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University of Tokyo Press, 1978 (1977 / 1975). 8vo in softcover. XLI, 806 pp. Red endpapers. Spines sunned else very good clean set with only minor shelfwear. Second paperback printing 1978 of the first complete translation into English. - The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, a great martial epic and a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories: "The story of the Heike was compiled from a collection of oral stories recited by travelling monks who chanted to the accompaniment of the biwa, an instrument reminiscent of the lute. The most widely read version of the Heike monogatari was compiled by a blind monk named Kakuichi, in 1371. The Heike is considered one of the great classics of Medieval Japanese literature. Two main strands feed into the central ethos of the tale, samurai and buddhist. At one level, the Tale is an account of martial heroism – of courage, cruelty, power, glory, sacrifice and sorrow. Those who emphasise this aspect of the story point to its glorification of the heroic spirit, its avoidance of the realistic brutality and squalor of war, and its aestheticisation of death: a classic instance of the latter is the comparison of the drowned samurai in the final battle to a maple-leaf brocade upon the waves. Others, while still accepting the importance of the military episodes and of heroic figures like Yoshitsune, would emphasise instead the Tale’s immersion in Buddhist thought, and its themes of duty, Dharma, and fate".

Wien: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Mumok), 2003. Small 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 83 pages, text in English and German and with photos bw. Near fine / fine clean copy. First edition. "Buckingham transposes the London setting of Poe's story to the Vienna of Sigmund Freud and Graham Greene, tracing a young man’s pursuit of a mysterious, older stranger through the streets of the city for an entire day and night. Failing to learn the stranger’s identity or make a meaningful connection, the young man then begins the hunt anew. Poe's themes of doubling and shadowing, attraction, disorientation, and estrangement, physiognomy and typecasting, and self and doppelganger manifest themselves in the mechanics of the installation. Buckingham projects the film onto and through a semi-metallic, two-way glass screen that produces reversed images and multiple reflections of its protagonists. The twenty-four-hour narrative is condensed into a continuous, twenty-one-minute loop that evokes the young man's never-ending quest. Buckingham insinuates himself into the story—he is seen reflected from time to time in windows and mirrors as he follows on the heels of his fictional characters like a noir detective, or that other mythical type, the inconspicuous, objective documentary filmmaker. The gallerygoer who crosses the path of the projected image also becomes a shadowy figure in the crowd—a "third man."

London: Studio Editions Ltd, 1989 and 1990 (1988). 2 vols in oversized big and heravy hardcovers with jacket. 285, 285 pp. Illustrated in bw and color. Fine clean set. NB: Very large and heavy books and extra shipping may apply: Please inquire before ordering this item!

London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Squarish 8vo in wraps. 192 pages, richly illustrated with b/w landscape photographs. Name to half title, else only minor wear to corners of cover, overall a very good copy. First edition, softcover version Very fine, recommended photobook with photos of urban and suburban landscape and post-industrial dereliction and an impassioned attack on the destruction of the countryside, included a text strongly argued.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia) : Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, 1969. Squarish 4to in wraps as issued, 75 pages. Illustrated. text in Yugoslavian and German. Very good copy. 1st ed. Štefka Cobelj, Joachim Albrecht, Hartmur Bohm, Erich Buchhlz, Karl Buchheister, Giano Colombo, Adolf Fleichmann, Kunibert Fritz, Gunther Fruhtrunk, Herman Glockner, Lily Greenham etal.

Copenhagen: Space Poetry, 2008 ff. 26 tiny square artist books, all 10 x 10 cm and illustrated, mainly in color. Light shelfwear to some covers else a clean and unread set.

London: Phaidon, 2003. Large 4° in softcover with dustjacket. 240 pages, richly illustrated. Very good clean copy. A historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers from the early 20th century to the present. It features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the USA - including Merz (1920s), View (1940s), East Village Other (1960s), Punk (1970s), Raw (1980s), and Emigre (1990s).

New York and London: Anyone Coporation & MIT Press, 2001. Quarto in french wraps as issued. 287 pages. Text in English. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1st ed. "At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," Anything asks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In thirty-two original essays, many of them illustrated, leading architects, theorists, historians and others discuss their works. The wide-ranging topics include a "refugee republic," "blur buildings," virtual environments, shopping, and stress. "Anything," it would seem, is many things, opening the way for architecture to embrace history, science, research, and technology. The authors include, among others, Caroline Bos, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Herzog, Steven Holl, Osamu Ishiyama, Arata Isozaki, Romi Khosla, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Wolf Prix, Hani Rashid, Bernard Tschumi, and Ben van Berkel. Anything is the tenth and final book in the ongoing series that began in 1991 with Anyone and was followed by Anywhere, Anyway, Anyplace, Anywise, Anybody, Anyhow, Anytime, and Anymore. Each volume is based on a conference at which architects and leaders in other fields came together to present papers and discuss a particular idea in architecture from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2015. 185 pp. Hft. Små brugsspor.

Mohanna, 2012. DVD in original box. No 8 of 10 copies. Signed and numbered in hand. Fine copy. Ceremony is a single-channel video projection art work / 5:20 min. loop w/ sound.

Copenhagen: Book Lab, 2023. Tall large quarto in hardcover boards as issued. 164 pages. Text in English. Fine copy.  First edition. "From the Baltic countries and Ukraine in the west, to Siberia far to the east, Georgia, Armenia and the Caucasus in the south. In the years from 1988 to 1993, photographer Stig Stasig traveled around the Soviet Union and photographed life on streets. “Today’s Russia is a product of its past: the tsarist era, the revolution and the Soviet regime, and not least the chaotic break-up period around 1990. The only way we can hope to understand Russia’s behavior today is to familiarize ourselves with history and the completely different reality that the Russian people are and have been subject to. We have a tendency to try to understand Russia’s and Putin’s actions based on our own perception of freedom and democracy. What seems absurd from our point of view can often be understood very differently when looking at the same problem from the Russian side.” – Stig Stasig. Retrograd contains text by Sergej Lebedev, one of the young promising Russian writers in exile, who in his stories about the present draws threads to the past. Book design by Stig Stasig with Michael Jensen of K Grafik. a very intense, poetic and classic photobook documentary. Highly recommended!

Bloomsbury , 2007. Hardcover. 302 pages. Very good copy, signed in hand by Julian Cope to title page. Julian Cope, the great rock 'n' roll literary yeti, follows up a book flouting his passion for Krautrock with this book flouting his passion for Japanese experimental music of the Seventies with descriptions of his favourite bands Flower Travellin' Band, Les Razllizes Denudes, Speed Glue & Shinki, Taj Mahal Travellers, JA Caesar, Far East Family Band, etc.

Horst Dieter Adler, 1991. 8vo hardcover. Around 200 pages, color illustrated throughout. Om intimpiercinger.

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. "

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. 

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.

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.

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.

New York: New Directions, 1949. 8vo. Original hardcover w well preserved dustjacket, just a little edgeworn and protected in mylar.185 (1) pp. Clean inside. First American edition - Michaux visits India, the Himalayas, southern India, Ceylon, Malaya (from Malaysia to Bali), China, and Japan.

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.

New York: Aperture, 1997 (1972). 4to in softcover. 184 pages, 80 duotone images. Intro in English. Light shelfwear only, else fine clean copy. Aperture reprint edition ´_ "One of the highlights of 20th century photographic literature" . - "When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence-even a legend-among serious photographers, although only a small number of her pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus : An Aperture Monograph in 1972, and the posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, offered the public its first encounter with Arbus' achievements".

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.

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

Tokyo: Ueno Royal Museum 2019. Small 4to in original illustrated flexi-boards. 248 pp. Richly color illustrated, finely printed. Text in Japanese with introduction and notes in English. Very good copy. 1st ed.

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.