World Food Books

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

Trevor Wishart
Fidelio: For Flute or Clarinet. Stranger and 6 Suitcases.

1977, English
Softcover (staple/tape bound), 8 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Philip Martin Music Books / York

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Exceptionally rare first 1977 edition of English musique concrète composer Trevor Wishart's illustrated score and performance instructions for the performance piece 'Fidelio: For Flute or Clarinet. Stranger and 6 Suitcases', published here by Philip Martin Music Books in Wishart's York, Great Britain, to accompany the first performance at the University of York in 1977. Designed, illustrated and typeset by Wishart himself and issued the same year he completed his seminal "Red Bird (A Political Prisoner's Dream)", an electroacoustic masterpiece that predates the use of computers but prefigures many of the techniques later used for making computer sound art.

No copies located on OCLC.

Trevor Wishart (b. 1946, Leeds, England, based in York) has been very active, since the early 1970s in the area of electro-acoustic music (first with tape manipulation, later with computer pieces) and music theatre pieces. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds. He pays special attention to the objectives of musical education, collaborative performance-projects and solo practice using original vocal techniques. He is widely acknowledged for his contributions to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive. Not only has he composed many significant pieces, but he has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms “sonic art,” and contributed to the design and implementation of many software tools used in the creation of digital music. He was educated at the University of Oxford (BA 1968), the University of Nottingham (MA 1969), and the University of York (PhD 1973).

VG copy with light wear and bump to bottom-right corner.

File under: Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart Philip Martin Music Books / York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art

David Lumsdaine
Flights for 2 Pianos

1975, English
Softcover (folder with 12 looseleaf sheets), 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Universal Edition / London

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Rare 1975 Universal Edition publication of Australian composer David Lumsdaine's Flights for 2 Pianos. An important work in Australian modernism. Printed folder with directions for performance on reverse of cover, housing entire score on 11 loose-leaf sheets with original belly-band to contain. Composed in Great Bookham, May-July 1967. First performed by Australian composer and pianist Roger Smalley and pianist Stephen Savage at a BBC Invitation Concert, London 1967. Recorded by Daniel Herscovitch and Erzsébet Marosszéky on Continuum.

David Lumsdaine (1931—2024) was an Australian composer central to both Australian and British modernism. Lumsdaine studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music before moving to England in 1952. He attended the Royal Academy of Music in London studying composition and subsequenetly lectured at Durham University (where he founded and directed the Electronic Music Studio) and Kings College London. In the 1960s he was immersed in English contemporary musical life and established his career with such works as Kelly Ground, Flights, and Mandalas 1 and 2. He spent his time between England and Australia, returning to Australia in 1973. He composed strikingly original music that embodies all that is important to him in the Australian landscape – its shapes and rhythms, its creatures, its sudden violence, its sense of unlimited space. His passion for the natural world is embodied in a developing passion for field recording – his archive of over three thousand recordings is held in the British Library’s National Sound Archive. In 1997 though still spending time in Australia, he moved to York where his wife Nicola Lefanu had been appointed Professor of Music at York University. David Lumsdaine passed away in 2024.

Good—VG copy with light handling wear, light tanning to cover folder, and signature to front cover by previous owner Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music, Donald Banks (1923—1980). Banks studied composition privately with Mátyás Seiber in the UK, was associated with Gunther Schuller, Tubby Hayes, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Dallapiccola, scored Hammer horror films, and, back in Australia during the 1970s, was Head of Composition and Electronic Music Studies at the Canberra School of Music and Head of the School of Composition Studies at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music.

File under: David Lumsdaine David Lumsdaine Universal Edition / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Conceptual Art

GIFTNÅLEN no. 1

2024, English
Hardcover, 480 pages, 29.7 x 20 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

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Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed brutes and society’s outcasts. Revel in amoral excesses through 480 pages. Sit back and enjoy reading while this world burns. A total derangement of the senses. Heavily illustrated with tons of exclusive and rarely seen material.
Harking back to the days of the late 1980s-early 1990s in terms of diversity of content, drawing inspiration from underground books & publications such as Amok, Esoterra, Exit, Force Mental, Pandemonium, Rapid Eye Movement, Svarta Fanor and so on. Giftnålen takes it next level and further into unknown territory.

Including passages, large or brief, dealing with:
Sigvard Nilsson Thurneman & Den Magiska Cirkeln, ”Thurneman & Liemannen from the perspective of a LHP initiate” by Johannes Kvarnbrink, “The Vultures of Sala”, Georges Bataille & the Acephale society, ”Death and Night and Blood: Yukio Mishima & the Asceticism of Japanese Death-Aesthetics”, ”Hatets sånger” by Leon Larsson, ”Hyoscyamus Nigredo: From Silver Into Lead”, “Manhunter: Thurneman – Occultist & Serial Killer” by Wulvaricht, ”The Devil in Delgada: The Strange & Unusual Lives of Johnny Bode & Tom Zacharias”, ”11.000 Days in Säter: Från Dårhus till Bårhus”, ”The Sense of Bel-Longing” poem by Julian Theurgen, “The Thurneman improvisations” by Sten Röse, “Sigvards sterbthaler”, ”The Triumph of Death” by Alberto Caraco, SalaSatanskin, Judas Ekholm, ”The Poisonous Needle: Esoterrorist Credo of the Sinister Outlaw”, ”Salaligan: Tools of the Trade”, melancholia, Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan over a hundred years, De Strigmagarum Daemonique Mirandis, ”The Curse of the Third Eye”, ”Fem-femmornas fotbollsmatch: criminal all-stars Thurneman, Salaligan & Johnny Bode teaming up against the screws at the Långholmen prison”, Tillbergamördaren, Renzo Novatore, ”Teurgisk Terrortantra: Photos by MalFiore di Fiele & Frida Ghiozzi (Omega Kunst)”, ”The Poetic Tradition of Swedish Melancholia: A Portrayal of Dismal & Unfortunate Death-seekers in the ruinous Land of the Midnight Sun”, Nattmaran, ”Lasse Lucidor – the Unfortunate: Rusets och ruelsens skald”, Erik Johan Stagnelius – Dweller in the Arms of Putrefaction, Plato, Dante, ”Iatromantis: To Die Before You Die”, Meister Eckhart, Parmenides, the Upanishads, Djävulsbrand, Styggen, underworldly descent, Peter Kingsley, ”Avfyrning!”, Ecstasies, The Death Principle, ”Henbane: Saturnalia Poison” & ”A Woodland Sitting” by Sentinessence, ”The Linkola Legacy”, Apocalypse Culture, Deep Ecology, Oscar Wilde, Max Stirner, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Camus, ”Killing Cults & Their Slaves” reflections by Charles Manson (exclusive text submitted by ATWA/ATWAR), “Red & Blue”, ”Ashen Synchronicities”, haruspex of criminal gnosis, ”Meeting with a Remarkable Man: An Interview with Nikolas Schreck”, Spiritual Warriorhood in the Age of Dissolution, Initiatory Mysteries in the Temples of Karnak, The Faustian Quest, Charlatans of Occulture, Vama Marg, Esoteric Tantric Buddhism, The Three Poisons, Solitude & Subtraction, The Process Church of Final Judgement, Scientology, ”Counter-Culture”: A Fly Entangled in the Webs of Maya, luddite poetry, The Manson-File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman, Eros & Thanatos, Storms of Sethian Liberation, ”Abraxas & His Mysteries: The Forgotten God & the Hidden Nature of Reality”, Abraxas in Hesse’s ”Demian”, extract from ”Opposition is True Friendship” – Karl NE on Abrades, D.H. Lawrence ”Taos”, The Abraxas Foundation, Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, ”Monarchie Infernale: The Occult History of the Royal Court and the Aristocratic Elite in Sweden during the Gustavian Era”, ”Of Blind Men & Occult Forces”, Blutleuchte, “The Hearts of Kings” Ajna Offensive, Descent magazine, Lightbringers of the North, Gustav Biörnram – necromancer of the Swedish king Gustav III, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, ”Nekromantiens: Riter vid Sankt Johannes Kyrkogård”, Andrew Chumbley, Algolagonia, The Malleus Maleficarum: Europe Overshadowed by the Hammer of Witches, The Gates of Hell Opening in Copenhagen, La sorcière, ”Method for Achieving Communication with Spirits” translated notes from the necromantic conjurations of Gustaf Björnram, ”Carl August Ehrensvärd & Den Esoteriska Kretsen: Eleusinian Mysteries & Orphic Hymns in the Mythological Labyrinth”, Gottfried Benn, ”The Mystical Signatures of Adolph Falkenberg”, Gustaf Adolf Reutersholm, Den Esoteriska Kretsen, Sophia Perennis, René Guenon, J.W. von Goethe, Oswald Spengler, ”Death to those who seek false comforts” by Erica Frevel, ”In the Midst of Life, We are in Death”, ”Riddles of the Sevenfold Way”, Anton Long, Algernon Blackwood, ”The Man Whom the Trees Loved”, Richard Moult, Michael Morthwork,”The Ordeal of the Abyss: Interview with Christos Beest”, ”From Ancient Gods into New Devils”, Wotan, self-sacrificial offerings, burial traditions, black magic rites, C.S. 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Nordblom, Maya Deren, ”The Sacred as Transgression: Roger Callois”, ”Lupercalia to Liberalia: An Extract from The Antichrist Phallus” & ”The Rustic Rite of the Wolf-Owl” by Wyrd Isle Collective, ”Grave-robbing in the Towers of Silence with Sven Hedin”, “Disciples of ‘Bone: The Dispossessed Sons of Albion”, Citipati and Kangling, ”The Minstrels of Misrule”, the Green Man, ”Mythos of Masked Gods and Mummering Men”, Kenneth Grant, Styggelser: Black Metal Abominations, Externsteine, J.G. Ballard, The Panic Movement, the Promethean flame, gnosticism, Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, William Ouidhuis’ Katabol, Abefko Nord: the volcanic island Alnö, Saint Antonius, the werewolf in Scandinavian mythology, Perun, the Cult of Dionysos, ”Apocalyptic Collisions of Tradition & Modernity in a Perpetual Dark Age”, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, Foucault, Fulcanelli & the Mystery of the Cathedrals, ”Play the King for a day…”, ”Rex Nemorensis: The Killing of the Divine King”, The Golden Bough, The Cultural Terrorist Manifesto, Sturm und Drang, tjyvheder, prison life, mythopoetic imagination, Carl Larsson’s “Midvinterblot”, Gösta Werner’s “Midvinterblot”, the cult of Frö, Nordic death cults, Lucia – Progenitress of Demonic Entities, álfar, ”Narcocultura Necromanteia: Criminal Devotees among the Cult of the Holy Death”, Liber Falxifer, Necrosophy, Santa Muerte / San La Muerte, Nyhamnskifte, In the Hoofprints of the Nordic Devil, The Thirteenth School and the Black Priests of Satan, Carl Gustav Jung & the Shadow, Herr Ola i Trång & Gammal-Sjul, Kyrkogrim, Kvick i jord, Created from the Shadow of God, Svartkonst: Nordic necromancy & nigromancy, Hultkläppen, the Hand of Glory, Tjuvljus, The Spiritus Familiaris & the Arcanum of Human Blood, do-it-yourself instructions for the making of ”bjäran”, Paracelsus, ”Den Ryktbara Trollpackan Kapten Elins förmenta resor till Blåkulla och Bekantskap med Djefwulen”, Hyltén-Cavallius ”Wärend och Wirdarne”, småfiffel, The Arcane and Forbidden Wisdom of Nordic Sorcery found in the Scandinavian books of the black arts, rare archive photographs of Nordic sorcerers and witches, Sanguine Vociferation, Ichor, Aztec blood rituals, Vampirism at the Execution site, Red & White: Shakti & Shiva, menstrual blood magic, Significance of “Red / Blue / Purple Wings” to the 1%er, Mandragora Officinarum, “Stä blod”, Aristocracy of the Soul: the warrior poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio, the anarchic republic of Fiume, Kapala & Damaru, ”Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: Drawn Towards Death Like a Moth Towards the Flame”, cyanide, Chhinnamasta: Acephalic Goddess of Paradoxes, Tantric graveyard meditations, ”Åderlåtning & blodmat”, Doktor Mabuse, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Macabre Ritual Feasts of Freemasonry, Consanguinity, Offerings to the Dark Gods, the Necromancy of Erichto, Nikanor Teratologen: Dissekerande definitioner, Frithjof Schoun, female domination, Hermann Hesse, Dalai Lama, Miguel Serrano, Mithraic mysteries, Apolitea, ”Saint Sebastian: The Twice Martyred”, The Pagan Ways of emperor Diocletian, Aum: Suck on Sarin, The Electronic Revolution, Word Virus, cultural terrorism, artificial intelligence, psychoactive plants, Cimicidäemones: Bedbugs making your deathbed, ångerstål, vådastål, Nordic Sorcery, Demons of the Flesh, Gamen, opium dreams, godetia, demonomania, simulacra, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ned Ludd, MK Ultra, Jünger’s “Psykonauterna” & “Visit to Godenholm”, Executioners swords towards Externsteine, Herman Wirth, Pervitin, perversion, murder weapons & tools of self-wasters as magic objects, borrowing bones from the dead, the Witch of Endor, “Omne malum ab Aquilone: All Malice travels with the North Wind”, The Wild Hunt, the Nine Galder songs, Gullveig / Heid, Canon episcopi, The Death-Horse of Horatius, Donar’s Oak, Ulvhednar, varg-i-veum, Vánagandr, LSD-25, Psilocybe Semilanceata, instruments made from human remains, Nattmannen, rackaren, The Corpse Hounds of Hel, Hector Meinhof, brewing beer on a severed human hand, the secret Vehmic courts, Barcode or Branding? Welcome idiot to the Grave New World!, Unfolding the Blood-Eagle, Metaphysics of Death, Mjältsjuka: The Black Bile, Descent into Hades, Ancient Greece, Man is a God in Ruins, leaderless resistance, Aghori devotees, Akeldama: Field of Blood, Pauper’s Graves Bonehouses as a Sanctum for Equality in Death, ”The Infernal Trinity: Reinterpreting the Sinister Imagery of the Prior Leschman Chapel” by Christopher Walton, ”Hornet och smörjan: Early Use of Psychedelic Drugs & Poisonous Plants among Witches & Sorcerers in Europe”, derangement of the senses, pitchfork-riders, fence-riders, Nordic shamanism, sabbatic craft, sublimation through filth, sacred prostitution, Jukka Siikala, dead rats, the path of Kaulamarga, ”Ecstatic Inferno Visions & Thanatomaniac Excesses: South-East Asia as seen through the feverish glass-eye of an exile-European death-seeker / The Documentary Photography of Stephen Bessac”, Hunting Asia, Deathlust, Maison Close, mondo movies, Pakito Bolino, Le Dernier Cri, Narok, Thai Buddhist hell theme parks, Asubha – meditations on the foulness of the human body, MS13, mortuary cults, Nicholas Roerich, Agni Yoga, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Tibet, Bodhisattva Maitreya, Bolshevik supersoldiers perfected through Kalachakra Tantra, ”Onwards to Shambhala: The Path towards merging with the divine fire”, the Occult Roots of Soviet, OGPU Special Department – Institute for Brain Studies & Psychic Activities, hypnosis, Barchenko, Gleb Bokii, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan, Kangchendzönga, Corto Maltese, Caucasian Ovcharkas feasting on corpses, Sven Hedin, ”Beast, Men & Gods” by Ferdinand Ossendowski, the Spear of Destiny, the Cult of the Leader & Soviet Godhood, Arctic Hysteria, pyramids near the Lake Seidozero, Yakov Blumkin, the Ancestral Research Bureau, Vril force, Odic Energy, Olaus Rudbeck & his Atlantean Uppsala, ”Among Fiddlers, Outcasts & Outlaws in Helsingia”, Karl-Max Fredrikson, the eternal return, Lim-Johan, horrid Hälsingland, Miguel Serrano, Nils-Fredrik Åkerberg & Delsboligan: ”an evil beast capable of the most heinous cruelty”, Kniven, ”Discovering a Runic Devil-Pact from the 19th Century”, the myth of Hårga, Raggare, ”Hultkläppen: A Menschenfeind in the Devil’s Service”, Pelle Schenell, Antinomian scatological tricksters – the two living legends known as ”Bajsmannen”, slagrutemän, Starsk-Pelle, Troll-Per och dömullen, det brutala Gnarp, the Nordic Yule Goat, ”Kali: The Black Mother” by Karl NE, The Art of David S. 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SOUND:
Metgumbnerbone, The New Blockaders, Ward Phillips, Vivenza, G.I.S.M, Criminal Party, Grim, White Hospital, Basilisk, John Duncan, Paul Hurst, Beast 666 Tapes, Linekraft, LSD (Japan), John Murphy, Lily Vice & Lust Vessel, Nord, Ultra, Art Into Life, Ramleh, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Organum, Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Opera for Infantry, Death in June, Allerseelen, Zero Kama, Korpses Catatonic, Cthulhu Records, Masstishaddhu, SPK, Citipati, Peter Zincken, Sedayne, Nåstrond, Thurnemans, Salaligan, Klinik (the Swedish), Hyoscyamus Niger, Amebix, Hijokaidan, Irkallian Oracle, D-C Pöbeln, Brighter Death Now, Spacemen 3, Agitation Free, Mortuus, Genocide Organ, Johnny Bode, Lapp-Lisa, Tom Zacharias, Blood Axis, Blood Ov Thee Christ, Alfarmania, Masami Akita & ZSF Produkt, Tony Conrad, Tone Generator, RJF, Joy Division, Rune Lindblad, Åke Hodell, Geto Boys, Etat Brut, The Curfew Recordings, Tower Transmissions, Come Organisation, H.N.A.S, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Bladder Flask, Leif Thuresson, Galme, Asmus Tietchens, Noisextra radio show, Putrefier / Birthbiter, Die Form / Bain Total, Club Moral, Iannis Xenakis, Terry Riley, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Dadarotator, Kickback, Survival Unit, Bizarre Uproar, Striktlickers, United Dairies, Brainticket, AQM, S.K.V. Null, Premature Ejaculation, Aghast, The Folding Staircase, Monte Cazazza, Aussaat, Totalitär, Beast 666 Tapes / Hate Song, Clandestine Blaze, Vice Squad, Night Wolf, O’Nancy in French, Blod (Gnarp), Lille Roger, Missbrukarna, Samla Mammas Manna, Cromagnon, Taj Mahal Travellers, CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Coil, Citipati, Martin Bladh, Perdition Hearse, the true Mayhem, Blue Öyster Cult, Blasphemy, Sodom, Treriksröset, Proiekt Hat, Taint, Slave State, Ernte, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Angus MacLise: Dreamweapon - The Ascension of Saint Angus of Kathmandu, LaMonte Young , Marian Zazeela, John Cale, The Dream Synicate / The Theatre of Eternal Music, Tony Conrad, The Velvet Underground, Corpse Molestation, Bestial Warlust, Destroyer 666, Black Hole, Mortuary Drape, Paul Chain, the Sodality, The Third Ear Band, Fata Morgana, Master’s Hammer, Hiram Gordon Wells, Vagina Dentata Organ, Unkommuniti / Black Dwarf, R&D Group 28, Throbbing Gristle, Perdition Hearse and others.

CINEMA:
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, Invocation of My Demon-Brother, Alraune, The Student from Prague, The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Blood On Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Roger Corman’s E.A. Poe adaptions, Eyes of Fire / Cry Blue Sky, Born of Fire, Wickedness of the Wyrdful Ways: Obscure Treasures from the Catacombs of Occult & Otherworldly Cinema, ”The Devil’s Devilry” (Ken Russell’s the Devils), Le Feu Follet, ”Folk horror – a Eurocentric phenomena?”, ”This ain’t the summer of love” – Altamont & Performance, Incubus, Right Brain Video, Junk Films – the Collected Short Shockumentaries of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, …hanno cambiato faccia, Baba Yaga, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri, Faccia di Spia, Sukkubus – the Devil in the Body, psycho-sexual arthouse cinema of oneiromantic libertines, La sorcière, Häxan – Witchcraft through the Ages, Trans-Europe-Express, Belladonna of Sadness, L’Eden et après, Glissements progresses du plaisir, Louis Mallet, Det Sjunde Inseglet, Ingmar Bergman, Survival Research Laboratories, The Other Side of Madness, Hagazussa, A Field in England, Kill List, High Rise, Åsa-Nisse, Viva La Muerte!, Cinema as Resistance in Fascist Spain, I will walk like a crazy horse, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Who Can Kill a Child?, Last House on Dead End Street, David Cronenberg, Brion Gysin, Bizarre / The Secrets of Sex, Anthony Balch, Red Baron Entertainment, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, Coto de Caza, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, Freaks, Towers Open Fire, The Bell from Hell, The Killer of Dolls, Murder in a Blue World, Eloy de la Iglesia, Cannibal Man, the Glass Ceiling, Animales Racionales, Themroc, Beast in the Heat, Leon Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Night of the Walpurgis, The Werewolf & the Yeti, The People Who Own the Dark, Horror Rises from the Tomb, Rebellion of the Dead, Abefko Nord, Hunchback of the Morgue, Faust: eine Deutsche Volkssage, Night of the Sorcerers, ”Shape-shifters & the Silver Globe”, Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittenbach, Andrzej Zulawski, Diabel, Possession, On the Silver Globe, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Black Sabbath, Viy, Tilbury, Rat Savior, Svesto Mesto, the New Wave of Czechoslovak Cinema, True Gore, The Cremator / Spalova mrtvol, Lars von Trier’s Riget, Valerie & Her Week of Wonders, Kurototage: Black Lizard, Afraid to Die, Móju: Blind Beast, Femina Ridens, The Rite of Love and Death, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Annunciation, How to Become a God, Dark Shadows, Blade Runner, Night Tide, Invocation of My Demon’s Brother, In Satan’s Name, Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky, Letters from a Dead Man, Visitor to a Museum, Andrej Tarkovskij, Stalker, History of the Arkanar Massacre, Satanico Pandemonium, Alucarda, The Mansion of Madness, Lunacy, El Topo, Fando y Lis, Legend of the Witches, The Judgement of Albion, Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, ”Arcane Incantations: The Alchemic Cinema of Pupi Avati”, Zeder, The House with the Laughing Windows, Saló – The 120 Days of Sodom, L’arcano incantatore, Arcana, Luis Buñuel, Robin Redbreast, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, True Gore, Penda’s Fen, Scum, Made in Britain, Apocalypse Now, Gösta Werner’s Midvinterblot and more beyond what the eye perceives.

The overwhelming interest in the book has resulted in the first hundred copies selling out within less than a day.

File under: Korm Plastics / Netherlands Art Film / Video Sound / Music Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Periodicals Occult / Esoterica Crime / Violence Eros Fetishism / BDSM Fiction / Poetry Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Performance / Dance / Theater

Ros Bandt
Sounds in Space: Wind Chimes and Sound Sculptures (signed)

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 52 pages, 30 x 21 cm
Signed by artist,
Published by Victorian Arts Council / Victoria

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Signed copy of internationally acclaimed Australian sound artist, composer, scholar and performer, Ros Bandt's rare 1985 publication Sounds in Space: Wind Chimes and Sound Sculptures, her first artist's book. A wonderful collection of the artist's photographic documents (in colour and b/w), diagrams, writings and drawings, surveying her incredible work in Sound Sculpture. Also, includes the work of many other performers and composers, reading references and discography.

"Sound sculpture is the organisation of sound in space. It is a way of thinking and working with the sounds around us. Sound sculpture is the bringing together of visual art and musical art. The fusion makes a new and exciting sound art, involving time, space, sight and sound."

Since 1977 Bandt has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems, and some 40 sound installations worldwide. She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events. Her original works are recorded on New Albion Records (USA), Move Records (Melbourne), EMI/ABC, and Wergo (Germany).

Good copy with sun discolouring to spine an cover, crease to cover corner, VG throughout.

File under: Ros Bandt Percy Grainger Chris Mann Ernie Althoff Alan Lamb Warren Burt Ros Bandt Victorian Arts Council / Victoria Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Art Theory / Essay Signed Books

A Tribute To Edwin Denby
Poems by Edwin Denby; artwork by Alex Katz; photographs by Rudy Burckhardt

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound w. program insert), unpaginated, 23 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Edwin Denby Memorial Fund / New York

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A rare publication privately issued by the Edwin Denby Memorial Fund, New York, on the occasion of a tribute presented by the St. Mark's Church Poetry and Danspace Projects, and the Eye and Ear Theater, Inc., in association with the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, in November 1983, shortly after the passing of the great modern poet and dance critic. With cover artwork by Alex Katz, the book includes four poems by Edwin Denby accompanied by photographs by Rudy Burckhardt. Laid in is a program for "An Evening for Edwin Denby," Nov. 2, 1983 held at The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, including poetry readings, tributes, and dances. Participants included Bernadette Mayer, Bob Holman, Lucinda Childs, John Ashbery, Douglas Dunn, and Anne Waldman, among others. The NY Public Library tributes include speeches, films, and an exhibition of artworks, with participants inc. Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Red Grooms, Paul Taylor, John Ashbury, George Jackson, Mimi Gross, Alex Katz, Marcia Siegel, Rudy Burckhardt, Joe Brainard, and many more.

Edwin Denby (1903—1983) was a modernist poet and the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. Earning a degree in gymnastics in Vienna, his reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. He was also a poet of distinction — a friend to Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery. Though many of his poems are sonnets, his improvisational attention to urban movement plays against the form’s constraint. He is the author of the poetry collections In Public, In Private (1948), Mediterranean Cities (1956), Snoring in New York (1974), The Complete Poems (1986), and Dance Writings and Poetry (1998). His reviews and essays on ballet appeared in Modern Music, the New York Herald Tribune, Ballet, and Dance Magazine, and he wrote two critical books on the art: Looking at the Dance (1949) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965). Denby’s honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in 1983.

Good copy overall but with some bug nibbles to the front cover, light wear and tanning to extremities.

File under: Merce Cunningham Alex Katz Rudy Burckhardt Lucinda Childs Douglas Dunn Red Grooms Joe Brainard Mimi Gross Edwin Denby Bernadette Mayer Bob Holman John Ashbery Douglas Dunn Anne Waldman Edwin Denby Memorial Fund / New York Concrete Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Music and the Electronic Medium

c. 1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 74 pages, 24.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The University of the State of New York Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development / Albany

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Rare copy of the privately issued curriculum guide for a high school elective in music education, published by the University of the State of New York, Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, Albany, New York, circa 1985.

Illustrated throughout, "the publication is divided into two sections: Part I is concerned with high fidelity, stereo, and record collecting; and Part II deals in a general way with electronic music, with those aspects of electronics which are used in composition and performance, and with the characteristics of an electronic music studio. Selective resource listings have been included in each part." Musical references include Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Edgard Varèse, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, György Ligeti, Pierre Henry, Pierre Scheaffer, Jacques Arthuys, Tod Dockstader, Stockhausen, Xenakis, John Cage, Luciano Berio, and many more.

A wonderful document for anyone interested in the history of introducing modern/electronic music to schools, and for anyone else it is a concise and clear introduction to all aspects of understanding the basics of electronics in music, the elements of sound, audio recording, amplification, media, cataloguing, etc. with a wealth of fundamental resource information on modern music in print and recorded.

Naturally, no copies located on OCLC.

VG copy with light wear to cover edges, perfectly preserved interior. Previous owner's name to top of title page — Australian based experimental composer Warren Burt.

File under: John Cage Luciano Berio Morton Feldman Iannis Xenakis Xenakis Gyorgy Ligeti Pierre Henry Edgard Varèse Luc Ferrari Morton Subotnick Jacques Arthuys Tod Dockstader The University of the State of New York Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development / Albany Theory / Essay Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art

Terminal Body Play
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 220 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seikyūsha / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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New Tribalism In Sexual City, Prick Up, Rubbers, Gay Fetishism, Consensual SM, Modern Primitives, Pre-Tech Tattoo, Fakir Musafar, Ignore the White Culture, Body Manipulation, Hyper Pornography, Harrison Marks, Allen Jones, She-Male, Mannequin, Kinbaku, Seppuku, Kyoko Hamura, Rightbrain, Trevor Brown, Roman Slocombe, Medical Art, Forest Of Guts, Auto Erotic, J. P. Witkin, Anatomic Images, Discipline, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkoglar, Aktion, Meat Performance, Trans-Gender, Transmutation, John Gacy, Ed Gain, Death ...

First hardcover edition of "Terminal Body Play", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1993. Covering all the above subjects with b/w illustrations, "Terminal Body Play" explores a plethora of physical utopias, including a revived ancient culture of body decoration and manipulation, the pleasure of the body perverted by BDSM, the dematerialised body of performance art, the aesthetics of murder, medicine and anatomy, and so much more. 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. "Terminal Body Play" is one of these very books.

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

File under: Joel Peter Witkin Harrison Marks Piero Manzoni Yves Klein Allen Jones Otto Mühl Hermann Nitsch Rudolf Schwarzkoglar Merzbow Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Fluxus Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Conceptual Art Counterculture Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Disorder & Genius: The Complete Films of Klaus Kinski
by Lucas Balbo and Laurent Aknin

1997, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Midnight Media / UK

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Rare English film digest / filmography by Lucas Balbo and Laurent Aknin on one of cinema's most fascinating and complicated human beings, Klaus Kinski. Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. Published in this one edition in 1997 by Published by Midnight Media, Disorder & Genius is an excellent introduction and concise synopsis of Kinski's acting career, and an indispensable reference tracing his complete filmography chronologically, each listing with film details and short overview, profusely illustrated with film stills, poster artwork, vhs covers, and publicity images in colour and b/w.

"Klaus Kinski died in 1991 amid almost general indifference. Nikolaus Gunther Nakszynski—his real name—was born in Zoppot, Poland on 18 October 1926; in his autobiography, "Dying to Live" (released in the USA as "All I Need Is Love" and subsequently withdrawn and banned — then in 1996 was re- issued, in both the UK and USA, as “Kinski Uncut", with extra text but with 'minor' alterations to avoid possible lawsuits!), he went into great detail about his childhood, a nightmare of poverty, promiscuity and incest... After the war, he went on the German stage where he came in contact with some of the greatest directors of the period. He achieved a certain notoriety with his recitals of poems by Rimbaud and above all the Medieval French bawdy poet Villon. Later he appeared in some of Cocteau's plays such as "The Typewriter" and "The Human Voice", this last being a long monologue by a woman on a telephone. Kinski played the woman and provoked a scandal. But, he earned Cocteau's admiration. He ended his theatrical career with an "adaptation" of the New Testament which provoked a riot.

From the end of the 1940s, Kinski was offered many parts in films which he took up sporadically, believing, as he said himself, that all that was merely shit..."—from the introduction

Near Fine copy.

File under: Klaus Kinski Midnight Media / UK Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Douglas Huebler
November 1968

1968, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages, 20.4 x 20.2 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seth Siegelaub / New York

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Very rare artist book by Douglas Huebler, published in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub, New York. This important historical catalog is the 1st for a show in which the catalog was the show itself.

First and only printing, in an edition of 1000 copies.

“The existence of each sculpture is documented by it’s documentation.
The documentation takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and descriptive language.
The marker “material“ and the shape described by the location of the markers have no special significance, other than tot o demark the limits of the piece.
The permanence and destiny oft he markers have no special significance.
The duration pieces exist only in the documentation of the marker’s destiny within a selected period of time.
The proposed projects do not differ from the other pieces as idea, but do differ to he extent of their material substance." - from introduction by Douglas Huebler.

Very Good copy with light wear to covers, rubbing to bottom right corner.

File under: Douglas Huebler Douglas Huebler Seth Siegelaub Seth Siegelaub / New York Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Minimal Art

Douglas Huebler
Variable Piece 4: Secrets

1978 / 2017, English
Softcover, 94 pages, 22 x 14 cm
ed. of 1000,
Out of print title / as new
Published by Primary Information / New York Printed Matter Inc. / New York

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Variable Piece 4: Secrets is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler’s classic artist book, which was originally published by Printed Matter in 1978. Simple and salacious, the publication collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum. In doing so, the book provides a fleeting glimpse into the cultural, political, and social preoccupations of the era while showcasing Huebler’s open-ended and variable approach to art making—an approach that sought to undermine the dominance of object-oriented practices in favor of a text-driven conceptualism that relied on variables outside of the artist’s control.

Pioneers of the artists’ books medium, of which Huebler was one, predicted that one day artists’ books would be sold next to detective and romance novels in drugstores and supermarkets throughout America. While this dream was never realized, Variable Piece 4: Secrets could easily find its place amongst these popular genres; a true page-turner that delivers the whodunit in succinct statements, ripped from real life, without the hassle of narrative arcs, prefaces, or chapters.

Douglas Huebler (1924–1997) began work as a painter and Minimalist sculptor before focusing attention on language-driven conceptual art in the late 1960s. Examining themes such as duration, location, and social environments, Huebler’s work sought to move beyond the physical object, incorporating photography, text, maps, and drawings to document everyday activities, often carried out over specific periods of time. From 1970 until his death, Huebler worked on Variable Piece #70, which attempted to document every living person. The failure of this project underscored Huebler’s views on the limitations of photography. In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist incorporated painting and comic strips into his conceptual practice, exploring the idea of the masterpiece through the “correction”—or forgery—of works.

Out-of-print, As New.

File under: Douglas Huebler Primary Information / New York Printed Matter Inc. / New York Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Hugh Davies
Sounds Heard (+ CD)

2002, English
Softcover (+ audio CD), 124 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by FMR Records / Essex

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An immensely useful book by one of the UK's early experimenters and pioneers in sound art, and a working authority in the field. This book collects much of his own writing on environmental listening, musical history, improvisation and indeterminacy, new instruments, audio art and installations and includes project descriptions and workbooks. Heavily illustrated throughout. The CD contains a great collection of early plunderphonia, installation recordings, pieces for invented instruments and sound sculptures, musical boxes and found instruments (buzzers, dot matrix printers, eggslicers, tin can and fishing line, etc). An important contribution to the field.

British electronic music composer, improviser and instrument builder (1943—2005. Hugh Davies was the first UK composer to perform "live electronic music," renowned for making unique DIY electroacoustic instruments (held in the Science Museum's collection in London). As a musicologist and archivist, he created one of the most comprehensive compendiums of early electronic music, a monumental International Electronic Music Catalog (Répertoire International Des Musiques Electroacoustiques) co-authored with Groupe De Recherches Musicales at INA-GRM in France and published by The MIT Press in 1967. Davies worked at Electronic Music Workshop (EMW) at Goldsmiths College from 1968 to 1986, one of England's earliest academic electronic music studios. Since 1999 and till his death, he was a part-time researcher and lecturer at Middlesex University's Centre for Electronic Arts in London.

NF copy.

File under: Hugh Davies Hugh Davies FMR Records / Essex Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art

A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros
Edited by Stephanie Loveless

2025, English
Flexicover, 360 pages, 27 x 22 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros.

A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros.

Originally begun online, in honor of what would have been Oliveros' 90th birthday (May 30, 2022), the project shared one score per day across social media for 365 days. The book version of A Year of Deep Listening brings these scores together into one beautiful and historic volume. An expression of the Deep Listening community, the scores were created by over 300 artists—ranging from prize winning composers to ear-minded grocery store clerks, from those who worked closely with Oliveros for decades to those who never met her.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Stephanie Loveless Pauline Oliveros The MIT Press / Massachusetts Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings
by Toru Takemitsu

1995, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 23 x 15.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Scarecrow Press / Maryland

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In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.

Translated and edited Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow.
Forewaod by Seiji Ozawa.

First ed, As New copy.

File under: Toru Takemitsu Toru Takemitsu Glenn Glasow Seiji Ozawa Yoshiko Kakudo Scarecrow Press / Maryland Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater

John Nixon
Thesis

1994, English
Softcover, 110 pages w. colour monochrome insert, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ACCA / Melbourne

$280.00 - Out of stock

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"To be an artist means to question the nature of art."—John Nixon, 1993

Very rare and important survey catalogue designed by Australian abstract artist John Nixon (1949-2020), produced to accompany the exhibition John Nixon — Thesis, Selected Works from 1968—1993 at the original Dallas Brooks Drive located Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994. This heavily illustrated catalogue/artists book is the finest introduction to the work of John Nixon, featuring an abundance of the artist's writings on the vital concerns of his art practice — EPW (Experimental Painting Workshop), EP+OW (Experimental Painting + Object Workshop), the monochrome, Provisional Film, his Block paintings, the Readymade, and much more, a photographic catalogue of the exhibition works, an interview, selected quotes from Herbert Read to Vladimir Tatlin, a survey of key text works/poems/drawings/graphics, a photographic history of Nixon's studios, detailed chronology of exhibitions, and a red monochrome page. A crucial document on John Nixon, designed by the artist and now rarely seen.

"The thesis of this exhibition is the relationship between the monochrome and the readymade. This thesis is a proposition, a theory submitted for discussion. In its apparent singularity, the thesis has many parts, like the leaves of a book, or the apples in an orchard. The exhibition is the means of articulating the thesis. In this case the exhibition is a space consisting of three rooms. Each room contains works which deal with the use of the object as an object placed in the context 'art'. The objects can be readymades such as a bicycle, a piano, tables, or they can be monochrome paintings presented either as themselves or with other readymades as supports (the book, the magazine)"—from the introduction.

John Nixon (1949-2020) was a seminal ﬁgure in contemporary Australian abstraction. Since 1968 his work has been dedicated to the ongoing experimentation, analysis and development of radical modernism, minimalism, the monochrome, constructivism, non-objective art and the readymade – key reference points in his work. Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW), which began in 1978, forms the basis of Nixon’s rigorous and long-standing intellectual investigation into the making of art, over time expanding to encompass not only painting, but collage, photography, video, dance and experimental music performance.

Very Good copy with light rubbing to cover.

File under: John Nixon ACCA / Melbourne Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Conceptual Art Australian Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Paul McCarthy

1996, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Phaidon / London

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First 1996 edition of Phaidon's McCarthy monograph.

Paul McCarthy creates sculptures figuring animal/vegetable/human hybrids, Disney-esque installations and slapstick performances in weird evocations of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetics and simulated body fluids. These have been variously through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized and artificial rural environments.

In this lavishly illustrated, comprehensive early monograph Ralph Rugoff surveys McCarthy's installations and sculptures since the early-1970s, while Kristine Stiles, an expert on performance, talks with the artist about his performance work. Giacinto Di Pietrantonio focuses on McCarthy's video/installation, "Pinocchio Pipehouse Householddilemma". The artist has juxtaposed a text by Jean-Paul Sartre with a screenplay from the TV serial "Bonanza", and the final section, the artist's writings, contains notes for performances and videos. The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration. Includes exhibition history, bio, biblio...

Very Good copy with some wear to jacket edges.

File under: Paul McCarthy Ralph Rugoff Kristine Stiles Giacinto Di Pietrantonio Jean-Paul Sartre Phaidon / London Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video

Artaud Anthology
By Antonin Artaud; Translated by Jack Hirschman

1965, English
Softcover, 253 pages, 13.9 x 20.3 cm
Reprint,
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by City Lights Books / San Francisco

$40.00 - Out of stock

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"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self."

Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote "Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society" raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonine Artaud, was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.

Second 1965 edition.

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

File under: Antonin Artaud Jack Hirschman Antonin Artaud City Lights Books / San Francisco Art Surrealism Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

The Theatre and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud

1970, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 19.5 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Calder and Boyars / London

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This collection of essays remains the most radical text on performance in print today. This volume contains the famous Manifestos of the Theatre of Cruelty and the definitions of this theatre; the underlying impulses of performance (described by Artaud as its 'metaphysics'); some suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses; a long appreciation of the expressive values of Eastern dance drama. Also included is Seraphim's Theatre, in which Artaud attempts an actor's application of the Taoist principles of fullness and emptiness. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger," Artaud wrote. He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalism he found anathema to the very concept of theater. He sought to use theater to transcend writing, "to break through the language in order to touch life." The Theatre and Its Double is widely read throughout the world as a source of inspiration for new drama, for those in search of the meaning of the theatre, as well as for the beauty of its lines.

This remarkable French playwright and poet was born in 1896. He was a leading figure in the Surrealist movement and despite a divergence of ideas remained a dedicated Surrealist all his life, devoting his time to the study of problems of conflict between man's physical and intellectual natures. He died in 1948.

Good copy of 1970 English edition with general age and wear. Ex-owner's name to top of first page, bump to top-right corner, tanning to extremities.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artuad Calder and Boyars / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Mike Kelley
Catholic Tastes

1993, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Still, and will probably always be, the best book on Mike Kelley. First edition, now very collectible. This definitive survey was published in 1993 in conjunction with "Mike Kelley", a travelling exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, throughout 1994. Mike Kelley, one of the leading Californian artists of the 1990s, was a proponent of abject or pathetic art, an anti-aesthetic, anti-heroic movement, which criticized social and artistic issues through banality and humour. Exploring the work of this great and controversial performance artist and sculptor at the mid-way point in his career, this dense book presents thirteen essays, plus an introduction, discussing Kelley's projects, performances, and the ideas and diverse influences that motivate his work - contemporary art, rock and roll, social commentary and pop culture. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, with texts by Elizabeth Sussman, David Marsh, Richard Armstrong, Timothy Martin, Howard Singerman, Colin Gardner, Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney, John Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Kim Gordon, Howard N. Fox, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jutta Koether, Martin Prinzhorn, Paul Schimmel, John G. Hanhardt. No less! Includes a bibliography and exhibition history. Catalogue designed by Lorraine Wild and ReVerb.

Highly recommended.

Very Good copy, tightly bound, no spine creases. Light cover edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Elizabeth Sussman David Marsh Richard Armstrong Timothy Martin Howard Singerman Colin Gardner Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney John Miller Ralph Rugoff Kim Gordon Howard N. Fox Diedrich Diederichsen Jutta Koether Martin Prinzhorn Paul Schimmel John G. Hanhardt Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

ART & TEXT 5
Autumn 1982

1982, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art & Text / Prahran

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ART & TEXT 5
Autumn 1982
Edited by Paul Taylor
Contents:
"Self and Theatricality : Samuel Beckett and Vito Acconci" by Paul Taylor
"Beyond Beckett: Reckless Writing and the Concept of the Avant-Garde within Post-Modern Literature" by Nicholas Zurbrugg
"Dr. Spitzner’s Scrapbook" by Zerox Dreamflesh
"Literal Cloth: Elizabeth Paterson’s Masquerades" by Suzanne Spunner
"Musical Perception and Exploratory Music" by Warren Burt
"On Animism in Art" by Jenny Zimmer
"The 1979 Biennale ― ‘European Dialogue’" by Nick Waterlow
"Rebels and Precursors by Richard Haese and Murray/Murundi by Bonita Ely" by Jill Graham
"On Photo-Discourse" by George Alexander

Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of that period of postmodernism.

Good - general wear/tanning.

File under: Elizabeth Paterson Vito Acconci Bonita Ely Warren Burt George Alexander Jenny Zimmer Jill Graham Nicholas Zurbrugg Nick Waterlow Paul Taylor Samuel Beckett Suzanne Spunner Warren Burt Zerox Dreaniflesh Art & Text / Prahran Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Film / Video Philosophy

Art & Text 29
June—August 1988

1988, English
Softcover, 110 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good

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Art & Text 29
June—August 1988
Edited by Paul Foss

Contents:
Julie Brown-Rrap and Lesley Stern "Stepping In"
Edward Colless "Love's Limbo: Paintings Of Vivienne Shark Lewitt"
Nicholas Zurbrugg "Baudrillard's Amérique, and the "Abyss Of Modernity""
Martin Thomas "Making This State Grate: The Pretensions Of Darling Harbour"
Rainer Borgemeister "Anne Zalhalka: Resemblance"
Marcia Langton "Eric Michaels On Aboriginal Media"
D.P. Cazaly "Sigi Gabrie: Tasmanian Games"
John Neylon "That Rare Bird: The 1988 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts Program"
Jim Moss and Linda Marie Walker "Victor Burgin In Residence"
Michele Helmrich "Interface/Brisbane"
Urszula Szulakowska "Luke Roberts: Pope Alice To Frida Kahlo"
Jill Carrick "Judy Chicago's Dinner Party"
Adrian Martin "Melbourne/Nostalgia"
Sylvia Kleinert "Black Canberra"
Julie Ewington "Two Poles: The Ramingining Community Memorial and Hermann Nitsch"
Nicholas Baume "Australian Biennale 1988: Just Not Cricket!"
Robert Nery "Matthys Gerber, Or Doing As The Romans Do"

Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of that period of postmodernism.

Very Good copy.

File under: Juan Davila Vivienne Shark LeWitt Victor Burgin Anne Zalhalka Julie Brown-Rrap Sigi Gabrie Frida Kahlo Judy Chicago Hermann Nitsch Matthys Gerber Paul Foss Edward Colless Ted Colless Nicholas Zurbrugg Lesley Stern Adrian Martin Rainer Borgemeister Marcia Langton John Neylon Sylvia Kleinert Jill Carrick Urszula Szulakowska Jim Moss Linda Marie Walker Nicholas Baume Julie Ewington Robert Nery Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy Painting Australian Art Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Art

Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman

2024, English
Hardcover, 248 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin

$79.00 - Out of stock

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The American Bruce Nauman (b. Fort Wayne, US, 1941; lives and works in New Mexico, US) ranks among the preeminent visual artists of our time. For six decades, he has worked in an extraordinarily broad range of media, shattering the bounds of established genres and spearheading new ones along the way. His expanded conception of art encompasses wax casts, neon signs, physical contortions, word play, immersive audio and video environments, and the studio as a site of exploration. Nauman, who came of age amid the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, never abided by any rigid distinctions in art; instead remaining to this day, as he puts it, open to “the possibilities of what art can be.” Above all, Nauman’s work seduces and thrills viewers through a process-based approach which melds bodily experience with a wide variety of art forms.

The publication enhances the pioneering artist’s largest survey exhibition in Asia to date, at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, with its multifaceted selection by the editors who have compiled interviews on and with the artist and his colleagues Cao Fei, Anne Imhof, Andrea Lissoni and Nicholas Serota, Meredith Monk, Philippe Parreno, Paul Pfeiffer, Robert Storr, Willoughby Sharp, Zhang Peili, and Samson Young among other key contributors are drawing historical connections and opening up fresh perspectives on Nauman’s oeuvre. Texts by the exhibition co-curators Carlos Basualdo, Caroline Bourgeois, Pi Li, and the Tai Kwun Contemporary team, are complemented by introductions to historic interviews by Joan Simon, as well as an array of supporting documentation and images offering new insight into Nauman’s enduring relevance amidst a changing media landscape.

File under: Bruce Nauman Cao Fei Anne Imhof Meredith Monk Philippe Parreno Paul Pfeiffer Willoughby Sharp Zhang Peili Samson Young Carlos Basualdo Caroline Bourgeois Pi Li Joan Simon Robert Storr Andrea Lissoni Nicholas Serota Distanz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Black Magazine No. 1
May 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

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Rare first May 1971 (w. Ken Katayama cover) 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!

This scarce first issue with incredible cover by Japanese illustrator Ken Katayama, features work/contributions by author Izumi Suzuki, film director Michio Okabe, artist Genpei Akasegawa, critic Junzo Ishiko, author Boris Vian, film director Eiichi Uchida, film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author Mieko Kanai, music critic Masaaki Hiraoka, artist Koichi Tanigawa, manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, graphic designer Mad Amano, doll artist Shimon Yotsuya, illustrator G. Akechi, art critic Junzo Ishiko, art critic Yoshida Yoshie, film director Toshio Matsumoto, graphic artist Keiichi Tanaami, author Koji Suzuki, artist Toshio Saeki, manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, manga artist Mori Masaki, manga artist Mitsuhiko Yoshida, artist Tsunehisa Kimura, playwright Jūrō Kara, and many more.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Michio Okabe Ken Katayama Mieko Kanai Masaaki Hiraoka Koichi Tanigawa Eiichi Uchida Keiichi Tanaami G. Akechi Shimon Yotsuya Toshio Matsumoto Toshio Saeki Shigeru Mizuki Mori Masaki Tsunehisa Kimura Satomi Nihongi Jin'ichi Uekusa Junzo Ishiko Yukio Mishima Izumi Suzuki Boris Vian Koji Suzuki Yoshida Yoshie Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Art Fiction / Poetry Surrealism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Film / Video Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Poetry Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 2
June 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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June 1971 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: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+ Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Pop Art Surrealism Transgressive / Visceral / Abject