World Food Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome
By Martha Feldman

2026, English
Hardcover (dust jacket), 450 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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A new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern Rome

Around 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive vocal training. Castrati were long mired in secrecy, obfuscations, and lies about their origin and conditions, not least the last of them, Alessandro Moreschi. Musicologist Martha Feldman declines to accept these deep-seated mysteries and concealments. After a decade and more of digging through archives and family histories comes her exciting transdisciplinary and quasi-cinematic account of Moreschi, whose recordings preserve the only sonic trace of a solo castrato.

Yet Moreschi's story extends far beyond him. It opens up intrigues, politics, and histories of the Vatican, everyday histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Rome, the world of Roman opera, the city's unique melange of sacred and vernacular tropes, and representations of Rome by iconic film director Federico Fellini. Moreschi and Fellini turn out to have been related by marriage, but also to share synergies grounded in Rome's persistent inclination to vernacularize the sacred. Far from telling of one anomalous figure, Feldman's gripping history convinces readers that Moreschi, like Fellini, can be read as an improbable index of Roman consciousness, both during his own life and well beyond.

File under: Federico Fellini Alessandro Moreschi Martha Feldman Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Occult / Esoterica

Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music
by Nicolas Ballet

2025, English
Softcover, 640 pages, 24 x 16.99 cm
Published by Intellect Ltd / US

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Industrial music has long been recognized for its sonic innovations, but the radical visual culture that accompanied this underground movement has remained largely unexplored. Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music presents the first comprehensive examination of how industrial artists created a coherent aesthetic language across multiple media—from xerox art and mail art to installation and performance—fundamentally challenging modernist utopias while prophetically anticipating contemporary discourse about media manipulation and technological control.

Emerging in mid-1970s Britain from the post-punk underground before expanding globally throughout the 1980s, artists like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Test Dept, Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Coil, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, Whitehouse, Merzbow, Hijokaidan, Hunting Lodge, Controlled Bleeding, Hafler Trio, Z'EV, Nocturnal Emissions, 23 Skidoo, Clock DVA, Master/Slave Relationship, and Monte Cazazza developed sophisticated visual strategies that matched their abrasive soundscapes with equally confrontational imagery.

At 640 pages, this award-winning monograph reveals how industrial artists systematically appropriated reprographic techniques—particularly xerox art and photocollage—to create disturbing visual narratives investigating mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry, and totalitarianism. Through détournement strategies borrowed from Situationist theory, they exposed the coercive mechanisms of mass media and technological society, creating a visual vocabulary that challenged viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about modern power structures. What emerges is a movement that perceptively anticipated contemporary concerns about surveillance, media manipulation, and collective psychological control. Industrial artists' exploration of these themes through deliberately provocative imagery served not as mere provocation but as sophisticated critique of the very media systems they inhabited. Their radical aesthetic choices—degraded reproduction quality, found imagery manipulation, shock tactics—created hybrid forms that defied traditional categorization while establishing independent networks that bypassed conventional art world structures.

Shock Factory positions industrial music's visual culture within broader art historical narratives, revealing connections to Dada, Surrealism, and conceptual art while demonstrating the movement's unique contributions to contemporary visual culture. The book arrives at a moment when questions about technology, media manipulation, and social control have never been more urgent, demonstrating how these artists' radical visual strategies continue to offer valuable insights for our digital age.

For scholars of contemporary art, music history, and media studies, this book provides essential documentation of an overlooked movement that significantly influenced subsequent artistic developments. For readers interested in underground culture and avant-garde aesthetics, Shock Factory reveals the sophisticated visual thinking that accompanied one of the most innovative musical movements of the past half-century.

"A history of industrial music needed to be written. Nicolas Ballet has accomplished this. Thoroughly. This is the book's greatest strength. It explores the significance of noise as a reflection of a world in decay and screaming as a need. And doing it so it reveals a significant connection between industrial music and contemporary art. This is also what makes it an essential book: its contribution to dismantling categories and rethinking history from mixed creative territories."—David G. Torres

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and assistant curator at the Centre Pompidou in the New Media Department. He is the author of books and articles exploring the visual and sonic contributions of countercultures and experimental artistic practices.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Intellect Ltd / US Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Fetishism / BDSM Surrealism Dada Occult / Esoterica Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Eros Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Only Death Is Real
An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981 -1985

2009 / 2012, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 30 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bazillion Points / New York

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Rare first 2009 edition, 2012 printing.

This formidable oversized hardcover runs 288 pages (including a 32-page color section), and combines hundreds of unseen early Hellhammer and Celtic Frost photos with a vast treasure trove of artwork and memorabilia. A substantial written component by Fischer details his upbringing on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland, and the hardships and triumphs he faced bringing the visions of his groundbreaking bands Hellhammer and eventually Celtic Frost to reality. In addition, the book includes an introduction by Nocturno Culto of Norwegian black metal act Darkthrone, and a foreword by noted metal author Joel McIver.

Without question Only Death Is Real goes farther than any other source in exploring the origins of underground heavy metal. The wealth of visual information is astounding, both in terms of documenting early 1980s headbangers and exposing the still-relevant imagery of the first Hellhammer and Celtic Frost photo sessions. On top of that, the written chapters combine Tom Fischer s often shocking stories with lengthy quotes from Martin Eric Ain and the other main Hellhammer members, explaining in intimately human terms how extreme metal was born.

VG copy, only light shelf wear/bumping to hardcovers.

File under: Celtic Frost Hellhammer Darkthrone Tom Gabriel Fischer Martin Eric Ain Nocturno Culto Joel McIver Bazillion Points / New York Sound / Music Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare

Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
by Jon Kristiansen

2011, English
Hardcover, 722 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bazillion Points / New York

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 2011 printing.

Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Magazine quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of the magazine became a written gospel for the fledgling extreme metal underground, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and a relentless and sick sense of humor. As black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Magazine remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times. This book is densely illustrated with early candid photos of classic heavy metal bands including Kreator, Mayhem, Emperor, Darkthrone, Napalm Death, and Morbid Angel. In addition to rare archival material unseen in decades, the book includes unreleased and exclusive interviews and artwork, including historical photographs, and never-before-seen portrait photography by editor Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen.

VG—NF copy, only light wear to covers.

File under: Kreator Mayhem Emperor Darkthrone Napalm Death Morbid Angel Jon Kristiansen Bazillion Points / New York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Murder in The Front Row
Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew

2011, English
Hardcover, 272 pages, 28 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bazillion Points / New York

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Rare first 2011 printing.

During the early 1980s, when heavy metal was defined by MTV and mile-high hair, San Francisco’s small community of dedicated headbangers scorned image and instead risked life and limb in search of the ultimate in musical thrills. Locals Exodus and Los Angeles transplants Metallica reigned in small clubs like the Old Waldorf, The Stone, and the infamous East Bay bastion of heaviness, Ruthie’s Inn. Thrash metal upstarts Slayer and Megadeth found a second home in the Bay Area, while a homegrown breed of tempo-crazed teenagers like Legacy, Possessed, Death Angel, Heathen, and Vio-lence brought Bay Area thrash metal to critical mass.

Photographers Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew were dodging bodies from the very start, in front of the stage, backstage, and on the stage itself. They captured the public victories and private parties of a scene where fans and musical idols were equally hellbent on faster, heavier music and endless outrageous fun. Oimoen and Lew fought on the frontline of a war for individuality, snapping frame by frame as thrash metal was born, along with stagediving, crowd-walking, and countless other magical moments filled with key local personalities. Somewhere along the way, Oimoen and Lew’s friends in Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth became legends.

Today, the Big Four thrash metal bands pictured in this book are the reigning elder statesmen of heavy metal. Their fellow ragers in Exodus, D.R.I., Testament, Death Angel, Possessed, and Forbidden remain ambassadors of a Bay Area metal scene that continues to thrive and command fascination around the world. This stunning volume collects over 400 amazing color and black-and-white photos, plus passionate personal accounts by Bay Area veterans Harald Oimoen, Brian Lew, Ron Quintana of Metal Mania, Gary Holt of Exodus, Alex Skolnick of Testament, and Robb Flynn of Machine Head. From DIY origins to world domination, the Bay Area thrash metal scene screams to life in these fearless pages.

“This will not be a history book, but rather a time machine back to the ‘bonded by blood’ days of the original Bay Area Metal scene. Before they played the Bay Area, Slayer wore makeup onstage—after that first Bay Area show they never wore makeup again. This book will show people why.”—Brian Lew

VG copy, only light wear to covers.

File under: Harald Oimoen Brian Lew Legacy Possessed Death Angel Heathen Vio-lence Exodus D.R.I. Testament Forbidden Metallica Slayer Bazillion Points / New York Counterculture Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Autumn's Sun
by Lauren Connors

2019, English
Softcover, 82 pages, 12.8 x 19
Published by Blank Forms / New York

$42.00 - Out of stock

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One of the world’s most singular guitarists, Loren Connors is among few living musicians whose prolific body of work can be said to be wholly justified in its plenitude. On more than 100 records across almost four decades, Connors has wrung distinct shades of ephemeral blues from his guitar, its sound ever-shifting while remaining unmistakably his own. From his early, splintered take on the Delta bottleneck style through his song-based albums with Suzanne Langille and on to the painterly abstraction that defines his current work, Connors has earned the admiration of many, leading to collaborations with the likes of John Fahey, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, and Kim Gordon.

In the mid-80s, Connors took a partial break from music and focused instead on the art of haiku, for which he received the Lafcadio Hearn Award in 1987. With his wife Suzanne Langille he also co-wrote an article on blues and haiku, “The Dancing Ear,” published in the Haiku Society of America’s journal. It was during this period that Connors penned the material that appears in Autumn’s Sun, a chapbook first published by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley’s Glass Eye in 1999. The text features diary excerpts from 1987, lyrically fragmented observations interspersed with haiku-like poems that paint an idyllic impression of the passing seasons in his home of New Haven, Connecticut. With synesthetic perception, Connors gazes from tranquil domestic streets. Sycamore, elm, and catalpa trees are activated by the breeze and made to rustle in unison with their natural and artificial surroundings, including the howling dogs from which Connors derived his ‘Mazzacane’ moniker. As summer fades to winter, Connors portrays death as an undramatic certitude, the flux of his own maturation reflected in musings on his son’s. Like his music, Autumn’s Sun is tender without being sentimental, conjuring those rare, delicate moments when time stands still.

This edition includes “The Dancing Ear” and an introduction by Lawrence Kumpf.

File under: Loren Connors Blank Forms / New York Art Sound / Music Fiction / Poetry

Künstlerschallplatten, Gelbe Musik / Ursula Block, exhibition poster
Claus Böhmler, Hanne Darboven and Stephan von Huene

1987, German
Poster, 42 x 49
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gelbe Musik / Berlin Galerie Vorsetzen / Hamburg

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Rare original poster produced to accompany the exhibition “Künstlerschallplatten,” organised by Gelbe Musik, Berlin, and presented at Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg, March 14 – April 4, 1987, a spatial installation by Claus Böhmler, Hanne Darboven and Stephan von Huene, featuring artist's records and record objects by Joseph Beuys, Henning Christiansen, Jack Goldstein, Philip Corner, Hermann Nitsch, Terry Fox, Charlemagne Palestine, Wolf Vostell, A. R. Penck, Dieter Roth, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, John Cage, Alan Kaprow, Rolf Julius, Conrad Schnitzler, Robert Rauschenberg, Harry Bertoia, Claus Böhmler, Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knížák, Nam June Paik, Stuart Sherman, Christian Marclay, Lawrence Weiner, Valie Export, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Zoviet France, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol, Albert Oehlen, Sarkis, Arthur Köpcke, Michael Snow, and many more, plus room installations by Claus Böhmler, Hanne Darboven and Stephan von Huene.

Gelbe Musik was a gallery/storefront founded in 1981 by Ursula Block as an offshoot of Galerie Block, operated by her husband René Block (who has published editions by Marina Abramović, Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Alfredo Jaar, On Kawara, Roman Opalka, Nam June Paik, Dieter Roth, Rosemarie Trockel, Ben Vautier Ben, Wolf Vostell Wolf, Lawrence Weiner and countless others). It remained the only record store dedicated to artists' recordings. Ursula Block was also responsible for Broken Music, an early (and still unrivalled) exhibition and catalogue of artists' records from 1989. “Künstlerschallplatten", two years prior, could be seen as the pre-cursor to that exhibition.

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

Very Good copy with light creasing as issued.

File under: Wolf Vostell Philip Corner Milan Knížák Joseph Beuys Henning Christiansen Jack Goldstein Hermann Nitsch Terry Fox Charlemagne Palestine A. R. Penck Dieter Roth Yves Klein Imi Knoebel John Cage Alan Kaprow Rolf Julius Conrad Schnitzler Robert Rauschenberg Harry Bertoia Claus Böhmler Hanne Darboven Jean Dubuffet Nam June Paik Stuart Sherman Christian Marclay Lawrence Weiner Valie Export Reiner Ruthenbeck Zoviet France Keith Sonnier Andy Warhol Albert Oehlen Sarkis Arthur Køpcke Michael Snow Ursula Block Gelbe Musik / Berlin Galerie Vorsetzen / Hamburg Art Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Fluxus

End of the Century Club 2 (Deathtpia in Suburbia)
September 1996

1996, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the second volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This second volume, "Deathtpia in Suburbia", has the feature theme of Horror! Bizarre! Bizarre! Cruelty! and is packed to the absolute brim with "corpses, freaks, spectacles, murders, suicides, autopsies, rapes, sickness, pain, accident, war, religious rituals, violence, forensics, foetuses. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Suehiro Maruo (ero guro manga artist), Teruo Ishii (ero guro film director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, hara-kiri, murder, rape, slaughterhouse, forensic books, international underground magazines, Photobook of World Diseases, City of Sodom, corpses on the internet, Underground Baby Contest, Atlas of Dermatology, complete guide to Freaks movies, the Garbage Pail Kids, religious ceremonies, animal deformities, Interview with "The King of Cult" ero guro film director Teruo Ishii, bizarro sex, acrotomophila, artist Joel Peter Witkin's world, interview with Masaaki Aoyama, interview with corpse photographer Kotaro Kobayashi (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Billy, etc.), photography of George Dureau, interview with fetish film director and producer Kaoru Adachi, interview with experimental film director Shozin Fukui (Metal Days, Gerorisuto, Caterpillar, 964 Pinocchio, Rubber's Lover...), article on "Serial Killers & Record Junkies" by Toshihiko Hironaka (of Boris, Balzac, Hellbent fame), and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm.

Includes "gorgeous" 24-page high-quality corpse photo booklet feature and cover art by Trevor Brown.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Trevor Brown Teruo Ishii Masami Akita (Merzbow) Joel Peter Witkin Kaoru Adachi Shozin Fukui Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Suehiro Maruo Kotaro Kobayashi George Dureau Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masaaki Aoyama Core Magazine / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Japanese Photography Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Eros Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Crime / Violence Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

End of the Century Club 3 (The World You Don't Know)
1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the third volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This third volume, "The World You Don't Know", has the feature theme of exposing "a reality erased from everyday life", which sums it up... packed to the absolute brim with "freaks, corpses, bestiality, autopsies, fetal executions, lynchings, traffic accidents, plane crashes, amputee, heteromorphic animals, freak shows, corpse museums, shemales, etc. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Hideshi Hino (horror manga artist / Guinea Pig director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, human intersection, murder art show, lobster boy, 3D stereo photography hall of horrors, donkey fucker (please no!), strange diseases of the world, amputee lovers, siamese twins, deformed children, amazing Photo Press historical stories, animal deformities, huge Hideshi Hino art gallery, book guide and interview, ALARMA! photo gallery, Trevor Brown art gallery, corpse photography, columns and features on and by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Ultra Negative, Billy, etc.), Father Yod (YaHoWha 13) record guide, Medical Atlas by Naruhiko Tanaka, lots of noise record reviews by Masami Akita (Merzbow) inc. Smell & Quim, M.B., Lustmord, Ramleh, Genocide Organ, Richard Ramirez, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Whitehouse, Extreme Hair Stench, Genital Masticator, Traci Lords Loves Noise, Morder, etc., interview with artist Wes Benscoter (heavy metal illustrator for Slayer, Mortician, Kreator, Deceased, Cattle Decapitation, etc) on the occasion of his NG Gallery body painting show, complete Freak book library, and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm. Lots of full colour gore.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Smell & Quim Lustmord Ramleh Genocide Organ Whitehouse Morder Richard Ramirez Agoraphobic Nosebleed Extreme Hair Stench Genital Masticator Traci Lords Loves Noise Hideshi Hino Trevor Brown Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Wes Benscoter Core Magazine / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Film / Video Sound / Music Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Periodicals Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
Edited by Simon Ford

1999, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first 1999 edition of this definitive resource on the work of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.

"These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter - members of the seminal band Throbbing Gristle. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book.

Throbbing Gristle are widely lauded as the band that invented industrial music, and their influence can be observed across today's musical landscape: from house and techno to industrial death metal. Wherever experimental electronic music is being made, Throbbing Gristle's influence can be felt.

"Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country."

Heavily illustrated and complete with a chronological list of actions, concerts and exhibitions, discography, filmography, bibliography and much more, this heavy volume has become an invaluable and sought after resource on TG, COUM Transmissions, and Industrial Records.

Simon Ford is a freelance writer and art historian. He was previously Research Associate in Craft and Design and Curator of the Design Council Slide Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as being a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He received his PhD in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2000. He is the author of Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (1999, 2017, Black Dog Publishing). His most recent book is The Situationist International: A User's Guide (2006, Black Dog).

Very Good copy.

File under: COUM Transmissions Cosey Fanni Tutti Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle William S. Burroughs Derek Jarman Chris Carter Foxtrot Echo Fizzy Paet Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Simon Ford Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Counterculture Film / Video Theory / Essay

New Wave/ Post-Punk Graphics 1980- 2000

2024, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 13 x 17 cm
Published by Masala Noir / Paris

$40.00 - Out of stock

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New Wave & Post-Punk tape and vinyl graphics from 1980 to 2000 compiled by Masala Noir.

File under: Masala Noir / Paris Graphic Design / Typography Sound / Music Counterculture

Mike Kelley
Catholic Tastes

1993, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York

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Still, and will probably always be, the best book on Mike Kelley. First edition, now very collectible. This definitive survey was published in 1993 in conjunction with "Mike Kelley", a travelling exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, throughout 1994. Mike Kelley, one of the leading Californian artists of the 1990s, was a proponent of abject or pathetic art, an anti-aesthetic, anti-heroic movement, which criticized social and artistic issues through banality and humour. Exploring the work of this great and controversial performance artist and sculptor at the mid-way point in his career, this dense book presents thirteen essays, plus an introduction, discussing Kelley's projects, performances, and the ideas and diverse influences that motivate his work - contemporary art, rock and roll, social commentary and pop culture. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, with texts by Elizabeth Sussman, David Marsh, Richard Armstrong, Timothy Martin, Howard Singerman, Colin Gardner, Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney, John Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Kim Gordon, Howard N. Fox, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jutta Koether, Martin Prinzhorn, Paul Schimmel, John G. Hanhardt. No less! Includes a bibliography and exhibition history. Catalogue designed by Lorraine Wild and ReVerb.

Highly recommended.

Good—Very Good copy, with some general light wear to covers/spine.

File under: Mike Kelley Elizabeth Sussman David Marsh Richard Armstrong Timothy Martin Howard Singerman Colin Gardner Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney John Miller Ralph Rugoff Kim Gordon Howard N. Fox Diedrich Diederichsen Jutta Koether Martin Prinzhorn Paul Schimmel John G. Hanhardt Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

PANSY December 1978 Edition 11

1978, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Queer Kids / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Super rare glam rock issue of the super rare PANSY fanzine, published by Queer Kids in Tokyo in the 1970s. Never seen another issue ever before (apparently 12 were produced), PANSY applies the queer gaze to the world of glam rock, post punk, new romantic... T-Rex/Marc Bolan, New York Dolls, David Bowie, Japan, Slade, Roxy Music, Raped, Brats ... photographing, interviewing, and profiling the princes of the new androgynous wave with school diary visual sensibility and DIY hand-collage aesthetic throughout. Includes a New York Dolls family tree, loads of magazine clipped pictures, and hand-written Japanese texts. Very obscure, very charming, very Japanese.

Very Good copy with small previous sticker damage to top of spine (front/back), otherwise only light edge wear and age.

File under: T-Rex Marc Bolan New York Dolls David Bowie Japan Slade Roxy Music Raped Brats Queer Kids / Tokyo Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+

As Loud As Possible 1
The Noise Culture Magazine

2010, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by As Loud As Possible / UK

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Quickly out-of-print, inaugural and solitary volume of the UK noise music magazine, As Loud As Possible, published in 2010 and edited by Chris Sienko and Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound). Not surprisingly an instant collector's item, this first ambitious issue (named after the Incapacitants 1995 album) is packed with articles, interviews and reviews with both "seminal and newly emerging sound artists that specialize in atonal sonic brutality." Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Broken Flag (Maurizio Bianchi, Unkommuniti, Mauthausen Orchestra, Satori, Controlled Bleeding, Irritant, JFK, Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.), Con-Dom Sigillum S, Agog, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vortex Campaign, Le Syndicat, Krang....), No Fun, Putrefier, Sewer Election, The Haters, The Rita / Sam McKinlay, Zone Nord / Jean-Luc Angles (Blowhole, Prick Decay, Small Cruel Party), Cheapmachines, Climax Denial, Interchange fanzine, Alien Brains / Storm Bugs / Anti-Messthetics, and much more...

Contents: “Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock: “Artaud, Aktionkunst, Abreaction and Eb.er” : texts by Alice Kemp, accompanied by new drawings from Rudolf Eb.er, and a detailed “Aktiongraphy”; The Broken Flag Story: An extensive indepth interview with Gary Mundy, covering the career of Ramleh, the complete output of his legendary Broken Flag record label, and also featuring new interviews with the artists responsible for those releases, including: Maurizio Bianchi, Unkommuniti, Mauthausen Orchestra, Satori, Controlled Bleeding, Irritant, JFK, Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.), Con-Dom Sigillum S, Agog, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vortex Campaign, Le Syndicat, Krang and many more, plus unseen artwork and photographs; No Fun: Festival curator Carlos Giffoni talk about the New York festival's past, present and future, and covers his work with the No Fun Productions label. The Politics of HNW: The Rita’s Sam McKinlay talks about the obsessive nature of the harsh-head. Includes a list of Sam's essential Wall Noise picks spanning the past two decades. An excellent introduction to wall-riding; 30 Years of The Haters: G.X. Jupitter - Larsen provides a personal history, as well as a delineation of his ideas, methods, and tricks accrued over three decades. The inside story from the man who has made entropy his life's work. Putrefier: An interview with Mark Durgan, covering his twenty years in the UK's wilderness, from Birthbiter's heyday to the present-day. Includes reminiscences from Andy Bolus about their infamous duo project, Olympic Shit Man! Sewer Election: Sweden's loudest, Dan Johansson talks about his music, ideas, art and running a tape label. Interview by Mikko Aspa of Grunt; Zone Nord: An album -by- album look at the discography of this retired French noise legend, including brief commentary from Mr Zone Nord himself, Jean-Luc Angles; Apraxia: An interview with Patrick Barber, the man behind the label. Covers the output of this legendary label who released Blowhole, Prick Decay, Small Cruel Party and others in the early '90s; Cheapmachines: An interview with London sound-sculpter and all-'round sonic chameleon Phil Julian.
Climax Denial: An interview with this Milwaukee-based Power Electronics lecher, including an album-by-album analysis; Alien Brains, Storm Bugs and Anti-Messthetics: A study of the non-careers of two early eighties UK outfits that were very much connected. Includes input from some of the key players, plus lots of vintage artwork; Interchange: A look at this influential UK fanzine from the mid-80s, plus an interview with its creator, John Smith. Tunnel Canary: G. X. Jupitter - Larsen tells us about his first memories in Vancouver of this volatile bunch. IDES: An overview of the primary output of this American tape label, and an interview with its owner, Nicole Chambers; Classic Albums: A regular feature dedicated to both in-depth analysis and memories of overlooked but not forgotten gems from yesteryear. Issue #1 features articles on The Lemon Kittens (We Buy A Hammer For Daddy), XX Committee (Network) and RJF (Greater Success In Apprehensions & Convictions). A collection of thoughts and interviews, including an exclusive interview with ex- XX front-man, Scott Foust. Opinion Columns: A regular feature from a rotating pool of participatory players with the music they ponder. Includes John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Mikko Aspa (Grunt), Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound), Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone), Jonas Kellagher (Segerhuva), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Mark Wharton (Idwal Fisher) amongst others. Covering artists including Masonna, Vomir, and The Black Phelgm, and ranging from Bizarre Uproar all the way to Christian bluegrass bluegrass music! Extensive reviews section. Back cover artwork by Richard Rupenus (The New Blockaders).

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Broken Flag The Haters Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi) MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Le Syndicat Krang Giancarlo Toniutti Vortex Campaign Sigillum S Agog Sigillum S. Con-Dom Unkommuniti Mauthausen Orchestra Satori Controlled Bleeding Irritant JFK Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.) Lemon Kittens Blowhole Prick Decay Small Cruel Party Zone Nord Masonna Vomir The Black Phelgm Wolf Eyes Burning Star Core Idwal Fisher The Rita Sam McKinlay Putrefier Sewer Election Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck Alien Brains Storm Bugs Cheapmachines Climax Denial Chris Sienko Steve Underwood Gary Mundy Sam McKinlay As Loud As Possible / UK Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater

ADLIB Autumn 1973
MILES DAVIS Special issue

1973, Japanese
Softcover (w. poster), 318 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Swing Journal / Tokyo

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Super rare, MILES DAVIS special Autumn 1973 issue of ADLIB, Japan's magazine for jazz / fusion fans, published by Swing Journal. Heavy volume packed with Miles from all periods, loads of Electric Miles, Miles at home, Miles in the studio, Miles on tour, Miles live, an illustrated history of Miles' fashion styles by Yasuhiko Kobayashi, loads of rare photographs from around the world, a pull-out colour Miles Davis poster, interviews, in-depth articles, extensive discographies, history of collaborations, chronology, biography, records reviews, news, wild illustrations, and excellent Japanese home stereo and instrument advertising, many featuring Miles endoresments, naturally. A must for any fan!

Very Good copy.

File under: Miles Davis Swing Journal / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art

Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM

2010, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 26 x 18.5 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Lars Müller / Zürich

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Very rare copy of the first edition of Windfall Light: The Visual Language, edited by Lars Müller and published in 2010.

ECM Since its founding in 1969, ECM has been dedicated primarily to jazz and contemporary classical music and is a leading international label in both these fields. ECM has also received acclaim for its unique cover designs, which have always been an integral part of its productions. Over the years, the collaboration between Manfred Eicher, the label's founder and producer, and designers including Barbara Wojirsch, Dieter Rehm and Sascha Kleis has produced an aesthetic of the cover that initiates a dialogue between the photographic image and the music. After the highly acclaimed “Sleeves of Desire” of 1996, which offered an overview of ECM cover art, this volume presents the covers that have been created since then. These covers are arranged here in the form of a visual score that invites personal interpretations and individual discoveries. The entire collection of ECM cover art chronicles a program that has written modern music history — it is also a manifesto declaring the congruence of the visible and the audible in the form of the CD.

A veritable art book, beautifully designed and printed, “Windfall Light” is an insightful exploration of ECM’s visual aesthetics. This 448 page soft-cover book includes approximately 1300 colour and black and white illustrations, as well as penetrating essays by leading writers.

The volume includes a fully-illustrated catalogue of all of ECM's releases to date, incorporating all of the artwork featured in “Sleeves of Desire”, and offering an invaluable resource to collector's and enthusiasts of one of the world's most significant record labels.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Jan Garbarek Annette Peacock Barbara Wojirsch Carla Bley Chick Corea Dieter Rehm Don Cherry Eberhard Weber Evan Parker Gary Burton Gary Peacock John McLaughlin Keith Jarrett Manfred Eicher Meredith Monk Nana Vasconcelos Pat Metheny Paul Bley Ralph Towner Terje Rypdal Wolfgang Dauner Arvo Pärt Lars Müller Lars Müller / Zürich Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Graphic Design / Typography Photography Art

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

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

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

Very Good copy of book and CD.

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

Tapeworks : Art & Design of 80s Experimental Electronic Music

2024, English
Softcover, 132 pages, 16 x 12 cm
Published by Resampled / UK

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Selected cassette tape and vinyl artwork from experimental electronic music of the 1980s. Touching on industrial, noise, new wave, minimal, drone, sound art, ambient and more. A visual archive of the xerox scanned imagery, disorderly type and hand illustration used to present the decade's boundary-pushing music and abstract compositions.

File under: SPK Coil Masonna Christina Kubisch John Duncan MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Pascal Comelade Bourbonese Qualk Conrad Schnitzler Minimal Man Diamanda Galas Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Nord Anne Gillis Antonin Artaud Pseudo Code Die Form P16.D4 Sleep Chamber Mnemonists Storm Bugs Psychic TV Pornosect City of Worms Rob Smit Biota Hunting Lodge Resampled / UK Sound / Music Counterculture Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

MADE IN U.S.A.
Un Film de Jean-Luc Godard

?, French / Japanese
Hardcover, 48 pages (all heavy board), 18.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ? / Japan

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First and only edition of the Japanese Jean-Luc Godard "MADE IN U.S.A." film book. This photo souvenir book is printed on thick board pages and made up of full-colour stills from Godard's 1966 classic "MADE IN U.S.A.", starring Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Yves Afonso, and Marianne Faithfull. Includes text/dialogue fragments throughout in French; profiles on the actors, Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, producer Georges de Beauregard; lyrics to Marianne Faithfull's featured "As Tears Go By"; comic strip; and other texts in Japanese and French.

A very special collectable Godard book.

"With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—starring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave."

Very Good copy with some faint foxing/dustiness to pages.

File under: Marianne Faithfull Anna Karina Jean-Luc Godard ? / Japan Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Sonic Matters, Sonic Kollaborations
by Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Todd Alden

2008, English
Softcover (spiral bound w. acetate protector), unpaginated, 28 x 22 cm
Ed. of 200 copies,
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Printed Matter Inc. / New York

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The second, expanded edition of this now highly-collectible, limited edition compilation of materials by and about New York art rock band Sonic Youth.

Compiled by Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Printed Matter in the summer of 2000, Sonic Matters, Sonic Kollaborations is a sort of Sonic Youth super ‘zine, with over 220 photocopied pages including essays, interviews, ephemera, memorabilia, photographs, writings, gig flyers, posters, letters, song lyrics, poetry, angry fan mail, art work, record covers and related material. Includes a rambling, poetic essay by Moore on the Youth’s roots in–and ongoing relationship with–the art community, as well as the original exhibition proposals by curator, Todd Alden.

“Sonic Youth’s music explores the sometimes liberating, sometimes repressive + always complexx tensions between subjectivity + mass culture, sexuality + mass media, abjection and the star sy$tem. It is these leitmotifs which also find graphic expression, appropriately enough, in the elegantly degraded poetics of the band’s printed matter and ephemera.” ––from the exhibition introduction by Todd Alden, edited and transcribed directly onto the walls of Printed Matter by Thurston Moore.

This expanded edition goes even further, featuring extra bonus materials.

Good copy but with some marking/creasing to transparent acetate cover and marking to black acetate back cover, interior Good—VG with some marking to block edge.

File under: Sonic Youth Thurston Moore Lee Ranaldo Todd Alden Printed Matter Inc. / New York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture

Roland Dahinden, Sol LeWitt
Collaboration (Sound Sculpture Wall Drawing)

1997, English / German
Hardcover (cloth-bound) case, 2 x audio cds, 20 page booklet, 28 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Extraplatte / Austria Steirischer Herbst / Graz

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Scarce copy of Roland Dahinden, Sol LeWitt — Collaboration (Sound Sculpture Wall Drawing), a deluxe clothbound 2 x CD and book set published by Extraplatte and Steirischer Herbst, Austria. Commissioned by steirischer herbst 97, Kuppelsaal, Landesmuseum Joanneum, A-8010 Graz, Austria, 5.10. - 3.12. 1997. Includes the works: 1-1 PENTAS For Piano, String 4 And Live Electronics (Robert Höldrich, Tetras Streichquartett, Hildegard Kleeb, Gerhard Hüttl) 52:23; 2-1 PENTAS For 5 Loudspeakers (Remix Of The Sound Installation) (Dimitrios Polisoidis, Robert Höldrich) 1:00:12; Sol LeWitt — wall drawing #832 — Irregular red and blue special. Packaged in a cloth-bound hardcover folder/case, containing the two CDs and book with bi-lingual English/German liner notes. A folded image of Sol Lewitt's wall drawing is glued onto the inner side of the front cover.

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (1928 – 2007) was one of the most distinctive and influential American artists of the 20th century. He shaped and defined many of the century's most cerebral "isms", notably minimalism and conceptualism.

Roland Dahinden (b. 1962) is a Swiss trombonist and composer specializing in the performance of contemporary music and improvisation/jazz. He studied trombone and composition in Switzerland, Austria, Italy (with Vinko Globokar) and the US (with Alvin Lucier). Composers such as Peter Ablinger, Maria de Alvear, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Peter Hansen, Hauke Harder, Bernhard Lang, Joelle Léandre, Alvin Lucier, Chris Newman, Pauline Oliveros, Hans Otte, Lars Sandberg, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Daniel Wolf and Christian Wolff have written especially for him.

Near Fine copy all-round.

File under: Roland Dahinden Sol LeWitt Extraplatte / Austria Steirischer Herbst / Graz Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sound / Music Art

Avant No. 11, Spring 1999
Jazz, Improvised and Contemporary Classical Music

1999, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Avant Magazine / Essex

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Featuring the Baschet Brothers' Sculpture Sonores, Cecil Taylor, Max Roach, John Cale, Eliane Radigue, Pierre Favre, Mauricio Kagel, Annae Lockwood, and many more. In-depth articles, interviews, reviews, all heavily illustrated.

Good copy, light wear, missing CD.

File under: Bernard Baschet François Baschet François Baschet and Bernard Baschet Cecil Taylor Max Roach John Cale Eliane Radigue Pierre Favre Mauricio Kagel Annae Lockwood Avant Magazine / Essex Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies

2016, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 22 x 28.5 cm
Ed. of 1500,
Published by Cultural Traffic / London Dashwood Books / New York

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Foreword by Toby Mott
Designed by Jamie Andrew Reid
Edition of 1,500

The ultimate punk bible! From Kathy Acker to Grace Jones, Cosey Fanni Tutti to Bruce LaBruce and Richard Prince, Showboat explores the relationship between punk and sex as seen through original posters, flyers, record covers, photographs and ephemera drawn from Toby Mott’s own punk archive.

Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies delves into the intersection of sex and punk, exploring how each influences and is influenced by the other. As a radical subculture, punk enjoyed the freedom to address sex openly, unencumbered by mainstream censorship. This uninhibited expression of sexuality imbued punk with its rawness and immediacy.

Spanning from 1972 to the present day, Showboat offers a chronological exploration of the dynamic relationship between punk and sex. Drawing from The Mott Collection, the exhibition features original posters, flyers, record covers, photographs, and ephemera. Additionally, contributions from notable figures such as Julie Burchill, Paul Cook, Vivien Goldman, Eve Libertine, Bruce LaBruce, Amos Poe, Richard Prince, and Will Self provide further insight into this captivating intersection.

File under: Jamie Reid Divine Cosey Fanni Tutti Toby Mott Cultural Traffic / London Dashwood Books / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Counterculture Eros Fashion Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare