World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
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1991, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Australian National Gallery / Canberra
$25.00 $10.00 - In stock -
Scarce brochure catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1991. This exhibition of Sievers photographs travelled Victoria and New South Wales between 1991—1992. "The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers is the first retrospective of Sievers's work; it surveys Sievers's long and productive career and includes photographs taken in Italy, Germany, Portugal and Australia. Since he settled in Australia in 1938 Sievers has made an extremely significant—but still largely unacknowledged—contribution to Australian cultural life." Illustrated throughout, the photographs are accompanied by stories written by the artist.
Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO (1913–2007) was a well-known modernist photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography over a career spanning almost 60 years. Sievers grew up in Germany during a period known as the Weimar Republic, studied photography at the Contempora School for Applied Arts in Berlin, a successor to the Bauhaus, and in 1938, fearing increasing persecution in Nazi Germany, the Sievers family fled and migrated to Australia. Sievers served in the Australia Army from 1942 to 1946. After the war, Sievers concentrated on a career as a photographer, bringing a new vision of crisp and uniform images, showcasing how the modern world was aiming for economy through efficiency. After the Second World War, Australia had been particularly driven to streamlining processes and techniques in the postwar era, sometimes called the ‘golden age’. After the war, Sievers concentrated on a career as a photographer. He worked with other famous modernist photographers in Melbourne, including Axel Poignant and Athol Shmith. In Australia, Sievers took to industrial photography, bringing a new vision of crisp and uniform images, showcasing how the modern world was aiming for economy through efficiency. Sievers documented a postwar Australia, sometimes called the ‘golden age’. In describing his artistic method, Sievers once said: ‘The fundamental Bauhaus idea is purity of line and simplicity of design, both in architecture and industry. To this I added the dignity of man as a worker.’ Many of Sievers works contain images of humans as connected to the machines they work with. These photographs show humans as an important ‘part’ of the technology they are using.
Good copy with storage wear to covers.
1980, English
Softcover, 8 page fold-out, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by
Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney
$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
Rare fold-out slice of 1980 Oz fashion published on the occasion of the Project 33 exhibition "ART CLOTHES", Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Dec 1980—1 Feb 1981, featuring Peter Tully, David McDiarmid, Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, Katie Pye, Jenny Bannister and many others. Illustrated with portraits and extensive biographies and catalogues of each designer. An exhibition of the Festival of Sydney in 1981, "this exhibition shows contemporary clothing and accessories as 'wearable art objects' by young Australian artists and designers. In a sense it is an exhibition about departures from the norm. Many of the traditional distinctions and demarcations between art, craft and fashion have been blurred." Introductory text by Jane de Teliga.
Good copy with wear and marking from dusty storage.
1991, English / Japanese / German
Softcover folder w. 26 double-sided cards, magnifying glass
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
P3 Art and Environment / Tokyo
$140.00 $70.00 - In stock -
Rare Japanese artist edition, published by P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, during Rolf Julius' 1991 visit to Japan, and on the occasion of the exhibition "Wind" 3—8 September, 1991. House in embossed cardboard folder, this handsome edition includes 26 double-sided loose leaf cards of photographs, drawings and texts (in Japanese/German/English), and a small plastic magnifying glass.
Rolf Julius was born in 1939 in northern Germany, where he received classical training in the fine arts. In the late 1970s, he gradually discovered certain contemporary composers (in particular La Monte Young, at festivals and on the radio), and became increasingly involved in acoustic performances which he gave in public parks and at alternative venues. In various experimental ways he explored the possibilities offered by sound broadcasting techniques, but even at this early stage (and this would be a constant factor in his approach) the works were developing with an on-going concern for the relationship with the space of the world, and with nature.
As New copy.
1986, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 239 pages, 25 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Thames and Hudson / London
$80.00 $25.00 - In stock -
Edited by Robert A.M. Stern, one of the world's leading exponents of the Post-Modern movement, "The International Design Yearbook 1985/86" was "the first volume of an important annual review of domestic design in an international context. It shows the best, the most characteristic and the most exciting recent designs in furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, glass and metalware. It illustrates the work not only of such leading figures as Rossi, Hollein, Venturi, Sottsass and Castiglioni, but of hundreds of other contemporary designers around the world, whose work is notable for its topicality and promise, or for its aesthetic or functional excellence."
As well as contemporary design of the mid 1980's, the annual "deals with the reproduction of classic designs by such masters as Eileen Gray, Hoffman, Mackintosh, Rietveld and Le Corbusier." The annual also functioned as a guidebook to the featured designers and the respective companies, manufacturers and retailers of their designs. Biographies for all those designers featured are included, plus texts throughout.
This large book is richly illustrated with wonderful examples of the featured designers in their many forms via 520 illustrations, 382 in colour. Many works rarely (some possibly never) seen documented in any other book.
Includes the work of: Verner Panton, Nathalie du Pasquier, Charlotte Perriand, Paolo Piva, Andrée Putman, Dieter Rams, Gerrit Rietveld, Aldo Rossi, Stanley Tigerman, Brian Faucheux, Jay Stanger, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Hans Gunnarsson, Studio Alchimia, Gabrielle Regondi, John Smith, Alberto Salvati and Ambrogio Tresoldi, Paolo Deganello, Alessio Sarri, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Matteo Thun, Pierre Jeanneret, Memphis, Giuseppe Terragni, Robert George Sowden, SITE, Afra Scarpa, Tobia Scarpa, Robert Venturi, Ugo La Pietra, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass, Adolf Loos, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Richard Meier, Alessando Mendini, Fujiwo Ishimoto, Hans Hollein, Josef Hoffmann, William Morris, Frank Gehry, Robert A.M. Stern, Eileen Gray, Michael Graves, Michele De Lucchi, Joe Colombo, Achille Castiglioni, Mario Bellini, Gae Aulenti, Hans Ansems, Ron Arad, Emilio Ambasz, Alver Aalto, Daniel Weil, Marco Zanini, to name but a few!
Very Good copy with VG dust jacket, light tanning to page edge.
2001, English / German
Softcover (+ CD), 44 pages, 24.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Kunsthalle Fridericianum / Kassel
$45.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
Now long out-of-print, this Rolf Julius catalogue with CD of the exhibition concert of Japanese pianist Aki Takahashi were published on the occasion of the exhibition Rot - Oder wie Laut ist Schwarz? (which translates as "red - or how loud is black?"), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 1 April — 10 June, 2001. Profusely illustrated with the artworks, installations and performances, the book includes a foreword by René Block; an essay entitled "Pictures of Sounds" by Volker Straebel; a transcription of a conversation between Julius, Straebel and Aki Takahashi; plus Julius' chronology up to 2001.
Rolf Julius was born in 1939 in northern Germany, where he received classical training in the fine arts. In the late 1970s, he gradually discovered certain contemporary composers (in particular La Monte Young, at festivals and on the radio), and became increasingly involved in acoustic performances which he gave in public parks and at alternative venues. In various experimental ways he explored the possibilities offered by sound broadcasting techniques, but even at this early stage (and this would be a constant factor in his approach) the works were developing with an on-going concern for the relationship with the space of the world, and with nature.
As New copy.
2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Gallery 400 / Chicago
$65.00 $45.00 - In stock -
Scarce copy of this excellent catalogue survey of works by New York-based painter and sculptor B. Wurtz (b. 1948), published on the occasion of the artist's exhibition "70 + 30 = 2000" at Gallery 400, University of Chicago, Illionois , 2000. "I chose a selection of my artworks made from a thirty year period, 1970 until the present". Chaptered "plastic bags", "tin cans", "buildings", "shoelaces", "socks", "food containers", etc., that's exactly what this catalogue represents, all illustrated in colour, alongside philosophical captions and proverbs collected by the artist (Warhol, Goethe, Wittgenstein, et al.), plus full catalogue of works. Published in an edition of 1500 copies.
Very Good copy with light cover wear.
2001, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
MACBA / Barcelona
$100.00 $65.00 - In stock -
The most comprehensive, long out-of-print, English-language publication on the Brazilian-born Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976) known for his esoteric approach to exploring semiotics through visual systems. Published by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in 2001 on the occasion of the largest retrospective of Fahlström's work, this heavy catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout with 400 illustrations in colour and b/w. Include texts by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Jean-François Chevrier, Immanuel Wallerstein, Octavi Rofes, Suely Rolnik, plus biography; exhibition history; bibliography.
Often employing mysterious symbols and text, popular culture, comic books, politics, and cartography, Fahlström created works meant to suggest epic narratives, seeking to “create a world of situations and actions in a contradictory and discontinuing time-space.” As a young man he began writing for Swedish publications, and produced poetry, plays, translations, and art. In 1961, the artist moved to New York, which was his primary place of residence for the rest of his life. Living in the same building as Jasper Johns, Fahlström’s artistic production increased with his associating with American avant-garde artists, participating in Happenings, becoming associated with the Fluxus movement, exhibiting his work at the 1964 and 1966 Venice Biennales, and continuing to write plays. He was featured in the celebrated 1962 New Realists exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery and had numerous solo exhibitions with Janis throughout his life. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Very Good copy.
2012, English / French
Softcover, 324 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by
CAPC / Bordeaux
$78.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
Published on the occasion of his retrospective at CAPC, Bordeaux, in 2012-2013, this book is the first major reference monograph published on the German artist Michael Krebber. This comprehensive volume is heavily illustrated with colour photographs of his works spanning from the 1980's to today.
Michael Krebber (born 1954, lives and works in Cologne) is currently considered to be one of the most emblematic personalities of the international contemporary art scene. Having had a major influence on the art scene in Cologne during the 80's and 90's and ever since, Michael Krebber has a conceptual approach to painting that he explores beyond all pictorial conventions. His practice is marked by ambivalence, subversion, intransigence, and a feigned body language. Krebber is a dandy painter.
Although he appears to be a discreet character, both perplexed and ambivalent about the very nature of his practice, he nevertheless remains an influential first-class smuggler into the world of art on both the theoretical and economic levels. The dialogue that he maintains with his students at the Staatliche Hochschule in Frankfurt, sets him up as a “literary character,” the implementer of his very own process, which has fascinated the emerging generation.
Highly recommended.
Edited by Michael Krebber and Alexis Vaillant.
Texts by Catherine Chevalier and Magnus Schäfer.
Graphic design: Surface.
As New copy but with moisture buckling, hence sale price. Still sealed.
1996, English / German
Softcover, 288 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Oktagon Verlag / Stuttgart
$220.00 $100.00 - In stock -
First edition of one of the most sought after of Andre books, this large, heavily illustrated exhibition catalogue was published in conjunction with major exhibition conceived by Carl Andre with curator Eva Meyer-Hermann and held in Germany at Krefeld at Home, Wolfsburg at Large in 1996. The book forms an extensive exhibition chronology and detailed catalogue raisonné of works (including texts/notations and specs to accompany each work - illustrated in both colour and b/w throughout), alongside essays by Eva Meyer-Hermann and Paul Sutinen, as well as an interview with the artist conducted by Phyllis Tuchman, and a letter from Hollis Frampton to Enno Develing.
All texts in both German and English.
Carl Andre (b. 1935) is an American Minimal sculptor and poet associated with Minimalism. Andre is known for abstract work made of repetitive blocks, bricks, and metal plates arranged directly on the floor. Like other Minimalists of his generation, Andre constructed his works out of industrial materials that called attention to the inherent physical structure of the piece and to the architecture of the surrounding space. Eschewing metaphor and symbolism, Andre’s work operates as a set of purely physical and perceptual concerns. Moving to New York in 1957, he became associated with friend Frank Stella and worked in Stella’s studio while developing his own drawings and sculpture. Stella’s abstract paintings of that period were an important influence on Andre’s developing aesthetic, as was the work of modern sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. A number of experiences—including four years of work in railyards in the early 1960s and a trip to the prehistoric archaeological site of Stonehenge in England—solidified Andre’s determination to work with modular units, from wood to metals. Placing square metal tiles onto larger squares, upon which he invited viewers to walk, challenged the museum audience, who were more accustomed to keeping their distance from artworks and to observing sculptures on pedestals.
First edition, very scarce. Very Good copy, clean and tight throughout, only light corner bumping to bottom and tanning to spine, otherwise a crisp copy.
1998, Japanese
Softcover, 126 pages, 28.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo
$65.00 $35.00 - Out of stock
School Wear Collection File No. 1, published in Japan in 1998, a glossy colour photo-book/magazine (mook) and comprehensive record of female Japanese school wear (seifuku) and sailor fuku Summer and Winter uniform collections from 1996—1997, all modelled by Japanese school girls. A source of pride and tradition, the Japanese school uniform has become an international icon, referenced in popular culture and by designers and stylists all over the world. Profusely illustrated with all of the uniforms from the mid-1990s shot thoroughly, and rather provocatively, by Katsumi Yamaguchi, styled by Masahiko Terada, these books aren't without their kink undercurrent (Eichi publishes Beppin School, after all). Loads of data and information on the collecting of uniforms, school fashion trends (baggy socks in 1996!), challenges, histories, model profiles, and advertisements laced throughout the photoshoots. An amazing, comprehensive reference.
Very Good—Near Fine copy.
1982, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
? / Japan
$45.00 $25.00 - In stock -
Wonderful, rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Tobe Hooper's masterpiece Poltergeist, a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper from a story by Steven Spielberg. Starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson and Beatrice Straight, the film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter. Spielberg conceived Poltergeist as a horror sequel to his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind titled Night Skies; however, Hooper was less interested in the sci-fi elements and suggested they collaborate on a ghost story. The film received critical acclaim and commerical success and is considered a horror classic. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.
Very Good copy with some light spine wear.
1978, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
? / Japan
$30.00 $10.00 - In stock -
Wonderful, scarce Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Brian De Palma's The Fury, a 1978 American supernatural horror thriller film starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, and Andrew Stevens. The screenplay by John Farris was based on his 1976 novel of the same name. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.
Fine copy.
1976, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Toho / Tokyo
toho
$50.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
Wonderful, rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for the acclaimed 1976 South Australian drama film Storm Boy, directed by Henri Safran and based on the 1964 book of the same name by Colin Thiele, about a lonely boy (Greg Rowe) and his pet pelicans living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father, 'Hide Away' Tom (Peter Cummins). In search of friendship, Mike encounters another recluse in the wilderness, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), an Aboriginal man estranged from his tribal people. Fingerbone names Mike "Storm Boy" and enlists the child's help caring for three orphaned pelican chicks. It was the third feature film made by the South Australian Film Corporation, and is a highlight of the New Wave of Australian Cinema from the 1970s. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.
Good—Very Good copy. Some pinching to spine otherwise VG.
1974, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo
$55.00 $35.00 - Out of stock
April 1974 issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960—1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of queer and transgender sexuality, lots of cross-dressing, masochism, torture, sodomy, sadophelia and fem-dom material. Includes artwork by Tatsuji Okawa, Men's Naked Festival, artwork by Gene Bilbrew, Flowers In Full Bloom (Western SM photography and play), kinbaku photo gallery, fem-fem Western spanking photography, lots of stories from Japanese cross-dressers, readers confessions, a treasure-trove of illustrated transgressive fiction, almost all articles under nom de plumes! Also, excellent ads.
VG—Good copy, with light wear, tanning.
1962, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo
$100.00 $80.00 - In stock -
Very rare early special "Masochist Ecstasy" issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960-1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of western SM artists and material introduced to Japanese audiences and a great deal of queer sexuality. This issue from 1962 is probably one of the finest examples of this, featuring photographic spreads of Japanese and western male physique models, Japanese cross-dressers, Japanese and western female kinbaku/bondage photography, the "man, man, man, man's world!" feature of queer western romanesque illustration from George Quaintance, Tom of Finland, and others, illustrated cover article on Masochism, stories from Japanese cross-dressers, illustrated fiction of gay and lesbian SM stories, as well as lots of fem-dom, sodomy and sadophelia. Almost all articles under nom de plumes! Cover art by Tom of Finland.
Good copy, with edge wear and tanning from age. Binding great.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo
$45.00 $25.00 - Out of stock
March 1972 issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960—1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of queer and transgender sexuality, lots of cross-dressing, masochism, torture, sodomy, sadophelia and fem-dom material. Art gallery by master of kinbaku illustration Yoko Ozuma, equestrianism photography, lots of stories from Japanese cross-dressers, readers confessions, a treasure-trove of illustrated transgressive fiction, almost all articles under nom de plumes! Also, excellent ads.
VG—Good copy, with light cover/spine wear, tanning.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo
$45.00 $25.00 - Out of stock
December 1972 issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960—1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of queer and transgender sexuality, lots of cross-dressing, masochism, torture, sodomy, sadophelia and fem-dom material. Photo features of Rope and Ecstasy and Sadist Breeding Male Slaves, studies on corporal punishment, stories from Japanese cross-dressers, readers confessions, a treasure-trove of illustrated transgressive fiction, almost all articles under nom de plumes! Also, excellent ads.
VG—Good copy, with light cover/spine wear, tanning.
1974, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
New Directions / New York
$65.00 $45.00 - In stock -
First 1974 paperback edition of Hermetic Definition by H.D. published by New Directions.
"The poem is as easy to read as breathing: it could be danced, it could be sung, the clarity of image is so perfect… Tremendous suggestiveness and magnetic force radiate from the scenes… H. D.’s verse has the balance, the amplitude and the clean outlines of a Greek temple."—Nation
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.
An innovative modernist writer, Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961) wrote under her initials in a career that stretched from 1909 to 1961. Although she is most well known for her poetry—lyric and epic—H.D. also wrote novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, reviews, a children’s book, and translations. An American woman who lived her adult life abroad, H.D. was engaged in the formalist experimentation that preoccupied much of her generation. A range of thematic concerns resonates through her writing: the role of the poet, the civilian representation of war, material and mythologized ancient cultures, the role of national and colonial identity, lesbian and queer sexuality, and religion and spirituality.
Very Good copy.
1986, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Marlborough / New York
$40.00 $10.00 - In stock -
Scarce 1986 catalogue of Antonio López García: Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, 1965—1986, published by Marlborough, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition, April 3—26, 1986. Illustrated throughout with many works in colour and b/w, accompanied by introductory text by Francisco Nieva, biography, bibliography.
Antonio López García (b. 1936) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some modern artists for what they consider neo-academism, but has been praised by leading art critics, such as Robert Hughes, who considered him "the greatest realist artist alive" in 1986.
Good—VG copy. Light cover wear, otherwise Very Good copy throughout.
2018, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by
Quodlibet / Italy
$62.00 $20.00 - In stock -
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the second part of the exhibition curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini and Laima Kreivytė at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, expanded with a selection of more than 60 works. The first show took place at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. The exhibition presents works by Italian and Lithuanian women artists that explore the interplay between language and body. The exhibition foregrounds artistic tactics that transform the language of the body, practices of writing and reading, embodied or dispersed words and letters. At the same time, it is an articulation of women's creativity and manifold experiences which can be compared to magna bursting from a volcano with a (per)formative power to transform the environment.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by the international exhibition of women artists "Magma," held in Verona in 1977 and curated by Romana Loda, in which the image of magma symbolized the quiet, dynamic, and scorching power that was energizing the women's and feminist movement. The separated letters of the 2017 "M/A\G/M\A" exhibition reinforce the importance of word play and deconstruction. This word is written and pronounced the same way in Lithuanian, Italian, English, and other languages. In no particular chronological order, "M/A\G/M\A" exhibition reveal how, in Italian and Lithuanian art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the female body and linguistic (de)constructions became conceptual critical means for encouraging a re-evaluation of woman's relationship with herself and society.
Italian women artists' works from the 1960s resonate with Lithuanian women artists' efforts from the 1990s until today to transform vocabulary, language, and text, to find their voices. The exhibition highlights connections between artists of different generations and geopolitical contexts: expressions of pre-verbal existence; new vocabulary and writing the body; the identity and consciousness of the woman artist; disruption of the symbolic order; language as a political tool; reading the body. Visual and sound works - from journal-like video to vocal performance, from alphabets written with bodies to unreadable handwritings and performances - are supplemented with artists' books, posters, and texts.
Artists: Jurga Barilaitė, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė, Violeta Bubelytė, Cooltūristės, Coro Collective, Amelia Etlinger, Chiara Fumai, Laura Garbštienė, Nicole Gravier, Karla Gruodis, Kristina Inčiūraitė, Justė Janulytė, Eglė Kuckaitė, Lina Lapelytė, Ketty La Rocca, Maria Lai, Aurelija Maknytė, Lucia Marcucci, Verita Monselles, Paulina Eglė Pukytė, Eglė Rakauskaitė, Cloti Ricciardi, Eglė Ridikaitė, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Suzanne Santoro, Laisvydė Šalčiūtė, Eglė Vertelkaitė.
2018, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 21 cm x 30 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by
Roma / Amsterdam
$44.00 $15.00 - In stock -
This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation ‘Works and Words’. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Indicative of the early days of De Appel, the project reflects the groundbreaking forms of artistic practice it represented.
Artists: Franklin Aalders, Jaroslav Anděl, Gábor Attalai, Zoran Belic, Jerzy Bereś, Gábor Bódy, Branko Bubenik, Michel Cardena, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Ľubomír Ďurček, Miklós Erdély, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Tomislav Gotovac, Frank Gribling, Buky Grinberg, Vladimir Gudac, Tibor Hajas, Zlatko Hajdler, Janusz Haka, Károly Halasz, Ágnes Háy, Vladimír Havrilla, Nan Hoover, Sanja Iveković, Servie Janssen, Zoltan Jeney, Gyorgy Jovanovic, Cezary Jaworski, Jacek Jozwiak, Szigmond Károlyi, Karoly Kelemen, Michal Kern, Milan Knížák, Tomislav Kobija, Július Koller, Mirko Komosar, Tomasz Konart, Jiří Kovanda, Harrie de Kroon, Zofia Kulik, Romuald Kutera, Paweł Kwiek, Przemyslaw Kwiek, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz, Dušan Makavejev, Ivan Martinac, Dalibor Martinis, Raùl Marroquin, Dóra Maurer, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Teresa Murak, Vjekoslav Nakić, Mihovil Pansini, Aldo Paquola, Andrzej Paruzel, Sef Peeters, Vladimir Petek, Sandor Pinczehelyi, Reindeer Werk (Dirk Larsen & Tom Puckey), Jaroslav Richtr, Józef Robakowski, Vinco Rozman, Tomasz Sikorski, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Peter Timar, Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski, Goran Svob, Janusz Szczerek, István Sziranyi, Raša Todosijević, Endre Tot, Janos Toth, Sava Trifkovic, Ulay, Jiri Valoch, Ante Verzotti, Janos Veto, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Ryszard Waśko, Albert van der Weide, Dobroslav Zborník.
2021, English
Softcover, 398 pages, 16 x 24 cm
Published by
Blank Forms Editions / NYC
$53.00 $10.00 - In stock -
Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews represents the first ever book-length collection devoted to the composer, whose life and work are as vast as they are as yet unknown. From personal notes and letters to program notes, manifestos and unrealized project proposals, the documents are framed by longer interviews with Amacher that discuss corresponding periods of her life. Because Amacher worked across nearly every imaginable media format, this book will be of tremendous interest to theorists and practitioners in media and communications, urban design, contemporary art history, music studies, sound studies, film, radio, art criticism and performance studies.
As New sale item due to corner bumping from transit.
2022, English
Softcover, 74 pages, 14 x 18.8 cm
Published by
The Song Cave / New York
$42.00 $15.00 - In stock -
Arda Collins's second book of poems, STAR LAKE, is a deeply personal collection that explores the ways our notions of daily life touch the presence of the eternal. With memory as the backdrop of many poems, including the loss of the poet's parents and her experience growing up in a family of survivors from the Armenian genocide, Collins often overlays images of landscapes, weather, and domestic interiors with a tone of melancholy--Who is the water and who is the light? / A shiver, a love, one you miss, and a wish. But STAR LAKE is also a collection of love poems, poems about the creation of new memories with family, tracing out imaginative shapes for their futures. In this Yale Younger Poets award winner's second collection of poems, Collins returns with truly unforgettable poems that haunt and comfort.
In spare, riveting lines, Arda Collins's new poems enact a torque between immediacy and distance, between a visceral near--An orange in the dark / is like lake air at night, and a resplendent far--Down the boulevard ... Versailles is everywhere. Against the shadows of Armenian genocide and family deaths, the speaker's calls to come in the window or come to time are less commands than invocations and the ground for stunning evocations. This is a book of wonders.—Arthur Sze
More than just a book, STAR LAKE is a tactile experience. A touchable journey wherein each stanza, each image comes to life before a reader. When the wind is summoned in the poem, a breeze blows in through a window you didn't even know you had open. All to say that this is a book of immense brilliance and immense possibility. Beckoning with new revelations around each corner.—Hanif Abdurraqib