World Food Books

Fabio Mauri
The Past in Acts

2018, English / French
Softcover, 384 pages, 19 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$85.00 - In stock -

Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) is the epitome of the artist-intellectual in Italy. His oeuvre, which spans the latter half of the 20th century, unclassifiable, stands apart from the principal movements of Italian contemporary art. It is a diverse and colossal work to which the archives preserved at the Studio Fabio Mauri in Rome bear witness. 'Fabio Mauri: The Past in Acts' is the first study dedicated to this artist's performative work, which began in the early 1970s, and continued up to the 2000s.

Fabio Mauri is one of the masters of the Italian avant-garde of the post-war period. In 1942 he founded the Il Setaccio magazine with writer/director/frequent collaborator Pier Paolo Pasolini. In the seventies, Mauri worked on installations, performances and art books, focusing on Italian social and political events. A profound connoisseur of the publishing world, he was president of two major publishing houses and in 1967 he founded the magazine Quindici with Umberto Eco, Edoardo Sanguineti and Angelo Guglielmi. Fabio Mauri weaves the dimension of performance, to the space of history. The use of the body as a screen in " The Gospel according to Matthew" by/on Pier Paolo Pasolini, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, remains an unforgettable work. In it the same Pasolini, seated on a chair with a white shirt, had his own film of 1964 projected on his chest The Gospel according to Matthew. For 20 years he taught Aesthetics of Experimentation at the Academy of Fine Arts in L'Aquila. He was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1954, 1974, 1978, 1993, 2003, 2013, 2015 and in 2012 at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.

File under: Fabio Mauri Valerie Da Costa Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Art Film / Video

PRANKS! (RE/Search)

1987, English
Softcover, 233 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by RE/SEARCH / San Francisco

$70.00 - Out of stock

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"Dazzling deceptions and provocative put-ons from some of the most outrageous artists and personalities living today. Spontaneous, improvised craziness from the Underground in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and points in between. This book opens up a whole new territory of fun and pleasure."

The cult classic and most iconic of the RE/Search publications, PRANKS! A prank is a trick, a mischievous act, and a ludicrous act. Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre. Here, a wild chorus of pranksters such as Mark Pauline, Timothy Leary, Monte Cazazza, Boyd Rice, Abbie Hoffman, Jello Biafra, Joe Coleman, Richard Meltzer, Karen Finley, John Waters and Henry Rollins challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention. Some tales are bizarre, as when Boyd Rice presented the First Lady with a skinned sheep's head on a platter. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humour, satire and irony. A great quotations section is also included.

Contributions from: Mark Pauline, Boyd Rice, Henry Rollins, Joey Skaggs, Ed Hardy, Michael Bidlo, Jello Biafra, Abbie Hoffman, Bruce Conner, Monte Cazazza, Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner, John Day, Karen Finley, Richard Meltzer, Alan Abel, Jeffrey Vallance, John Waters, Earth First!, Paul Mavrides, Mark Mccloud, Kerri Kwinter, Robert Delford Brown, John Cale, Danny Kelly, Frank Discussion, David Levi Strauss, Bruno Richard, Mal Sharpe, Bob Zoell, Joe Coleman, Michael Osterhout, Jerry Casale, John Trubee, Carlo Mccormick, Erik Hobijn, Barry Alfonso, Harry Kipper, and more…

Very Good copy, signed by V. Vale. 1987 edition but re-print ?

File under: Mark Pauline Boyd Rice Henry Rollins Joey Skaggs Ed Hardy Michael Bidlo Jello Biafra Abbie Hoffman Bruce Conner Monte Cazazza Timothy Leary Paul Krassner John Day Karen Finley Richard Meltzer Alan Abel Jeffrey Vallance John Waters Earth First! Paul Mavrides Mark Mccloud Kerri Kwinter Robert Delford Brown John Cale Danny Kelly Frank Discussion Bruno Richard Mal Sharpe Bob Zoell Joe Coleman Michael Osterhout Jerry Casale John Trubee Carlo Mccormick Erik Hobijn Barry Alfonso Harry Kipper Timothy Leary Abbie Hoffman Richard Meltzer Carlo Mccormick David Levi Strauss RE/SEARCH / San Francisco Counterculture Sound / Music Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

IS (International Synergy) Journal (lot of 12 issues 1986—1994)
Edited by David Dunn, Allyn Brodsky, Nik Warren...

1986—1994, English
Softcover (12 issues), approx 50-80 pages ea., 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles

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"A thrice yearly exploration of ambiguous borders and dynamic (intellectual/artistic) frontiers."

Exceptionally rare lot of 12 issues (1986—1994) of the trail-blazing subscription-only one-of-a-kind journal published by the International Synergy Institute, a intermedia think-tank active in Hollywood between 1986—1987. IS was founded by American actress and philanthropist Andra Akers (Charlie's Angels, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard...), edited by experimental composer, researcher and Harry Partch Ensemble member David Dunn, with a cast of incredible contributors spanning these issues that includes media theorist Gene Youngblood (Expanded Cinema...), Australian composer, poet and performer Chris Mann, American ethnobotanist Terence McKenna, American artist Bill Viola, American landscape architect Bonnie Sherk, parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, mathematician Ralph Abrahams, composer Kenneth Gaburo, Australian experimental composer Warren Burt, early media artist visionaries Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (Mobile Image, the Electronic Café...), Science Fiction theorist, philosopher and writer for Marvel comics Allyn B. Brodsky, American composer and writer Elaine Barkin, visionary Czech author Lukáš Tomin, aeronautical engineer and astronaut Russell Schweickart, mathematician and polymath Tim Poston, climate crisis artists Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison, American composer John Bischoff, cultural historian William Irwin Thompson, ecological philosopher and author Boleslaw Rok, essayist and activist Tomaž Mastnak, Chilean biologist and philosopher Francisco Varela, artist Michael Kalil, systems theorist Will McWhinney, percussionist and composer Stuart Saunders Smith, mathematician Gottfried Mayer-Kress, alternative broadcaster Jay Levin, British-American futurist Hazel Henderson, actress Debra Clinger (The Love Boat, The Krofft Supershow, Midnight Madness, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour...), musician Mark Trayle, artist Sheila Pinkel, VFX pioneer Mimi Gramatky (LOST, Miami Vice, Star Trek, Tron, Damnation Alley...), sonic healer Jill Purce, robot dance choreographer Margo K. Apostolos, American psychedelic artist Alex Grey, social critic and historian Morris Berman, futurist Riane Eisler, poet James Bertolino, British zoologist, anthropologist and author John Heathorn Huxley, multi-media artist Todd Siler, American philosopher of science Ervin László, Budapest dissident magazine Magyar Narancs, and more.

Issues present: #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 (12 issues total, not all pictured)

"INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY consists of a global network of vanguard artists, scientists, and meta-physicians who are united by a deep sense of commitment to crossing the boundaries of their individual disciplines. Integral to this awareness is a reconciliation between advanced technological resources and a sense of the planet's sanctity. INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY is dedicated to the premise that such an understanding can form the basis of a creative matrix for responsible action in the information age."

"At this hinge of history, it seems appropriate that we should publish a journal where the passion of the individual scientist/artist can meet in sovereign association with global concerns — spinning the wheel of knowledge so that each of us can create our own theoretical magic." [...] "I am deeply moved by the creative commonwealth in this community, filled with explorers of topology, morphology, chaos dynamics, cognition, mind video, the revisioning of nature and art, telecommunications, sonics, cybernetics, cultural history, fractal politics, and what it now means to be deeply human. The provocative interaction of these ideas cannot help but to create a new and uniquely meaningful story. Come with us."—Andra Akers

Most Good—Very Good, with a couple of issues Average (mostly due to cover rubbing or creasing), all with light wear/age.

File under: Warren Burt Chris Mann Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz (Mobile Image) Bill Viola David Dunn Andra Akers Kenneth Gaburo Elaine Barkin Chris Mann Andra Akers David Dunn Gene Youngblood Kenneth Gaburo Elaine Barkin Tomaž Mastnak Lukáš Tomin Allyn B. Brodsky William Irwin Thompson Boleslaw Rok Terence McKenna Bonnie Sherk Rupert Sheldrake Ralph Abrahams Russell Schweickart Tim Poston Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Psychoanalysis Drugs / Psychedelia Ecology Ecology / Earth Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Fiction / Poetry Poetry Australian Art Film / Video Health Occult / Esoterica Painting Philosophy Photography Sociology / Politics Whole Earth / Crafts Architecture / Interior

Total Expansion of the Letter Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
By Trevor Stark

2020, English
Hardcover, 440 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn,” centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cubists and Dadaists—including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Tristan Tzara—appropriated bureaucratic paperwork, newspapers, popular songs, and advertisements, only to render them dysfunctional and incommunicative. In doing so, Stark argues, these figures contended with the utopian vision of the late nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who promised a “total expansion of the letter.”

In his poems, Mallarmé claimed, “the act of writing was scrutinized down to its origins.” This scrutiny, however, delivered his work into an indeterminate zone between mediums, social practices, and temporalities—a paradox that reverberates through Stark's wide-ranging case studies in the history of the avant-garde. Stark examines Picasso's nearly abstract works of 1910, which promised to unite painting and writing at the brink of illegibility; the cubists' “hope of an anonymous art,” expressed in newspaper collages and industrial colors; the collaborative, cacophonous invention of “simultaneous poems” by the Dadaists in Zurich during World War I; and Duchamp's artistic exploration of chance in gambling and finance. Each of these cases reflected the avant-garde's transformative encounter with the premise of Mallarmé's poetics: that language—the very medium of human communication and community—is perpetually in flux and haunted by emptiness.

As certain artists experimenting in the postwar orbit of John Cage well knew, it was not he who introduced the conceptual scope of chance and musical metric into the language of art. In his brilliant book on Mallarmé's legacy—sure to correct the record—Trevor Stark positions the Coup de Dés as the first score of the twentieth century. Inhabiting industrialism's destruction of the subject, and an infinite abstraction—as chance gave way to indeterminism—Mallarmé encoded his best-known poem with score-like traits (time/realization) and ambiguity (language's readymade indeterminacy); thus he cast the death of the author like a bottle thrown at sea. Such stakes are clear because Stark makes them so. With not a word or a sentence wasted, he adroitly guides us through the Mallarméan dimensions of three pivotal experiments: Braque and Picasso's introduction of text into pictorial space (1910/1912); the temporal-auditory collage of Tzara's simultaneous poems honed in the collectivism of Zurich Dada; and Duchamp's ultimate transvaluation of art/work in Monte Carlo. The often-startling fruits of Stark's meticulous research are presented with a light touch, a space for realization; yet we sense the intellectual and “intermedial” virtuosity the author brings to the task—handling, deciphering, hearing, seeing, translating, across disciplines, languages, and time(s)—to convey his cases and insights to 21st-century readers with the force of contemporaneity. — Julia E. Robinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at New York University; curator of the exhibition John Cage & Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence

File under: John Cage Marcel Broodthaers Pablo Picasso Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp Paul Cezanne Georges Braque Francis Picabia Hugo Ball F.T. Marinetti Trevor Stark Stéphane Mallarmé Tristan Tzara Martin Heidegger Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Dada Fluxus

Everybody Should Get Stones
by Noel Sheridan (signed w. dedication)

1974?, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Signed copy,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Noel Sheridan / Adelaide

$160.00 - In stock -

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Very rare and terrific conceptual art/poetry book (c.1974) by performance artist, poet, actor, "amateur painter" and exceptionally valuable director of the Experimental Art Foundation (EAF) in Adelaide from 1975—1980, Noel Sheridan (1936—2006). Founded by a small group of artists, curators and theorists, the EAF was heralded as the first alternative art space in Australia, with a mission to promote art that interrogated the status quo. Seemingly self-published in 1974 once Irish-born Sheridan had relocated to Adelaide, and the year before Sheridan's controversial "Everybody Should Get Stones" installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia, composed of 25 tonnes of river stones strewn across the gallery's floor, "Everybody Should Get Stones" is a remarkably witty, instructional language-performance piece around collecting stones on a beach, very much in the Oulipo spirit, or Fluxus.

"These procedures are intended to bring a greater precision to your quality ascriptions. Initial tests were carried out by J. Neuner and N. Sheridan on Coynes cross beach, due east of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, during the Summer months of 1971. It is not essential to use the above location to perform these exercises. Any stony beach will do. Select an area of beach and begin."

Broken into four parts, from selection methods that are irrational and unpredictable, to mathematically exhaustive, to literary (the selection of stones that are most apt to specific quotes from Beckett, Goethe, Wittgenstein, Galvani, Descartes, Hume, and Sheridan's beloved fellow-Irishman Joyce, amongst many others — all reproduced).

Only one copy located on WorldCat (in Dublin).

This copy signed by Noel on the title page with dedication to American-Australian experimental composer Warren Burt. "For Warren, may all your penguins be green. Noel". Irish-born Noel was fondly known for his wardrobe of green attire. Very Good copy with tanning/wear to cover extremities.

File under: Noel Sheridan Noel Sheridan Noel Sheridan / Adelaide Concrete Poetry Poetry Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Fluxus Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Signed Books

The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art
Gunter Christmann, Richard Dunn, Marr Roy Grounds and Paul Pholeros, Kerrie Lester, Paul Partos, Sam Schoenbaum

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 20 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

$60.00 - In stock -

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition, The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art, 26 April – 24 May 1978, Monash University Exhibition Gallery. Curated by Grazia Gunn and featuring the work of artists Gunter Christmann, Richard Dunn, Marr Roy Grounds and Paul Pholeros, Kerrie Lester, Paul Partos, and Sam Schoenbaum. Illustrated throughout with artworks, accompanied by artists texts, biographies, texts by Sandra McGrath, Gary Catalano, and an introductory essay by Grazia Gunn.

Very Good copy, light general wear, tanning to pages.

File under: Gunter Christmann Richard Dunn Marr Roy Grounds Paul Pholeros Kerrie Lester Paul Partos Sam Schoenbaum Sandra McGrath Gary Catalano Grazia Gunn Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Conceptual Art Art Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare

Some Recent American Art

1973, English
Softcover (denim-bound, stitched and silk-screened), 96 pages, 24 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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The art catalogue wearing denim! Fantastic, scarce exhibition catalogue from 1973 for "Some Recent American Art", a major contemporary survey exhibition that toured Australia and New Zealand, organised under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York with the assistance of Graeme Sturgeon, David Sampietro, and Peter Cripps. Wrapped in jeans denim covers (screen-printed and stitched), and profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with the work of exhibiting artists Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Robery Irwin, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner. Each artist section includes a list of works, biographical information and text(s) from the artist. Opening text by curator Jennifer Licht, acknowledgments by NGV director Gordon Thomson, with further sections on exhibited Video Tapes, bibliography and artist index.

Good copy, with tanning/fading to spine and some light fraying to cover edges.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre John Baldessari Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Dan Flavin Eva Hesse Robery Irwin Donald Judd Joseph Kosuth Sol LeWitt Brice Marden Agnes Martin Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Dorothea Rockburne Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jennifer Licht Gordon Thomson NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

IS (International Synergy) Journal #0
Edited by David Dunn

1986, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles

$150.00 - Out of stock

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"A thrice yearly exploration of ambiguous borders and dynamic (intellectual/artistic) frontiers."

Exceptionally rare, inaugural issue #0 of the trail-blazing subscription-only journal published by the International Synergy Institute, a intermedia think-tank active in Hollywood between 1986—1987. IS was founded by American actress and philanthropist Andra Akers (Charlie's Angels, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard...), edited by experimental composer, researcher and Harry Partch Ensemble member David Dunn, with a cast of contributors for this first issue including media theorist Gene Youngblood (Expanded Cinema...), parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, VFX pioneer Mimi Gramatky (LOST, Miami Vice, Star Trek, Tron, Damnation Alley...), mathematician Ralph Abrahams, composer Kenneth Gaburo, and poet Chris Mann, and more.

"INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY consists of a global network of vanguard artists, scientists, and meta-physicians who are united by a deep sense of commitment to crossing the boundaries of their individual disciplines. Integral to this awareness is a reconciliation between advanced technological resources and a sense of the planet's sanctity. INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY is dedicated to the premise that such an understanding can form the basis of a creative matrix for responsible action in the information age."

"At this hinge of history, it seems appropriate that we should publish a journal where the passion of the individual scientist/artist can meet in sovereign association with global concerns — spinning the wheel of knowledge so that each of us can create our own theoretical magic." [...] "I am deeply moved by the creative commonwealth in this community, filled with explorers of topology, morphology, chaos dynamics, cognition, mind video, the revisioning of nature and art, telecommunications, sonics, cybernetics, cultural history, fractal politics, and what it now means to be deeply human. The provocative interaction of these ideas cannot help but to create a new and uniquely meaningful story. Come with us."—Andra Akers

Very Good copy, light wear/age.

File under: Chris Mann Kenneth Gaburo Mimi Gramatky Rupert Sheldrake David Dunn Andra Akers Chris Mann Gene Youngblood Kenneth Gaburo Ralph Abrahams Mimi Gramatky Rupert Sheldrake David Dunn Andra Akers International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ecology / Earth Conceptual Art Ecology Poetry Concrete Poetry Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

IS (International Synergy) Journal #1
Edited by David Dunn

1986, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 52 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles

$150.00 - In stock -

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"A thrice yearly exploration of ambiguous borders and dynamic (intellectual/artistic) frontiers."

Exceptionally rare, issue #1 (after the inaugural #0) of the trail-blazing subscription-only journal published by the International Synergy Institute, a intermedia think-tank active in Hollywood between 1986—1987. IS was founded by American actress and philanthropist Andra Akers (Charlie's Angels, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard...), edited by experimental composer, researcher and Harry Partch Ensemble member David Dunn, with a cast of contributors for this issue including early media artist visionaries Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (Mobile Image, the Electronic Café...), media theorist Gene Youngblood (Expanded Cinema...), Science Fiction theorist, philosopher and writer for Marvel comics Allyn B. Brodsky, aeronautical engineer and astronaut Russell Schweickart, cultural historian William Irwin Thompson, systems theorist Will McWhinney, actress Debra Clinger (The Love Boat, The Krofft Supershow, Midnight Madness, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour...), VFX pioneer Mimi Gramatky (LOST, Miami Vice, Star Trek, Tron, Damnation Alley...), and more.

"INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY consists of a global network of vanguard artists, scientists, and meta-physicians who are united by a deep sense of commitment to crossing the boundaries of their individual disciplines. Integral to this awareness is a reconciliation between advanced technological resources and a sense of the planet's sanctity. INTERNATIONAL SYNERGY is dedicated to the premise that such an understanding can form the basis of a creative matrix for responsible action in the information age."

"At this hinge of history, it seems appropriate that we should publish a journal where the passion of the individual scientist/artist can meet in sovereign association with global concerns — spinning the wheel of knowledge so that each of us can create our own theoretical magic." [...] "I am deeply moved by the creative commonwealth in this community, filled with explorers of topology, morphology, chaos dynamics, cognition, mind video, the revisioning of nature and art, telecommunications, sonics, cybernetics, cultural history, fractal politics, and what it now means to be deeply human. The provocative interaction of these ideas cannot help but to create a new and uniquely meaningful story. Come with us."—Andra Akers

Very Good copy, light wear/age.

File under: David Dunn Mimi Gramatky Debra Clinger Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz (Mobile Image) Andra Akers Will McWhinney Mimi Gramatky Gene Youngblood Andra Akers David Dunn International Synergy Institute / Los Angeles Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Conceptual Art Whole Earth / Crafts Concrete Poetry Ecology Ecology / Earth Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Performance / Dance / Theater Sociology / Politics Sound / Music Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Periodicals

Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post (lot of 5 issues)
July 1989—January 1990; Edited by Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence

1989—1990, English
5 publications, softcover (staple-bound + rubber-stamped), approx 20 pages ea., 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood

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Rare lot of 5 issues of Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post — dating between July 1989—January 1990. Rare Visual Poetry / Mail Art zine issued by post in the late 1980s—early 1990s by Australian visual poets Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence, each issue packed with border-busting international postal network contributions of photocopy artworks (collages, photographs, etc.) and texual collage/poetry, prose works, with notes, "missing peoples", radical texts, and classifieds/call-outs for other international mail-art publications. Contributors amongst these issues include: Shozo Shimamoto (Japan), Satan Panonski (Jugoslavia), Julie Clarke-Powell (Australia), Guy Bleus (Belgium), Ry Nikonova (USSR), STOP AIDS (USA), Ivica Čuljak (Yugoslavia), Géza Perneczky (West Germany), Monty Cantsin (Canada), David Powell (Australia), Ruggero Maggi (Italy), Shaun Robert (England), Jonas Nekrašius (USSR), Pete Spence (Australia), Emilio Morandi (Italy), Sándor Fodor (Romania), Miroslav Janoušek (Czech), Javant Biarujia (Australia), to name a few... Back cover of each issue features multi-coloured original rubber stamp/print gocco art. An important piece of the very under-documented Melbourne visual poetry / mail art “scene”.

Based in Kyneton, Victoria, Pete Spence (b. 1946) has been internationally active in Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Experimental Film, and Lyric Verse throughout the 1980s—2000s, founding Post Neo Publications in 1984 to publish works by Luc Fierens, Hannah Weiner, Berni Janssen, Alex Selenitsch, and others. His own first book, FIVE Poems, was published in 1986 by Nosukomo. For over four decades he has been quietly pursuing his own direction in this multiplicity of art forms but in particular in his witty, idiosyncratic, entertaining poetry.

Good—VG copy, rusting to one staple.

File under: Shozo Shimamoto Satan Panonski Pete Spence Guy Bleus Ry Nikonova STOP AIDS Ivica Čuljak Géza Perneczky David Powell Monty Cantsin Sándor Fodor Miroslav Janoušek Cerebral Shorts (Charles Roberts) Pete Spence Julie Clarke-Powell David Powell Javant Biarujia Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Australian Art Counterculture Protest / Revolt Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Concrete Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections

Biological Ruins Theory
by Toshiharu Ito

1986, Japanese
Hardcover (w. plastic slipcase), 280 pages, 22 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Libro Port Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo

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Incredible hardcover, slipcased anthology of essays, Biological Ruins Theory, by esteemed Japanese art historian and media theorist Toshiharu Ito, published in Tokyo in 1986. Housed in lavish screen-printed plastic slipcase and metallic silver engraved hardcover with various paper-stocks and films used throughout, Biological Ruins Theory collects Ito's diverse essays relating to the intersection of the biological human body and the machine — from robots to fascists to fetishists to body alchemy to freaks to abnormal electric babies to cargo cult to photographic violence and much more, lavishly illustrated and featuring Marcel Duchamp, H.R. Giger, Pierre Molinier, Hans Bellmer, Rudolf Schlichter, Cindy Sherman, Ed Paschke, Robert Longo, Lucas Samaras, Steven F. Arnold, Joel Peter Witkin, Francis Picabia, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Miron Zownir, Arnolf Rainer, Issey Miyake, and so many more. Ito wrote the introduction to Giger's Necronomicon Japanese edition, reproduced in full here with many of Giger's artworks,

Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1953, Toshiharu Ito is an art historian, art and communication theorist and exhibition curator. He was professor at the Tama Art University of Tokyo from 1990 to 2001, and at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music since 2001. He is Artistic Director at the Intermedia Institute of Osaka since 1995, and from 1992 to 1998 curator at the Inter Communication Center of Tokyo; he worked as Artistic Director at Tokyo AAD Studio from 2000 to 2003. A selection of his published works includes the following titles: History of 20th Century Photography (Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo Pub., 1988); Machine Art (Tokyo, Iwanami Pub., 1991); Electronic Art (Tokyo, NTT Press, 1999).

VG—Near Fine copy.

File under: Marcel Duchamp H.R. Giger Pierre Molinier Hans Bellmer Rudolf Schlichter Cindy Sherman Ed Paschke Robert Longo Lucas Samaras Steven F. Arnold Joel Peter Witkin Francis Picabia Jeffrey Silverthorne Miron Zownir Arnolf Rainer Issey Miyake Toshiharu Ito Libro Port Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Surrealism Fetishism / BDSM Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Architecture / Interior Furniture Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Crime / Violence LGBTQ+ Fashion Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Adulterers Anonymous
by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka

1982, English
Softcover, 110 pages, 23.65 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Grove Press / New York

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First Grove edition, first printing of Adulterers Anonymous by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka.

"Visceral, raw, passionate, and sexually charged, these writings represent a unique collaboration by two of America's top figures in the underground rock music field. Combining a surreal informality, a deliberate vulgarity, camp humor, and the impassioned outbursts of society's dispossessed, their voices cut through to the core of discontent: an unsettling, ever-shifting world of illusion and disillusion.

Called at one time the ""No-Wave' Queen" by The New York Times, Lydia Lunch has had a seminal influence on "no-wave" and other forms of avant-garde music in her roles as originator of the group Teenage Jesus and as lead singer and lyricist for the group Eight-Eyed Spy, among many others. Exene Cervenka is the lead singer and lyricist for the rock group X, whose album, Wild Gift, was released to nearly unanimous critical acclaim, and named pop album of the year by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times."

Average—Good copy with reading creases to stiff cardboard cover, foxing and tanning to book block and pages edges.

File under: Lydia Lunch Exene Cervenka Lydia Lunch Exene Cervenka Grove Press / New York Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Arte Povera
Edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 29.2 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Phaidon / London

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First 1999 edition of Arte Povera, the most complete overview of this movement ever published, edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject.

Arte Povera is Italy's most important and influential post-war art movement. Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant, it included internationally recognized artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, this book is the most complete overview of the artworks and writings associated with Arte Povera, an art movement that explored the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artifacts, and experienced through the body.

"This is now the definitive English-language sourcebook on Merz, Pistoletto, Paolini and company, thanks to its rich selection of images and texts."―Bookforum

"Get hold of Arte Povera... It is both compendium and critique, with artists' statements, a chronology and commentary. It contextualizes the work, and the pictures are great."―Adrian Searle, Guardian

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a writer and curator living in Rome, who has become an internationally recognized scholar of late twentieth-century Italian art. She has written extensively on the Arte Povera movement and published interviews and texts on artists such as Boetti, Pistoletto, Merz, Fabro and Kounellis. Bakargiev is also a noted curator of contemporary art internationally: her exhibitions include 'Molteplici Culture', Rome, 1992 and a homage to John Cage which she co-curated with Alanna Heiss for the 1993 Venice Biennale.

She was part of the curatorial team for the 'Antwerp 93 European Capital of Culture', devising the major international survey, 'On Taking a Normal Situation and Re-translating it into Overlapping and Multiple Readings of Conditions Past and Present'. In 1996 Bakargiev curated a large-scale survey on Italian post-war artist Alberto Burri in Rome, Brussels and Munich. In 1997, she curated 'Citta-Natura': a city-wide exhibition of international artists including Anselmo, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pascali and Kounellis, held in Rome.

She is Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and was formerly Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She was co-curator, with Iwona Blazwick, of Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2004 5.

Good copy with some corner knocking, small tear to top of spine dust jacket, otherwise very good throughout.

File under: Pino Pascali Mario Merz Marisa Merz Giovanni Anselmo Jannis Kounellis Alighiero Boetti Michelangelo Pistoletto Piero Gilardi Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Phaidon / London Arte Povera Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial

Improvised Music From Japan 2002-2003
Magazine + CD (still-sealed)

2002, English / Japanese
Softcover (+ audio CD), 160 pages, 21x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Improvised Music From Japan / Tokyo

$65.00 - Out of stock

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The highly-acclaimed inaugural issue of Improvised Music From Japan, published in 2002 by Yoshiyuki Suzuki to document some of the "onkyo"-style improvised music being produced in Japan, and to accompany his label of the same name. Long out-of-print and rarely found with both magazine and CD present, the bilingual English-Japanese magazine features rare interviews, concert reports, reviews, and articles, including cover feature interview with Ami Yoshida, Sachiko M (Ground Zero), Phew, Off Site, Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura, View Masters, Seiichi Yamamoto, Brett Larner, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Skist, tamaru, Yumiko Tanaka, Tetsu Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Ino, Yoshio Machida, Yasuhiro Yoshigak, Daisuke Fuwa, Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Erstwhile Festival, Aki Onda, minamo, Utah Kawasaki, Radu Malfatti, Taku Sugimoto, and much more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Accompanying CD with music by Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Yoshio Machida, Radu Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto, m-7 (Fred Frith, Anne Hege, Brett Larner, Andy Nathan, Jonathan Segel, John Shiurba and Matthew Sperry), Haco, and others...

Average—Good copy with some moisture rippling to cover top spine edge lightly effecting the first few ages, wear to covers. CD is still-sealed in plastic pouch/never played, therefore As New.

File under: Toshimaru Nakamura Tetuzi Akiyama Yoshio Machida Radu Malfatti Taku Sugimoto Ami Yoshida Sachiko M (Ground Zero) Phew Improvised Music From Japan / Tokyo Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Fetish Fashion
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1990, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 206 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seikyūsha / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of "Fetish Fashion", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1990, an in-depth exploration of the eroticisation and transformation of the body through fetish fashion that revolutionised the world of sexuality, from SM Bizarre, Transvestism, Rubber/latex, mistresses and dominatrixes, bondage clubs, male and female castration, restraints, piercing, the fascist artificial body, medical fetish/medical art (including Romain Slocombe), and much more, all subjects illustrated in b/w. Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Fetish Fashion" is one of these very books.

First edition, Japanese text, fine copy with fine illustrated dust jacket.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Art Sound / Music Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fashion Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Eros LGBTQ+

Sound : Space
Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008

2008, English
Softcover (staple-bound + cd), unpaginated, 21 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Australasian Computer Music Conference / Sydney

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Privately issued catalogue, programme of concerts and schedule of proceedings published to accompany the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008, entitled 'SOUND : SPACE', 10—12 July 2008 Sydney Conservatorium of Music Sydney, Australia. Features Tristram Cary, William Barton, Ros Bandt, Warren Burt, and many many others. Compact disc accompaniment with digital version of this publication and dance track samples to support Wooller and Brown - 'A framework for discussing tonality in electronic dance music'.

VG copy.

File under: Tristram Cary William Barton Ros Bandt Warren Burt Warren Burt Ros Bandt Australasian Computer Music Conference / Sydney Sound / Music Australian Art Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Contemporary Music Review: Live Electronics
Edited by Peter Nelson and Stephen Montague

1991, English
Softcover, 238 pages, 25 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Harwood Academic Publishers / UK

$30.00 - Out of stock

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1991 issue of Contemporary Music Review, a jounral/forum for the in-depth discussion of new tendencies in composition. This issue, Volume 6 Part 1: Live Electronics / New Instruments for the Performance of Electronic Music, edited by Peter Nelson and Stephen Montague, including Annea Lockwood, Jerry Hunt, David Behrman, Warren Burt, Rolf Gehlhaar, Chris Mann, Ros Bandt, Joel Chadabe, Larry Austin, Morton Subotnick, Barry Schrader, David Rosenboom, John Rimmer, Mesias Maiguashca, and many more. A treasure for anyone interested in the break-neck developments of electroacoustic, computer and interactive sound.

Contents: (New Instruments for the Performance of Electronic Music) Introduction — Peter Nelson; Some remarks on musical instrument design at STEIM — Joel Ryan; The audio interface — David Bristow; The video harp: an optical scanning MIDI controller — Dean Rubine and Paul McAvinney; The UPIC as a performance instrument — Pierre Bernard; SOUND SPACE: an interactive musical environment — Rolf Gehlhaar; Cargo cult instruments — Nicholas Collins; (Live Electronics) Introduction — Stephen Montague; Barry Anderson; Live/electro-acoustic music - a perspective from history and California — Barry Schrader; Live-electronic music on the third coast — Larry Austin; Interactive performance systems — Jerry Hunt; Designing interactive computer-based music installations — David Behrman; About M — Joel Chadabe; Annea Lockwood interviewed by Stephen Montague; Observations on live electronics — Brian Bevelander; Experimental music in Australia using live electronics — Warren Burt; John Rimmer and free radicals: live electronic music in New Zealand — Elizabeth Kerr; Live electronic music in Britain: three case studies — Simon Emmerson; The German scene: Mesias Maiguashca interviewed by Stephen Montague; Live electronics in Denmark — Wayne Siegel; Real-time computer music at IRCAM — Cort Lippe; more...

VG copy, faded spine, light wear.

File under: Warren Burt David Behrman Stelarc Chris Mann Ros Bandt Annea Lockwood Cort Lippe Mesias Maiguashca Rolf Gehlhaar Jerry Hunt John Rimmer Ross Harris Joel Chadabe Larry Austin Morton Subotnick Barry Schrader David Rosenboom Warren Burt Cort Lippe Stephen Montague Peter Nelson Harwood Academic Publishers / UK Periodicals Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

Stockhausen 70 Years
+ Stockhausen-Verlag catalogues c. 1998—2001

1998—2001, English
Softcover (staple-bound w. 7 additional loose leaf catalogues + postcard), 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten

$65.00 - Out of stock

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1998 English-language catalogue publication issued on the 70th birthday of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, offering a complete and detailed "work list of the 253 individually performable Stockhausen compositions and a list of all compact discs of the Complete Edition which have been released to date". A valuable resource of detailed information on Stockhausen's compositions, the work list is accompanied by a list of then-current European musicians who were performing Stockhausen's works, excerpt from Stockhausen's On The Evolution of Music, plus colour photographic studio portraits of the composer. Plus, a bonus additional 7 collected mail-out catalogues from Stockhausen-Verlag dating between 1998—2001 and a Stockhausen-Verlag postcard, all included in this copy.

Good copy, publications with some light rippling to bottom front cover, general light wear/bending/age for postal materials.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Licences n°0
Henri Chopin, William Burroughs, Nicolas Zurrbrugg, Elisabeth Prouvost, Raoul Haussmann, Alexandre Yterce

1999, French
Softcover (+ audio cd), 68 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Limited edition, numbered,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Éditions Licences / Paris

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Scarce issue 0 from 1999 of the French journal/concert series/exhibition program Licences, the short-lived Revue-Disque periodical established by French composer Alexandre Yterce (b. 1959) devoted to Perversions, Voluptuousness and Sexualities, presenting unseen erotic works by artists, alongside rare interviews, texts and recorded performances and unreleased audio recordings, melding the worlds of transgressive, transformative sound, word and body. Texts, interviews photography, artworks and audio recordings by Henri Chopin, William Burroughs, Nicolas Zurrbrugg, Elisabeth Prouvost, Raoul Haussmann, Alexandre Yterce, Kenneth Gaburo, François Dufrène, and more.

Published in a limited edition, this copy hand-numbered "581". CD included. Also includes many laid-in ephemeral pieces — concert programs, promotional items for the periodical, business card, etc.

VG—NF copy.

File under: Henri Chopin William Burroughs Elisabeth Prouvost Raoul Haussmann Alexandre Yterce François Dufrêne Kenneth Gaburo Henri Chopin William Burroughs Nicolas Zurrbrugg Éditions Licences / Paris Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Painting Art Drawing Eros Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Concrete Poetry Surrealism Situationism / Lettrism Photography

Martin Wong
Malicious Mischiefs

2022, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Walther König / Köln KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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First, only edition, very quickly out-of-print.

New major publication published to accompany the first extensive European exhibition of the work of the US-Chinese artist Martin Wong (b. 1946, Portland, US, d. 1999, San Francisco), ‘Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief’, initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez-Rubio, and produced in collaboration with Camden Art Centre, Stedelijk Museum and Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Malicious Mischief is the result of exhaustive research into the life’s work of Wong from his early creations on the US East Coast to his work in the late-1990s before he died due to an VIH/AIDS-related illness.

Martin Wong is recognized for his depictions of social, sexual, and political scenographies from the US in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Poetically weaving together narratives of queer existence, marginal communities, and urban gentrification, Wong stands out as an important countercultural voice at odds with the art establishment’s reactionary discourse at the time. Heavily influenced by his immediate surroundings, the artist’s practice merges the visual languages of Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti, carceral aesthetics, and sign language. His work offers rare insight into decisive periods of recent US American history as told through its changing urban landscapes, unfolding hidden desires, and complexities.

Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief presents a vast survey of Wong’s works, encompassing early paintings and sculptures made in the euphoric environments of San Francisco and Eureka, California, in the late 1960s and early 1970s; Wong’s iconic 1980s and 1990s paintings from his time as a citizen of a dilapidated New York City; lastly, his reminiscences on the imagery of Chinatowns on the East and West Coast, made prior to his premature death from an HIV/AIDS-related illness.

Edited by curators Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez Rubío.
Contributions by Julie Ault, Sofie Krogh Christensen, David J. Getsy, Heinz Peter Knes, Marci Kwon, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Danh Vo.
Co-published by Walther Koenig with KW Berlin.

As New copy.

File under: Martin Wong Heinz Peter Knes Danh Vo Agustín Pérez Rubío Krist Gruijthuijsen Julie Ault Sofie Krogh Christensen David J. Getsy Marci Kwon Danh Vo Walther König / Köln KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Painting Drawing LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Seiu Ito
Kinbaku Photographs

2023, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 128 pages, 18 x 15 cm
Published by Atelier Third / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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Brand new photo book collecting Seiu Ito's "research" photographs which were inspiration and reference for some of his many torture and bondage artworks. Ito, "the father of modern kinbaku", commissioned a photographer to take these now historical photos which are held at the "Abnormal Museum" in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Seiu Ito (1891—1960) Seiu Ito, also romanised as Seiyu Itoh, was a Japanese painter, recognised today as "the father of modern kinbaku". Ito's life was the subject of director Noboru Tanaka's 1977 Nikkatsu Roman porno film Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!, the final entry in his "Showa Era trilogy". Ito uses his skilful technique to draw realistic torture pictures, and as a master of these paintings, he has many fans and has written masterpieces such as "The Story of Blame." On the other hand, he not only left behind many masterpieces of ghost paintings, but also loved the street customs of Edo and wrote books about Edo customs.

File under: Seiu Ito Seiu Ito Atelier Third / Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Photography Japanese Photography Performance / Dance / Theater

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

Enclosure 3: Harry Partch
Edited by Philip Blackburn

1997, English
Hardcover (in publisher's box, stamped book), 524 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by American Composers Forum / Minnesota

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First 1997 hardcover (boxed) edition of Enclosure 3: Harry Partch, produced, compiled, designed and edited by Philip Blackburn and published in this deluxe volume by American Composers Forum in Minnesota in a limited edition of only 800 copies. Harry Partch (1901—1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. This lavish coffee table bio-scrapbook is a portrait chronicle of Partch's life and work compiled from original documents, reproduced throughout. Includes over 300 photographs by Partch and others, reproductions of Partch's writings and letters - a mass of important material (corres. inc. Anais Nin, John Cage, W.B. Yeats, Martha Graham, etc), lectures, drawings, reviews, sketches... A remarkable and beautifully made artefact. Limited edition of 800 copies. A "must have" for anyone with an abiding interest in musical "alternative universes".

Composer Harry Partch created a music that by its nature led to the Harry Partch invention of a fantastic array of percussion instruments. Rejecting equal temperament and much of Western musical heritage, he developed a system based on Just tuning and conceived of a "corporeality" that demanded special instrumental resources. He spoke of himself as "a musician seduced into carpentry" and built sculpture-like instruments such as the Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, and Quadrangularis Reversum. His music, mostly dramatic, was influenced by, among other things, Chinese lullabies, Yaqui Indian music, Christian hymns, his experiences as a hobo, Greek philosophy and drama, and jazz. His large-scale dramas required that the percussionists become actor-dancers. Among his major works are "Delusion of the Fury," "The Wayward," "Revelation in the Courthouse Park" and "Oedipus."

Fine copy in the seldom preserved publisher's box and with the Partch signature stamp to front endpaper. A stunning collector copy.

File under: Harry Partch John Cage Anaïs Nin W.B. Yeats American Composers Forum / Minnesota Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Performance / Dance / Theater

Mike Parr
Prints by Mike Parr

1990, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra

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"I think of drypoint in terms of braille and excavation"—Mike Parr

Catalogue of Australian artist Mike Parr's print works, compiled in detail by Roger Butler, an authority on the history of Australian print-making and curator of Australian prints at the National Gallery of Australia, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, 31 March-29 April 1990. Illustrated with selected prints throughout.

"Parr's first etchings were produced in November 1987 as part of a joint Australian National Gallery and Australian Bicentennial Authority commission. His rapport with the processes of printmaking was instantaneous. Working with printer John Loane firstly at the Victorian Print Workshop (now the Australian Print Workshop) and later at Loane's Viridian Press produced over 260 prints by March 1990. Parr is not concerned with the nicities of the printmakers craft, he passionately explores different techniques with total disregard for tradition. There are small plates worked delicately with drypoint and sandpaper and there are prints the size of 12 sheet billboard posters worked with an electric grinder. This exhibition and catalogue does not deal with the past. Its focus is work in progress, showing what has so far been accomplished and perhaps suggesting future directions."—Roger Butler

Mike Parr was born in Sydney in 1945. Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. He was raised in Queensland, and from 1965 to 1966 studied arts and law at the University of Queensland. He dropped out of the course and moved to Sydney where, in 1968, he studied painting at the National Art School. In 1970, together with Peter Kennedy, he established Inhibodress, an artists' co-operative and alternative space for conceptual art, performance art and video. Parr travelled to Europe in 1972 and again in 1977-78. He has taught part-time at the Sydney College of the Arts from 1979 and the City Art Institute, Sydney College of Advanced Education, from 1980. Parr's performance art pieces, video and drawings have been exhibited widely, both in Australia and overseas.

VG copy.

File under: Mike Parr Roger Butler Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Drawing Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare