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Sorø / Münster / Munich, 1989 to 1990. 4to in wraps as issued. 140 pages. Illustrated. Bilingual German and English text. Cover edgeworn but solid and inside clean and overall a very good copy.

Borgen, 1983. 100 pp. Hft. Illustreret. Navn, lidt brugsspor.

Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994. Gebunden, mit OU. 501 Seiten. Gut erhalten. Zeitungsartikel beigefügt. First edition. Adorno schreibt "Alle Verdinglichung ist ein Vergessen: Objekte werden dinghaft im Augenblick, wo sie festgehalten sind, ohne in allen ihren Stücken aktuell gegenwärtig zu sein: wo etwas von ihnen vergessen ist.« Kaum eine bessere Charakterisierung als dieser Satz aus Adornos Brief vom 29. Februar 1940 an Walter Benjamin ließe sich denken, um darzutun, worin die entscheidende Differenz zwischen den Diskussionen, die in der Kritischen Theorie der dreißiger Jahre geführt wurden, und der Darstellung liegt, die die Ergebnisse jener Diskussionen heutzutage in der Sekundärliteratur zusammenfaßt. Es liegen Welten zwischen der Kritik, die Adorno und Benjamin wechselseitig an ihren Arbeiten während der Emigration übten, und der geronnenen Gestalt, in der diese zentralen Arbeiten von den Nachgeborenen, zerstückelt und ungeschickt wieder zusammengeklebt, rezipiert und ›tradiert‹ werden. - Galt ein beträchtlicher Teil der Korrespondenz Benjamins Fragment gebliebenem »Passagen-Werk«, welches das 19. Jahrhundert geschichtsphilosophisch zu entschlüsseln sich vorgenommen hatte, und der ›Abschlagszahlung‹ darauf, dem Baudelaire-Aufsatz für die »Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung«, so kreisen die Briefe insgesamt, die Benjamin und Adorno vor allem in der Emigration, ab 1934, wechselten, um die verbindliche theoretische Darstellung jener grundlegenden Erfahrungen der bürgerlichen Kultur, die mit dem Faschismus unwiederbringlich verlorengingen und deren Vergessen gerade nicht das glückliche Ballastabwerfen des Wanderers war, der das Ziel in erreichbarer Ferne vor sich liegen sieht. Der Briefwechsel läßt ermessen, welche Bedeutung die praktische und geistige Solidarität hatte, die Adorno und Benjamin voneinander erfuhren, als sie in intellektueller Isolierung lebten. Die in der akademischen Welt abhanden gekommene Gelehrtenrepublik lebte fort in denen, die aller akademischen Sekurität entbehren mußten und die darum aller der Sache äußerlichen Konvention sich entschlagen durften. Den empirischen Niederschlag des Vorrangs der Sache in der Person beschrieb Adorno 1965: »In sich und seinem Verhältnis zu anderen setzte er rückhaltlos den Primat des Geistes durch, der anstelle von Unmittelbarkeit sein Unmittelbares wurde.«

Thames & Hudson / D. A. P. 2014. Heavy hardcover. 256 pages. Illustrated. Fine copy. " the first book to explore the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last twenty years. Tracing a history of the field through its most innovative shows, renowned curator Jens Hoffmann selects the fifty exhibitions that have most significantly shaped the practice of both artists and exhibition curators. The book's nine thematic sections focus on a huge variety of exhibitions, including those that have explored public space; reflected on globalization; engaged audiences in revolutionary ways; and brought into the gallery other disciplines such as theatre and architecture. Short texts introduce and place each exhibition in context, accompanied by installation photographs and factual data about the participating artists, venues, dates, curators and publications, and many feature quotations from the originating curators exploring the premise of the show. The book concludes with a roundtable discussion by some of today's leading curators".

Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Institution Press,, 1984. 184 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Exhibition held October 4, 1984 to January 6, 1985. Wear to cover surface else fine clean copy. First edition. Influential exhibition focusing on Conceptual and post-Minimalist art. Includes "Chronology" by Phyllis D. Rosenzweig etc.

Yale University Press, 1997. Square 8vo in publishers hardcover, with jacket. 180 pages, richly illustrated. Dustjacket spine is sunned else a clean and very well preserved fine copy. First edition. "Le Corbusier, the most influential architect of the twentieth century, died in 1965 only weeks after completing Mise au point, his last opus in the form of antobiographical reflections. Published posthumously, Mise au point is a curious and cryptic text, yet it sheds an important light on the great artist’s mind and temperament. This book is the first English translation of Mise au point, the first illustrated critical bilingual edition, and the first attempt to integrate this document into Le Corbusier’s life as a whole, especially its final embittered years. In an insightful introduction and in annotations, Ivan Zaknic shows how the themes of the text echo the contradictions of Le Corbusier’s personality: determined to rebuke society and yet constantly courting its approval; devoted to serving the public and yet returning again and again to a solitary monastic ideal; distrusting professional institutions, the academy, and the government and yet stung by their willingness to pass him by. Zaknic links the themes of this text with Le Corbusier’s passion for certain literary works, especially Don Quixote, and emphasizes the architect’s many philosophical formulas for coming to terms with death—first that of his beloved wife and then his own. Illustrated with photos and drawings, many of which appear here for the first time, and also including a revealing interview granted by Le Corbusier in the final months of his life, the volume will be welcomed by all students of Le Corbusier’s art, architecture, and urban planning, as well as by those interested in modernism and twentieth-century culture."

London, Typographical Systems International TSI, 2011. Folio. Orig. wrappers (complete with obi). 52 p. Ills. Very good clean copy with only some minor shelfwear to cover. On Jan Tschichold Typographische Gestaltung, Frank Guille Geometrics and more. 

London: Studio Vista - Dutton Pictureback, 1971. 160 pp. Illustrated b/w. Cover worn. With later gift inscription to titlepage else very good copy. First edition.

Per Kofoed, 1993. 121 pp. Hft.

Bell and Daldy, London, 1869. 8vo in full red polished calf, bound by Relfe Brothers, gilt decoration in compartments, all borders gilt, all edges marbled. XXII, 320 pp. Rubbing to edges and mainly the corners of binding (see photo). Name to titlepage with smearing to the free front enpaper. Foxing to end-papers. Contents clean and sound Biography of the Spanish conquistador, and his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Second edition. In fine binding.

Gyldendal, 2022. Hardcover. 301 pp. Dansk udgave, signeret i hånden / med dedikation fra Edouard Louis til en læser.

Sternberg Press 2013. Wraps as issued. 193 pages. With illustrations. Some handling wear but clean. Neomaterialism by Joshua Simon, explores the meaning of the world of commodities and re-introduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitality of things. Reflecting on general intellect as labor and on the subjugation of an overqualified generation to the neo-feudal order of debt finance, Neomaterialism merges traditions of epic communism with the communism that is already here.

Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983. Hardcover, mit Umschlag. 255 Seiten. Gut erhaltenes, zauberes Exemplar. Erste Auflage / First edition.

Neuhoff Gallery New York & Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf 2001. 4to 28 x 23 cm in wraps as issued. 32 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs. Short text in English. Well preserved clean copy. First edition. Catalog with photographs from the artists career. Finely printed.

New York: Exit Art etc., 1989 / 1990. Tall 4to in wraps as issued. 48 pages. Text in English. Illustrated. Well preserved clean copy with only most minimal edgewear. First edition. Catalog of an exhibit of Wodiczko's photographs of the homeless community of New York and his installation piece "New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square", also focusing on homelessness. Features essays by Wodiczko, Papo Colo, Neil Smith, David Lurie, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Julie Courtney.

Forlaget Lundtofte, 2007. 96 sider. Hft. Rigt illustreret med fine fotografier af bl.a. Gorm Valentin i s/h. Pænt eksemplar. From Burroughs visit to Copenhagen 1983, richly illustrated with photographs by Gorm Valentin among others. First edition.

Louisiana Museum, 1997. Small 4to hardcover with protected dustjacket. 136 pages, illustrated richly. English text version. Only light edgewear to jacket else an attractive near fine / fine clean copy. First edition, hardcover. On Michael Asher, Chris Burden, Sam Francis, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Mike Kelley, Edward Kienholz, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Edward Ruscha, Bill Viola, Christopher Williams, among others.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1994. Squarish 8vo in wraps as issued. 56 pp. Illustrated. Text in both English and Danish. Near fine clean copy with some edgewer and light wear to cover. First edition.

Strubes Forlag, 1988 (1981). Hardcover. 344 sider. Omslag med lidt brugsspor. Richard Wilhelms udgave på dansk.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Hardcover, w jacket. VIII, 346 pp. Fine copy. First edition.

New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Original halfcloth, no dustjacket. 220 pp. Clean copy, lower right corners dented (see photo) else very good. In 1947 Capa traveled into the Soviet Union with his friend John Steinbeck. Steinbeck wrote the account and Capa shot photos in Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and among the ruins of Stalingrad. First edition.

Forlaget Brilleuglen, 2021. 328 pp. Hft.

Forlaget Gjellerup, 1959. Kvadratisk 8vo i hardcover, med omslag. 262 pp. Illustreret. Godt eksemplar.

Antipyrine / OVO 2015. Small slim 8vos in wraps as issued. 46, 120 pp. Some discoloring to cover else a clean, fine, unused set. This is the first time Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia, a notebook by the Chinese activist, editor, and curator Ou Ning, has been published in English. The notebook is a graphic montage piece, where comments, thoughts and short accounts from Ou Ning’s travels to Bishan are intertwined with drawings, clippings, color-coded text, handwritten notes, pictures and quotes. The publication consists of two books: the first volume contains a facsimile of Ou Ning’s original notebook in full color; the second volume is a translation of the notebook from the Chinese by Mai Corlin and Austin Woerner also including an interview with Ou Ning not previously published in English as well as Ou Ning’s 2012 text “Autonomy: Utopia or Realpolitik,” which lays out Ou Ning’s understanding of ongoing anarchist practices in a totalitarian, capitalist reality . - Ou Ning was born in rural Guangdong province in 1969. His practice covers a wide range of projects straddling the fields of art and politics. As a filmmaker, he directed the documentary Meishi Street (2006) concerning local acts of resistance against the demolition of an area in a central part of Beijing in relation to the 2008 Olympics. As curator he has headed the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, and from 2011 to 2013 he was chief editor of the literary bi-monthly Chutzpah!, a magazine that has dealt in-depth with issues such as agrarian communities in East Asia, revolution, queer literature and George Bataille. And these are just a few of Ou Ning’s undertakings.

Redwood Press / Stanford University Press, 2015. Publishers hardcover, with jacket. 336 pages. Very good clean copy. "A philosophically complex yet lyrically wrought examination of the eternal struggle for women’s rights". First US edition.