jorn Eduardo Paolozzi Claes Oldenburg Hal Foster Georges Bataille Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Theory / Essay

Ray Johnson
c/o

2021, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 22.9 x 30.5 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago

$99.00 - Out of stock

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Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School.

Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this oversized, beautifully designed volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist’s books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnson’s democratic, rhizomatic, and antihierarchical ethos, this indispensable resource on the artist’s oeuvre contains 700 illustrations, many of them never before published, and twenty-one short essays by various contributors that allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear manner.

Text by Jordan Carter, Colby Chamberlain, Jennifer R. Cohen, Johanna Gosse, Caitlin Haskell, Miriam Kienle, Brian T. Leahy, Ellen Levy, Solveig Nelson, Thea Liberty Nichols, Michael von Uchtrup

Caitlin Haskell is Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of International Modern Art, and Jordan Carter is associate curator of modern and contemporary art, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.

File under: Ray Johnson Caitlin Haskell Jordan Carter Colby Chamberlain Jennifer R. Cohen Johanna Gosse Miriam Kienle Brian T. Leahy Ellen Levy Solveig Nelson Thea Liberty Nichols Michael von Uchtrup Yale University Press / New Haven Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago Art Fluxus Drawing Pop Art Conceptual Art

Andy Warhol

1969, English / Swedish
Softcover, 640 pages, 26.8 x 21 cm
2nd Ed. ,
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm

$640.00 - Out of stock

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Still the best Warhol catalogue ever made, the very collectible and iconic Warhol photo book published to accompany his first European museum show "Andy Warhol" at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February - March, 1968, only three months before he was shot by Valerie Solanas. With virtually no text and adorned with Warhol's flower cover vividly printed in five spot colors, the concept of the catalogue was developed by the great German curator and museum director Kasper König, who commissioned Factory chronicler and inhabitant Billy Name, and a teenage Stephen Shore (!), to document Warhol's world and his co-conspirators living, working, and performing around his East 47th Street New York studio. Both Name and Shore composed rhythms of their own sequences, and neither of them added any captions: they felt the images should speak for themselves. This absence of text contributed to the object-status of the book. The result is one of the most historical photographic capsules of a pivotal time in the New York art scene of the late 1960s. Alongside hundreds of wonderful photographs from the studio, the film-sets, the Velvet Underground performances, the happenings, the road trips, the parties, including further photography by Rudy Burkhardt, Eric Pollitzer, and John Schiff, there are also selections of Warhol's artworks (where König's use of the xerox machine to reproduce Warhol's own work gives this catalogue its signature feel), and documentation of his exhibitions, including fantastic social imagery of the Moderna Museet proceedings not included in the first edition. The only text comes, fittingly, in the form of a series of introductory Warhol quotes and aphorisms.

Since Warhol himself had so much input into the production of this book, this catalogue-as-artist's-book-as-photobook can truly be considered a work of art in its own right. It quickly becoming a cult object, then a collector’s item.

Edited by Andy Warhol, Kasper König, Pontus Hultén, and Olle Granath.

This is the expanded 2nd edition, published in May 1969.
An excellent copy of a fragile book that is extremely prone to wear. Well preserved but with the common brittle binding issue from age and a bulky page count, with some loosening/disconnecting of sections from the spine glue. Much better than most copies out there! A tiny chip to the top back corner (spine corner), otherwise a very clean, presentable copy with only light corner wear and tanning to the newsprint.

File under: Andy Warhol The Velvet Underground Stephen Shore Nico Billy Name Lou Reed John Cale Kasper König Pontus Hultén Olle Granath Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Painting Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video

Yves Klein
Selected Writings 1928-1962

1974, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 21 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

$35.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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First 1974 edition of this collection of writings of Yves Klein, published by The Tate Gallery, on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist's work that same year. The catalogue includes an introduction by Michael Compton and writings by Klein (accompanied by photographs throughout), together with a Chronology and a Catalogue of the works in the exhibition.

Yves Klein (1928 – 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

Ex-library copy with some internal stamps/marks not affecting content. Otherwise good throughout.

File under: Yves Klein The Tate Gallery / London Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Thomas Bayrle
Monuments of Traffic

2013, English/Japanese
Hardcover, 44 pages, 19 x 24.5 cm
Published by Espace Louis Vuitton / Tokyo

$45.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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Out of print Japanese catalogue for Thomas Bayrle's exhibtion Monuments of Traffic at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, 2013.

Curator of his own exhibition, the German Artist has conceived for the space a minimalist, though humorous setup, where an automated conductor orchestrates a landscape full of highways leading to nowhere…

Revolving around a newly-commissioned piece Conducteur, this show revisits and reorganizes well-known pieces from the distant to the more recent past.

While monitors play Sunbeam (1994) on the gallery floor and a newly-edited version of Gummibaum movie at ground level, visitors can see a third of the elements composing the gigantic Carmageddon which created an impact at the last dOCUMENTA(13)(Kassel, 2012). In front of this field of motorways, inherited from a time when daily traffic jams were the norm, visitors are confronted by the leftovers of a bygone era…

All over these items dapples a sound collage – composed of the “furniture music” by Erik Satie (1917), mixed with the original windshield-wiper sound of a car. This collage of minimal music will run all day long – only being interrupted, once in a while, by the screening of the Film Sunbeam.

Profusely illustrated throughout with texts in English / Japanese.

File under: Thomas Bayrle Espace Louis Vuitton / Tokyo Art Conceptual Art Pop Art Sculpture / Installation SALE Out-of-print / Rare

Nicholas Krushenick
Pace Gallery 1969

1969, English
Softcover (11 loose postcards in illustrated card wallet), 16 x 11.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Pace / New York

$50.00 $30.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce 1969 exhibition edition published on the occasion of Nicholas Krushenick at Pace, New York, April 26 - May 21, 1969. This rare Krushenick catalogue comes in the form of 11 colour postcards, each reproducing a painting from the exhibition of the exhibition and housed in their original colour card wallet.

Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter whose artistic style straddled the line between Op Art, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Color Field. He was active in the New York art scene in the 1960s and 1970s, before he withdrew and focused his time as a professor at the University of Maryland for almost thirty years until his death in 1999. Initially experimenting with a more Abstract Expressionist inspired style and cut paper collage, Krushenick is more well known for his paintings which use bold Liquitex colors and juxtaposing black lines, which fall under the category of pop abstraction. In fact, he is a singular figure within that style.

Condition: Good (very good throughout, only residue from card sticking to back cover) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Nicholas Krushenick Pace / New York Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Painting Pop Art SALE

Fantastic Architecture

2015, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 13 x 20 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

$52.00 - Out of stock

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Primary Information reprint of the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, first published in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys. It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, GerhardRühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

File under: Dick Higgins Wolf Vostell Ay-O Joseph Beuys Erich Buchholz Pol Bury John Cage Philip Corner Jan Dibbets Robert Filliou Buckminster Fuller Geoffrey Hendricks Richard Hamilton Raoul Hausmann Michael Heizer Jan Jacob Herman Bici Hendricks K.H. Hoedicke Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Addi Koepcke Franz Mon Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Gerhard Rühm Dieter Rot Carolee Schneemann Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Frances Starr Jean Tinguely Ben Vautier Lawrence Weiner Stefan Wewerka Primary Information / New York Architecture / Interior Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

Allen Jones
Allen Jones 1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 80 pages, 22 x 26 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Seibu / Tokyo Shizenkan / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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One of the finest, rarely seen books on Allen Jones, published in Japan in 1974 on the occasion of a Japanese exhibition in that travelled across Tokyo (at Seibu) and Nagoya (at Meitetsu), the same year. Densely packed, this book is profusely illustrated in colour and black and white with Jones' drawings, painting, sculptures, designs, posters, prints, book editions, lithographic set editions, photographs of the artist's studio (by Tim Street-Porter and Yoshio Marumoto), an interview, biography, and bibliography.

Edited by Allen Jones and Yoshio Marumoto.

Condition: Very Good-Near Fine (very light aging only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Allen Jones Seibu / Tokyo Shizenkan / Tokyo Art Eros Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Painting Drawing

Allen Jones
Figures

1969, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 23 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Galerie Mikro & Edizioni 0 / Milan

$65.00 - Out of stock

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One of the finest of Allen Jones' artist books, "Figures" was published in 1969 in Berlin and Milan. Designed by Jones himself, with Anthony Marshall, this over-sized colourful "scrapbook" compiles a collection of found images from pin-up magazines, fashion advertising, film promos, giving way to images of the artist's work - both paintings, drawings and his famous sculpture-furniture, concluding with a unique four b&w pages of (other) "Artist's Advertisements" (including H.C. Westermann, Kenneth Price, Tom Wesselmann, Pablo Picasso), and business "calling card" acknowledgements.

Allen Jones (b. 1 September 1937) is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and work in set and costume design for film and theatre.

Jones' exhibitions of erotic sculptures, such as the set Chair, Table and Hat Stand (1969), are studies in forniphilia, which turn women into items of human furniture. Much of his work draws on the imagery of rubber fetishism and BDSM. The sculptures in the Korova Milk Bar from the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange were based on works by Jones after he turned down the request by Stanley Kubrick to design the set for no payment. Jones designed Barbet Schroeder's 1976 film Maîtresse.

Good copy but with age tanning (most common with this title) and old spotting to pages.

File under: Allen Jones Galerie Mikro & Edizioni 0 / Milan Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry : Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

2003, English
Softcover, 632 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions.

Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin Buchloh, one of the most insightful art critics and theoreticians of recent decades, argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.This collection contains eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years. Each looks at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. The art movements covered include Nouveau Realisme in France (Arman, Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villegle) art in postwar Germany (Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter), American Fluxus and pop art (Robert Watts and Andy Warhol), minimalism and postminimal art (Michael Asher and Richard Serra), and European and American conceptual art (Daniel Buren, Dan Graham). Buchloh addresses some artists in terms of their oppositional approaches to language and painting, for example, Nancy Spero and Lawrence Weiner. About others, he asks more general questions concerning the development of models of institutional critique (Hans Haacke) and the theorization of the museum (Marcel Broodthaers); or he addresses the formation of historical memory in postconceptual art (James Coleman). One of the book's strengths is its systematic, interconnected account of the key issues of American and European artistic practice during two decades of postwar art. Another is Buchloh's method, which integrates formalist and socio-historical approaches specific to each subject.

File under: Arman Yves Klein Jacques de la Villegle Joseph Beuys Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter Robert Watts Andy Warhol Michael Asher Richard Serra Daniel Buren Dan Graham Nancy Spero Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers James Coleman Hans Haacke Benjamin H. D. Buchloh The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Theory / Essay Painting Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Fluxus Minimal Art Conceptual Art