The folded flyer/catalog for Craig Kauffman's exhibitions held at the Pasadena Art Museum in January-March 1970, which also traveled to the University of California Irvine in March-April, 1970. Kauffman was part of the original stable of artists at LA's legendary Ferus Gallery. The flyer features five panels printed on both sides, with a text by Kauffman, an exhibition checklist, and 6 color reproductions of the sprayed acrylic laquer on vaccum-formed plexiglas works (dated between 1965-1969) that he was known for. Unfolds to 37.5"

Condition: Very Good, some toning at edges...
Item #1057

More about Craig Kauffman: Pasadena Art Museum; UC Irvine, 1970

Two exhibition flyers from Matt Mullican's Oeuvres Recentes (Recent Work) exhibition at the Institut Franco-Americain in March/April 1982 in Rennes, France. Also included is an unusual and apparently hand-cut photocopy of some Mullican pictographs and symbols. Minimal texts in French.

Condition: Good-, overall scuffing and toning to flyers, some soiling and spots; one 1/8" tear at one of the tri-folds; folded as issued.
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More about Matt Mullican: Oeuvres Recentes, 1982

A set of artist playing cards, designed by painter/sculptor/printmaker Donald Sultan, who gained prominence in New York in the 1980s. He is also known for using industrial materials such as tar, vinyl tile, masonite, rubber and spackle in his work. The original drawings were charcoal and conte crayon, and a signed/limited edition of 100 of the decks were issued in a wooden box. This deck is from the unsigned trade edition and contains 52 playing cards, two jokers and one deck identification card in a stiff paper box.

Condition: Cards.....
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More about Playing Cards by Donald Sultan

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

More about Scheltens & Abbenes: Unfolded

Published from 1997-2004 with a total run of 26 issues, "Nest" was an innovative magazine that strayed from the traditional interior design magazine focus on "beautiful" interior spaces and instead focused on exceptional and unusual environments. Nest was known for its unique printing attributes as each issue included variations such as punched holes, die-cut covers and elaborate inserts.This issue features a half-circular shape extending off one side. With articles and features on "the decorator gene," Julian Schnabel, Yoichi "Yoga" Nishikawa, Nan Goldin, Yuri Usachev's Mir Space Station diary, a haunted...
Item #1045

More about Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors: Issue 12; Spring 2001

The out-of-print first edition of Albert Pope's "Ladders," a modern classic of urbanism. Pope examines five post-war American cities and the upheavals, expansions, and technological developments that precipitated a change from the open urban grid to the fragmented and closed spaces of suburban cul-de-sacs, expressways, and office parks. Utilizing a series of diagrams and photographs, along with essays, Pope reveals how the character of urban space has become shaped more by sociological effects rather than built forms. Published as part of the "Architecture at Rice" (University) series of books and...
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More about Ladders: Architecture at Rice 34

Issue #9 (Vol. 3 No. 9, Fall Equinox) of the quarterly periodical originally published at various lesbian intentional communities based in Southern Oregon and later from the land that Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove purchased in Wolfcreek, Oregon, which they called "Rootworks". Although collectively produced, the WomanSpirit publishing project was largely coordinated and edited by Ruth and Jean. It is said to be the first periodical dedictated to lesbian feminism and spirituality, and was a central part of movements and ideas that continued to grow throughout the 1970s: the Goddess Movement...
Item #1039

More about WomanSpirit: Issue 9

Issue #13 (December 1974) of the collectively-edited publication from the feminist back-to-the-land commune Country Women in Albion, CA on the Mendocino coast. In at least 33 issues published through 1979, Country Women featured articles on feminist shared experience, practical how-to tips on country living (animal raising, carpentry, farming) and published poetry, songs and drawings by contributors from around the country. Each issue usually focused on a theme, plus practical articles.This issue's theme was "Natural Cycles" and includes articles on biorhythms, body rhythms, moon cycles, depressions, myths of menstruation, a report...
Item #1037

More about Country Women, Issue 13: Cycles

The September/October 1968 issue printed on paper or various colors. 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." This issue includes editorials and articles on the Mexican student uprising at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet Troops, the 1968 elections and an appeal to vote Black Panther Party, the Oakland Direct Action...
Item #1034

More about Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation; Vol. 1 No. 9 & 10

The Summer 1968 issue printed on paper of various colors. 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." This issue includes an editorial on the long history of violence in America, articles on capital punishment and the importance of learning how to shoot a gun, an appeal to free Huey Newton on the back cover, translated...
Item #689

More about Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation; Vol. 1 No. 6-8

The mimeographed March 1968 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." Contents include "The Truth About the Massacre at Orangeburg" by Onij-Nejjih, "How to Acquire the Rifle" bu George Prosser, "The New Left, Old Ideas in a New Front" by Robert F. Williams, and a "Tribute to Che (1928-1967)" by C.N. Fuegos, plus more.....
Item #1030

More about Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation; Vol. 1 No. 3

A button promoting the preview opening to Iain Baxter and N.E. Thing Co.'s Centennial Project exhibit at the Douglas Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. on August 25, 1967. Reportedly at the opening, the floors and walls of the gallery were sealed with plastic and the space was flooded ankle-deep with water, hot dog stands were installed, balloons were added, and it was declared it a "Beach Party Swim-in" by Baxter. The show itself featured various three-dimensional sculpture, landscapes and bagged works.In 2005, Baxter legally added an “&” to his name, becoming.....
Item #1020

More about N.E. Thing Co.: Preview Button to The Centennial Project

The announcement postcard for Andre's exhibition "Four Meditations on the Year 1960" at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf from July 12-August 12, 1971 (the front of the card states June 1971). The card states exhibit included 20 timbers sized 30cm x 30cm x 150cm each and presumably arranged in the configurations drawn on the front of the card. Addressed to the painter Neill Jenney in New York.

Condition: Fair, soiling, toning and creases to card; 5 pinholes to card at sides and one corner.
Item #1016

More about Four Meditations on the Year 1960