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Meat is Murder!: New Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture
by Mikita Brottman

1997 / 2001, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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2001 updated edition of Brottman's classic study of cannibalism in film, first issued in 1997.

Violent death, murder, mutilation, gluttony and defaecation, ritualism, bodily extremes; cannibalism combines these taboo themes to represent one of the most symbolically charged narratives in the human psychic repertoire. As a grotesque figure of power, threat, and primal appetites, the cannibal has played a formidable and enduring role in the tales told by members of all cultures - whether oral, written, or filmic - and embodies the ultimate extent of transgressive behaviour to which human beings can be driven.

Meat Is Murder! is a unique and explicit exploration of cannibal culture from classical myth to contemporary film and fiction. It features an in-depth illustrated critique of cannibalism as portrayed in the cinema, from mondo and exploitation films such as Cannibal Holocaust to arthouse classics and horror movies such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It also details the atrocious crimes of real-life cannibals such as Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer and Andrei Chikatilo.

This improved, expanded edition includes a brand new chapter on cannibal zombie films such as Dawn Of The Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters and Braindead, plus 8 color pages of cannibal carnage and screen gore, and is fully updated.

VG copy with some wear to covers/extremities.

File under: Mikita Brottman Creation Books / London Film / Video Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff
by David Kerekes & David Slater

1995 / 1998, English
Softcover, 286 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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From Peeping Tom to Videodrome, Mondo Cane to "shockumentaries", Faces of Death to live TV suicides.

The 1994 cult classic, in the updated and revised 1995 edition, Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff by David Kerekes & David Slater, the definitive investigation into that controversial and inflammatory of all urban myths: the "snuff" movie. Including: Feature film, Mondo film, Death film, and a comprehensive filmography and index. Illustrated by rare and stunning photographs from cinema, documentary and real life, Killing for Culture is a vital book which examines and questions the human obsession with images of violence, dismemberment and death, and the way our society is coping with an increased profusion of these disturbing yet compelling images from all quarters.

G—VG copy with light wear to covers, previous owner's name to inside front cover. 1998 print of 1995 ed.

File under: David Kerekes David Slater Creation Books / London Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression
by Jack Sargeant

1995 / 1999, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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Expanded 1999 print of the first 1995 Creation edition of Deathtripping, the first illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema Of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement and its roots in the New York art/rock and underground film scenes. Including interviews with key transgressive film-makers, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Casandra Stark, Beth B, Tommy Turner, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, plus collaborators Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman and David Wojnarowicz; studies of more recent film-makers including Jeri Cain Rossi, Richard Baylor, Todd Phillips; a brief history of underground/trash cinema: Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar, John Waters; notes and essays on the philosophy and aesthetics of transgression; extensive film analysis; index and bibliography. Heavily illustrated with rare and often disturbing photographs, Deathtripping is a unique document, the definitive guide to the roots, philosophy and development of a style of film-making whose influence and impact can no longer be ignored.

WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL

VG copy.

File under: Richard Kern Nick Zedd Casandra Stark Beth B Tommy Turner Tessa Hughes-Freeland Lydia Lunch Joe Coleman David Wojnarowicz Jeri Cain Rossi Richard Baylor Todd Phillips Andy Warhol Jack Smith George Kuchar Mike Kuchar John Waters Jack Sargeant Creation Books / London Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Counterculture

American Poetry in the Twentieth Century
by Kenneth Rexroth

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 180 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Herder and Herder / New York

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First 1971 hardcover edition of Rexroth's major study of modern American poetry. "An iconoclastic, gossipy, yet judicious book."—Library Journal

"Poetry has been both personally and professionally the central concern in Kenneth Rexroth's life and art. He is now recognized as one of America's leading poets and critics. A man of sharp and discriminating tastes, supported by keen sensibility and a wide erudition, he here offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder.

For Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process he provides a controversial new look at a number of the more unimpeachable standard authors—Stevens, Sandburg, Frost, Williams, Jarrell—and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Robert Lowell.

Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1905, and grew up in Chicago, New York, and various towns throughout the Midwest. His erudition and range of interests have marked him as both a uniquely individual yet universal man: poet, painter, critic, linguist, guru. Mr. Rexroth now lives in Santa Barbara, California."

Very Good copy in G—VG dust jacket with some light wear to extremities and price clip to inner flap. 1975 previous owner inscription to title page.

File under: Kenneth Rexroth Herder and Herder / New York Poetry Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Art

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (GMP)
by Gertrude Stein

1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 278 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First 1972 US hardcover edition of this 1933 collection featuring descriptive artist essays alongside two major experimental pieces, A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women (often grouped under G.M.P.).

"This is the unmentionable book in the mature Stein canon. For one thing, it's about homosexuality, and for another thing, it's written in her most difficult, "cubist" style. For both reasons it has utterly baffled her (mostly male) critics.

A discreet title it has. But the title shows its sham immediately: each of the two "shorter" stories is longer than the title story. The first, "A Long Gay Book," can pretty well speak for itself.

It opens with a powerful statement of how a very mature person feels on entering into a life in which her style and her sexuality will not be geared towards having babies. Many people know, from the Autobiography and elsewhere, that as a medical student she delivered a number of babies, that she wrote the book by watching couples and groups on the street and imagining about them But until one has read the book, the fantasies sound abstract when one tries to describe them.

The myth about "A Long Gay Book" is that it's a cerebral spin-off of The Making of Americans, uneven and unsustained. The fact is that it contains much of Stein's most fascinating writing and observation, and that only resistance to the subject matter has prevented people from seeing what a self-contained masterpiece it is.

The second story, Many Many Women," is a sort of sequel to "A Long Gay Book." It is purely about days and women. And identity, which is the touchstone of Stein's special cosmology. There are no men, other than by reference or implication, in the entire 80 + page novella. None of the personae have names-they are simply and exclusively women. To see how positive her statement is, try the final two pages of the story. It's like brushing out your hair.

The third, "G.M.P.," is rather more bizzare. In it she tries to fantasize a love between Matisse and Picasso, including a very uncharacteristic string of symbols (for Stein) whenever she wants to avoid explicit sexual descriptions (as on page 264), and to draw a connection between this and the different kind of love that was shared among herself, Matisse and Picasso. It is an unusual work in the corpus of Stein works: another well-known piece with symbols is Four Saints in Three Acts. But there are only a very few others. As a work it registers as comparatively awkward, but it provides the beard for the book, and that has its place too in Steinian humor.

In this book we're spared the tiresome tea-party self-interrogations of the early novel, Things As They Are (Q.E.D.), and we don't get the full-fledged eroticism of "Lifting Belly" the later poem cycle. What we get instead in this volume is frank exposition and joy, the view of things from inside things (as good cubism ought to be). It is not an easy book, but it is a very human one and today there is absolutely no excuse for not recognizing it as one of the very great ones."–dust jacket

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, light age/wear. Well preserved copy now in mylar wrap.

File under: Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Gertrude Stein Something Else Press / New York Theory / Essay Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Art Painting

Useful Knowledge
by Gertrude Stein

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 207 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Station Hill Press / Barrytown

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First hardcover 1988 Station Hill edition of Useful Knowledge by Gertrude Stein, a 1928 collection of experimental prose pieces, portraits, and linguistic investigations that serves as a tender, humorous, and satirical paean to America, here with new material including a foreword by Edward Burns and introduction by Keith Waldrop.

"Useful Knowledge is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed," writes Gertrude Stein in her Advertisement for this book-an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. This rare yet quintessential Stein supplies an indispensable link in her rich serial portrait of America and its inhabitants. Despite her long expatriation, she "always remained," in her words, "firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania." Indeed physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance that is both tender and humorous. War, Woodrow Wilson, Chicago, Sherwood Anderson— such is the range of her intimate concerns. As for the significant questions to which her writing responds: "Wherein Iowa Differs from Kansas and Indiana" and "Wherein the South Differs from the North," useful knowledge indeed, when the thought, along with the word, is opened up in these extraordinary prose inventions.

Keith Waldrop's Introduction furnishes new insight into the process and development of Stein's infamous style always more intricately evolving than is recognized. And Edward Burns provides "useful knowledge about Useful Knowledge," the kind of close-up, detailed information about Stein's text that we rarely find when we most want it. All of which makes this a useful book.

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

VG in VG dust jacket, some light knocking to edges, light wear/dustiness to extremities.

File under: Gertrude Stein Keith Waldrop Edward Burns Station Hill Press / Barrytown Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Art

The Rape of Art: The Story of Hitler's Plunder of the Great Masterpieces of Europe
by David Roxan & Ken Wanstall

1965, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 196 pages, 21.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Coward-McCann Inc. / New York

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First US hardcover edition, 1965.

Based on a hitherto secret U.S. Army document made available to the authors, The Rape of Art adds an exciting and significant chapter to World War II history.

Here, for the first time, is the complete story of Hitler's massive plunder of Europe's great art treasures and his egomaniacal plans to make Linz, the provincial Austrian city of his child-hood, the cultural center of the world.
Contrary to popular belief it was Hitler, not Goering, who was the greatest Nazi plunderer of art treasures. In seven years, by direct confiscation or by forced sale, he systematically amassed 100,000 works of art worth an estimated $300,000,000—an accumulation of paintings, sculpture, books and objets dart greater than the collections of the Louvre, the Metropolitan, the British Museum and Moscow's Tretiakov.

But unlike Goering, who had a genuine love of art, Hitler had little interest in great masterpieces beyond the fact of possessing them. He had a long-range plan in mind, a dream conceived many years before the war, to show the people of his hometown visible proof that he had made good.

Besides planning collections of paintings, sculpture, coins and armor, he intended to build a great library and a vast theatre in Linz, and he had detailed plans drawn up for the layout of the city that would transform it from a drab industrial community to the cultural capital of the Nazi order. He set up a secret looting organization, the Linz Special Mission, that until now has passed unnoticed by war historians.

Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child," the Ghent altarpiece by the van Eycks, Breughel's "The Hay Harvest," the celebrated Czernin Vermeer, and works by da Vinci, Goya, Rem-brandt, and Tintoretto were swept up in history's greatest art robbery.

With the end in sight, Hitler clung to the dream of Linz and issued orders to have works of art moved to places of safety. The most valuable-10,000 paintings, 5,350 of which were old masters-had already been stored in the Alt Aussee salt mines. When American forces got word of the Alt Aussee cache they accelerated their push to beat the Russians there. The account of the Allies' painstaking efforts to locate the treasures and make restitution provides an exciting climax to a narrative that will take its place among the important books about the last war.

David Roxan and Ken Wanstall are well-known English journalists. Through their untiring efforts, they managed to convince the U.S. Army Archives to give them access to a document known as the Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 4, without which this complete story of Hitler's thefts of the great masters would not have been possible.

VG copy in VG dust jacket with some rubbing wear. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: David Roxan Ken Wanstall Coward-McCann Inc. / New York Art Crime / Violence Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Sculpture / Installation

JOHN CHARLES DIXON-JENKINS

2026, English
Softcover, 110 pages + supplement, 26.5 x 17.5 cm
Published by Ex Film / Melbourne

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"New book from ExFilm/ExTract! Another in the series of historical stories recontextualised from their original sources, this one is very special.

I first came upon the name John Charles Dixon-Jenkins a few years ago when I was researching news items from 1989. That this project would take me to meet the staff at a school in Kuala Lumpur as it did a few weeks ago is both a mystery and a gift from the universe. Years in the making, this one is finally ready.

I could write multiple posts about who this man was and it would still not adequately cover the truth. In some ways, we will never really know the truth. First, the facts: Dixon-Jenkins served in the Vietnam War and returned vowing to help society, studying child psychology and introducing new teaching methods to schools across the United States. Anxious about the threat of nuclear war, he moved back to his birthplace of Australia where in the 1980s he became known as the Anti-Nuclear Warrior after a series of bomb threats to draw attention to his campaign of nuclear disarmament. He wrote his first philosophy book, The Unified Theory of Existence, from a prison cell; self published and distributed by his friends and allies in Melbourne. He also took 9 people hostage in Bendigo. Cue Pentridge, the Jika Jika riot, Chopper Read, Australia's longest hunger strike, fleeing the country while on bail and conversion to Islam. There's also the CIA and the impending cloud of doom that the Cold War of the 1980s cast over the world. Dixon-Jenkins' experiences in prison partially inspired John Hillcoat's Ghosts of the Civil Dead. He lived a life that is hard to believe and yet he is largely forgotten. This book aims to correct that error and ultimately, tell the story of a man who wanted to leave the world a better place."

First printing includes a bonus A5 supplementary booklet featuring a comic strip and court transcripts.

File under: Ex Film / Melbourne Crime / Violence Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay

NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America
by Constance Penley

1997, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 18.8 x 13.72 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verso / London

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How Star Trek came to represent both scientific perfection and sexual experimentation in modern-day America.

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show’s fans who rewrite its storylines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation be accompanied by social and sexual experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

"Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Penley’s hands, popular science is a place to launch an inquiry into moral, cultural and political stakes in a world ‘where no man has gone before.'"–Donna Haraway

"NASA/TREK is happily both enjoyable and insightful, and explores some intricate correspondences between science and sex. Among other things it offers a new and persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: ‘slash’ fiction."–Samuel R. Delany

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

File under: Constance Penley Verso / London Theory / Essay Film / Video Gender Studies / Sexuality Eros

Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
by Stephen Jones

2011, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 416 pages, 23.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First hardcover edition.

A critical and comprehensive account of the emergence of electronic arts in Australia.

New technologies continually arise, offering repeated opportunities to artists in search of the technologically novel. Stephen Jones calls this phenomenon the "rolling new," and in Synthetics he describes how artists in Australia used new technologies in their art, from the early days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark exhibition in 1975. Jones looks at not only the artists and the artworks they produced but also at the evolution of computing technologies and video displays as these new forms of media developed into tools that artists could use. He also examines the collaborations that sprang up between artists and the technologists who taught them how to use these new devices. The process, he finds, was reciprocal: the offerings of the engineer could inspire the artist as much as the needs of the artist could inspire the engineer.

Jones discusses the constraints imposed by the limitations of new technologies as they developed and shows that different types of output and display technologies made for the production of very different kinds of images. He explores the development of computer graphics, the use by artists of such new conceptual paradigms as post-object art, and the emergence of video art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By 1975, the art and technology movement in Australia reached something of a watershed. The work itself became established as an art form just as funding dwindled and a popular and supportive left-wing government left office. And yet, Jones writes, the early electronic artists laid the foundation for today's burgeoning culture of new media art in Australia.

VG copy in VG DJ.

File under: Stephen Jones The MIT Press / Massachusetts Out-of-print / Rare Art Theory / Essay

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

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. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Tony Conrad
Writings

2019, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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I want art to stand strong, to display how it manipulates its audience. I want it to take up their expectations, their sense of the world, their predispositions toward the way they think or use their language, and then to use these things perversely, politically, colorfully, “expressively.”

—Tony Conrad, “Dolomite: Having No Trust in Readers”

Writings is the first collection to widely survey this singular polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras, and Music and the Mind of the World, as well as that of his peers: Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham, and Henry Flynt, among others. He devotes critical essays both to grand subjects—horology, neurolinguistics, and the historical development of Western music—and more quotidian topics, such as television advertising and camouflage. He also writes on media activism, network communications, censorship, and the political and cultural implications of corporate and global media. No matter the topic or theme, Conrad always approaches his subjects with erudition, precision, and a healthy twist of humor.

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them.

Re-print.

File under: Tony Conrad Constance DeJong Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Art Fluxus

Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture
Edited by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal

2022, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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More than a decade after the liberation movements of the 1960s and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences, which called for social and political alignment and solidarity among the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in order to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying cry for the formation of a liberatory arts and culture movement throughout the Third World. International in scope, Black Phoenix positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain and beyond—one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses of race, class, and postcolonial theory in the decade that followed. Black Phoenix proposed a horizon for Blackness that transcended racial binaries, across the Third World and the West.

Contributors include art critics, scholars, artists, poets, and writers, including Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan) and Mahmood Jamal (Pakistan), Guy Brett (United Kingdom), Kenneth Coutts-Smith (United Kingdom), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), N. Kilele (Tanzania), Babatunde Lawal (Nigeria), David Medalla (Philippines), Ayyub Malik (Pakistan), Susil Siriwardena (Sri Lanka), and Chris Wanjala (Kenya).

Rasheed Araeen is a Karachi-born, London-based artist, activist, writer, editor, and curator. Aareen founded the critical journals Black Phoenix, Third Text, and Third Text Asia, and took on activist roles with the Black Panthers and Artists for Democracy. His work has been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Chicago; BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead; MAMCO, Geneva; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Tate Britain, London; the 2017 Venice Biennale; and Documenta 14, Athens/Kassel, among others.

Mahmood Jamal was born in Lucknow, India, and moved to Britain from Pakistan in 1967. He published several books of poetry, including Sugar Coated Pill (2007), and translated the Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (2009) and Faiz: Fifty Poems (2013), among other titles. In 1983, he co-formed the all-Asian Retake Film and Video Collective production company, and initiated Epicflow Films in 1989. Jamal worked as an independent producer and writer; produced several documentary series, including Islamic Conversations; was a lead writer on Britain’s first Asian soap, Family Pride (1991–92), and wrote and produced Turning World (1996) for Channel4 television. He died in London in December 2020.

Last copy with a knock to bottom spine corner.

File under: Rasheed Araeen Rasheed Araeen Primary Information / New York Periodicals Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Poetry Fiction / Poetry Protest / Revolt SALE

My Mother Laughs
By Chantal Akerman

2019, English
Softcover, 175 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

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"With pride because I finally believed in my ability to say something that I’d had trouble saying. I told myself, I am strong for once, I speak. I tell the truth."

In this unforgettable and moving memoir, the last book written before her death, the legendary film director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) blends her matter-of-fact writing style with family photographs and stills from her own films in order to better describe and speak toward the most tender of human elements: her family, her lovers, and, most urgently, the deterioration of her mother’s health along with her own mental health.

While addressing universal experiences–the pain found woven into love, the end of relationships, difficult family histories, self-doubt, the end of life–Akerman‘s sharp eye toward memory raises questions about what it means to love and care for oneself and for another, and in the end, what the personal cost of those decisions can be.

Chantal Akerman was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and professor. She is best known for her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by the New York Times. During her 42 years of active filmmaking, Akerman's influence on queer, feminist, and avant-garde cinema remains unmatched, her films highlighting a near physical passage of time.

Translated by Corina Copp

File under: Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Corina Copp The Song Cave / New York Art Theory / Essay Film / Video

Against Nature
By Lorraine Daston

2019, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.

Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enlisted to illustrate and buttress moral orders. Revolutionaries and reactionaries alike have appealed to nature to shore up their causes. No amount of philosophical argument or political critique deters the persistent and pervasive temptation to conflate the "is" of natural orders with the "ought" of moral orders.

In this short, pithy work of philosophical anthropology, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, despite so much good counsel to the contrary. She outlines three specific forms of natural order in the Western philosophical tradition-specific natures, local natures, and universal natural laws-and describes how each of these three natural orders has been used to define and oppose a distinctive form of the unnatural. She argues that each of these forms of the unnatural triggers equally distinctive emotions: horror, terror, and wonder.

Daston proposes that human reason practiced in human bodies should command the attention of philosophers, who have traditionally yearned for a transcendent reason, valid for all species, all epochs, even all planets.

File under: Lorraine Daston The MIT Press / Massachusetts Ecology Theory / Essay Philosophy

A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun
by Ithell Colquhoun

2026, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 21 x 14.3 cm
Published by Strange Attractor / London

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Nearly 40 nearly forgotten essays on magic and esotericism by Ithell Colquhoun.
Edited by Amy Hale.

Writer, artist, and wilfully dissident surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) invested her unique works with magical learning, esoteric lore, and a palpable sense of mystery. Despite having published widely on esoteric and occult topics during her lifetime, Colquhoun was never to produce a single book-length edition of her magical writings. As a result, many of her essays were lost or neglected.

A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings Of Ithell Colquhoun gathers nearly 40 texts by this unique artist and magical practitioner, and displays cohesively, and for the first time, the impressive breadth of Colquhoun's magical interests and expertise, and how these came to inform her singular works. Ranging from early encounters with the Kabbalah and esoteric color theory, to Celtic mysticism and alchemy, this volume, edited by Colquhoun scholar and folklorist Amy Hale, promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun's thought that has remained occluded for too long.

File under: Ithell Colquhoun Amy Hale Ithell Colquhoun Strange Attractor / London Surrealism Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Painting Occult / Esoterica

Interviews With Sound Artists
Edited by René van Peer

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Ed. of 750,
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this wonderful collection of interviews with sound artists taking part in the festival ECHO, The Images of Sound II, in 1987, highlighting New Music and Sound Art, compiled by René van Peer. "This [accompanying] book has become an autonomous account of the personal histories of a number of sound artists, and thus it aims at providing an impression of the origins of Sound Art and New Music"—Paul Panhuysen, March 1993. Comprised entirely of in-depth interviews with Joe Jones, Richard Lerman, Jean Weinfeld, Martin Riches, Takehisa Kosugi, Horst Rickels, Johan Goedhart, Terry Fox, Christina Kubisch, Jim Pomeroy, Walter Fahndrich, Yoshi Wada, Paul Panhuysen.

Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. A valuable resource.

René van Peer is a journalist specializing in non-mainstream music.

Very Good copy.

File under: Joe Jones Richard Lerman Jean Weinfeld Martin Riches Takehisa Kosugi Horst Rickels Johan Goedhart Terry Fox Christina Kubisch Jim Pomeroy Walter Fahndrich Yoshi Wada Paul Panhuysen René van Peer Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Music, Language and Environment
Writings by David Dunn

c. 1989, English
Softcover (spiral bound), unpaginated, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Dunn / California

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Very rare, privately issued anthology of writings by pioneering experimental/environmental composer and researcher, Harry Partch's assistant, and Harry Partch Ensemble member, David Dunn. Around this time Dunn privately issued a series of 4 staple-bound publications that documented his pioneering work of electronic and acoustic, collected and reflected in his own words. This much larger anthology brings together a most vital compilation of his major technical and philosophical writings and sound research around human and non–human language, music, composition, and bio–acoustics that shaped his work and philosophy, opening with his 1984 essay Music, Language and Environment, followed by An Expository Journal of Extractions from Wilderness: Notes Toward an Environmental Language (1981), Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior (1983), Mappings and Entrainments (1984), Synchronisms: Toward a Phenomenological Science (1986), The Self-Referring Universe: Identity, Nonlocality and Evolution (Allyn B. Brodsky and David Dunn), Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature, Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond, Environment, Consciousness, and Magic (An Interview with David Dunn, 1988).

Composer David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research. His compositions and soundscape recordings have appeared in many international forums, concerts, broadcasts, and exhibitions. In addition to his multiple books, recordings and soundtracks, he has been anthologized in over 50 books and journals. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Good–Very Good copy, light wear to cover pages.

File under: David Dunn Chris Mann David Dunn Chris Mann Allyn B. Brodsky David Dunn / California Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology / Earth

Interviews with David Rosenboom 1976–1983

c. 1980s, English
Softcover (spiral–bound), unpaginated, 28 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Self-Published

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A privately–published, spiral–bound compilation of interviews with American experimental music pioneer, David Rosenboom, spanning 1976–1983. Includes extensive interviews by Larry Polansky, Eva Soltes, Richard Teitelbaum, Walter Zimmermann, Symposium on Computer Music Composition (questions from C. Roads), Recent Cybernetic Insights from Synapse magazine, and more. Compiled around the time Rosenboom toured Europe with Anthony Braxton Quartet and was teaching at Mills College, Oakland.

David Rosenboom (b. Fairfield, Iowa, in 1947) is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback: in the 1970s he built systems in which the brainwaves of performers shaped the music, documented on Brainwave Music (1976) and in his book Biofeedback and the Arts. He has also worked with cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms, and has performed with the mridangam master Trichy Sankaran. He studied composition, performance and electronic music at the University of Illinois with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller and Kenneth Gaburo among others, taught at Mills College and for three decades was dean of music at CalArts, where his students have included several generations of experimental composers.

VG with only very light age/wear.

File under: Larry Polansky David Rosenboom David Rosenboom Larry Polansky Richard Teitelbaum Walter Zimmermann Eva Soltes Self-Published Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music
Number 1, Winter 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 28 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney

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Extremely rare first 1989 issue of Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music, published in Sydney by the Fellowship of Australian Composers. Led by the Sydney–based Australian composer, pure mathematician, and chess problemist/chess composer, Ian Shanahan (1962–2021) with an editorial panel including fellow composers Paul Brown, Michael Whiticker and Justine Wilkinson, Ossia was an independent musical periodical founded in 1989 to serve as a forum for avant-garde music theory, compositional analysis, interviews with living composers, and aesthetic debates during the late 20th century in Australia. In musical terminology, "ossia" refers to an alternative passage of music that can be played instead of the original text—reflecting the publication's mission to highlight alternative, contemporary voices in classical music.

This inaugural issue's contents: Editorial, Paul Brown - After the Party: Australian Music in the Bicentennial Year, Michael Whiticker - Morton Feldman: Conversation without Cage, Justine Wilkinson - Ricardo Formosa's Domino, lan Shanahan - The Theory of Bitones, Liza Lim - ISCM World Music Days Festival 1988, Richard Toop - New Music on CD: Recent Releases, The Inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, and more.

VG copy with light wear. Includes hand written "with compliments" note from editor and president of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, lan Shanahan, to Australian avant–garde composer Warren Burt, whose work inspired his article on Bitones, plus a membership application to the Fellowship of Australian Composers.

File under: Morton Feldman John Cage Ric Formosa Larry Sitsky Paul Brown Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson lan Shanahan Paul Brown lan Shanahan Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Minimal Art Australian Art

CCP FLASH 1993–1998 (lot of 13 issues)
The Centre for Contemporary Photography Newsletter

1993–1998, English
Softcover (staple–bound), approx 12 pages ea., 30 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by CCP / Melbourne

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Lot of 13 issues of FLASH, the original physical newsletter of The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), established in a Carlton shopfront in 1986 as the Victorian Centre for Photography by a collective of local photographers, it evolved into a vital national launching pad for early-career and established photo-artists hosting major national and international exhibitions. Major artists who have exhibited at CCP include Robert Rooney, Taryn Simon, Jane Burton, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Bill Henson, Sophie Calle, Leah King-Smith, John Stezaker, William Eggleston, Patricia Piccinini...

Spanning May 1993–November 1998 and the directorships of Susan Fereday and Stuart Koop, these newsletters cover all the goings–on around the CCP and local photo arts, plus essays and artist contributions. Illustrated throughout.

G–VG all. Some rusted staples, light age/marking. Un–folded.

File under: Jan Nelson Troy Innocent Domenico de Clario Stephen Bush Dale Frank Yasumasa Morimura Susan Fereday Stuart Koop Jane Eisemann Amelia Bartak Susan Fereday Stuart Koop CCP / Melbourne Australian Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Art

Kerb Your Dog TEXTBOOK 1992
Edited by John Nixon and John Young

1992, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 84 pages, 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kerb Your Dog / Sydney

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Rare copy of Kerb Your Dog, the experimental Australian artist-edited anthology of artist pages, published in Sydney, Australia. Edited by John Nixon and John Young and published in an edition of 500 copies, this volume from 1992 – "TEXTBOOK" – addresses the question "what is contemporary art?", featuring pages by John Barbour, Eugene Carchesio, Tony Clark, Peter Cripps, Aleks Danko, John Dunkley-Smith, Clinton Garofano, Ross Harley, Tim Johnson, Lyndal Jones, Maria Kozic, Rosemary Laing, Shelley Lasica, Lindy Lee, Geoff Lowe, Robert Macpherson, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Susan Norrie, David O'Halloran, Robert Owen, Mike Parr, Jacky Redgate, Carole Roberts, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth, Geoffrey Weary, Wood / Marsh Architecture Pty. Ltd., John Young, and an essay by Janet Shanks. An invaluable collection of artist's "texts" from Australia in this very scarce document.

As New copy, light wear only.

File under: Aleks Danko Carole Roberts Clinton Garofano David O'Halloran Eugene Carchesio Geoff Lowe Geoffrey Weary Jacky Redgate John Barbour John Dunkley-Smith John Nixon John Young Ken Unsworth Lindy Lee Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Mike Parr Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Macpherson Robert Owen Rose Nolan Rosemary Laing Ross Harley Shelley Lasica Susan Norrie Tim Johnson Tony Clark Vivienne Shark LeWitt Janet Shanks Kerb Your Dog / Sydney Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Poetry Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Sculpture / Installation

G-Modern Vol. 17
Winter '97-'98 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 17 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter '97-'98, this early issue features Jutok Kaneko, Congregation, Current 93, Arthur Doyle, Klaus Dinger, Kikuchi Kōji, Barre Phillips, Chu Ishikawa, Nelly Pouget, Screamin' Mee-Mees, Solmania, Mike Whilhelm, Sumegma, unknown psychedelia, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Fine copy.

File under: Jutok Kaneko Congregation Current 93 Arthur Doyle Klaus Dinger Kikuchi Kōji Barre Phillips Chu Ishikawa Nelly Pouget Screamin' Mee-Mees Solmania Mike Whilhelm Sumegma Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Sound / Music Film / Video Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

G-Modern Vol. 5
Winter '94 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 108 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 5 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter 1994, this early issue features Derek Bailey, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Captain Beefheart, George A. Romero, Keiji Haino, Smegma, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Hawkwind, Pierre Henry, Shinro Ohtake, Shoichi Ozawa, Alvin Lucier, Frank Zappa, history/discography of Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label, articles on extremely obscure psych from around the world, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, light cover wear.

File under: Derek Bailey Captain Beefheart George A. Romero Keiji Haino Smegma Patti Smith Jean-Luc Godard Hawkwind Pierre Henry Shinro Ohtake Shoichi Ozawa Alvin Lucier Frank Zappa Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) Aube Motoharu Yoshizawa Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay