The April/May 1968 Special Huey P. Newton Issue. Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." At the publication of this issue, BPP founder Huey Newton was charged in the death of a police officer and was being held in jail. One article reviews these events, while another is by Newton himself. Others discuss the murders...
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Covering two decades of work from the Hong-Kong based architectural firm MAP Office, including their architectural research, artistic interventions and process-oriented projects. Documents work from exhibitions, competitions and festivals. Out of print and scarce.

Condition: Very Good+, a few small tears to the stiff paper dust jacket at top of spine; light sunning to spine.
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A study of the great artists' books of the 20th Century, with particular attention to Italy's place within the international artist book movement. Richly printed color illustrations. Includes an illustrated bibliography with thumbnails of books on books categorized by genre. Text in English and Italian. Out of print.

Condition: Very Good; corner bump/crease of 1.25" to the top corner of back cover, faintly visible as a tiny corner bump to the last 40 pages.
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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.
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The Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek uses modern printing process such as lithography to manipulate and alter existing imagery and text such as advertisements and printed matter, exploring repetition, order, redaction and other themes. With essays by Camiel van Winkel and Wouter Davidts. This monograph, which is more of an artists' book than traditional artist survey, is from his 2008 exhibition at Culturgest in Lisbon. Out of print.

Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
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Volume 2, Number 4 of Guerrilla, "The Free Newspaper of the Streets.” This poster/broadside issue with the bold headline "Poetry Demands Unemployment." Published in Detroit in 1968 by Allen Van Newkirk and his Center for Paleocybernetic Research and edited by Van Newkirk and Susan Hodges. Van Newkirk was known to stage solo raids on any radical gatherings that he deemed not sufficiently revolutionary. At a poetry reading he once ran towards the poet firing a pistol (with blanks) and shouting “death to the bourgeois poets”.

Condition: Very Good, faint soft...
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The scarce exhibition pamphlet for "Matrix 75: Keith Haring, New York City Subway Drawings" that took place at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT from June-August, 1983. Matrix is a still on-going series of contemporary art exhibits that began in 1975 to present experimental and challenging art. It was an early solo show for Haring. Essay by Andrea Miller-Keller. The Matrix exhibition pamphlets were 3-hole punched so they could be collected in a binder.

Condition: Good, soft crease running vertically along the midpoint of catalog; 3-hole punched as issued.
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A curious and apparently scarce publication. The front cover states "This section is meant as a hymn to the life and times of Thaddeus Cahill (1867-1934). Cahill worked for more than fifteen years to create a gigantic electrical music synthesizer before the First World War. His times have been called the childhood or our era." Sprinkled with quotes from the great thinkers of the era, alongside the story of Cahill and his quest to produce his synthesizer, called the Telharmonium. At one point, Mark Twain visited the Cahill Telharmonium manufacturing...
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The fourth and final issue of "Pitch," a periodical covering microtonal music theory and compositions which was "created to answer important questions concerning tuning alternatives.". This issue more a book-length presentation with articles on novel scales, non-Western tuning, plus interviews and reviews. With a 100-page section on musical instruments and fingering charts for recorder, flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, guitar and more. With a 25-page section "Who's Who in Microtonality" that includes biographical entries for microtonalists around the world; plus a "Fingerography," a bibliography of microtonal fingering charts. Overall an impressive...
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The first issue of "Pitch," a periodical covering microtonal music theory and compositions which was "created to answer important questions concerning tuning alternatives." This issue includes articles on a new work by Lou Harrison, plus articles by Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, Jon Catler, Henry Lowengard and others. This copy's mailing label is addressed to composer Douglas Leedy in Portland, OR.

Condition: Very Good, toning and rubbing to edges; some handwritten notes on page 3; mailing label and mailing closure tab still attached.
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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.
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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.
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Issue No. 2 of P.FO.: New Music, an obscure journal of experimental music scores compiled by Daniel Wolf. Wolf is a composer and writer, and was the editor of Xenharmonikon, the "Informal Journal of Experimental Music," from 1985-1989. Wolf was aided by a young Jonathan Segel, whose scores appeared in every issue and who co-edited the double Issue 3/4. Segel is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has performed with Camper Van Beethoven, Sparklehorse, Eugene Chadbourne and Dieselhed, as well as his own group Hieronymus Firebrain. The title page includes a....
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