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Phaidon, 2005. Thick heavy 8vo in original flexi boards w jacket. 714 pages, illustrated. Text in English. Near fine and clean copy with only minor wear to exterior. First edition. "From highly established artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz to midcareer masters such as Fischli and Weiss, Kusama and Jenny Holzer to the most exciting contemporary artists, the artists in pressPLAY work in every variety of media - from painting to video, sculpture to installation. In discussion with key art critics as well as fellow artists, novelists, musicians and theorists, together the players in pressPLAY explain in full what it means to be an artist today. Highlights include interview with Richard Prince, as well as Vija Celmins and noted sculptor Robert Gober in an intimate discussion on their differing art practices; longtime friends and fellow travellers for decades, Benjamin Buchloh and Lawrence Weiner recall 35 years of work in the definitive, career-long interview for this key conceptual artist; the late Sir Ernst Gombrich in a discussion with the UK's pre-eminent sculptor Antony Gormley, who confesses that it was Gombrich's Story of Art that first inspired him to become an artist; the taciturn, legendary Raymond Pettibon muses on the evolution of his work with noted novelist Dennis Cooper; musician-artist Christian Marclay discusses performance, music and art with Kim Gordon, etc. Full list: Vito Acconci -- Doug Aitken -- Uta Barth -- Christian Boltanski -- Louise Bourgeois -- Cai Guo-Qiang -- Maurizio Cattelan -- Vija Celmins -- Richard Deacon -- Mark Dion -- Stan Douglas -- Marlene Dumas -- Jimmie Durham -- Olafur Eliasson -- Peter Fischli and David Weiss -- Tom Friedman -- Isa Genzken -- Antony Gormley -- Dan Graham -- Paul Graham -- Hans Haacke -- Mona Hatoum -- Thomas Hirschhorn -- Jenny Holzer -- Roni Horn -- Ilya Kabakov -- Alex Katz -- Mike Kelley -- Mary Kelly -- William Kentridge -- Yayoi Kusama -- Robert Mangold -- Christian Marclay -- Paul McCarthy -- Cildo Meireles -- Lucy Orta -- Raymond Pettibon -- Richard Prince -- Pipilotti Rist -- Doris Salcedo -- Thomas Schütte -- Lorna Simpson -- Nancy Spero -- Jessica Stockholder -- Wolfgang Tillmans -- Luc Tuymans -- Jeff Wall -- Gillian Wearing -- Lawrence Weiner -- Franz West.

Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation / Silvana, 2011. 8vo in wraps as issued. 112 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean and complete copy.

MIT Press Cambridge, 2003. Squarish 8vo 23x17cm in publishers clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. xx, 238 pages, with illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition, hardcover.

Denmark: 1963. Squarish 8vo in photo illustrated wrappers, as issued. 72 unpaginated pages illustrated throughout with black-and-white illustrations, mostly full page Text in German, Danish, French and English by Gertie Wandel, Povl Christiansen et el. Minor shelf wear and crease to front corners (see photos). Interior unmarked and clean. In all a very good copy. Joint sales exhibition catalogue of hand-made furniture by members of the cabinet-makers guild 1963. 1st edition. Uncommon.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1956, 1957, and 1958. 3 vols in the original uniform blue clothed hardcovers with gilt titles, no dustjackets. 454; 534, 536 pp. Clean solid set. Volume 3 is in first edition. In all a good to very good set. The great classic biography of Freud and his life, first surpassed by Peter Gay's work - and still respected by many, including Peter Gay himself. Extra shipping may apply - please inquire.

London: Lisson Gallery / Galerie Yvon Lambert, 2003. Small 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 160pp. Profusely illus. mainly in colour. Fine, with only the most minimal edgewear. Complete with inserts. First edition.

Strandberg Publishing, 2023. Hardcover. 316 pp. Richly illustrated. New, unopened copy. 1st ed. "Hailed as one of the most significant figures of early Modernism and at the same time condemned for his work and his moral – the discussion about Gauguin, his art and his character is still relevant today. Especially at a time where #MeToo is shedding new light on Gauguin’s relationship with adolescent girls and his share in colonialism in French Polynesia. ‘Gauguin – The Master, the Monster and the Myth’ is the first in-depth biography about the artist written by a Danish writer. The publication shares new insights about Gauguin – about his complex character as an artist and a human being. It challenges the traditional ideas we have about his life and work. Flemming Friborg unfolds the fascinating story about Gauguin’s life and the millieu of Impressionism that he was a part of but also at the same time distinguishing himself from. The book shows how his method and moral was bound in a carefully maintained, personal brand and therefore the master and the monster must be seen as inseparable – and therefore, as a result of this, Gaugain’s legacy and status as a genius artist remains unclear.". - Flemming Fribog (b. 1965) is an Art Historian and Associate Professor at CBS (Management, Politics and Philosophy). From 2002-17 he was director of Ny Garlsberg Glyptotek. He has been awarded several Danish and international orders such as the N.L. Høyen medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the honourable order L’ordre ministériel des Arts et des Lettres presented by the French Ministry of Culture.

New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Publishers original hardcover with well preserved and unclipped dustjacket. Fine yellow endpapers and topedge in green matching the binding. XXIII,158 pages, with scores. Jacket faded else a fine, clean and well preserved copy. First edition of this beautifully made revised version. Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer - "The purpose is to point out the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout its history" Cowell states in his introduction. Henry Cowell, in full Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) American composer who, with Charles Ives, was among the most innovative American composers of the 20th century. Cowell grew up in poverty in San Francisco and on family farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. He acquired a piano at age 14, and the following year he gave a concert of his experimental piano compositions. At 17 he studied at the University of California with the influential musicologist Charles Seeger, who persuaded him to undertake the systematic study of traditional European musical techniques. He also urged Cowell to formulate a theoretical framework for his innovations, which he did in his book New Musical Resources (1919; published 1930), an influential technical study of music. While studying comparative musicology in Berlin with Erich von Hornbostel, Cowell became interested in the music of other cultures; he later studied Asian and Middle Eastern music, elements of which he absorbed into many of his own compositions. In 1923–33 Cowell undertook a series of tours of Europe as composer and pianist. Many of his concerts provoked uproar, but they also brought him to the attention of leading modern European composers. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1932–52 and, from 1949, at Columbia University. From 1936 to 1940 he was incarcerated in San Quentin state prison on charges of homosexual conduct. He continued to write music while in prison, and in 1940 he was paroled to the custody of composer Percy Grainger. Cowell was granted a full pardon in 1942. Cowell’s innovations appear particularly in the piano pieces written between 1912 and 1930. Seeking new sonorities, he developed “tone clusters,” chords that on the piano are produced by simultaneously depressing several adjacent keys (e.g., with the forearm). Later he called these sonorities secondal harmonies—i.e., harmonies based on the interval of a second in contrast to the traditional basis of a third. These secondal harmonies appear in his early piano pieces, such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1912); in his Piano Concerto (1930); and in his Synchrony (1931) for orchestra and trumpet solo. Some of his other piano compositions, such as Aeolian Harp (1923) and The Banshee (1925), are played directly on the piano strings, which are rubbed, plucked, struck, or otherwise sounded by the hands or by an object. Cowell’s Mosaic Quartet (1935) was an experiment with musical form; the performers are given blocks of music to arrange in any desired order. With the Russian engineer Leon Theremin, Cowell built the Rhythmicon, an electronic instrument that could produce 16 different simultaneous rhythms, and he composed Rhythmicana (1931; first performed 1971), a work specifically written for the instrument. Cowell wrote numerous pieces reflecting his interest in rural American hymnology, Irish folklore and music, and non-Western music. In order to publish the scores of modern composers, he founded the New Music Quarterly in 1927 and was its editor until 1936. He also edited American Composers on American Music (1933) and with his wife, Sidney Cowell, wrote Charles Ives and His Music (1955). A number of well-known American composers, including John Cage, Lou Harrison, and George Gershwin, studied with and were influenced by Cowell.

New York & London: Praeger Publishers, 1972. Square 4to in hardcover. Dustjacket with some wear (see photos) but now protected. 177 pp. Profusedly illustrated with Gorgoni's b/w photographs. Some minor handling wear but no markings and no stamps or notes. In all a very good attractive copy. First edition, hardcover published by Praeger. Influential book containing essay by Gregoire Müller discussing the new avant-garde art of the seventies. Lively photographic essays for each artist by Gianfranco Gorgoni. Includes: Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Walter De Maria, and Michael Heizer.

Published by Stelton, 2010. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 197 pages, richly illustrated. Text in both Danish and English. Light wear to jacket else clean and fine. 1st edition. The classic Stelton book with the story behind iconic designs like Arne Jacobsen’s Cylinda-line and Erik Magnussen’s EM77 vacuum jug.

Uden trykkested, 1820. Håndkoloreret (Randkoloreret) træsnit i nyere ramme og i hjemmelavet passepartout. Ca. 13, 5 x 14, 5 cm (19,5 x 25 cm med ramme). Påsat mærkat bagpå rammen: Fra "Knud V. Engelhardts Studiesamling". Dekorativt kort. Fra "Samling af 50 Smaae Landkort i Træsnit til Brug for Skolerne paa Landet" trykte 1818 ff. - det første dansk producerede atlas overhovedet.

Paris: HAZAN / Musées D'Orsay et de l’Orangerie , 2017. Tall 8vo in wraps as issued. 221, (2) pp. Richly illustrated, with text in French. Very good clean copy. "The artistic revolt of Dada, which arose in Zurich in the midst of the turmoil of the Great War in 1916, expressed a rejection of the traditional values ??of civilisation that had led to the disaster of that period. In this context, a re-evaluation of other systems of thought and creation took place, leading many avant-garde artists to consider and appropriate radically different types of artistic production. For the first time, and in cooperation with the Rietberg Museum in Zurich and the Berlinische Galerie, an exhibition was devoted to the confrontation of the Dadaists with the art and culture of non-European countries. The stagings of the "Soirées nègres" at the Cabaret Voltaire, appealing to all the senses and combining music, poetry and dance, attacked the very notion of art and called into question the artistic values ??that had prevailed until then. As early as 1917, the Coray Gallery in Zurich exhibited African objects side by side with Dadaist works. The same year, Tzara wrote his "Note sur l’art nègre", published in the journal SIC where he stated "from black let us draw light". The masks of Marcel Janco, the costumes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the collages of Hannah Höch or the collective works refusing the notion of author bear witness to this research for a new formal language. This multidisciplinary exhibition will allow us to confront non-Western works that are both African but also Amerindian or Asian with Dadaist productions, highlighting processes of exchange and appropriation by these artists. Dada paintings, sculptures, photocollages, photographs will be mixed with non-Western sculptures in games of resonances supported by the scenographic staging of the exhibition. The Parisian stage will also highlight the fertile ground pre-existing in the French capital for non-European arts and the way in which this was able to nourish the movement. Thus, the exhibition finds its place at the Musée de l’Orangerie, by highlighting the links between gallery owner Paul Guillaume and the actors gravitating around Dada and around African art at that time. The Orangerie stage will also open up on the importance that this subject could have had in the genesis of the links between the surrealist movement and non-Western arts".

London: Collins Harvill, 1994. Publishers hardcover w jacket. XI, 285 pages. Dustjacket priceclipped else well preserved attractive clean copy First UK edition. A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. Perec would go on to write with the inverse constraint in Les Revenentes, with only the vowel “e” present in the work.

Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1883. I pænt, lidt slidt samtidigt halvshirt med forgyldt titel. 403 pp. Forreste indre fals svag men stadig solid. En del samtidige blyantsunderstregninger. 1ste udgave. Proviniens: Komponisten Victor Bendix med dennes signatur. "Den kulturrevolutionerende Georg Brandes navngav i denne portrætsamling for første gang begrebet "det moderne gennembrud", der blev definerende for perioden op til det 20. århundrede. Her introducerede han de vigtigste forfattere i Norden, der gennem litteraturen satte problemer under debat og dermed skabte opbrud i de herskende samfundsnormer. Med skarp pen beskriver Brandes forfattere som Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Henrik Ibsen og J.P. Jacobsen. En vigtigt værk om en skelsættende periode i skandinavisk kultur. Georg Brandes (1842-1927) er den mest indflydelsesrige litteraturkritiker og –teoretiker i dansk litteraturhistorie. Det var netop Georg Brandes, der definerede de litterære genrer realisme og naturalisme op imod senromantikken, som han så som virkelighedsfjern og præget af tom æstetik." - Om Victor Bendix er der skrevet "Pianisten, komponisten og dirigenten Victor Bendix (1851-1926) var en spændende og særpræget skikkelse i dansk musikliv i årtierne omkring 1900 og en fin mentor for Carl Nielsen, som trods aldersforskellen blev hans nære kammerat og kollega. Victor Bendix kom fra et jødisk hjem i København, hvor han tidligt blev meget god til at spille klaver. I 1867 blev han optaget på den allerførste årgang på Københavns Musikkonservatorium med Niels W. Gade som en streng lærer i komposition og en tid lang hans mentor. Men Victor Bendix ville andet og mere end den meget konservative musikretning, der op til århundredskiftet blev tegnet af Gade og I.P.E. Hartmann. Da han i 1872 blev hyret som repetitør for Det kgl. Teater blev han fuldstændig begejstret over indstuderingen af Wagners to operaer Lohengrin og Tristan og Isolde. Sin løn brugte han umiddelbart efter til at rejse til Bayreuth, hvor grundstenen til Wagners operahus netop blev lagt, og han overværede prøver, hvor Wagner indstuderede Beethovens 9. symfoni. Besøget blev i den grad stimulerende for Bendix musikalske udvikling og gav ham mange nye kontakter. Han blev ikke alene den første dansker, der besøgte Bayreuth, men også (sammen med sin bror Otto) den første elev af Frantz Liszt. Orienteringen mod den nytyske senromantiske musik smittede også af på Victor Bendix egne kompositioner, ikke mindst den første symfoni Fjeldstigning, der tydeligt var udformet som et stykke programmusik og godkendt på højeste sted hos Franz Liszt. Bendix orientering mod den store senromantiskemusik faldt tidsmæssigt sammen med fætteren Georg Brandes berømte forelæsningsrække Hovedstrømninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Litteratur, der generelt set var et opgør med det danske åndslivs tilbageskuende romantik, ”fædrelanderi” og præstegårdskultur, hans opgør blev indledningen til en ny, mere kølig livsanskuelse og den senere kulturradikalisme. Måske var Victor Bendix musikalske aktiviteter en beskeden pendant til Brandes store kulturhistoriske omvæltning. Der var i hvert tilfælde en del ligheder mellem de to. Hverken Victor Bendix eller Georg Brandes fik den ledende position i det etablerede kulturliv, som de rent fagligt var kvalificerede til, men ydede fra sidelinjen store indsatser. Georg Brandes som berømt kritiker og forfatter, Victor Bendix som højt anset lærer, pianist, komponist og dirigent. Begge blev sent i livet udnævnt til titulær professor. Ægteskab og seksualmoral var i høj grad til diskussion i disse kredse, hvilket bl.a. afstedkom den såkaldte sædelighedsfejde (1883-87). Dette praktiserede Victor Bendix mere i praksis end i ord med en lind strøm af udenomsægteskabelige forhold og nogle tragiske skandaler til følge. Han havde bl.a. et forhold til Edvard Brandes purunge hustru Harriet, født Salomon, som var hans klaverelev. 22 år gammel tog hun på tragisk vis livet af sig selv, og forholdet mellem Bendix og fætrene Brandes kølnedes efterfølgende." (Eva Maria Jensen).

Forlaget Swing, 1979. 59 pp. Hft. Rent og friskt eksemplar. Første udgave, 1. oplag. Omslag af Bjørn Nørgaard. Forfatterens måske hovedværk.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 268 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. First edition.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 27, 1977 - January 2, 1978. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, January 27 - February 26, 1978. Seattle Art Museum. Large heavy hardcover with protected fine jacket. 111 pp. Illustrated. Fine. First edition, attractive copy. Catalog of the landmark exhibition, organized by John Beardsley, of contemporary earth works or land projects by artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Charles Ross, Charles Simonds and others.

Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. Unpaginated with app. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Excellent fine attractive copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook in great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is exploring with camera and though her book publications the complex bonds between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg’s projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the ‘land in-between’, the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction. For this present book Ursula Schulz-Dornburg was visiting Pagan city in Burma 1976 - now Bagan, Myanmar - , where she was photographing the holy temples, both in their landscape form and inside. Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. - A very tentative, beautiful book.

Paris: Julliard (Les lettres nouvelles 26), 1962. 8vo uncut with untrimmed edges in printed wraps as issued. 228 pages. Only minor wear to cover else very good well preserved clean copy. Édition originale française, tirage spécial réservé aux amis, collaborateurs et abonnés des "Lettres nouvelles", notre exemplaire le n° 59 / First French printing. Translated to French by Georges Lisowski, limited edition, numbered copy ( # 59).

Kehrer for BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries, 2008. Original silver colored hardcover, no jacket as issued. 176 pageswith 136 color illustrations. Text by Nancy Adajania, Shaheen Merali, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones in both German and English. Only minimal shelfwear to cover else clean and fine copy.  First edition. Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) creates artwork using interactive video, websites, photographs, objects, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border. The book's title, "BlindStars StarsBlind", is particularly apt for an artist who uses language in a fragmented form to talk about regions, borders or territorial claims. This catalog of over 25 mostly recent works accompanies a two-part exhibition on view simultaneously at the BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries in Berlin".

Carcanet, Manchester and New York, 1986. 8vo in publishers black clothed hardcover with gilt title and fine, well preserved priceclipped jacket. 256 pages. Fine clean copy. Very rare edition, attractive copy. 1st edition thus.

Paul P. Appel, Publisher, Mamaronack, NY, 1963. Tall heavy 4to in original green clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 516 pages. Very light wear at corner tips and spine ends. Tight, sound and unmarked. Enclosed a SIGNED note from Clive Hart at end. Concordance of James Joyce's " Finnegans Wake".

Copenhague: Chez Claude Philibert, 1756. 4to. Unbound and uncut with wide margins, loose pages. 29,+ (1),+ 178,+ (2) pp. Complete with engraved vignette (see photos). Well suited for rebinding. First edition. Scarce seperate printing of the important supplement to the 1755 publication "Introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, ou l'on traite de la religion, des loix, des moeurs & des usages des anciens Danois".Jean-Henri Mallet wrote this book while he was living in Denmark. Heather O’Donoghue notes in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction that Mallet “had been commissioned by the king of Denmark to write a scholarly work specifically designed to counter existing views of Scandinavia as a backward country” ´. Topics: Mythology, Norse, Old Norse poetry, Icelandic literature, Edda. ”Monumens de la mythologie” contains the first French translation of the Edda of Snorre, ”L’Edda des Islandois ou mythologie celtique”, the first ever to a non-Nordic language. The importance of Mallet’s work grew even more with the English translation, with notes and preface by bishop Thomas Percy in 1770, ”Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other Northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, or system of Runic mythology.” Inspired by it Macphearson wrote his songs of Ossian.

London and Los Angeles Royal Academy in collaboration with The Broad 2017. Large ocversized extra heavy square 4to hardcover with pasted on illustration to front. 264 pages, profusedly illustrated, mainly in color. Fine clean copy. 1st edition.

Los Angeles, USA: The Guild Of Tutors Press, 1978. 4to in the original illustrated wraps, as issued. 120 pages. Text in English, with many black and white photographs by Magubane. Tanning to spine and minor wear to cover. Overall a very good tight copy of tis extremely rare publication. First edition, 1st printing. Poetry written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson, inspired by the awful conditions endured by the inhabitants of apartheid-era South Africa's shanty towns. Accompanied by the stark black-and-white photos by Peter Magubane, whose career began at a time when, as a black person, he could be arrested simply for carrying a camera in public. With a foreword by American civil rights activist and politician Andrew Young, and rear cover praise from Kenneth Rexroth.