World Food Books

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Macquettes…

1981, English
Die cut folded exhibition card, 18 x 14.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Nigel Greenwood Inc. / London

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Rare die-cut folded exhibition card produced by Marc Camille Chaimowicz on the occasion of the exhibition Macquettes… at Nigel Greenwood Inc, London, 10 December, 1981—30 January, 1982.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Fine copy.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Nigel Greenwood Inc. / London Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Furniture Art Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Partial Eclipse…

1981, English
Fold-out booklet, 20.4 x 22.6 cm (folded), 72 x 22.6 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

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Rare 1981 fold-out booklet published to accompany Marc Camille Chaimowicz's performance of Partial Eclipse… at the Tate Gallery, London in September, 1981.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Fine copy.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz The Tate Gallery / London Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
12 Décors Textiles

1983, English / French
Softcover (w. 2 fabric swatches tipped in), 21 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Comportement Environnement Performance / Lyon

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Rare artist's book and catalogue designed by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 12 Décors Textiles, published in limited edition in 1983. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, reproducing the designs of 12 textile patterns created by the artist, including two hand-printed fabric sample swatches tipped in. Accompanied by text by Hubert Besacier in English and French.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Good copy, with general wear/age to edges/spine, moisture stain to bottom corner, at worst on front board, with associated page rippling. Some markings to covers.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Hubert Besacier Comportement Environnement Performance / Lyon Performance / Dance / Theater Art Painting Drawing Furniture Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Chemin de Croix (Stations of the Cross)

1988, French
14 illustrated prints in illustrated cardboard folio, 30 loose leaf pages, 21.5 x 26.5 cm
Ed. of 150,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Pour l’Art Contemporain / Bourbon-Lancy

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Exquisite and extremely rare artist's portfolio, Chemin de Croix (Stations of the Cross), 14 drawings made by Marc Camille Chaimowicz at the Leighton Artists Colony, Parish of St Mary’s, Banff, during Easter 1988. Published in an edition of 150 copies and printed in full colour on warm, heavy paper stock, housed in illustrated cardboard folio, printed in Dijon on the presses of l'imprimerie Dips on behalf of the artist and Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon A Priori, Lyon Pour l'art contemporain, Bourbon Lancy. The 14 drawing series was created to be exhibited in the church of Lesme in Saône-et-Loire at the request of the association Pour l’Art Contemporain, Bourbon-Lancy, from July 1988—July 1989.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Very Good copy, with light age and corner/edge wear. Prints beautifully preserved within. Small chipping/closed tear to soft folio corners.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Pour l’Art Contemporain / Bourbon-Lancy Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Art Architecture / Interior Furniture

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
The World of Interiors

2007, English
Hardcover (pressed cloth w. plastic sleeve), 218 pages, 21 x 26.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich

$1000.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great artist books of our time, Marc Camille Chaimowicz's The World of Interiors disappeared from existence immediately after its publication, becoming a book of legend.

Awarded "The Most Beautiful Swiss Book" in 2007, The World of Interiors was conceived and realized by Chaimowicz (b. post-war Paris) on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. In the guise of a perfectly reproduced copy of an issue of the famous World Of Interiors magazine, the artist conceived this publication as a reference monograph and a source catalogue, ranging from his first post-Pop scatter installations to works realized in the 1990s. Looking back over nearly 30 years of work, this issue of World Of Interiors is beautifully détourned by Chaimowicz through inserting and collaging his own work (drawings, designs, paintings, photographs of installations, sculptures, his own domestic interiors, furniture, objects), personal writings, clippings from other magazines, references to Cocteau, Proust, Flaubert, Grey, Genet, Giacometti, and texts by contributing writers throughout its glossy pages. Legend has it (and we have this from the best sources) that the publishers received a 'cease and desist' letter from World Of Interiors' publisher Conde Nast immediately after its release and the majority of the print-run was destroyed, making this a very scarce and sought after book. The perfect follow-up Chaimowicz book to his gorgeous "Café du Reve" from 1985.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present. His works are in the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum collections.

A fine example of a very collectable and special book, wrapped in original rose cloth hardcover, protected under mylar wrap..

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Textiles Furniture Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater

MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ
A Folio for Secession

2010, English / German / French
Folio of five looseleaf pattern sheets, a letter in facsimile, and catalogue, colour offset printed, 21.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Secession / Vienna Walther König / Köln

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Out-of-print and collectible artist’s portfolio by Marc Camille Chaimowicz with five pattern sheets, a letter from Chaimowicz in facsimile, and an illustrated catalogue with essay by Silvia Eiblmayr (German/English and French/English). Produced by the Secession in a limited edition and published in cooperation with Musée La Piscine, Roubaix.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Like New copy.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Marc Camille Chaimowicz Silvia Eiblmayr Secession / Vienna Walther König / Köln Art Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Objects / Ephemera / A/V Textiles

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display

2022, English
Flexcover (clothbound), 248 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$72.00 - Out of stock

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Zig Zag and Many Ribbons… at MAMC Saint-Etienne in 2022—2023, this reference monograph revisits the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s.

Includes a ribbon drawn by the artist as an inserted bookmark. Edited by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford. Text by Marie Canet. Designed by Zak Kyes.

Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, hundreds of exhibitions have featured the interiors series of this international artist.

Marie Canet is a French art critic, independent curator and professor of aesthetics at the Villa Arson (Nice).

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Anna Clifford Marie Canet Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Textiles Art

Paul Thek
Artist's Artist

2009, English
Hardcover, 550 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$400.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the scarce, highly sought after, and most comprehensive book ever published on American artist Paul Thek, published in 2009 by MIT Press. Edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel, this enormous 550 page monograph contains more than 300 works by this groundbreaking artist, documenting his journey from legendary outsider to central figure in many contemporary art movements.

Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek's death from AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn. This book brings together more than 300 of Thek's works—many of which are published here for the first time—to offer the most comprehensive display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at ZKM ? Museum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek's work in dialogue with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature, theater, and religion. These works chart Thek's journey from legendary outsider to foundational figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek's works embody the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic Against Interpretation to him. Thek's treatment of the body in such works as “Technological Reliquaries,” with their castings and replicas of human body parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in colour) and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates Thek's work on its own terms, and as a starting point for understanding the work of the many younger artists Thek has influenced.

Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock, Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg, Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer, Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom, Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Susanne Neubauer, Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann, Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel, Ann Wilson.

Good copy with heavy tanning to spine and covers (esp. fluro spot colour), some bumping to cover corners, light page edge tanning. Internally Very Good, clean throughout.

File under: Paul Thek Harald Falckenberg Peter Weibel Jean-Christophe Ammann Margrit Brehm Bazon Brock Suzanne Delehanty Marietta Franke Stefan Germer Kim Gordon Roland Groenenboom Axel Heil Gregor Jansen Mike Kelley John Miller Susanne Neubauer Kenny Schachter Harald Szeemann Annette Tietenberg Ann Wilson The MIT Press / Massachusetts Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent

2002, English
Softcover, 312 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 cm
Published by Duke University Press / North Carolina

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Richard Bruce Nugent (1906—1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the centre of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many years as the only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print. Selections from his writings, paintings, and erotic art-deco drawings-mostly unpublished or scattered in rare and obscure publications-are collected here for the first time. A contributor to the landmark publication FIRE!! and resident of the notorious Niggeratti Manor, Nugent drew heavily upon his own experiences in his art. Nugent also appeared on Broadway in Porgy (the 1927 play) and Run, Little Chillun (1933).

Thomas H. Wirth, a close friend of Nugent's during the last years of the artist's life, has assembled a selection of Nugent's writings, including his best-known piece, "Smoke, Lilies, and Jade," and some of his poems and short non-fiction. The visual art selections include many of Nugent's sketches, as well as a number of his paintings. Wirth has written an introduction providing biographical information about Nugent's life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents that influenced him. A foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. emphasises the importance of Nugent for African American history and culture. Outliving virtually all other Harlem Renaissance figures, Nugent became a valuable resource to historians during his later years and is quoted in many works about the Harlem Renaissance era. This book offers a trove of hitherto unavailable primary source material and original art.

"The list of gay and lesbian African Americans is impressive and long, but it is surely headed by Bruce Nugent...[Wirth] does us an immeasurable favor by bringing together this collection of Nugent's poems, stories, essays, and visual art, along with a biographical sketch and a thoughtful interpretation. One of the key figures in both the creative world of the Harlem Renaissance and the complex underground world of gay culture, Bruce Nugent at last speaks here for himself."-from the Foreword, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Nugent is one of the best-known unknowns of the Harlem Renaissance - widely quoted by its chroniclers and revered by people interested in black gay history. By restoring his place in history and making his work widely available for scrutiny, this book performs an invaluable service. Wirth's introduction also provides an extraordinary tour of the gay side of the Renaissance and vivid glimpses of bohemian life in Harlem and the arts circles Nugent moved in." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World

File under: Richard Bruce Nugent Richard Bruce Nugent Thomas H. Wirth Duke University Press / North Carolina LGBTQ+ Drawing Painting Art Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Öyvind Fahlström
Another Space for Painting

2001, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by MACBA / Barcelona

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The most comprehensive, long out-of-print, English-language publication on the Brazilian-born Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976) known for his esoteric approach to exploring semiotics through visual systems. Published by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in 2001 on the occasion of the largest retrospective of Fahlström's work, this heavy catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout with 400 illustrations in colour and b/w. Include texts by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Jean-François Chevrier, Immanuel Wallerstein, Octavi Rofes, Suely Rolnik, plus biography; exhibition history; bibliography.

Often employing mysterious symbols and text, popular culture, comic books, politics, and cartography, Fahlström created works meant to suggest epic narratives, seeking to “create a world of situations and actions in a contradictory and discontinuing time-space.” As a young man he began writing for Swedish publications, and produced poetry, plays, translations, and art. In 1961, the artist moved to New York, which was his primary place of residence for the rest of his life. Living in the same building as Jasper Johns, Fahlström’s artistic production increased with his associating with American avant-garde artists, participating in Happenings, becoming associated with the Fluxus movement, exhibiting his work at the 1964 and 1966 Venice Biennales, and continuing to write plays. He was featured in the celebrated 1962 New Realists exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery and had numerous solo exhibitions with Janis throughout his life. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Good copy.
Spine tanning some bumping to corners.

File under: Öyvind Fahlström Manuel J. Borja-Villel Jean-François Chevrier Immanuel Wallerstein Octavi Rofes Suely Rolnik MACBA / Barcelona Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art SALE

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

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

$500.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

You Had To Be There : Rape Jokes
By Vanessa Place

2018, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by PowerHouse / New York

$34.00 - Out of stock

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Afterword by Natasha Stagg; Foreword by Dave Hickey

This book is a text version of Vanessa Place's live performance I've got this really great joke about rape, in which the artist recites rape jokes for 45 minutes to a seated audience in a gallery or from a small stage. It is art performance, not stand-up comedy. Many of the jokes were found on various English-language websites dedicated to offensive jokes; inspired by the form, the artist has improved some of the jokes, and written some herself.

Place decided to work with rape jokes several years ago after various stand-up comics were rebuked for making rape jokes on and off-stage; the gist of the criticism being that rape jokes aren't funny, and that a rape joke is tantamount to rape itself. But Place's work shows that rape jokes aren't rape and considers why rape jokes are very funny to very many people, and persistently so. As Place's audiences have demonstrated, those categorically opposed to the rape joke tend to find themselves straining not to laugh, just as those usually thrilled by such raw language find themselves gagging on something hard to swallow. What then proves interesting is the activation of art: the when, why, and how of such charged words being funny, being revolting, becoming sound, fashioning suspense. To experience this language that hangs thick in the air; to see where, in each of us, the joke sticks.

As seen in and heard on: Observer, Mean and Sober podcast, Red Scare podcast, The Guardian, The Baffler, Art in America, Slate...

"It may appear as an act of madness to publish a collection of jokes on rape in our politically correct atmosphere-but it is the right gesture, theoretically and politically. Vanessa Place demonstrates that, when things get really horrible, every gesture of dignity and compassion is a fake, and only humor works: humor which does not make fun of its object but bears witness to our impotence and failure to deal with the object appropriately. No wonder the best films about holocaust are also comedies; sometimes, laughter is the most authentic way to admit our perplexity and despair. Place's book is for everyone who has the courage to confront the horror of rape without the easy escape into comfortable compassion."—Slavoj Žižek

Vanessa Place (born 1968) is an American artist, writer, and criminal appellate attorney specializing in sex offenses. She has performed in museums and galleries internationally, and has worked on the appeals of more than a thousand indigent felons, specializing in sex offenders and sexually violent predators. She is the author of The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law; Dies: A Sentence, a fifty-thousand-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa; and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms. Place is co-founder of Les Figues Press, and has also worked as an occasional screenwriter on television shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.

Dave Hickey has been an art and cultural critic for over five decades, is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and Peabody Award-winner, and is the author of six books.

Natasha Stagg's novel, Surveys (Semiotext(e), Emily Books) was published in 2016. Her essays and stories appear in the books Excellences & Perfections by Amalia Ulman (Prestel, 2018), The Present in Drag by DIS (Distanz, 2016), and Intersubjectivity Vol. 2 by Lou Cantor (Sternberg Press, 2018).

File under: Vanessa Place Vanessa Place PowerHouse / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

Art & Project : A History

2023, English / Dutch
Softcover, 512 pages, 21 × 29.7 cm
Published by Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam

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A comprehensive volume on the influential Dutch gallery that united American and European conceptualism For more than 33 years, the Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968-2001) played a pivotal role in the development of contemporary art within the Netherlands and beyond. Founders Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) and Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) presented a pioneering program of work by both national and international artists, including Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Charlotte Posenenske, Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner and Sol LeWitt, among many others. The cofounders published a total of 156 bulletins to draw attention to their exhibitions, and the bulletins quickly evolved into an experimental medium—from carriers of conceptual artists' ideas to conceptual artworks themselves.

Art & Project: A History examines the gallery's exhibitions, bulletins, social networks and international legacy. Replete with extensive research and previously unpublished visual material, this massive book provides an indispensable overview of the history of conceptual art in the Netherlands.

Text by Jip Hinten, Isabelle Bisseling, Ton Geerts, Regine Ehleither.

Already out-of-print at source.

File under: Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Ian Wilson Bas Jan Ader Yutaka Matsuzawa Jan Dibbets Gilbert & George Richard Long Ger van Elk Charlotte Posenenske Lawrence Weiner Stanley Brouwn Sol LeWitt Jip Hinten Isabelle Bisseling Ton Geerts Regine Ehleither Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Conceptual Art Photography Art Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Painting Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Theory / Essay

F.R. David Winter 2024 "Erratum"

2023, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam

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F.R.DAVID was concerned with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practice. Following and open call, this is - the very last issue - a collectively-compiled "Erratum", or addendum [if you will] to the twenty-three issues from 2007 until now.

Edited with Paul Abbott, After 8, Alma Sarif, Phil Baber, Daniel Blumberg, Thomas Boutoux, Kristien Van den Brande, Chloe Chignell, Martina Copley, Anthony Elms, Chris Evans, Carolina Festa, Kasper Feyrer, Richard Finlay Fletcher, Ben Green, Mariëtte Groot, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Léa Guillon, Sarah Handley, Gloria Hasnay, Loes Jacobs, Michel Khleifi, Willis Kingery, gerlach en koop, James Goggin, Keira Greene, Léa Guillon, Jacob Lindgren, Kobe Matthijs, Martino Morandi, Zen Nguyen, Alice Notley, Robert M. Ochshorn, Oscar the dog, Willem Oorebeek, David Reinfurt, Scott Rogers, Andrés de Santiago Areizaga, Rosa Sarholz, Clara Schulmann, Andrea di Serego Alighieri, Sabrina Tarasoff, Kristy Trinier, Seymour Wright and Unknown.

File under: Will Holder Simone Forti Felix González-Torres Will Holder Ursula K. Le Guin Jacques Derrida Simone Forti Uh Books / Amsterdam Art Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Philosophy

Black Magazine No. 18
September 1972

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

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

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

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

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

$30.00 - Out of stock

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

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

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

Paul Thek
Diver : A Retrospective

2010, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 304 pages, 24.8 x 28.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Now well out-of-print, the incredible Paul Thek monograph, was published by Yale University Press in 2010 to accompany Thek's first retrospective in the United States, at the Whitney Museum in New York.

An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933—1988) is primarily known for hyper-realistic works of human body parts executed in fleshlike beeswax and for his strongly symbolic, room-size installations constructed from transitory materials. A major figure on the 1960s New York art scene, Thek also spent time in Europe, where he paved the way for artists adopting collaborative strategies. Although he gained a large following and was featured in more than one hundred solo and group exhibitions, the anti-establishment "artist's artist" was practically forgotten at the time of his death. Major exhibitions abroad and critical attention from younger artists have done much to revive his reputation, and Paul Thek: Diver expands on those efforts by bringing the artist's resounding influence on the art world up to date. Published to accompany Thek's first retrospective in the United States, this landmark publication includes nearly 300 chronologically arranged illustrations of sculptures, paintings, prints, and other works featured in the exhibition as well as four special "in-depth" image sections focusing on key installations, projects, and pages from the artist's journals. An extensive selection of documentary photographs, many never before published, illuminate Thek's artistic aesthetic and production process. With a bibliography, exhibition history, and checklist of works in the exhibition, this overdue acknowledgment of Thek's brief, but broad-reaching career will be the authoritative volume on the artist for years to come.

Edited by Lynn Zelevansky and Elisabeth Sussman, Contributions by George Baker, David Breslin, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Eleonora Nagy, Susanne Neubauer, Michael Nickel, Scott Rothkopf, Ann Wilson

Very Good—Fine copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Paul Thek Lynn Zelevansky Elisabeth Sussman George Baker David Breslin Carol Mancusi-Ungaro Eleonora Nagy Susanne Neubauer Michael Nickel Scott Rothkopf Ann Wilson Yale University Press / New Haven Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

1945—1985 : Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Edited by Dominik Bartmann

1985, German
Softcover, 736 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nationalgalerie / Berlin

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Enormous 700+ page volume about "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945—1985", published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 27, 1985—January 21, 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour with many works by Vostell, Baselitz, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Palermo, Klapheck, Darboven, Schultze, Uecker, Horn, Lüpertz, Haacke, Ruthenbeck, Antes, the Bechers, Rinke, Gerz, Erhard Walther, Penck, Knowles, Higgins, June Paik, Maciunas, Christiansen, Filliou, Brecht, Kriwet, Roth, Ulrichs, and many more, accompanied by texts in German, bibliography and index.

Good copy, some rubbing to the cover boards, light wear, bumping with age/size.

File under: Wolf Vostell A.R. Penck Joseph Beuys Rainer Ruthenbeck Sigmar Polke Horst Antes Robert Filliou Hanne Darboven Ferdinand Kriwet Nam June Paik Alison Knowles Blinky Palermo George Brecht George Maciunas Dick Higgins Gerhard Richter Konrad Klapheck Rebecca Horn Hans Haacke Bernhard Schultze Bernhard & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla and Bernd Becher Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Timm Ulrichs Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Henning Christiansen Franz Erhard Walther Jochen Gerz Klaus Rinke Günter Uecker Günther Uecker Gunther Uecker Vostell Baselitz Beuys Polke Richter Palermo Klapheck Schultze Uecker Horn Lüpertz Darbhoven Haacke Ruthenbeck Antes the Bechers Rinke Gerz Erhard Walther Penck Knowles Higgins June Paik Maciunas Christiansen Filliou Brecht Kriwet Roth Ulruchs Dominik Bartmann Nationalgalerie / Berlin Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drawing Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Curatorial Fluxus Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Photography Theory / Essay

Blank Forms 09 : Sound Signatures

2023, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 20.3 x 15.2 cm
Published by Blank Forms / New York

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The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki and more.

At the centerpiece of Blank Forms 09: Sound Signatures is a career-spanning, twenty-hour conversation conducted over four days between producer, remixer, and Detroit house music legend Theo Parrish and veteran music journalist Mike Rubin. They go deep on Parrish’s childhood in Chicago’s South Side, sculptural training, and collaborations with Moodymann, Rick Wilhite, and Omar S, and explore how the social movements of 2020 have reshaped his practice and dance music at large. This volume also includes an illustrated discussion between Dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni and sound artist/tuning theorist Marcus Pal, covering Cuni’s years studying voice and dance in India, her interpretations of John Cage, and collaborations with the likes of Terry Riley and Catherine Christer Hennix—accompanied by deeply researched essays from Cuni on Hindustani classical music and avant-garde performance. Finally, the collection features reminiscences from composer and performer Akio Suzuki and musician Aki Onda on Fluxus pioneer and Taj Mahal Travellers founder Takehisa Kosugi, with newly translated criticism from Kosugi.

File under: Theo Parrish Amelia Cuni Akio Suzuki Aki Onda Taj Mahal Travellers Takehisa Kosugi Marcus Pal Blank Forms / New York Sound / Music Theory / Essay Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Art Fluxus

The World of Švankmajer

1999 / 2006, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 240 pages, 23 x 16 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kokushokankokai / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this wonderful hardcover monographic study on the work of Czech Surrealist artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker, Jan Švankmajer (b. Prague, 1934), first published in Japan in 1999. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with all of his film and artworks, including his sculpture, collage, ceramics, “tactile experiments”, and much more. With chapters such as "Manipulation of malicious intent", "Everything starts with a doll", and "Realistic delusions, grotesque dreams", the book is largely made up of conversations with Jan Švankmajer, his own diaries on the making of "Faust" and other subjects, extensive texts and dialogues with the artist relating to central themes in his work, from the "Tactile Imagination" to Alchemy. It also provides a full chronology of the artist, a complete filmography, a list of his works, and bibliography of the artist. Texts are

Well-known for his dark re-imaginings of well-known fairy tales and for his avant-garde merging of live action, stop-motion animation and puppetry, Švankmajer is one of the most distinctive and acclaimed Czech filmmakers. Since the mid-1960s, his films have shocked, mesmerized, repulsed and delighted audiences, amassing international cult-like following. His prolific work off-screen across assemblage and collage mediums, using both man-made and organic materials, share the central thematic elements of his subversive films, such as black humour, metamorphosis, sex, decomposition, mythology, scatology, death, humour and the absurd. Over 300 illustrations with texts by Hideto Fuse, Maki Kumagai, Petr Holly, Jan Švankmajer.

Fine copy, As New.

File under: Jan Svankmajer Jan Svankmeyer Jan Švankmajer Eva Švankmajerová Kokushokankokai / Tokyo Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Drawing Painting Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Antonin Artaud : Portraits et Gris-Gris
Edited by Florence de Mèredieu

1984, French
Softcover, 72 pages, 30 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editions Blusson / Paris

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 1984 edition of this very rare French publication, the first work on Artaud's drawings, published by Editions Blusson, Paris. From Artaud's first writings on the visual arts (1920) to the exhibition of his drawings at the Galerie Pierre (1947), Artaud wondered about graphic expression. This heavily illustrated book includes many of Artaud's illustrations accompanying the main texts, dedicated by Artaud to the commentary of his drawings, supplemented by two articles on the correspondence between Artaud and the painter Balthus, and on Artaud's relations with graffiti and art brut. This work remains the first in-depth published book on the question of drawing in Artaud's work. We find there the first constitution, revelation and analysis of the lines of force of the graphic work of Mômo. As well as a description of his analysis of painting and the history of art (the Italian Primitives, Le Vinci, Poussin, Van Gogh, Balthus, Surrealism, etc.). A wonderuful, oversized book. Texts in French.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Balthus Antonin Artaud Florence de Mèredieu Editions Blusson / Paris Drawing Fiction / Poetry Surrealism Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud
Edited by Edward Scheer

2001, English
Softcover, 334 pages, ‎14 x 21.5 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

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"Lacan says that the hysteric is a question raised to the medical establishment: Artaud is nothing but the question itself and it's a question raised to art, to theatre, and to society. The question itself cannot be defined because it's the function of the question that's important."—Sylvere Lotringer

100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud brings together responses to the Artaud question from some of the leading contemporary scholars working in the humanities today. The essays cover a wide variety of topics in opening the Artaud question to the disciplines – and the demarcations upon which so much knowledge and art practice is defined. They are intended as an affront to conservative thought, as an attack on clinical reason and as an open challenge to the corporate university.

Contributors: Rex Butler, Alan Cholodenko, Lisabeth During, Frances Dyson, Patrick Fuery, Douglas Kahn, Julia Kristeva, Sylvère Lotringer, Mike Parr, Bill Schaffer, Edward Scheer, Lesley Stern, Samuel Weber, Allen S. Weiss.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Rex Butler Alan Cholodenko Lisabeth During Frances Dyson Patrick Fuery Douglas Kahn Julia Kristeva Sylvère Lotringer Mike Parr Bill Schaffer Edward Scheer Lesley Stern Samuel Weber Allen S. Weiss Power Publications / Sydney Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Surrealism Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Aquirax Uno
Masquerade

1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and plastic sleeve), 126 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Bijutsu Shuppansha / Japan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1982 and long out-of-print, Masquerade is one of the finest artist books of Japanese illustrator and graphic artist Aquirax Uno. Lavishly illustrated and elaborately designed and directed by the artist himself, this beautiful album collects Uno's most stunning fantastical illustration and painting throughout the 1960s—1980s, alongside texts and photography of Uno in his atelier. Masquerade collates a cross-section of Uno's graphic work spanning his entire career, his iconic and innovative print, book, and theatre works, including many new, unpublished works and illustrations printed in large format across many full-colour fold-outs — a wonderful way to capture his decadent, provocative, stream of consciousness line work in intimate detail. Highly recommended!

Aquirax Uno, also known as Akira Uno (b. 1934) is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter who was very influential in the 1960s and 1970s. His incredibly unique work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque) eroticism, and frequent use of collage and psychedelic bright colours. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his frequent collaborations with Shuji Terayama and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki.

Aquirax Uno, also known as Akira Uno (b. 1934) is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter who was very influential in the 1960s–1970s. His incredibly unique work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque) eroticism, and frequent use of collage and psychedelic bright colours. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his frequent collaborations with Shuji Terayama and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki.

Fine copy in Near Fine—VG original publisher's textured plastic protector sleeve with usual slight shrinkage from age, very mild in this case.

File under: Aquirax Uno Tenjō Sajiki Tenjo Sajiki Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Bijutsu Shuppansha / Japan Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Performance / Dance / Theater

FROM THE OTHER SIDE: THE MONSTROUS FEMININE

2023, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 110 pages, 25 x 17 cm
Published by ACCA / Melbourne

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Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer, and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre.

From the other side features curatorial texts by Elyse Goldfinch and Jessica Clark, alongside writings from Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous Feminine; Canadian film writer Kier-La Janisse, author of the cult classic, House of Psychotic Women, 2012; Lisa Fuller, a Murri woman and author of the novel Ghost Bird, 2021; and a horror-themed screenplay by UK-based author and filmmaker Alison Peirse, editor of the Women Make Horror anthology, 2021.

Artists featured in the exhibition and book include Clare Milledge, Cybele Cox, Heather B Swann, Jemima Lucas, Julia Robinson, Karla Dickens, Kellie Wells, Lonnie Hutchinson, Louise Bourgeois, Maria Kozic, Marianna Simnett, Mia Boe, Minyoung Kim, Naomi Blacklock, Naomi Kantjuriny, SJ Norman, Suzan Pitt, Tracey Moffatt and Zamara Zamara.

The exhibition crosses the artificial parameters of horror in the everyday, as something that exists as part of society but also from outside of it. Culminating in a potent synthesis of dread, camp, humour and catharsis, From the other side challenges the traditional narratives and assumed boundaries of the body, gender, the self and the ‘other’.

File under: Clare Milledge Cybele Cox Heather B Swann Jemima Lucas Julia Robinson Karla Dickens Kellie Wells Lonnie Hutchinson Louise Bourgeois Maria Kozic Marianna Simnett Mia Boe Minyoung Kim Naomi Blacklock Naomi Kantjuriny SJ Norman Suzan Pitt Tracey Moffatt Zamara Zamara Elyse Goldfinch Jessica Clark Barbara Creed Kier-La Janisse Lisa Fuller Alison Peirse ACCA / Melbourne LGBTQ+ Feminism Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Photography Painting Australian Art Australian Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial