World Food Books

TENSION 7
May 1985

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 7 (May 1985) features Brian Eno, Reg Mombassa, Eiko Ishioka, Nick Cave, Brian De Palma, David Puttnam, Peter York, Bashir Baraki's portraits of Peter Booth and Robert Rooney, and more.

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

File under: Brian Eno Robert Rooney Peter Booth Eiko Ishioka Bashir Baraki Reg Mombassa Tension / South Yarra Art Australian Art Counterculture Fashion Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Periodicals Painting Out-of-print / Rare

TENSION 16
Australian and International Arts : May 1989

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

$25.00 - Out of stock

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

Good copy but cover torn.

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

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

Hard Corps
Studies in Leather and Sadomasochism

1977, English
Softcover (silver foil cover w. original plastic sleeve), 94 pages, 20.3 x 26.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

$150.00 - Out of stock

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A now sought-after piece of published history, "Hard Corps : Studies in Leather and Sadomasochism", was published in 1977. This famous photographic book takes a personal look inside the world of SM in the 1970s, with thoughtful and revealing texts by Michael Grumley that follow the encounters and stories of SMs many varied practitioners, alongside the photography of Ed Gallucci (who shot for the hugely influential US Rock magazine Crawdaddy!, as well as Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Esquire and Playboy).

First edition copy in it's printed foil cover in plastic sleeve. Very Good copy - light wear to sleeve from age.

File under: Ed Gallucci Ed Gallucci Michael Grumley E P Dutton / New York Counterculture Eros Fashion Photography Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+

Rennie Ellis
Decade 1970-1980

2013, English
Hardback, 256 pages, 29 x 25.5cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Hardie Grant Books State Library of Victoria / Melbourne

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Now out of print, Decade 1970-1980 highlights Ellis as one of Australia’s most important chroniclers of 1970s Australia. The photographs, predominantly black and white, are drawn from a core selection originally made by Rennie, from his own unpublished book, and supplemented by other significant and iconic images from the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive and the State Library of Victoria’s collection. Many of the photographs are accompanied by extended captions written by Rennie Ellis and are published for the first time!

A social documenter and flâneur, Ellis used his camera as a passport to navigate new experiences, resulting in a culturally important and vast body of work. Decade explores the cultures and sub-cultures of the seventies: the political upheavals, alternative lifestyles and counter culture, the women’s movement, gay liberation, the new religions and cults, pop festivals, the Vietnam and other protests, massage parlours, the disco scene, the blossoming of Australia’s film industry, the new sexual freedom, Aboriginal rights, street festivals, the new theatre, fashion, drugs and the emergence of a decadent and hedonistic society that would later characterise the Eighties.

Edited by multi-award winning photographer, Stephen Dupont, with essays by Manuela Furci, Director of the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, Paul Cox, Film maker and Photographer and Susan Van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria.

No other photographer has documented Australian society in such depth and with such insight into the human condition as Rennie Ellis. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2003, Rennie Ellis' non-judgmental approach was his 'access-to-all-areas' pass. Ellis used his camera as a key to open the doors to the social arenas of the rich and famous and to enter the underbelly of the nightclubs, bearing witness to the indulgences and excesses. In today's post-Henson era, these captured moments offer an intimate access to an Australia tantalisingly, but sadly, now almost out of reach.

As new copy.

File under: Rennie Ellis Manuela Furci Paul Cox Susan Van Wyk Hardie Grant Books State Library of Victoria / Melbourne Photography Australian Art Counterculture Australian Photography Out-of-print / Rare

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

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

$50.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

Working Art : A Survey of Art in the Australian Labour Movement in the 1980's
Curated by Ian Burn

1985, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce catalogue and unique valuable resource published to accompany the exhibition "Working Art: A Survey of Art in The Australian Labour Movement in The 1980's", curated by Australian conceptual artist, curator and writer Ian Burn for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1985. Designed by Michael Davies of the Art Workers Union (AWU), this heavily illustrated (in colour and black and white) catalogue surveys the Banners, Posters, Graphics, Photographs, and Media of the Australian Labour movement during the 1980's, as well as a detailed "Historical Sketch" written and compiled by Ian Burn and Sandy Kirby that illustrates the rich history of the Arts in Australian unionism and communities. Alongside the many exhibited prints and textiles, there is photo documentation throughout of marches, performances, artist's at work, historical exhibitions, plus reproductions of newsletters, newspapers, cartoons, announcements, along with further accompanying introductory texts and a bibliography.

Includes inserted Trade Union Information Kit "Art and Working Life : The Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Workshop" booklet that takes an illustrated look at the activities of the VTHC Workshop in the 1980s. A perfect accompaniment to this catalogue. Also, errata slip enclosed from the NSW catalogue.

Ian Burn (1939-1993) was an Australian conceptual artist, curator and writer who spent the first part of his career working in London and New York. It was here that he began working with Art & Language, a collaborative group who produced the publication Art-Language and whose members included artists Roger Cutforth, Joseph Kosuth and Mel Ramsden. Returning to Australia in 1977 Burn became involved in the Art Workers Union (AWU), a political and social platform that championed artists’ rights and helped change the landscape and expectations under which artists worked in Australia. From 1980 onwards, together with artist and social activist Ian Millis, he worked on a number of initiatives to further the cause of the labour movement, including Union Media Services and the Art and Working Life program. Burn died by accidental drowning in 1993.

A great copy of an important resource on Australia's cultural, industrial and political history, and also an important publication by Ian Burn.
Light general reading/handling creasing to oblong pages, otherwise tight and clean throughout. Previous owner's name penned to title page.

File under: Ian Burn Ian Burn Cliff Dolan Sandy Kirby Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Art Theory / Essay Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Group Shows / Collections Textiles

Omniverse Sun Ra
Hartmut Geerken & Chris Trent (Eds.)

2016, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 29 x 24.5 cm
Published by Art Yard / London

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revised and expanded second edition of Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent’s comprehensive reference "Omniverse Sun Ra", originally published in 1994.

Omniverse Sun Ra features many previously unpublished photographs of Sun Ra and His Arkestra in New York in 1966 and Germany in 1979 by Val Wilmer, and Hartmut Geerken’s previously unpublished photographs from Heliopolis in Cairo, Egypt, in 1971, in addition to an updated comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography by Chris Trent, including chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel, and record label indexes, as well as indexes of shellac 78RPM records, 45 RPM singles, jackets, and labels.

Also includes essays and photo documents by Hartmut Geerken, Chris Trent, Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist, Sigrid Hauff, Karl Heinz Kessler, Robert Lax, and Salah Ragab.

File under: Chris Cutler Sun Ra Chris Cutler Art Yard / London Art Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Black Mountain : An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 –1957

2015, English
Softcover (w. printed plastic jacket), 464 pages, 18.5 x 24 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Out-of-print English edition.

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The first rector of the school was John Andrew Rice, and Josef Albers, John Cage, Walter Gropius, and Buckminster Fuller were among the many adepts to give courses here. In consequence, BMC witnessed the development of a range of avant-garde concepts. This richly illustrated book appeared in conjunction with a Black Mountain exhibition ( 5 June – 27 September 2015, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin). It is the first comprehensive publication on BMC in the German-speaking world and traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

File under: Buckminster Fuller John Cage Josef Albers Walter Gropius Spector Books / Leipzig Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Great Circles, or How to Build Your Own Dome Home
by Rupert and Felicity Glover

1972, English
Softcover (die-cut), 48 pages, 21 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Alister Taylor / Wellington

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1972 by Alister Taylor, Wellington, New Zealand, "Great Circles, or How to Build Your Own Dome Home" is one of the finest, and scarcest, books published on building a geodesic dome house.

Written by Rupert and Felicity Glover, this heavily visual volume (wonderfully photographed and complete with templates) traces, step-by-step, their personal process in building a geodesic dome house to counter the burdens building and property regulations were imposing on New Zealand residents (and residents all over the world to this day).

"[...] This is a book which tells you how to beat them at their own game by building the most efficient structure, in terms of a space-materials ratio, yet discovered. In short, this is a housing plan for the alternative society. In it we describe for you a geodesic dome we built ourselves in the summer of 1971-72. It took us six weeks, it cost us about $1500, and it's beautiful. You could build it faster, for at no time did we have more than two people working on it, and you could build it cheaper, by using demolition materials and having your own workshop. But the main thing is that you can build it and they don't make a cent out of it. This is a chance to use the ingenuity which keeps the alternative society going. If they have rules, break them only as a last resort. It is much better to find ways of making them inappropriate or irrelevant. By building a dome you can do just this. This book gives you simple but full instructions for making a geodesic dome. The dome was invented by the visionary genius, R. Buckminster Fuller, who refers to this planet as "Spaceship Earth", and remarks that it didn't come with an instruction book. We have used some of Fuller's ideas, some from other people, and some of our own. We expect you to do the same, because this book makes no rules. It tells how to do something that we have done, but it certainly does not say you must do it the way we did. If someone doesn't improve at least some of our methods, we shall be disappointed. We have deliberately kept the book simple, thinking that bullshit would be a hindrance rather than a help, but we have included one chapter on the mathematics of the geodesic dome for those of you who want to upset our ideas completely but don't own a computer. [...]"

First and only edition.

File under: Buckminster Fuller Alister Taylor / Wellington Architecture / Interior Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare

Be Here Now

1978, English
Softcover, 380 pages, 20.3 x 20.1cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Hanuman Foundation / New Mexico

$25.00 - Out of stock

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“We’re talking about metamorphosis
We’re talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterfly
We’re talking about how to become a butterfly.”

"In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success... And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing.

Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely.

And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass – “servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since.

Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.

With over 150 pages of metaphysical illustrations, practical advice on how to implement a yogic regiment, and a chapter dedicated to quotes and book recommendations, Be Here Now is sure to enrich your emotional, physical, and spiritual life."

'Because we are all interrelated, what affects another person affects you.'

1978 edition.

File under: Hanuman Foundation / New Mexico Counterculture Drawing

Space Colonies : A Galactic Freeman's Journal
by Fabian Reimann

2017, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 10.5 x 15 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$28.00 - Out of stock

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A visionary assemblage of historical, present-day and speculative material on space colonies, inspired by the culture of the Whole Earth Catalog.
At the beginning of the 1970s, American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies in 1977. Space Colonies, an edition of Brand's CoEvolution Quarterly, funded by the proceeds of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up the question of whether space might be colonized by the year 2000. Artist Fabian Reimann takes up Brand and O'Neill's particular strain of techno-utopianism in Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman's Journal. In his photo-essay Reimann assembles historical, present-day and speculative material, combining these with fictional and factual stories to create a composite of different images of the world. With global ecological disaster an even more pressing issue than it was in 1977, and the colonization of space still touted by some as a last-ditch resort, Reimann looks back at the dreams and nightmares of the 1970s with a sophisticated visual humor. Fabian Reimann (born 1975) is an artist working in Leipzig and, since 2004, the editor of the "ego-zine" Freeman's Journal. His Another Earth Catalog, which refers back to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, was published by Spector Books in 2012. Reimann works with sculpture, photography, collage, painting and text in extended research projects that blend history and science, and fact and fiction

File under: Fabian Reimann Spector Books / Leipzig Art Photography Theory / Essay Counterculture

Under the Radar: Underground Zines and Self-Publications 1965–1975

2017, English
Softcover (ring-bound), 368 pages, 24 x 33 cm
1st Ed.,
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$86.00 - Out of stock

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The mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and self-published works in West Germany. Hectographs, mimeographs and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, low-cost print runs, but also promoted a unique aesthetic. Using wild mock-ups, these messianic amateurs combined typescript aesthetics, handwriting, scribbled drawings, assemblages of collaged visuals, porn photos, snapshots and comic strips, forging a new, wildly free, sensibility in the process. This book is the first to present the underground and self-published works that came out of West Germany in such depth, while also showing the international context in which they emerged – not as an anecdotal history but as an attempt to tap into the aesthetic cosmos of the Do-It-Yourself rebellion. Insomuch, Under the Radar also challenges us to take a new look at the current boom in independent publishing, the risograph aesthetic and more.

An incredible collection and valuable volume for anyone interested in underground publishing history!

File under: Spector Books / Leipzig Anarchism Art Counterculture Graphic Design / Typography Eros Feminism Fiction / Poetry Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Periodicals Sound / Music

Living on The Earth (Japanese Edition)

1972, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 207 pages, 27.7 x 21.6 cm
Published by Soshisha / Japan

$35.00 - Out of stock

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The first Japanese edition of "Living on The Earth", published in 1972. All texts in Japanese.

The title page reads "Celebrations, storm warnings, formulas, recipes, rumors, and country dances harvested by Alicia Bay Laurel."
Originally published in Berkeley, California in 1970, more than thirty 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.

File under: Alicia Bay Laurel Alicia Bay Laurel Soshisha / Japan Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Feminism Out-of-print / Rare

Anarchism and Feminism
Peggy Kornegger, Zero Collective, Kytha Kurin

1981, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 38 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Brickburner Press / Queensland

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Three important essays from Anarchist-Feminists theorists/writers Peggy Kornegger, Zero Collective, and Kytha Kurin, dating 1975-1980, published in 1981 by Backburner Press in Australia.
Originally appearing in the Anarchist journals Second Wave, Zero and Open Road, this publication contains "Anarchism: The Feminist Connection" by Peggy Kornegger, "Anarchism/Feminism" by Zero Collective, and "Anarcha-Feminism: Why the Hyphen?" by Kytha Kurin.

Condition: Good (general sun tanning and wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Kytha Kurin Peggy Kornegger Zero Collective Brickburner Press / Queensland Anarchism Counterculture Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Anthology

1980, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Dark Star / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Feminist anthology 4 QUIET RUMOURS brings together for the first time some of the key writings by anarcha-feminists from the early ’70’s. Originally only available as individual pamphlets, so popular they were continually re-printed, demand now justifies the appearance of this anthology. The various writers illustrate the clear parallels existing between feminist practice ― non-hierarchical, anti- authoritarian and de-centralist ― and the theories of anarchism. These timeless concerns are posed against the rigid dogmas and patriarchal states of our modern world. The re-issue of these essays will undoubtably provoke thought and debate - as they have done ever since their first appearance.

Texts by Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists, Lynne Farrow, Peggy Kornegger, Marian Leighton, Voltairine de Cleyre, Carol Ehrlich.

Condition: Good (general sun tanning and wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists Carol Ehrlich Lynne Farrow Marian Leighton Peggy Kornegger Voltairine de Cleyre Dark Star / London Anarchism Counterculture Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

About Anarchism
by Nicolas Walter

1980, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 34 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Brickburner Press / Queensland

$20.00 - Out of stock

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"This introduction to anarchism was first published in June 1969 as the hundredth issue of the monthly magazine Anarchy, and was immediately reprinted as a separate pamphlet. It was reprinted again in 1971, and it has also been translated into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian (twice), Japanese, Spanish (twice), and Yiddish (in Argentina). This new edition is unchanged except for the addition of this paragraph, of a new penultimate paragraph in the section on “The individual and society”, and of a new postscript at the end." - Brickburner Press, January 1977

1980 Australian reprint of Nicolas Walter's seminal essay "About Anarchism". Nicolas Hardy Walter was a British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist. He was a member of the Committee of 100 and Spies for Peace, and wrote on topics of anarchism and humanism.

Contents: WHAT ANARCHISTS BELIEVE; HOW ANARCHISTS DIFFER; WHAT ANARCHISTS WANT; WHAT ANARCHISTS DO

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File under: Nicolas Walter Brickburner Press / Queensland Anarchism Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes
by Rudolf Rocker

1996, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 18 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Free Labour / Brunswick

$15.00 - Out of stock

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"I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." - Rudolf Rocker

"Rudolf Rocker (1873 - 1958) was a German anarchist who was forced into exile in 1892. He settled in Britain in 1895 and, though himself not Jewish, was active in the Jewish movement until he was interned and later deported during World War 1. He was active back in Germany until the rise of Hitler forced him into exile again, and he spent the rest of his life in the USA. Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes is the first chapter of Rudolf Rocker's libertarian classic Anarchosyndicalism, originally published in 1938 by Martin Secker and Warbug. Anarchosyndicalism has been reprinted several times since and appears in a revised and abridged version as Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism. An attempt has been made within the text of this pamphlet to soften the gender-specific language, a product, apparently, of pre-feminist times. Where possible, the original text has been left unaltered. Where this has been impossible, substitute ”man," "his" or ”him" for the word appearing in the brackets to return to the original text."

Reprinted in 1996 by Brunswick's Free Labour Press, this

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File under: Rudolf Rocker Free Labour / Brunswick Anarchism Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Notes on Anarchism

Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Jura Books / NSW

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An undated Australian reprint of this seminal essay by American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist, Noam Chomsky, first published in the 1973 collection For Reasons Of State. Published by Sydney's Jura Books.

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File under: Jura Books Noam Chomsky Jura Books / NSW Anarchism Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy, 1961–1970
edited by Daniel Poyner

2013, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 24 × 17 cm
Published by Hyphen Press / London

$55.00 $30.00 - Out of stock

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Anarchy was a journal of ideas published in London in the 1960s. Although its contributors were many and diverse, Anarchy was essentially the creation of one person, Colin Ward (1924–2010). With this journal, and throughout his work as a writer, editor, and activist, Ward proposed the idea that anarchist principles of mutual aid and autonomous organization outside a centralized state can be achieved here and now. This book gives attention for the first time to the covers of Anarchy, designed mostly by Rufus Segar. These little-known works provided the enticing entry to the plain text pages of the journal. The book reproduces all of the covers in a sequence that suggests, incidentally, something of the history of graphic design in Britain in those years. And it goes beyond the images, with an array of supporting texts that give a full picture of Anarchy and its context.

Contents
Daniel Poyner, Introduction

The covers of Anarchy

Raphael Samuel, ‘Utopian sociology’
Daniel Poyner, A conversation with Rufus Segar
Richard Hollis, ‘Anarchy and the 1960s’
Robin Kinross, An index to Anarchy

‘Autonomy’ doesn’t try to present Segar as some great innovator of graphic design. He wasn’t one and makes no claim to be. What the book sets out to do, and it succeeds magnificently without visual or verbal hyperbole, is to enrich and add nuance to our understanding of a 1960s graphic landscape we might think we know inside out by acquainting us with unfamiliar work that provided an important forward-thinking publication with its public face. Segar believed in the journal’s cause and 40 years later, he reports, he and his wife Sheila are still anarchists.
Rick Poynor, Creative Review, January 2013

File under: Richard Hollis Rufus Segar Daniel Poyner Richard Hollis Robin Kinross Hyphen Press / London Anarchism Counterculture Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay SALE

Bizarre #3

1992, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 48 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Spartacus Publishers / California

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful, ultra scarce early 1990's fetish catalogue from California's Spartacus production house. "The Most Unique Fetish Catalog In The World", Bizarre #3 : Bondage catalog offers Spartacus' incredible visually-rich (Adults Only) magazine style pages of saturated colours, incredible airbrushed illustrations, and exclusive demonstrative bondage photography of their world-class bondage equipment and devices.

Note: this issue has a few photographs of male and female genitals hand censored (with black marker). Quite likely by the international distributor or Japanese vendor who originally sold this title.

Condition: Very good (light wear only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Spartacus Publishers / California Counterculture Eros Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM

Discipline Helmets #2

Softcover (staple-bound), 48 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Spartacus Publishers / California

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Wonderful, ultra scarce early 1990's fetish catalogue from California's Spartacus production house. Discipline Helmets #2 offers Spartacus' incredible visually-rich (Adults Only) magazine style pages of saturated colours, incredible airbrushed illustrations, and exclusive demonstrative bondage photography of their world-class bondage equipment and devices.

Condition: Very good (light wear only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Spartacus Publishers / California Counterculture Eros Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+

Life on Sirius : The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art
Daniel Birnbaum, Kim West (ed.)

2017, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 9.5 x 14.8 cm
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm Sternberg Press / Berlin

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How did art escape the deadlock of the Situationists’ anti-art refusal? Did the relational artists, with their repetitions of Situationist slogans and techniques, outline a sustainable, micro-political alternative to Guy Debord’s dream of surpassing art and realizing philosophy? Looking back at some of the Situationists’ confrontations with the museum, this book traces a path beyond the tragedy of negativity and the litany of recuperation. At the center is the concept of play; originally adopted as the principle of reconciled life, it returns as the lever of instrumentalization. But in the extraterrestial wasteland of the present, spaces of ludic coexistence and experimentation may remain possible, provided that pessimism can be adequately organized.

part of the All the King’s Horses Series, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and
Kim West
Copublished between Sternberg Press and Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Design by Studio Christopher West

File under: Daniel Birnbaum Guy Debord Kim West Moderna Museet / Stockholm Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Counterculture Theory / Essay

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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

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

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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

Liberating Masturbation : A Meditation of Self Love (Dedicated to the Women)
by Betty Dodson

1976, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 60 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Betty Dodson / New York

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1976 edition of Betty Dodson's "Liberating Masturbation", her first self-published book on self-love that became a feminist classic. Includes the chapters: "The Romaticized Image of Sex", "Sharing Masturbation", "Going Public", "Conciousness Raising", "Becoming Cunt Positive", "Bodysex Workshops", "Masturbation as Meditation"...

Betty Dodson (born August 24, 1929) is an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement, separate from mainstream feminism, which she sees as needlessly political and hostile to men. Dodson’s workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups. Although bisexual herself, she repudiates the labels that define sexuality.

Condition: Good-Very Good (light tanning to page edges, very light rubbing and small stain to bottom-back cover, otherwise very good copy) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Betty Dodson / New York Counterculture Eros Feminism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+