World Food Books

Hito Steyerl
I will survive

2020, English / German /
Softcover, 448 pages, 20 x 28.5 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$84.00 - Out of stock

The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into different forms of media presentation and to the critical examination of artificial intelligence and its uses. Over the past thirty years, the artist has been tracking the way camera images have mutated, from the analogue image and its manifold possibilities for montage to the fluidity of the split digital image and the implications this then had for the representation of wars, genocides, and capital flows. “We are no longer dealing with the virtual but with a confusing and possibly alien concreteness that we are only beginning to understand,” writes Brian Kuan Wood of the digital visual worlds that the artist presents. The book is being published in conjunction with Hito Steyerl’s survey show, which will take place in autumn 2020 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.

With texts by: Nora M. Alter, Karen Archey, Teresa Castro, Alexandra Delage, Florian Ebner, Thomas Elsaesser, Ayham Ghraowi, Tom Holert, Doris Krystof, Marcella Lista, Vanessa Joan Müller, Florentine Muhry, Mark Terkessidis, Brian Kuan Wood, and a lecture by Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen.

Hito Steyerl, born 1966 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin as an artist, filmmaker, and author. Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, including the Armory (2019) and the Venice Biennale (in 2019 and 2013). In 2007 she was part of documenta 12.

File under: Hito Steyerl Nora M. Alter Karen Archey Teresa Castro Alexandra Delage Florian Ebner Thomas Elsaesser Ayham Ghraowi Tom Holert Doris Krystof Marcella Lista Vanessa Joan Müller Florentine Muhry Mark Terkessidis Brian Kuan Wood Hito Steyerl Trevor Paglen Spector Books / Leipzig Film / Video Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation

Profit over Peace in Western Sahara : How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa
Erik Hagen, Mario Pfeifer (Eds.)

2018, English / Arabic, w. German insert
Hardcover, 246 pages, 13 x 19 cm

$59.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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Contributions by Erik Hagen, Mario Pfeifer, Jeffrey J. Smith

Profit over Peace in Western Sahara examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of Africa’s last colony. Not well known to the wider public, the territory of Western Sahara is considered by the United Nations to be awaiting decolonization. Its liberation from colonial rule has come to a standstill due to Morocco’s continued military occupation of a part of the territory. The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara. This book details, among other things, a remarkable vote in the European Parliament in 2011 when EU offshore fisheries were rejected by the territory. The battle over the fisheries elegantly illustrates how the EU—for political reasons and financial self-interest—has ignored basic principles of international law.

This publication is edited by Erik Hagen and the artist Mario Pfeifer, who has been researching the region since 2011 and provides visual material for the book. Erik Hagen has followed the issue of resources in Western Sahara since 2002, both as a journalist and as a campaigner for the organization Western Sahara Resource Watch. An essay by lawyer Jeffrey J. Smith examines the 2017 landmark judgment in South Africa concerning a bulk vessel carrying conflict minerals from the territory.

Design by Markus Weisbeck
English/Arabic, with a German insert

File under: Mario Pfeifer Erik Hagen Mario Pfeifer Jeffrey J. Smith Theory / Essay Ecology Film / Video SALE Art

Sharon Hayes
Echo

2019, English
Paperback, 88 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm

$76.00 - Out of stock

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In 1996, Sharon Hayes undertook her Lesbian Love Tour, during which she visited and photographed 45 "lesbian living rooms" in nearly as many cities. Hayes is interested in how political goals or desires can be manifested in concrete terms and, starting from individuals or smaller groups, can grow into larger movements. The trained journalist and anthropologist is currently one of the most influential politically and socially committed artists of the United States.

The exhibition, Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, explores the gallery space as an echo chamber: with voices and materials reverberating between different historic events. It also references a feminist interpretation of the classical myth of Echo, the nymph who is cursed for her conversational skills. She is condemned to only repeat fragments said by others, sounds devoid of meaning.

The echo resonates as both material and form throughout the work, including a new work made for the exhibition as part of the artist’s ongoing Ricerche project, made in dialogue with Comizi d’amore (1965), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s interview on sex and relations.

Hayes video piece, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (2003), is one example of what the artists calls anachronisms – where an unresolved issue or conflict from the past is approached from a different moment in time. In this instance Hayes reads messages to a live audience from the kidnapped Patty Hearst to her parents that were aired on the radio in 1974.

Other ‘oral translations’ of texts and acts of speech by Hayes are replicated in the gallery for a contemporary audience.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Sharon Hayes: Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (13 April – 11 August 2019).
Co-published by Moderna Museet and Koenig Books.
English and Swedish text.

File under: Sharon Hayes Lena Essling Ann-Sofi Noring Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Hannah Rickards
Grey light : Left and right back, high up, two small windows

2016, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by Fogo Islands Arts / Newfoundland Sternberg Press / Berlin

$54.00 $5.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Alexandra McIntosh, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Contributions by Melissa Gronlund, Will Holder, Hannah Rickards, Nicolaus Schafhausen

Grey light. Left and right back, high up, two small windows (2014) is a major new work by London-based artist Hannah Rickards commissioned by Fogo Island Arts. Grey light is a two-screen projected video installation with eight channels of sound. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, the piece finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for nonvisibility, or imagelessness.

This publication features texts by Melissa Gronlund and Will Holder, a conversation between Rickards and Nicolaus Schafhausen, and striking new photographic imagery drawn from the installation’s physical materials and production process. Like Rickards’s work, the publication aims to bridge the distance between visual experience and its expression in language, whether spoken, written, or gestural.

File under: Hannah Rickards Hannah Rickards Melissa Gronlund Nicolaus Schafhausen Will Holder Fogo Islands Arts / Newfoundland Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video SALE

Paul Sietsema
At the hour of tea

2014, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket and laser cuts throughout book), 160 pages, 90 color ill., 15.2 x 20.3 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Paul Sietsema’s work in film and painting addresses the objects and systems of cultural production, tracing the circuits of proliferation and consumption that allow these objects to be taken up into history. At the hour of tea is a collection of stills from his most recent 16 mm film of the same title.

A filmic space develops within pages of this unique artist's book, moving through and layering the film’s imagery—tableaux of objects—via a system of laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages. Sietsema employs a language of clichéd “collectible” objects—Roman glass, coins, minor antiquities—to invoke the idea of a salon or space of contemplation as a parallel to the contemporary studio, and the idea of a kind of leisure-based consumptive creativity. Drawing on the design idea of skeuomorphism, common in modern computer interfaces, Sietsema fills his tableaux with now-outmoded items that live on as icons of their former functions.

Copublished with RITE EDITIONS
Design by Paul Sietsema and Geoff Kaplan

File under: Paul Sietsema Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Painting Film / Video SALE

Mechanisms

2017, English
Paperback, 288 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

$75.00 - Out of stock

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This catalogue accompanies a major group show at CCA Wattis in San Francisco, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs.

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neïl Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, Danh Vo

Designed by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik this catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by the curator as well as sections created by each artist. It is co-published with Roma Publications (Amsterdam).

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Terry Atkinson Lutz Bacher Eva Barto Neïl Beloufa Patricia L. Boyd Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Richard Hamilton Aaron Flint Jamison Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Louise Lawler Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Charlotte Posenenske Cameron Rowland Danh Vo Julie Peeters Scott Ponik William Pope.L Anthony Huberman Roma / Amsterdam Group Shows / Collections Art Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Continental Film Review August 1967

1967, English
Softcover, 32 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, August 1967 issue, includes the films of Yoko Ono, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Rodolfo Kuhn, Georges Combret, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Louis Bastid, Evald Schorm, Jan Svankmeyer, Juraj Jakubisko, Hynek Bočan, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alberto Lattuada, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ryszard Ber, and so many more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Yoko Ono Jean-Luc Godard Eric Rohmer Rodolfo Kuhn Georges Combret Francois Truffaut Louis Malle Ingmar Bergman Jean-Louis Bastid Evald Schorm Jan Svankmeyer Juraj Jakubisko Hynek Bočan Gianfranco Mingozzi Michelangelo Antonioni Alberto Lattuada Jerzy Skolimowski Ryszard Ber Eurap / London Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Periodicals

Continental Film Review October 1972

1972, English
Softcover, 40 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, October 1972 issue, includes the films of Luis Buñuel, Vittorio De Sica, Fernando Di Leo, Antonio Calenda, Henning Ørnbak, Bato Cengic, Franz Ernst, Francesco Rosi, Giorgio Trentin, Alan Gibson (Dracula A.D. 1972), José Ramón Larraz, Vilgot Sjöman, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Stanley Long, and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Stanley Long Luis Buñuel Vittorio De Sica Fernando Di Leo Antonio Calenda Henning Ørnbak Bato Cengic Franz Ernst Francesco Rosi Giorgio Trentin Alan Gibson José Ramón Larraz Vilgot Sjoman Eurap / London Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video

Continental Film Review December 1973
Vol. 21 No. 2

1973, English
Softcover, 36 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, December 1973 issue, includes the films of José Ramón Larraz
Guy Casaril, Jean-Jacques Renon, Jean Desville, Claude Zidi, Francois Truffaut, René Laloux (Le Planete Sauvage), Marino Girolami, Jörn Donner, Torgny Wickman, Jan Halldoff, Fernando Di Leo, Tiziano Longo, and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: José Ramón Larraz Guy Casaril Jean-Jacques Renon Jean Desville Claude Zidi Francois Truffaut René Laloux Marino Girolami Jörn Donner Torgny Wickman Jan Halldoff Fernando Di Leo Tiziano Longo Eurap / London Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video Periodicals

Continental Film Review June 1976
Vol. 23 No. 8

1976, English
Softcover, 34 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, June 1976 issue, includes the films of Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom), Marco Bellocchio, Joseph Losey, Silvio Amadio, Guido Leoni, Jean-Claude Brialy, Erwin C. Dietrich, Franco Martinelli, and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Martin Scorsese Pier Paolo Pasolini Marco Bellocchio Joseph Losey Silvio Amadio Guido Leoni Jean-Claude Brialy Erwin C. Dietrich Franco Martinelli Eurap / London Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video

Continental Film Review September 1976
Vol. 23 No. 11

1976, English
Softcover, 34 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

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Continental Film Review, September 1976 issue, includes the films of Jess Franco (Caged Women), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Richard Donner (The Omen), Roman Polanski (The Tenant), Alfred Hitchcock, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Gérard Pirès, Brunello Rondi, Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock), actor/sculptor Jean Marais, and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Jesús Franco Rainer Werner Fassbinder Richard Donner Roman Polanski Alfred Hitchcock Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Gérard Pirès Brunello Rondi Peter Weir Eurap / London Eros Periodicals Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

Continental Film Review March 1980
Vol. 27 No. 5

1980, English
Softcover, 50 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, March 1980 issue, includes the films of Federico Fellini, David Cronenberg, Don Siegel, Norman Jewison, Nicolas Roeg (Bad Timing), David Hamilton (Laura), Daniel Duval, Roger Coggio and Elisabeth Huppert, Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Lizzani, Bruno Gaburro, Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer), Giuseppe Vari (Sister Emanuelle), Andrea Bianchi (Strip Nude For Your Killer), Walter Boos (Confessions of a Sixth Form Teacher), and so much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Federico Fellini David Cronenberg Don Siegel Norman Jewison Nicolas Roeg David Hamilton Daniel Duval Roger Coggio and Elisabeth Huppert Marco Bellocchio Carlo Lizzani Bruno Gaburro Robert Benton Giuseppe Vari Andrea Bianchi Walter Boos Eurap / London Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Art

Freakout

1967, English
Softcover, 78 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Howard Publishing / Sydney

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first, only (?) issue of Australian counterculture/mondo magazine Freakout, published in 1967 by Howard Publishing, Sydney, purveyors of permissive magazines. Documenting "the Freakout movement of the U.S. and across the globe. [...] the age of liberation, the end of the phony sexual puritanism", this issue seems to feature heavy editorial from America's beat and hippie scene, including articles on Los Angeles and Greenwich Village, L.S.D. (including LA police statement and photo-documentation of an LSD session), banned film "The Freaks", Sunset Strip curfew riots and the artists Vietnam tower protest, "Mondo Balordo" (A Fool's World) the 1964 documentary, "Attack on Mulholland Drive" (crime photo reenactment), cartoonist Ron Cobb, model Gypsy Flame, sculptor Vito, Guambo (The Underground Arts masked ball and orgy), the girls of the Penny Arcade, psychedelic art, transsexuality, and nude colour pin-up. Also littered with ads for Australian adult bookstores from the period.

Very Good copy.

File under: Howard Publishing / Sydney Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Sculpture / Installation Eros Counterculture Film / Video Sound / Music

SM Select October 1977 Edition

1977, Japanese
Softcover, 390 pages, 11 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Sanseisha / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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SM Select October 1977 Edition, published by Tokyo Sanseisha. This issue including work by Toshio Saeki, amongst many others, and one of the great 1970s Haruo Shinozaki airbrushed covers. Cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), each issue of SM Select featured almost 400 pages of Japan's most depraved fetish fiction, littered with illustrations unseen elsewhere, including many historical pieces, plus full-colour glossy bondage photo-features, surreal erotic art and manga, fold-outs, reviews, letters, and much more. SM Select, alongside SM Fan, SM King, SM Top, etc. were often the first place to showcase the artwork and photography by some of Japan's biggest names in the field of erotic art, were often the first place to showcase the artwork and photography by some of Japan's biggest names in the field, including Namio Harukawa, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Toshio Saeki, and Ken Katayama, alongside the likes of masters such as Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.

Very Good with light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Haruo Shinozaki Tokyo Sanseisha / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Eros Film / Video Periodicals Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

SM Select January 1978 Edition

1978, Japanese
Softcover, 390 pages, 11 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Sanseisha / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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SM Select January 1978 Edition, published by Tokyo Sanseisha. This issue including work by Toshio Saeki, amongst many others, and one of the great 1970s Haruo Shinozaki airbrushed covers. Cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), each issue of SM Select featured almost 400 pages of Japan's most depraved fetish fiction, littered with illustrations unseen elsewhere, including many historical pieces, plus full-colour glossy bondage photo-features, surreal erotic art and manga, fold-outs, reviews, letters, and much more. SM Select, alongside SM Fan, SM King, SM Top, etc. were often the first place to showcase the artwork and photography by some of Japan's biggest names in the field of erotic art, were often the first place to showcase the artwork and photography by some of Japan's biggest names in the field, including Namio Harukawa, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Toshio Saeki, and Ken Katayama, alongside the likes of masters such as Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.

Very Good with light wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Haruo Shinozaki Tokyo Sanseisha / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Bondage Movie Review Volume 2 No. 1

1976, English
Softcover, 46 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tao Productions / Hollywood

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Bondage Movie Review Volume 2 No. 1, the collector's 1st Anniversary issue published by Tao Productions of Hollywood in 1976. Heavily illustrated throughout with b/w and colour bondage photographs, featuring many stills and photographs from Tao Productions films including "Hair Hung", "Jack in The Box", "Return of The Doctor", "Beauty and The Burglar", "The Visitor", "Shaky Business", "The Teat and The Pendulum", plus letters, fiction ("Big Sister Bondage"), illustrated catalogues of Bondage photographs and 8mm films, Bondage marketplace and Tao publications, and more. Includes colour centre spread from "Beauty and The Burglar".

Very Good copy with tanning to spine.

File under: Tao Productions / Hollywood Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Eros Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture

A Pictorial History of SF Films

1980, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket in slipcase), 447 pages, 32 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First deluxe edition of the illustrated Japanese encyclopaedic tome that explores the history of Science Fiction film, from early silent film to the modern era. Published in 1980 by special effects expert and editor of SFX Cinematic Illusion Shinji Nakako, A Pictorial History of SF Films compiles an exhaustive directory of chronological film listings from all over the world (including many unreleased Japanese sci-fi films, fantasy, horror, thriller, animation, and much beyond the usual SF category) through the decades. With comprehensive film details, credits and blurbs (in Japanese) for each film selection, illustrated with stills and each period including rich colour reproductions of the original film posters! Includes a neat, full index of the films included (in English and in Japanese), accompanied by thumbnails of Yoda, all housed in the original Hajime Sorayama illustrated dust jacket in original publishers heavy cardboard slipcase. A treasure for the SF fan.

Very Good copy, with small closed tears to jacket, preserved under mylar wrap and in VG original slipcase. Beautifully preserved copy.

File under: Hajime Sorayama Stanley Kubrick Jean-Luc Godard Roland Topor René Laloux George Lucas David Cronenberg François Truffaut Andrei Tarkovsky Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Luis Buñuel Robert Wise Peter Weir John Boorman John Carpenter George A. Romero Ridley Scott Robert Altman Dario Argento Lindsay Anderson Steven Spielberg Saul Bass Louis Malle Bruno Bozzetto Nicolas Roeg Brian de Palma Richard Fleischer Mel Brooks Terry Gilliam Ralph Bakshi Charles Band Irwin Allen George Miller Jim Henson Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare

Alain Resnais
Repérages

1974, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 168 pages, 29.6 x 19.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editions du Chene / Paris

$400.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first 1974 hardcover edition of Repérages, the wonderful photographic study by acclaimed French film director, Alain Renais. Repérages is a volume of Renais' photographs, taken between 1948 and 1971, of locations in London, Scotland, Paris, Nevers, Lyon, New York and Hiroshima. Some of the photographs relate to a long-cherished but unfulfilled idea for a film based on the Harry Dickson stories by Jean Ray. A very special, seldom seen photo collection for anyone interested in the work of Resnais. Introductory text by Jorge Semprun.

Very Good copy in VG dj.

File under: Alain Resnais Jean Ray Jorge Semprun Editions du Chene / Paris Photography Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

Gordon Matta-Clark
Splitting, Cutting, Writing, Drawing, Eating

2017, English / Portuguese
Softcover, 220 pages, 18 x 25 cm
Published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto

$62.00 - Out of stock

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American artist Gordon Matta-Clark is perhaps best known for the site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. His body of work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his “building cuts”. Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, such as film, video, and photography, much of which appears in this catalogue, itself published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and Culturgest, Lisbon. The attractively designed book includes numerous of the artist’s own sketches and plans for various works, plus letters and other material that together form an in-depth portrait.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark João Ribas Delfim Sardo Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Film / Video

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

$25.00 - In stock -

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

On the Eve of the Future : Selected Writings on Film
By Annette Michelson

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 18 x 23 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years’ worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with the movement known as American Independent Cinema.

This volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp’s film Anemic Cinema, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell’s filmic practices, and the first major explorations of Michael Snow. It offers an important essay on Maya Deren, whose work was central to that era of renewal and reinvention, seminal critiques of Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, and Harry Smith, and overviews of Independent Cinema. Gathered here for the first time, these texts demonstrate Michelson’s pervasive influence as a writer and thinker and her role in the establishment of cinema studies as an academic field.

The postwar generation of Independents worked to develop radically new terms, techniques, and strategies of production and distribution. Michelson shows that the fresh new forms they created from the legacy of Modernism became the basis of new forms of spectatorship and cinematic pleasure.

About the Author
Annette Michelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she has written on art and cinema for more than five decades.

“Annette Michelson is one of the most brilliant minds that has ever turned its focus on the art of cinema. It's a blessing to have her illuminating, inspiring, and informative pieces available in this volume.”
—Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and writer

“When many of these texts first appeared, they were undergroundbreaking. Now, as history, they continue to be impressive for their subtle insights and nuanced style. Annette Michelson’s writing is as avant-garde and of-the-moment as that of a critic/historian can be.”
—Michael Snow, filmmaker, musician, visual artist

“Written with enviable precision and grace, these essays remain the most compelling chronicle of the radical impact that film would have on the other arts in the twentieth century. Through her writings, Annette Michelson defined a field of critical inquiry where others saw only boundaries.”
—Bruce Jenkins, Chair, Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

File under: Harry Smith Hollis Frampton Joseph Cornell Marcel Duchamp Maya Deren Michael Snow Stan Brakhage Annette Michelson October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

On the Wings of Hypothesis : Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
By Annette Michelson

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 256 pages, 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, gathered here for the first time in this posthumous volume, giving readers the opportunity to track her sustained investigations into their work. Michelson introduced American audiences to Soviet cinema in the early 1970s, extending the interpretive paradigm she had used for American filmmakers of the mid-twentieth century—in which she emphasized phenomenological readings of their work—to films and writings by Eisenstein and Vertov. Over four decades, Michelson returned again and again to what she calls, following Eisenstein, “intellectual cinema”—the deliberate attempt to create philosophically informed analogues for consciousness.

The volume includes Michelson's major essays on Eisenstein's unrealized attempts to make movies of both Marx's Capital and Joyce's Ulysses, as well as her authoritative discussion of Vertov's 1929 masterpiece The Man with a Movie Camera. Together, the texts demonstrate Michelson's pervasive influence as a writer and thinker, and her role in the establishment of cinema studies as an academic field. This collection makes these canonical texts available for a new generation of film scholars.

Like the filmmakers with which she is engaged, Annette Michelson's intellectual project is nothing short of passionate. The analytic rigor, the discerning historical and cultural perspectives and the political resonance of these essays are confluent with Michelson's keen perception and striking associations, while the elegance of the writing also registers her intensely poetic and imaginative engagement. — Noa Steimatsky, author of Italian Locations and The Face on Film

File under: Sergei Eisenstein Dziga Vertov Annette Michelson Rachel Churner Malcolm Turvey The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

Yuri Norstein
"Fragna and I"

2003, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and obi strip), 27.2 x 23.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokuma Shoten - Studio Ghibli / Japan

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First hardcover edition of the world's first artist's book written by Russian animation artist Yuri Norstein, and published only in Japan by Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli.

Translated by Hiroko Kojima, the title refers to the nickname of Norstein's wife, Russian artist Franchesca Yarbusova. It describes in Norstein's own words his childhood memories and his life with close-collaborator Yarbusova. The book reveals the secrets of the creation and process of his award-winning animations, including the landscapes and the people who became the models for the characters in his films. Lavishly illustrated throughout with countless drawings and paintings for his films "The Fox and the Hare" (1973), "The Heron and the Crane" (1974), "Hedgehog in The Fog" (1975), "Tale of Tales" (1979), and his unfinished masterpiece "The Overcoat", amongst others, the book weaves Norstein's film imagery, character studies, and photographs together with his deeply personal reflections and life experiences, alongside biographies of both Norstein and Franchesca Yarbusova. A very special book, heavily illustrated throughout.

Yuri Norstein (b. 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animator. Born to Jewish parents and raised in a Moscow suburb, Yuri Norstein painted as a hobby and trained as a carpenter before studying animation. He directed his first film in 1968 and made a series of short films notable for their attention to atmosphere and fine detail, using his sophisticated multiplane camera technique to create the illusion of shifting three-dimensional depth. Throughout the 1970s Norstein was prolific, working on many award-winning films including Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), one of the director's most widely known works, and his 1979 film Tale of Tales, acclaimed by animation experts as the best animated film of all time.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket (with some very light edge wear), preserved with publisher's original obi-strip in mylar wrap.

File under: Yuri Norstein Isao Takahata Hayao Miyazaki Tokuma Shoten - Studio Ghibli / Japan Drawing Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art

The Works of Yuri Norstein

2004, Japanese / English / Russian
Softcover (in card slipcase), 242 pages, 30.6 x 27.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Fusion / Tokyo

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The best book ever made on the work of the great Soviet and Russian animator Yuri Norstein (b. 1941). Born to Jewish parents and raised in a Moscow suburb, Yuri Norstein painted as a hobby and trained as a carpenter before studying animation. He directed his first film in 1968 and made a series of short films notable for their attention to atmosphere and fine detail, using his sophisticated multiplane camera technique to create the illusion of shifting three-dimensional depth. Throughout the 1970s Norstein was prolific, working on many award-winning films including Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), one of the director's most widely known works, and his 1979 film, 'Tale of Tales', acclaimed by animation experts as the best animated film of all time.

This stunning oversized book was published in Japan-only in 2004 (now long out-of-print) and looks at the entire history of Norstein's masterful film works, thoughtfully designed using various paper stocks including wax films to mimic the effects of Norstein's animations. Housed in the original publisher's cardboard slipcase, "The Works of Yuri Norstein" is profusely illustrated to give the most intimate, in-depth introduction to his unique production process, including to-scale reproductions of his working character cut-outs, storyboards, esquisses, countless film stills, working materials and paintings used in the films, technique diagrams, illustrations and photographs, studio and personal photographs, and copious drawings of Norstein's beloved characters. Also includes historical texts on Norstein's life and career, biographies of Norstein and his frequent collaborator and wife, the award winning Russian artist Franchesca Yarbusova, and work index, and additional essays (in Japanese). All image captions and blurbs throughout the book are in English, Russian and Japanese. Very highly recommended!

Very Good-Fine copy preserved in VG-fine slipcase.

File under: Yuri Norstein Fusion / Tokyo Drawing Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art