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Lippard, Lucy R. & Jeff Khonsary, Editors. Vancouver, CANADA & Los Angeles: New Documents, 2012. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. File Cards in Printed Wrapper. Exhibition Catalog. As New.. One hundred and seventy-nine 4 x 6" file cards printed monochrome offset recto and verso, profusely illustrated. With a bibliography and filmography. "4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of a series of documents produced by curator Lucy R. Lippard. Drawn from material originally published between 1969 and 1974, 4,492,040 includes reprints of all four of the catalogs from Lippard’s hugely important "numbers shows" - a series of exhibitions named for the populations of the cities they were held in: 557,087 (Seattle, 1969), 955,000 (Vancouver, 1970), 2,972,453 (Buenos Aires, 1970), and c.7,500 (Valencia, CA, 1973/74). As with the originals, 4,492,040 is made up of a collection of loose notecards containing statements, documentation, and conceptual works by each artist, to be rearranged, filed, or discarded at will. This new edition is supplemented by a new afterword by Lippard". The four exhibitions' participants include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Richard Artschwager, Art & Language (Terry Atkinson, David Askevold, Alice Aycock, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell), John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Jennifer Bartlett, Gene Beery, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, Jon Borofsky, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Rosemary Castoro, Don Celender, James Collins, Christopher C. Cook, Greg Curnoe, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Rafael Ferrer, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Alex Hay, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, Robert Kinmont, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Roelof Louw, Duane Lunden, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co. (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, George Nikoliadis, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perrault, Adrian Piper, Robert Rohm, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Fred Sandback, George Sawchuck, Richard Serra, Randy Sims, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, and Martha Wilson. A pristine, brand new complete set of all one hundred and seventy-nine loose cards sealed inside their printed wrapper in the publisher's clear plastic zip-lock pouch, as issued. 1-927354-00-5 Inventory Number: 027596

Stanley & Patterson. Adrian, MI. 1936 (1938).: Stanley & Patterson Division of Schwarze Electric Co.. Edition Not Stated - Later Printing. 4to. Brad-Bound Stiff Wrappers. Trade Catalogue. Very Good.. np (118pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is a 1936 salesman's trade catalogue issued by the Stanley & Patterson Division of the Schwarze Electric Co. of Adrian, Michigan. Bound in stiff wrappers and clasped with brass brads, it contains copiously illustrated entries showcasing the company's lines of electronic bells, buzzers, chimes, gongs, sirens, howlers, annunciators, alarm systems, relays, telephones, paging systems, loudspeakers, electric clocks, and the like. An internally bright, most handsome example bearing "Reprint June 1938" on the front cover and containing rubber ownership stamps from Stanley & Patterson's New England agent H.W. MacLeod & Co., The South Boston's Gorham Fire Equipment Co., and Academy Award winning Art Director Dean Tavoularis at the front showing some light wear, soiling, sunning, and creasing to its red printed covers. Inventory Number: 027005

Sullivan, Steve. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. As New.. 320pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. From the author/editor of "Glamour Girls Then and Now", "Va Va Voom" and "Bombshells" comes this all encompassing (if not somewhat arbitrary) illustrated dictionary of the one thousand sexiest Twentieth Century objects of not-so-obscure male desire. From pinups to porn stars, first ladies to strippers, scream queens to bathing beauties, they're pretty much all here beginning with the top ten of Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, Rita Hayworth, Bettie Page, Sophia Loren, Jean Harlow, June Wilkinson and Cindy Crawford, then spiraling downward past Diane Webber, Traci Lords, Diana Rigg, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Carol Doda, Jennie Garth, and Gwen Stefani all the way to Isadora Duncan(!) - number 1000... Each entry includes a brief biography, and in most instances a saucy pic. A pristine copy. 0-312-20651-8 Inventory Number: 010239

van Kooij, Barbera, Oswaldo Costa & Robin Resch, Editors. Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition 1/650. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine.. 128pp, 30 b&w illustrations. Text in English. Cover image by Jean-Luc Moulene. The final of three annual volumes, this is a collection of the transcribed contemporary art history lectures presented during 1992 at Rotterdam's Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art. The contents and participants are: Guy Brett, Catherine David, Rodrigo Naves, and Sonia Salzstein-Goldberg - "I Aspire to the Great Labyrinth", Walter Nikkels - "The Catalogue: An Ordered List of Works", Craigie Horsfield - "30.8.92 on Walker Evans", Stephen Prina - "We Represent Ourselves to the World: Institutional Narrativity", Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Chris Dercon, Ludger Gerdes, Martin Kreyssig, and Jeff Wall - "The Body is the Present", and Bruce Mau - "Beyond Typography". A most handsome example. 90-73362-26-1 Inventory Number: 016953