World Food Books

Fool's Mate Vol. 13 August 1980
"La Pop Metaphysique"

1980, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Rare early issue of the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. Fool's Mate Vol. 13 August 1980. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This issue "La Pop Metaphysique" with cover feature on the history of King Crimson (Part 1) with in-depth chronology, the history of German Rock Music part 1 (Amon Düül I and II, Gila, Kluster, Neu!, Harmonia, Conrad Schnizler, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Can, Sky Records, Roedelius, Moebius, etc), "Pop Music for all the Schizoid-Human & Schizoid-Ages" (Suicide, James Chance, Monochrome Set, etc.), Slapp Happy/Peter Blegvad/Kew Rhone/Amateur/Henry Cow/Faust, "The Real Story of National Health", "U.S.A. Free Music" (L.A.F.M.S., Trans Museq, Henry Kaiser, etc.), Georges Bataille, Gunjogacrayon, Metabolist, David Bowie, Etron Fou Leloublan, Mario Millo, PFM, Ralph Lundsten, Memoriance, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy. General wear/age.

File under: Hans-Joachim Roedelius Dieter Moebius Amon Düül Amon Düül 2 Amon Düül I Amon Düül II Gila Kluster Neu! Harmonia Conrad Schnizler Klaus Schulze Tangerine Dream Can Sky Records Suicide James Chance Monochrome Set Lindsay Cooper Slapp Happy Peter Blegvad Kew Rhone Amateur Henry Cow Faust L.A.F.M.S. Trans Museq Henry Kaiser Gunjogacrayon Metabolist David Bowie Etron Fou Leloublan Mario Millo PFM Ralph Lundsten Memoriance Masashi Kitamura Masami Akita (Merzbow) Georges Bataille Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Surrealism

Fool's Mate Vol. 14 November 1980

1980, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Rare early issue of the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. Fool's Mate Vol. 14 November 1980. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This issue with cover feature on the history of King Crimson (Part 2) with in-depth chronology, the history of German Rock Music into German Intermedia, Dada, Neo-Dada, German Avant-Garde theatre, etc. (Amon Düül I and II, Bertolt Brecht, Guru Guru, Can, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Strauss, Agitation Free, Joseph Beuys, Ash Ra Temple, Popol Vuh), Kate Bush, Bert Jansch, Robert Wyatt, Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records (TG, Monte Cazazza, Leather Nun, S.P.K.), Fred Frith interview, plus the R.I.O. Festival in Reims, France, 1980 (This Heat, ZNR, Eskaton, Stormy Six, Samla Mammas Manna, Tim Hodgkinson, Etron Fou Leloublan, Marc Hollander, Ghédalia Tazartès, Maggie Nicols, etc.), INA-GRM discography (François Bayle, Jean Schwarz, Guy Reibel, Jean-Claude Risset, etc.), and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy. General wear/age.

File under: Amon Düül Amon Düül 2 Ghedalia Tazartes King Crimson Bertolt Brecht Guru Guru Can Klaus Schulze Tangerine Dream Strauss Agitation Free Joseph Beuys Ash Ra Temple Popol Vuh Kate Bush Robert Wyatt Throbbing Gristle. Industrial Records Monte Cazazza Leather Nun S.P.K. Fred Frith Herny Cow Art Bears Slapp Happy This Heat ZNR Eskaton Stormy Six Samla Mammas Manna Tim Hodgkinson Etron Fou Leloublan Marc Hollander Maggie Nicols François Bayle Jean Schwarz Guy Reibel Jean-Claude Risset Bert Jansch Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masashi Kitamura Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Occult / Esoterica Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Theory / Essay

Fool's Mate Vol. 18 October 1981

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Rare early issue of the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. Fool's Mate Vol. 18 October 1981. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This incredible issue with cover feature on Fred Frith and Recommended Records, plus Vini Reilly/Durutti Column, The Flying Lizards, David Cunningham, Steve Beresford, Piano Records, Phew, David Toop, Michael Nyman, Aksak Maboul, Crammed Discs, Family Fodder, Video Aventures, Band Apart, Robert Wyatt, Lidsay Cooper, Tim Hodgkinson, Nord, Ken Lockie, Landscape, Alan Gowen, Electroacoustic music, medieval heresy and satanism, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy. General wear/age.

File under: David Cunningham Steve Beresford Piano Records Phew David Toop Michael Nyman Aksak Maboul Crammed Discs Family Fodder Band Apart Robert Wyatt Lidsay Cooper Tim Hodgkinson Nord Ken Lockie Landscape Alan Gowen Henry Cow Art Bears The Residents Lemon Kittens Gloria Mundi Fred Frith Recommended Records The Flying Lizards Vini Reilly Durutti Column Video Aventures Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masashi Kitamura Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Sound / Music Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Occult / Esoterica Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Surrealism Theory / Essay Counterculture

Fool's Mate "Special Stock" part 2 January 1981
Vol. 15 + S.S

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 224 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare "Special Stock" compendium book by the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This special collection combines Vol. 15 + S.S in January 1981. Features: Heldon and Magma, Rock in Belgium (COS, Aksak Maboul, Marc Hollander, Julverne, Esperanto, Wallace Collection, etc.), Rough Trade Records (The Raincoats, Swell Maps, This Heat, The Fall, Young Marble Giants, Liliput, etc.), EGG Records (Patrick Vian, Fracoise Breant, Ose, Michel Magne, Christian Vander, etc.), Ash Ra Temple, Prog in Italy (PFM, Area, New Trolls, Stormy Six, etc.), Gilgamesh, The Residents, Henry Cow discography, Nurse with Wound, P.D./P16.D4/Permutative Distorsion, L.Voag, Borbetomagus, YLEM Tapes, Negativland, alchemy and the occult, The Pop Group, Bauhaus, Japan, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vangelis, Jon Anderson, Blondie, Mike Oldfield, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy.

File under: Heldon Magma COS Aksak Maboul Marc Hollander Julverne Esperanto Wallace Collection Rough Trade Records The Raincoats Swell Maps This Heat The Fall Young Marble Giants Liliput EGG Records Patrick Vian Fracoise Breant Ose Michel Magne Christian Vander Ash Ra Temple PFM Area New Trolls Stormy Six Gilgamesh The Residents Henry Cow Nurse with Wound P16.D4 L.Voag Borbetomagus YLEM Tapes Negativland The Pop Group Bauhaus Japan Siouxsie and the Banshees Vangelis Jon Anderson Blondie Mike Oldfield Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Occult / Esoterica Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Apocalypse Culture
Edited by Adam Parfrey

1990, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 21.6 x 24 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

$40.00 - Out of stock

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"Apocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century."—J.G. Ballard

Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are the forces lurking behind this mass delirium?

APOCALYPSE CULTURE is a startling, absorbing and exhaustive tour through the nether regions of today’s psychotic brainscape.

First published in 1987, APOCALYPSE CULTURE immediately touched a nerve. Alternately excoriated and lauded as “epochal”, “the most important book of the decade,” APOCALYPSE CULTURE had begun to articulate what many inwardly sensed — the-fear inspired irrationalism and faith, the clash of irreconcilable forces, and the ever-looming specter of fin de race. In its present incarnation for Feral House, APOCALYPSE CULTURE has significantly increased in size, taking on new perspectives on our current crisis, with pertinent revisions of many articles from the original edition.—burb from this expanded and revised 1990 edition.

Good copy with general wear/"kinkiness".

File under: Peter Sotos Joe Bradley Peter Sotos Adam Parfrey John Zerzan Hakim Bey Paul Lemos Thomas McEvilley Feral House / Los Angeles Fiction / Poetry Art Eros Counterculture Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Film / Video Theory / Essay Anarchism

Michiko Matsumoto
Women Come Alive

1978, Japanese
Softcover, 204 pages, 21 x 29.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hanashi-no-Tokushu / Tokyo

$650.00 - In stock -

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Exceptionally rare (signed!) 1978 first edition photobook by Michiko Matsumoto, one of post war Japan's leading photographers. As a young female photographer growing up in a period of turmoil, Matsumoto conveys the wonders of women to the viewer from the perspective of a woman. Women Come Alive is her rarest and greatest example of this. This wonderful book collects "seven years with women...", Matsumoto's front-line photographic records of the women's liberation movement in Japan in the 1970s and her "Sisters Across Borders" (New York, Paris, Los Angeles, London...), as well as portraits of female artists, activists and friends Yoko Ono, Maki Asakawa, Eiko Ishioka, Michiko Gorman, Mamako Yoneyama, Teruko Yoshitake, Tokiko Kato, Harumi Yamaguchi, Chinatsu Nakayama and others. A true time-capsule, this book visits the workshops, bookshops, marches, women's centres, lesbian bars, exhibitions, editorial offices, dances and studios of a pivotal time of great change. An incredible book of feminist protest and celebration. Virtually an impossible book to find, even without a signature from the artist! Highly recommended!!

Very Good copy in very good dust jacket. Signed in black ink and dated 1978.6.7 on title page.

File under: Yoko Ono Michiko Matsumoto Alicia Bay Laurel Hanashi-no-Tokushu / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Counterculture Signed Books

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Take Ivy
photo by T. Hayashida

1973, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 139 pages, 24.7 x 18.7 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fujingahosha / Tokyo

$250.00 - In stock -

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1973 hardcover print of the first 1965 Japanese edition of "Take Ivy", the legendary cult fashion photo-book and mythological sociological study that set off an explosion of American-influenced fashion amongst Tokyo students and re-defined "Ivy Style" as we know it.

Sold out immediately upon publication, and little known outside of Japan until the 2000s, Take Ivy (the title inspired by "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck) was authored by four Japanese sartorial men's style enthusiasts, including Van Jacket founder and unerring dandy Kensuke Ishizu and photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida (who shot for the influential Men’s Club magazine in Japan). In early 1960s Tokyo, many of these Ivy enthusiasts were arrested simply for dressing in "outlandish" American-inspired styles. In the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, authorities aimed to clean up Japan’s image, targeting those who strayed too far from traditional norms. During this backlash, Hayashida, Ishizu, and their team set off to the USA in search of their beloved modern "American-style". Upon their arrival on the campuses of America’s elite Ivy League universities they were stunned by the dissonance between real Ivy league style and the Japanese understanding of Ivy. The resplendent sartorial formality of Japan’s Ivy was nowhere to be seen. Where were the three-piece suits that were supposed to be the de facto Ivy uniform? Did this style-conscious utopia the Japanese men espoused and emulated ever even exist? This realisation did not discourage the team, but rather gave birth to something truely unique. The Japanese Reimagining of Ivy.

The result is a beautiful and iconic collection of seemingly candid, almost voyeuristic, possibly staged photographs of college-aged men and their clothes between 1959—1965, shot on campus. Whether getting a meal in the cafeteria, lounging in the quad, riding bikes, studying in the library, in class, or at the boathouse, the subjects of this photographic compendium are impeccably and distinctively dressed in fine American-made garments, documenting an idealised golden age of Ivy League campus life. An aspirational ideal designed to inspire. It wasn’t just about the clothes; it was about the lifestyle they represented. A vision of American confidence and cool modernity that resonated deeply with young Japanese audiences and became a cultural reference the world over. The New York Times described "Take Ivy" as “a treasure of fashion insiders”, a bible for designers, stylists and photographers ever since its first publication. While America is the birthplace of Ivy Style, it was the meticulous attention to detail and cultural reinterpretation of the Japanese that preserved and redefined it for generations to come. "Take Ivy" shaped the Ivy we know today. It became the definitive document of the Ivy Style and remains one of the most iconic fashion books of all time.

Original copies are rare in the West, garnering auction prices as high as $2000 USD. This is the rarely seen first 1965 edition in its second print run from 1971, identical to the first print-run with only minor text corrections. The later 1973 and 1980 reprints being much larger print-runs due to demand, although all now incredibly sought after. The quality and feel of these early editions, printed in Japan, far surpass the many later, more common English and Japanese editions.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket (preserved in mylar wrap). Small closed tears to top of dust-jacket spine, otherwise VG; some foxing spots to first and last pages, otherwise a wonderful sharp copy of the very scarce, very limited 1973 printing. The quality and feel of these early editions, printed in Japan, far surpass the many later, more common English and Japanese editions.

File under: Teruyoshi Hayashida Fujingahosha / Tokyo Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Counterculture

Black Magazine No. 18
September 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$35.00 - In stock -

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September 1972 (with cover by Aoi Fujimoto) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Franz von Bayros Tomi Ungerer Aoi Fujimoto Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Photography Japanese Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Surrealism

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

1974, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 21 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Environments and Happenings by painter and poet Adrian Henri, published by Thames & Hudson in 1974, forms one of the first mainstream book surveys to trace the phenomenon of environmental/performative/total living artworks that became prevalent in the 1960s/70s. This historical study is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many international works from Fluxus to Zero to Dolle Mina to Nouveau Réalisme to Provo to Gutai to The Situationists and much more. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Clarence Schmidt, Ray Johnson, Öyvind Fahlström, Paul Thek, Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Hans Haacke, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Guerllia Art Action Group, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Peter Kuttner, Jackson Pollock, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Situationist International, Ferdinand Kriwet, Klaus Rinke, Duane Hanson, A-Yo, Meret Oppenheim, Space Structure Workshop, Ferdinand Cheval, Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), Robert Smithson, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan Wewerka, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Vladimir Tatlin, Provo, Barry Flanagan, Andy Warhol, Meredith Monk, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Ed Keinholz, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Gilardi, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, James Rosenquist, Red Grooms, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Eduardo Paolozzi, and many many more. Includes reproductions of performance scripts, partial chronology, etc.

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

File under: Guerilla Art Action Group Joseph Beuys Clarence Schmidt Ray Johnson Öyvind Fahlström Paul Thek Yves Klein Hans Haacke Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Guerllia Art Action Group Daniel Spoerri Wolf Vostell Gustav Metzger Peter Kuttner Jackson Pollock Alison Knowles Dick Higgins Robert Morris Situationist International Ferdinand Kriwet Klaus Rinke Duane Hanson A-Yo Meret Oppenheim Space Structure Workshop Ferdinand Cheval Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) Robert Smithson Jeff Nuttall Stefan Wewerka Christo Dennis Oppenheim Vladimir Tatlin Provo Barry Flanagan Andy Warhol Meredith Monk Atsuko Tanaka Kazuo Shiraga Ed Keinholz Yayoi Kusama Piero Gilardi Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely Claes Oldenburg Les Levine James Rosenquist Red Grooms Tom Wesselmann George Segal Eduardo Paolozzi Allan Kaprow Adrian Henri Thames and Hudson / London Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Dada Counterculture Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music

Namennayo Cats

1981, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shinko Music Publishing / Tokyo Jonathan Music / Sydney

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Super rare English edition of the cult cat classic photo book and 1980's phenomenon, Namennayo Cats, published in 1981 by Shinko Music Publishing, Tokyo, and this very rare English translation by Jonathan Music, North Sydney. The illustrated photo album of the delinquent Namennayo Cats in their youth, dressed up in leathers, smoking cigarettes, hanging at the catnip coffee shop and the pinball arcade, graffitiing the school, playing in a rock band, as members in bōsōzoku biker gangs, all photographed by Satoro Tsuda and styled by a host of collaborators, set in elaborate miniature scenes with kitten scale props and ever-changing costumes. Tsuda fell in love with cats when he took four abandoned kittens into his care in 1979. "One day, almost two months since they met, Tsuda noticed the kittens playing with costumes for dolls left behind by his girlfriend." The rest is history. Practically overnight the "obliged" Namennayo Cats became mega idols in Japan, and this book an international treasure of Cat Photo humour.

Very Good copy of the especially collectible English edition, with only light cover wear/tanning.

File under: Satoro Tsuda Shinko Music Publishing / Tokyo Jonathan Music / Sydney Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Vital – The Complete Collection 1987-1995

2023, English
Hardcover, 580 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Frans de Waard published Vital, a fanzine for electronic and electroacoustic music, from 1987 to 1995. It was a low-budget, Xeroxed publication, bearing the revolutionary instruction: ‘No Copyright Publication. Reprint Now!’ It featured interviews with Asmus Tietchens, O Yuki Conjugate, Merzbow, P16.D4, Pierre Henry, Jim O’Rourke, Brume, Döc Wor Mirran and many others, hosted discussions on copyright, plagiarism and plunderphonics, house music, ambient music, cassette culture and noise, and included contributions from musicians such as Leigh Landy, Godfried Willem Raes, John Duncan, and GX Jupitter-Larsen. Every issue included reviews of cassette releases, LPs, CDs and books. A total of 44 issues were published. Vital moved online in 1995, where it appeared every week since as Vital Weekly.

This book is a reprint of all 44 issues and is a lively record of the heyday of cassette culture and industrial music, but also of developments in the wider field of electronic music.

File under: Asmus Tietchens O Yuki Conjugate Merzbow P16.D4 Pierre Henry Brume John Duncan Frans de Waard John Duncan Korm Plastics / Netherlands Theory / Essay Sound / Music Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture

Nul Nul — the Complete Edition — Industrial Culture Magazine 1985—86
by Frans de Waard & Christian Nijs

2023, English
Hardcover (w. cd), 184 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$60.00 - Out of stock

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In October 1984, Frans de Waard started his Korm Plastics label and his music project Kapotte Muziek. Shortly after, a fellow student, Christian Nijs, joined him as a musical partner. They quickly released a few cassettes and contributed to international compilations, and Nijs started a short-lived label, Disabuse Transmissions. In the summer of 1985, they published the first issue of Nul Nul, a fanzine, to promote their projects and to support the industrial music scene in The Netherlands and Belgium. They published four issues. The lack of enthusiasm of readers, the financial struggle and the Nijs leaving Kapotte Muziek meant the end of Nul Nul, and De Waard started shortly after Vital (1987-1995), which is already published in book form by Korm Plastics.

These four issues are a testament to the creative times that were the 1980s, cut ‘n paste, and the strange, curious language we used when we were younger. Mark Posyden and Frans de Waard painstakingly translated all the texts (and went slightly insane doing it, as some of the original writing was pure gobbledygook), and Studio Bertin made a design that is ‘almost’ like the original, making this book a true beauty.

Along with this book comes a 24-track compilation CD by bands discussed within the pages of Nul Nul. It is very well possible this is the first time industrial music from The Netherlands and Belgium is collected on a CD, and it comes with many musical approaches, from pure noise to minimal synth. The bands are Kapotte Muziek (with a rare solo piece by Christian Nijs), Odal, Zombies Under Stress, Factor 6 (Christian Nijs’s solo project), Narzisse, Jacinthebox, Het Zweet (of which in recent years various works have been re-issued), THU20, Joe the Prang’d, Administratief Management, The Dwarf Farm, Clinique Lutetia, Experiment Incest, Heer Peejee, Sluagh Ghairm (pre Psychic Warriors Of Gaia), Zweiter Korps, Mailcop (Roel Meelkop’s earlier project), Ilo Istatov (from O.R.D.U.C.), Prilius Lacus, Dikyl Brobojo, Kanker Kommando, Het Hilaire Brisdak Ensemble, Vidna Obmana (from his early noise days), and A Violated Body; from totally unknown bands to still going strong ones, such as Kapotte Muziek and THU20.

File under: Kapotte Muziek Odal Zombies Under Stress Factor 6 Narzisse Jacinthebox Het Zweet Joe the Prang’d Administratief Management The Dwarf Farm Clinique Lutetia Experiment Incest Heer Peejee Sluagh Ghairm Zweiter Korps Mailcop Ilo Istatov Prilius Lacus Dikyl Brobojo Kanker Kommando Het Hilaire Brisdak Ensemble Vidna Obmana A Violated Body Frans de Waard Christian Nijs Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Counterculture Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Periodicals

This Is Supposed To Be A Record Label
Staalplaat: Eleven Years Of Distortion In The Independent Music Industry

2023, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Fourth expanded edition,
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$40.00 - Out of stock

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In 1992, Frans de Waard (of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen and the Korm Plastics label) was asked to work for Staalplaat, then one of the biggest independent labels for experimental and electronic music. Staalplaat was the home for bands like Muslimgauze, :zoviet*france:, Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate as well as Jaap Blonk, Normally Invisible and Kingdom Scum. With an average of three new releases every month, Staalplaat remained a major player for the next eleven years. Hired to set-up a database and to sell and buy new music, Frans de Waard over the years also assumed a role as (unofficial) business director and A&R man, and came to be regarded as the head honcho. In 2003 he’d had enough and decided to quit.
This book tells his story about those eleven years, the many high and as many lows of working for a small independent record label, which also functioned as a shop, mail order, radio programme, news outlet, and concert organiser. It’s about embarrassing confrontations with musicians, labels, distributors, and the endless spending on the most unique packaging CD-land ever saw.
The book includes an interview with Staalplaat founder Geert-Jan Hobijn, a transcript of a radio interview with Muslimgauze, a 1980’s account of Staalplaat’s activities, and a discography, among others. This might be a suitable reading for everyone with an interest in the experimental music scene, and anyone else who wants to read a crazy, funny and sad story about a small struggling record label.
The second edition is expanded with two more appendixes, one about John Cage and one about things found and lost, 2016-2019. Also, anyone who is interested in a manual of how (not) to run your record label might want to take notes.

"Before reading this, I had some doubts about Frans’ ability to write something so captivating and downright fucking funny. I’ve worked with him myself before, plus we have met a few times, and I always had this impression he was a somewhat sombre, serious type (an impression maintained by his reviews), but This is Supposed to be a Record Label shatters this completely. The man ought to put down his pipe long enough to get another book out because he certainly knows how to tell a story." - Adverse Effect

"Although familiar with his work in sound and music, I hadn’t had the chance to hear de Waard’s writer voice until I came across his long-running music review newsletter, Vital Weekly. The matter-of-factness reflects the brutal honesty of his assessments. A dry, wicked sense of humor is always close to the surface. De Waard’s keen observational eye made This Is Supposed to Be a Record Label a must-read for anybody interested in underground sounds." - Hyperallegric.com

File under: Kapotte Muziek Muslimgauze Zoviet France Zoviet:France O Yuki Conjugate Rapoon Jaap Blonk Normally Invisible Kingdom Scum Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Savage Republic Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Club Moral Sleep Chamber Laibach The Hafler Trio Nocturnal Emissions The Nocturnal Emissions Z'ev Etant Donnes The Legendary Pink Dots Controlled Bleeding Lustmord Le Syndicat Charlemagne Palestine Brume Richard Hell Lydia Lunch Genesis P-Orridge Ain Soph Arcane Device Toy Bizarre KK Nul Deutsch Nepal Illusion of Safety Jorge Reyes Henri Chopin NON Randy Greif Aube Survival Research Laboratories Oren Ambarchi Francisco Lopez Gen Ken Montgomery Ryoji Ikeda Maeror Tri Scanner Stilluppsteypa Pimmon Tim Hecker Pan Sonic Frans de Waard Geert-Jan Hobijn Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Theory / Essay Counterculture

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
written by Larry Mitchell; illustrated by Ned Asta

2019, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm
Published by Nightboat Books / New York

$34.00 - Out of stock

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A facsimile edition of the classic 1970s book with new essays and archival material.

40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots and their friends are surviving the ways and the world of men. Beloved by many since its publication, now with new essays by Morgan Bassichis and Tourmaline, this book offers a trenchant and irreverent critique of capitalism, assimilation, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today.

File under: Ned Asta Larry Mitchell Nightboat Books / New York Eros Fiction / Poetry Counterculture LGBTQ+

Writing on Drugs
by Sadie Plant

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 21.5 x 13.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Faber & Faber / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first edition of CCRU founder Sadie Plant's end-of-the-millennium classic, Writing on Drugs, published by Faber and Faber in 1999.

"All writers on drugs become ghost writers for drugs. Or perhaps their drugs are ghost writing them"—Sadie Plant

Narcotics, stimulants and hallucinogens — these drugs have always affected far more than the perceptions, minds and moods of their users. Writing on Drugs explores the profound and pervasive nature of their influence on contemporary culture. It reads Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline and Burroughs on them all, and with such writers it begins to understand the many ways in which the modern world has found itself on drugs. Psychoactive substances have been integral to its economic history, its politics, media and technologies. They have influenced its poetry and stories, and shaped some if its most fundamental philosophies. They have even exposed the neurochemistry of a human brain which, like its cultures, has never been drug-free.

Sadie Plant was born in Birmingham and studied at the University of Manchester, where she gained her PhD in Philosophy in 1989. She has been a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where, in 1995, she formed The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) with Mark Fisher and Nick Land, an experimental cultural theorist collective celebrated for its idiosyncratic and surreal "theory-fiction" which incorporated cyberpunk and Gothic horror, gaining an online cult following related to the rise in popularity of accelerationism. She published The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age in 1992, and Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture in 1997. Having spent much of the 1990s in the academic world, she now works independently and writes full-time.

G—VG in VG dust jacket. Normal page tanning, tanning to dust jacket edge and spine. Not necessarily copy pictured.

File under: Sadie Plant Charles Baudelaire Edgar Allan Poe Henri Michaux William S. Burroughs Sigmund Freud Samuel Taylor Coleridge Herbert Marcuse Thomas De Quincey Faber & Faber / London Theory / Essay Drugs / Psychedelia Psychoanalysis Counterculture Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare

A History of Violence (1973)
by David Cotner

2022, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 23.5 x 19 cm
Published by Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia

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Once in a century, a book comes along that both defines a genre - and defies it. This is that century. This is that book.

The book is A History of Violence (1973). A memoir of the human race. Its concept is simple: take the date in 1973 on which a violent film was first screened - and go beyond the film to see the world that exists outside the theatre. It's a book that realizes that the line between life and cinema is as much a horizon as it is a terminator. A History of Violence (1973) takes you across that horizon to places in time you never even imagined existed. Because bombs don't explode in only one direction.

169 films. The brutal and transgressive sex films (Forced Entry; High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft; Teenage Jailbait). The films of cinematic masters like Brian De Palma (Sisters), Terence Malick (Badlands), and Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now). The Italian crime films (Death Carries a Cane; The Flower With the Deadly Sting; Torso). The police procedurals (Blade; The Laughing Policeman; The Marcus-Nelson Murders). The flat-out shocking and bizarre films that can only be appreciated by surviving them (The Hunchback of the Morgue; The Night God Screamed; The Sinful Dwarf).

1973: The year that the War in Vietnam ends, military coups convulse Afghanistan and Chile and Rwanda, and the spectre of Watergate looms large.1973. The year that a teen thinks his neighbor is using telepathy to make him gay - so he strips him nude, kills him and his entire family, and burns down their house. The year that a husband kidnaps young men and holds them at gunpoint - while they have sex with his wife. The year that a man goes out for a night on the town with a friend - and comes home to find that his wife has murdered their children, then killed herself. 1973. The year of the deaths of writers W.H. Auden and Victor Jara; actors Bruce Lee and Lon Chaney Jr.; and artists Robert Smithson and Pablo Picasso. The year of Skylab and Pioneer and Kohoutek. The year of the mass murders of Edmund Emil Kemper, Herbert William Mullin, Charlie Chop-Off, and The Alphabet Killer. A History of Violence (1973) also stands as a testament to the tireless efforts of law enforcement to solve the violent crimes that grip America. In 1973, America sees the first blue flashing lights that complete the lightbars of today's police cruisers; the breathalyzer comes into common usage; and Dr. Lester Luntz becomes the first forensic odontologist to try to crack a case by obtaining a search warrant to get a cast of a suspect's teeth.

A History of Violence (1973). A history book for the history books.

A History of Violence (1973) represents the culmination of 20 years of exhaustive research, employing the digital advances that have thrown wide the doors of archives everywhere for a greater understanding of the human condition - both scaling the heights of creation and plunging to the depths of annihilation. With an audience as wide-ranging as true-crime enthusiasts, police detectives and horror movie buffs, A History of Violence (1973) also presents a seething array of lurid and alluring movie advertising art - some unseen for more than 40 years.

This isn't the book about violence you thought you wanted. This is the book about violence you knew you needed.

“An incisive autopsy of concentrated cultural psychosis. Like Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip, A History of Violence (1973) is an association-tripping chronicle of misery – but filtered through David Cotner’s intimate prose, it reveals a strange hopefulness that counteracts its despair.”—Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

David Cotner is a culture critic, composer, and conceptual artist. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. He lives in and around the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area.

File under: David Cotner Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Counterculture Eros Film / Video

The Complete Tadanori Yokoo

1971, Japanese / English
Softcover (in slipcase w. obi strip), 22 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$500.00 - Out of stock

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The very first printing of the legendary Complete Tadanori Yokoo book, designed by Yokoo and published in Japan in 1971. Still the quintessential Yokoo book, anyone who sees it knows immediately — boldly designed and beautifully produced with gorgeous colour, thick paper stock, fold-outs, and absolutely comprehensive in capturing the early masterpieces of one of Japan's leading artists of the 1960s. All housed in the original iconic illustrated slipcase with publisher's obi-strip present. 360 total works recorded, alongside 230 photographs — all the posters and other works showcasing his psychedelic, erotic, esoteric and politically charged photo-montage and vivid pop print-making, with documentation of the exhibitions, events, and underground scene Yokoo was central to in the 1960s, captioned throughout with texts by Akiyuki Nosaka and Yokoo himself. A treasure for any fan. A most complete copy.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy preserved with very minimal wear, light tanning to obi/spine, VG slipcase.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Akiyuki Nosaka Kodansha Int / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Pop Art Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Painting Posters / Prints

Ibiza, A Dream…….?
by Tony Keeler

1973, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket, gilt stamped linen binding), 120 pages, 32 x 32 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jose Domingo Elias / Barcelona

$800.00 - Out of stock

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First, only edition of the incredibly scarce and wonderful "Ibiza, A Dream…….?" photo book, published in Barcelona in 1973. This beautiful cloth-covered, oversized volume captures the quiet coastal landscapes, villages and inhabitants of the Balearic island of Ibiza in the early 1970s through Tony Keeler's warm, grainy photographs. Accompanied by introductory poetic text in English by David Walsh and gorgeously designed and produced, this book provides a rare and exquisite photographic document of a unique place and time, before house music ruined everything.

"During the 1970s, the traditional Ibicencan dress could be seen alongside the naked bodies and Indian veils of the new invaders who swarmed the island escaping bourgeois values. My camera explored the villages, fields and coves of Ibiza capturing these contrasts as well as the soft and aromatic nature of the island. I was fortunate to have free access to the hippie communes where the daily routines where seemingly unperturbed by my clicking camera. The Ibicencans were likewise welcoming and receptive, which made it possible for me to document the two juxtaposed cultures. I was also very privileged to make long lasting friendships amongst both “invaders” and Ibicencans." - Tony Keeler

A very good copy, preserved perfectly throughout, in a good dust jacket with light tanning to edges, and some small closed tears, light rubbing, preserved under mylar wrap. Scarcely found with surviving dust jacket.

File under: Tony Keeler Jose Domingo Elias / Barcelona Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Angura (Underground Theatre) No. 1
May, 1969 (Anti-Theater)

1969, Japanese
Softcover, 128 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo

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Very rare copy of the first issue of Angura (Underground Theatre), the "Dramatic Theory Magazine", published in 1969 in Tokyo by Shūji Terayama's radical avant-garde theatre company Tenjō Sajiki. Strikingly designed by the great Japanese art director Ryōichi Enomoto, this issue's special feature is ‘Anti-Theater’, with contributions by Shūji Terayama, photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki, artist Jiro Takamatsu, poet Tadaaki Mori, director and cinematographer Sakumi Hagiwara, critic Masaaki Hiraoka, critic Koichi Isoda, actor Shigeomi Satô, and many others. A very unique periodical that not only discusses in-depth the works of Angura theatre, but also the international avant-garde, inviting diverse critical perspectives on performance and anti- and living-theatre, sharing ground with Gutai and Fluxus. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams and photographs, mixing themes of pop, protest, surrealism, and eros, plus texts and scripts in Japanese. A rare printed embodiment of Tenjō Sajiki, Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and the Japanese underground.

Tenjō Sajiki was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. Led by Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer Shūji Terayama, the prolific group was active between 1967 and 1983 (until Terayama's death). A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Tenjō Sajiki benefitted greatly from collaborations with a number of prominent artists, including musicians J. A. Seazer and Kan Mikami, and graphic designers Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

Very Good copy.

File under: Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Tenjō Sajiki Ryōichi Enomoto Yoshihiro Tatsuki Sakumi Hagiwara Jiro Takamatsu Shigeomi Satô Tadanori Yokoo Izumi Suzuki Aquirax Uno Hubert Selby Jr. Koichi Isoda Masaaki Hiraoka Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay Film / Video Eros Counterculture Fluxus Surrealism Dada

Angura (Underground Theatre) No. 5 (Shūji Terayama)
August, 1972 (City Drama / Human-powered airplane Solomon)

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 340 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo

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Rare copy of Angura (Underground Theatre) issue 5, 1972, the "Dramatic Theory Magazine" published in Tokyo by Shūji Terayama's radical avant-garde theatre company Tenjō Sajiki. With iconic cover photography by Shūji Terayama, this issue's special feature is ‘City Drama / Human-powered airplane Solomon’, with contributions by Terayama, artsit Jiro Takamatsu, butoh dancer and choreographer Akira Kasai, actress Eiko Kujo, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, film director Nobuhiro Kawanaka, playwright Yutaka Higashi, film critic Shigechika Sato, musician J. A. Seazer, musician Shigeo Takenaga, musician Norihito Inaba, photographer Hiroshi Yamazaki, and many others. A very unique periodical that not only discusses in-depth the works of Angura theatre, but also the international avant-garde, inviting diverse critical perspectives on performance and anti- and living-theatre, sharing ground with Gutai and Fluxus. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams and photographs, mixing themes of pop, protest, surrealism, and eros, plus texts and scripts in Japanese. A rare printed embodiment of Tenjō Sajiki, Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and the Japanese underground.

Tenjō Sajiki was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. Led by Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer Shūji Terayama, the prolific group was active between 1967 and 1983 (until Terayama's death). A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Tenjō Sajiki benefitted greatly from collaborations with a number of prominent artists, including musicians J. A. Seazer and Kan Mikami, and graphic designers Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

File under: Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Tenjō Sajiki Jiro Takamatsu Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuhiro Kawanaka Akira Kasai Yutaka Higashi Eiko Kujo J. A. Seazer Norihito Inaba Shigeo Takenaga Hiroshi Yamazaki Izumi Suzuki Shigechika Sato Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Theory / Essay Periodicals Eros Counterculture

Angura (Underground Theatre) No. 6 (Shūji Terayama)
August, 1973 (New Trends in Overseas Theater)

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 340 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo

$340.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Angura (Underground Theatre) issue 6, 1973, the "Dramatic Theory Magazine" published in Tokyo by Shūji Terayama's radical avant-garde theatre company Tenjō Sajiki. With iconic cover photography by Shūji Terayama, this issue's special feature is ‘New Trends in Overseas Theater’, with contributions by Terayama, musician J. A. Seazer, musician Norihito Inaba, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, actor Hideaki Sasaki, producer and actress Eiko Kujo, artist Nobuo Sasaki, and many others. Includes in-depth features and interviews on the work of theatre directors Jérôme Savary, Robert Wilson, and Mario Ricci and photo-reports the activities of independent theatre companies around the world, including Teatro Abaco (Rome), Atelje 212 (Belgrade), Teatr Laboratorium (Wrocław), La Mamma Theatre (New York), Forum Theater (Berlin), Odin Teatret (Holstebro), Stichting Mickery Workshop (Antwerp), making it a very valuable resource on the subject. There are also photo reports and scripts on the performances of Tenjō Sajiki, including works performed overseas. Incredible rare performance documents. A very unique periodical that not only discusses in-depth the works of Angura theatre, but also the international avant-garde, inviting diverse critical perspectives on performance and anti- and living-theatre, sharing ground with Gutai and Fluxus. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams and photographs, mixing themes of pop, protest, surrealism, and eros, plus texts and scripts in Japanese. A rare printed embodiment of Tenjō Sajiki, Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and the Japanese underground.

Tenjō Sajiki was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. Led by Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer Shūji Terayama, the prolific group was active between 1967 and 1983 (until Terayama's death). A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Tenjō Sajiki benefitted greatly from collaborations with a number of prominent artists, including musicians J. A. Seazer and Kan Mikami, and graphic designers Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

File under: Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Tenjō Sajiki J. A. Seazer Nobuyoshi Araki Hideaki Sasaki Nobuo Sasaki Eiko Kujo Norihito Inaba Jérôme Savary Robert Wilson Mario Ricci Teatro Abaco Atelje 212 Teatr Laboratorium La Mamma Theatre Forum Theater Odin Teatret Stichting Mickery Workshop Tadanori Yokoo Kaoru Abe Izumi Suzuki Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Eros Counterculture

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo, Yasuhiro Yoshioka

1967, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

$250.00 - Out of stock

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Rare and iconic book, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1967) is a collaboration between legendary Japanese underground theater and film director Shuji Terayama, graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo and photographer/cinematographer Yasuhiro Yoshioka. As a precursor to Terayama's first audacious feature-length film of the same title, from 1971, this beautiful softcover book is filled with collages, photographs, graphics, drawings and texts (in Japanese), housed in an elaborate dust-jacket (with amazing Beatles homage lipstick collage on verso) typical of the bold and vibrant pop design style of Yokoo, establishes Terayama as a multi-talented avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, editor and photographer, and one of the central figures of the runaway movement in 1960s Japan. In the same year as this book was published, Terayama (in collaboration with Tadanori Yokoo and others) formed the Tenjo Sajiki, a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the prolific group was known for their stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. An amazing and rare early example of their published collaborative work, wrapped in one of Yokoo's most iconic graphic works.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

Good copy with Good dust jacket. General tanning and foxing, with edge wear and surface wear to jacket.

File under: Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Shuji Terayama Tadanori Yokoo Haga Bookstore / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography Counterculture Eros Film / Video Pop Art Protest / Revolt Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

Flower Slave, August 1984
Treasured Queen Edition / Namio Harukawa's World

1984, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 100 pages, 26 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Sanwa / Tokyo

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare special August 1984 issue of Flower Slave, with cover feature "Namio Harukawa's World". This gorgeous, over-sized gloss cult fetish magazine published by Sanwa, Tokyo, is devoted entirely to "The Queen", sadistic mistresses and dominatrix goddesses of femdom enlightenment — packed from cover to cover with saturated full-colour photographic Japanese femdom shoots of many varieties, including western reproductions, Japanese queen profiles, illustrated fetish stories, video features, and amazing pictorial instructional male torture articles. This special issue is also a major early publication celebrating the world of femdom master illustrator Namio Harukawa, including his original cover and dust jacket artwork and lavish colour fold-outs of his incredible illustrations. The whole magazine embodying Harukawa's erotic fantasy world, this title has become an important part of his published history.

Namio Harukawa (1947—2020), a pseudonymous Japanese fetish artist best known for his masterful pencil works depicting female domination ("femdom"), with erotic asphyxiation through facesitting appearing as a frequent subject of his art. Born 1947 in Osaka, Japan, Harukawa’s distinctive penname combines the name of film actress Harukawa Masumi with an anagram of Naomi, the sadistic heroine in Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s novel "Chijin no ai / A Fool’s Love". While in high school, Harukawa began contributing work to the readers’ column of leading postwar Japanese SM pulp magazine "Kitan Club". Since then, Harukawa’s drawings of male masochism have lovingly portrayed noble, voluptuously beautiful women and the men who serve them as human furniture. An extraordinary and prolific artist who remained committed to the regime of “absolute Ganmen Kijo Shugi (facesitting principle)” throughout his artistic life, Namio Harukawa passed away on April 2020, he was 72 years old.

Very Good copy in illustrated dust jacket.

File under: Namio Harukawa Sanwa / Tokyo Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées