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(ARTFORUM). Coplans, John &Max Kozloff, Editors. New York: Artforum, 1976. First Edition. Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. 82pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover Image of Nadar. This September 1976 issue (Volume XV, Number 1) of the noted periodical "Artforum" is a special thematic number devoted to photography. It features the articles "Nadar and the Republic of Mind" - Max Kozloff, "How Others Live: Some Recent Photography Books" - Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr., "The Anti-Photographers" - Nancy Foote, "The Directorial Mode: Notes Toward a Definition" - A.D. Coleman, and "Marey and Chronophotography" - Aaron Scharf, as well as a slew of informative period reviews and ads. A handsome copy showing some light wear and handling to the wrappers along with a bit of dog-earing to the rear of the textblock at the upper foredge corner. ISSN 0004-3532 Inventory Number: 022430

(ARTFORUM). Sandback, Amy Baker, Editor. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1984. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Good +. 342pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath. Beginning with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from its June 1962 inaugural issue, this is an amazing compendium of articles and reviews culled from the first twenty-one years of the noted art periodical "Artforum" featuring contributions by the stellar likes of Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, j. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition whose dust jacket shows some overall light wear, handling and scuffing. 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. 0-8357-1536-1 Inventory Number: 014028

(ART-RITE) (IMAGE BANK). Robinson, Walter, Edit deAk, Vincent Trasov & Michael Morris, Editors. New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Good +.. np (20pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Cover by Image Bank. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The nineteenth issue of cutting edge '70s New York art rag "Art-Rite Magazine" is guest edited by Image Bank's Canadian co-conspirators Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris. It is a "mondo artie correspondence collage" extravaganza featuring contributions by John Dowd, Ray Johnson, General Idea, Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Christopherson, and Cosey Fanni Tutti, Eric Metcalfe, John Jack Baylin, Albrecht D., Terry Reid, Robert Fones, Environmental Communications, Les Levine, Paul Cotton, Robert Cumming, Gilbert & George, Brian Luczak, G.A. Cavellini, John Giorno, Andy Warhol, Zeke, and of course Image Bank. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some typical slight browning and a few nicks plus short closed tears to its brittle newsprint pages along with creasing through the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023976

(ART-RITE) (MACCONNEL, KIM). Robinson, Walter & Edit deAk, Editors. New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. np (24pp), illustrated in b&w. Cover by Kim MacConnel. The seventeenth issue of the cutting edge '70s New York art rag "Art-Rite" is devoted to entirely to hundreds of small drawings by Kim MacConnel. A fresh, well preserved example of this uncommon item showing very little of the typical browning and brittleness to the newsprint covers and textblock associated with this title. Inventory Number: 023905

(ART-RITE). Robinson, Walter & Edit deAk, Editors. New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. np, illustrated in b&w. Cover by Joseph Beuys. The tenth issue of cutting-edge '70s New York art rag "Art-Rite Magazine" features contributions on or by Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, David Antin, Diego Cortez, Joan La Barbara, Charlemagne Palestine, Annette Michelson, Carolee Schneeman, Colette, Joan Jonas, Philip Glass, Julia Heyward, Ralston Farina, Hannah Wilke, Rebecca Horn, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, Jeffrey Deitch, Lucio Pozzi, Robin Winters, Trisha Brown, Michael Kirby, Scott Burton, Robert Wilson, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Foreman, Christopher Knowles, Lucinda Childs, Lil Picard, Linda Benglis, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris, the Mabou Mines, and others. A most handsome example showing some light handling, slight browning to the edges of the newsprint pages as is typical along with a small bit of paper loss to the rear cover at the lower foredge corner. Inventory Number: 025592

(ART-RITE) (SUICIDE, ALAN). . Robinson, Walter & Edit deAk, Editors. New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Art Journal. Fine.. 24pp, illustrated in b&w. Cover by Alan Suicide. The thirteenth issue of cutting-edge '70s New York art rag "Art-Rite Magazine" is devoted to images from popular culture culled and assembled by Alan Suicide - one half of the cult New York No-Wave duo "Suicide". A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item whose variant cover is printed in black and red ink. Inventory Number: 025593

(ASSEMBLAGE). Hays, K. Michael, Beatriz Colomina, Mary Macleod, Linda Pollak, Mark Rakatansky & Alicia Kennedy, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Journal. Very Good.. 115pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This sixth issue of MIT Press' influential (now sadly defunct) quarterly journal of architectural and design theory "Assemblage" includes contributions on or by Richard Sieburth, Allan Sekula, Kristin Ross. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Georges Teyssot, and Rodolfo Machado. A handsome example. ISSN 0889-3012 Inventory Number: 024627

(BALAZS, BELA) (OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Lisa Pasquariello, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 114pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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 that is heavily focused on the late Hungarian film theoretician Bela Balazs include: An Exchange on Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War - Retort, Terres Inconnues: Cartographies of a Landscape to Be Invented - Anthony Vidler, The Lessons of Guy Debord - Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord, or The Revolutionary Without a Halo - Tom McDonough, Selected Translations - Malcolm Turvey, Radio Drama - Bela Balazs, Wireless Chaos - Bela Balazs, Compulsive Cameramen - Bela Balazs, Chaplin, or The American Simpleton - Bela Balazs, Film Criticism! - Bela Balazs, On the Train at Night - Bela Balazs, On Foot - Bela Balazs, Space, Time, and "Rites de Passage": Bela Balazs' Paths to Film - Hanno Loewy, Balazs: Realist or Modernist? - Malcolm Turvey, Diary of a Buren Spectator - Silvia Kolbowski, Letters and Responses - Liam Gillick, and Letters and Responses - Claire Bishop Responds. A most handsome copy. 0-262-75265-4 Inventory Number: 018168

(BATAILLE, GEORGES). Bataille, Georges. Denis Hollier, Editor. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Fine. 161pp, no illustrations. This is the first complete English language translation of noted French philosopher/theoretician Georges Bataille's 1961 work "Le Coupable", which "combines the genres of fiction, memoir and meditation in a philosophical interrogation of man's entrapment within desire". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 0-932499-55-4 Inventory Number: 017290

(BROODTHAERS, MARCEL) (OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Debossed Buckram. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 212pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a bibliography. The forty-second installment of "October" from Fall 1987 was a special monographic issue devoted to Marcel Broodthaers that quickly sold out. Given the issue's importance, MIT chose to reprint it the following year as a trade publication minus the extraneous editorial content and advertisements. The contents of this version are Untitled Poem, Azure, Questions of Painting, Selections from Pense-Bete, Investigating Dreamland, Gare au defi: Pop Art, Jim Dine, and the Influence of Rene Magritte, To be bien pensant...or not to be. To be blind, An Interview by the Film Journal Trepied, Ten Thousand Francs Reward, and A Portfolio of Photographs - all by Marcel Broodthaers; Look! Books in Plaster! - Dieter Schwarz; Open Letters, Industrial Poems - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; The Exhibition at the MTL Gallery in Brussels - Anne Rorimer; The Figures - Dirk Snauwaert; Section des Figures: The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present - Rainer Borgemeister; Eagle/Pipe/Urinal - Michael Oppitz; Recourse to the Letter - Birgit Pelzer; "Pauvre Belgique: An Asterisk in History" - Yves Gevaert; DÉCOR: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers - Marcel Broodthaers; and Bibliography - Marie-Pascale Gildemyn. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon hardbound edition of this important document perfect for the Broodthaers completeist issued without a dust jacket. 0-262-02281-8 Inventory Number: 020748

(BYRNE, DAVID). Byrne, David. Göttingen, GERMANY & New York: Steidl & Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Die-Cut Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 96 color illustrations, with a DVD laid in. "For more than a year David Byrne has been employing the ubiquitous sales and presentation program Microsoft PowerPoint as an art medium. "E.E.E.I (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information)" is a book of images and essays, plus a DVD which plays five of his PowerPoint presentations accompanied by his own original music. The book component contains a dozen new exploratory texts and a whole lot of bold, graphic images created with the help of the software program's built-in tools and visuals - not to mention the fun of plastic overlays and nifty foldout pages. And you may ask yourself, what is this about? It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audiovisual form - using a medium in a way that is different, and possibly better, than for what was intended. It is about appropriating a contemporary, corporate staple and making something critical, beautiful and humorous with it." A brand new, pristine example in shrinkwrap in the publisher's printed die-cut slipcase, as issued. 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. 3-88243-907-6 Inventory Number: 022652

(BYRNE, DAVID). Byrne, David. Gottingen, GERMANY & New York: Steidl & Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Die Cut Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 96 color illustrations. Designed by Danielle Spencer and David Byrne. "For more than a year David Byrne has been employing the ubiquitous sales and presentation program Microsoft PowerPoint as an art medium. "E.E.E.I (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information)" is a book of images and essays, plus a DVD which plays five of his PowerPoint presentations accompanied by his own original music. The book component contains a dozen new exploratory texts and a whole lot of bold, graphic images created with the help of the software program's built-in tools and visuals - not to mention the fun of plastic overlays and nifty foldout pages. And you may ask yourself, what is this about? It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audiovisual form - using a medium in a way that is different, and possibly better, than for what was intended. It is about appropriating a contemporary, corporate staple and making something critical, beautiful and humorous with it". A brand new, pristine example in the publisher's printed die cut slipcase (as issued) BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "David Byrne 03" WITH A DRAWING of arrows in the year of publication in black ink on the title page. 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. 3-88243-907-6 Inventory Number: 022254

(CINEMA). Silke, James R., Curtis Lee Hanson, Grace Nagata, Rod Dyer, Michael Lindsay, Paul Schrader, Jeannine Oppewall, Arlene Friedman & Sandy Brown Wyeth, Editors. Hollywood & Beverly Hills, CA. 1963-1976: Cinema Magazine & Spectator International, Inc.. First Editions. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Near Fine. or Better. circa 60pp each, profusely illustrated in b&w + color covers. This is a group of twenty-eight of the thirty-five issues published of the stylishly designed, copiously illustrated "Cinema" magazine. Published between 1963 and 1976, it was the slightly more glamorous Tinseltown cousin to Jonas Mekas' "Film Culture" that was likewise devoted to critical insight of contemporary world cinema as well as its historical precedents. During its decade and a half run, the "Cinema" editorial staff included noted art director, illustrator, and screenwriter Jim Silke, directors Curtis Lee Hanson and Paul Schrader, and a stellar roster of contributors coupled with a notable penchant for photographing the most alluring actresses of the day. The latter was likely due to the influence of longtime publisher Jack Martin Hanson, who along with his wife Sally owned JAX - Beverly Hills' hippest women's clothing boutique - and "The Daisy" - the members-only discotheque of choice for Hollywood's beautiful people and power brokers alike. Advertisements for both establishments are prominently placed in each issue. In addition to reviews of virtually all of the significant cinematic offerings of the time, the magazine features contributions by Silke, Hanson, Schrader, Curtis Harrington, Peter Bogdanovich, Guy Webster, William Claxton, Peggy Moffitt, Richard Brooks, Raymond Durgnat, Harlan Ellison, John Sladek, Robert Towne, John Milius, Axel Madsen, James Baldwin, Paul Schrader, Tom Baker, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Donald Richie, Peter Guber, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marc Wanamaker; interviews with Howard Hawks, Fred Zinneman, Norman Jewison, Vicente Minnelli, Martin Ransohoff, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom, Richard Attenborough, William Wyler, Lawrence Turman, Don Siegel, John Cassavetes, Saul Bass, Eddie Constantine, Gordon Parks, Toshiro Mifune, Roman Polanski, Federico Fellini, Jeanne Moreau, Arthur Penn, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Renoir, Frederick Weisman, Kon Ichikawa, Eric Rohmer, Joseph H. Lewis, Woody Allen, Mitchell Leisen, Paul Morrissey, Dorothy Arzner, Costa Gavras, Curtis Harrington, Lina Wertmuller; and features on Andy Warhol, G.W. Pabst, Robert Rossen, Boris Karloff, The Hollywood Pinup, Yasujiro Ozu, Budd Boetticher, Nicholas Roeg's "Performance", Kenji Mizoguchi, Robert Bresson, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, D.W. Griffith and Carol Dempster, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange", Chris Marker's "La Jetee", Women in Film, and many, many more. A well-preserved, most handsome run (Vol I #s 1,2 + 6 / Vol II #s 1,3, 5 + 6 / Vol III #s 1,2, 5 + 6 / Vol IV #s 1,2, 3 + 4 / Vol V #s 1,2, 3 + 4 / Vol VI #s 1,2 + 3 / Vol VII #s 1,2 + 3 / Vol VIII # 1 + issues 34 and 35) of this uncommon publication with virtually all in at least Near Fine condition showing just the occasional bit of wear, soiling, rubbing, or creasing. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025368

(DAY, JEREMIAH). Day, Jeremiah. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Self-Published, 2003. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. 40pp, 10 color and 8 b&w illustrations + cover. Designed by Jeremiah Day and Novak. "Since 1997, I've traveled to sites of public meaning in an attempt to embody my thinking. This book compiles photographs from five of those pilgrimages. The accompanying texts and book designed were produced in Amsterdam, 2003". This thought provoking first artist's book by Los Angeles to Amsterdam transplant Jeremiah Day combines the author's writings with his photographs taken at the opening night of Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel/Casino/Gallery, the former site of the Alfred P. Murragh Building in Oklahoma City, the Ruin of The Memorial for The International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War (Erected 1937 - Demolished 1939) at the Jarama River, preparations for The Founder's Day of Celebration, Florida, and Inflancka Street, Warsaw; the Site of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Decalogue" (and former Jewish Ghetto). A pristine copy of this uncommon item SIGNED by Jeremiah Day in black ink on the title page. 90-808317-1-9 Inventory Number: 018148

(ENO, BRIAN) (ARTFORUM). Sischy, Ingrid, Editor. New York: Artforum International Magazine Inc., 1986. First Edition. Square 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Fine.. 140pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover Image of Brian Eno. This 1986 issue (Volume XXIV, Number 10) of the noted periodical "Artforum" contains an Eva-Tone Soundsheet of Brian Eno performing "Glint (East of Woodbridge)" (cited on page 132 of Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier's "Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks", page 162 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists", and page 258 of Giorgio Maffei's "Records by Artists 1958-1990"). It features articles on or by John Yau, Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, Herbert Muschamp, Glenn O'Brien, Greil Marcus, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Bruce Nauman, Coosje Van Bruggen, Alighiero e Boetti's Artforum project "The Red and The Black", Jean Le Gac, Robert Frank, and more. A bright, most handsome example with the never-played Eno disc bound in, as issued. ISSN 0004-3532 Inventory Number: 023969

(ENO, BRIAN) (SCHMIDT, PETER) (WHITE, PAE). Eno, Brian, Peter Schmidt & Pae White. Peter Norton, Editor. Santa Monica, CA: The Peter Norton Family, 1996. Fourth Revised Edition (First Thus). Oblong 8vo. Loose Contents in a Box. Artist's Multiple. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 102 (+ 1 blank) heavy paper playing cards printed recto and verso laid into a 6 x 5 x 1 ½" Corian box, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Pae White. "When a creative problem can't be solved directly, solutions might be found by approaching the task from an unusual direction; by using Oblique Strategies". Updating yet again Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's iconic 1975 project, this Fourth Revised and More Universal Edition features the added collaborative efforts of artist/graphic designer Pae White, art collector/philanthropist Peter Norton, and Berlitz Translation Services. Issued as the 1996 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, this limited edition multiple has reinvisioned its austere black and white predecessors as a vibrant visual object whose set of "worthwhile dilemmas" has been transformed into a riot of color, translated into Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Russian and Arabic, and housed in an ultra-cool biomorphic Corian case. Issued hors commerce, this luxe object is a must-have for every serious Eno fan. As the deck says - "Give way to your worst impulse"! A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon and most delightful item. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016360

(FILE). Bronson, A. A., Felix Partz & Jorge Zontal (General Idea), Editors. Paul Taylor, Guest Editor. Toronto, CANADA & Victoria, AUSTRALIA: Art Metropole & Art & Text, 1986. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Tabloid Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. 68pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and duotone. Designed by David Buchan with a cover by Andy Warhol. This twenty-fifth installment (of twenty-nine total) of "File Megazine" - General Idea's's irreverent Toronto based publication that covered the Canadian and International contemporary art scene of the seventies and eighties - was co-published as the twenty-second issue of Australia's "Art & Text" magazine. Devoted to "Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll", it's cover features a portrait of erstwhile Sex Pistol Sid Vicious executed by Andy Warhol from a photograph by Bob Gruen specially for the issue, and contains the Malcolm McLaren-edited sixteen page supplement entitled "Chicken Magazine: Entertainment for KIds" that is primarily devoted to the British svengali's then-charges Bow Wow Wow that includes semi-nude photographs of singer Anabella LWin. Additionally there are contributions by or about Paul Virilio (on "Star Wars"), Lisa Phillips, Paul Taylor (on the Disney "State", a "Safe Sex" comic by Howard Cruse, General Idea, The Kipper Kids, and much, much more - including fantastic advertisements from the period. A handsome example of this uncommon item (entry number 860X in Barbara Fischer's "general idea editions 1967-1995") showing some overall wear and handling to the covers. ISSN 0315-2456 Inventory Number: 025937

(FOX, THE). Charlesworth, Sarah, Michael Corris, Preston Heller, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden & Ian Burn, Editors. New York: Art & Language Foundation, Inc., 1975. First Edition. 4to. Printed Cardstock Wrappers. Conceptual Art Periodical. Near Fine.. 170pp, some b&w illustrations. This is the second (of three) issues of the didactic Art & Language affiliated Conceptual Art periodical "The Fox". In addition to the impressive editorial cabal, the contributors here are Eunice Lipton, Terry Smith, Lizzie Borden, Mark Klienberg, Adrian Piper, Bruce Kurtz, Stefan Morawski, Jean Toche, Robert Horvitz, Paul Kagawa, Annson Kenney, David Rushton, Paul Wood, Ron White, Terry Atkinson, Karl Beveridge, and Trevor Pateman. A handsome example showing some light wear along the spine as well as the typical slight browning to the newsprint textblock and wrappers. Inventory Number: 014589

(GRAHAM, DAN). Graham, Dan. Brian Wallis, Editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 328pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jean Wilcox. "Rock My Religion" is Conceptual artist Dan Graham's influential 1993 collection of thirty-six essays on his own work, as well as visual art, music and popular culture. A most handsome example of the first MIT Press hardcover edition. 0-262-07147-9 Inventory Number: 023091

(HOCKNEY, DAVID). Hockney, David. Introduction by Andre Emmerich. New York & Zurich, SWITZERLAND. ND (1984).: Andre Emmerich Gallery. First Edition. 8vo. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 32pp, 2 duotone and 1 b&w illustration. This elegant little publication is the typographic transcription of a November 1983 lecture delivered by artist David Hockney at London's Victoria & Albert Museum on the use of photography in his work. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon clothbound edition showing the discreet ink ownership stamp of a well-known Los Angeles art world figure on the front pastedown. Inventory Number: 024695

(HOCKNEY, DAVID). Hockney, David. Introduction by Andre Emmerich. New York & Zurich, SWITZERLAND. ND (1984).: Andre Emmerich Gallery. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 2 duotone and 1 b&w illustration. This elegant little publication is the typographic transcription of a November 1983 lecture delivered by artist David Hockney at London's Victoria & Albert Museum on the use of photography in his work. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon gem. Inventory Number: 024694

(JENSEN, ALFRED). Jensen, Alfred. New York: Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, 1970. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (8pp), 8 b&w and illustrations + color cover. This is the slender eight page brochure cum catalogue published in conjunction with a 1970 New York gallery show of paintings by the maverick American abstract painter Alfred Jensen. It features a detailed text by the artist dealing with both the conceptual and mathematical underpinnings of the exhibited work. A handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 020979

(JENSEN, ALFRED). Reidelbach, Maria, Peter Schjeldahl, Alfred Jensen & Thomas M. Messer. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1985. First Edition 1/3000. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 80pp, 33 b&w and 10 color illustrations + color cover. Designed by Malcolm Grear Designers. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the informative catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1985 Guggenheim Museum exhibition of one hundred and sixty paintings, works on paper, and sketchbooks by the late, great idiosyncratic, pattern-obsessed New York artist Alfred Jensen. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item showing some light wear and soiling to the covers. 0-89207-051-X Inventory Number: 020978

(JUDD, DONALD). Judd, Donald. Halifax, CANADA & New York. 1975 (2005).: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press. Second Edition (First Thus). 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 232pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Published by The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in collaboration with New York University Press, this is the first of two volumes of the complete writings - gallery reviews, book reviews, articles, letters to the editor, reports, statements, and complaints - dating from the years 1975-1986 by the late, great Minimalist giant Donald Judd. "These uncompromising reviews avoid the familiar generalizations so often associated with artistic styles emerging during the 1950s and 60s. Here, Judd discusses in detail the work of more than five hundred artists showing in New York at that time, and provides a critical account of this significant era in American art". A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon 2005 second edition of this vital document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-919616-42-9 Inventory Number: 025193

(JUDD, DONALD). Judd, Donald. Halifax, CANADA & New York. 1975 (2005).: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press. Second Edition (First Thus). 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 232pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Published by The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in collaboration with New York University Press, this is the first of two volumes of the complete writings - gallery reviews, book reviews, articles, letters to the editor, reports, statements, and complaints - dating from the years 1975-1986 by the late, great Minimalist giant Donald Judd. "These uncompromising reviews avoid the familiar generalizations so often associated with artistic styles emerging during the 1950s and 60s. Here, Judd discusses in detail the work of more than five hundred artists showing in New York at that time, and provides a critical account of this significant era in American art". A bright, most handsome example of the uncommon 2005 second edition of this vital document. 0-919616-42-9 Inventory Number: 025101

(KOLBOWSKI, SYLVIA) (RAAD, WALID). Kolbowski, Sylvia & Walid Raad. New York: A.R.T. Press, 2006. First Edition. 12mo. Printed Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 88pp, 9 color and 7 b&w illustrations. Published as part of A.R.T. Press' "Between Artists" series, "inadvertently situated during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 2006, this epistolary dialogue between Sylvia Kolbowski and Walid Raad traces one artist's evacuation from Lebanon, and one artist's experience of the war through texts and images". A bright, most handsome example of the 2006 first edition of this now elusive little gem. 0-923183-40-X Inventory Number: 024169

(LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS). Lyotard, Jean Francois. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Clamshell Box. Art Theory Monograph. As New/As New. 64pp, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Robert Shapazian and Patrick Dooley. Originally issued as "Le Mur du Pacifique" by Editions Galilee in 1979, "Pacific Wall" is the first English language edition of renowned French theoretician Jean-Francois Lyotard's anthology of nine essays on "the Western". It is an elaborately designed reinvisioning published in 1990 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press that includes gatefold illustrations of Ed Kienholz' "Five Card Stud" and the downtown Los Angeles freeway system. One of only a handful of presentation copies produced hors commerce for the press and contributors, it consists of the book in its fragile unprinted yellow acetate jacket with printed acetate wraparound title band housed in a crimson linen-over-boards clamshell box with a gilt-debossed spine. A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For King Henry, our own, Love from the editor - Robert Shapazian" and "+ the Publisher Sam Francis" for Henry Hopkins in purple ink on page 60 whose box shows some very light wear and soiling. The late Henry T. Hopkins was a pioneering California-based museum director, art historian and gallerist from whom we acquired this directly prior to his passing. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-932499-64-3 Inventory Number: 019521

(MALEVICH, KASIMIR). Malevich, K. S. Translated by Xenia Giowacki-Prus. Troels Andersen, Editor. Copenhagen, DENMARK: Borgen, 1968. First Edition. 12mo. Printed Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 180pp, 113 b&w illustrations. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the second of four volumes of pioneering Russian Avant-Garde artist Kazimir Malevich's collected writings translated into English and published by Wittenborn Art Books and Borgen in the sixties and seventies. A most presentable example showing some light wear and rubbing to the extremities of its red covers along with some sunning along the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025814

(MARTIN, AGNES). Ashton, Dore & Agnes Martin. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Near Fine.. 48pp, 23 color illustrations. Designed by Emanuel Sandreuter. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the elegantly designed and printed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 Arts Council of Great Britain retrospective of the highly influential American minimal artist Agnes Martin. While only two of the fifty-one exhibited works are reproduced here, this early publication is notable for reproducing in facsimile the holographic twenty-one page text of the her 1976 lecture "We are in the midst of reality responding with joy". A most handsome example of this uncommon item whose matte off-white printed dust jacket shows a bit of typical light soiling and age-toning. 0-7287-0128-6 Inventory Number: 024351

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Christopher Phillips, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1985. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good +.. 120pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: On Poetry and Trans-Sense Language - Viktor Shklovsky; Chapters from an Artist's Autobiography - Kazimir Malevich; The "Primitive" Unconscious of Modern Art - Hal Foster; Sly Civility - Homi K. Bhabha; Photography and Fetish - Christian Metz; An Interview with Bill Viola - Raymond Bellour. A most presentable example showing some light overall soiling and handling along with two diagonal soft creases to the covers. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75184-4 Inventory Number: 021672

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good -.. 166pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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 special thematic issue devoted to film books include: Philosophy and/as Film and/as if Philosophy - Arthur C. Danto; Reading Hitchcock - Fredric Jameson; The Anxiety of the Influencing Machine - Joan Copjec; Documenting the Left - Stuart Liebman; The Formalist's Dreyer - Nick Browne; Address to the Heathen - Noel Carroll. A serviceable example only showing moderate overall soiling, wear, and handling along with some creasing to the last dozen or so pages of the textblock and rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-76013-4 Inventory Number: 023865

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 166pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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 special thematic issue devoted to film books include: Philosophy and/as Film and/as if Philosophy - Arthur C. Danto; Reading Hitchcock - Fredric Jameson; The Anxiety of the Influencing Machine - Joan Copjec; Documenting the Left - Stuart Liebman; The Formalist's Dreyer - Nick Browne; Address to the Heathen - Noel Carroll. A handsome example showing just a bit of light wear and soiling. 0-262-76013-4 Inventory Number: 023864

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1984. 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 thirty-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: Broadness and Diversity of the Ludwig Brigade - Hans Haacke; An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture - Walter Grasskamp; A Conversation With Hans Haacke - Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp & Rosalind Krauss; From Faktura to Factography - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; Francis Picabia: From Dada to Petain - Yve-Alain Bois. A most handsome example. 0-262-75180-1 Inventory Number: 021674

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Very Good -.. 118pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: Jeremy Bentham's Panoptic Device - Jacques-Alain Miller; Postmodern History at the Musee d'Orsay - Patricia Mainardi; Learn to Read, She Said - Ann Smock; Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner - Giuliana Bruno; An Interview with Steve Fagin - Peter Wollen; Gramophone, Film, Typewriter - Friedrich Kittler. A most presentable copy showing some light external wear and soiling along with some chipping to the wrappers at the crown of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75191-7 Inventory Number: 021668

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 140pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: In Praise of Horizontality - Annette Michelson; The Religion of the Caves, The Hands of Gargas - Andre Leroi-Gourhan; Originality as Repetition - Rosalind Krauss; The Primary Colors for the Second Time - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; Ready-Made Originals - Molly Nesbit; Repetition, Obsession - Steven Z. Levine; The Origin without an Original - Linda Nochlin; Antiquity Now - Michael Fried; In Praise of Appearance - Louis Marin; Manet's Imagery Reconstructed - Klaus Herding; Painting as Model - Yve-Alain Bois. A most handsome example. 0-262-75187-9 Inventory Number: 018280

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 116pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City - Rosalyn Deutsche; Homeless Vehicle Project - David V. Lurie, Krzysztof Wodiczko; Conversations about a Project for a Homeless Vehicle - Daniel, Krzystof, Oscar, and Victor; Walter Benjamin and the Theory of Art History - Thomas Y. Levin; Rigorous Study of Art - Walter Benjamin; The Garden of Scopic Perversion from Monet to Mirbeau - Emily Apter. A most handsome copy. 0-262-75197-6 Inventory Number: 018147

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 138pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: De Stijl, Its Other Face: Abstraction and Cacophony, or What Was the Matter with Hegel? - Annette Michelson; The Judgment Seat of Photography - Christopher Phillips; The De-Politicization of Gustave Courbet: Transformation and Rehabilitation under the Third Republic - Linda Nochlin; Alienating Alienation: Fredric Jameson's Revisionary Romance - Perry Meisel; When Words Fail Rosalind Krauss; Documenta 7: A Dictionary of Received Ideas - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. A most handsome copy. ISSN 0162-2870 Inventory Number: 018146

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good +.. 120pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: Andy Warhol, or The Machine Perfected - Thierry de Duve; The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable - Gertrud Koch; Anselm Kiefer: The Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth - Andreas Huyssen; Fatal Attractions: Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light - Eric Rentschler; Contribution to Points of Reference 38/88 - Hans Haacke; The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible - Werner Fenz; A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 - Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. A handsome example showing a slight dent through the textblock at the upper foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75198-4 Inventory Number: 021663

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good -.. 117pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: The Body's Shadow Realm - Gertrud Koch; Looking Awry - Slavoj Zizek; The Sartorial Superego - Joan Copjec; Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory - Jonathan Crary; The Rock 'n' Roll Ghost - Andrew Ross. An internally most handsome example showing a diagonal soft crease to the rear cover through the lower foredge corner and some chipping of the wrappers along the spine. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75200-X Inventory Number: 021662

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 142pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-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: Mourning and Militancy - Douglas Crimp; Flaming Closets - Michael Moon; Kant with Sade - Jacques Lacan; From Breton to Dali: the Adventures of Automatism - Laurent Jenny; A Conversation with October - The V-Girls (Martha Baer, Erin Cramer, Jessica Chalmers, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75201-8 Inventory Number: 021661