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BOOK OF THE DAY (7/23/2010) from Whitney:
If you "like" Arcana on Facebook
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STAFF PICK (6/23/2010) from S.S.: 24 cinematic moments presented in Wim Wenders' JOURNEY TO ONOMICHI were taken on his trip to the town where his all-time favorite film, Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu, took place. A stunning masterpiece - S.S.
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WIM WENDERS: JOURNEY TO ONOMICHI
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THE SECRET PUBLIC (5/7/2010) from Lee & Whitney: Opening May 10th and running through the 23rd: THE SECRET PUBLIC exhibition by Linder Sterling and Jon Savage, curated by our colleague and pal Johan Kugelberg at his Boo-Hooray pop-up gallery in New York! The show will feature the original montages, photographs and collages from their notorious, amusingly subversive 1978 New Hormones publication "The Secret Public”, as well as other related materials. There will be a gala party on Monday the 10th from 6 – 9:00 PM featuring a DJ set by Mr. Savage himself. Boo-Hooray is located at 521 West 23rd Street (between 10th and 11th). Do make a point of stopping by to revisit your Anglo-punk leanings, and tell ‘em Arcana sent you. If you are unable to attend, we already have in stock the spiffy, fully illustrated sixty page catalogue for the show (limited to five hundred examples only) priced at an exceptionally reasonable $25.00! This is the super-cool new catalogue published in conjunction with the Johan Kugelberg curated 2010 Boo-Hooray Gallery exhibition of the punk-era collage/montage work of Jon Savage and Linder Sterling. "Jon Savage is the noted author of "England’s Dreaming" and "Teenage". Linder Sterling is a visual, performance and installation artist represented in the Tate permanent collection. Jon Savage and Linder published the art fanzine "The Secret Public" in Manchester during the first month of 1978. It was the second New Hormones product - catalogue number ORG 2 after the Buzzcocks' already iconic "Spiral Scratch" - and was distributed through Rough Trade and other independent outlets. This was followed by the portfolio "Mixed Media Montages" published in late 1978. Some of these images originally appeared as flyers and as posters for the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Magazine and Factory Records circa 1977-1980". This collects for the first time quaint reproductions of these and other contemporaneous works from the period (many not generally seen until now) along with texts by Michael Bracewell, Jon Savage, and Linder Sterling. A pristine copy of this must-have document limited to five hundred numbered copies only that is sure to disappear quickly with a copy of the opening announcement laid in!
And while you're in the mood, you might also be interested in: ASK THE ANGELS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DONNA SANTISI. Donna Santisi's self-published "Ask the Angels" from 1978 was the first book of photographs to document the then nascent Los Angeles Punk and New Wave scene. A tireless frequenter of both the live performances and backstage, her unpretentious, gritty images comprised a who's who of both local and touring practitioners such as The Runaways, Screamers, Bags, Dils, Weirdos, Go-Gos, Sparks, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Cramps, Sex Pistols, Damned, Jam, and too many more to mention. This brand new, oversized and expanded edition is a must have for anyone who was there, or wishes they were.
EILEEN POLK: PUNK IS DEAD.
Published in a very limited quantity to accompany the Bryan Ray
Turcotte / Kill Your Idols curated exhibition at Art Basel Miami
2008, "Punk is Dead" is a beautiful compilation of Eileen Polk's
seventies New York photographs of The Misfits, Sid Vicious, Nancy
Spungen, The Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, Debbie
Harry, The Clash, The Ramones, and Devo.
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JON SAVAGE / LINDER STERLING: THE
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IT'S RECORD STORE DAY (www.recordstoreday.com)! (04/17/2010) from Whitney: NEW AND USED - SIGNED BY MARC JOSEPH "Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, photographer Marc Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of downtown Cleveland. Most Saturday afternoons were spent combing through the stacks in anticipation of a major future purchase - like his first, "London Calling" by The Clash - or studying certain talismanic book covers like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Allen Ginsberg's "Howl". This was the beginning of Joseph's permanent fascination with books and records - both as public artworks and as formative private experiences. "New and Used" is a collection of richly detailed color photographs of hardcovers, paperbacks, LPs, CDs and cassettes, either shelved, piled, boxed and stacked in their natural environments - independent book and record shops - or individually silhouetted like artifacts pinned into shadow boxes. Together with editor Damon Krukowski, the artist has assembled a collection of short fiction, prose, poems and personal essays by writers and musicians including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, novelists Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Davis, critic and curator Bob Nickas, poets Eileen Myles and Nick Tosches as well as Stephen Elliott, Shelley Jackson, Aaron Rose, Jeremy Sigler, Stephanie Snyder and Ian Svevonius, all of whom respond to the New and Used of their own experience". A pristine example of one of our favorite photography books SIGNED (at Arcana!) AND DATED in the year of publication by Marc Joseph in black ink on the title page.
DAVE MULLER: I LIKE YOUR MUSIC I LOVE YOUR MUSIC
Pity the youth, their zeroes and ones, trapped in their
devices! How will their potential friends and lovers recognize
them as one of their own, or one they want to be -- by browsing
their hard drives? How do you cherish that data file that
you scrimped and saved to ... download? What of cover art and
the liner notes? What of reading the lyrics, the credits, of
wondering who mythical creatures are in the "thanks"? And if
one album is complicated, pair it with the one next to it.
Factor in the and the one after that and pretty soon the
exponentially increased permutations become dizzying.
The delightful paintings in this book are (to me) about stuff:
objects, and the infinite loop of the way the objects influence
us and they way we express ourselves through the objects, who we
are because of what the object has given us, who we are because
we chose the object. In this case, the object is music,
the record album mostly, but the idea is readily commutable when
considering books, which you, dear reader seem to be interested
in by virtue of reading this at all. And it's good reading,
too, with some choice interview morsels from conversations
between Muller and various notable artists, gallerists &
coolsters. There's a LOT going on here, but what I really love
about this album-sized book are the paintings themselves
-- no reflection required, they speak for themselves as
pure delights. The work is simply fetching, its charm politely
belying the wealth of complex ideas that it evokes. Just like
some of the best albums.
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 MARC JOSEPH: NEW AND USED sales@arcanabooks.com or 310-458-1499
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HEY BIG SPENDERS!!! (12/09/2009) from Whitney: MELVIN SOKOLSKY: ARCHIVE Wow... This is glamorous: Melvin Sokolsky's self-published retrospective monograph of his photographs from the 1960s to the present. We have copies of the luxurious limited edition, (700 copies signed by Sokolsky) designed by Sara Siri and featuring complete visuals from his iconic Bubble and Fly series with essays by Sokolsky recounting the highlights of his prolific career.
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 MELVIN SOKOLSKY: ARCHIVE Text by James Rosenquist, Ali MacGraw and Raphaelle Stopin. Melvin Sokolsky, 2009 Hardcover, 472 pages $ 500.00
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Staff pick (12/09/2009) from Steve: BERENICE ABBOTT A fabulous, new(ish) collection of photographs by great American modernist and Atget-booster, Berenice Abbott. Includes NYC in the thirties, the scientific work, and more. Beautifully printed, these images have never looked better. - Steve
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Staff pick (12/07/2009) from Roy: PAUL FUSCO: RFK
A
tremendously powerful portrayal of the American spirit resulting
from the loss of an American hero. - Roy |
 PAUL FUSCO: RFK Paul Fusco, Edward Kennedy, Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas Vicki Goldberg Aperture, 2008 (First Edition Thus) Hardcover, 224 pages $ 50.00 or signed by the photographer for $ 75.00 sales@arcanabooks.com or 310-458-1499 |
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Staff pick (12/07/2009) from B.B.: JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS OF THE 1960s and '70s What could be cooler than Japanese 60s avant-garde??? - B.B.
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JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS OF THE 1960s & '70s
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Staff pick (12/04/2009) from S.S.: THE L.A. EARTHQUAKE SOURCEBOOK Designed by Stefan Sagmeister and created by Art Center College of Design students and faculty, the L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook compiles the latest knowledge and data about earthquake preparedness and recovery. Filled with illustrations and graphic imagery by renowned artists, designers and literary excerpts from acclaimed writers, such as Joan Didion, this remarkable book is not only informative but is also a well-designed object to keep. - S.S.
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 THE L.A. EARTHQUAKE SOURCEBOOK Edited by Judith Lewis, David L. Ulin. Introduction by Mariana Amatullo. Foreword by Richard Koshalek. Preface by Antonio R. Villaraigosa. Design by Stefan Sagmeister. Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, 2009 Hardcover, 344 pages $ 35.00 It's possibly the most useful
art book you'll ever have.
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KNOCK A FEW THINGS OFF OF YOUR GIFT LIST EARLY! (or add a few things to your own wish list. ) (11/17/09) from Lee & Whitney: Taschen editor and graphic designer Jim Heimann has amassed one of the world's most astonishing collections of reference material dealing with the visual representation of Los Angeles. For "Los Angeles: Portrait of a City" ($70.00) he presents over five hundred images drawn from his and other photographic archives alongside crack essays by Kevin Starr and David Ulin to fashion a massive and sumptuous, near-definitive volume that illuminate the forces that pushed and pulled this crazy burg throughout the twentieth century.
"The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin" ($59.95
- signed by the author!) is
Kristine McKenna's extraordinary new history of Ed Kienholz,
Walter Hopps, and Irving Blum's visionary Ferus Gallery. Between
1956 and 1966, the
Ferus was home to such influential California artists
as John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner,
Jay De Feo, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Kienholz, Kenneth
Price, and Ed
Ruscha. It was also the site of the
first Los Angeles exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Ellsworth
Kelly. The book recounts
the gallery's history chronologically in transcribed interviews
with the Ferus artists, wives and girlfriends, collectors, and
other well-placed Los Angeles denizens,
and features hundreds of vintage images - including many
published here for the first time.
An excellent companion to the "The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin" is the DVD of Morgan Neville's 2007 film "The Cool School: The Story of the Ferus Art Gallery" ($30.00) . " "The Cool School" is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch, and what to avoid in the process. Narrated by actor Jeff Bridges, the film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the Los Angeles art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive, often brilliant artists, including Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. The Ferus also served as launching point for New York imports Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as leading to the first Pop Art show and Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective. What was lost and gained is tied up in a complex web of egos, passions, money, and art. This is how L.A. came of age". This documentary presciently tells its tale by combining cool vintage footage with contemporary interviews with the likes of Kienholz, Hopps, Irving Blum, Frank Gehry, Dennis Hopper, Ruscha, Bengston, Bell, Moses, Price, John Baldessari, and Dean Stockwell. Also included are short features on Walter Hopps, Ed Kienholz, and a Ferus artists reunion.
Speaking of Ferus and its artists, one of the season's most impressive and important books is devoted to one of the gallery's most influential supporters, iconic Hollywood maverick Dennis Hooper. "During the 1960s, Hopper carried a camera everywhere - on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye" . Limited to fifteen hundred signed and numbered copies, "Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967" ($1,000.00) is a giant chronicle of a period of upheaval and change that even at its hefty yet well-deserved price sure to sell out from the publisher before the holidays actually arrive.
Scott Schuman's daily internet style-bible "The Sartorialist" ($25.00) is now available for all eternity as an elegant brick-sized paperback that shows that elegance abounds at every street corner, and that one needn't recreate David Hemming's studio hubris from "Blow Up" to capture the perfect fashion moment. Schuman designed the book to be used - thumbed through, referred to, and studied for the fantastic blends of color, shape, proportion, and style it portrays - not just to sit revered on the coffee table. It's the perfect gift for anyone at all interested in getting dressed, let alone fashion. Throw it in your bag and revel in it when the mood strikes. We also have a few copies left of the luxe limited signed and numbered, hardbound slipcased "Bespoke edition" that sells for $175.00.
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Staff pick (11/07/09) from the awesome S.S.:
EXPANDING ARCHITECTURE: DESIGN AS ACTIVISM
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Staff pick
MIKE
SLACK: PYRAMIDS
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Staff pick (10/04/09) from S.S.: LUC TUYMANS Published in conjunction with the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, this exhibition catalogue offers an unprecedented overview of Tuymans' career. The show of this crucial figure in contemporary art is currently on view at the Wexner Center and will open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 6, 2010. Mark your calendar! - S.S. |
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Staff pick (09/07/09) from S.S.: FOOD FOR THOUGHT. THOUGHT FOR FOOD.
"Food for Thought. Thought for Food"
explores the relationship between the cuisine of Ferran Adrià's
elBulli—ranked as No. 1 on Restaurant Magazine's S. Pellegrino
World's 50 Best Restaurant list in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, and
2009—and the art world, from the starting point of Adrià's
participation in documenta 12 and the discussions this ignited on
artistic and gastronomic creativity. The book contains many
debates, texts and round tables between artists, chefs, critics,
curators, and gallerists.
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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT. THOUGHT FOR FOOD. Vincente Todolí. Richard Hamilton, editor. Actar, 2009 Hardcover, 400 pages $ 44.95 click here or call us (310-458-1499) to order. |
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BOSS' PICK (09/01/09) from Lee: Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books
The increasingly common phenomenon of the lavishly appointed,
subjective genre bibliography has become a great source of both
new information and fodder for debate. Consider the furor and
subsequent market forces unleashed in the photographic
book world following the publication of
"The Book of 101 Books",
"The Open Book",
"The Photobook", and
"From Fair to Fine".
While I don't think Jason Godfrey's new "Bibliographic:
100 Classic Graphic Design Books" will cause speculators to leap
from the woodwork in quite the same way, it does bring to light
some lesser-known gems within its well-designed and illustrated
selection from Aicher to Yokoo (but no Zwart, alas...) of
classic examples of modernist graphic design in book form that
also makes a fine reference for a select purchase or two. While
a bit light in my estimation in the pre-WWII classics, the
content here is thoughtfully chosen, and mostly hard to argue
with if one must keep such a list to a mere hundred titles. A
classic and important contribution to the existing literature,
that's for sure. Alternate titles, anyone? - Lee
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STAFF PICK (08/28/09) from Veronica: MARK BORTHWICK: NOT IN FASHION Often imitated, Mark Borthwick also shot the album art for Sonic Youth's "A Thousand Leaves"! - Veronica
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Staff pick (08/20/09) from S.S.:
Jenny Saville: Migrants
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Staff pick (08/19/09) from KIRK :
2 BOOKS! One for each budget. Both of them store favorites:
HANS SILVESTER -
ETHIOPIA: PEOPLES OF THE OMO VALLEY Because we should all be so beautiful. - Kirk
Anyone remotely interested in
fashion/beauty/anthropology/
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HANS SILVESTER -
ETHIOPIA: PEOPLES OF THE OMO VALLEY HANS SILVESTER - NATURAL FASHION: TRIBAL
DECORATION FROM AFRICA Wanna buy
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Elmgreen & Dragset: Since the beginning of their collaboration in 1995, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created a wide range of installations, performances and environmental projects, such as the witty permanent installation "Prada Marfa" in the middle of the Texas desert; the life-size sculpture titled "Disgrace (Rolls Royce Corniche)" — a blackened Rolls Royce Corniche covered in feathers; and their socio-critical traveling exhibition "The Welfare Show." Recently, Elmgreen & Dragset were selected to curate both the Danish Pavilion and the Nordic Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennale. "This Is The First Day Of My Life" is the first extensive survey of their most important works, as well as previously unpublished creations. - S.S.
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