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Avalanche No. 6 (Fall 1972)
Vito Acconci Special Issue

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

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Special issue of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche focusing on the work of Vito Acconci. Includes performance descriptions written by artist and documentary photographs, biography, and bibliography. Interview between the artist and Liza Bear. Sections: "Introduction: Notes on Performing a Space"; "Early Work: Movement Over a Page"; "Early Work: Moving My Body into Place"; "Body as Place - Moving in on Myself, Performing Myself"; "Peopled Space - Performing Myself Though Another Agent"; "Occupied Zone - Moving in, Performing on Another Agent"; "Concentration - Container - Assimilation"; "Power Field - Exchange Points - Transformations"; "Excerpts from Tapes with Liza Bear"; "Biography"; "Bibliography"; "Index." Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, design by Boris Wall Gruphy, Henry Post, Richard Falk.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Film / Video

Avalanche No. 7 (Winter / Spring 1973)
William Wegman Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 84 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

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Issue number seven of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Winter Spring 1973, featuring a William Wegman cover. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Chris Burden, Jennifer Bartlett and Urs Lüthi; "The Gold-diggers of '84: An Interview with General Idea" by Willoughby Sharp, Ron Gabe, Jorge Saia, A.A. Bronson, Granada Gazelle, P.J., Noah Dakota, Marcel Idea, Ms. Paige, Myth Honey and Ms. Generality; "Different Strokes for Different Folks: An Interview with Van Schley," and includes a bound in portfolio of loose elements; "Shuck and Jive: An Interview with Lowell Darling" by Willoughby Sharp; "... a kind of Huh? A interview with Edward Ruscha" by Willoughby Sharp; "Man Ray, Do You Want To... An Interview with William Wegman". Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: General Idea William Wegman Edward Ruscha Van Schley Lowell Darling Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Arte Povera Periodicals Conceptual Art

Recent International Forms in Art
The 1976 Biennale of Sydney

1976, English
Hardcover (ring-bound), 86 pages + programme, 2.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Beautiful and rare historical catalogue published on the occasion of the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Recent International Forms in Art, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 13—Dec 18, 1976. With exceptional uncredited povera design, the catalogue is printed entirely on thick kraft paper and metal ring-bound between thick corrugated cardboard covers. An incredible second year of the Sydney biennale, heavy with international representation of conceptual, Art Povera, environmental, minimal, Mono-ha artists, includes the work of Ant Farm, Giovanni Anselmo, John Armstrong, Robert Arneson, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Tony Coleing, Gianni Colombo, John Davis, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Koji Enokura, Robert Grosvenor, Marr Grounds, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Noel Hutchison, Robert Kinmont, Gloria Kisch, Kyubei Kyomizu, Lee U-Fan, John Lethbridge, Les Levine, Loren Madsen, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Michael McMillen, James Melchert, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, Tsuneo Nakai, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Fujiko Nakaya, Ti Parks, Giuseppi Penone, Insik Quac, Terry Reid, Ron Robertson-Swann, Fred Sandback, Joel Shapiro, Moon-Seup Shim, Morio Shinoda, Robert Smithson, Stelarc, Kishio Suga, Noboru Takayama, Kakuzo Tatehata, William Tucker, Greer Twiss, Ken Unsworth, William T. Wiley, Gilberto Zorio, and many more... Organised with the guidance of people like John Stringer (New York, previously Australia, managed The Field at the NGV in 1968), Gerald Forty and Ian Barker (UK), Tommaso Trini (Italy), Joseph Love. S.J. (Korea, Japan), Philip Linhares (California), and many more under the direction of Thomas G. Cullough.

This copy includes a folded handbill programme for the Biennale, also on kraft paper and including information on performances, installations, lectures and other public works.

Very Good copy with some wear.

File under: Ant Farm Giovanni Anselmo John Armstrong Robert Arneson Lynda Benglis Joseph Beuys Tony Coleing Gianni Colombo John Davis Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Koji Enokura Robert Grosvenor Marr Grounds Noriyuki Haraguchi Noel Hutchison Robert Kinmont Gloria Kisch Kyubei Kyomizu Lee U-Fan John Lethbridge Les Levine Loren Madsen Yutaka Matsuzawa Michael McMillen James Melchert Kevin Mortensen Clive Murray-White Tsuneo Nakai Natsuyuki Nakanishi Fujiko Nakaya Ti Parks Giuseppi Penone Insik Quac Terry Reid Ron Robertson-Swann Fred Sandback Joel Shapiro Moon-Seup Shim Morio Shinoda Robert Smithson Stelarc Kishio Suga Noboru Takayama Kakuzo Tatehata William Tucker Greer Twiss Ken Unsworth William T. Wiley Gilberto Zorio Thomas G. Cullough Philip Linhares Joseph Love. S.J. Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Art

Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.
by Harald Szeemann

1969, English / French / German / Italian
Softcover binder (w. spring-loaded plate), 170 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

$600.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great art documents of the 20th century, the original printing of the legendary catalogue for "Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form", curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, March 22 - April 27, 1969. Very rare original 1969 edition!

Sponsored by the Philip Morris tobacco company, this was an important, extensive and primary exhibition dedicated to the amalgam of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe and the United States. The catalogue itself is designed and produced by Szeemann, and printed in Switzerland by Stämpfli & Cie in Bern. Alongside those of Seth Siegelaub, Szeemann's now historical catalogues changed the way exhibition publishing performed. Presented as a indexical binder (spring-bound with a metal plate) forming an index of alphabetical artist pages and accompanying texts. Includes a biography, bibliography, illustrations and portrait for each artist.

Texts by Harald Szeemann, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini.

Artists include Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger Van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Jo Ann Kaplan, Eva Hesse, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary B. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Pechter, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Viner, Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, William Wiley and Gilberto Zorio.

Texts in English, French, German and Italian.

Light wear and marking to folder covers, internal rubbing from metal plate, previous owners name and "69" to top of inside cover, otherwise very good copy throughout, complete.

File under: Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Richard Artschwager Thomas Bang Jared Bark Robert Barry Joseph Beuys Alighiero Boetti Mel Bochner Marinus Boezem Bill Bollinger Michael Buthe Pier Paolo Calzolari Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Ger van Elk Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Hans Haacke Michael Heizer Eva Hesse Paolo Icaro Alan Jacquet Stephen Kaltenbach Jo Ann Kaplan Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Gary B. Kuehn Sol LeWitt Bernd Lohaus Richard Long Roelof Louw Walter de Maria David Medalla Mario Merz Robert Morris Claes Oldenburg Panamarenko Pino Pascali Paul Pechter Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Markus Raetz Allen Ruppersberg Rainer Ruthenbeck Robert Ryman Frederick Lane Sandbach Alan Saret Sarkis Jean-Frederic Schnyder Richard Serra Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Frank Lincoln Viner Franz Erhard Walther William G. Wegman Lawrence Weiner William T. Wiley Gilberto Zorio Harald Szeemann Scott Burton Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Pop Art Photography Film / Video

Flashback, Eclipse
by Romy Golan

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 312 pages, 23.2 x 15.9 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Flashback, Eclipse is a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the twentieth century and the aftermath of World War II. Most analyses have treated the 1960s in Italy as the decade of “presentism” par excellence, a political decade but one liberated from history. Romy Golan, however, makes the counterargument that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Her book identifies and explores this imaginary through two forms of nonlinear and decidedly nonpresentist forms of temporality—the flashback and the eclipse. In view of the photographic and filmic nature of these two concepts, the book’s analysis is largely mediated by black-and-white images culled from art, design, and architecture magazines, photo books, film stills, and exhibition documentation.

The book begins in Turin with Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Mirror Paintings; moves on to Campo urbano, a one-day event in the city of Como; and ends with the Vitalità del Negativo exhibition in Rome. What is being recalled and at other moments occluded are not only episodes of Italian nationalism and Fascism but also various liberatory moments of political and cultural resistance. The book’s main protagonists are, in order of appearance, artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giosetta Fioroni, photographer Ugo Mulas, Ettore Sottsass (as critic rather than designer), graphic designer Bruno Munari, curators Luciano Caramel and Achille Bonito Oliva, architect Piero Sartogo, Carla Lonzi (as artist as much as critic), filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, and, in flashback among the departed, painter Felice Casorati, writer Massimo Bontempelli, art historian Aby Warburg, architect Giuseppe Terragni, and Renaissance friar-philosopher-mathematician Giordano Bruno (as patron saint of the sixty-eighters).

“Adapting the cinematic and temporal processes of flashback and eclipse recruited by Italian artists and film directors in the 1960s, Golan creates her own montage, in which art and politics, history and criticism, as well as the memory and actuality of Fascism become enmeshed through techniques of ‘mimetic subversion.’ The result is a dazzling mosaic that stages contemporary auteurs, like Pistoletto and Antonioni, in conversation with the historical figures of Aby Warburg and Giordano Bruno. Based on this subtle historiographic strategy, Flashback, Eclipse not only challenges prewar and postwar periodizations in Italian art, but also reevaluates the performance of anachrony in the writing of art history.” —Spyros Papapetros, Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University

“Romy Golan explores the historical unconscious of 1960s Italian art as she opts for a new kind of temporality that is nonlinear and fractured. With a great command of film history, graphic design, and exhibition history, she presents us with an unprecedented study of Italian artworks experienced through their mediation, suggesting that we ought to look at the filters — the mirror images, hues, and experimental mise-en-page — that obliterate and reveal these works.” —Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

“This masterful book reveals the richness and complexity of a poly- centric, dispersed, even anarchic art scene — the Italy of the 1960s — that no institution was powerful enough to unify, label, and export. It was known that Italy had been the laboratory of some of the most radical political experiments of the twentieth century, for better or for worse. Here we discover that, around 1968, it delivered the unexpected elements of a new political economy of the arts.” —Patricia Falguières, Professor of Renaissance Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

File under: Michelangelo Pistoletto Giosetta Fioroni Ugo Mulas Ettore Sottsass Bruno Munari Piero Sartogo Michelangelo Antonioni Bernardo Bertolucci Felice Casorati Massimo Bontempelli Aby Warburg Giuseppe Terragni Giordano Bruno Luciano Caramel Achille Bonito Oliva Carla Lonzi Massimo Bontempelli Giordano Bruno Aby Warburg Romy Golan Zone Books / New York Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Film / Video Photography

Wormwood Star : The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron
by Spencer Kansa

2020, English
Softcover, 332 pages, 22.86 x 15.24 cm
Published by Mandrake / Oxford

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2020 Edition features fascinating new revelations, as well as over a dozen rare and new images.

In the first-ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene.

Born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, in 1922, Cameron's uniqueness and talent as a natural-born artist was evident to those around her early on in life. During World War 2 she served in the Women's Navy and worked in Washington as an aide to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But it was after the War that her life really took off when she met her husband Jack Parsons. By day Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist, but by night he was Master of the Agape Lodge, a fraternal magickal order, whose head was the most famous magus of the 20th century... Aleister Crowley.

Gradually, over the course of their marriage, Parsons initiated Cameron into the occult sciences, and the biography offers a fresh perspective on her role in the infamous Babalon Working magick rituals Parsons conducted with the future founder of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard. Following Parsons death in 1952 from a chemical explosion, Cameron inherited her husband's magickal mantle and embarked on a lifelong spiritual quest, a journey reflected in the otherworldly images she depicted, many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became a celebrated personality in California's underground art world and film scene. In 1954 she starred in Kenneth Anger's visual masterwork, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, stealing the show from her co-star Anais Nin. The budding filmmaker Curtis Harrington was so taken with Cameron, he made a film study dedicated to her artwork entitled The Wormwood Star. He then brought Cameron's powerful and mysterious presence to bear on his evocative noir thriller, Night Tide, casting her alongside a young Dennis Hopper.

Cameron was an inspirational figure to the many artists and poets that congregated around Wallace Berman's Semina scene, and in 1957 Berman's show at the Ferus Gallery was shut down by LA's vice squad, due to the sexually charged nature of one of her drawings. Undaunted, she continued to carve a unique and brilliant path as an artist.

A retrospective of Cameron's work, entitled The Pearl of Reprisal, was held at LA's Barnsdall Art Park in 1989, and after her death, some of her most admired pieces were included in the Reflections of a New Aeon Exhibition at the Eleven Seven Gallery in Long Beach, California. Cameron's famous Peyote Vision drawing made its way into the Beat Culture and the New America retrospective held at the Whitney Museum in 1995. And in 2006, a profile of her work was featured in the critically lauded Semina Culture Exhibition. The following year an exhibition of her sketches and drawings was held at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York.

With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.

File under: Kenneth Anger Aleister Crowley Dennis Hopper Marjorie Cameron Spencer Kansa Mandrake / Oxford Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Art

Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics / Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek
Edited by Ine Gevers and Jeanne Van Heeswijk

1997, English / Dutch
Softcover, 500 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by SUN / Nijmegen

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First, only edition of Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics / Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek, a 500 page book based on the experiences during the formation, realization and evaluation of the exhibition: I + the Other. Art and the Human Condition, in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam 1994. Edited by Ine Gevers and Jeanne Van Heeswijk.

"Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics has been compiled in the knowledge that it is impossible to avoid a history in which the meaning of ethics and aesthetics has already been fixed. Rooted in tradition, these notions determine the space and scope of contemporary practices such as fine art, exhibition-making and theory. Whenever an attempt is made to cross the dividing lines, for instance in trying to connect art with life, it becomes immediately apparent how unproductive it is to continue to com-ply with structures that are no longer functional in a technology- and information-based, postmodern society. This is particularly true when it becomes clear that notions such as ethics and aesthetics, which are basically idealistic, often have a controlling and, in this sense, limiting function. With this book we want to draw attention to the sometimes subtle, though often radical attempts to escape from the way modernity has divided the world into manageable and relatively safe specializations. The continuing institutionalization, 'museification' and 'mediaization' of our society provides an example. They seem to pull the above-mentioned obstructions even sharper into focus." — from book introduction

With contributions by Oscar van Alphen, Ute Meta Bauer, Yvonne P. Doderer, Marianne Brouwer, Martin Lucas, Adrian Piper, Simon Critchley, Helmut Draxler, Jean Fisher, Avital Geva, Ine Gevers, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Tijs Goldschmidt, Roy Villevoye, Multiple Autorenschaft, Jouke Kleerebezem, Viktor Misiano, Everlyn Nicodemus, Sadie Plant, Martha Rosler, Rob Schroder, Jorinde Seijdel, Barbara Steiner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ross Sinclair, and more.

Good copy with some cover wear.

File under: Krzysztof Wodiczko Adrian Piper Rirkrit Tiravanija Martha Rosler Avital Geva Ross Sinclair Everlyn Nicodemus Jouke Kleerebezem Roy Villevoye Ute Meta Bauer Yvonne P. Doderer Simon Critchley Helmut Draxler Jean Fisher Ine Gevers Jeanne van Heeswijk Viktor Misiano Sadie Plant Martha Rosler Jorinde Seijdel Barbara Steiner Tijs Goldschmidt SUN / Nijmegen Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Photography Film / Video

Jack Nicholson

1976, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 200 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

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The wonderful, very rare first 1976 edition Japanese photo-book / "Cine Album" devoted entirely to Jack Nicholson. Long out-of-print, this amazing volume documents Jack's films up to the time of printing in 1976, from his feature debut The Cry Baby Killer (1958), through Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971),The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Passanger (1975)..... and so many more. Countless stills and behind the scenes shots from all the films alongside visual documentation of all of the film poster artwork, Jack's magazine cover appearances, award ceremonies, full filmography, extensive texts on each film and essay by editor Yuji Konna. Texts in Japanese. An absolute must for any fan or collector of Jack Nicholson, exploding with hundreds of images. Even has excellent endpapers tiled with Jack's cover for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and the book cover beneath the dust jacket is even better than the jacket itself. Published by the great Haga Bookstore imprint.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Jack Nicholson Michelangelo Antonioni Roman Polanski Miloš Forman Hal Ashby Mike Nichols Bob Rafelson Haga Bookstore / Japan Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Notes On The Cinematograph
by Robert Bresson

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.7 x 20.2 cm
Published by The New York Review of Books / New York

$30.00 - Out of stock

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The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors--models, as he called them--and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot of the Lake. From the beginning to the end of his career, Bresson dedicated himself to making movies in which nothing is superfluous and everything is always at stake.

Notes on the Cinematograph distills the essence of Bresson's theory and practice as a filmmaker and artist. He discusses the fundamental differences between theater and film; parses the deep grammar of silence, music, and noise; and affirms the mysterious power of the image to unlock the human soul. This book, indispensable for admirers of this great director and for students of the cinema, will also prove an inspiration, much like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, for anyone who responds to the claims of the imagination at its most searching and rigorous.

File under: Robert Bresson Robert Bresson The New York Review of Books / New York Film / Video Theory / Essay

In Danger : A Pasolini Anthology
Edited by Jack Hirschman

2010, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
Published by City Lights Books / San Francisco

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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. "In Danger" is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and through the mid-'70s, Pasolini's writings provide a fascinating portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of fifty-three; "In Danger" includes his final interview, conducted hours before his death.

Jack Hirschman (1933 – 2021) was an American poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and was the city's present poet laureate. Hirschman translated nine languages and edited The Artaud Anthology.

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini Jack Hirschman City Lights Books / San Francisco Art Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

Hans Richter
New Living. Architecture, Film, Space.

2001, English
Hardcover, 128 pages, 25 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lars Müller / Zürich

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New Living (Das Neue Wohnen) was the title of an exceptional architectural propaganda film created in 1930 by German avant-garde artist and filmmaker Hans Richter. It showcased exemplary modernist buildings and furniture--some of which were on view shortly after in the prestigious exhibition The International Style--and contrasted them with the impractical, unhygenic living spaces that were the norm. Visually diverse and full of experimental montage techniques, New Living pioneered a radical method of portraying architecture on celluloid.

First English edition of this long out-of-print book by Lars Müller Publishers. Essays by Andres Jensen and Arthur Ruegg, and running commentary and extensive film sequences of each of Richter's films.

Hans Richter was born in Berlin in 1888. Throughout his career, he was involved with the Blue Rider group, the cubists, "Die Aktion", the Zurich Dadaists, the November group, and De Stijl. In 1921 he made the first abstract film, "Rhythme 21" and in 1957 finished "Dadascope". Richter died in 1976.

Good copy. Some shelf wear to hardcovers, light tanning to page edges, otherwise Very Good throughout.

File under: Hans Richter Lars Müller / Zürich Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Bauhaus Architecture / Interior

Dancing Ledge
by Derek Jarman

2010, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 21.6 x 15.2 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

$38.00 - Out of stock

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Derek Jarman’s stunning account of his life and art

From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in his films and writing. Accompanied by photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in Dancing Ledge provide intimate and vivid glimpses into his life and times.

The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany—I can call it nothing less—of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace.—Tilda Swinton

File under: Derek Jarman Derek Jarman University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota Film / Video Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+

Modern Nature
by Derek Jarman

2009, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

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This text is the iconoclastic and controversial filmmaker Derek Jarman's candid journals from 1989 to 1990. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While some perished beneath wind and sea-spray others flourished, creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness.

Modern Nature is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life: his childhood, his time as a young gay man in the 1960s, his renowned career as an artist, writer and film-maker. It is at once a lament for a lost generation, an unabashed celebration of gay sexuality, and a devotion to all that is living.

'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' — Hans Ulrich Obrist

File under: Derek Jarman Derek Jarman University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Film / Video

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

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Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Carceral Capitalism
By Jackie Wang

2018, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from Carceral Capitalism

In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible.

Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.

File under: Jackie Wang The MIT Press / Massachusetts Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Sally Smart
Mad Woman In The Attic

1989, English
Softcover (single, double-sided card), 21 x 29.7 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Sally Smart — Mad Woman In The Attic, December, 1989. Illustrated offset printed double-sided card with artist C.V. on verso.

Sally Smart (b. 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist known for her large-scale assemblage installations that incorporate a range of media, including felt cut-outs, painted canvas, drawings, screen-printing, printed fabric and photography, performance and video. Her art addresses gender and identity politics and questions the relationships between body and culture, including trans-national ideas that shaped cultural history. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, and her works are held in major galleries in Australia and around the world.

Fine copy.

File under: Sally Smart 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Jack Smith / Antonius Höckelmann
Michael Krebber

2012, English / German
Softcover (silkscreened), 48 pages, 21.3 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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Wonderful publication documenting an exhibition that took place in 2010 in the window of Galerie Buchholz's antiquarian bookstore in Cologne, Germany. Michael Krebber presented here, in collaboration with Sebastian Höckelmann, works by artists Antonius Höckelmann and Jack Smith.

Produced in an edition of 800.

Antonius Höckelmann (1937 – 2000) was a German postwar artist. Höckelmann trained as a wood sculptor from 1951 to 1957 in his native city of Oelde, and studied from 1957 to 1961 at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin with Karl Hartung. In 1977 he participated in the documenta 6, and in 1982 at documenta 7 in Kassel. Many of his works combine sculpture and painting. Wooden sculptures and sculptures made of other materials (bronze, silver foil, straw) were often completely painted.

Jack Smith (1932 – 1989) was an American filmmaker, artist, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown. Apart from appearing in his own work, including the legendary Flaming Creatures (1963), Smith played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson.

File under: Antonius Höckelmann Jack Smith Michael Krebber Michael Krebber Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Lutz Bacher
Open the Kimono

2018, English
Softcover (blind embossed), 324 pages, 30.5 x 22 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York

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This artist book is a chronological record of some remarks from cable TV ads movies news radio novels airplanes subways sidewalks and elevators from 2013–2018.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Long March at 80 Washington Square East, New York University, 2018, Organized by Nicola Lees and Robert Snowden.

The American artist Lutz Bacher – who has concealed her identity beneath a masculine pseudonym throughout her career – works conceptually in a range of media. A longtime resident of California who now lives in New York, the artist has based her work since the 1970s on found objects as well as texts and images pulled from the minutiae of popular culture. Soundtracks from Hollywood films, props from television shows, and unedited cell phone videos find their way into her works along with discarded objects from different spheres of consumption.

Through techniques of rearrangement, distortion, and estrangement, Bacher destabilizes the appearance and alters the impact of her materials, creating ruptures and making new constellations possible. Addressing the strong influence of the mass media on everyday social and political life, issues of identity, power structures, and violence are central aspects of her artistic practice.

File under: Lutz Bacher Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Marco Fusinato
DESASTRES

2022, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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This major new catalogue is published to accompany Marco Fusinato’s DESASTRES presentation at the Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, running from April 23 to November 27, 2022. DESASTRES is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. The artist will be performing during the opening hours of the Biennale—a total of 200 days. The presentation will be the first time the Australian Pavilion, located in the historic Giardini della Biennale, has been the site for a live durational performance.

Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinato’s parents migrated to Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Fusinato (b. 1964) is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. DESASTRES is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass media images and art history. He uses an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images onto a freestanding floor-to-ceiling LED wall. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms. There is no theme as such, rather the immersion of sound and image is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. The intent is to create some kind of hallucination, elation in disorientation and exhaustion from confusion. The work is an invitation for audiences to come together within a high-intensity concentration of energy. What can’t be seen, can be felt: sound as physical matter which creates a transformative experience.

This expansive publication features a new essay by Branden W. Joseph, professor of art history at Columbia University and an extensive interview by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor with Marco Fusinato. It also includes texts by critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli, AI researcher and author Kate Crawford, writer and curator Chus Martínez, and musicians/outre-guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Stephen O’Malley (SUNN O)))) and Bruce Russell (Dead C).

Marco Fusinato (b. 1964) is an Australian contemporary artist and noise-musician based in Naarm/Melbourne whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording.

As an artist, he conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, some of which continue across numerous iterations. Within these projects the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation, as if demonstrating a thesis. Working across disciplines and cultural fields, Fusinato explores the tensions and contradictions of opposing forces: underground culture/institutions, noise/silence, minimalism/maximalism, purity/contamination. He creates dynamic situations in which these energies are captured by combining allegorical appropriation with an interest in the intensity of a gesture or event.

Fusinato's work has been presented in many international exhibitions, including All the World's Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015); The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (2012); SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); and Australia: Antipodean Stories, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2019). His work was also included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013) and Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (2008–10), a European travelling exhibition of artists who have collaborated with the New York rock band, Sonic Youth.

File under: Marco Fusinato Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Bruce Russell (Dead C) Alexie Glass-Kantor Chus Martinez Elizabeth Povinelli Branden W Joseph Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Kate Crawford Bruce Russell (Dead C) Lenz Press / Milan Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay

ALIEN

1979, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 27.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Avon Books / New York

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First edition of the incredible oversized cult classic ALIEN graphic novel by Richard J. Anobile, the first full-colour movie book specially designed to capture all the magnificence of the Film! A powerful story with overpowering visual effects, ALIEN comes to life as no movie ever has before in over 1,000 color photos that present the full range of the ingenious space vehicle, the Nostromo, the grotesque creature, and the utterly fantastic settings—conceived and created by such talents as Swiss surrealist painter H.R. Giger, Heavy Metal artist Moebius, and Ron Cobb, one of the designers of Star Wars. The result is was a new dimension in epic space adventure, a masterpiece in cinema history. This wonderful book is a cover-to-cover printed form of the film.

Richard J. Anobile (b. 19470 pioneered the use of the movie frame blow-up technique to recreate entire films in book form. His books were valuable resources especially in a time before VCR's and DVD's and the internet. While they might be viewed as simplistic picture books now, they were an attempt at curating film at a time when it was often still an after-thought. Anobile has spent much of the rest of his life in film production.

File under: Dan O'Bannon H.R. Giger Richard J. Anobile Avon Books / New York Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Photography Out-of-print / Rare

H.R. Giger
WWW HR Giger Com: Biomechanical World

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

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First hardcover English-language edition of this exceptionally in-depth and comprehensive book by H.R. Giger, published by Taschen in 1997.

“I paint what frightens me,” says H.R. Giger, who compiled and designed this comprehensive retrospective himself, documenting and describing his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of his biomechanical visions, accompanied by his own detailed commentaries offering privileged insight into a uniquely imaginative mind. The book cover Giger's life and working methods, followed by page after page of Giger's artworks and various lesser-seen creations from the deepest recesses of the mind and of the Giger personal archives — from his early oil experiments to the Giger Bar in Tokyo to his killer condoms to his nightmare garden train! Includes an extensive illustrated chronology. An uncommon book in the original, long out-of-print foiled hardcover issue with English text (not a later reprint). Highly recommended resource for any Giger fan.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: H.R. Giger Taschen / Cologne Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Drawing

Nicholas Mangan
Termite Economies

2021, English
Softcover, 154 pages, 24.5 x 17.5 cm
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin

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This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.

In Termite Economies (Phase 1) Mangan researched an anecdote that termite abilities might one day lead humans to gold deposits. Phase 2 explored termite eusociality, pheromonal communication, building behavior, biomimicry, superorganism and swarm intelligence. Phase 3 deployed termite collectivism as a speculative model for rerouting human neural pathways. Within each phase, Mangan developed specific methods to explore these phenomena formally, spatially, and through moving images.

Termite Economies grappled with the potentiality of collective social behavior and complexities of systematic exploitation of non-human intelligence.

The book presents each phase in the order of the exhibition series. It includes process and research photographs, diagrams, installation and detailed imagery. It includes an essay by Artist Mariana Silva, a fictional text by writer ST.Lore, a conversation between Mangan and cultural theorist Ana Teixeira Pinto, and a republished essay by Dr. Guy Theraulaz Research Director Member of Team CAB: Collective Animal Behavior Center for Research on Animal Cognition, CNRS.

Alert to both history and science, Nicholas Mangan (born 1979, Geelong, Victoria, lives and works in Melbourne) is a multi-disciplinary artist known for interrogating narratives embedded in a diverse range of objects. With a keen interest in the processes of forming meaning from objects, culture and natural phenomena, Mangan creates unnerving drawings, montages, sculptures and installations. His work addresses a wide range of themes, including the ongoing impacts of colonialism, humanity's fraught relationship with the natural environment, contemporary consumptive cultures and the complex dynamics of the global political economy.

Mangan completed a two year studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, in 2002. He has been awarded numerous international residencies, including Recollets Artist Residency, Paris, 2011 and Australia Council's New York Green Street Residency, 2006. In 2007 he was a recipient of the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, resulting in post graduate studies at Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany.

Edited by Nicholas Mangan and Žiga Testen.
Texts by Nicholas Mangan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Guy Theraulaz, Mariana Silva.

Graphic design: Žiga Testen.

File under: Žiga Testen Nicholas Mangan Nicholas Mangan Ana Teixeira Pinto Guy Theraulaz Mariana Silva Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Ecology Ecology / Earth Film / Video

Florian Pumhösl
6 7 8

2011, English
Hardcover (cloth bound), 152 pages, 28.5 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Florian Pumhösl’s latest production focuses on abstract films and paintings and their interaction with the surrounding space.

6 7 8 is made up of three new pieces: In his picture cycle Diminution, Pumhösl is concerned with the possibilities of portraits, the representation of individual characteristics and profiles.

The film installation Expressive Rhythm refers to Alexander Rodchenko’s painting of the same name from 1942/43.

Dance notations are the theme of the second film project Tract, an abstract animation.

File under: Florian Pumhösl Eric de Bruyn Jaleh Mansoor Matthias Michalka Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Painting SALE