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An exhibition catalog for "Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings" held at the MIT Visual Arts Center, December 14, 1991-February 9, 1992. Includes full-color illustrations and with an essay by Helaine Posner. Scarce.
Condition: Very Good+, tiny bump to bottom spine edge.
Item #697
The political magazine of Italy's cultural right. Text in Italian. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Very Good+, toning to newsprint pages.
Item #387
Exhibition catalog of "randomly selected and randomly displayed contemporary artifacts" organized by Arnold Rockman at the Fine Arts Gallery in Vancouver BC, February 6-22, 1968. The catalog consists of an introduction, letters, notes, and images, all of which contain (printed) edits, notes and corrections. Rockman was a sociology professor interested playing with categories of objects and spaces to disrupt aesthetic expectations and cause cognitive dissonance, and in this exhibit explored questions such as: Is junk displayed in an art gallery junk or art? And does the art gallery become a......
Item #758
The 1957 edition of this scarce title. Conversations with 35 American painters, sculptors, and architects by Selden Rodman, including Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Morris Graves, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Ben Shahn, among others.
Condition: Very Good, sunning to dust jacket spine and rubbing along jacket spine folds; age toning to interior pages.
Item #931
The catalog for this exhibition, featuring works from 1938-1970. Text is in English and French.
Condition: Good, edges of covers are rubbed, rear cover is heavily scuffed and one corner is creased at tip.
Item #339
A fine condition copy of the rare first issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash, with Dave Vanian of The Damned on the cover. Articles and features include interviews with The Damned, a Screamers pictorial, album and single reviews, a Bleu Leech full-page collage, live reviews of Television and Iggy Pop, and more.
Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint pages.
Item #1166
The 12th issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash, with The Screamers on the cover. Articles and features include local scene reports, a UK report, the Consumers, the Masque club, interviews with The Screamers, The Bags, The Offs, The Cramps, album and live reviews, and more.
Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint.
Item #1167
The second issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash, with John Denney of the Weirdos on the cover. Articles and features include interviews with the Weirdos, the Screamers, plus Deaf School, album and 45 reviews, a spread on Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, Gary Panter comics, and more.
Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint pages; .25" closed tear at bottom of front cover and first page, a 1" closed tear to next to last page, otherwise very nice.
Item #1165
The beautifully-produced, out-of-print catalog for Dutch artists Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes 2012 exhibit "Unfolded," which took place at the Museum Jan Cunen in Oss, The Netherlands. The duo take exquisite photographs of often ordinary objects, experimenting with converting spatial dimensions into flat surfaces and exploring photography’s potential for illusion. The catalog is produced as an exhibition in book form, with the pages following the viewer's path as they would have experienced the museum exhibit. With a text by Frank van der Stok. In an edition of 1,000 with subtle.....
Item #1049
The April 1976 (Volume 4, Number 4) issue of EAR Magazine, which started in 1973 in the Bay Area. In the mid-1970s a New York version of EAR was also published. This issue includes an interview of composer Douglas Leedy by Valerie Simpson, correspondence between Charles Shere and Ernest Gold, program notes on "Cadences" by Bob Hughes, an article on Janice Giteck's opera "Wi'igita," W.M. Brooks' "Portrait of Stephen Laub," plus reviews and a calendar.
Condition: Very Good, toning to newsprint; folded as issued.
Item #929
The March 1976 (Volume 4, Number 3) issue of EAR Magazine, which started in 1973 in the Bay Area. In the mid-1970s a New York version of EAR was also published. This issue includes a score by and interview with Marta Ptaszynska, Bob Davis on Dreamsound, an article "Ephemeral Forms: Mother Musing's Flight Patterns" by Ron Pellegrino, a score by Douglas Leedy celebrating Rossini's birthday, and "the new deteriorated calendar"
Condition: Very Good, toning to newsprint; folded as issued.
Item #928
The 1970 first printing of this "documented source book on the supersonic transport planes now being developed and the sonic booms they would produce". A polemic against the Concorde and supersonic transport detailing the harms to animals, people and the environment. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Very Good+, minor age toning to paper.
Item #828
A signed and numbered edition of only 50 copies - this copy No. 22. Photos by Simonetti shot during the A7 reunion at the Knitting Factory in NY on December 6, 2008. A7 was a club in New York City from 1981 to 1984, and was the unofficial headquarters of the New York hardcore scene. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Fine.
Item #385
An artists' book from the artist and writer Buzz Spector. Double Readings was an installation at Chicago's Randolph Street Gallery in 1987. A stairway was constructed of approx. 4,500 books and eight bookcases holding every book in Spector's personal library were exhibited. This book/cataog includes installation photographs of the exhibit along with other vintage images of people with accompanying phrases, one per page, cryptically alluding to books, reading, writing and art. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Near Fine, light scuffing along edges and spine fold.....
Item #1091
Profusely illustrated with photographs. Text in German.
Condition: Very Good, slight reader's crease to spine, slight wrinkling to glossy coating on back cover.
Item #105
The extensive hardcover catalog published in conjunction with MoMA New York's 2020 retrospective on American maverick Donald Judd’s minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture. The first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd’s sculpture in more than 30 years, "Judd" explores the work of the landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture. Donald Judd was among a generation of artists in the 1960s who sought to entirely do away with illusion, narrative and metaphorical content. He turned to.....
Item #1191
Paul Thek and Edwin Klein's much-emulated and iconic artists' book published in conjunction with Thek's 1969 exhibitions that took place in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum, and in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet. In the smartly-executed book, photographed from above, layered objects, ephemera and photographs move across the pages amidst a background of newspaper pages. A scarce and influential artists' book of the 20th Century. In a custom-made, protective mylar dust jacket. Due to size and value, must be shipped via priority mail (media mail not available). Shipping rate will.....
Item #854
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on six Philadelphia architects: Robert Geddes, Aldo.....
Item #215
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on Habitat 67, prefabricated and suspended space.....
Item #208
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on fountains, a weekend house near Paris.....
Item #219
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #1081
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house in Australia by Harry.....
Item #213
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on architects Marcel Sedletzky, Angelo Mangiarotti, John Lautner.....
Item #224
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on houses by Wilhelm Stigler and Enrico.....
Item #221
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #226
