World Food Books

TENSION 11
Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 50 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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Tension 11 (Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987) features Brett Whiteley (interview by Phillip Adams), Stieg Persson (interview by Ashley Crawford), Jean-Marc Lepechoux (interview by Ashley Crawford), Peter Greenaway (interview by Ashley Crawford), Derek Jarman (interview by Melanie Brellis), "Godard, Mieville" (by Adrian Martin), Elfi Mikesch & Monika Trent (interview by Amree Hewitt), Neil Jordon, gallerists Mary Boone & Michael Werner (by Paul Taylor), RAW : Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (interview by Kerri Phillips), Run DMC / Def Jam Records (by Peter Grace), and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Stieg Persson Brett Whiteley Peter Greenaway Derek Jarman Jean-Luc Godard Elfi Mikesch Monika Trent Jean-Marc Lepechoux Neil Jordon Art Spiegelman Francoise Mouly Anne-Marie Miéville Ashley Crawford Melanie Brellis Paul Taylor Amree Hewitt Tension / South Yarra Art Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Photography Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

TENSION 12
Australian and International Arts : December 1987

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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Tension 12 (Australian and International Arts : December 1987) features Geoff Lowe (interview by Ashley Crawford), Jim Jarmusch (interview by Kerry Doole), Lindy Lee (by Ted Colless), Wim Wenders (by Melanie Brellis), "Images from Japan" (by Ashley Crawford), Nick Cave (interview by Melanie Brellis), 4AD Records (interview by Bruce Elder), Trisha Brown (interview by Shelley Lasica), Syd Mead (interview by Chad Taylor), "Dennis Hopper: Out of the Sixties" by Robin Barden, "Television: A New Aesthetic", Paul Morley's ASK reviewed by McKenzie Wark, and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Paul Morley Shelley Lasica Trisha Brown Nick Cave Jim Jarmusch Lindy Lee Wim Wenders Dennis Hopper Geoff Lowe Syd Mead Paul Morley McKenzie Wark Robin Barden Melanie Brellis Ted Colless Kerry Doole Tension / South Yarra Art Australian Art Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Feminism Film / Video Sound / Music Conceptual Art Curatorial Photography Architecture / Interior

TENSION 16
Australian and International Arts : May 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 56 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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TENSION 16 (Australian and International Arts : May 1989) features articles on Robert Hunter, Lyndal Jones, Malcolm McLaren, Robert Pearce, Andy Warhol, "AIDS, ARTS & SOCIETY", "Trash & Junk Culture" by Adrian Martin w. Philip Brophy, Maria Kozic, Andrew and Ian Haig, "The Liberated Page", "Nightwatch" by Ted Colless, Tim Burns, Angus Jones, Bette Mifsud, and more.

Good copy but cover torn.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Robert Hunter Lyndal Jones Malcolm McLaren Andy Warhol Philip Brophy Maria Kozic Andrew Haig Ian Haig Tim Burns Angus Jones Bette Mifsud Robert Pearce Ashley Crawford Ted Colless Adrian Martin Charles Green Paul Taylor Rex Butler Mary Anne Staniszewski Tension / South Yarra Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Australian Art Curatorial Conceptual Art Counterculture Feminism

TENSION 17
Australian and International Arts : August 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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TENSION 17 (Australian and International Arts : August 1989) features articles on Mike Brown, Peter Halley, Cindy Sherman, Jon Cattapan, Jan Nelson, Paul Boston, Adam Rish, Carole Roberts, Luke Roberts, Carlo Mollino, "The Art of Photography", "Video", Horst, "The Designers' Designers" by Emma Dent Coed (on the art directors, designers, and visual marketing behind fashion designers such as Yohji Yamamoto, Dries Van Noten, John Galliano, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons, etc. inc. Peter Saville, Nick Knight, etc.), and "Aboriginal Art Now : A Survey of Artists and Issues", inc. the work of Gordon Bennett, Jarinyanu David Downs, Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls, Tim Johnson, a review by Lin Onus, and more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Gordon Bennett Tim Johnson Horst P. Horst Jarinyanu David Downs Trevor Nickolls Rover Thomas Mike Brown Peter Halley Cindy Sherman Jon Cattapan Jan Nelson Paul Boston Adam Rish Carole Roberts Luke Roberts Carlo Mollino John Barbour Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons John Galliano Dries Van Noten Yohji Yamamoto Nick Knight Peter Saville Dirk Bikkembergs Ashley Crawford Rex Butler John Barbour Catherine Lumby Paul Taylor Bob Lingard Vivien Johnson Adrian Martin Richard Haese Lin Onus Tension / South Yarra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Painting Feminism Photography Sound / Music Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

TENSION 19
SPECIAL EDITION : A CHRONICLE OF AUSTRALIAN ART 1980-1989

1990, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 88 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

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TENSION 19 (SPECIAL EDITION : FROM LEANTIME TO DREAMTIME - A CHRONICLE OF AUSTRALIAN ART 1980-1989) packs a concise year-by-year look-back at the exhibitions, artists, galleries, concerts, performances, publications, clubs, politics, influences that shaped Australian Art in the 1980s, compiled "in one week". Features contributions from writers Catherine Lumby, Charles Green, Chris McAuliffe, and Francis Pound (looking at NZ Art) and features the work of far too many artists to mention.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Geoff Lowe John Nixon Jenny Watson David Chesworth Philip Brophy Maria Kozic Albert Tucker Arthur Boyd Robert Macpherson Imants Tillers Gunter Christmann John Davis Peter Tyndall Tony Clark Jillian Orr Mike Parr Robert Klippel Peter Cripps Richard Dunn Juan Davila John Walker Robert Owen Gareth Sansom Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Tim Johnson Susan Norrie Fred Williams Fraser Fair Robert Rooney Julie Brown-Rrap John Dunkley-Smith Dale Frank Peter Booth Janet Burchill Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley Carole Roberts Lindy Lee Stieg Persson John Olsen Howard Arkley Fiona McDonald John Young Bill Henson Linda Marrinon Lyndal Jones Ken Unsworth Vivienne Shark LeWitt John Brack Ernie Althoff Warren Burt Essendon Airport The Connotations Use No Hooks Primitive Calcultors Severed Heads Slugfuckers SPK Laughing Hands Anne Zahalka Elizabeth Gower Robert Jacks Michael Johnson Elizabeth Pulie A.D.S. Donaldson Melinda Harper Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Elizabeth Newman Stephen Bram Vivien Johnson Wally Caruana Debra Dawes Lin Onus Makers of the Dead Travel Fast Sidney Nolan Paul Foss Rex Butler Sue Cramer Catherine Lumby Charles Green Chris McAuliffe Francis Pound Ashley Crawford Ted Colless Paul Taylor Tension / South Yarra Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Theory / Essay Film / Video Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Fashion Photography Art

TENSION 20
Avant-Garde Art In The USSR - Australian and International Arts : March 1990

1990, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good

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TENSION 20 ("Avant-Garde Art In The USSR" - Australian and International Arts : March 1990) features texts by Elizabeth Newman and Imants Tillers, articles on Julian Schnabel, Cyberspace, Peter Greenaway, Frida Kahlo, "Peewee meets Robocop : Films of the '80s" by Adrian Martin, "Towards a Post-Pop Language : Books of the '80s" by McKenzie Wark, and a huge cover feature "Avant-Garde Art In The USSR", with essays by Meryl Ryan, Ashley Crawford, Viktor Misiano, Dmitry Prigov, and Elena Pivovarova. Plus, news, letters, reviews (Kosuth, Nixon, etc.) and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Joseph Kosuth John Nixon Elizabeth Newman Imants Tillers Frida Kahlo Julian Schnabel Peter Greenaway Periodicals Australian Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Fashion Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art

Sense Sound Sound Sense
Fluxus Music Scores & Records - Luigi Bonotto Collection

2016, English / Italian
Softcover, 216 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Danilo Montanari Editore / Ravenna

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Luigi Bonotto dedicated himself to keeping the work of the artists of Fluxus and Experimental Poetry alive, and to preserving, cataloguing, and promoting their poetry, music, and work, which was strongly influenced by John Cage and the key concept of his theoretical framework, indeterminacy. Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Patrizio Peterlini and Walter Rovere, with the collaboration of Giorgio Maffei, this catalogue delves deeply into this aspect of the Fluxus network. Rife with illustrations, the materials of the collection, as well as the movement and its history, are analysed in scholarly essays by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Alison Knowles, and the curators.

features the work of Henning Christiansen, Wolf Vostell, Eric Andersen, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Esther Ferrer, Juan Hidalgo, Dick Higgins, Robert Filliou, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Ligeti, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Walter Marchetti, Charlotte Moorman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Terry Riley, Mieko Shiomi, Takako Saito, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Ben Vautier, Yoshimasa Wada, La Monte Young and others.

Out of Print.

File under: Ben Patterson Ben Vautier Charlotte Moorman Dick Higgins Eric Andersen Esther Ferrer George Brecht George Maciunas Gianni-Emilio Simonetti Giuseppe Chiari György Ligeti Henning Christiansen Jackson Mac Low Joe Jones John Cage Juan Hidalgo La Monte Young Mieko Shiomi Milan Knizak Nam June Paik Philip Corner Robert Filliou Shigeko Kubota Sylvano Bussotti Takako Saito Takehisa Kosugi Terry Riley Toshi Ichiyanagi Walter Marchetti Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono Yoshimasa Wada Alison Knowles Anna Cestelli Guidi Patrizio Peterlini Walter Rovere Danilo Montanari Editore / Ravenna Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Just Another Asshole #6

2018, English
Softcover, 192 pages,
Edition of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Just Another Asshole was an influential and now-legendary mixed-media publication series edited by Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987. The submission process was open and collaborative, and each issue was produced in a different format (e.g., limited-edition zine by Ess, tabloid-sized graphic arts magazine, 4 pages in an issue of Artforum, photography book, LP record album, paperback book). Several were edited with Jane Sherry or Glenn Branca.

Issue 6 of the magazine, co-edited with Branca, was published in the form of a pulp paperback book with writings by sixty-one artists from the early-80s downtown scene. It includes short stories, performance transcripts, aphorisms, plays, monologues, screenplays, and essays that offer a window into the gritty and dynamic culture of New York City before gentrification pushed the underground out of Lower Manhattan.

Contributors include Kathy Acker, Lindsay Amos, Constance Ash, Josh Baer, Barbara Barg, Judith Barry, Nan Becker, Eric Bogosian, Glenn Branca, Brian Buczak, Mitch Corber, Peter Cummings, Margaret De Wys, Bradley Eros, Barbara Ess, Richard Fantina, Dorothea Franck, Matthew Geller, Michael Gira, Jack Goldstein, Dan Graham, Rudolph Grey, Sue Hanel, Jenny Holzer, Peggy Katz, Barbara Kruger, Beth Lapides, Joe Lewis, Amanda Linn, Carla Liss, Meredith Lund, Matthew Maguire, Aline Psyche Mare, Sam Marshall Harvey, Alan Moore, Richard Morrison, Cookie Mueller, Peter Nadin, Joseph Nechvatal, Richard Prince, Lee Ranaldo, David Rattray, Mike Roddy, David Rosenbloom, Ann Rower, Arleen Schloss, Jane Sherry, Kiki Smith, Michael Smith, Jim Sutcliffe, Fiona Templeton, Wharton Tiers, Lynne Tillman, Anne Turyn, Gail Vachon, S.Weisser, Sally A. White, Reese Williams, Martha Wilson, Stephan Wischerth, David Wojnarowicz, and Linda Yablonsky.

Barbara Ess is an artist living and working in New York City and upstate New York. She uses photography, video, and sound to make her work, which has been shown widely in the United States and Europe. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College.

Glenn Branca was a composer whose work included music for experimental rock bands, large ensemble instrumentals for electric guitars, symphonies for both electric instrumentation and acoustic orchestras, chamber ensemble pieces, an opera, a ballet, choral works, and music for film, dance, theater, and art installations. He was an early pioneer of the no wave punk scene that emerged in downtown New York in the late ’70s.

Edition of 2000

File under: David Wojnarowicz Kiki Smith Michael Smith Glenn Branca Judith Barry Richard Prince Jack Goldstein Dan Graham Barbara Kruger Jenny Holzer Kathy Acker Lindsay Amos Constance Ash Josh Baer Barbara Barg Judith Barry Nan Becker Eric Bogosian Glenn Branca Brian Buczak Mitch Corber Peter Cummings Margaret De Wys Bradley Eros Barbara Ess Richard Fantina Dorothea Franck Matthew Geller Michael Gira Jack Goldstein Dan Graham Rudolph Grey Sue Hanel Jenny Holzer Peggy Katz Barbara Kruger Beth Lapides Joe Lewis Amanda Linn Carla Liss Meredith Lund Matthew Maguire Aline Psyche Mare Sam Marshall Harvey Alan Moore Richard Morrison Cookie Mueller Peter Nadin Joseph Nechvatal Richard Prince Lee Ranaldo David Rattray Mike Roddy David Rosenbloom Ann Rower Arleen Schloss Jane Sherry Kiki Smith Michael Smith Jim Sutcliffe Fiona Templeton Wharton Tiers Lynne Tillman Anne Turyn Gail Vachon S.Weisser Sally A. White Reese Williams Martha Wilson Stephan Wischerth David Wojnarowicz Linda Yablonsky. Primary Information / New York Fiction / Poetry Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

DEAD AT SLUGS'
Nik Kamvissis

2019, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 23.5 x 20.5 cm
Ed. 0f 200,
Published by Ruin Press / Sydney

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With an accompanying essay by Francis Plagne
Limited to 200 copies

"Punter’s Club, 2001: the set started when he threw himself against the wall, amplified of course. The crying began then didn’t stop. He hit the microphone repeatedly with his forrid, initiating a hypnotic rhythm with intermittent irregularities, frizzy hair jagged. The ritual had begun, everyone was in. After a sustained 10 minute crescendo, Rizili went out into the street, using the pole outside Joe’s Garage the same way as he used the microphone. The crowd followed, bystanders were agape. By the time he ran down Brunswick St, wheezing at an alarming volume, the club was going off, everyone high on possibility, amazed to be there. The set kind of ended when no one knew where Nik was.

I’m writing in Berlin, it’s raining and I was going to go to a gig tonight, but already knew what it sounded like so I didn't. The avant-garde has auto-dissolved once again, at least in this town. Gig’s like Rizili’s don’t happen here, and if they do they’re documented into a tidy art-history oblivion, contextualised into suffocation, given no room to stand free and for themselves. There’s no Berlin MS: a Menstruation Sisters gig comes off genuinely unhinged, pure animal energy distilled into sound.

These drawings capture the unnameable energy of those gigs, an astonishing nexus of detail and mess, a mutation of reference and alterity, another lineage of thought altogether. The visual articulation of the psyche, the clarity of form, its explosion into these exquisite beauties shifts our perception of what figurative drawing can be. These images could only gestate in the most disciplined and isolated of minds, living in stern denial of the comfy pull towards corporate arts hell, creating space to quietly formulate ideas that transcend any concept of relation or community."

Anthony Pateras, 2018.

File under: Anthony Pateras Nik Kamvissis Menstruation Sisters Francis Plagne Ruin Press / Sydney Sound / Music Drawing Australian Art SALE

Documenta 6
Complete 3 volume boxset, plus booklet

1977, German
Heavy card slipcase (4 vols.), 323 pages; 357 pages; 378 pages; 40 pages; 21 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Paul Dierich / Kassel

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Complete 3 volume boxset exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta 6, the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, Germany, and the artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger. The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition.

Box contains volume 1: painting - sculpture - performance (320 pages) / volume 2: photography - film - video (357 pages) / volume 3: drawings - utopian design - books (376 pages + show) / special edition of exhibition information booklet (40 pages + show); essays by Lothar Romain, Bazon Brock, Karl Oskar Blase, Klaus Honnef, Evelyn Weiss, Manfred Schneckenburger, Arnold Bode, Wieland Schmied, and Lothar Lang.

Artists featured throughout include Francis Bacon, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerd Baukhage, Enzo Cacciola, Louis Cane, Chuck Close, Ulrich Erben, Winfred Gaul, Raimund Girke, Kuno Gonschior, Camille Graeser, Gotthard Graubner, Nancy Graves, Alan Green, Richard Hamilton, Heijo Hangen, Bernhard Heisig, Michael Heizer, Edgar Hofschen, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Attila Kovács, László Lakner, Roy Lichtenstein, Markus Lüpertz, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Gerhard Merz, Rune Mields, Carmengloria Morales, Malcolm Morley, Claudio Olivieri, Roman Opalka, Palermo, A.R. Penck, Lucio Pozzi, Hans-Peter Reuter, Gerhard Richter, Claude Rutault, Willi Sitte, Frank Stella, Werner Tübke, Bernar Venet, Andy Warhol, Reindert Wepko van de Wint, Gianfranco Zappetini, Jerry Zeniuk, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Christian Boltanski, Bettina Brand, Heinz Breloh, James Collins, Zdenek Felix, Reinhold Hohl, Gabrielle Honnef-Harling, Erich Kuby, Werner Lippert, Bernd Lohse, Felix H. Mann, Hilmar Pabel, Georg Reinhardt, Liselotte Strelow, Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Peter Ackermann, Michael von Biel, Fernando Botero, Miguel Condé, Renato Guttoso, Horst Janssen, Giacomo Manzù, Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Schmitz, Rudolf Schoofs, André Thomkins, Bodo Baumgarten, Blythe Bohnen, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Rupprecht Geiger, Hetum Gruber, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Nino Malfatti, Bob Ryman, Jan Schoonhoven, Lee U-Fan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick.

Texts in German.

Also includes an exhibition guide booklet in the same format as the 3 main catalogue volumes.
Good copy throughout with general tanning and age wear to box and books, some knocking and tape-mended cracking to the box binding corners and edging.

File under: Lothar Romain Arnold Bode Manfred Schneckenburger Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Lothar Lang Francis Bacon Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerd Baukhage Enzo Cacciola Louis Cane Chuck Close Ulrich Erben Winfred Gaul Raimund Girke Kuno Gonschior Camille Graeser Gotthard Graubner Nancy Graves Alan Green Richard Hamilton Heijo Hangen Bernhard Heisig Michael Heizer Edgar Hofschen Jasper Johns Willem de Kooning Attila Kovács László Lakner Roy Lichtenstein Markus Lüpertz Wolfgang Mattheuer Gerhard Merz Rune Mields Carmengloria Morales Malcolm Morley Claudio Olivieri Roman Opalka Palermo A.R. Penck Lucio Pozzi Hans-Peter Reuter Gerhard Richter Claude Rutault Willi Sitte Frank Stella Werner Tübke Bernar Venet Andy Warhol Reindert Wepko van de Wint Gianfranco Zappetini Jerry Zeniuk Bernhard Johannes Blume Christian Boltanski Bettina Brand Heinz Breloh James Collins Zdenek Felix Reinhold Hohl Gabrielle Honnef-Harling Erich Kuby Werner Lippert Bernd Lohse Felix H. Mann Hilmar Pabel Georg Reinhardt Liselotte Strelow Ann Wilde Jürgen Wilde Peter Ackermann Michael von Biel Fernando Botero Miguel Condé Renato Guttoso Horst Janssen Giacomo Manzù Pablo Picasso Wolfgang Schmitz Rudolf Schoofs André Thomkins Bodo Baumgarten Blythe Bohnen Pinchas Cohen Gan Rupprecht Geiger Hetum Gruber Eva Hesse Sol LeWitt Nino Malfatti Robert Ryman Jan Schoonhoven Lee U-Fan Wieland Schmied Rainer Werner Fassbinder Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Bernd and Hilla Becher Lothar Romain Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Manfred Schneckenburger Arnold Bode Wieland Schmied Lothar Lang Paul Dierich / Kassel Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Dada Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Pop Art Sound / Music Fluxus

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Jane Birkin

1979, French
Softcover, 192 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editions PAC / Paris

$90.00 - Out of stock

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One of the earliest and scarcest books dedicated to the great French actress and singer, Jane Birkin. Written by Jean-Philippe Thomann and published in 1979, this heavily illustrated volume forms an early biography of her personal life and an important document capturing her diverse and challenging career as actress (working with Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Doillon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Rivette, to name a few), model, singer, and her work in theatre. Photographs, film stills, magazine covers, film posters and record jackets are accompanied by hand-written notes by Birkin, a filmography, discography and much more.

Very good copy with light wear and light peeling to cover laminate. Crisp copy throughout.

File under: Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg Jean-Philippe Thomann Editions PAC / Paris Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

E.A.T. (Experiments In Art and Technology)

2018, English / Korean
Softcover, 380 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Seoul

$105.00 - Out of stock

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, this volume delves into the groundbreaking activities of E.A.T., a non-profit organisation that began actively promoting and exploring the union of art and technology in 1966. The brainchild of artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman and engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, it aimed to expand the social role of artists and counteract feelings of alienation brought on by rapid technological advancement. The group hoped to inspire new directions for research, and also to serve as a catalyst in fostering technologies more attuned to the needs of the individual.

Profusely illustrated throughout with photographic documentation and archival material.

File under: Robert Breer Claes Oldenburg John Cage Robert Rauschenberg Robert Whitman National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Seoul Sound / Music Art Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

VINYL : Records & Covers by Artists
Edited by Guy Schraenen

2005, English / German
Softcover, 270 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen

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This large, detailed catalogue forms a unique and important document, which was produced to accompany an exhibition at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 21.8. - 27.11.2005 and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 16.5. - 1.10.2006 showcasing a selection of some 800 pieces from the collection of Guy Schraenen. The main of this collection comprises vinyl records and covers by artists, musicians and poets in LP, single and other formats, alongside other sound media (tapes and CDs). Posters and books are also included. The exhibition shows artists (such as Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley, Öyvind Fahlström, Art & Language and Hermann Nitsch) and artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century through this complex medium of the vinyl cover, with its dual visual and audible components. Here Guy Schraenen has edited together an extensive visual catalogue of these historical objects.

A wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of modern sound art and the artistic medium of the vinyl sleeve, especially in the fields of Avantgarde, Electro-Acoustic, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Sound-Poetry, Art Rock, Industrial, Power-Electronics....

Henri Chopin, A.R. Penck, Brion Gysin, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Arman, Karel Appel, Öyvind Fahlström, Pierre Henry, Art & Language, Peter Brötzmann, Red Krayola, Ernst Jandl, Vito Acconci, Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Tony Conrad, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Jean Tinguely, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Terry Fox, Terry Riley, Sun Ra, Pandit Pran Nath, Albrecht/d., Robert Ashley, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Poly Bury, Charlemagne Palestine, Carl Andre, Brian Eno, Mike Kelley, Sonic Youth, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Michael Snow, Roland Topor, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik ... just the tip of the iceberg.

Very Good copy of the rare first printing from Bremen.

File under: A.R. Penck Albrecht/d. Andy Warhol Arman Bob Cobbing Brian Eno Brion Gysin Carl Andre Charlemagne Palestine Derek Bailey Dieter Roth Ernst Jandl George Brecht Han Bennink Hanne Darboven Harold Budd Henri Chopin Henry Flynt Hermann Nitsch Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely John Cage Jon Gibson Joseph Beuys Karel Appel La Monte Young Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner Marcel Duchamp Marian Zazeela Meredith Monk Michael Nyman Michael Snow Mike Kelley Nam June Paik Pandit Pran Nath Peter Brötzmann Philip Glass Pierre Henry Pierre Schaeffer Pol Bury Red Krayola Robert Ashley Robert Filliou Roland Topor Roman Opalka Sonic Youth Steve Reich Sun Ra Terry Fox Terry Riley Tony Conrad Vito Acconci Yoko Ono Yves Klein Öyvind Fahlström Art & Language Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen Art Dada Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Pop Art Sound / Music Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Boooook: The Life And Work Of Bob Cobbing

2015, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Occasional Papers / London

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This is the first comprehensive overview of the life and work of the pioneering British concrete and sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002). 'Boooook' addresses all aspects of Cobbing's career, with essays detailing his key roles in Better Books, London Film-makers' Co-op and the abAna trio, as well as his involvement in the Destruction in Art Symposium, Fylkingen and Writers Forum. Edited by William Cobbing and Rosie Cooper – and illustrated with reproductions of artworks, documents, posters, poems and film stills from the Bob Cobbing family collection – Boooook features contributions by Adrian Clarke, Arnaud Desjardin, Sanne Krogh Groth, Will Holder, Gustav Metzger, Andrew Wilson, and others.

File under: Bob Cobbing Will Holder Adrian Clarke Andrew Wilson Arnaud Desjardin Gustav Metzger Sanne Krogh Groth Will Holder Occasional Papers / London Art Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Sound / Music

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
ISSUE NO. 112 / DECEMBER 2018 "NOISE/SILENCE"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Issue # 112 of Texte zur Kunst, “Noise/Silence,” focuses on these two sonic extremes that define the boundaries of the audible, framing all possible sonic expressions therein. Given the emergence of sound as its own field of inquiry within the arts, and the development of newer media forms for sound production, can we still reliably argue that noise and silence are open to artists and musicians today in the ways that they were for Luigi Russolo in his 1913 manifesto, “The Art of Noises;” or, in John Cage’s writings on silence? In our analysis and judgment on the contemporary significance of noise and silence within sound and music, we are also questioning the potential for radical gestures with sound tout court—the all or nothing. What is left for music and sonic interventions today? What kinds of subversive noises can be marshaled against the deafening silence? And where, if anywhere, can silence provide a shelter from the relentless noise from the outside? We assembled a group of media historians and philosophers to give us a theoretical orientation in this shifting sonic landscape, and also asked four artists/musicians to weigh in on the possibility for radical gestures in their own practice. The results offer a much-needed revision of the terms for sound in the arts today.

Issue No. 112 / December 2018 "Noise/Silence"

Table Of Contents
Forward
Preface

Rolf Grossmann - Silence, Sound, Noise / Aesthetic And Media-Technological Observations
Ute Holl - Excavating Silence
Fiona Mcgovern - Curating Sound
Sound Rules / Colin Lang And Cevdet Erek In Conversation
Michaela Melián - Electric Ladyland
Andrea Neumann - Production By Subtraction
Arto Lindsay
Puce Moment

New Development
Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit / Angus Nicholls On The Mythic Structures Behind Brexit

Rotation
Metabolismen Der Moderne / André Rottmann Über „Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren Einer Antimodernen Ästhetik“ Von Kerstin Stakemeier
Migration Und Film Denken / Nanna Heidenreich Über Brigitta Kusters „Grenze Filmen“
The Third Persona / Amanda Schmitt On Ben Lerner And Anna Ostoya’s “The Polish Rider”

Klang Körper
Figuring Space / Steven Warwick On Catherine Christer Hennix

Reviews
This Is The Rented Moment / Nicolás Guagnini On Jack Smith At Artists Space, New York
Konzeptueller Fehlschlag / Fabio Cypriano Über Die 33. Biennale In São Paulo
Enjoy Your Sinthome / Sven Lütticken On Dora García At The Reina Sofía, Madrid
Artists Must Begin Helping Themselves / Pedro De Llano On Stephan Dillemuth At A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto
Der Traumzauberbaum / Inka Meißner Über Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Im Kunstverein Freiburg
Burnt By The Sun / Colin Lang On Katarina Sieverding At Manifesta 12, Palermo
Star Alliance / Alida Müschen Über Ei Arakawa Im Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Canon Fodder / Julia Pelta Feldman On Charline Von Heyl At Petzel Gallery, New York
Manspainting / Georg Imdahl Über Balthus In Der Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Case Of Urgency / Christina Catherine Martinez On Gerry Bibby At O-Town House, Los Angeles
Meshes Of The Platform Age / Jakob Schillinger On Loretta Fahrenholz At Mumok, Vienna
Re-Call, Re-Take, Represent / Rattanamol Singh Johal On Vivan Sundaram At The Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art, New Delhi And Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Grasping History / Frauke Zabel Über Karin Schneider Im Kunstverein Nürnberg
Stacked Cards / Ana Vogelfang On Pablo Accinelli At Malba, Buenos Aires
Computerkunst Jenseits Des Computers / Karel Císař Über „1968:Computer.Art“ In Brno
Abstraction Of The Body / Melissa Gordon On Amy Sillman At Camden Arts Centre, London
Feministischer Dekolonialismus Avant La Lettre / Michaela Wünsch Über Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Im Kulturzentrum Der Koreanischen Botschaft, Berlin
Where The Bodies Are Buried / Ana Teixeira Pinto On Roee Rosen At The Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chez Michel / Anke Dyes Über Henrik Olesen Im Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Obituary
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) / João Ribas
Klaus Herding (1939−2018) / Tom Holert

Edition
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jeanette Mundt
Wolfgang Tillmans

File under: Balthus Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Jeanette Mundt Wolfgang Tillmans Klaus Herding Helena Almeida Henrik Olesen Roee Rosen Amy Sillman Vivan Sundaram Gerry Bibby Loretta Fahrenholz Charline Von Heyl Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Ei Arakawa Stephan Dillemuth Dora García Jack Smith Cevdet Erek Arto Lindsay Tom Holert João Ribas Anke Dyes Ana Teixeira Pinto Melissa Gordon Rattanamol Singh Christina Catherine Martinez Jakob Schillinger Georg Imdahl Julia Pelta Feldman Pedro De Llano Sven Lütticken Nicolás Guagnini André Rottmann Amanda Schmitt Angus Nicholls Fiona Mcgovern Andrea Neumann Michaela Melián Ute Holl Rolf Grossmann Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Sound / Music

The Archive Series: #002 Action Time Vision
Punk & Post-Punk 7" Record Sleeves [Unit 26]

2016, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 23cm × 17cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Unit Editions / London

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The punk era transformed the world of music. If you could play three chords, you could make records. You didn’t even need a record label. You could start your own.

The same thing happened in graphic design. All you needed were a few a sheets of Letraset and access to a photocopier, and you could make your own record covers. And lots of people did just that.

The work in this book is culled from the record collections of designer (and Unit Editions co-founder) Tony Brook, and leading punk scholar Russ Bestley. As one of the world’s leading authorities on punk and post-punk music, Russ has contributed an insightful essay to the book.

The book also features interviews with designer Malcolm Garrett, Mute founder Daniel Miller and Sniffin’ Glue editor and musician Mark Perry.

United Edition's 'The Archive Series' is a bibliographic celebration of hidden and neglected visual archives. The Archive Series views graphic design as one of the ways to understand the semiotics of culture. United Editions is committed to the collection and preservation of printed specimens and graphic design artefacts to open up possibilities of decoding the past.

Edited by Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy
Consultant Editor - Russ Bestley
Design by Spin

Edition of 2000

File under: Mark Perry Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett Daniel Miller Mark Perry Unit Editions / London Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Sound / Music

Percy Grainger
by John Bird

1977, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 318 pages, 24 x 16 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Macmillan Company / South Melbourne

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With a prefatory note by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and an appreciation by Leopold Stokowski.

John Bird's acclaimed 1976 biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English." A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work.
This fully revised edition includes much new biographical material from John Bird's continuing research. Grainger's reputation and popularity as a uniquely individual composer continue to grow, and this book remains the definitive biography.

First Australian hardcover edition from 1977, Very Good-Fine, with inlayed collected Grainger press clippings, brochures, ticket stubbs, etc.

File under: Percy Grainger John Bird Benjamin Britten Leopold Stokowski Peter Pears Macmillan Company / South Melbourne Australian Art Art Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Sonic Agency : Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance
by Brandon LaBelle

2018, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by Goldsmiths Press / London

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A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.

In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic thought and imagination. He divides sound's functions into four figures of resistance—the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak—and argues for their role in creating alternative “unlikely publics” in which to foster mutuality and dissent. He highlights existing sonic cultures and social initiatives that utilize or deploy sound and listening to address conflict, and points to their work as models for a wider movement. He considers issues of disappearance and hidden culture, nonviolence and noise, creole poetics, and networked life, aiming to unsettle traditional notions of the “space of appearance” as the condition for political action and survival.

By examining the experience of listening and being heard, LaBelle illuminates a path from the fringes toward hope, citizenship, and vibrancy. In a current climate that has left many feeling they have lost their voices, it may be sound itself that restores it to them.

Brandon LaBelle is Professor in New Media in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary, Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life, and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art.

File under: Brandon LaBelle Goldsmiths Press / London Art Theory / Essay Sound / Music

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

Happening & Fluxus

1970, English / German
Softcover, 300 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln

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The great "Happening & Fluxus" book, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in 1970, curated by Harald Szeemann.
This exhaustive Fluxus document is illustrated heavily throughout and broken into two important sections : 1. Chronology 1959-1970 (a detailed cataloguing of this incredible period of happenings, actions, concerts, meals, exhibitions and any related events, illustrated with photography along with dates, locations, those involved, and reproductions of the related ephemera), 2. Bibliography 1959-1970 (again heavily illustrated with detailed cataloguing of printed material about Fluxus and related actions, artists, exhibitions, performances, as well as a detailed listing for each featured artist of their publications, writings, art editions, etc). Book includes works by Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Nam June Paik, Tetsumi Kudo, Tadeusz Kantor, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Claes Oldenburg, Alison Knowles, Robert Filliou, Stanley Brouwn, Bazon Brock, Joseph Beuys, Eric Anderson, Viennese Actionists, Charlotte Moorman, Günter Brus, Emmett Williams, Ben Vautier, Carolee Schneemann, Otto Muehl, Robert Watts, Al Hansen, Henry Flynt, Philip Corner, Henning Christiansen, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and many more.

First major compilation of this material compiled by Harald Szeemann to accompany a now legendary exhibition.

"There is neither here nor in the exhibition, a fix-ready answer to the question: What is happening, what is Fluxus."

Condition: Good (light cover rubbing/wear, otherwise tight and clean throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Al Hansen Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow Bazon Brock Ben Vautier Carolee Schneemann Charlotte Moorman Claes Oldenburg Daniel Spoerri Dick Higgins Emmett Williams Eric Andersen George Brecht Günter Brus Henning Christiansen Henry Flynt John Cage Joseph Beuys Nam June Paik Otto Muehl Philip Corner Robert Filliou Robert Rauschenberg Robert Watts Stanley Brouwn Tadeusz Kantor Tetsumi Kudo Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono Harald Szeemann Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Brion Gysin : His Name Was Master
Texts And Interviews By Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Peter Christopherson

2018, English
Softcover, 350 pages, 15 x 22 cm
Published by Trapart / Stockholm

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Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson. Edited with notes by Andrew M. McKenzie. Introductions by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson.

Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was also a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become something of a cult figure.

One of the artists he inspired is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who collaborated with both Gysin and Burroughs in the 1970s, during his work with Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions. The interviews made by P-Orridge have since become part of a New Wave/Industrial mythos. This volume presents them in their entirety alongside three texts on Gysin by P-Orridge, plus an introduction. This book is an exclusive insight into the mind of a man P-Orridge describes as “a kind of Leonardo da Vinci of the last century,” and a fantastic complement to existing biographies and monographs.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Brion Gysin COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge Peter Christopherson Trapart / Stockholm Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Painting Performance / Dance / Theater

Solar Lice 2xLP
Tobias Madison, Emmanuel Rossetti, Stefan Tcherepnin, Jeanne Graff

2013, English
2 x LP
Ed. of 1000,
Published by The Power Station / Dallas

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Solar Lice double LP / Catalogue produced in an edition of 1000 copies to accompany the exhibition, Tobias Madison, Emmanuel Rossetti, and Stefan Tcherepnin, "Drip Event" at The Power Station, Dallas, April 10 - July 12, 2013. Features writer / curator Jeanne Graff on vocals.

The Power Station is a not-for-profit contemporary art space in Exposition Park, Dallas, Texas, founded by Janelle and Alden Pinnell in 2011. It is housed in a former Dallas Power & Light building which was constructed in 1920, and hosts large scale exhibitions which compliment the building's raw architecture. For each of its international exhibitions, The Power Station works with the artists to produce a publication in conjunction with their project, limited to 1000 copies. Its programming also includes a summer exhibition and additional events each year. The building includes an apartment where artists can live as they create and build their installations. The first exhibitor was American artist Oscar Tuazon.

File under: Emmanuel Rossetti Stefan Tcherepnin Tobias Madison Jeanne Graff The Power Station / Dallas Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sound / Music SALE Sculpture / Installation