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A selection of 100 of Bill Jay's portraits of friends and other photographers, with notes and dates in his handwritten script below each photograph. Plus stories and diary-like entries by Jay about the subjects included. In an edition of 1,000.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #170
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.
Item #942
The poster for Richard Serra's exhibiton at the Castelli Warehouse from Dec. 16, 1969-January 10, 1970. Leo Castelli presented a series of 11 shows between 1968-1970 at a warehouse located at 103 W. 108th Street. Exhibits included John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Keith Sonnier and others.
Condition: Fair, mailing tab still affixed on verso and three 2" closed tears where tab was broken open; additional .5" closed tear at bottom and 1" closed tear at right middle fold; overall soft creasing to poster from being mailed; tears now repaired on verso...
Item #940
The exhibition poster for Jack Youngerman at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, from Nov. 27-Dec. 16, 1961. The exhibition was his third show with the gallery and his fourth solo exhibition. Youngerman was included in MoMA's important "Sixteen Americans" exhibit in 1959, along with Rauschenberg's Combines and Jasper Johns' flags and targets. Poster printed in France by the famous Mourlot print shop of Paris.
Condition: Good, folded as issued; staple holes and pinholes in 4 corners; 4 pinholes at center top; a .75" inch closed tear at upper left;...
Item #938
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. The blue fold-out of images sometimes associated or mentioned along with this booklet...
Item #892
More about Keith Haring: Matrix 75, Wadsworth Museum Catalog
Smartly-designed group exhibition flyer for The Arena of Love exhibit, Dwan Gallery Los Angeles, with artists’ names extending from Hershey’s kisses paper plumes, including Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, CPLY, John Chamberlain and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.
Condition: Very Good+, very faint soft creases/bumps to corners.
Item #9
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...
Item #937
![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
More about History and Principles of Microtonal Keyboard Design; [Corrected Edition
The concrete poem "Interchange" by San Francisco poet Jack Hirschman, in tribute to John Cage. Printed loose leaf on heavy card stock in black and white, and presented in a clamshell box. Design and typography by John Brandi and Harold Schwarm. Published in an edition of 300 by The Zora Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1964. Hirschman moved to San Francisco in 1973 and has had a long association with the city and its poetry ever since. He was named Poet Laureate of the city in 2006, and in 2007 established...
Item #930
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
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....
Item #927
The first four issues of P.FO.: New Music, an obscure journal of experimental music scores compiled by Daniel Wolf, with a young Jonathan Segel co-editing the double Issue 3/4. Wolf is a composer and writer, and was the editor of Xenharmonikon, the "Informal Journal of Experimental Music," from 1985-1989. 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 first issue was published near the end of Wolf's time studying at UC Santa...
Item #926
The Winter 2003 issue of "1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues of the journal were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This issue features "Differential Coherence: Experimenting with New Areas of Consonance" by Jacques Dudon; an Editor's...
Item #925
More about 1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network; Volume 11, Number 2
The Winter 2005 issue of "1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues of the journal were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This issue features the articles "A Few Observations with Respect to the Canon's Tuning for Soliloquy"...
Item #924
More about 1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network; Volume 12, Number 1
![1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network [Set of 20 Issues]. David B Doty, Ed](/pictures/thumb/923.jpeg?v=1515542436)
A set of 20 issues of "1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly journal, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This set is from the collection of composer Douglas Leedy (1938-2015). Some issues include laid-in notes...
Item #923
More about 1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network [Set of 20 Issues
The complete set of four exhibition postcards for the Dwan Gallery's highly-influential "Language Shows," beginning with 1967's "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read" curated by Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. The Dwan Gallery was among the first to produce exhibits focusing on language, and the 1967 group show brought together works by Duchamp, Smithson, LeWitt, On Kawara, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre, Picabia and Ad Reinhardt, among others. In the book "Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art" Liz Kotz writes: "The four exhibitions helped...
Item #922
The postcard for LeWitt's exhibition of large-scale concrete block sculpture at Max Protetch Gallery in New York, from October 13-November 10, 1990.
Condition: Very Good+, toning along edges and tiniest of corner bumps.
Item #919
Issue No. 9-9 of the Daily-Bul. This issue is dedicated to (questioning) Nouveau Realisme. The magazine project, which also produced artist editions, was founded by Pol Bury and André Balthazar in 1957. The city of La Louvière still maintains the Daily-Bul archives, which continues to produce exhibitions and can be visited, in the heart of the city. Includes original collaged elements and some tipped-in plates. Text in French. Stamped on the back cover "90 Juil 1963"
Condition: Good, toning along edges; one plain white paste-down is torn in middle to...
Item #918
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
More about Walter and Margaret Keane: Tomorrow's Master Series Portfolio Edition
Out of print publication providing an analysis of Dove's paintings and their break with representation along with the character and symbolism within his work in relation to the cultural context of the time of their making. Cohn seeks to fill the gap in the scholarship on Dove's work and draws upon correspondence between Dove and Stieglitz in the Beinecke library, the artist's writings, scrapbooks, poems amongst other compelling original source material. In the text Cohn argues that Dove's concerns included science, the occult and a search for an American identity...
Item #915
An undated and unattributed poster that reproduces text from the 1891 pamphlet entitled "Anarchy," by the Italian anarchist Enrico Malatesta (1853-1932). The poster states that "the word anarchy was used in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth" and that once "the public become convinced that the government is not necessary, but extremely harmful, the word anarchy, because it signifies without government, will become equal to saying natural order, harmony of the...
Item #912
A double-sided sheet with a Ray Johnson work on one side, and an Ant Farm work on the other. The side by Ant Farm has what appears to be a blue-colored rubber stamp on it (but it is printed/mechanically reproduced) that includes the phrase "Ice 9". Ice-9 was an inflatable structure Ant Farm brought on tour for events and happenings. The Ice-9 reference comes from Kurt Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle, in which Ice-9 is a type of ice that freezes at 45 degrees and spreads throughout the world, freezing everything...
Item #910
The poster for a publicity stunt wedding that took place on June 6, 1985 on the catwalk of a billboard above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Winkie was an electronic toy made by Xtronx, Inc. of San Francisco that hoped to be the pet rock of the late 1980s. Dr. Winkie (Lawrence Lin) was the owner of San Francisco's famous club DV8, where Haring had painted large murals. The bride and groom, Penny Floyd and Jeffrey Stuart, had met on the same billboard several months eariler where Jeffrey, among...
Item #903
An original "Free South Africa" subway drawing by Keith Haring. In the early to mid-1980s Haring drew with chalk on the black paper in the subway system that the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority used to paste over expired advertisements and billboards. The blank, black panels would remain for a few days to several weeks before a new advertisement was pasted on top. Haring saw them as a blank canvas and began drawing on them, saying "it became a rewarding experience to draw and see the drawings being appreciated.....
Item #880
More about Original Keith Haring Free South Africa Subway Drawing
