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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 4to in publishers hardcover with jacket. 355 pages, richly illustrated. Text in Englis. Fine clean copy. First edition. -"Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century, but his work has never been the focus of an in-depth study. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and artists' interviews, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image. She follows each decade chronologically, including his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. An absorbing book that is likely to become the definitive work on this seminal figure in American art, Painting Harlem Modern highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision".

Limoges: FRAC Limousin, 1999. 8vo in bright green stiff wraps as issued. 125 pages, illustrated. Text in both French and English. Clean and tight copy, fine. First edition.

Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001. 8vo hardcover, no jacket as issued. 128 pages, illustrated. Text in both English and German. Fine clean copy. CD unplayed. 1. ed.

Sweden: OEI Editör, 2018. Tall large and heavy lex 8vo in wraps as issued. 640 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Light shelfwear to cover, else clean and fine, unread copy. First edition, 1st printing. - Special issue of OEI magazine taking its starting point in Ernesto de Sousa’s explosive activities as filmmaker, photographer, curator, critic, writer, folk art researcher, multimedia artist etc. in the Portuguese 1960s onwards. Ernesto de Sousa (Lisbon, 1921–1988) was one of the most complex and active figures of his time, a prolific multidisciplinary artist and an avid producer of synergies between generations of artists from both the first and the second half of the 20th century. Defending an experimental and free artistic expression, he dedicated himself to the study, promotion and practice of the arts, as well as to curatorship, critique and essay writing, photography, cinema and theater. During the 1960s he got in touch with the Fluxus movement and with the European neo-avant-garde, becoming friends with Robert Filliou and Wolf Vostell. This contact was significant to his recast of art as an experimental and participatory "open work", of which are examples the theatrical exercise Nós Não Estamos Algures (1969), the expanded film Almada, Um Nome de Guerra (1969-1972) and the mixed media Luíz Vaz 73, all collaborative pieces authored by him. During this decade and up until the 1980s, he organized courses, conferences and exhibitions on experimental film, video art, performance and happening, while promoting connections between the international neo-avant-garde and the Portuguese context. Ernesto de Sousa anticipated the Carnation Revolution (April 25th, 1974) and countered Portugal's peripheral position in Europe when he proposed to celebrate Robert Filliou's Anniversary of Art (Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, 1974). The exhibition "Alternativa Zero" (Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, 1977) synthesized his project of creating a Portuguese avant-garde in aesthetic and ideologic dialogue with its international counterparts. Being active in almost every­thing that belongs to the domain of the arts in the broadest sense of the word, Ernesto de Sousa (1921-1988) adopted the term “aesthetic operator” to be used instead of the word “artist” – “for the simple reason that ‘artist’ designates a kind of sociolo­gical position and not a philosophical attitude towards the world” (José Miranda Justo). As a “source of enthusiasm, dynamism and motivation” (Isabel Alves), Ernesto de Sousa created new connections between all sorts of disciplines, forms, materials and social contexts. In its 640 page long textual and visual montage, including a series of new essays and translations of key essays, as well as a lot of archival material, OEI #80-81 also looks at the practices of a number of De Sousa’s fellow “aesthetic operators” (Alberto Carneiro, Túlia Saldanha, Álvaro Lapa, Fernando Calhau, Lourdes Castro, Ana Vieira, Ana Hatherly, E.M. de Melo e Castro, António Barros…). At the same time, OEI #80-81 encompasses texts on magazines such as Poesia Experimental, Operação, Nova, A Urtiga, and Alternativa; and works by artists from younger generations such as Isabel Carvalho, Paulo Mendes and Mariana Silva.

København: SMK Forlag, 2016. Stor hardcover. 296 sider. Rigt farveillustreret. Pænt, rent eksemplar.

Suhrkamp Taschenbücher, 1983. 1350 Seiten. Ohne Schuber. Bücher sind gut erhalten. 1200 = N.F., Band 200, Erste Auflage / First edition, 1st printing (stated). First publication was as part of Gesammelte Werke, Volume V the year before, this being the first seperate edition. Very well preserved, clean and complete set of Das Passagenwerk, The Arcades Project.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2021 (2006). Large oversized 4to in softcover wraps. 224 pages, richly illustrated throughout. Only minimum wear to corners of cover, else fine. First edition. - "The definitive overview of the artwork of the seminal Manchester-based Factory label, covering its iconic record sleeves, posters, ephemera, venues and packaging. After a foreword by the late founder of Factory, Tony Wilson, an introductory essay discusses the label's role in bringing design to the mainstream. Thereafter the book is organized as a generously illustrated catalogue, arranged by the famous Factory reference system. "Factory Records", as part of the story, has been given its own reference number - Fac 461 - making it a collectable item in its own right...".

Copenhagen: Chr. Erichsens Forlag, 1968. Small oblong 8vo. Original black photoillustrated hardcover boards. 74 photographs by Ulrik Ross in gravure. Text (in Danish) by Michael Rütz. Very good clean copy. Very scarce, eccentric photo illustrated work on public toilets and sexual graffiti. 'Retirade Kunst' was included in '802 photobooks of the M. Auer Collection' (Auer, page 485). First (and only) edition - attractive copy.

Roskilde Museet for Samtidskunst, 1996. 8vo. 96 pages. Text in Danish and English. Illustrated. Fine. 1. edition. Book designed by Michael Jensen. Outstanding Danish book design object, text only and printed in blue on transparent plastic - after Duchamp, Queneau and Højholt.

C &K Forlag, 2014. 119 pp. Hardcover med omslag. Første danske oplag.

London, Imago Publishing Co, 1948 (1942). Original bluecloth. XV, 722 pp. Rubbing to cloth and a few pencil notes else overall a very good copy.

Gyldendal 2020. Original hardcover. 614 pp. Pænt eksemplar. "Ovids Elskovskunst. Håndbog i hor."

London: Phaidon Press, 2002. Large thick 8vo in publishers hardcover w dustjacket. 382 pages, w illustrations, drawings, photos, plans and index. Fine, clean and well preserved copy. First thus. - "Labour, Work and Architecture is an anthology of writings by the renowned architectural critic, Kenneth Frampton. The book brings together 25 essays and writings from the last thirty years, which focus on twentieth-century architecture, examining themes and movements in architecture, built works and the architects responsible for these buildings. It presents a rich body of written work, serving to situate recent architecture into its broader historical context, by an internationally influential author committed to the understanding and improvement of our built environment"

Denmark, Academica, 2007. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 430 pp. Clean copy. 1st edition.

Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Small 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 62 pages. Hint of wear to cover corners and foredge else clean and overall a very good or near fine copy. First edition, 1st printing . - Part of the Photographers at Work Series. Includes an interview with Eggleston along numerous color photographs of horses and dogs in various situations.

New York : Dover Publications, 1955. 4to Hardcover, with jacket. XVII, 195 pages with 4.500 individual photographs describing the human figure in motion. Name, else clean and overall a very good or near fine copy. First edition thus. Very fine classic and attractive edition.

S.A.R.L. ZAO 1989 . Large oversize 4to. 82 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs, dans le texte et en hors-texte. Some wear to edges. Danish-French Thierry Geoffroy (b. 1961) artist photographer. 

Ostfildern: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995 (1992). Large oversized in softcover 28x25 cm. 309, (3) pp. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour. Some edgewear else a solid clean and very good copy. A new edition of the classic Pontus Hulten monograph on Niki de Saint Phalle's artistic development documented in detail in this comprehensive volume. It includes a complete biography, a list of exhibitions, an essay by Pontus Hultén, and around 500 illustrations.

Koenig Books & Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2016. Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 328 pages; in Danish and German. Light shelfwear and minimal rubbing to exterior; clean and crisp; no internal marks. 1. ed. STEINE IM FLUSS. Ein Leben als Frau und Künstlerin. Hrsg. von Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Frederikke Hansen & Kristina Ask. Texte von Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Köln 2016. 21,7 x 28,3 cm. 328 S. mit 210 (138 farb.) meist ganzseit. Abb., Chronologie, Leinen - Text in dt. & dän. Sprache. "Ursula Reuter versteht das eigene Leben als Material für ihr künstlerisches Schaffen. In diesem Sinne arbeitet sie expressiv mit sich selbst. In Texten und Bildern beschreibt sie, wie sich persönliche Geschichte und die Ikonen, mit denen sie sich auseinandergesetzt hat, zu großen, universalen Erzählungen über Leidenschaft, Betrug, Begehren, Liebe und Widerstand verschmelzen. Der Bericht über ihre 50jährige künstlerische Arbeit nimmt seinen spannenden Ausgangspunkt in den frühen Jahren in Deutschland nach dem 2. Weltkrieg, zutiefst fasziniert von Mythen, Märchen und Sagen der Romantik. Die Studienjahre i den 60 er Jahren bei Joseph Beuys und das Motto der Zeit "Leben ist Kunst und Kunst ist Leben" war von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Künstlerin. Es folgt die Reise gen Norden und ihre Ehe mit dem dänischen Komponisten und Fluxuskünstler Henning Christiansen. Die Werke, die ab den 70er Jahren im Umfeld des ländlichen und familiären Lebens auf der Insel Moen entstanden sind, erzählen von den Frauen- und Arbeiterkämpfen jener Jahre, von Augenblicken existentieller Erfahrungen mit Ehe, Karriere, Depression, Trotz und Einsamkeit - alles beherrscht von der Besessenheit als kreativer Mensch zu leben."

Federal Office Of Culture Bern, 2015. Tall 4to in wraps as issued. 17, 174 and 17 pages. Only minimal shelf wear to cover.

Puro Chile, 2006. Very heavy hardcover. 645 pages, throughout illustrated. Text in both Spanish and English. Only minor wear to cover. 1. ed. . Due to the extra weight of this item, please inquire about shipping prices before ordering! Copying Eden. Recent Art in Chile, presents and analyzes the evolution of contemporary art in Chile from 1973 to present days, edited by the renowned curator Gerardo Mosquera.It is the most extensive bibliographic source on contemporary Chilean art yet published. The book’s 650 pages and over 500 color images present work from 1973 to the present, featuring 74 artists, among them Gonzalo Díaz, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Downey, Paz Errázuriz, Alfredo Jaar, Iván Navarro and Lotty Rosenfeld. It includes images of many other artists that illustrate an introduction by the editor and six essays by prominent critics and scholars like Nelly Richard and Adriana Valdés. The publication also includes the most comprehensive bibliography ever compiled on the subject, among other materials.

Los Angeles and London: University of California Press Berkeley, 2014. Publishers hardcover with jaacket. XI, 336 pages, with many illustrations. Fine clean unread copy. First edition. On Heartfield s groundbreaking political photomontages, published in the left-wing wekkly Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) during the 1930s and elsewhere. Kriebel foregrounds the the critical artistic practices with which Heartfield directly confronted the turbulent, ideologically charged currents of interwar Europe, exposing the cultural politics of the crucial historical moment that witnessed the consolidation of National Socialism.

Copenhagen, Brondum, 1991. Publisher's printed wraps as issued. 117 pp. Full text in both English and Danish. Spine sunned (see photos) else fine well preserved copy. First edition thus.

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, 2014 / 2015. 4to in wraps as issued. 224 pages with 120 illustrations in color. Text in both Spanish and English. Fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO December 20, 2014-March 15, 2015. First edition. "Using familiar materials such as receipts, newspaper, and plastic bags, Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based artist Gabriel Kuri (b. 1970) is interested in the way that money mediates almost all human relationships. The Aspen Art Museum exhibition comprised a selection of works that center on Kuri’s interest in the transactional residue of daily life and broad-based ideas of tracking systems in economics, politics, consumption and production. The catalog features essays by Daniel McClean and Heidi Zuckerman, as well as an interview between Kuri and Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy. "

Ediziona Periferia, Luzern, 2014. Large 4to in hardcover, no jacket as issued. 23 x 31 cm, 272 pages, illusrated richly. English text. Fine clean copy. First edition, fine copy. - "(1–3) Making the audiovisual recording for the exhibition My first sonic Lok at Bahnmuseum Albula, Bergün, 2013. Installation of various analog sensors to record the vibrations and electro-magnetic waves during the operation of the locomotive on the world-famous Albula route. Gion Caprez, Andy Guhl. Live sound mix in the driver’s cab of the locomotive RhB GE 6/6 704 «Davos», 65-ton, 2400 HP engine, 11 kV, 16.7 Hz. (4) Eight different converters from physical waves—used as microphone or speaker. (5–6) My first sonic Lok, 170° video still, from the exhibition at Bahnmuseum Albula, Bergün.Taken from the audiovisual recording of a train locomotive ride on the Albula line. Visual of the cracking sounds of this high-voltage machine recorded by a video camera attached to the window of the locomotive". This book about the experimental musician Andy Guhl at first looks loud and somewhat confusing, but this is part of its programmatic intent. It is a reference to Guhl’s musical credo: for four decades, he has often moved on the border between music and noise with his disassembled and rewired everyday electronic devices. In addition, two important design decisions remind the reader that a book, like live music, has a temporal dimension: the left hand pages show full-bleed still images from audiovisual performances by Guhl, creating a strong rhythm as one leafs through; and on the right-hand pages, a continuous stream of various images and texts flows from top to bottom in a seemingly mechanical layout. On these pages, the unusual paper, reminiscent of carbon paper, is extremely susceptible to the traces left from being touched and scratched. The inevitable rapid wear on the volume, particularly on the cover, transforms each book into a unique art object. Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2014.