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(CHIFUSA, KOU). Chifusa, Kou, Mamady Keita & Yosuke Yamashita. KOU CHIFUSA: MANDINKA - SOUNDSCAPE IN WEST AFRICA. Kyoto, JAPAN: Seigensha, Inc., 2000. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated DJ. Photography Monograph. Fine/As New. np (144pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English and Japanese. With a chronology. This is a very beautiful photographic survey of West African musicians and musical instruments taken by the Japanese photographer Kou Chifusa. Taken primarily in Guinee, Senegal, and on Goree Island, these portraits truly convey a sense of the indigenous musics, and the joy of those performing them. A most handsome copy, showing a tiny chip at the heel of the spine. 4-916094-36-0 Inventory Number: 005663

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(CURTIS, EDWARD SHERIFF). Hawkins, G. Ray. EDWARD S. CURTIS: PHOTOGRAPHS. Los Angeles. ND.: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. np (16pp), 8 gold-toned and 14 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. This the slender catalogue published in conjunction with an early G. Ray Hawkins Gallery exhibition of one hundred and thirty-six prints and gravures by the pioneering photographer of Native American and Alaskan races, Edward Sheriff Curtis. It includes images of Southwest, Northwest Coast and Eskimo peoples, as well as a pair of portraits of military officers and a production still from "Tarzan". A most handsome copy of this uncommon item showing just a bit of oxidation at the margins of its gold-toned covers. Inventory Number: 014082

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(MEISELAS, SUSAN). Meiselas, Susan. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DANI: STORIES FROM THE BALIEM VELLEY - SIGNED BY SUSAN MEISELAS. Signed and Dated by the Photographer. G÷ttingen, GERMANY & New York. 1976 (2003).: Steidl & The International Center of Photography, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "In her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani - an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands of New Guinea from the nearly six decades since their "discovery" by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations between power and representation - whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a downed U.S. army plane in "Shangri-La" from the 1940s or a touristÆs snapshots from the 1990s - become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials". Published in conjunction with the 2003 exhibition "Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video", this is a beautifully produced collage-like companion to the photographer's 1997 work; "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History". A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED by Susan Meiselas in silver marker on the title page. 3-88243-930-0 Inventory Number: 007334

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008419

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008350

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 009335

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 010758

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008598

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(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Rachel Churner, Editors. OCTOBER 120: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - WINTER 2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine. 192pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over twenty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Quai Branly in Process - James Clifford, Place: A Constructed Abstract Situation in the Urban Cultural Continuum of the 1960s - Eric De Chassey, Nauman's Body of Sculpture - Anne M. Wagner, Perpetually Out of Place: Michael Asher and Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Art Institute of Chicago - Jennifer King, Skulptur Projekte in Mⁿnster: Excerpts from Correspondence 1976-1997 - Michael Asher, The Other Side of the Wall - George Baker, sculpture in a constricted space - Tom Burr, The Artist as Historian - Mark Godfrey, Muhheakantuck: Everything Has a Name - Matthew Buckingham, and Index: Numbers 113-120 (Summer 2005-Spring 2007). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75270-0 Inventory Number: 014244

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(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Rachel Churner, Editors. OCTOBER 122: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - FALL 2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine. 132pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over twenty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Spero's Curses - Mignon Nixon, Dorothea Rockburne: Intersection - Anna Lovatt, Make Life Beautiful! The Diabolic in the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour through Berlin, Paris, and New York) - Lisa Lee, What's in a Face? Blankness and Significance in Contemporary Art Photography - Julian Stallabrass, An Elegy for Theory - D. N. Rodowick, Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies: A Response to D. N. Rodowick's "An Elegy for Theory" - Malcolm Turvey, and Memory Text: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940û2007)- Susan Bernstein. A most handsome copy. 0-262-75272-7 Inventory Number: 014989

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(QUEZADA, JUAN). Di Peso, Charles & Spencer Heath MacCullum. Prologue by Dextra Frankel. JUAN QUEZADA AND THE NEW TRADITION / Y EL NUEVO TRADICION. Fullerton, CA: The Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center California State University, Fullerton, 1979. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Very Good. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Published in conjunction with a 1979 touring exhibition, this is the well researched and illustrated first monograph on the noted potter Juan Quezada of Mata Ortiz, Mexico, and four additional local ceramicists whose work is stylistically related to the Casas Grandes Valley Ceramic Tradition. A most presentable copy with several pieces of related ephemera laid in showing a bit of overall light wear and soiling. Inventory Number: 013363

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(QUEZADA, JUAN). Di Peso, Charles & Spencer Heath MacCullum. Prologue by Dextra Frankel. JUAN QUEZADA AND THE NEW TRADITION / Y EL NUEVO TRADICION. Fullerton, CA: The Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center California State University, Fullerton, 1979. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Good +. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Published in conjunction with a 1979 touring exhibition, this is the well researched and illustrated first monograph on the noted potter Juan Quezada of Mata Ortiz, Mexico, and four additional local ceramicists whose work is stylistically related to the Casas Grandes Valley Ceramic Tradition. A most presentable copy showing some slight soiling and diagonal soft creases to the foredge corners of the wrappers as well as a few very minimally dog-eared pages. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 013454

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(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. XXe SIECLE (VINGTIEME SIECLE): NO. 25 - JUIN 1965: AUX SOURCES DE L'IMAGINAIRE - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY MAURICE ESTEVE. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1965. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Laminated Boards. Art Periodical. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 186pp + advertisements, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French and English. Cover Design by Rene Magritte. This twenty-fifth installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features an original color lithograph by Maurice Esteve. The contents include contributions on or by Pierre Volboudt, Jesus Christ, Rene Berger, Michel Ragon, Fantastic Art, Visionary Architecture, Antoni Gaudi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Tribal Art, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Jean-Clarence Lambert, Le Douanier Henri Rousseau, Dora Vallier, Art Nouveau Graphics, Patrick Waldberg, Sarane Alexandrian, Jean Miro, Juan Perucho, Maurice Esteve, Alicia Penalba, Eduard Trier, Jean Piaubert, Roger Van Gindertael, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dypreau, Marcel Duchamp, Dore Ashton, Barbara Hepworth, J.P. Hodin, Karel Appel, Hugo Klaus, Karskaya & Esther Hess, Herta Wescher, A. Fabbri, Franco Russoli, The Fondation Aime Maeght, Raoul Ubac, Claude Viseux, Genevieve Bonnefoi, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Descargues, Zoltan Kemeny, Giuseppe Marchiori, Alain Jouffroy, Antonio Segui, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Paul Klee, Jean Bazaine, and more. A handsome copy showing a bit of sunning to the extremities, and some overall light wear and handling. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 007653

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ABORIGINAL STUDIES NEWSLETTER: VOLUME 3, NO.4 (MAY 1972) - INCLUDING THE NEWSLETTER INDEX VOLUMES 1 AND 2. Canberra, AUSTRALIA: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. First Edition. 4to. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Journal. Very Good -. 36 + 14pp. A most presentable copy of this single issue of the Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies bearing the neat ink ownership inscription of well-known ethnomusicologist Dr. Elizabeth May on the front cover, with the first published Index to the Newsletter (covering the years 1963-1970) laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 004965

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Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. EX LIBRIS 4: OMNIUM GATHERUM. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris, First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Near Fine. np (74pp), no illustrations. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number four features nine hundred and forty-six fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Ancient Art and Civilization, Architecture, Art History and Aesthetics, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, Books on Books: Typography, Printing, Design, Dada and Surrealism, Expressionism, Film, Dance & Music, Literature of the Modern Movement, Movements of 19th Century Art, Movements of 20th Century Art, Periodicals and Annuals, Pre-Columbian Art and Culture, and Tribal Arts: Africa and the South Pacific. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, thirty some odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome copy of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 015161

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Cohen, Arthur A. & W. Michael Sheehe. EX LIBRIS 11. New York: Ex Libris, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine. np (72pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Tamar Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number eleven features three hundred and eighty fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, The Armory Show and Early American Modernism, The Bauhaus, Dada, Dance, Film & Theatre, De Stijl and Dutch Art, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Futurism, German Expressionism, Illustrated Books, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals, Photography, Posters and Poster Reference, Primitive Art, Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, Surrealism, and The Wiener Werkstatte. And while at the time of its 1984 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, twenty some odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome copy of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 015067

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Cole, Herbert M.. MALE AND FEMALE: THE COUPLE IN AFRICAN SCULPTURE (ETHNIC ARTS SERIES, NUMBER 1). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Good -. 29pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Published in conjunction with a 1983 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this is a study of matched pairs of male and female sculptural figures in the art of Sub-Saharan Africa. A presentable copy showing a discoloring dampstain (but with no sticking or tearing of the pages) running through the covers and textblock from the heel of the spine along the lower edge. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 014182

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Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross. THE ARTS OF GHANA. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the vibrant, authoritative catalogue for a touring exhibition of Ghanaian Art curated by two of the preeminent scholars in the field; Herbert Cole and Doran Ross. The assembled pieces include domestic and utilitarian, cult, and state arts - demonstrating the variety and complexity of the tribal arts of Ghana, as well as the skills of its makers. A most handsome copy of this uncommon reference showing the discreet blindstamp of a previous owner on the title page LC-77-89769 Inventory Number: 014017

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Collaer, Paul, Emmy Bernatzik, Jacques Brunet, Ernst Heins, Mantle Hood, Margaret King, Jose Maceda, Hans Oesch, Tran Van Khe & G. Van Wengen. MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN BAND I: MUSIKETHNOLOGIE - LIEFERUNG 3: S▄DOSTASIEN. Leipzig, AUSTRIA: VEB Deutscher Verlag fⁿr Musik, 1979. First Edition. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Ethnomusicology Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 180pp, 179 b&w illustrations. Text in German. With a comprehensive bibliography. This is a well illustrated, scholarly study devoted to the peoples and music of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Kampuchea, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Andamanen, Malaysia, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali, Flores, Timor, Alor, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku (Malacca), and the Philippines. A most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 004966

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Dupree, Louis. AFGHANISTAN. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Travel Guide. Very Good -. 760pp, 126 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography. "Since his first visit to Afghanistan in 1949, Louis Dupree has lived and worked in the country for extensive periods - as visiting professor, American Universities Field Staff, journalist, archaeologist, industrial consultant, and U.S. Government advisor. His purpose, presented clearly in the text and some one hundred illustrations, is to identify the major patterns of Afghan history, society, and culture as they have developed from the stone age to the present". This classic volume written by Louis Dupree remains over three decades later one of the great English language histories of Afghanistan. A most presentable copy showing minor overall rubbing and handling to the covers. PLEASE NOTE: Though this carries the imprint of the Princeton University Press, we suspect it is actually a locally produced paperback bootleg of the hardbound 1973 edition. It has been priced accordingly. 0-691-03006-5 Inventory Number: 015353

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(CHIFUSA, KOU). Chifusa, Kou, Mamady Keita & Yosuke Yamashita. KOU CHIFUSA: MANDINKA - SOUNDSCAPE IN WEST AFRICA. Kyoto, JAPAN: Seigensha, Inc., 2000. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated DJ. Photography Monograph. Fine/As New. np (144pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English and Japanese. With a chronology. This is a very beautiful photographic survey of West African musicians and musical instruments taken by the Japanese photographer Kou Chifusa. Taken primarily in Guinee, Senegal, and on Goree Island, these portraits truly convey a sense of the indigenous musics, and the joy of those performing them. A most handsome copy, showing a tiny chip at the heel of the spine. 4-916094-36-0 Inventory Number: 005663 $ 95.00 order/inquire
(CURTIS, EDWARD SHERIFF). Hawkins, G. Ray. EDWARD S. CURTIS: PHOTOGRAPHS. Los Angeles. ND.: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. np (16pp), 8 gold-toned and 14 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. This the slender catalogue published in conjunction with an early G. Ray Hawkins Gallery exhibition of one hundred and thirty-six prints and gravures by the pioneering photographer of Native American and Alaskan races, Edward Sheriff Curtis. It includes images of Southwest, Northwest Coast and Eskimo peoples, as well as a pair of portraits of military officers and a production still from "Tarzan". A most handsome copy of this uncommon item showing just a bit of oxidation at the margins of its gold-toned covers. Inventory Number: 014082 $ 40.00 order/inquire
(MEISELAS, SUSAN). Meiselas, Susan. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DANI: STORIES FROM THE BALIEM VELLEY - SIGNED BY SUSAN MEISELAS. Signed and Dated by the Photographer. G÷ttingen, GERMANY & New York. 1976 (2003).: Steidl & The International Center of Photography, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "In her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani - an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands of New Guinea from the nearly six decades since their "discovery" by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations between power and representation - whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a downed U.S. army plane in "Shangri-La" from the 1940s or a touristÆs snapshots from the 1990s - become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials". Published in conjunction with the 2003 exhibition "Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video", this is a beautifully produced collage-like companion to the photographer's 1997 work; "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History". A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED by Susan Meiselas in silver marker on the title page. 3-88243-930-0 Inventory Number: 007334 $ 80.00 order/inquire
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008419 $ 65.00 order/inquire
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008350 $ 65.00 order/inquire
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 009335 $ 65.00 order/inquire
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 010758 $ 65.00 order/inquire
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". A pristine copy of the first edition of actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen's compelling cultural document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-7-X Inventory Number: 008598 $ 65.00 order/inquire
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Rachel Churner, Editors. OCTOBER 120: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - WINTER 2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine. 192pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over twenty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Quai Branly in Process - James Clifford, Place: A Constructed Abstract Situation in the Urban Cultural Continuum of the 1960s - Eric De Chassey, Nauman's Body of Sculpture - Anne M. Wagner, Perpetually Out of Place: Michael Asher and Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Art Institute of Chicago - Jennifer King, Skulptur Projekte in Mⁿnster: Excerpts from Correspondence 1976-1997 - Michael Asher, The Other Side of the Wall - George Baker, sculpture in a constricted space - Tom Burr, The Artist as Historian - Mark Godfrey, Muhheakantuck: Everything Has a Name - Matthew Buckingham, and Index: Numbers 113-120 (Summer 2005-Spring 2007). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75270-0 Inventory Number: 014244 $ 25.00 order/inquire
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Rachel Churner, Editors. OCTOBER 122: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - FALL 2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine. 132pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over twenty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Spero's Curses - Mignon Nixon, Dorothea Rockburne: Intersection - Anna Lovatt, Make Life Beautiful! The Diabolic in the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour through Berlin, Paris, and New York) - Lisa Lee, What's in a Face? Blankness and Significance in Contemporary Art Photography - Julian Stallabrass, An Elegy for Theory - D. N. Rodowick, Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies: A Response to D. N. Rodowick's "An Elegy for Theory" - Malcolm Turvey, and Memory Text: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940û2007)- Susan Bernstein. A most handsome copy. 0-262-75272-7 Inventory Number: 014989 $ 25.00 order/inquire
(QUEZADA, JUAN). Di Peso, Charles & Spencer Heath MacCullum. Prologue by Dextra Frankel. JUAN QUEZADA AND THE NEW TRADITION / Y EL NUEVO TRADICION. Fullerton, CA: The Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center California State University, Fullerton, 1979. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Very Good. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Published in conjunction with a 1979 touring exhibition, this is the well researched and illustrated first monograph on the noted potter Juan Quezada of Mata Ortiz, Mexico, and four additional local ceramicists whose work is stylistically related to the Casas Grandes Valley Ceramic Tradition. A most presentable copy with several pieces of related ephemera laid in showing a bit of overall light wear and soiling. Inventory Number: 013363 $ 45.00 order/inquire
(QUEZADA, JUAN). Di Peso, Charles & Spencer Heath MacCullum. Prologue by Dextra Frankel. JUAN QUEZADA AND THE NEW TRADITION / Y EL NUEVO TRADICION. Fullerton, CA: The Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center California State University, Fullerton, 1979. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Good +. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Published in conjunction with a 1979 touring exhibition, this is the well researched and illustrated first monograph on the noted potter Juan Quezada of Mata Ortiz, Mexico, and four additional local ceramicists whose work is stylistically related to the Casas Grandes Valley Ceramic Tradition. A most presentable copy showing some slight soiling and diagonal soft creases to the foredge corners of the wrappers as well as a few very minimally dog-eared pages. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 013454 $ 35.00 order/inquire
(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. XXe SIECLE (VINGTIEME SIECLE): NO. 25 - JUIN 1965: AUX SOURCES DE L'IMAGINAIRE - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY MAURICE ESTEVE. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1965. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Laminated Boards. Art Periodical. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 186pp + advertisements, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French and English. Cover Design by Rene Magritte. This twenty-fifth installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features an original color lithograph by Maurice Esteve. The contents include contributions on or by Pierre Volboudt, Jesus Christ, Rene Berger, Michel Ragon, Fantastic Art, Visionary Architecture, Antoni Gaudi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Tribal Art, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Jean-Clarence Lambert, Le Douanier Henri Rousseau, Dora Vallier, Art Nouveau Graphics, Patrick Waldberg, Sarane Alexandrian, Jean Miro, Juan Perucho, Maurice Esteve, Alicia Penalba, Eduard Trier, Jean Piaubert, Roger Van Gindertael, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dypreau, Marcel Duchamp, Dore Ashton, Barbara Hepworth, J.P. Hodin, Karel Appel, Hugo Klaus, Karskaya & Esther Hess, Herta Wescher, A. Fabbri, Franco Russoli, The Fondation Aime Maeght, Raoul Ubac, Claude Viseux, Genevieve Bonnefoi, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Descargues, Zoltan Kemeny, Giuseppe Marchiori, Alain Jouffroy, Antonio Segui, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Paul Klee, Jean Bazaine, and more. A handsome copy showing a bit of sunning to the extremities, and some overall light wear and handling. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 007653 $ 100.00 order/inquire
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ABORIGINAL STUDIES NEWSLETTER: VOLUME 3, NO.4 (MAY 1972) - INCLUDING THE NEWSLETTER INDEX VOLUMES 1 AND 2. Canberra, AUSTRALIA: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. First Edition. 4to. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Journal. Very Good -. 36 + 14pp. A most presentable copy of this single issue of the Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies bearing the neat ink ownership inscription of well-known ethnomusicologist Dr. Elizabeth May on the front cover, with the first published Index to the Newsletter (covering the years 1963-1970) laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 004965 $ 25.00 order/inquire
Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. EX LIBRIS 4: OMNIUM GATHERUM. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris, First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Near Fine. np (74pp), no illustrations. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number four features nine hundred and forty-six fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Ancient Art and Civilization, Architecture, Art History and Aesthetics, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, Books on Books: Typography, Printing, Design, Dada and Surrealism, Expressionism, Film, Dance & Music, Literature of the Modern Movement, Movements of 19th Century Art, Movements of 20th Century Art, Periodicals and Annuals, Pre-Columbian Art and Culture, and Tribal Arts: Africa and the South Pacific. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, thirty some odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome copy of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 015161 $ 100.00 order/inquire
Cohen, Arthur A. & W. Michael Sheehe. EX LIBRIS 11. New York: Ex Libris, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine. np (72pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Tamar Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number eleven features three hundred and eighty fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, The Armory Show and Early American Modernism, The Bauhaus, Dada, Dance, Film & Theatre, De Stijl and Dutch Art, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Futurism, German Expressionism, Illustrated Books, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals, Photography, Posters and Poster Reference, Primitive Art, Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, Surrealism, and The Wiener Werkstatte. And while at the time of its 1984 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, twenty some odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome copy of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 015067 $ 60.00 order/inquire
Cole, Herbert M.. MALE AND FEMALE: THE COUPLE IN AFRICAN SCULPTURE (ETHNIC ARTS SERIES, NUMBER 1). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Good -. 29pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Published in conjunction with a 1983 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this is a study of matched pairs of male and female sculptural figures in the art of Sub-Saharan Africa. A presentable copy showing a discoloring dampstain (but with no sticking or tearing of the pages) running through the covers and textblock from the heel of the spine along the lower edge. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 014182 $ 12.50 order/inquire
Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross. THE ARTS OF GHANA. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the vibrant, authoritative catalogue for a touring exhibition of Ghanaian Art curated by two of the preeminent scholars in the field; Herbert Cole and Doran Ross. The assembled pieces include domestic and utilitarian, cult, and state arts - demonstrating the variety and complexity of the tribal arts of Ghana, as well as the skills of its makers. A most handsome copy of this uncommon reference showing the discreet blindstamp of a previous owner on the title page LC-77-89769 Inventory Number: 014017 $ 150.00 order/inquire
Collaer, Paul, Emmy Bernatzik, Jacques Brunet, Ernst Heins, Mantle Hood, Margaret King, Jose Maceda, Hans Oesch, Tran Van Khe & G. Van Wengen. MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN BAND I: MUSIKETHNOLOGIE - LIEFERUNG 3: S▄DOSTASIEN. Leipzig, AUSTRIA: VEB Deutscher Verlag fⁿr Musik, 1979. First Edition. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Ethnomusicology Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 180pp, 179 b&w illustrations. Text in German. With a comprehensive bibliography. This is a well illustrated, scholarly study devoted to the peoples and music of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Kampuchea, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Andamanen, Malaysia, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali, Flores, Timor, Alor, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku (Malacca), and the Philippines. A most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 004966 $ 125.00 order/inquire
Dupree, Louis. AFGHANISTAN. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Travel Guide. Very Good -. 760pp, 126 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography. "Since his first visit to Afghanistan in 1949, Louis Dupree has lived and worked in the country for extensive periods - as visiting professor, American Universities Field Staff, journalist, archaeologist, industrial consultant, and U.S. Government advisor. His purpose, presented clearly in the text and some one hundred illustrations, is to identify the major patterns of Afghan history, society, and culture as they have developed from the stone age to the present". This classic volume written by Louis Dupree remains over three decades later one of the great English language histories of Afghanistan. A most presentable copy showing minor overall rubbing and handling to the covers. PLEASE NOTE: Though this carries the imprint of the Princeton University Press, we suspect it is actually a locally produced paperback bootleg of the hardbound 1973 edition. It has been priced accordingly. 0-691-03006-5 Inventory Number: 015353 $ 55.00 order/inquire
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