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(AVALANCHE). Sharp, Willoughby, Publisher. Liza Bear, Editor. New York: Primary Information, 2010. First Edition Thus. Oblong Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Periodical. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. np (1016pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear founded "Avalanche" shortly after they met in 1968. At the time, Sharp was a New York-based independent curator and Bear an underground magazine editor who had recently moved to New York from London. They published the first issue in 1970 and collaborated on thirteen issues from 1970 to 1976. "Avalanche" focused on art from the perspective of artists rather than critics, and investigated new forms of art that were developing in the US and Europe with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and dynamic layouts. For many artists, publication in "Avalanche" preceded a one-person gallery or museum show. Aside from an eight page news section, the editorial content included only interviews, artists' texts and documents of art and art making. All interviews were conducted by Sharp, Bear or done jointly. Among the featured artists were Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Philip Glass, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Yvonne Rainer, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor. This boxed facsimile edition of the complete run of "Avalanche" was published by Primary Information in 2010, and reproduces the first eight issues individually along with the final five tabloid-format numbers in a slightly smaller format, single newsprint paperback. A pristine example of this quickly out of print, extraordinary undertaking still shrinkwrapped in the publisher's printed cardboard box, as issued. 0-9788697-4-5 Inventory Number: 026138

(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

(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. Gent, BELGIUM: Imschoot, Uitgevers, 1998. First Edition 1/1000. Small 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (24pp), 24 illustrations. "Flat and Glossy Black" is Sol LeWitt's lush, noir and monochromatic 1998 artist's book. A most handsome example (cited on page 131 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as entry number fifty-three of the "Artist Books" in Susanna Singer's "Publications by the Artist" bibliography in SFMoMA's 2000 "Sol LeWitt") of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. 90-72191-88-9 Inventory Number: 026006

(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

Tancock, John. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Crash Bound Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Eugene Feldman. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the innovatively designed and bound catalogue published in conjunction with the first large-scale Museum exhibition of contemporary artists' multiples from the 1960s. Artists with work reproduced here include Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Bruno Munari, Victor Vasarely, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucio Fontana, Hundertwasser, Jim Dine, Richard Artschwager, Arman, Enrico Baj, John Cage, Max Bill, Max Ernst, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Allen Jones, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot(h), George Segal, Ernest Trova, and many others. A bright, most handsome complete and intact example in the publisher's printed band of an item that is notoriously hard to find in nice condition showing some typical minor wear and sunning along with a slight soft crease at the lower foredge corner of the rear cover. Inventory Number: 024017

Tancock, John. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Crash Bound Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued. np, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Eugene Feldman. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the innovatively designed and bound catalogue published in conjunction with the first large-scale Museum exhibition of contemporary artists' multiples from the 1960s. Artists with work reproduced here include Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Bruno Munari, Victor Vasarely, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucio Fontana, Hundertwasser, Jim Dine, Richard Artschwager, Arman, Enrico Baj, John Cage, Max Bill, Max Ernst, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Allen Jones, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot(h), George Segal, Ernest Trova, and many others. A handsome complete and intact example of an item that is notoriously hard to find in nice condition with a tiny tear to the paper around the snap-closure on the rear cover showing some typical minor sunning as well as lacking the publisher's printed band. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 021419

Tiberghien, Gilles A.. Paris: Editions Carré, 1993. First Edition. Large 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Art Monograph. Fine/Very Good. 312pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. With a bibliography. "Land Art" is Gilles A. Tiberghien's massive, copiously illustrated 1992 survey of Land, Earth, and Environmental art and artists of the twentieth century. It features a well-researched history of the genre and related works that includes Carl Andre, Keith Arnatt, Herbert Bayer, Gutzon Borglum, Constantin Brancusi, Christo, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Newton and Helen Harrison, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ross, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, and James Turrell. An internally most handsome example of the hardbound 1993 French language first edition showing some creasing and a few small closed tears to the extremities of the dust jacket. 2-908393-18-2 Inventory Number: 026012