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Signed by Friedlander on front endpaper. Afterword by Leslie Katz. Published in an edition of 1,000. The 62 plates are printed as duotone offset lithographs. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good+, small discoloration on top edge of endpapers, light shelfwear to dust jacket.
Item #264
Book-length catalog for a touring exhibit of over 20 (mostly European) artists exploring folk culture in contemporary art, including Joseph Beuys, Britta Jonas, David Renggli and Gert and Uwe Tobias, among others. Text is in English and German. The German title is "Säen und Jäten: Volkskultur in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst"
Condition: Very Good +, light rubbing to edges of covers, rear cover is faded slightly.
Item #285
An English translation by J. Duncan Berry of Giedion's 1928 "classic of modern architectural literature" that posited modernist architecture as an avant-garde pursuit that should break with the traditional values of the discipline. With a 78-page introduction by Sokratis Georgiadis. From the Getty Center's Texts and Documents series. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Very Good+, slight reader's crease to spine.
Item #827
This book documents in photographs the year-by-year exhibition history from 1999-2009 of the much-loved independent exhibition space, The Suburban, in Oak Park, Illinois on the outskirts of Chicago. With an essay by Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, an essay by Michael Newman, and an introduction by Forrest Nash. Out of print.
Condition: Fine.
Item #523
Billed as "the only magazine devoted exclusively to Western architecture", includes articles on the University of Oregon's Medical School Parking Structure by Wolff-Zimmer-Gunsul-Frasca-Ritter, a Research Complex for Batelle Northwest in Richland, WA and focus on eight apartment buildings in Aspen, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Marin, Alameda and Tiburon, CA.
Condition: Good, some wear, scuffing to cover; mailing address label present on back cover.
Item #188
Billed as "the only magazine devoted exclusively to Western architecture", includes articles the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, the Von Kleinsmid Center and the Student Union at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Basic Sciences Building and the Space Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, among others.
Condition: Good, some wear, scuffing to cover; mailing address label present on back cover.
Item #189
The exhibiton catalog for Martial Raysse's May 31-June 24, 1967 exhibit at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. Part of the Nouveaux Realistes group, Raysse was born in France and is also known for his early involvement in America's pop art scene. With a text by Otto Hahn.
Condition: Good, some toning and light foxing to covers; light 1" moisture stain in lower left corner at spine, faintly visible on interior pages.
Item #1053
Bob Mizer made photos and films for over 40 years for his company Athletic Model Guild, publishing "Physique Pictorial," America's first and most explicity gay, men's physique magazine. In the 1970s and '80s Mizer's sprawling compound in Los Angeles became home to dozen's of young models who lived nude around his pool. This oversize monograph focuses on the full-color second half of his career. With a one-hour DVD of Mizer's films included. Out of print.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #1496
The first major publication of Zurich artists Huber.Huber (Markus and Reto Huber). A selection of collages and ink drawings from the large group of works titled Mikrouniversum (2005-2011) is presented in a relatively chronological order as a “guiding series” through the collected works. Other pieces are interjected which adopt aspects of the “guiding series” and transform into increasingly complex collages and idyllic scenes in which the abysmal depths are always lurking nearby.
Condition: Fine.
Item #274
The out-of-print third edition, revised and expanded, published in 2002 in two volumes (A-K and L-Z). The most comprehensive reference book ever produced on artists active in California, and decades in the making. Alphabetically arranged with nearly 20,000 detailed biographies. Unillustrated, text only. Published by the Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento, the first public art museum in the West. The indispensable resource on the subject.
Condition: Fine, in fine dust jackets.
Item #1470
This delightfully printed volume is essentially divided in three parts: an essay by Hunter and two sections of works - Margaret Keane's drawings and (those claimed to be) Walter Keane's drawings. In 1965 the couple was divorced; in 1970 Margaret Keane announced on a radio show that she was the true creator of the works, not Walter. He continued to claim authorship and she finally sued Walter in 1986, and the judge ordered both the Keanes to paint a portrait in the courtroom - Margaret complied, but Walter feigned a......
Item #916
The unique catalog and book object produced by MoMA and Gemini G.E.L. for their 1971 exhibit of prints and multiples by artists including Johns, Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Litchtenstein, Frank Stella and others. On the inside of the box is a Jasper Johns blank "Target" with three paint discs and a brush for the owner to paint their own target work in "collaboration" with Johns. There is a spot for the owner to sign their name next to Johns'. The Jasper Johns signature is printed in a graphite colored.....
Item #1516
The second printing (with light blue endpapers) of Lenore Kandel's book of four erotic (some might say pornographic) poems that was censored when it first was released, with copies confiscated by the police from City Lights Books in SF. Kandel was also one of the speakers at the famous Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park during 1967's "Summer of Love"
Condition: Fine.
Item #1266
An exhibition catalog for Kaprow's "Yard" exhibit at Hauser & Wirth, New York in the Fall of 2009. The environment "Yard" was first made for the backyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, in 1961 for the important "Environments - Situations - Spaces" exhibition. With black and white illustrations and a 12 blue duotone pages. Many image were selected from the Allan Kaprow Estate workfile on the original 1961 "Yard" exhibition. With the 2009 heavy cardstock, letterpressed exhibition announcement card laid in. Out of print. In a custom-made.....
Item #273
![Item #936 History and Principles of Microtonal Keyboard Design; [Corrected Edition]. Douglas Keislar](/pictures/thumb/936.jpeg?v=1516154345)
A corrected version of a survey by Douglas Keislar of microtonal keyboard design that originally appeared in 1987 in "Computer Music Journal," although with several errors. This reprint is an updated version that corrects the errors including "a layout problem where an entire paragraph migrated to the wrong section of the article." Written when Keislar was a doctorate student at Stanford, he received a PhD in 1991 and in 1997 became, and remains, the Editor of MIT's Computer Music Journal. Published by the Center for Computer Research in Music and.....
Item #936
Number 440 of an edition of 500. Signed and numbered color Lambda print by Kempenaers laid in. Text is in English and Dutch. Includes a long sequence of photographs of the enormous rock formation printed on a cardboard concertina fold.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #307
The 1905 first Dodge Publishing Co. edition of The Rubáiyát with a wonderful deco cover and stylized color deco introduction page. This edition with sepia-toned photogravure illustrations by Adelaide Leeson (1875-1931), printed on delicate tissue pages. Leeson was a California artist and photographer (born in Coos Bay, Oregon) and was one of the first to use photography to illustrate literary works. She also hand-worked her negatives to achieve the images she wanted, being a pioneer of this technique. Leeson enlisted then well-known California literary figures, including Charles Keeler, Joaquin Miller.....
Item #1475
German language edition of a monograph on the Danish artist's sculptural work. In a protective mylar dust jacket cover.
Condition: Near Fine, edges of dust jacket are rubbed.
Item #305
Book-length catalog from the American sculptor's 1984 Malmö Konsthall exhibit of large-scale steel and kinetic works. Some photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg. Text in English and Swedish. With a silver-printed and die-punched cover in a custom-made protective mylar dust jacket.
Condition: Near Fine, slight rubbing to edges of wraps.
Item #306
Exhibition catalog for an exhibit at RubinSpangle Gallery, NY from March 16-April 13, 1991 in cooperation with the Leo Castelli Gallery. The exhibition consisted of three works: "Function, 1970," "Ten Partial Descriptions, 1979," and "(A Grammatical Remark), 1988". With tipped-in plates of the works. Essay by Jan Avgikos. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #384
A large collection of early issues of MIT Press' influential academic art and ideas journal "October," including the first issue released in 1976. The collection includes issues from 1976 to 1997. Editors over the years include Douglas Crimp, Yves-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Joan Copjec, Silvia Kolbowski, Benjamin Buchloh, Denis Hollier and John Rajchman, with founding editors Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson remaining constant from issue 1 to 82. Authors and and topics are too long to list but the collection includes some of the most important thinkers and writers of.....
Item #1456
The autobiography of this avant-garde artist who admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo in the 1970s, where she has been living, by choice, ever since. She continues to create work on a regular basis. First English edition translated by Ralph McCarthy. Out of print and uncommon in hardcover.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #1423
A wonderfully reproduced facsimile of the journal/album given by Le Corbusier to his friend and client Raoul La Roche, which included original drawings and watercolors of Venice, plus still lifes and notes on Corbusier's urban planning themes. Produced in collaboration with the Fondation Le Corbusier of Paris in a numbered edition of only 300 copies, this is number 236. The hardcover facsimile album is accompanied by a small paperback second volume containing critical texts and an essay by the scholar Stanislaus von Moos, as well as a transcription of the.....
Item #1429
An artist book from the London-born, New York-based artist presenting his altered washcloth assemblages. Printed as black-and-white photocopies on green, blue, grey and pink colored paper corresponding to the color of the work itself. Out of print.
Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
Item #943
Covering 22 projects by the architects spanning the years 1989-2000. Text in English and Spanish. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good, light corner bumps at top corners faintly visible on interior pages.
Item #846
