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(ASPEN MAGAZINE). O'Doherty, Brian, Guest Editor. New York: Roaring Fork Press, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Portfolio. Arts Periodical. Good.. np (nineteen printed components + advertisements, one film reel, and five flexi-discs housed in a printed paper-over-boards box, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Brian O'Doherty, David Dalton, and Lynn Letterman. Edited by Irish-born, New York-based artist and critic Brian O'Doherty, this combined fifth and sixth installment of "Aspen" magazine from 1967 is an elaborate collection of commissioned projects by avant-garde artists, writers, composers, and filmmakers - heavy on the Minimal and Conceptual. Dedicated by the editor to Stephane Mallarme, among its notable components are a recording of William S. Burroughs reading an excerpt from "Nova Express", "Smoke" - a miniature assemble-it-yourself sculptural multiple by Tony Smith, and "Serial Project #1, 1966" - the very first artist book by Sol LeWitt (cited on page 28 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as entry number one in Alicia Legg's "Books by the Artist" bibliography in MoMA's 1979 "Sol LeWitt). The sole double issue of eleven total published, it includes contributions by or about Sigmund Bode, Roland Barthes, George Kubler, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jack MacGowan, Burroughs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Max Neuhaus, Morton Feldman, Smith, Hans Richter, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Douglas MacAgy, Michel Butor, Dan Graham, LeWitt, Brian O'Doherty, and Mel Bochner. An internally most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item complete with the usually missing film reel and advertisement folder showing a bit of age-toning and occasional mild foxing to some of the printed sections. The copy of LeWitt's "Serial Project #1, 1966"" is exceptionally crisp and white. The publisher's printed exterior box exhibits the usual overall wear, creasing, age-toning, and soiling along with some mild insect damage and compression. Still in all this is a complete and intact copy of this sixties gem that looks better in hand than it describes that has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026561

(AVALANCHE). Sharp, Willoughby, Publisher. Liza Bear, Editors. New York: Avalanche & Kineticism Press, 1972. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 73pp + advertisements, profusely illustrated in b&w. Cover image - Lawrence Weiner by Doug Connor. This is the fourth installment of New York's premier Conceptual Art periodical of the seventies, "Avalanche". In addition to the "Rumbles" news section and advertisements for virtually every gallery on the planet showing Minimal and/or Conceptual work at the time, it contains transcribed interviews with artists Jackie Winsor, Howard Fried, and Lawrence Weiner as well as contributions by Sol LeWitt, Alice Aycock, Stanley Brouwn, Franz Erhard Walther, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, and Weiner. A handsome example copy of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 026130

(CAGE, JOHN). Cage, John. Russell Ferguson, Editor.. New York & Los Angeles: Rizzoli International Publications & Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Silkscreened Aluminum Box. Music Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, loose printed contents laid into an Aluminum Box. Designed by Catherine Lorenz. This is the spirited exhibition catalogue for a huge traveling retrospective that celebrated John Cage, his collaborators, influences, and influence on twentieth Century culture. Composer, lecturer, musician, artist, theoretician, Zen student, mycologist - all aspects of his life and art are represented here in a patchwork quilt of texts and images jammed into a sleek, mirror-like metal case. Every day in each of the show's venues (MOCA, the Menil Collection, the Guggenheim, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center in Japan, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art) the art objects shifted in placement and installation - a nod to Cage's pioneering use of chance, and randomization as compositional elements. This catalogue/object functions much the same way, with nearly fifty pieces of printed ephemera laid in, with no hierarchical order. The primary texts here include; "Paying Attention" by Anne d'Harnoncourt, "nothingtoseeness" by Julie Lazar, "John Cage in the Social Realm" by Laura Kuhn, "UNCAGEDWORDS" by Joan Retallack, "Cage and Counting" by Mark Swed, "Anarchy" by John Cage, "An Autobiographical Statement" by John Cage, "Macrobiotic Cooking" by John Cage, "The Agenbite of Outwit" by Marshall McLuhan, "What Should I Eat?" by Andrew Weil, M. D., "Chronological Table of John Cage's Life" by Ellsworth Snyder, "Zen and Dhyana" by Daisetz T. Suzuki, "The Dancer and the Dance" by Merce Cunningham in conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve, and "The Director's Forward" by Richard T. Koshalek of MOCA. Artists' work in the show (but not necessarily in the catalogue) included Cage, Josef Albers, Antonin Arthaud, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Cornell, Willem De Kooning, Maya Deren, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Arshile Gorky, Peter Greenaway, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Sol LeWitt, Kasimir Malevich, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Harry Partch, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Erik Satie, Jean Tinguely, David Tudor, Cy Twombly, Edgar Varese, La Monte Young, and many, many others. A brand new, most handsome example of this cleverly designed book object still in the publisher's shrinkwrap and obi showing none of the fine surface scratches to the mirror-like finish of its box one typically finds. 0-8478-1772-5 Inventory Number: 026634

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1970. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist's Book. Very Good +.. Fifteen individual 7 ½ x 10 ¼" plates printed offset recto only, 15 b&w illustrations. Self-published in 1970, "Impersonations" is Los Angeles-based artist Scott Grieger's wildly hilarious, photographically illustrated artist's book of send-ups of iconic works by many of the then-prevailing luminaries of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art. Using the photographic studio and some darkroom magic, the hirsute Grieger clad in jeans, desert boots, and a white t-shirt substitutes himself for artworks ranging from a Barnett Newman "zip" to one of Robert Irwin's illuminated disc paintings. The fifteen artists receiving these wry homages are Ronald Bladen, Tony DeLap, Robert Grosvenor, Irwin, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Ernest Trova. The "Impersonations" photographs were subsequently shown in MoMA's landmark 1970 Conceptual Art exhibition "Information", the 1972 Whitney Annual, "Los Angeles '72" at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, and were the subject of a 2007 retrospective with catalogue at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The work fits in nicely with parallel body-centric photographic excursions by the likes of Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden and Vito Acconci - albeit with a more overt tongue in cheek approach. A bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - and underappreciated gem whose glossy white printed paper portfolio shows some typical creasing along the edges along with a slight stain at the upper right corner of the rear panel. Inventory Number: 022630

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1970. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist's Book. Very Good -.. Fifteen individual 7 ½ x 10 ¼" plates printed offset recto only, 15 b&w illustrations. Self-published in 1970, "Impersonations" is Los Angeles-based artist Scott Grieger's wildly hilarious, photographically illustrated artist's book of send-ups of iconic works by many of the then-prevailing luminaries of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art. Using the photographic studio and some darkroom magic, the hirsute Grieger clad in jeans, desert boots, and a white t-shirt substitutes himself for artworks ranging from a Barnett Newman "zip" to one of Robert Irwin's illuminated disc paintings. The fifteen artists receiving these wry homages are Ronald Bladen, Tony DeLap, Robert Grosvenor, Irwin, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Ernest Trova. The "Impersonations" photographs were subsequently shown in MoMA's landmark 1970 Conceptual Art exhibition "Information", the 1972 Whitney Annual, "Los Angeles '72" at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, and were the subject of a 2007 retrospective with catalogue at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The work fits in nicely with parallel body-centric photographic excursions by the likes of Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden and Vito Acconci - albeit with a more overt tongue in cheek approach. A bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - and underappreciated gem whose plates all show four tiny puncture marks at the upper left-hand corner due to two removed staples, and whose glossy white printed paper portfolio shows some typical minor creasing along the edges along with a few small spots on the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020015

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott & Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. One continuous 7 ½ x 11 ½" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, folded neatly in half to make 4pp, 1 b&w illustration. With an exhibition checklist. This is the slender four page brochure published in conjunction with a 1971 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ahmanson Gallery exhibition of five recent "combination" works by Scott Grieger. Expanding on his earlier "Impersonations" series, the Los Angeles-based artist takes aim here at prevailing luminaries and tropes of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art with five works that marry the iconic imagery of Frank Stella with Donald Judd, Robert Morris with Larry Poons, Morris Louis with Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman with Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns with Donald Judd to amusing effect. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral item - only two copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 024815

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. New York, London, Rome & Hong Kong. 2007-2014.: Multiples, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Sheet Plus Envelope. Artist's Book. Fine./Near Fine.. One 5 1/8 x 12 3/8" cardstock sheet, printed recto only inserted into a printed paper envelope, 10 b&w illustrations. This wry homage to Eadweard Muybridge's Human Locomotion studies was noted Minimal/Conceptual Artist Sol LeWitt's contribution to the to the Multiples, Inc. "Artists and Photographs" portfolio of 1970. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on pages 88-89 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books") offered here individually. Inventory Number: 026656

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1988. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine.. np (80pp), 75 color illustrations. This is an artist's book conceived by Sol LeWitt in 1981 that was ultimately published in 1988 in conjunction with the Walker Art Center exhibition "Sol LeWitt: Prints and Books". A bright, most handsome example (cited on page 121 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as Artist Book entry number forty-four in Susanna Singer's "Publications by the Artist" bibliography in SFMoMA's 2000 "Sol LeWitt"). Inventory Number: 026597

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. Basel & Bern, SWITZERLAND. ND (circa 1976).: Kunsthalle Basel & Verlag Kornfeld und Cie.. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine.. np (96pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in German with English captions. Co-published by the Kunsthalle Basel and Verlag Kornfeld und Cie, this substantial document is a full catalogue raisonné of Sol LeWitt's screenprints, lithographs, etchings, and artist books executed between 1970 and 1975. It includes entries for ninety-seven works that are all illustrated throughout. An otherwise bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a diagonal closed tear to one of the rear pages. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025919

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. Houston, TX: Cusack Gallery, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (16pp), illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender sixteen page artist's book cum exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a 1973 Sol LeWitt installation at Houston's hotbed of Minimal and Conceptual Art, The Cusack Gallery. It is a facsimile of the written instructions and diagrams in the artist's hand utilized to execute the six exhibited wall drawings. An otherwise most handsome copy of this exceptionally uncommon item (cited on page 45 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as entry number seven of the "Artist Books" in Susanna Singer's "Publications by the Artist" bibliography in SFMoMA's 2000 "Sol LeWitt") - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - whose inside front cover and first few pages show some browning due to a laid in New York Times newspaper review of LeWitt's 1994 exhibition of wall drawings at Boston's MFA. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025812

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography and collections listing. This is the elegant catalogue published in conjunction with a 1990 survey exhibition of Sol LeWitt's then-recent wall drawings, gouaches, and structures held at the Touko Museum of Art - the Minimalist pioneer's first major show in Japan. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of wear to the covers along with some trivial foxing to the extremities. Inventory Number: 025141

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. & Multiples, Inc., 1980. First Edition. Square 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artists' Book. Near Fine.. np (32pp), 220 color illustrations. "Sunrise and Sunset at Praiano" is Sol LeWitt 1980 artist's book that consists of fifty-four pages of 2 by 2 grids contrasting color photographs of the sky over Praiano Italy where the late, great Minimal pioneer maintained a villa taken at Sunrise, and - you guessed it, - Sunset. A handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on pages 102-103 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as in Susanna Singer's "Publications by the Artist" bibliography in SFMoMA's 2000 "Sol LeWitt") showing some very light wear and soiling to its white wrappers along with a tiny dent to the upper foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8478-0275-2 Inventory Number: 025140

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol. Bern, SWITZERLAND: Kunsthalle Bern & Paul Bianchini, 1972. First Edition. Square 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good -.. 206pp, 195 b&w illustrations. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1972 installation at The Kunsthalle Bern, this early Sol LeWitt artist's book delineates one hundred and ninety-five geometric permutations derived from the intersections of arcs, circles, and grids. A most presentable example of this uncommon item (cited on page 41 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books", entry number six in Alicia Legg's "Books by the Artist" bibliography in MoMA's 1979 "Sol LeWitt", as well as in Susanna Singer's "Publications by the Artist" bibliography in SFMoMA's 2000 "Sol LeWitt") showing some overall of overall light wear and creasing, soiling, and typical age-toning to its white wrappers along with the discreet blindstamp of an art dealer. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025138

(LEWITT, SOL). LeWitt, Sol, Rudi Fuchs, Franz W. Kaiser & Trevor Fairbrother. Barcelona, SPAIN: Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 1994. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 280 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Sol LeWitt. Text in Spanish, Catalan and English. With an exhibition checklist. This is the substantive catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1994 traveling European Museum exhibition of two hundred and seventy works on paper by the late, great minimal master Sol LeWitt - the largest documentation of his drawings to date. A handsome example of this uncommon reference showing a bit of light wear bearing the ink ownership stamp of one of the artist's primary galleries - now-defunct - on the inside front cover. 84-88786-02-6 Inventory Number: 026007

(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. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 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: Introduction - Malcolm Turvey , Vertov: Between the Organism and the Machine - Malcolm Turvey, Across One Sixth of the World: Dziga Vertov, Travel Cinema, and Soviet Patriotism - Oksana Sarkisova, Film Energy: Process and Metanarrative in Dziga Vertov's The Eleventh Year (1928) - John MacKay, "Our Eyes, Spinning Like Propellers": Wheel of Life, Curve of Velocities, and Dziga Vertov's "Theory of the Interval" - Simon Cook, Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures: Give and Take between Vertov's Films and Constructivist Art - Yuri Tsivian, LeWitt's Ark - Rosalind Krauss, and Letter of Correction. A most handsome example. 0-262-75271-9 Inventory Number: 023561

Page, Suzanne, Claude Gintz, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Charles Harrison, Gabriele Guercio, Seth Siegelaub & Robert C. Morgan. Paris: Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, 1989. First Edition (Second Printing) 1/1700. 4to. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. 260pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French and English. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This the catalogue of the extensive 1989 international survey exhibition of Conceptual Art held at the Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris. It features texts by Suzanne Page, Claude Gintz, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Charles Harrison, Gabriele Guercio, Seth Siegelaub, and Robert C. Morgan. The artists included are Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Andre Cadere, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Piero Manzoni, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Opalka, Adrian Piper, Emilio Prini, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson. A handsome example of the uncommon first printing of this important document showing some light overall wear and soiling to its white wrappers. 2-85346-071-1 Inventory Number: 025391

Siegelaub, Seth & John W. Wendler, Editors. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Roma Publications, Stedelijk Museum, De Appel & Stichting Egress Foundation, 2015. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/1600. 4to. Wrappers in Acetate Jacket. Artists' Book. As New/As New. np (372pp), 350 b&w illustrations. Issued in 1968 by gallerists Seth Siegelaub and John W. Wendler, this collaborative project known as "The Xerox Book" features contributions from artists Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner. Each participant contributed an original twenty-five page, 11 x 8 ½" artwork that would only exist on the printed page - not on a gallery wall. Generally considered to be the first conceptual artists' book, it was originally envisioned as being produced by a Xerox copy machine, however the price for printing the three hundred and sixty-eight page volume proved to financially unworkable, so it was ultimately printed using the offset process. A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2015 facsimile edition of this extraordinarily important Conceptual Art document limited to one thousand, six hundred copies published in conjunction with the Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and De Appel arts centre's exhibition "Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art" still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 94-91843-52-4 Inventory Number: 026901

Van Der Marck, Jan. Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969. First Edition. Large Square 4to. 12" Vinyl LP in Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine. (But Incomplete)/No Jacket. One 12", two-sided vinyl 33 1/3 rpm long playing phonograph record in an unprinted cardstock sleeve, no illustrations. "Shortly after its opening, the Museum of Contemporary Art planned an exhibition to record the trend, incipient then and pervasive today, toward conceptualization of art. This exhibition, scheduled for the spring of 1968 and abandoned because of technical difficulties, consisted of works in different media, conceived by artists in this country and Europe and executed in Chicago on their behalf. The telephone was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions to those entrusted with fabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their ideas. To heighten the challenge of a wholly verbal exchange, drawings, blueprints or written descriptions were avoided". Taken from the album jacket, this was curator Jan van der Marck's summation of the infamous Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Art by Telephone" show. This is a copy of the 1969 record which reproduces the phone calls of participating artists Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Robert Cumming, Francoise Dallegret, Jan Dibbets, John Giorno, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Alain Jacquet, Edward Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Guenther Uecker, Stan Van Der Beek, Bernar Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and William T. Wiley giving instructions to the MCA staff on how to execute their various pieces for this exhibition which alas, went unrealized. A most handsome, unplayed example of the LP (cited on page 215 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists" and page 235 of Giorgio Maffei's "Records by Artists 1958-1990") showing some minor surface abrasions. PLEASE NOTE: This copy is LACKING the publisher's printed album cover, and so we are offering the original vinyl LP and paper inner sleeve in an unprinted black replacement cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026811