World Food Books

Karel Zeman
Edited by Milada Hábová and Zdeněk Smejkal

1986, Czech
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 104 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ČS filmový ústav / Prague

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First edition of this 1986 hardcover monographic volume devoted to the inventive Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, Karel Zeman (1910–1989), renowned for directing fantasy films that ingeniously combined live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) and Invention for Destruction (1958). Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès". This wonderful volume edited by Milada Hábová and Zdeněk Smejkal, collects many studies spanning his full filmography, lavishly illustrated throughout with films stills, drawings, photography (in lush colour and b/w), plus an extensive bibliography and references. With contributions by Jiři Purs, Jan Hořejší, Marie Benešová, Jaroslav Boček, Jaroslav Brož, Jørgen Vestergaard, Jan Kliment, Zdeněk Smejkal, Jiři Tvrznik, Elmar Klos.

VG copy in VG dust jacket with some minor wear to edges.

File under: Karel Zeman Milada Hábová Zdeněk Smejkal ČS filmový ústav / Prague Film / Video Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Rosemarie Trockel

2026, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 27.9 x 22.2 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Edited with text by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Valeria Gordeev, Quinn Latimer, Christoph Menke, Cord Riechelmann, Ann-Charlotte Gunzel.

From “knitting pictures” to upside down palm trees and mannequin heads in glass boxes, Trockel’s caustic oeuvre defies classification.

Finally here, the enormous MMK catalogue! German multimedia artist Rosemarie Trockel rose to fame in the 1980s with her “knitting pictures” made with industrial weaving machines. In 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit at the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The brutality and absurdity of normative regimes emerge openly in the work of Rosemarie Trockel. Definitions, restrictions, paternalism, and violence due to gender become visible and transparent. Her advance is a risky, courageous, combative, and humorous one. In all media—drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and film—Trockel’s sociological gaze is as much directed at social regimes and political structures as it is at nature. Her observations and studies of processionary caterpillars, starlings, chickens, or lice, while scientifically sound and precise, always include her own critical gaze as a vital component. She appropriates the ambivalences in her work, capturing them decidedly.

The comprehensive exhibition and catalogue displays works from all periods of Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre, from the 1970s to the new works created especially for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Susanne Pfeffer Valeria Gordeev Quinn Latimer Christoph Menke Cord Riechelmann Ann-Charlotte Gunzel Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Painting Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art

MD72—Door Slamming Festival (2007–2018)
Edited by Alexander Schröder, Dominic Eichler, Marianna von Palombini

2026, English / German
Softcover, 560 pages, 29.7 x 22.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This anthology tells the story of the influential Berlin exhibition space MD72 between 2007 and 2018, featuring more than 70 exhibitions. Over 190 contemporary artists, designers, curators, and writers are featured in this anthology. MD72 was founded by the gallerist and collector Alexander Schröder; its events reflected the repercussions of contextual art and post-institutional critique, as well as the cultural conditions of post-reunification Berlin shaped by post-feminism, postcolonial thought, and queer strategies. In addition to extensive visual documentation of exhibitions and artworks, the book offers a compendium of eyewitness accounts, essays, exhibition notes, interviews, excerpts, and commentaries from a wide range of authors.

Features: David Adamo, Jana Euler, Mark Leckey, Yves Saint Laurent, Michael Sanchez, Kai Althoff, Matias Faldbakken, Ang Lee, Peter Saville, Mathis Altmann, Barney Farmer, Lee Healey, Gunter Lepkowski, Magnus Schaefer, Tariq Alvi, Keith Farquhar, David Lewis, Mathias Schormann, Art & Language, Paul Feigelfeld, Klara Lidén, Alexander Schröder, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Valentina Liernur, Yasmine Schroeder-Elgarafi, Red Krayola, Marta Fontolan, Beca Lipscombe, Nora Schultz, Charles Asprey, Catherine Francblin, Hilary Lloyd, Elfie Semotan, Atelier E.B, Andrea Fraser, Hannes Loichinger, Gedi Sibony, Lutz Bacher, Luca Frei, Stefan Lux, Katharina Sieverding, Nairy Baghramian, Gelatin, Danny McDonald, Eric Banks, General Idea, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, Amy Sillman, Dirk Bell, Isa Genzken, Eric N. Mack, Avery Singer, Kirsty Bell, Liam Gillick, Lucy McKenzie, Andreas Slominski, Sean Snyder, Bernadette Corporation, Marc Glöde, René Magritte, Gerry Bibby, Julian Göthe, Victor Man, Lucie Stahl, Julien Binet, Goldin+Senneby, André Masson, Frank Stella, BLESS, Fanny Gonella, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mladen Stilinović, Anna Blessmann, Isabelle Graw, Nick Mauss, Josef Strau, Peter Saville, Wade Guyton, Ken Okiishi, Studio Manuel Raeder, Juliette Blightman, Florian Hecker, Birgit Megerle, Juergen Teller, Cosima von Bonin, Manfred Hermes, John Miller, Philippe Thomas, Mark Borthwick, Georg Herold, Pierre Molinier, Simon Thompson, Michael Bracewell, Charline von Heyl, Sarah Morris, Torey Thornton, Janet Burchill, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Ariane Müller, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jennifer McCamley, Ull Hohn, Jill Mulleady, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tom Burr, Yngve Holen, Jeanette Mundt, Rosemarie Trockel, David Bussel, Karl Holmqvist, Geoff Nees, Donald Urquhart, Caroline Busta, Judith Hopf, Georgie Nettell, Mona Vătămanu, Florin Tudor, Michael Callies, Alex Hubbard, Albert Oehlen, Donna Huddleston, Roberto Ohrt, Francesco Vezzoli, Sergej Jensen, Alex Israel, Ken Okiishi, Danh Vo, Ellen Cantor, Robert Jarosz, Henrik Olesen, Heinz Peter Knes, Merlin Carpenter, Sergej Jensen, Paulina Olowska, Steven Warwick, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Helen Johnson, Dietrich Orth, Michal Wasaznik, Alan Charlton, Stefan Kalmár, Daniel Pies, Marianna von Palombini, Scott Cameron Weaver, Doryun Chong, Tobias Kaspar, Manfred Pernice, Hannah Weinberger, Claire Fontaine, KAYA, Kerstin Brätsch, Kirsten Pieroth, Thilo Wermke, Anne Collier, Debo Eilers, Falke Pisano, Stephen Willats, Carole Condé, Karl Beveridge, Annette Kelm, Simon Popper, Susanne M. Winterling, John Kelsey, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ashes Withyman, Isabelle Cornaro, Pierre Klossowski, Stephen Prina, David Woodard, Enrico David, John Knight, Mark Prince, Christopher Wool, Jacques de Koning, Valérie Knoll, Josephine Pryde, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Jutta Koether, Manuel Raeder, Alex Zachary, Mark Dion, Stefan Korte, Reena Spaulings, Heimo Zobernig, Eliza Douglas, Andrzej Kostenko, Jeroen de Rijke, Lukas Duwenhogger, Christian Kracht, Willem de Rooij, Alexander Schröder, Martin Ebner, Kitty Kraus, Martha Rosler, Dominic Eichler, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Annette Ruenzler, Marianna von Palombini, Florian Zeyfang, Colin de Land, J. St. Bernard, Dominic Eichler.

File under: David Adamo Jana Euler Mark Leckey Kai Althoff Matias Faldbakken Mathis Altmann Barney Farmer Tariq Alvi Klara Lidén Art & Language Red Krayola Nora Schultz Andrea Fraser Gedi Sibony Lutz Bacher Luca Frei Katharina Sieverding Nairy Baghramian Gelatin General Idea Amy Sillman Dirk Bell Isa Genzken Eric N. Mack Avery Singer Liam Gillick Lucy McKenzie Andreas Slominski Sean Snyder Bernadette Corporation René Magritte Gerry Bibby Julian Göthe Victor Man Lucie Stahl Goldin+Senneby André Masson Frank Stella BLESS Gordon Matta-Clark Mladen Stilinović Nick Mauss Josef Strau Wade Guyton Ken Okiishi Juliette Blightman Florian Hecker Birgit Megerle Cosima von Bonin John Miller Philippe Thomas Georg Herold Pierre Molinier Charline von Heyl Sarah Morris Janet Burchill Ariane Müller Wolfgang Tillmans Ull Hohn Jill Mulleady Rirkrit Tiravanija Tom Burr Yngve Holen Jeanette Mundt Rosemarie Trockel Karl Holmqvist Judith Hopf Mona Vătămanu Florin Tudor Alex Hubbard Albert Oehlen Francesco Vezzoli Sergej Jensen Alex Israel Danh Vo Ellen Cantor Henrik Olesen Merlin Carpenter Paulina Olowska Marc Camille Chaimowicz Helen Johnson Alan Charlton Tobias Kaspar Manfred Pernice Hannah Weinberger Claire Fontaine KAYA Kerstin Brätsch Kirsten Pieroth Anne Collier Debo Eilers Falke Pisano Stephen Willats Carole Condé Karl Beveridge Annette Kelm Susanne M. Winterling Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Isabelle Cornaro Stephen Prina Enrico David John Knight Josephine Pryde Cerith Wyn Evans Jutta Koether Mark Dion Reena Spaulings Heimo Zobernig Eliza Douglas Jeroen de Rijke Lukas Duwenhogger Willem de Rooij Martha Rosler Mierle Laderman Ukeles Florian Zeyfang Atelier E.B. Yves Saint Laurent Peter Saville Kitty Kraus Ian Hamilton Finlay Keith Farquhar Beca Lipscombe Hilary Lloyd Danny McDonald Manuel Raeder Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley Juergen Teller Heinz Peter Knes Pierre Klossowski Christopher Wool Georgie Nettell Mark Borthwick Simon Thompson Alexander Schröder Dominic Eichler Marianna von Palombini Michael Sanchez Lee Healey Gunter Lepkowski Magnus Schaefer David Lewis Mathias Schormann Paul Feigelfeld Valentina Liernur Yasmine Schroeder-Elgarafi Marta Fontolan Charles Asprey Catherine Francblin Elfie Semotan Hannes Loichinger Stefan Lux Eric Banks Kirsty Bell Marc Glöde Julien Binet Fanny Gonella Anna Blessmann Isabelle Graw Manfred Hermes Michael Bracewell Torey Thornton Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz David Bussel Geoff Nees Donald Urquhart Caroline Busta Michael Callies Donna Huddleston Roberto Ohrt Robert Jarosz Heinz Peter Knes Steven Warwick Dietrich Orth Michal Wasaznik Stefan Kalmár Daniel Pies Scott Cameron Weaver Doryun Chong Thilo Wermke Simon Popper John Kelsey Ashes Withyman Pierre Klossowski David Woodard Mark Prince Jacques de Koning Valérie Knoll Gigiotto Del Vecchio Alex Zachary Stefan Korte Andrzej Kostenko Christian Kracht Annette Ruenzler Colin de Land J. St. Bernard Martin Ebner Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith Walther König / Köln Group Shows / Collections Painting Art Sculpture / Installation

Josef Strau
Spirits and Objects

2022, English
Softcover, 198 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication assembles a selection of texts produced between the years 2005 and 2020, starting with The Non- Productive Attitude (2005), his prominent reflections on the anti-productive attitude in the Cologne art scene of the time. The experience of having to write the essay overnight within a few hours, and without any time for revision, triggered his interest in exploring forms of unintentional writing, and consequently the replacement of the intentional author by an unconscious writer / producer. This mode of automatic writing has manifested itself until today, and has become the core of Strau’s artistic practice.

File under: Josef Strau Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry

Michael Asher
Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979

2021, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21.5 x 30.5 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 is an essential document of a decade of formative work by Michael Asher. Originally published in 1983, the book presents 33 works through the artist’s writings, photographic documentation, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera.

Asher did not create traditional art objects; instead, he chose to alter the existing institutional apparatus through which art is presented, creating work dependent on the architectural, social, or economic systems that undergird how art is produced and experienced. For example, in 1974, he removed the partition wall dividing the office and gallery space of the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles. In another work from 1978, Asher had a bronze replica of a nineteenth-century sculpture of George Washington moved from the exterior of the Art Institute of Chicago to a room in the museum that housed eighteenth-century art, changing its location, but also its function from a public monument to an indoor sculpture, as it was originally intended.

Due to its site specificity and immateriality, Asher’s work ceased to exist after an exhibition, which makes this highly sought-after book the definitive mode through which one can gain insight into the work he made during this period. As the artist states in the introduction: “This book as a finished product will have a material permanence that contradicts the actual impermanence of the art-work, yet paradoxically functions as a testimony to that impermanence of my production.”

Initiated by Kasper König, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 was originally co-published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and was largely shaped by Asher’s close collaboration with art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, who succeeded König as editor of the press.

Managing Editor: James Hoff
Managing Designer: Rick Myers

File under: Michael Asher Michael Asher Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Primary Information / New York Art Theory / Essay Minimal Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Mark Manders
Studio Snapshots

2025, English
Hardcover, 140 pages, 29 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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‘Studio Snapshots’ comprises a series of black-and-white photographs taken in the studio of Dutch artist Mark Manders, where finished and unfinished works reflect various stages of the creative process. Notably, the selection of images gives a sense of the artist’s approach and method, with various tools, objects, implements, and materials appearing in the photographed spaces alongside his creations in progress.

File under: Mark Manders Roma / Amsterdam Art Sculpture / Installation

Lutz Bacher
Burning the Days: An Exhibition

2026, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 29 x 22 cm
Published by Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo WIELS / Brussels Roma / Amsterdam

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Edited by Helena Kritis and Solveig Øvstebø

Published by Astrup Fearnley Museet, WIELS, and Roma Publications, the catalogue brings together three newly commissioned essays approaching Bacher's art from distinct yet intersecting perspectives. Kate Nesin takes The Betty Center — Bacher's archive of nearly 300 black binders, later realised as an artwork — as a point of departure to examine her engagement with archives, containers, and readymade forms. Juliane Rebentisch reads Bacher's work as a sustained practice of opacity that stages accumulation, self-exposure, humour, and citation to unsettle fixed identities and disrupt the clichés through which meaning is usually secured. Finally, Emily LaBarge reads Bacher through the logic of the pun, showing how her works hinge on double meanings and perceptual slippages that make uncertainty the condition of viewing. Burning the Days: An Exhibition occupies a distinct place within the lineage of Bacher’s artist books. It is the first major publication on Bacher produced entirely after her death and without her direct involvement or design input.

Design: Julie Peeters.

File under: Lutz Bacher Julie Peeters Kate Nesin Emily LaBarge Juliane Rebentisch Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo WIELS / Brussels Roma / Amsterdam Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Photography

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth
by M.E. Warlick

2001, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22. 9 x 15.2 cm
Published by University of Texas Press / Texas

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Surrealist artist Marx Ernst defined collage as the “alchemy of the visual image”. Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, the author persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. A revival of interest in alchemy swept the artistic, psychoanalytic, historical, and scientific circles of th elate 19th and early 20th centuries, and the author sets Ernst’s work squarely within this movement. Looking at both his art (many of the works she discusses are reproduced in the book) and his writings, she reveals how thoroughly alchemical philosophy and symbolism pervade his early Dadaist experiments, his foundational work images in surrealism, and his many collages and paintings of women and landscapes, whose images exemplify the alchemical fusing of opposites.This pioneering research adds an essential key to understanding the multilayered complexity of Ernst’s works, as if affirms his standing as one of Germany’s most significant artists of the 20th century.

"M. E. Warlick's book is a unique and highly significant contribution to the literature on modern art and modern culture in general."—Linda D. Henderson, Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin

" ... when M. E. Warlick discusses {Ernst's] early art and the Surrealist context, she is authoritative... Her own scrupulously researched chapters on the artist's formative years and pre-Surrealist paintings, together with her abbreviated history of alchemy, its literature and the"occultation of Surrealism" which began in the 1920s, are useful additions to the existingscholarship."—TLS, 21 September 2001

File under: University of Texas Press / Texas Surrealism Theory / Essay Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Drawing Eros Occult / Esoterica

Alexandra Bircken
SomaSemaSoma

2025, English / German
Softcover, 160 pages, 28 x 21 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication offers backstage access to one of the most compelling artistic outputs exploring the boundary between the human body and the machine.

Alexandra Bircken combines a variety of materials and techniques with which she explores the boundary between the human and the created environment. At the same time, the Berlin-based artist dissects everyday technical objects with surgical precision, bringing the biomorphic nature of machines into view. This dual approach leads to an ambivalent work that is both cyborg-like and androgynous and questions human behaviour and desire. This book brings together Bircken's work from the past twenty years, along with an in-depth interview with the artist and a selection of reference and archive images collected over three decades.

File under: Alexandra Bircken Paul Bernard Selma Meuli Kathleen Rahn Bruno Marchand Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation

Sarah Lucas
Sense of Human

2025, English
Softcover, 164 pages, 33 x 24 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Edited by Luisa Heese, Johan Holten.
Text by Johanna Adorján, Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert, Luisa Heese, Sarah Lucas.

Bawdy and irreverent, the work of Sarah Lucas deliberately misconstrues the semiotics of gender and the body
Published with Kunsthalle Mannheim.

In her often provocative objects, photographs, sculptures and installations, English artist Sarah Lucas (born 1962) cobbles together everyday objects to question social norms and gender stereotypes. Full of puns and raunchy innuendos, her works isolate parts of the human body—breasts, legs and genitalia among her most frequent motifs—and place them in uncomfortable, uncanny situations to make light of their social ascriptions. This catalog, for the first institutional exhibition of Lucas’ work in Germany since 2005, brings together work from almost four decades of her practice. With both a title and cover image that illustrate Lucas’ tongue-in-cheek sensibilities, Sense of Human is a fresh reexamination of a Young British Artist enjoying a new cultural significance.

File under: Sarah Lucas Johanna Adorján Bruno Brunnet Nicole Hackert Luisa Heese Sarah Lucas Johan Holten Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Eros Art Photography

Optik Schröder
Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder

2006, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 220 x 270 mm
Out of print title / as new
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Catalogue from Optik Schröder, Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, 2006 exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig.

Now out-of-print, this comprehensive book surveys the private art collection of gallerist Alexander Schröder, built up since the mid-1990s and featuring important artworks by Andreas Hofer, Andreas Slominski, Cerith Wyn Evans, Christian Flamm, Christian Philipp Müller, Clegg & Guttmann,Cosima von Bonin, Diedrich Orth, Guillaume Bijl, Henrik Olesen, Isa Genzken, Jan Timme, Jochen Klein, Josephine Pryde, Kai Althoff, Katharina Wulff, Katja Strunz, Keith Farquhar, Lucy McKenzie, Lukas Duwenhögger, Manfred Pernice, Mark Handforth, Martha Rosler, Michael Krebber, Paulina Olowska, Reena Spauling, Sergej jensen, Sharon Lockhart, Stephan Dillemuth, Thilo Heinzmann, Tom Burr, Torsten Slama, Ull Hohn, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enrico David, Mark Leckey ...

Profusely illustrated throughout with texts by Dominic Eichler, Isabelle Graw, and Karola Grasslin.

Designed by Manuel Raeder.

As New copy.

File under: Andreas Hofer Andreas Slominski Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Flamm Clegg & Guttmann Cosima von Bonin David Lieske Enrico David Guillaume Bijl Henrik Olesen Isa Genzken Jan Timme Jochen Klein Josephine Pryde Kai Althoff Katharina Wulff Katja Strunz Keith Farquhar Lucy Mckenzie Lukas Duwenhögger Manfred Pernice Marc Camille Chaimowicz Mark Handforth Mark Leckey Martha Rosler Michael Krebber Paulina Olowska Reena Spaulings Sergej Jensen Sharon Lockhart Stephan Dillemuth Thilo Heinzmann Tom Burr Torsten Slama Ull Hohn Manuel Raeder Dietrich Orth Alexander Schröder Dominic Eichler Isabelle Graw Karola Grässlin Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Feminism Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Photography Drawing

Jan Švankmajer
Compiled by Bruno Solařík

2018, English / Czech
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 30.2 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by C Press / Prague

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First 2018 hardcover edition of the most comprehensive and revealing monographic study in English (bi–lingual English/Czech) of Czech Surrealist artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker, Jan Švankmajer (b. Prague, 1934), published in Prague in 2018, and now out–of–print. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w reproducing film–stills, sculptures, collages, “tactile experiments”, this narrative publication maps the creative principles of the world-renowned surrealist, one of the most distinctive and acclaimed filmmakers, known for his dark re-imaginings of well-known fairy tales and for his avant-garde merging of live action, stop-motion animation and puppetry. The author of the book, Bruno Solařík, who, together with the director, participates in the activities of the surrealist group, presents a comprehensive testimony to the exceptional work of this master of Czech cinema through Švankmajer's opinions and creations. Since the mid-1960s, his films have shocked, mesmerized, repulsed and delighted audiences, amassing international cult-like following. His prolific work off-screen across assemblage and collage mediums, using both man-made and organic materials, share the central thematic elements of his subversive films, such as black humour, metamorphosis, sex, decomposition, mythology, scatology, death, humour and the absurd. The publication also includes previously unpublished reproductions of Švankmajer's fetish objects and exclusive images from his latest film 'Insects'. It also presents all of his Eleven One–Act Plays and his filled with literary quotes and passages important to the artist's work. An incredible book.

NF copy in NF dust jacket.

File under: Jan Svankmajer Bruno Solařík C Press / Prague Art Surrealism Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare

Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art

2005, English
Softcover, 166 pages, 28 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

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Catalogue for the group exhibition 'Interesting Times', 21 September – 27 November 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), curated by Russell Storer with the assistance of Keith Munro. Artists: John Barbour, Robert Boynes, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Adam Cullen, Neil Emmerson, Merilyn Fairskye, George Gittoes, Pat Hoffie, Deborah Kelly, Shaun Kirby, Ruark Lewis, Ricky Maynard, Miriam Stannage, Madonna Staunton, Freddie Timms, Richard Woldendorp.

Interesting Times: Focus on contemporary Australian art was the second installment in an MCA series of major exhibitions that showcased the work of Australian artists. Like its predecessor Meridian: Focus on contemporary Australian art, held over the summer of 2002-2003, this exhibition had an emphasis on established artists who have a sustained exhibiting career of ten years or more. This exhibition featured seventeen artists, with a wide range of approaches and media, demonstrating the richness and diversity of contemporary Australian artistic practice at this time.

Interesting Times: Focus on contemporary Australian art explored the varied ways that artists in Australia at the time conveyed social and political ideas through their work. These ranged from relatively direct documentary-based photography and video to more elliptical works that suggested unease, paranoia and anxiety. Whilst there was a marked increase in interest in the relationship between art and politics around this time, the parameters had also broadened, with artists utilising more open-ended ways of thinking about how this relationship could function. Without attempting to be definitive, this exhibition aimed to highlight the important role that art continues to play in questioning and articulating sociopolitical events, situations and tendencies.

Accompanying Interesting Times: Focus on contemporary Australian art was an off-site project featuring the work of the Tasmanian photographer Ricky Maynard, who for many years documented Indigenous communities from around Australia. This project was presented in association with the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Stories Initiative, and culminated in a major touring exhibition, Ricky Maynard: Portraits of a Distant Land, and exhibition at the MCA in 2009.

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File under: Janet Burchill Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley John Barbour Robert Boynes Adam Cullen Neil Emmerson Merilyn Fairskye George Gittoes Pat Hoffie Deborah Kelly Shaun Kirby Ruark Lewis Ricky Maynard Miriam Stannage Madonna Staunton Freddie Timms Richard Woldendorp Russell Storer Keith Munro Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide
by Derek McCormack

2026, English
Softcover, 128 pages,‎ 27.2 x 21.6 cm
Published by Cushion Works / US

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A jewelry collection designed for punk vampires in attendance at the Grand Ole Opry: McCormack's first foray into art and object-making is characteristically both absurd and obscene.

Derek McCormack's devilish blend of art and fiction imagines a world in which Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren are vampires, designing punk-influenced jewelry for other vampires visiting the Grand Ole Opry, the mother church of country music. From safety pin fangs to punk Minnie Pearl pearl necklaces, The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide showcases all manner of star-studded shit from McCormack's "Hillbilly Heaven Collection," which he has been documenting on his instagram page @thegrandholeopry since early 2024. The project is a riff on Westwood and McLaren's work of the 1970s, which reimagined American rockabilly and rocker gear; it's also a perversion of the clean-cut Christian facade of country music. Most of all, it's a parody of the way fashion designers pirate the past for inspiration, as it poses the question: What if the past stole from fashion the way fashion steals from the past? The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide combines McCormack's novel art-objects with his most original writing to date: the result is spectacular and sinister, sidesplitting and spine-chilling.

Canadian artist and writer Derek McCormack (born 1969) is a cult figure born in Peterborough, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto. His work is characterized by its extreme brevity, absurdity and dark, often obscene humor. His 2004 novel The Haunted Hillbilly (Soft Skull) was named a "Best Book of the Year" by both The Village Voice and The Globe and Mail, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His recent novels include The Well-Dressed Wound (2015) and Castle Faggot (2020), both published by Semiotext(e), and Judy Blame's Obituary: Writings on Fashion and Death (2021), published by Pilot Press.

"The Jean Schlumberger of shit, the Elsa Peretti of safety pins and poo, Derek McCormack croons another rhinestone jingle to jangle the nerves of the complacent, lazy, and dim. His bijoux punk any natural order of beauty with gags and faggotry until the fun climbs out of our behinds. As Scabbie Hoffman Ouija’d me last night: Stool, this book!"–Bruce Hainley, author of 'Correctomundo,' 'Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face,' 'Foul Mouth,' and 'Really, No Biggie,' among other things

File under: Derek Mccormack Derek McCormack Cushion Works / US Sculpture / Installation Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Fiction / Poetry

Rose Nolan
Working Models For / From Someone's Life

2022, English
Softcover (thread-bound), 28 pages + A3 insert, 29.7 x 21 cm
Ed. of 100, hand-initialed and numbered.,
Published by Rose Nolan / Melbourne

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Working Models For / From Someone's Life is a new artist's book by Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, each hand-numbered and initialed by Nolan, designed by the artist with Warren Taylor. The volume comprises photographic documentation by Christian Capurro of Nolan's "models", accompanied by text by Ingrid Periz. "Rose Nolan calls the constructions pictured here working models, taking the name of similar objects used in the architectural design process where they are used to check proportion, volume and shape. Occasionally this process of checking prompts a rethink, and a drawing is corrected. Unlike their namesakes, Nolan's models won't prompt any design rethink or correction.Theirs may be a harder task.As she tells me, electronically: "My small models don't have to function (in Real Life) in anyway, other than to stand up for themselves:""—from text by Periz.

"We can think of the models as Cubist "portraits" of fictitious buildings; they are additionally self-portraits of Rose Nolan, Rose Nolan the architect of the buildings and Rose Nolan the consumer, buyer of Apple products, fine French candles, Chanel, Marimekko and Fab, the laundry detergent."

Includes A3 insert of all models as folded poster / catalogue.

Rose Nolan (b. 1959) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne working across painting, installation, sculpture, photography, prints and book production. Her practice regularly oscillates between the discrete and the monumental and is informed by a strong interest in architecture, interior and graphic design – combining formal concerns with the legacies of modernism. Nolan’s practice is known for its investigation of the formal and linguistic qualities of words, directly using language to transform the architectural space they inhabit. By making language concrete in this way meaning is allowed to be approached differently.

Nolan employs a radically reduced palette of red and white, and simple utilitarian materials and methods, in an exploration of personal, playful and often self-effacing narratives. Each work describes a concern for economy; a desire to be responsive to site; an interest in seriality and repetition; and the importance of language, interactivity, and the experience of the viewer.

File under: Rose Nolan Ingrid Periz Rose Nolan / Melbourne Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Conceptual Art

Rose Nolan
The Presents Series

1997, English
Softcover (w. card dust-jacket and sheet of artist's wrapping paper), 44 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

$60.00 - In stock -

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Wonderful artist's book produced by Rose Nolan in 1997 to document a series of paper construction sculptures that were sent as presents (Birthday, Bon Voyage, New Baby, House Warming, et al.) to friends between 1996-1997.

This publication features the photo documentation of the presents received by Diena Georgetti, Jackie Redlich, Stephen Bram, Annie Jacobs, Christoph Preussmann, Sue Cramer, John Nixon, Kathy Temin, Mutlu Çerkez, and Richard Holt, in their respective new settings.

Includes a sheet of artist's wrapping paper laid-in.

Rose Nolan (b. 1959) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne working across painting, installation, sculpture, photography, prints and book production. Her practice regularly oscillates between the discrete and the monumental and is informed by a strong interest in architecture, interior and graphic design – combining formal concerns with the legacies of modernism. Nolan’s practice is known for its investigation of the formal and linguistic qualities of words, directly using language to transform the architectural space they inhabit. By making language concrete in this way meaning is allowed to be approached differently.

Nolan employs a radically reduced palette of red and white, and simple utilitarian materials and methods, in an exploration of personal, playful and often self-effacing narratives. Each work describes a concern for economy; a desire to be responsive to site; an interest in seriality and repetition; and the importance of language, interactivity, and the experience of the viewer.

File under: Christoph Preussmann Diena Georgetti John Nixon Kathy Temin Mutlu Çerkez Richard Holt Rose Nolan Stephen Bram Self-Published / Melbourne Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Conceptual Art

Too Negative No. 8
March 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, Softcover, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - In stock -

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Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997, features the photography the paintings of Manuel Ocampo, the art of Helter Skelter corpse/death photography, the art of Jake and Dinos Chapman, grotesque tabloid news, the art of Pierre Molinier, the art of Damien Hirst, the fetish photography of Hiroshi Yokoi, latex/rubber fetish photography by Uchiyama Kazunori, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, loads of abnormal medical photography, autopsy, anatomical photographic/illustrated, much more.

Mature readers only.

Very Good copy.

File under: Manuel Ocampo Jake and Dinos Chapman Pierre Molinier Damien Hirst Hiroshi Yokoi Uchiyama Kazunori Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Film / Video Crime / Violence Fashion LGBTQ+

Isabelle Waldberg

1963, Italian / English / French
Softcover, 8 loose-leaf pages in stiff card, 21.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gallerie Cadario / Milan

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce Isabelle Waldberg exhibition catalogue published in 1963 by Gallerie Cadario, Milan. Includes beautiful b/w reproductions of Waldberg's sculptures, portrait, a list of quoted critical responses to her work (each in their respective native language), biography and exhibition history in Italian, and list of exhibited works.

Isabelle Waldberg (1911–1990) was a French-Swiss sculptor associated with surrealism. Born in Oberstammheim, she studied sculpture in Zurich before moving to Paris and briefly Italy to continue her studies. Studying in Florence in 1937, she returned to Paris, where she came to know Alberto Giacometti, Georges Bataille, Andre Masson and her future husband Patrick Waldberg. From 1938 to 1940 she studied sociology and ethnography at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. She also attended discussion of the sacred at the College of Sociology, and contributed to Bataille’s journal Acéphale. In 1941 she joined a group of Surrealist artists who were ‘in exile’ in New York. During this time she experimented further with Surrealism, but was increasingly drawn to the art of Eskimo and Native American communities. During this period she started working on "constructions" made of bound beech branches and held her first exhibition at The Art of This Century gallery in 1943. Returning to Paris in 1946, she worked in Duchamp’s old studio. From 1947 to 1948 she co-edited Da Costa Encyclopédique, a surrealist review, with the writer Robert Lebel. Her later work from the 1950s onwards saw her return to plaster, a material she used in her early-career. Waldberg’s reputation grew steadily and she exhibited frequently and widely until her death in 1990.

Very Good copy with only light wear.

File under: Isabelle Waldberg Robert Lebel Gallerie Cadario / Milan Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Art

Italy: The New Domestic Landscape
Edited by Emilio Ambasz

1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and complete 5 cut-outs), 432 pages, 20 x 25cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York Centro Di / Florence

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First edition of the stunning "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape (Achievements and Problems of Italian Design)", published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, in association with Centro Di Florence, in 1972. Includes the famous glassine dust jacket with all five (rarely present) cardboard cutout inserts. A most complete copy of this very important reference book on Italian design of the 1960s-1970s.

Edited by Emilio Ambasz while he was the curator of design at Museum of Modern Art, this is the first book to comprehensively survey the important design developments of 1960s Italy, published to coincide with the landmark exhibition at MoMA, May 26 - September 11, 1972. The museum commissioned 12 environments especially for the exhibition, covering two modes of contemporary living; Permanent Home and the Mobile Home, using 180 objects produced in Italy during the decade by more than 100 designers, including the finest examples of product design, furniture, lighting, appliances, flatware, glass, ceramic, putting new (radical) Italian design on the international map. Profusely illustrated throughout with over 500 illustrations across over 400 pages, alongside essays by Paolo Portoghesi, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Leonardo Benevolo, Vittorio Gregotti, Germano Celant, Manfredo Tafuri, Filiberto Menna and others. Includes the work of Archizoom, Joe Colombo, Gae Aulenti, Sergio Asti, Tobia and Afra Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Jonathan De Pas, Andrea Branzi, Cesare Casati, Rodolfo Bonetto, Cini Boeri, Achille Castiglioni, Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Piero Gilardi, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Gruppo Strum, Ugo La Pietra, Paolo Lomazzi, Vico Magistretti, Superstudio, Angelo Mangiarotti, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Adolfo Natalini, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Massimo Vignelli, Nanda Vigo, Marco Zanuso, Arflex, Arredoluce, Arteluce, Artemide, Brionvega, Cassina, C & B Italia, Danese, Driade, Flexform, Flos, Gufram, Kartell, Olivetti, Poltronova, Stilnovo, Zanotta, and so many more... Very Good copy with light wear to extremities, tanning to edges and the usual yellowing to glassine dust jacket/light marking/small closed tears. Otherwise well-preserved with the rarely preserved 5 cut-out inserts present. Sample images only.

File under: Archizoom Joe Colombo Gae Aulenti Sergio Asti Tobia and Afra Scarpa Mario Bellini Jonathan De Pas Andrea Branzi Cesare Casati Rodolfo Bonetto Cini Boeri Achille Castiglioni Piero Gilardi Anna Castelli Ferrieri Gruppo Strum Ugo La Pietra Paolo Lomazzi Vico Magistretti Superstudio Angelo Mangiarotti Enzo Mari Bruno Munari Adolfo Natalini Gaetano Pesce Massimo Vignelli Nanda Vigo Marco Zanuso Arflex Arredoluce Arteluce Artemide Brionvega Cassina C & B Italia Danese Driade Flexform Flos Gufram Kartell Olivetti Poltronova Stilnovo Zanotta Ettore Sottsass Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Paolo Portoghesi Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco Leonardo Benevolo Vittorio Gregotti Germano Celant Manfredo Tafuri Filiberto Menna MoMA / New York Centro Di / Florence Architecture / Interior Furniture Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Textiles Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Francis Carmody
Wise to the Bait, Vol. 1

2026, English
Softcover, 20 unbound pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
Published by Self Published / Melbourne

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Wise to the Bait, Vol. 1 is a self-published artist book documenting Francis Carmody's contribution to Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. The publication focuses on the installation of Canine Trap I and Canine Trap II, bringing together installation views and documentation of the exhibition.

The works emerge from Carmody's broader practice of constructing sculptural inquiries around fundamental forces and the systems they produce. In Wise to the Bait, appetite functions as the central force: a local and bodily condition that nevertheless shapes wider ecological, economic, and social worlds. Through the intertwined logics of bait, attraction, capture, metabolism, and restraint, the exhibition examines how desire generates behaviours, infrastructures, and cycles that extend far beyond the individual body.

Reproduced across twenty pages, the publication documents a series of sculptural scenarios in which canine bodies, traps, vessels, and digestive forms are assembled into systems of suspended action. Rather than depicting a singular narrative, the works dwell in states of anticipation, consequence, and transformation, exploring appetite as both a productive and destructive force.

The publication features a commissioned essay by Olivia Aherne and an interview between Francis Carmody and Tim Riley Walsh. Designed by Kim Mumm Hansen, Wise to the Bait, Vol. 1 extends the exhibition into print through an unbound format that allows the publication to be physically expanded. Installation views, detail images, and text extracts can be spread out and viewed simultaneously, creating a reading experience that mirrors the spatial and relational logic of the exhibition itself.

File under: Kim Mumm Hansen Francis Carmody Olivia Aherne Tim Riley Walsh Self Published / Melbourne Sculpture / Installation Australian Art

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Fine Arts

2015, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco MoMA PS1 / New York Raven Row / London Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Fine Arts continues Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys’s playful and dystopic approach to depicting the human condition. The artist duo became watercolorists for the project, harping back to an early amateur pictorial tradition while basing their picture making on a range of quotidian and historical images culled from the Internet. Deadpan images of the banal and the fanciful accompany the grievous and the tragic, without comment. Nostalgia and innocence are dimly stirred and questioned. Although the genre of the watercolorist, and its association with pastoral and colonialist scenes, may be considered outdated, the contemporary mode of sourcing the images implies that these pictures might not be matters of the past. This book brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors in a glossy format reminiscent of a picture book or auction house catalogue.

Copublished with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; MoMA PS1, New York; and Raven Row, London, on the occasion of the eponymous traveling exhibition in 2015.

File under: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco MoMA PS1 / New York Raven Row / London Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Marcel Broodthaers

1988, English / Japanese / French
Softcover, 42 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Watari / Tokyo

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Rare 1988 Japanese catalogue published to accompany a major survey of the pioneering Belgian conceptual artist, poet, and filmmaker, Marcel Broothaers (1924-1976) at Galerie Watari in Tokyo. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with accompanying text by Michael Compton in English/Japanese, illustrated chronology in Japanese, filmography, biography, bibliography and more.

In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry—of being "good for nothing," in his words—were over. Encasing unsold copies of his poetry book in plaster, a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers massively influential 12-year art career challenged how the public views and understands art, creating hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs and exhibitions, including a "fictive" museum of modern art that evolved from an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hundred works representing eagles.

Very Good copy.

File under: Marcel Broodthaers Michael Compton Galerie Watari / Tokyo Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Painting

Max Ernst
Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher

1970, German
Softcover (printed cloth), 154 pages, 23 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of this wonderful cloth-covered, 1970 monographic catalogue on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany his solo exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein, in Stuttgart in 1970.

Max Ernst "Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher" ("Paintings, Sculptures, Collages, Frottage, Books") is a handsomely designed and profusely illustrated book covering much of his astounding career of work in full-colour and black and white plates. Includes a chronology (1909-1968), bibliography, list of works, and texts by Werner Spies, Lothar Pretzell, Helmut R. Leppien, Uwe M. Schneede, and a series of texts by Max Ernst himself, covering topics of Dada, Nature, Collage, Surrealism, etc. All texts in German.

Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism, and among the most original artists of the 20th century.

Very Good—Near Fine, well preserved and clean copy.

File under: Max Ernst Helmut R. Leppien Lothar Pretzell Uwe M. Schneede Werner Spies Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Max Ernst
by Eva Petrová

1993, Czech
Hardcover, 214 pages, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Odeon / Prague

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Rare, Czech language hardcover edition of Czech art historian Eva Petrová's study on Max Ernst (1891—1976), 'The Stohláva Identity of Max Ernst', with introductory text, 'Max Ernst or the Dissolution of Identity', by Per Gimferrer. This major study traces the sources of inspiration of the German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet, a most prolific, experimental artist and pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. Profusely illustrated with 184 mostly coloured reproductions.

Eva Petrová was a Czech art critic, curator, theorist and art historian, graphic artist, writer and poet.

Pere Gimferrer Torrens is a Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He has been a member of the Real Academia Española since 1985.

Very Good copy.

File under: Max Ernst Eva Petrová Per Gimferrer Odeon / Prague Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation