World Food Books

A Treatise on Lovesickness
by Jacques Ferrand

1990, English
Softcover, 277 pages, 15.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Syracuse University Press / Syracuse

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Edited by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella

Originally published in Paris in French in 1610, Ferrand's treatise is an example of erotomania in the late Renaissance.

"An exemplary critical edition of Ferrand's treatise of 1610 on erotic melancholy, preceded by an introductory essay (of nine chapters) in which they examine the place of erotic ideas in Renaissance culture.... A compendium of 2,000 years of ideas about love."—The Times Literary Supplement

"Ferrand was one of the last great encyclopedists, and we owe a huge debt to the two distinguished scholars who have undertaken the immense task of translating and editing his engaging treatise.... A unique summa on erotomania and a work destined to become a classic."—English Studies in Canada

"An impressive tome that marks indeed a milestone in our knowledge of sexology."—Renaissancee Quarterly

Very Good of the first 1990 English translation edition.

File under: Jacques Ferrand Donald A. Beecher Massimo Ciavolella Syracuse University Press / Syracuse Health Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

Hans Bellmer
The Doll

2005, English
Softcover (in card slipcase), 160 pages, 19 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Atlas Press / London

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first edition of this slipcased first English translation of Hans Bellmer's subversive Surrealist classic, Die Puppe (The Doll), first published in German in 1962, here translated and Introduced by Malcolm Green and published by the great Atlas Press, London.

Hans Bellmer (1902—1975) is one of the most illustrious names in the field of erotic art and Surrealism. The Doll comprises a series of photographs that have acquired iconic status and which exemplify the Surrealists’ conception of “convulsive beauty”. They are accompanied by a body of theoretical, poetic and speculative texts written between the 1930s and early 1960s which reveal Bellmer as one whose ideas are a “scandal for reason” (Joë Bousquet). But there is a lot more to Bellmer’s work than is at first apparent and the insights his writing provides into his work is crucial to its understanding, in particular those from the final edition of The Doll which are here translated in full. (The other editions widely available on the net mostly contain only the illustrations.) In these texts Bellmer weaves together a remarkably disparate set of concepts — covering such diverse fields as the body, psychology, anagrams, chance, the laws of optics and mathematics, the fourth dimension, hermaphroditism, the marvellous, intuition — into a theory of eroticism which forms the underlying rationale of his fearsome art.

Apart from the extensive texts by Bellmer it includes a suite of poems by Paul Éluard, 15 colour photographs, 10 in black and white, plus numerous line drawings. This English edition is based exactly upon the final edition overseen by Bellmer himself, the texts having been translated for the first time from the final German version rather than the preliminary French versions.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer Paul Eluard Atlas Press / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Photography Drawing Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

Destiny and Control in Human Systems: Studies in Interactive Connectedness of Time (Chronotopology)
by Charles Musès

2023, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Salitter Workings / New York

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From Salitter Workings' benign criminal enterprise in Lulu/Exoteric archiving.
"A remarkably particular book by a remarkably particular man"

"The tradition whose doctrine we are discussing assigns entire worlds of development to each member of the Hepton thus cosmogonically engendered in the incipient or virtual Love-vacuum caused by the brooding dream of impossible self-sufficiency on the part of the Third Entity, who has now become the god of our fallen universe at the tenth or lowest level in the hierarchy. Each one of these worlds is in resonance with the timing and chrontopological effect or nature of the bodies of our solar system, in which the "time of long domination (of suffering)," the old Iranian zervăn derangxvatai, has replaced the time of no waiting, the time without limitations or zervăn akarāna. It should be noted that the preceding discussion puts the old dichotomy of "eternity versus time" in a new light. Eternity is not the mere empty concept of infinite duration but rather it is Time devoid of limitations-without waiting time; hence a Time of Eternal Blossoming, a blinding effulgency for us, immersed as we are in the time of lengthy and necessarily endured waiting. Without this new interpretation of eternity versus time, the tradition we are discussing cannot be properly understood; and it hitherto has not."

Charles Arthur Musès (1919—2000), was a mathematician, cyberneticist and esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms. He founded the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics, physics, philosophy, and many other fields.

File under: Charles Musès Salitter Workings / New York Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Occult / Esoterica Philosophy

MAY #22
June 2024 (Dedicated to Sylvère Lotringer)

2024, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

$34.00 - Out of stock

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Introduction to Sylvère Lotringer's Interviews by Chris Kraus, interviews with David Wojnarowicz and Kathy Acker by Sylvère Lotringer, Machines for Looking by Karl Holmqvist, Anette Freudenberger on Hélène Fauquet, Gianmaria Andreetta on Yuki Kimura, Nick Irvin on Sam Pulitzer, Annie Ochmanek on Marc Kokopeli, Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle on Nicolas Ceccaldi, Shiv Kotecha on Klara Lidén and Hannah Black, Anke Dyes on Marie Angeletti, E.C. Feiss on Andrea Fraser, Thea Westreich Wagner, Our Guide to Comedy-Adventure by Bernadette Van-Huy.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, once a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: David Wojnarowicz Kathy Acker Karl Holmqvist Bernadette Van-Huy Hélène Fauquet Yuki Kimura Sam Pulitzer Marc Kokopeli Nicolas Ceccaldi Klara Lidén Hannah Black Marie Angeletti Andrea Fraser David Wojnarowicz Chris Kraus Kathy Acker Sylvère Lotringer Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle Shiv Kotecha Anke Dyes E.C. Feiss Nick Irvin Anette Freudenberger Annie Ochmanek Gianmaria Andreetta May Revue / Paris Periodicals Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Philosophy Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Photography Theory / Essay

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition
by Erich Auerbach; Introduction by Edward W. Said

2014, English
Softcover, 616 pages, 21.6 x‎ 14 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York

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The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature.

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depict reality has taught generations how to read Western literature.

A German Jew who was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935, Auerbach left for Turkey, where he taught in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how, from antiquity to modernity, literature progresses toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach uses his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to present an optimistic view of Western history and culture and to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism.

This expanded Princeton Classics edition of Mimesis includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

"Written with the authority that comes from deep learning and full of information worth knowing. Princeton's 50th anniversary edition of Mimesis has an introduction by the late literary and cultural critic Edward Said that by itself is worth the price of the book. It's the only preface I know of that I wish were longer, serving as both an analysis of Auerbach and a ramework placing him in his scholarly and historical context. . . . Princeton's reissue of Mimesis is both timely and symbolic."—Guy Davenport, Los Angeles Times Book Review

File under: Erich Auerbach Edward W. Said Willard R. Trask Princeton University Press / New York Philosophy Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay

The Sex of Architecture
Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, Leslie Kanes Weisman

1996, English
Softcover, 320 pages, ‎ 23 x 15.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

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First 1996 edition.

The Sex of Architecture brings together twenty-four provocative texts that collectively express the power and diversity of women's views on architecture today. Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Kanes Weisman, three leaders in their field, this volume presents a dialogue among women historians, practitioners, theorists, and educators concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism.

In their insightful essays the authors explore history, public space and the city, housing, con-sumerism, and discourse itself. They reexamine some long-suspect "truths"— that man builds and woman inhabits; that man is outside and woman is inside; that man is public and woman is private; that culture is male and nature is female. The texts are accompanied by a rich selection of over ninety illustrations, from Vitruvius to Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier to examples of current architectural work by some of the contributors themselves.

Contributors: Diana Agrest, Diana Balmori, Ann Bergren, Jennifer Bloomer, M. Christine Boyer, Lynne Breslin, Zeynep Celik, Beatriz Colomina, Margaret Crawford, Esther Da Costa Meyer, Diane Favro, Alice T. Friedman, Ghislaine Hermanuz, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Diane Lewis, Mary Mcleod, Joan Ockman, Denise Scott Brown, Sharon E. Sutton, Susana Torre, Lauretta Vinciarelli, Leslie Kanes, Weisman Marion Weiss

File under: Diana Agrest Patricia Conway Leslie Kanes Weisman Diana Balmori Ann Bergren Jennifer Bloomer M. Christine Boyer Lynne Breslin Zeynep Celik Beatriz Colomina Margaret Crawford Esther Da Costa Meyer Diane Favro Alice T. Friedman Ghislaine Hermanuz Catherine Ingraham Sylvia Lavin Diane Lewis Mary Mcleod Joan Ockman Denise Scott Brown Sharon E. Sutton Susana Torre Lauretta Vinciarelli Leslie Kanes Weisman Marion Weiss Harry N. Abrams / New York Architecture / Interior Eros Theory / Essay Feminism Philosophy Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Men In Black: Handbook for curatorial practice
Edited by Christoph Tannert and Ute Tischler

2004, English / German
Softcover, 586 pages, 20.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin

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“Men in Black” is an art-theoretical analysis in the form of a handbook published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In over 100 statements, more than 30 essays and with illustrations by Peter Friedl, this book gives a survey of curatorial discussion during the last ten years. Its 592 pages explain the changing role of those who create exhibitions, examine perspectives for the future and relate attempts to break out of conventions, all from a range of perspectives.

Contributors include: Jean-Christophe Amman, Marius Babias, Beatrice von Bismarck, Justin Hoffmann, Udo Kittelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist / Akiko Miyake, Florian Waldvogel, and so many more...

Very Good, small price sticker tear to bottom of front (English) cover.

File under: Peter Friedl Christoph Tannert Ute Tischler Jean-Christophe Amman Marius Babias Beatrice von Bismarck Justin Hoffmann Udo Kittelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist Akiko Miyake Florian Waldvog Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin Art Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay

The Emancipated Spectator
by Jacques Rancière

2009, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verso / London

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First 2009 hardcover edition. Now out-of-print.

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.

In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

VG/VG

File under: Jacques Rancière Verso / London Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics

To Note: Notation Across Disciplines

2017, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 18 x 11 cm
Edition of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Perimeter Editions / Melbourne

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Published in an edition 500 copies in 2017 and out-of-print.

Notation is part of our everyday. It is an act that records an observation for future reference. From a handwritten note, an electronic reminder or a quick sketch to a highlighted passage of text or post-it note, notation assumes many casual forms. It marks a moment of (anticipated) significance. Its audience may be its author or others. In time, it may or may not retain its (intended) significance. The motivation for the notation may be to capture something out of time for consideration at a later date – a reminder, a record, an instruction. It may be to convey something in the here and now by extracting (and abstracting) it from its original context and into the moment – to communicate. It may be a generative gesture, using a system of symbols to share a thought or proposition with peers for their interpretation or response.

In December 2015, notation became the focal point of a workshop presented at RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne entitled To Note: Notation Across Disciplines, which involved 25 practitioners working in and across the disciplines of sound, dance, visual art and design/architecture. Part reference, part exercise manual, this book is a collection of material that both informs and challenges our understanding of notation and how it exists both historically and currently within and across various fields and disciplines.

Editor: Hannah Matthews
Design: Žiga Testen & Stuart Geddes
Authors: Dr Michael Trudgeon, Erkki Veltheim, Dr Sally Gardner & Dr Alex Selenitsch
Participants: Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Georgina Criddle, Richie Cyngler, Matthew Day, Eliza Dyball, Benjamin Forster, Dr Sally Gardner, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Aurelia Guo, Melanie Irwin, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Mantsio, Phip Murray, Geoff Robinson, Jan van Schaik, Brooke Stamp, Lilian Steiner, Studio Apparatus, Studio Osk, Colby Vexler, Phoebe Whitman, Benjamin Woods

Very Good copy.

File under: Deanne Butterworth Lane Cormick Georgina Criddle Richie Cyngler Matthew Day Eliza Dyball Benjamin Forster Dr Sally Gardner Nathan Gray Helen Grogan Aurelia Guo Melanie Irwin Rebecca Jensen Shelley Lasica Michelle Mantsio Phip Murray Geoff Robinson Jan van Schaik Brooke Stamp Lilian Steiner Studio Apparatus Studio Osk Colby Vexler Phoebe Whitman Benjamin Woods Michael Trudgeon Erkki Veltheim Sally Gardner Alex Selenitsch Hannah Matthews Perimeter Editions / Melbourne Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Concrete Poetry

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
by Theodor Adorno

1985, English
Softcover, 252 pages, 20.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verso / London

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A classic of twentieth-century thought, Minima Moralia is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece of aphorisms and short prose meditations. 1985 Edition, 1994 printing.

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism. This is Adorno's theoretical and literary masterpiece and a classic of twentieth-century thought.

A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.—Susan Sontag
The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind.

Very Good copy with some wear to cover edges.

File under: Theodor W. Adorno Verso / London Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay

The Manson File: Myth And Reality Of An Outlaw Shaman
by Nikolas Schreck

2024, English
Softcover, 396 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by Surrealist Research / Kent

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"A major work in elegant prose that will captivate and challenge anyone who thinks they know the story of Charles Manson."—Dr Stephen Harper, author of Madness, Power & The Media, University of Portsmouth

Based on thirty years of research, the story of notorious outlaw, musician and folk devil Charles Manson is revealed to be one of the most twisted and depraved cover-ups in American history.

A landmark in cultural reportage, Nikolas Schreck’s epic long-read shows with meticulous detail how a confluence of Hollywood, the music industry, organized crime and the judiciary colluded to conceal the real motives for the 1969 “Helter Skelter” killing spree.

Structured like a proverbial helter skelter, this groundbreaking work cracks open the official story to reveal the interconnected aspects of Charles Manson as philosopher, musician, revolutionary and patsy.

An essential textbook for scholars and a mighty “true crime” book for the general reader, The Manson File reveals a secret history of America in a narrative as artful as a great novel.

File under: Charles Manson Nikolas Schreck Charles Manson Surrealist Research / Kent Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Eros Fantasy: Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room
by Yoshiki Yamamoto

1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 236 pages, 20.4 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Self-published / Kobe City

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this stunning privately-issued 1979 Japanese hardcover collection of erotic fantasy art, edited and written by Yoshiki Yamamoto. Upon retiring from the Sanyo Electric Railway Company in 1976, Yamamoto devoted himself to the art that he loved and to complete an intimate book study that traces an important lineage of artists of "eros fantasy", focussing on 16 key artists through profusely illustrated chapters, linking artists of the fin de siècle, symbolism, surrealism, and their descendants. A total labour of love. There is no other book like it. "Artists Who Decorate My Secret Room" features profusely illustrated full chapters on Gustave Moreau, Félicien Rops, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Bayros, Egon Schiele, Paul Delvaux, Hans Bellmer, Felix Labisse, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Leonor Fini, Paul Wunderlich, Ernst Fuchs, Tomi Ungerer, H.R. Giger, Raymond Bertrand, Gilles Rimbault, including profiles, many artworks, portraits and texts by Yamamoto, closing with a chronology of further artists and authors through the centuries.

Average—Good copy due to the back hardcover board being reattached. Good dust jacket with the usual wear and tanning of this title, otherwise the book block is VG throughout — crisp and clean.

File under: Gustave Moreau Félicien Rops Gustav Klimt Franz von Bayros Egon Schiele Paul Delvaux Hans Bellmer Felix Labisse Pierre-Yves Trémois Leonor Fini Paul Wunderlich Ernst Fuchs Tomi Ungerer H.R. Giger Raymond Bertrand Gilles Rimbault Yoshiki Yamamoto Self-published / Kobe City Eros Out-of-print / Rare Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Fetishism / BDSM Art Drawing Painting Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Group Shows / Collections Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Gandalf's Garden Issue 5
"Mind Revolution"

1969, English
Softcover (stiff-boards, staple-bound), 34 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gandalf's Garden / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Rare original copy of issue 5 of the legendary Gandalf's Garden magazine from 1969, an important piece of Britain's underground press, issue featuring Soft Machine by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt, poetry by Joan Baez, psychedelic artwork by Hans-Joachim Zeidler and John Hurford, "Mind Revolution", Cornwall free press, Meher Baba, communes, Middle-earth, cosmic magazines, record reviews (Third Ear Band, Marc Bolan, etc.), and much more. The "Mystical Scene Magazine" was published by Gandalf's Garden, a mystical community and shoppe based in World's End, Chelsea, which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement. Edited by Muz Murray and a huge cast of commune contributors and artists, the magazine emphasised the mystical interests of the period, before 'New Age' was a thing — meditation, psychedelics, back-to-the-land ideology, occultism, cosmic rock... The magazine emerged in 1968 publishing 6 issues, all beautifully designed using different colours of ink and various coloured paper stocks throughout each issue. Each issue was heavily illustrated and filled with articles, poetry, interviews, letters, reports and reviews, and, much like fellows of the underground press such as The International Times and OZ, included a healthy dose of satire and "Earthly Revolution".

Very Good copy of the scarce publication, rubbing/pinching to spine, general wear and light marking.

File under: Soft Machine Robert Wyatt Joan Baez Hans-Joachim Zeidler John Hurford Marc Bolan Third Ear Band Gandalf's Garden / London Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Health Ecology Ecology / Earth Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Shock Factory – Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
by Nicolas Ballet

2023, French
Softcover, 465 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly produced a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and the growing influence of technology. Originally British, its development grew in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by industrial bands—designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes recycled or conceived by the artists—were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. The saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, altered by a détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that invested polemical themes: mental control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who anticipated current issues concerning the media and their coercive power.

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Octopus Notes, Marges,OpticalSound, Volume !, Revue & Corrigée, Klima, in Cahiers du CAP and Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.

Foreword by Pascal Rousseau.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Pascal Rousseau Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video

Ellen Cantor
"I’m Still Coming" : COMING TO POWER 2016 & 1993

2017, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Capricious / New York

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A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor, in 1993, along with its re-staging in 2016 by curator Pati Hertling and artist, Julie Tolentino.

The book also chronicles the unprecedented partnership amongst five New York City institutions. Exhibitions and programming of Cantor’s work were offered by 80WSWE, Maccarone, Foxy Productions, Participant Inc., Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Skowhegan School of Painting, and MOMA—highlighting the lush, visionary, and audacious aspects of Cantor’s drawings, paintings, curatorial projects, sculpture, assemblage, video, film, and evocative writing. Another section features a reprint of an interview between Cantor and Cerith Wyn Evans, a conversation between Lia Gangitano/Jonathan Berger and Julie Tolentino/Pati Hertling, as well as archival material from Cantor’s diary entries and never-seen sketches from Cantor’s personal papers.

LIST OF ARTISTS:

PAINTING/SCULPTURE/PHOTOGRAPHS: Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Fried, Nan Goldin, Nancy Grossman, Pnina Jalon, G.B. Jones, Doris Kloster, Joyce Kozloff, Zoe Leonard, Monica Majoli, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke

VIDEO/FILM: Peggy Ahwesh, Maria Beatty, Lynda Benglis, Abigail Child, Cicciolina, Kate Dymond, Azian Nurudin, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Julia Kunin, Blush Productions, Annie Sprinkle, and Ona Zee

PERFORMANCES: FlucT, luciana achugar, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom, Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado, Jim Fletcher, Narcissister, niv Acosta, and Jen Rosenblit and their collaborators

File under: Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Louise Bourgeois Ellen Cantor Patricia Cronin Mary Beth Edelson Nicole Eisenman Nancy Fried Nan Goldin Nancy Grossman Pnina Jalon G.B. Jones Doris Kloster Joyce Kozloff Zoe Leonard Monica Majoli Marilyn Minter Alice Neel Lorraine O’Grady Yoko Ono Carolee Schneemann Joan Semmel Cindy Sherman Nancy Spero Hannah Wilke Julie Tolentino Peggy Ahwesh Maria Beatty Abigail Child Cicciolina Kate Dymond Azian Nurudin Barbara Hammer Holly Hughes Julia Kunin Blush Productions Annie Sprinkle Ona Zee FlucT luciana achugar Kia Labeija Xandra Ibarra / La Chica Boom Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado Jim Fletcher Narcissister niv Acosta Jen Rosenblit Pati Hertling Capricious / New York Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Film / Video Feminism Curatorial Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+

The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History
by Bernard Smith

1976, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Oxford University Press / Melbourne

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this important and now very scarce volume of essays by Australian art historian, Bernard Smith (1916—2011), The Antipodean Manifesto : Essays in Art and History, published by Oxford in 1976. The book centres around the controversial title essay "The Antipodean Manifesto", first published on the occasion of the Antipodean group's only exhibition, held in Melbourne in August 1959. The Antipodeans were a group of Australian modern artists (Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh) who asserted the importance of figurative art, and protested against abstract expressionism. Though they staged but a single exhibition, they were noted internationally and the manifesto provoked strong reaction. Smith was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department (1955–1967) during this time. Smith's collection continues with texts on Perceiving the Australian Suburb, William Morris, Whitlam government arts funding, Coleridge and Cook, the Myth of Isolation, and much more.

"This book contains a selection of essays and articles written by Bernard Smith during the past thirty years. They have been written in the belief that art is concerned more with what it is to be human than with aesthetic, formal or monetary values, though such factors do play a part, often too great a part, in the evaluation of works of art. Bernard Smith has always been an outspoken commentator on controversial issues, and many of the hard-hitting articles he has written over the years are still very relevant today. His views on the 'myth' of Australia's isolation from the influence of the mainstream of Western art, for example, and on the dubious value of a National Art Gallery in fostering an appreciation of the arts, are stimulating and incisive. Also included here are essays on the work of individual artists such as William Dobell and Henry Moore; on issues peculiar to Australian art and on more general matters, such as Government support for the arts, art and history, art and the industrial society, art and romanticism; and finally Professor Smith's long and fascinating paper which reveals that Coleridge's poem The Ancient Mariner was almost certainly based on Cook's second voyage around the world."—book blurb

Bernard William Smith (1916—2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, and influence on Robert Hughes. Smith was associated with the Communist Party of Australia, and after leaving the party remained a prominent left-wing intellectual and Marxist thinker. Following the death of his wife in 1989, he sold much of their art collection to establish the Kate Challis RAKA, one of the first prizes in the country for Indigenous artists and writers.

Good copy with tanning to spine and edges, general wear.

File under: Charles Blackman Arthur Boyd David Boyd John Brack Robert Dickerson John Perceval. Clifton Pugh The Antipodeans William Morris William Dobell Henry Moore Bernard Smith Clark Coolidge Oxford University Press / Melbourne Australian Art Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Reinventing the Grid
Curated by Rachel Kent

1994, English
Softcover (fold-out six panels w. double-sided price list insert), 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne

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grid- 1. A grating.. A network of lines on a map... A network of electrical lines, etc.—The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol.1, 1984

Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition REINVENTING THE GRID curated by Rachel Kent, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 5—29 October, 1994, in association with the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, featuring the works of Angela Brennan, lan Burn, Debra Dawes, Rosalie Gascoigne, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Martin King, Hilarie Mais, Deborah Ostrow, Robert Owen, Louise Paramor, Rodney Spooner, John Young. Illustrated six-panel fold-out card catalogue with essay by Rachel Kent, illustrated with works from the exhibition and complete catalogue of works, plus the original price-list inserted, with prices.

"While it has been a theme for research and exhibition internationally, the grid has received less critical attention in Australia. One of the intentions of this exhibition, therefore, is to explore some of the ways in which the grid is figured in the art of a selection of fourteen Australian artists, from the mid—1960s to the present day."

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Angela Brennan lan Burn Debra Dawes Rosalie Gascoigne Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Martin King Hilarie Mais Deborah Ostrow Robert Owen Louise Paramor Rodney Spooner John Young Rachel Kent Robert Lindsay Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Conceptual 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

Selected Prose Of Heinrich Von Kleist
by Heinrich Von Kleist

2010 / 2022, English
Softcover, 283 pages, ‎18 x 15.24 cm
Published by Archipelago Books / New York

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In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist's transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the divine. From the "The Earthquake in Chile," his damning invective against moral tyranny; to "Michael Kohlhaas," an exploration of the extreme price of justice; to "The Marquise of O . . . ," his twist on the mythic triumph of love story; to his essay "On the Gradual Formulation of Thoughts While Speaking," which tracks the movements of the unconscious decades before Freud; Kleist unrelentingly confronts the dangers of self-deception and the ultimate impossibility of existence in a world of absolutes. Wortsman's illuminating afterword demystifies Kleist's vexed history, explaining how the century after his death saw Kleist's legacy transformed from that of a largely derided playwright into a literary giant who would inspire Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. The concerns of Heinrich von Kleist are timeless. The mysteries in his fiction and visionary essays still breathe.

“Kleist’s narrative language is something completely unique. It is not enough to read it as historical – even in his day nobody wrote as he did. . . . An impetus squeezed out with iron, absolutely un-lyrical detachment brings forth tangled, knotted, overloaded sentences painfully soldered together . . . and driven by a breathless tempo.”–Thomas Mann

“Kleist was one of the first of a line of German writers whose inwardness is so intense it seems to dissolve the weak bonds of his society. . . . Even as order and paternalism struggled to assert themselves in the private and public life of the nineteenth century, Kleist was introducing scenes of mob violence, cannibalism, and less than benevolent fathers.”–Times Literary Supplement

File under: Heinrich von Kleist Peter Wortsman Archipelago Books / New York Fiction / Poetry Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Eros

Grave Desire : A Cultural History of Necrophilia
by Steve Finbow

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 316 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Infinity Land Press / London

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Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the sexual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of Grave Desire – with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s corpse, considered a little sexual frottage before she stabbed herself with the phallic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.

“If sex and death are two pivotal obsessions of the human species, Steve Finbow nails both of them simultaneously in his brilliantly incisive cultural and corporeal history of necrophilia. Pathologically and outlandishly good.”—Stephen Barber

“If you only read one book before you die make sure it’s Grave Desire.”—Stewart Home

Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
Interview conducted by Martin Bladh
Afterword by Richard Marshall

File under: Martin Bladh Karolina Urbaniak Steve Finbow Richard Marshall Martin Bladh Infinity Land Press / London Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Eros

Omnicide : Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium
By Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

2019, English
Softcover, 600 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Urbanomic / Cornwall Sequence Press / New York

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A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation

What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to study this riddle in all its mystifying complexity and its disturbing contemporary resonance-to trace the obscure passage between a lone state of delirium and the will to world-erasure..

A fragmentary catalogue of the thousand-and-one varieties of manic disposition (augomania, dromomania, catoptromania, colossomania...), Omnicide enters the chaotic imaginations of the most significant poetic talents of the Middle East in order to instigate a new discourse on obsession, entrancement, excess, and delirium. Placing these voices into direct conversation, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh excavates an elaborate network of subterranean ideas and interpretive chambers, byways, and burrows by which mania communicates with fatality. Like secret passages leading from one of the multitudinous details of a bustling Persian miniature to the blank burning immanence of the desert, each is a contorted yet effective channel connecting some attractive universe (of adoration, worship, or astonishment) to the instinct for all-engulfing oblivion (through hatred, envy, indifference, rage, or forgetting).

A captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, Omnicide absorbs the reader into unfamiliar and estranging landscapes whose every subtle euphoric aspect threatens to become an irresistible invitation to the end of all things.

File under: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Urbanomic / Cornwall Sequence Press / New York Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Philosophy Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception
by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

2023, English
Softcover, 570 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Urbanomic / Cornwall

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An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.

In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide is closed with a philosophy of doom, deception, and the game, plunging headlong into the inevitable, the fatal, and the infinite.

A series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn from the poetry and literature of the Middle-East, Omnicide II introduces us to a new cast of manic visionaries, from the Selemaniac to the Crystallomaniac, the Bibliomaniac to the Aeromaniac. In his relentless cataloguing of the myriad figures and portents of omnicidal doom, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh resumes the offensive of those writers, artists, and thinkers for whom the fiercest creative incandescence is only kindled in the shadow of certain doom.

Amid war cries and lullabies, mages, wolves and pelicans, sabres and crystals, drones and soul-stealers, in settings ranging from the opium den to the Qatari luxury hotels, with his unique style and methodology, his dizzying breadth of references, and his implacable will to follow the most deranging lines of thought and evoke the most startling images, Mohaghegh draws the reader into territories disturbing and unfamiliar, atmospheres delicate and grotesque, moods morbid yet life-affirming, in a book that evokes fever and exudes dead calm.

The utterly absorbing music of this writing both lulls and disquiets-a contemporary Necronomicon, an inexhaustible treasury of recipes for disaster, catastrophe, ruination and destruction, all in the name of the most intense creation.

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His focus is on tracking experimental thought in the so-called Middle East and the West, with particular attention to exploring concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, sectarianism, madness, disappearance, and apocalyptic writing. He is the author of The Chaotic Imagination (2010); Inflictions (2012); The Radical Unspoken (2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian (2015); Omnicide- Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2019); and Night- A Philosophy of the After-Dark (2020).

File under: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Urbanomic / Cornwall Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Poetry Philosophy

Pierre Klossowski
Retrospective 1950-1990

1990, French
Hardcover (clothbound w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 24 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Centre National Des Arts Plastiques / Paris

$220.00 - Out of stock

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First beautiful hardcover edition of the comprehensive Pierre Klossowski catalogue raisonné published on the occasion of the major retrospective exhibition of his work held in Paris in 1990-1991 at CNAP. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with Klossowski's wonderful works, texts throughout by Catherine Grenier, Bernard Blistene, Claude Ritschard, Pascal Bonitzer, Marie-Dominique Wicker, Franco Cagnetta, André Masson, and Pierre Zucca (in French), a densely illustrated catalogue raisonné spanning his work dated 1952/53 through to 1990 (many not seen elsewhere), biography, exhibition history, and much more. Still the most in-depth book on Klossowski's oeuvre to date.

Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a significant and influential philosopher, writer, translator and artist who befriended Georges Bataille and formulated an original stance on many theological issues, as well as the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. His first novel, Roberte, ce soir, appeared in 1954 as a limited edition containing six of his own erotic illustrations, after he rejected drawings by his younger brother, the painter Balthus. Following the encouragement of Robert Lebel, Andre Masson and Alberto Giacometti, Klossowski held his first exhibition in Paris in 1956, and subsequently produced numerous life-size drawings of erotic scenes imbued with mythological, allegorical and philosophical connotations. By the 1970s, he had won the acclaim of such eminent thinkers as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Felix Guattari. Of Klossowski, Gilles Deleuze once said, "That bodies speak has been known for a long time."

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with some tanning lines.

File under: Pierre Klossowski Catherine Grenier Bernard Blistene Claude Ritschard Pascal Bonitzer Marie-Dominique Wicker Franco Cagnetta André Masson Pierre Zucca Centre National Des Arts Plastiques / Paris Eros Drawing Painting Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Érotique du Surréalisme
by Robert Benayoun

1965, French
Hardcover (clothbound), 244 pages, 18 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1965 clothbound edition of Érotique du Surréalisme, Robert Benayoun's study on the importance of the erotic in the surrealist arts, from L'Androgyne to The Sadist, Le Femme-Enfant to the Poetic Machine, surveying Symbolist and Art Brut precursors, and encompassing the multitude manifestations of eroticism across a broad array of visual and poetic works from the surrealist spectrum, even into the influence in film (a field Benayoun was known in). Reproducing poems and quotes throughout, this heavily illustrated volume reproduces many artworks in b/w and colour plates, including works and works by Max Walter Svanberg, Toyen, Hans Bellmer, Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern, Heinrich Anton Müller, Marcel Duchamp, Jindřich Štyrský, Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Mimi Parent, Andre Masson, Louis Aragon, Yves Tanguy, Valentine Hugo, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Balthus, Rene Magritte, André Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Henry Fuseli, Dali, Man Ray, Henri Rousseau, Picasso, Miro, Edvard Munch, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Ingrid Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Konrad Klapheck, Francis Picabia, Óscar Domínguez, Jean Benoit, Paul Delvaux, Pierre Molinier, and many more.

Good—Very Good copy with light tanning to spine and general tanning/light wear.

File under: André Breton Louis Aragon Joyce Mansour Hans Bellmer Salvador Dali Robert Benayoun Guillaume Apollinaire Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris Eros Fetishism / BDSM Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Poetry Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Surrealism Dada Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle