Contemporary Art
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Manifestoes Of Surrealism
by Andre - Translated Into English By Richard Seaver and Helen R Lane Breton
Contemporary Art Books & Ephemera
Ulises Carrión / Libros de artista
by Martha Hellion
Two volumes, both in excellent condition. Images and photos in black and white. The slipcase is made of very thin recycled cardboard, it is so fragile and it has beed repaired.All our books are in good to very good condition unless otherwise noted (no markings, not ex-library). We are happy to provide detailed pictures of book covers and contents upon request. We ship out of Mexico City by registered mail or FedEx/DHL. Please ask for a detailed shipping quote.Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX. We...
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€174.86
Musiques formelles
by Iannis Xenakis
Paris, Richard Masse, 1963. Quarto (27 cm), broché. Édition originale (pas de grand papier). Quelques taches de rousseur sur les pages de garde, sinon un bel exemplaire qui a été lu, mais est en bon état de conservation. Envoi depuis le Mexique, par DHL, UPS ou FedEx dans tout le monde. Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX
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€141.78
Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections Exhibition Catalogue, 23 February - 24 March 1963, Sarasota, Florida
by Parks, Robert O. Curator (Preface),
Sarasota, Florida: Ringling Museum of Art, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Stapled, cardstock covers with scuffing resulting in scattered, small amounts of paper loss. Previous owner name inside front cover. Fifteen hundred copies of this scarce catalogue were printed by the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Thirty-eight pieces from the collection are presented in this catalogue, illustrated with nineteen plates. Cover illustration: Seated Woman, by Henri Matisse, 1919. The title...
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€23.63
![Partum z wypożyczalni ludzi (historia bycia twórcy) [Partum on loan to people: history of being an artist]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/976/901/1585901976.0.b.jpg)
Partum z wypożyczalni ludzi (historia bycia twórcy) [Partum on loan to people: history of being an artist]
A celebratory volume about the work of Andrzej Partum (1938-2002), one of the founding figures of the Polish neo-avant-garde, published shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain. A poet, performer, conceptual artist, and author of manifestos and critical works, Partum took inspiration from Futurist traditions of deconstructing the meaning of words and grammar, and focused on the graphic layout of words in his poetry. In 1971 Partum established the Bureau of Poetry (Biuro Poezji) in Warsaw, later...
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€125.00
Bulletin of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Volume X, Number 2, April 1939
by Freeman, Richard B
Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1939. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 7 X 9 Inches. Stapled booklet, pages numbered 38-59. Staples are rusted otherwise a fine copy. Feature article: Eugene Fromentin, by Richard B. Freeman. Article on World's Fairs being held that year in New York and San Francisco and Cincinnati pieces being exhibited, including Romuald Kraus' statue, Justice, featured on the cover of this issue. Following those articles: Museum Notes, membership and donor listings, classes...
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€33.08
American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design - A Catalogue of the Palevsky / Evans Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
by Bowman, Leslie Greene
Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1990. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Reading crease to the spine, creasing to the rear cover, near the lower corner. Clean copy. Exhibit catalog for some 250 decorative art pieces from the American Arts & Crafts Movement, dating from the 1880s to 1930s (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 23, 1990 to January 6, 1991). 255 pages with 190 color and 275 black and white illustrations. Oversized book that will require extra postage if expedited or...
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€18.90
Editions & Communications Marginales d'Amérique Latine
by Schraenen, Guy (editor)
Le Havre: Maison de la Culture du Havre, 1977. Quarto (15 x 21 cm folded, opens to 29.5 x 21 cm). Original illustrative stapled self-wrappers; 9 sheets of various colored paper stock. Some light oxidation to staples, small mark from staples where folded, two small areas of worm damage/loss to cover sheet, overall very good. A small catalogue issued on the occasion of the exhibition of Latin American artists' publications, organized by Guy Schraenen at Maison de la Culture in Le Havre, from January 10...
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€1,181.50
Liudmila Kondakova A World of Enchantment
by Kondakova, Liudmila
Philadelphia: Jenkintown Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0964808536 . Philadelphia: Jenkintown Press, 2001. First Edition (stated). 11.25 x 14.25 in. 144pp. Full red cloth. Fine condition in fine dj. Foreword by David Rogath. Signed & inscribed by the artist (to no one) on the title page, dated 06. 09. 01. The world of this artist is "mystery, serenity, and radiance" (dj). Liudmila Kondakova was born and raised in the Soviet Union, then Paris captivated...
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€80.34
grOnk Series 3: The Big Mid-July grOnk Mailout
Incomplete collection of the third series of the Canadian concrete poetry publication edited by bpNichol, David UU, and Bill Bissett, comprised of three-page typed and stapled introduction on yellow, blue, and pink paper stock listing contents, news items, letters, and announcements of other publications and productions, a small pamphlet "Gerry Carrier - Instructions" by Gerry Gilbert, a portrait of Nelson Ball by Barbara Caruso, a stapled booklet "Nights on Prose Mountain" by bpNichol, and a series of...
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€708.90
Fluxus in Holland - The Sixties
by Ruhé, Harry and Jeannette Dekeukeleire
Unpaginated set of texts (printed recto only on 27 loose-leaf sheets of monogrammed "Fluxus" cardstock) providing a chronological overview of events in Holland from 1960 to 1969 directly linked to George Macunias and the Fluxus organization in New York, housed together with 24 related items, including facsimile reproductions of historical documents, invites, programs, photographs (new prints from original negatives and video stills), and a DVD edition of Edo Jansen's 1962 film, Décollage. 4to. Texts...
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€1,086.98
Motion in Vision/Vision in Motion
Unpaginated (26 pp.) catalogue published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition at the Hessenhuis in Antwerp, held from March 21 to May 3, 1959. Square octavo (8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Original side-stapled wrappers. Light rubbing to aluminum leaf, slight rust-staining around staples, scattered foxing, back cover loose, overall very good. Antwerp: Hessenhuis, 1959. The ZERO group was founded in Düsseldorf by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Their aim, Piene once wrote, was to create "a zone of silence and...
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€2,363.00
Collection of Original Mail Art Rubber-stamped Cards and Papers
by Scholte, Willy (Wilhemina)
N.p. [Amsterdam]: Willy Scholte [Stempelplaats], 1970s-1980s. Various sizes, most cards approximately 10.5 x 15.5 cm. Loose, some cards with original mailing envelopes. Excellent condition. Willy (Wilhemina) Scholte was one of very few women working at the Stempelplaats workshop in the late 1970s and early 1980s, close to the heart of Dutch Mail Art activity. She became involved in the avant-garde mail art happening there, and was inspired by artists like Ulises Carrion and Aart van Barneveld. These...
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€1,181.50
Nouvelle Génération. La Jeunesse Interroge Le Lettrisme. No. 1 (January/February 1962) through No. 2 (March/April 1962) (all published)
A complete run in 2 issues (12 and 8 pp., respectively) of the short-lived Lettrist journal conceived of by a group of young students consisting of Thierry Paul-Lévy, Paulette Liétard, Patrick Brault, Guy Chastel, and Jean-Charles Depaule, and published with the help of the Lettrists, directed by Jacques Spacagna with collaborative assistance from Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître. Not illustrated. Some slight toning, especially along edges, minor scattered soiling. 4to. Original stapled self-wrpps....
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€1,654.10
Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Illustrated Catalogue
Oxford University Press, 1961. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reading wear, creases to spine and front corner. Rubbing wear and faint foxing to the covers and edges of the page block. 185 pages with List of Pictures in the Reserve Collection, followed by a section of 64 black and white plates. Items are listed alphabetically. This catalogue is a second edition, revised and extended, of the Catalogue of Paintings published in 1950..
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€18.90
Creek in the Ceiling Beam
by Fisher, Allen
Unpaginated artist's book from the poet and painter associated with the British Poetry Revival and Fluxshoe, the UK offshoot of Fluxus, containing an abstract mix of poetry, notes on printing methods, lists, graphs, illustrations, diagrams, and collage, primarily mimeographed in red and blue ink and blue and white paper stock, most pages printed recto only. 4to. Original plastic spiral-bound printed wrpps., some spots of toning and foxing, mild soiling. London (Edible Magazine Press/Aloes Books) 1973....
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€1,417.80
Jean Dubuffet - A Retrospective (Waddington Galleries, London 5 - 29 October 1983)
by DUBUFFET, Jean
Waddington Galleries, London, 1983. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Square 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, 56pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. ... __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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€55.15
De New Babylon Informatief. No. 1 (July 1965) through No. 4 (1966) (all published)
Various: 1965-1966. 52.5 x 35 cm. Original printed self-wrappers; first three issues are a single page, fourth is a special eight-page issue. Very good to fine condition. A rare complete set in four issues of the journal published in conjunction with four different exhibitions by Constant Nieuwenhuys, known as Constant (1920-2005). Constant was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and musician. He was affiliated with the avant-garde movement CoBrA and with the Situationist International before...
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€2,599.30
Dick Mason Paintings June 22 - July 11, 1990, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
by CORTRIGHT, Barbara
Scottsdale, Arizona: Elaine Horwitch Galleries, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Brown cardstock covers with the artist's name embossed on the front cover. Exhibit catalog for the Southwest and New Mexico painter. Essay by Barbara Cortright, Introduction by Ellen J. Landis, Curator of Art, The Albuquerque Museum. 41 pages with 14 plates that feature a shared pattern between landscape and animal (his dog, a Dalmatian). .
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€18.90
Two Miniature Artist's Books: Love. Hate
by Groh, Klaus
Two small unpaginated artist's books, signed and dated by Groh. Each booklet 3 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches. Side-stapled gray cardstock, titles handwritten in pencil to front covers and Groh's name rubber-stamped, hand-signed and dated '87 in pencil to back covers. Extremely light soiling to covers, overall excellent. N.p, 1987. Klaus Groh (b. 1936) is a German artist and author who helped bring Mail Art from America to Europe and established an international Mail Art network. He directed the Micro Hall Art...
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€614.38
The High Appreciation of the Cultural Relics of the Zeng Hou Yi Tomb
by Li Ling and Hu Weiqing (Editors)
Wuhan, Hubei Province, China: Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 1995. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 102 pages exhibiting 125 items from the 1978 excavation of the Zeng Hou Yi Tomb in the northwest of Suizhou City in the Hubei Province: Bronze Wares; Musical Instruments; Lauerwares; Weapons, Chariots and Harness Articles; Goldwares and Jadewares; Bamboo Slips; Chu Wang Bo Bell; Bronze Zun and Pan; Bronze Jian and Fou; and the Coffin of the Tomb Owner. A written article for each of these items precedes the...
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€11.82
Photology
by Aldobranti (as editor)
Western philosophy has always privileged the visible, relying on Light to reveal certainty and truth over Darkness, doubt, and the unknown. The photographic image — built of Light — accesses this privilege and is considered truthful but moreover, its technology allows for recording transience, intangibility, and the liminal. The open-minded photographer can deploy the metaphorical force of Darkness to explore feelings and uncertainties.
A starting point for these photographers was to study the cast... Read more about this item
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€21.28
Modern Art No. 119, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Bookstore stamp on first page. Bi-monthly publication of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. 78 pages. Contents and article titles in Chinese and English. Text in Chinese (Mandarin?). Some of the articles include Discussing Chu-Wei-Bor's transcendental creations--Austere Reality and Colorless Beauty; Appreciating Tsui Kuang-Yu's Work; Yellow Box--The Culture of Literati Art Appreciation (panel notes); The Ambassador of New Generation...
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![Clay Sculpture [Exhibition Catalog, Taiwan Museum of Art]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/750/383750778.0.b.jpg)
Clay Sculpture [Exhibition Catalog, Taiwan Museum of Art]
by Lee, Mao C
Taichung, Taiwan: Taiwan Museum of Art, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Endpapers partially separated from the boards and wrinkling. The rest of the book is in Fine condition. Eighty-one pages, many color plates depicting pieces from the exhibit. Preface by Liu Dang-ho (Director, Taiwan Museum of Art) in Chinese and English. Ronald A. Kuchta (Director, Everson Museum of Art) contributes an introduction to Mao C. Lee's art (Chinese and English text) and Mao-Chung Lee (Mao C. Lee) writes My Concept...
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€28.36
![Kenneth Snelson October 30--December 1, 1979, Zabriskie Gallery, New York [Exhibit Catalog]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/756/658756128.0.b.jpg)
Kenneth Snelson October 30--December 1, 1979, Zabriskie Gallery, New York [Exhibit Catalog]
New York: Zabriskie Gallery, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Stapled white covers, toned along top and spine areas. Small, round orange sticker on lower spine. Twelve pages, not numbered. Illustrated with photos of works exhibited at Zabriskie Gallery in New York. The pieces are constructed of aluminum and stainless steel cables..
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€18.90
![[CONCEPTUAL ART - CONCRETE POETRY - FLUXUS] Um nicht zu sagen: Ganz zu schweigen von: Timm-Ulrichs-Bulletin 3. Folge (künstliche Poesie, aktionstexte, visuelle konstruktionen &c.) [Not to say: not to mention. Timm-Ulrichs-Bulletin 3rd installment (artificial poetry, action texts, visual constructions &c.)]. Wrapper title: 869](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/515/656/1593656515.0.b.jpg)
[CONCEPTUAL ART - CONCRETE POETRY - FLUXUS] Um nicht zu sagen: Ganz zu schweigen von: Timm-Ulrichs-Bulletin 3. Folge (künstliche Poesie, aktionstexte, visuelle konstruktionen &c.) [Not to say: not to mention. Timm-Ulrichs-Bulletin 3rd installment (artificial poetry, action texts, visual constructions &c.)]. Wrapper title: 869
by Ulrichs, Timm
Ulrichs. Complete copy of the first and only edition of the artist's book produced by Timm Ulrichs in 400 copies. As of January 2024, OCLC lists 2 copies in North America. Complete copy of the first and only edition of the artist's book produced by Timm Ulrichs in 400 copies. As of January 2024, OCLC lists 2 copies in North America.
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€850.00
