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T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Hakim Bey

1985 / 1991, English
Softcover, 142 pages, 18 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

$35.00 - Out of stock

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"A Blake Angel on Bad Acid" — Robert Anton Wilson
"Fascinating..." — William Burroughs
"Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!" — Timothy Leary

First trade paperback edition of T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, the underground cult bestseller and first book by anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia. Originally published in 1985 and circulated in the underground via small private and pirate editions, these texts were an inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in some anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists.

Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults — this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living.

This book contains the full text of "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", the complete "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy", and the new long essay "The Temporary Autonomous Zone".

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Hakim Bey Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Anarchism Counterculture Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay

Evergreen Review
Vol. 14 No. 76 March 1970

1970, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Ever

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 14 No. 76 March 1970 issue of Evergreen Review. This issue features Kay Boyle (Long Walk from San Francisco), Bill Amidon (short Story), Michael Rumaker (For Charles Olson, a poem), Nat Hentoff (The Joke), Antonin Liehm (Interview with Jaromil Jires), Al Young (Poem), Ed Sanders (short story), Raymond Bertrand (Erotic Drawings), Roy L. Walford (Original Irreplaceable Vision), Richard Brautigan (short Story, The Betrayed Kingdom), Strong & Sterling (Frank Fleet and His Electronic Sex Machine), John Lahr (Putting Shakespeare in a New Environment), plus regular features, illustrations and much more.

The Evergreen Review was a U.S. based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, and editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan in 1957. It existed in print form until 1973. Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. "Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges...

File under: Raymond Bertrand Ed Sanders Al Young John Lahr Richard Brautigan Kay Boyle Nat Hentoff Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Ever Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Periodicals Eros Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Evergreen Review
Vol. 13 No. 64 March 1969

1969, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Evergreen Review Inc. / New York

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 13 No. 64 March 1969 issue of Evergreen Review. With a cover photography by Kishin Shinoyama, this issue features "Leo in Jerusalem: diary by Leo Skir"; short stories by Aki Tanino, Joseph Skvorecky and Herbert Gold, poems by David Myers and Charles Plymell, The Dimensions of Community Control by Nat Hentoff, an interview with film director John Cassavetes, plus regular features, illustrations and much more.

The Evergreen Review was a U.S. based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, and editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan in 1957. It existed in print form until 1973. Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. "Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges...

File under: Kishin Shinoyama John Cassavetes Aki Tanino Leo Skir Nat Hentoff Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Counterculture Eros Performance / Dance / Theater Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Evergreen Review
Vol. 12 No. 56 July 1968

1968, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Evergreen Review Inc. / New York

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 12 No. 56 July 1968 issue of Evergreen Review. This issue features "I Was Curious" diary by Vilgot Sjoman, Timothy Leary, John Lahr and Vilgot Sjoman interview on Sex and Politics, Tom Stoppard, Nat Hentoff, story by Aki Tanino, three poems by Tam Fiofori, story by Goffredo Parise, "Psychedelic Burlesque!" pictorial by Mary Ellen Mark, A conversation with "Abu Amar" by Abdullah Schleifer, Jean-Luc Godard's "La Chinoise", plus regular features, illustrations and much more.

The Evergreen Review was a U.S. based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, and editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan in 1957. It existed in print form until 1973. Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. "Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges...

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Vilgot Sjoman Vilgot Sjoman Timothy Leary John Lahr Nat Hentoff Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

RUBBER BONDAGE Vol. 1, No. 3, 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 62 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Centurians / Westminster London Enterprises / Los Angeles

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful, ultra scarce copy of RUBBER BONDAGE Vol. 1, No. 3, published in 1977 by Centurian and London Enterprises. Lavishly illustrated cover-to-cover in colour and b/w pictorials of rubber-clad lesbian, girl-girl domination and bondage illustrations. A huge photographic shoot of girl-girl dungeon domination with a variety of bondage devices, outfits, and equipment (showcasing the wears of Centurians Bazaar) with sections of dom-sub role-reversal throughout the magazine. Also features "A Reader's Photo Collection in Rubber" (body suits and gas masks), loads of magazine ads, including Club Caprice, Atomage and Centurians, and lots of illustrations.

Good copy, with some wear to covers, interior VG.

File under: Centurians / Westminster London Enterprises / Los Angeles Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture

i-D JAPAN : The U.F.O. Issue 1991

1992, Japanese
Softcover, 140 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by i-D / Tokyo

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Vintage 1992 issue of i-D JAPAN, Tokyo's version of the famed youth culture magazine founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in London 1980. "Ideas, Fashion, Clubs, Music, People." Always a time-capsule, even in Japanese, this issue could well be called the Cyberpunk issue, packed to the brim with articles on J.G. Ballard, the "Post Human" exhibition (Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Ashley Bickerton, Charles Ray, Christian Marclay, Taro Chiezo), a "Neo Full-Metal Dialogue" between body horror/cyberpunk director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) and actor Tomoroh Taguchi (Tetsuo himself!), space/rave fashion ("The Girl from Planet X"), pop singer Kahimi Karie, director Hajime Tabe, Australian painter and legendary Mambo artist David McKay, Brian Eno, Air Jordan, Gameboys, denim... and of course the huge photographic feature on the history "U.F.O.s".

"NEW RE-BIRTH OF HIP"!!

Very Good copy.

File under: Paul McCarthy Jeff Koons Cindy Sherman Ashley Bickerton Charles Ray Christian Marclay Taro Chiezo Brian Eno David McKay J.G. Ballard i-D / Tokyo Fashion Counterculture Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Photography Graphic Design / Typography

i-D JAPAN : The Identity Issue 1991

1991, Japanese
Softcover, 140 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by i-D / Tokyo

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Vintage 1991 issue of i-D JAPAN, Tokyo's version of the famed youth culture magazine founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in London 1980. "Ideas, Fashion, Clubs, Music, People." Always a time-capsule, even in Japanese, packed to the brim with early Hysteric Glamour, Deee Lite, Colin Wilson, De La Soul, wearable soundgear, Noise, Primal Scream, Clubbing, TV, Alberto Fujimori, Gameboys, levitating dogs, feet... and the photographic feature "I-Dentity Fashion". "For The Politicians of The Future"

Very Good copy.

File under: Hysteric Glamour Colin Wilson Terry Jones i-D / Tokyo Sound / Music Film / Video Periodicals Fashion Counterculture Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Living on The Earth

1971, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 27.7 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Vintage Books / New York

$85.00 - Out of stock

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"Celebrations, storm warnings, formulas, recipes, rumors, and country dances harvested by Alicia Bay Laurel."

Originally published in Berkeley, California in 1970, more than fifty years ago, the seminal "Living on the Earth" is for people who would rather chop wood for fire than work behind a desk to pay the electric company. It's for people who want the best recipe for lavender soap or huckleberry jam. It's for people who want to make their own clothing, play guitar, learn woodcarving, gardening, canning and drying food, and natural first aid methods. The book has no chapters; no rigid structures or rules. It grew naturally out of the lessons the author has learned, and which she shares. Living on the Earth is a beautiful book to see and read, as well as a spiritually uplifting work whose simplicity radiates warmth and promotes serenity and goodwill to all those who encounter it. The large format paperback is entirely written in Alicia's cursive script and beautifully illustrated on every page with her line drawings. Alicia's innovative illustration and book design styles have been enthusiastically emulated in dozens of books and greeting cards since it's original publishing, and in 2012 "Living on the Earth" was chosen as one of the 101 most influential American cookbooks of the 20th century. Alicia was just 20 years old when the book was first published, and it would go on to become a New York Times "best-seller" and one of the most influential manuals for natural, conscious living ever created.

Very Good copy, beautifully preserved with only a few nicks to the cover edges, very light tanning. Very rarely is the first popular edition found in such lovely condition.

File under: Alicia Bay Laurel Alicia Bay Laurel Vintage Books / New York Ecology Health Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Ecology / Earth

Art? Alternatives No. 1
April 1992

1992, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 80 pages, 28 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by OB Enterprises / New York

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Premiere issue of Art? Alternatives magazine, published in April 1992. Although short-lived, A?A was the perfect embodiment of a spirit in 1990s American visual culture that attacked the distinctions between "high culture" and counterculture, championing the underbelly of new outlaw artistic expression. Edited by Michelle Delio, A?A heralded a sensibility that exploded in 1990s America, that, like the underground press movement of the 1960s/70s that proceeded it, confronted the rise of conservatism and bourgeois attitudes, this time in the face of Reagan-era strip-mall gentrified America. A?A became the mouthpiece of new underground/"lowbrow" art, bringing together the legacy of underground comic art, modern primitivism (tattoo and body art), folk and outsider art, kitsch, occultism, psychedelia, and much more, into a melting pot that foreshadowed such magazines as Juxtapoz, established 2 years later. This premiere issue with a cover feature on artist Robert Williams, features on artists S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Guy Aitchison, and Joe Coleman, legendary Los Angeles gallerist La Luz de Jesus (of Soap Plant and Wacko fame), along with illustrated articles on Underground Comix, Tattooing, and more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Robert Williams Guy Aitchison S. Clay Wilson Spain Rodriguez Joe Coleman OB Enterprises / New York Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drugs / Psychedelia Occult / Esoterica Counterculture

FROM THE CENTER : Feminist Essays on Women's Art
by Lucy R. Lippard

1976, English
Softcover, 314 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First 1976 printing of this fantastic and now rarely seen classic book collection of essays by internationally acclaimed writer, art critic, activist and curator, Lucy R. Lippard.

"FROM THE CENTER : Feminist Essays on Women's Art" is broken into three sections: GENERAL ESSAYS, MONOGRAPHS, and FICTION. GENERAL ESSAYS include 12 major essays such as "Sexual Politics : Art Style", "Household Images in Art", "Fragments", "What is Female Imagery", "Making Up: Role-Playing and Transformation in Women's Art", "The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: European and American Women's Body Art", "The Womens' Art Movement - What Next?" and more. MONOGRAPHS is made up of writings dedicated to single artists, including essays on the work of Eva Hesse, Adrian Piper, Jo Baer, Joan Mitchell, Hanne Darboven, Ree Morton, Irene Siegel, Rosemarie Castoro, Louise Bourgeois, Faith Ringgold, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Jackie Winsor, Nancy Graves and many more. A suburb collection, illustrated throughout with examples of the artists written about, including a colour plate section.

Very Good copy with cover/spine tanning, light wear.

File under: Adrian Piper Eva Hesse Faith Ringgold Hanne Darboven Jo Baer Joan Mitchell Louise Bourgeois Nancy Graves Ree Morton Yvonne Rainer Lee Bontecou Nancy Holt Harmony Hammond Mierle Laderman Ukeles Lynda Benglis Hannah Wilke Joan Jonas Rebecca Horn Irene Siegel Rosemarie Castoro Judy Chicago Jackie Winsor Mary Miss Mary Beth Edelson Dorothea Rockburne Agnes Martin Howardena Pindell Christiane Mobus Rita Myers Alice Adams Lucy R. Lippard E P Dutton / New York Art Counterculture Eros Feminism Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting

Nonbinary : A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24 x 16 cm
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

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A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge.

In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of “industrial music,” founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to be stuck—stuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender. Nonbinary is Genesis’s final work and is shared with hopes of being an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists.

Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesis’s life, weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in World War II’s fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and artistic norms throughout their entire life.

In addition to being a captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music, performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.

“Genesis had a profound impact on me as an artist and then a dear friend. Reading this illuminating and radically open memoir is an honor. The echoes of such a strong creative voice unveiling the experiences of the proverbial climb to becoming a true artist and later cultural icon is mesmerizing.” — actor, director, and author, Asia Argento

“Genesis was continually breaking new ground and developing new projects with the aim of short circuiting received ideas, chipping a hole in the carapace, questioning everything: religion, education, nationality, sexual identity to find the reality behind the society of the spectacle. Gen was always going forwards. It is fascinating to read the back story, finally told.” — bestselling author, Barry Miles

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle COUM Transmissions Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Psychic TV Harry N. Abrams / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Counterculture

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge : Sacred Intent
Conversations with Carl Abrahamsson 1986-2019

2020, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm
Published by Trapart / Stockholm

$63.00 - In stock -

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Sacred Intent gathers conversations between artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and longtime friend and collaborator, the Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson. From the first 1986 fanzine interview about current projects, over philosophical insights, magical workings, international travels, art theory and gender revolutions, to 2019’s thoughts on life and death in the the shadow of battling leukaemia, Sacred Intent is a unique journey in which the art of conversation blooms.

With (in)famous projects like C.O.U.M. Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) and Pandrogeny, Breyer P-Orridge has consistently thwarted preconceived ideas and transformed disciplines such as performance art, music, collage, poetry and social criticism; always cutting up the building blocks to dismantle control structures and authority. But underneath the socially conscious and pathologically rebellious spirit, there has always been a devout respect for a holistic, spiritual, magical worldview – one of “sacred intent.”

Sacred Intent is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary art, deconstructed identity, gender evolution, and magical philosophy. The book not only celebrates an intimate friendship, but also the work and ideas of an artist who has never ceased to amaze and provoke. Also included are photographic portraits of Breyer P-Orridge taken by Carl Abrahamsson, transcripts of key lectures, and an interview with Jacqueline “Lady Jaye” Breyer P-Orridge from 2004.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Carl Abrahamsson Carl Abrahamsson Trapart / Stockholm Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Counterculture LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica

Expanded Cinema
by Gene Youngblood, R. Buckminster Fuller

1970, English
Softcover, 450 pages, 20 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this seminal 1970 work by Gene Youngblood, with an Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller, was the first to consider video as an art form. One of the most prescient books written about our modern age, Expanded Cinema was considered the Declaration of Independence for media arts. As the author writes, "The definition of cinema must be expanded to include videotronics, computer science, and atomic light." The introductory essay by R. Buckminster Fuller established an encompassing 1960s countercultural context for this new explosion of technologies. Heavily illustrated throughout, this classic original edition has been long out of print and is of such importance to this day that it has seen a re-publication in 2020.

Gene Youngblood is a well-known theorist of electronic media arts and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art. He has split his career between teaching and journalism and is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement.

R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, designer, inventor, social theorist, and the author of more than thirty books, including the legendary Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

Very Good copy with only light age wear.

File under: Buckminster Fuller Gene Youngblood E P Dutton / New York Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare

Karlheinz Weinberger
Photographs : Together & Alone

2021, English
Softcover, 230 pages, 14 x 19.1 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

$58.00 - Out of stock

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Introduction by Collier Schorr
Edited by Ben Estes

Unseen photos of rebels, outsiders, construction workers and more: celebrating the distinctive gay male gaze of Karlheinz Weinberger.

This landmark entry in the lifework of Zürich photographer Karlheinz Weinberger gathers more than 200 never-before-published vintage photographic prints that were rediscovered in 2017. This unique collection pairs images of Weinberger's most famous subjects, the "Halbstarke" — a loosely organized group of Swiss "rebels" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, carousing at local carnivals and on a camping trip — with a much more private side of Weinberger's oeuvre: solo portraits of men from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, whom he invited into his makeshift studio in the rooms of the apartment he shared with his mother.

The men in these portraits — construction workers, street vendors, bicycle messengers, outsiders — span a spectrum of fully clothed, arms-crossed poses to campy and flirtatious, fully nude and reclined, while others mimic art historical postures. All of these images, though, reveal a palpable tenderness between photographer and subject, offering an expansive, uncritical take on the male form in an era when being photographed was not the casual, ubiquitous record it is today. Though not a professional photographer (he worked as a warehouse stock manager), Weinberger captured his subjects with a distinctly gay male gaze, both carnal and artistic, and this collection is certain to earn his work a larger following and appreciation.

Born in 1921, Karlheinz Weinberger was a Swiss photographer whose work predominantly explored outsider cultures. Between 1943 and 1967 Weinberger published photos of male workers, sportsmen and bikers in the gay magazine Der Kreis under the pseudonym of "Jim." In the late '50s and early '60s he concentrated on Swiss rock 'n' roll youth, whom he photographed with both tenderness and a hint of irony. Weinberger placed little emphasis on exhibiting his work; his first comprehensive show took place only in 2000, six years before his death.

File under: Collier Schorr Karlheinz Weinberger Ben Estes The Song Cave / New York Photography Eros LGBTQ+ Counterculture

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. 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.

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.

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 Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

PROVOKE
Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960 / 1975

2016, English
Softcover, 680 pages, 190 x 250 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Steidl / Göttingen

$300.00 - In stock -

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The short-lived Japanese magazine "Provoke," founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country's finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues overall. The magazine's goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the country's first large-scale student protests. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively "poor" materials. The writings and images by "Provoke"'s members-critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyama-were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life.

This enormous, and long out-of-print "Provoke" book accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held on the magazine and its creators. Illuminating the various uses of photography in Japan at the time, the catalogue focuses on selected projects undertaken between 1960 and 1975 that offer a strongly interpretative account of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.

Out of Print. As New.

File under: Daido Moriyama Eikoh Hosoe Nobuyoshi Araki Shomei Tomatsu Takuma Nakahira Yakata Takanashi Diane Dufour Pierre Hourquet Steidl / Göttingen Art Counterculture Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-Garde
Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan (Eds.)

2014, English
Hardcover, 528 pages (350 color and b/w ills.), 17 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$89.00 $40.00 - Out of stock

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Out-of-print, now collectible.

Sweet Sixties Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-Garde Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s.

In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world full of eerie displacements, gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity.

The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs.

The stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication.

As New with some general shelf wear.

File under: Georg Schöllhammer Ruben Arevshatyan Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Counterculture Group Shows / Collections Protest / Revolt

S&M Sniper
March 1992

1992, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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March 1992 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Tadao Chigusa, Kenichi Yamakawa, Sachiko Nakamura, Guido Crepax "Story of O" comic instalment, How to Tattoo, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Guido Crepax Tadao Chigusa Kenichi Yamakawa Sachiko Nakamura Million Publishing / Tokyo Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+ Fashion Counterculture Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM

Living on The Earth

1971, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 27.7 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Vintage Books / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

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"Celebrations, storm warnings, formulas, recipes, rumors, and country dances harvested by Alicia Bay Laurel."

Originally published in Berkeley, California in 1970, more than fifty years ago, the seminal "Living on the Earth" is for people who would rather chop wood for fire than work behind a desk to pay the electric company. It's for people who want the best recipe for lavender soap or huckleberry jam. It's for people who want to make their own clothing, play guitar, learn woodcarving, gardening, canning and drying food, and natural first aid methods. The book has no chapters; no rigid structures or rules. It grew naturally out of the lessons the author has learned, and which she shares. Living on the Earth is a beautiful book to see and read, as well as a spiritually uplifting work whose simplicity radiates warmth and promotes serenity and goodwill to all those who encounter it. The large format paperback is entirely written in Alicia's cursive script and beautifully illustrated on every page with her line drawings. Alicia's innovative illustration and book design styles have been enthusiastically emulated in dozens of books and greeting cards since it's original publishing, and in 2012 "Living on the Earth" was chosen as one of the 101 most influential American cookbooks of the 20th century. Alicia was just 20 years old when the book was first published, and it would go on to become a New York Times "best-seller" and one of the most influential manuals for natural, conscious living ever created.

Good copy with some standard ageing, marks and wear not effecting content. Very rarely is the first popular edition found in such nice condition.

File under: Alicia Bay Laurel Alicia Bay Laurel Vintage Books / New York Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Feminism Ecology Ecology / Earth Health Textiles Occult / Esoterica

City Indians
by Chris Wroblewski and Nelly Gommez-Vaëz

1983, English / German
Softcover, 80 pages, 24 x 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichborn Verlag / Frankfurt

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this rare photographic study of youth tribes between 1977 and 1982 by British photographer Chris Wroblewski and French photographer Nelly Gommez-Vaez. A masterpiece of punk rock and youth culture, City Indians aims to draw a comparison between contemporary subcultures and ancient native tribes thought its influences on hairstyles, tattoos, piercings and fashion. Chapters on "Mohicans", "Skinheads", "Sons of hell", "Sic Boys", "Rastas", and others, with incredible portraits of "City Indians" in Europe and the UK set against Martin Knox's incredible complimentary graphic design and a foreword by Claude Levy-Strauss, a prominent Native American ethnologist. All texts in English and German.

“As the western armies and cultures marched in and took over the civilizations of the east, the displaced and unwanted ceremonies, rituals and modes of dress quietly graduated and entrenched themselves in the west in return. Just as our museums and galleries are cramped with the looted remnants of vanished civilizations so too are our streets and inner cities brimming with the evidence of a tribal past.”

Very Good copy with light cover wear.

File under: Nelly Gommez-Vaëz Chris Wroblewski Eichborn Verlag / Frankfurt Photography Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Sound / Music

The Kerista Tribe, A Tribal Newspaper

1968, English
Newspaper, 8 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Kerista Tribe / San Francisco

$90.00 - In stock -

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Very rare, inaugural Kerista Tribe newspaper, A Tribal Newspaper, published in 1968 by The Kerista Commune in San Francisco. The Kerista Commune was a utopian community that was started in New York City in 1956 but largely based in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco centred around the idea of independent learning, the creative use of technology, and the ideals of polyfidelity and non-monogamous lifestyles. They published many journals focusing on the esoteric issues of lifestyle, communal living, and Keristan theory and practice. Gorgeously simple and expressive in its combination of typesetting and psychedelic illustration, this first edition of The Kerista Tribe introduces readers to "The Kerista World Peace Plan" and their philosophies of a nonviolent, interracial, intentional community and humanized society, including poetry and quotes from Richard Brautigan to Michel de Montaigne.

Very Good copy with centre fold and light tanning (less yellow than pictured!).

File under: The Kerista Tribe / San Francisco Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Feminism Ecology Ecology / Earth Health LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Art

The Living Daylights
Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1974

1974, English
Newspaper, 28 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne

$90.00 $60.00 - Out of stock

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Rare February 1974 issue of The Living Daylights, a radical, riotous weekly counter-culture magazine out of North Melbourne in the 1970's, edited by Oz magazine founder Richard Neville, along with Terence Maher, Michael Morris, and graphic designer Laurel Olszewski, and published by Neville's fellow OZ colleague, Richard Walsh, between 1973-4. The Living Daylights was packed with all happening things in youth counter-culture, filled with articles, cartoons, artwork, sex, drugs, rock n roll and protest. A provocative, humorous and controversial anti-establishment bulletin in the tradition of Oz, regularly featuring the artwork of Martin Sharp, Michael Luenig, Dickie, and Neil McLean! This issue features 186 Years of Penal Outrage, activists against the closure of Lameroo "Free Beach" in Darwin, Bondi photography by Syd Shelton, dodgy Adelaide drug squad, Melbourne marijuana activists, Nimbin news, female singers, women's liberation and beauty trends by Margaret Smith, Confessions of a Working Class Shit Eater by poet Eric Beach, Taiwanese actress Angela Mao, Fritz the Cat, and so much more.

A wonderful, very seldom seen, historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing.

Very Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Syd Shelton Robert Crumb Neil McLean Eric Beach Richard Neville Terence Maher Margaret Smith Richard Walsh Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne Eros Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Feminism Art Australian Art Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Film / Video Ecology Ecology / Earth Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE

The Living Daylights
Vol. 2, No. 11, March 1974

1974, English
Newspaper, 28 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne

$90.00 $60.00 - Out of stock

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Rare March 1974 issue of The Living Daylights, a radical, riotous weekly counter-culture magazine out of North Melbourne in the 1970's, edited by Oz magazine founder Richard Neville, along with Terence Maher, Michael Morris, and graphic designer Laurel Olszewski, and published by Neville's fellow OZ colleague, Richard Walsh, between 1973-4. The Living Daylights was packed with all happening things in youth counter-culture, filled with articles, cartoons, artwork, sex, drugs, rock n roll and protest. A provocative, humorous and controversial anti-establishment bulletin in the tradition of Oz, regularly featuring the artwork of Martin Sharp, Michael Luenig, Dickie, and Neil McLean! This issue features Ian Stocks in conversation with science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke, a guide to smuggling, Allen Ginsberg on cocaine and Abbie Hoffman, Heroin, Pentridge prison, Magic Mushrooms, police brutality against black Australians, Cherry Ripe on the pioneering drag queen anarchy of Sylvia and the Synthetics, meditation, Veronica Perry on the ecology of Shit, the Bitch newspaper, Miles Davis, and so much more.

A wonderful, very seldom seen, historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing.

Very Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Miles Davis Laurel Olszewski Sylvia and the Synthetics Neil McLean Allen Ginsberg Arthur C. Clarke Abbie Hoffman Veronica Perry Cherry Ripe Ian Stocks Richard Neville Terence Maher Richard Walsh Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture Film / Video Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Australian Art Theory / Essay Art Ecology LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Protest / Revolt Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Feminism Eros Ecology / Earth Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées SALE

Cosmos, The Living Paper
Vol 1, No. 1, June 1973

1973, English
Newspaper, 24 pages, 43 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cosmos Periodicals / Cremorne

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce inaugural issue (June 1973) of Cosmos, The Living Paper, published in Cremorne, Victoria in the 1970s and edited by leading Australian occultist Nevill Drury with Peter Glasson. A magazine dedicated to "the other side" of the counter-culture, "seeking to change society, not by forcibly ramming its ideas into unwilling minds, but by peacefully stressing the need for change in each and every individual as a prescription to the world's ills". Each issue is packed with articles and artwork around subjects such as cosmic music, occultism, ecology, astrology, organic gardening, alternative living, sexuality, theosophy, the arts, literature, politics, and awakened, back-to-the-earth Australia. A wonderful historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing. "From Soil to Psyche."

Good copy with fold and edge wear, tanning (which looks worse in our images than in person).

File under: Peter Glasson Nevill Drury Cosmos Periodicals / Cremorne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Ecology Theory / Essay Art Ecology / Earth Health Occult / Esoterica Protest / Revolt Sound / Music Australian Art Animal Rights / Veganism