World Food Books

Marisol
When Things Are Just Beginning: Drawings 1949–2016

2026, English / Spanish
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 264 pages, 30.5 x 24.1 cm
Published by La Fábrica / Madrid Centro Botín / Santander

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A revealing exploration of drawing as the core of Marisol’s artistic practice, where personal concerns, social observation and imagination converge.

This volume is the first retrospective devoted entirely to the medium of drawing in the oeuvre of the beloved Venezuelan American artist Marisol. Though Marisol is best known for her playful, assemblage-style totemic sculptures, drawing was her entryway into the arts, and it is a practice she maintained until her death in 2016.

When Things Are Just Beginning brings into focus a selection of these lesser-known works on paper from Marisol. Through more than 100 pieces created over the course of six decades, along with sculptures, archival materials and stills from Andy Warhol films starring the artist, the publication reveals drawing as the continuous thread of a practice in constant transformation. In these works, Marisol intertwines personal concerns, social reflections and imaginative fictions, making drawing a space for exploration and retreat. The title, taken from a phrase by Leo Castelli, evokes both the moment of her early international projection and the decisive retreats that marked her career, after which her work always reappears renewed.

Marisol (1930–2016) was born Maria Sol Escobar in Paris to a Venezuelan family. She drew continually and from a young age adopted the name Marisol. Like many of the artists who emerged in the early 1950s, Marisol was at first influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but after seeing pre-Columbian art in Mexico and New York, she began making sculpture in 1954, and soon began focusing on the totemic figures for which she is best known.

File under: Marisol La Fábrica / Madrid Centro Botín / Santander Drawing Art Sculpture / Installation

Species Design by H.R. Giger

1996, Japanese
Softcover, 86 pages, 30 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo

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First Japanese edition of the official companion book to the 1995 American sci-fi horror film Species (directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman) and the film's artistic designer H.R. Giger, famous for his creations for the Alien film. This profusely illustrated "Making of" book is packed with reproductions of Giger's incredible conceptual drawings and models as well as photographs of special effects processes, Giger's set-design, animatronics, and creature fabrication, detailing all the work involved in bringing the science fiction creature Sil to the screen. Includes fold-out illustration of the famous "Ghost Train" and much more.

VG–NF copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Treville / Tokyo Eros Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Film / Video Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

DOMUS
No. 537 Agosto 1974

1974, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very 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. 537 Agosto 1974
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: Architecture by Peter J. Papademetriou, Werkgruppe, Haus-Rucker-Co. and Angelo Mangiarotti; Georges Pencraec’h and Jean-Philippe Lenclos on colour and housing; Misawa Homes Ideas Award; confrontations in Vienna; Lucia and Dario Bartolini on chairs and tables; Robert A. M. Stern and John S. Hagmann on a new street; Ambrogio Salvati and Alberto Tresoldi on space; Studio 65 in Turin; modular furniture and living systems; Eberhard G. Rensch on the ADD system; Paolo Algiardi and Antonio Zanuso on the book supermarket; Alberto Rosselli on service units; Wabico’s washbasin-bidet; Warren Platner’s executive office; international art exhibitions, competitions and design shows; and a preview of September’s features on Bruno Munari’s design school, Art ’74 in Basel, Projekt ’74 in Cologne and S’asseoir ’74 in Grenoble.

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.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Peter J. Papademetriou Werkgruppe Haus-Rucker-Co. Angelo Mangiarotti Georges Pencraec’h Jean-Philippe Lenclos Lucia Bartolini Dario Bartolini Robert A. M. Stern John S. Hagmann Ambrogio Salvati Alberto Tresoldi Studio 65 Eberhard G. Rensch Paolo Algiardi Antonio Zanuso Alberto Rosselli Wabico Warren Platner Bruno Munari Gio Ponti Gio Ponti Georges Pencraec’h Jean-Philippe Lenclos Robert A. M. Stern John S. Hagmann Eberhard G. Rensch Paolo Algiardi Antonio Zanuso Alberto Rosselli Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Textiles Furniture Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

DOMUS
No. 498 Maggio 1971

1971, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very 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. 498 Maggio 1971
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: Architecture and industrial design by Agnoldomenico Pica; Mies van der Rohe in Munich, Montreal and Houston; a winter sports resort; houses by Angelo Mangiarotti, the Khanhs, Barney Broadbent and Brian Morris; Ottokar Uhl’s circular prayer space; a lamp by Studio DA; international design exhibitions and competitions; Domus Italian Design at Harrods, London; the Milanese Fair; a Milan home by Bruno Contenotte; global art exhibitions; Vincenzo Agnetti on Copia dal vero numero uno; Pierre Restany’s travel notes from Houston and New York; Joseph Kosuth responding to Restany; and Fabio Mauri on contemporary art and theatre.

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.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Gio Ponti Agnoldomenico Pica Mies van der Rohe Angelo Mangiarotti the Khanhs Barney Broadbent Brian Morris Ottokar Uhl Studio DA Bruno Contenotte Joseph Kosuth Fabio Mauri Pierre Restany Gio Ponti Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Theory / Essay Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Architecture / Interior Textiles Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

Domus
No. 538 Settembre 1974

1974, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very 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. 538 Settembre 1974
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: Bruno Munari on design education; furniture and interiors by Vico Magistretti, Joe Colombo, Mario and Marcello Mariotti, and others; architectural projects in California, Paris, Milan and beyond; experimental lighting, modular systems and children’s furniture; sculpture by Haruno Iwashiro and Pierre Restany; Klaus Honnef on Projekt ’74 in Cologne; Gérard Ifert on graphic design; industrial design exhibitions and competitions; plus a preview of the October issue featuring Hamburg, Canada, Tokyo and Miró in Paris.

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.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Gio Ponti Bruno Munari Vico Magistretti Joe Colombo Mario Mariotti Marcello Mariotti Haruno Iwashiro Gio Ponti Bruno Munari Klaus Honnef Gérard Ifert Pierre Restany Editoriale Domus / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Pop Art Furniture Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay Textiles Ceramics / Glass Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art

Nam June Paik
Videa 'n' Videology 1959 – 1973

1974 / 1997, English / Korean
Softcover, 23.7 x 20.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Everson Museum of Art / Syracuse

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Special limited edition 1997 over–sized re–print of this landmark 1974 exhibition catalogue and artist book by the "father of video art", Nam June Paik, published in conjunction with exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse and Galeria Bonino, Ltd., New York, January, 1974. Features black-and-white reproductions of Paik's early television/video documentation, reprints of his letters, notes, and essays (some in Korean), a brief biography, a bibliography, and an exhibition chronology. Foreword by James Harithas. Edited by Judson Rosebush, photographs by Peter Moore and Robert A. Lorenz, design by David Hicock.

This print of Video 'n' Videology is an exact enlargement of the original, co-sponsored by Mr. Yang S. Kim, Eat and Drink/Space Untitled, New York, and has been printed in 1997 by Tova Press in New York.

Nam June Paik (1932–2006, South Korea) was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. As a pioneer of technology-based art, Paik has created a large body of work comprising performances, single-channel moving image works, video sculptures, and installations. Known for his experimental, collaborative, and interdisciplinary practice, he was a key member of the Fluxus movement and a visionary thinker who predicted the future of art making and communication in the internet age.

VG copy.

File under: Nam June Paik Peter Moore Robert A. Lorenz Marshall McLuhan James Harithas Judson Rosebush Everson Museum of Art / Syracuse Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus

The Miniaturists
by Barbara Browning

2022, English
Softcover, 219 pages, 18 x 13 cm
Published by Duke University Press / North Carolina

$38.00 - Out of stock

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In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the “mother of forensic science,” who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut toy piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift’s and Lewis Carroll’s preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast–even cosmic–realities.

Barbara Browning has a PhD from Yale in Comparative Literature. She teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She’s also a poet and a dancer.

File under: Frances Glessner Lee William Morton Wheeler Lewis Carroll Jonathan Swift Barbara Browning Duke University Press / North Carolina Theory / Essay Crime / Violence Art Sculpture / Installation Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Film / Video Ecology / Earth

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics
by Bruce Goldfarb

2021, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Published by Sourcebooks / Illinois

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A forgotten woman. A revolutionary idea. The true story behind the birth of modern forensic science.

In a time when women were shut out of science and police work was more art than evidence, Frances Glessner Lee created the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death"–detailed dioramas used to train homicide detectives how to observe, think critically, and solve complex cases.

18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb is the gripping, critically acclaimed biography of the woman who became known as the mother of forensic science. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Goldfarb captures how Lee defied gender barriers and reshaped a field long dominated by men.

"Devotees of TV's CSI will have their minds blown."–Publishers Weekly

A former EMT/paramedic and a nursing school dropout, Bruce Goldfarb has written for national and local newspapers, magazines, and web publications. He also wrote and edited several medical texts and reference books. This is his first book of popular nonfiction. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

File under: Frances Glessner Lee Bruce Goldfarb Sourcebooks / Illinois Crime / Violence Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Art

John Davis
The Sculpture of John Davis: Places and Locations

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 26 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hyland House / Victoria

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this major hardcover monograph on Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art John Davis' work, deeply and personally researched with documentation of his works rarely seen anywhere else.

"The Sculpture of John Davis traces the development of his work from the early wood carvings produced while he was a young man living in Mildura in the early 1960's through many changes of style, until he became a major Australian sculptor exhibiting in Venice, Delhi, Tokyo and Los Angeles. John Davis moved through a variety of styles and media from 'Organic Wood Carvings' to an interest in 'Repetitions, Grids, Multiples and Processes' before becoming fascinated by 'Low Technology and Cheap Materials', using 'Twigs, Paper and String'."

John Davis (1936–1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art. An Australian exponent of Arte povera, he famously developed a new mode of Site-specific art at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial in the early 1970s. John Davis established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. Davis travelled widely and exhibited regularly in America, Japan and Australia. As well as participating in the inaugural Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978. Davis initially worked in wood and later in fibreglass and aluminium, becoming known for his multiples and for his distinctive formalist style. By 1973, Davis had become increasingly interested in conceptual, process-based and land art practices, and his mature works reflect his sensitivity to elemental forces, the organic world, and his profound connection to the ecological fragility and beauty of landscape.

VG in VG DJ.

File under: John Davis Ken Scarlett Hyland House / Victoria Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Ecology Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera

Tolia Astakhishvili
Figure of the Child

2026, English / German
Hardcover (staple–bound), 184 pages, 32.5 x 23.5 cm
Published by Mumok / Vienna éditions Empire / France

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Unfolding through accumulation and overprinting, this book focuses on the materiality and the drawings at the heart of Tolia Astakhishvili's practice.

"When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children. All adults should do what is best for children. Governments should make sure children are protected and looked after by their parents, or by other people when this is needed. Governments should make sure that people and places responsible for looking after children are doing a good job."–United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (Children's Version), 2019.

Born 1974 in Tbilisi, Tolia Astakhishvili works and lives between Berlin and Tbilisi. Her art practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, sound, video and writing. Her architectural environments, which integrate these various media, are designed in conversation with the exhibition site. They evoke spaces in transformation, like a suspended construction site whose origins and completion remain undefined. Everyday objects, drawings, photographs, mural inscriptions and videos suggest a diffuse human presence. Together, they weave a fictional narrative marked by a psychological dimension, sometimes tinged with surrealism.

Edited by Tolia Astakhishvili, Fatima Hellberg, Manuela Ammer.
Contributions by Kirsty Bell, Fatima Hellberg, Liesl Ujvary.

File under: Tolia Astakhishvili Fatima Hellberg Manuela Ammer Kirsty Bell Liesl Ujvary Mumok / Vienna éditions Empire / France Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Tolia Astakhishvili
To love and devour

2025, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 24 x 34 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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To love and devour by Tolia Astakhishvili was published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the new site of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The book, produced in close collaboration with the Lorenzo Mason Studio, brings together drawings, paintings, and archive images composed directly amid the cracks, wounds, and skin of a building located in the historic center of Venice, which served as the artist's studio for a number of months. Through processes of transformation of the space, addition and subtraction, expansion and contraction, Astakhishvili has created a project shot through with a deep sense of disruption, distortion and fragmentation—a feeling of uncertainty that is reflected in the way in which visitors to the installation are given the freedom to move around, without having to concentrate on a center or to follow a pre-set route. Appropriately, then, the book takes the form of a stream of images, in which the spaces and materials of the building (wood, glass, dust, mold, bricks, concrete, plaster …) enter into a dialog with the drawings, paintings, sculptures, collages, and photographs made by the artist herself and the other invited artists, including Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Zurab Astakhishvili, Thea Djordjadze, Heike Gallmeier, Rafik Greiss, Dylan Peirce, James Richards, and Maka Sanadze.

For Tolia Astakhishvili, architecture is the space of projection of ideas, which are developed in that space, generating actions that are separate but conducted simultaneously: alteration of structural elements, pictorial and graphic composition, and creation of perceptive ambiguities—of space, light, and sound. The book compiles the traces of this practice, serving as a sort of diachronic diary in the form of images, constituting a complete encapsulation of the artist's poetics.

The book also features a new interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Tolia Astakhishvili (born 1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work mainly takes the form of installations.

Edited by Tolia Astakhishvili and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Texts by Tolia Astakhishvili and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Graphic design: Lorenzo Mason Studio.

File under: Tolia Astakhishvili Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili Zurab Astakhishvili Thea Djordjadze Heike Gallmeier Rafik Greiss Dylan Peirce James Richards Maka Sanadze Hans Ulrich Obrist Lenz Press / Milan Drawing Sculpture / Installation Art

Terry Fox
The Eye is not the Only Glass that Burns the Mind

2018, English
Hardcover, 192 pages, 24 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$50.00 - Out of stock

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The retrospective Terry Fox: Elemental Gestures, which opened at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2015 before being shown in Mons, Wuppertal, and the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2017, clearly demonstrated Fox’s key role in the development of art since the 1970s. It not only revealed him as a pioneer of performance, video art, and sound installation but also presented his experimental exploration of language and space. A symposium held in conjunction with the Bern exhibition adopted a variety of approaches to reflect on the performances and installations of this European American based in Switzerland. This is the starting point for the publication in which scholars, artists, and close associates seek to define more precisely the often silent “situations” at work between object and word, sound and sculpture, labyrinth and experience, body and action. Thanks to Spector Books (Leipzig).

Out–of–print, NF copy.

File under: Terry Fox Terry Fox Michael Glasmeier Carsten Seiffarth Spector Books / Leipzig Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Nam June Paik
Global Groove 2004 / Videa 'n' Videology 1959 – 1973

2004, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 23.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Guggenheim Museum / New York Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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This catalogue combines the publication accompanying the 30th anniversary of Nam June Paik's Global Groove with a re–print of his foundational collection Videa 'n' Videology 1959 – 1973, first published in 1974. Organized by John G. Hanhardt and Caitlin Jones, profusely illustrated with texts in German, English, and Korean.

In 1974, WNET-Channel 13 in New York City broadcast Nam June Paik's Global Groove, a whirlwind, multi-media piece and one of the most influential works of video art. The program took a wide look at culture and transformed the WNET broadcast studio into an experimental venue for dancers, musicians, and performance artists. Weaved into Global Groove were films and videotapes by other artists, interviews and voiceovers, pop music, appropriated commercials, and broadcast breaks.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the broadcast, Global Groove 2004 celebrates Paik's work on and for television, documenting and interpreting his key television projects. The included essays survey and interpret the distinctive contribution Paik made to remaking video and television into an artist's medium, and examine Paik's historical importance and relevance to new developments in internet art. In-depth analysis and photo essays reveal the range of Paik's transformation of video, including his experiments in the 1960s with the Paik-Abe video synthesizer; his seminal videotapes for broadcast: Global Groove, Suite 212, Guadalcanal Requiem, Lake Placid 80, Living with the Living Theater; and his global television productions: Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, Bye Bye Kipling, Wrap Around the World. Additionally, a selection of the artist's seminal writings on the future of television is featured.

VG with light wear to extremities.

File under: Nam June Paik Charlotte Moorman The Living Theatre Marshall McLuhan Thomas Krens Anja Osswald Guggenheim Museum / New York Hatje Cantz / Berlin Fluxus Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1985, Dutch
Softcover (fold–out), 27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Very rare 1985 fold–out exhibition guide/programme published in conjunction with Echo : The Images of Sound 1, held November 22—January 6, 1985. A complete guide to all of the concerts and installations, illustrated throughout with profiles of all the artists, and accompanying text by Paul Panhuysen. Artists featured: Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.

"From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects."

Good copy, light general wear, some creasing. Folded as issued.
27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)

File under: Julius Ellen Fullman HUM Max Eastley Takehisa Kosugi Hugh Davies Godfried-Willem Reas STEIM The Simulated Wood VANDALIA Arnold Dreyblatt Richard Lerman Leon van Noorden Paul Panhuysen Johan Goedhart Hans-Karsten Raecke Jon Rose George Smits Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Sound / Music Art Sculpture / Installation

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1987, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1987 exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 22—January 6, 1985. Illustrated throughout with texts by Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Anton van Gemert, Bart Lootsma, Arnold Dreyblatt, Leon van Noorden, George Smits, and Hugh Davies. Artists include Max Eastly, Takeisha Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Horst Rickels, Rik van Lersel, Giancarlo Cardini, Juan Hidalgo, Jon Rose, and others. Includes selected bibliography, discography, and index.

blurb: "From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects. In addition to a photographic report of this festival 'ECHO. The images of Sound I', this book contains a general survey of the development of sound arts and cassettes that have been published in the field of sound art. This section is written by Hugh Davies. Photographs, scores, drawings of articles describing the development of their own work are supplied by Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.[...]"

Very Good—Near Fine copy

File under: Max Eastly Takeisha Kosugi Walter Marchetti Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Horst Rickels Rik van Lersel Giancarlo Cardini Juan Hidalgo Jon Rose Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Anton van Gemert Bart Lootsma Arnold Dreyblatt Leon van Noorden George Smits Hugh Davies Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
Edited by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

1946 / 1968, English
Hardcover, 272 pages, 26 x 19 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arno Press / New York MoMA / New York

$90.00 - Out of stock

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1968 re-print of the 1947 third edition of this monumental exhibition catalogue from the seminal Museum of Modern Art exhibition that ran from December 1936 to January 1937, New York, an amazing exhibition that no–one could agree on. Edited by museum director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., this edition includes his essay, plus essays by the French poet and critic Georges Hugnet that had arrived too late for inclusion in the first edition. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the exhibition included "more than 700 objects. The earliest date of any object shown will be about 1450; the latest, 1936. More than 157 American and European artists will be represented, ranging from such extremes as Giovanni di Paolo and Leonardo da Vinci of the fifteenth century to Walt Disney, Rube Goldberg and Thurber of the twentieth century, and including such famous names both old and modern as Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, Arcimboldo, Hogarth, William Blake, Cruickshank, Lewis Carrol, Daumier, Delacroix, Edward Lear, Redon, Chagall, de Chirico, Duchamp, Picasso, Arp, Dali, Ernst, Grosz, Magritte, Miro, Klee, Man Ray, Tanguy, Peter Blume, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alexander Calder."

The exhibition encompasses the history of the fantastic in art, "the main body of the exhibition is devoted to the Dada and Surrealist movements of the past twenty years together with certain pioneers. [...] There are also special sections on fantastic architecture and on comparative material, including the art of children, and the insane." It includes the work of Arcimboldo, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Peter Huys, Leonardo Da Vinci, Giovanni Battista Bracelli, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Cole, Eugène Delacroix, James Ensor, Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya, Victor Marie Hugo, Edward Lear, Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Hans Arp, Johannes Baader, J. T. Baargeld, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Edward Burra, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Raoul Haussmann, Hannah Höch, Valentine Hugo, Marcel Jean, René Magritte, André Masson, Edouard Mesens, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Richard Oelze, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Dr. Grace Pailthorpe, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Christian Schad, Kurt Schwitters, Yves Tanguy, Sophie Henriette Täuber-Arp, Peter Blume, Alexander Calder, Federico Castellón, Arthur Dove, Walker Evans, Wyndham Lewis, Georgia O’Keefe, Wallace Putnam, David Alfaro Siqueiros, James Thurber, Antonio Gaudi, Kurt Schwitters, and many more.

"Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art’s first exhibition to focus on Dada, was organized by founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in 1936. It was the most comprehensive presentation of Dada works since the Dadaists’ own exhibitions. It was also the first to be organized by a nonparticipant and the first to present Dada as a historical movement. The exhibition was rife with controversy and provoked fierce reactions from battling factions among the Dadaists and the Surrealists. For example, Tristan Tzara, a leader of the Dada movement and one of the exhibition’s most important lenders, threatened to forbid Barr from exhibiting his loans when he learned that the exhibition’s title had been changed from The Fantastic in Art to include Surrealism and that the French Surrealist André Breton was to write the catalogue preface. For their part, Breton and French Surrealist poet Paul Éluard disapproved of the final format of the exhibition; they wanted it to be an official Surrealist “manifestation.” Critical response to the exhibition was mixed. In 1937, when the show circulated around the country, lender Katherine Dreier withdrew her artworks and feuded with Barr over his inclusion of works by children and “the insane,” and A. Conger Goodyear, President of the Museum’s board of trustees, requested that other items be removed." [MoMA]

Very Good copy w/o dust jacket. Light age/dustiness.

File under: Giuseppe Arcimboldo Hieronymous Bosch Albrecht Dürer Peter Huys Leonardo Da Vinci Giovanni Battista Bracelli William Hogarth Giovanni Battista Piranesi William Blake Lewis Carroll Thomas Cole Eugène Delacroix James Ensor Henry Fuseli Francisco Goya Victor Marie Hugo Edward Lear Odilon Redon Henri Rousseau Marc Chagall Giorgio de Chirico Marcel Duchamp Vasily Kandinsky Paul Klee Pablo Picasso Hans Arp Johannes Baader J. T. Baargeld Max Ernst Hans Bellmer Edward Burra Joseph Cornell Salvador Dali Leonor Fini Alberto Giacometti George Grosz Raoul Haussmann Hannah Höch Valentine Hugo Marcel Jean René Magritte André Masson Edouard Mesens Joan Miro Henry Moore Richard Oelze Meret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Dr. Grace Pailthorpe Francis Picabia Man Ray Christian Schad Kurt Schwitters Yves Tanguy Sophie Henriette Täuber-Arp Peter Blume Alexander Calder Federico Castellón Arthur Dove Walker Evans Wyndham Lewis Wallace Putnam David Alfaro Siqueiros James Thurber Antonio Gaudi Alfred H. Barr Jr. Georges Hugnet Arno Press / New York MoMA / New York Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Painting Sculpture / Installation Poetry Art

Cady Noland
Polaroids 1986–2024

2026, English
Softcover, 118 pages, 24.1 x 29.8 cm
Published by Gagosian / New York

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Conceived, designed, and edited by the artist, Cady Noland: Polaroids 1986–2024 is devoted to Polaroid photographs taken by Noland in the process of developing her sculptures and exhibitions. Published to coincide with a solo show of Noland’s new work at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, this artist’s book reproduces nearly one hundred previously unpublished Polaroids from the course of her career, providing unique insight into her sculptural practice.

File under: Cady Noland Gagosian / New York Sculpture / Installation Photography Art

Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas
Edited by Ann Noel and Emmett Williams

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24.9 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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First 1997 HC edition, first printing.

The first biography of George Maciunas, a key figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s.

George Maciunas was the founding member and leader of the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, Fluxus. Its members rejected the traditional systems of high art, practicing an extraordinary form of anti-art that encompassed everything from photography and pavement art to poetry and drama.

Mr. Fluxus, the first biography of this key figure in twentieth-century art, reveals the story of an unorthodox, contradictory, and elusive genius. Maciunas attempted to rule Fluxus in totalitarian fashion, yet he laughed at himself and provoked others to laughter, poking fun at the incurable illnesses and painful realities that afflicted him throughout his relatively short life. What emerges from this collection of anecdotes and impressions, coaxed from many of his former Fluxus colleagues and from an array of friends and enemies, is an informative portrait of an inspiring crusader whose mission was to change the world, beginning with the world of art.

Near Fine copy in Near Fine DJ, preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: George Maciunas Emmett Williams Yoko Ono Daniel Spoerri Claes Oldenburg John Cage Dick Higgins Alison Knowles George Brecht Ben Vautier Robert Filliou Nam June Paik Joseph Beuys Wolf Vostell Benjamin Patterson Carolee Schneemann George Maciunas Ann Noel Emmett Williams Thames and Hudson / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Fluxus Dada Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Poetry

Franz Erhard Walther
Arbeiten 1955–1963, 1972, Exhibition Poster

1972, German
Poster, 86 x 61 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld

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Rare original 1972 poster produced on the occasion of the solo exhibition, Arbeiten 1955–1963, of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, August 6 – October 1, 1972, a major survey presentation of his early trajectory, the same year as his participation in Harald Szeemann’s legendary Documenta 5. Oversized monochrome black screen–printed poster on heavy, warm paper stock depicting an example of Franz Erhard Walther's Wand–Ecken (Wall–Corner) muslin fabric pieces from 1963. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 86 (h) x 61 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities, a few old pin–holes, single closed tear.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld Posters / Prints Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Textiles Arte Povera

Franz Erhard Walther
Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, 1971, Event Poster

1971, German
Poster, 60 x 60 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spot–Kiel University / Kiel

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Rare original 1971 poster produced on the occasion of Instrumentarium 1. Werksatz, a performance of German conceptual and participatory artist Franz Erhard Walther in the foyer of the Kiel University Library, as part of the Spot event series. The event was a demonstration by the artist of his first set of works (process material), followed by a discussion with German art critic Bazob Brock, designer Dietrich Helms, and German sociologist Lars Clausen. The poster features a performance photo taken by Tim Rautert. A collector's item, ready to frame.

Dimensions: 60 (h) x 60 (w) cm

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy with some light crease wear to extremities.

Artist: Walther, Franz Erhard. Date: 1971. Exhibition poster for the exhibition in the foyer of the University Library. Franz Erhard Walther demonstrated and explained parts of his first set of works (process material). A discussion followed with Bazob Brock, Dietrich Helms, and Lars Clausen. Part of the Spot event series of Kiel University and the Cultural Senate of the City of Kiel. 60 x 60 cm, illustration: photo by Tim Rautert. Mint condition.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Bazob Brock Tim Rautert Dietrich Helms Lars Clausen Spot–Kiel University / Kiel Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Giger's Alien

1986, Japanese
Softcover, 76 pages, 29.7 x 29.7 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo

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Japanese 1986 edition of the classic "Giger's Alien", a visually stunning and wonderfully insightful book for any fan of the art of H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon's Alien film or in the production of science-fiction/horror/special effects in any way. A must.

"Giger's Alien provides a complete record of the months and months of painstaking work that resulted in two hours of terrifying celluloid. Sketches, original paintings, photographs of scenery and the Alien under construction and scenes from the film are linked by Giger's detailed diary of his thoughts and actions at the time".

Very Good copy in original dust jacket of this title. Only light wear, beautifully preserved.

File under: H.R. Giger Ridley Scott Dan O'Bannon Treville / Tokyo Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Into Performance
by Midori Yoshimoto

2005, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rutgers University / New Jersey

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The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is the inordinate amount of revolutionary art that was created by women.

Into Performance fills a critical gap in both American and Japanese art history as it brings to light the historical significance of five women artists–Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota. Unusually courageous and self-determined, they were among the first Japanese women to leave their country-and its male-dominated, conservative art world-to explore the artistic possibilities in New York. They not only benefited from the New York art scene, however, they played a major role in the development of international performance and intermedia art by bridging avant garde movements in Tokyo and New York.

This book traces the pioneering work of these five women artists and the socio-cultural issues that shaped their careers. Into Performance also explores the transformation of these artists' lifestyle from traditionally confined Japanese women to internationally active artists. Yoshimoto demonstrates how their work paved the way for younger Japanese women artists who continue to seek opportunities in the West today.

VG copy, tanning to spine.

File under: Yoko Ono Yayoi Kusama Takako Saito Mieko Shiomi Shigeko Kubota Midori Yoshimoto Rutgers University / New Jersey Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Pop Art

Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events, Objects, Documents
by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Judith F. Rodenbeck

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 26.5 x 18. 4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallach Art Gallery / New York

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First 1999 edition, long out–of–print.

In pairing Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, Experiments in the Everyday offers a critical examination of a key sequence in the development of contemporary art practices. The shift from form to process embraced by these artists, who were at the forefront of the 1960s avant-garde, made a lasting contribution to advanced art practices in the latter half of the century.

Benjamin Buchloh, in his essay on Watts, addresses the relation between advanced forms of fetishization in consumer culture and the artistic responses given by Watts and his Fluxus colleagues. Judith Rodenbeck's essay, a close reading of textual and photographic aspects of Kaprow's production, provides a new model for approaching happenings and event structures and their relation to contemporaneous art. Robert E. Haywood examines postwar artistic production and Kaprow's work in relation to the critique of capital. Also included are an inteview with the two artists by Sidney Simon and one with Watts by Larry Miller. Heavily illustrated in colour / b&w throughout.

VG copy, light wear to extremities. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Judith F. Rodenbeck Allan Kaprow Robert Watts Robert E. Haywood Wallach Art Gallery / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Terry Fox
(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c.

2003, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel

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"(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c." was a major exhibition by the American conceptual, Fluxus, and sound artist Terry Fox (1943 – 2008), May 31–July 13, 2003, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive exhibition catalogue accompanied the show, with contributions by Ulli Seegers and Nikola Dietrich, foreword by Rene Block. Bi–lingual German and English texts. A figure in the conceptual and performance art movements, Fox's work frequently integrated bodily experiences, political actions, and intricate multi-layered audio environments. (RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c. highlighted his ongoing thematic preoccupations with restructuring spaces, transforming materials, and analyzing sounds. This was an important late survey of the artist's work.

Terry Alan Fox (1943 – 2008) was an American conceptual and fluxus artist known for his work in performance art, video art and sculpture. He was one of the first generation conceptual artists and was a central participant in West Coast conceptual art movements and fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 120 performances - the first of which took place in Germany in 1970 at the invitation and with the assistance of Joseph Beuys - and numerous museum exhibitions have made him internationally known, especially in museum and artistic circles. He was represented three times at documenta in Kassel. Fox was active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe, living and working in Liège, Belgium in the later part of his life.

G–VG copy, some wear to extremities.

File under: Terry Fox René Block Ulli Seegers Nikola Dietrich Fridericianum / Kassel Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay