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MIT Press, 2010. 8vo thick hardcover, with jacket 500 pages with 62 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus, 15 halftones. Excellent clean copy. First edition, hardcover. How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices: " technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled “responsive environments”—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces."

Published by Steidl / Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2008. Large oversized very heavy hardcover with jacket. 295 pages, Illustrated throughout. Introduction Renata Adler. Essays Paul Roth and Frank Goodyear. Light shelfwear with only a hint of wear to corners, overall a fine clean copy.  1st edition. - Beautifully printed. Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering! "Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004). Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Theater Arts and began a fruitful apprenticeship with legendary editor, designer and artist Alexey Brodovitch. Avedon invigorated the staid fashion photography of the time, staging fictional tableaux and developing an unprecedented theatrical style. Moving to Vogue in 1966 and the New Yorker in 1993, Avedon continued to innovate. Extraordinarily prolific throughout his career, he produced many books, among them Nothing Personal (1964), An Autobiography (1993) and The Sixties (1999)."

Zone Books, 1986. Thick 8vo in original die-cut wraps. 468, (22) pp. Illustrated. Wrappers worn at edges (see photos). Overall a clean and acceptable solid copy. Essays on the The Contemporary City. Zone was a short lived, over-sized journal edited by Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter and designed by Bruce Mau. Inaugural double issue of the serial publication ZONE examines the physical, political, and perceptual transformations redefining the contemporary city. These transformations are explored through historical studies of transformations in the urban system, through theoretical essays which map out the evolution of related social and economic structures (such as the state, the family, and the factory), and through experimental artist projects and critical dossiers: Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter, Paul Virilo, Eric Alliez and Michel Feher, Marc Guillaume, Stanford Kwinter, Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Crary, Manuel De Landa, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anne Querrien, Didier Gille, Jean-POaul de Gaudemar, Annie L. Cot, Eric Alliez, Michel Feher, Timothy Druckrey, and Carol Squiers, John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Keith Sonnier, Gretchen Bender, Françoise Schein, Justen Ladda, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Krenneth Frampton, William Labov, Michael Piore, Peter Cook, Marc Guillaume, Peter Eisenman, Richard Serra, Daniel Libeskind, Alice Aycock, Melvin Charney, Rem Koolhaas, Raimund Abraham, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Jean-Marie Straub, Dennis Adams, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Félix Guattari, Herbert Muschamp, Sol Yurick. First edition, 2nd printing.

London: Macdonald, 1971. Publishers hardcover with dustjacket (see photos). XIV, 305 pp. Exteriorial wear and discoloring to endpapers else clean and overall a very good copy. From the Goodiepal collection, with his signature name to titlepage. First edition.- "A critical but well-researched survey of occult and spiritual thought and history from roughly 1820-1910 by Scottish historian James Webb (1946 - 1980). Webb argued, in this work and two later volumes, that there took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a revolt against the Enlightenment, which manifested in the growth of occult and mystical groups, which he also saw as underpinning the rise of darker forces, like the Nazis."

London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Original publisher's green cloth hardcover, spines and front covers lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispieces with tissue guard, illustrated title pages printed in grey and green, 7 engraved plates, 96 b/w text illustrations, all engraved by J. D. Cooper after Randolph Caldecott. Inner hinges a bit week, but holding firm. Previous owners fine bookplate made by Povl Christensen (Else Fahnøe). Overall a very well preserved and very attractive copy. ""Old Christmas" (First published in a separately 1876 and identical to this copy) is a collection of five Christmas "sketches" by Washington Irving from his famous Sketch Book - A beautifully produced Christmas book which captures the essence of a Victorian Christmas. It describes Irving's experiences at the English country estate of Mr. Bracebridge during the "coaching days" of the early 19th century, focusing on the sights, sounds, smells and traditions of "Old" Christmas. In spirit it hearkens back to the Middle Ages -- before the "peasants" had learned to read newspapers or were talking politics at the local pub, when manner lords opened their halls for the local folk to feast in a show of gratitude, under the watchful stare of painted ancient family crusaders and armored statues. This wonderful account has a tangible sense of realism mixed with romanticism and the comforts of tradition.Drawings throughout are by Randolph Caldecott, a prolific and famous children's book artist of the 19th century. The pictures bring the book to life, we see the exact "physiognomy" and "countenance" of the many curious Dickens-like characters, the scenes of feasting and dancing, the old English kitchens, the stage coach, the dress and mannerisms of a "Coachy" - priceless details that effortlessly transport the reader back in time". - Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

Bolinas: Shelter Publications / Random House, 1978. Small 4to in wraps as issued. 224 pages, richly illustrated throughout. Text in English. Only minimal shelfwear, overall a clean and very well preserved tight copy. First edition. Lloyd Kahn, former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog and publisher of Domebooks One and Two, travelled across America, Ireland and England over a two year period researching alternative ways to build, the results of which appear in the books Shelter and Shelter II, publications that made his reputation. Assembled with the assistance of numerous contributors it includes an historical survey of shelter and the evolution of simple building types: tents, yurts, timber buildings, barns, small homes, and domes, along with a section on building using natural materials, including heavy timber construction and stud framing, as well as stone, straw bale, adobe, plaster, and bamboo. Now regarded as a counterculture classic, and a forerunner of the contemporary interest in cabins, do-it-yourself building and off-grid living.

Bratislava: A. Press, 1970. Square quarto in publisher's pictorial card wrappers with french flaps as issued. [16],99pp.; half-tone illustrations throughout, text by Pierre Restany et al in both Slovak, French, English and German. Extremities, mainly spine ends with wear (see photos) and upper right corner reinforced, else overall a clean, good and sound copy. First edition. Rare publication of the works produced by the avantgarde Slovak artist Stanislav Filko (1932-2015) between 1965 and 1969, including photographs, drawings, and sculpture. Catalogue design by Karol Rosmany. Filko was a key figure in the Slovak avant-garde, associated primarily with environment, installation, happening, and action

Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1955. 8°. Schwarzes Original-Leinen mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel. 65 Seiten. Rücken verblasst. Widmung (1956) auf Vorsatz. Insgesamt sehr gutes Exemplar.

China: Peking Foreign Language Press, 1968. Tiny pocket version i red vinyl binding as issued - 3-5/8 inches high by 2-5/8 inches wide (94 x 70mm). Gilt lettering. [10] 312, (2). Including Mao portrait frontis and Lin Biao (Piao) foreword with facsimile. Title page with red lettering in green frame. Initials of previous owner to free front endpaper, and same name as a small sticker to free front endpaper, and some minor foxing to endpapers else clean and overall a well preserved copy. Pocket edition printed 1968, first edition thus. Including the preface by Lin Biao, removed from copies after 1971.

Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1932. Stort tværformat. Original illustreret kartonbind med lærredsryg. (28) pp. Illustreret, delvist med helsides farvetavler. Sjov samtidig (1932) tilskrift på friblad foran og lidt alderspletter og andre mindre brugsspor men meget velbevaret alderen taget i betragtning. Særdeles sjælden i første oplaget af 1. udgaven.

Kindler und Schiermeyer, 1969. Large magazine format in original wraps. 152 pages, richly illustrated. Some edgewear and minor tears to edges. Above average copy of this much coveted and fragile magazine issue. Original SUPER issue of TWEN - John and Yoko in their Bed happening, illustrated. Vonnegut, Richard Lindner and much much more.

Edition After Hand, 1973. (28) pages printed on black paper with4 statements by the artist are printed recto in gray (one per page), on the back of both covers are applied two small envelopes containing 6 stickers (3/3) with the words "afsender" and "modtager" ( = sender and recipient in Danish language). Handmade edition, in a limited numbers of copies, signed and dated by the artist on the back cover. Cover discolored with some foxing. The envelopes are both unopened. First edition. Very rare concrete poetry item.

Copenhagen: Danish Design Council, 1986. Square 8vo hardcover with jacket (20x21cm). 120 pp. + XII pages, illustrated richly with construction drawings, plus 6 plates with designs on opaque paper. Around 200 photos and reproductions, the majority in colour. Text in both English and Danish. Some wear to dustwrapper (now protected) else clean and overall a very good copy.  Excellent survey covering all aspects of the influential British Rail design initiated in the 1960s. The author was Director of Industrial Design, British Railways Board, 1966-86.

New York, 2010. 4to in original magazine wraps. Around 180 pages. Some minor wavyness to pages and light wear to cover, mainly lower spine but solid and clean and complete. BIDOUN: Arts and Culture from the Middle East. (...)" the cover: a matte off-white surface with a photograph glued to its center. It might be black-and-white or colorful, pristine or blurred or torn along the edges. It might depict a portrait or an action, a business meeting or a wedding, maybe an accident. We have no idea, actually: we’ve never seen most of them, and probably never will. A friend of the magazine in Cairo purchased five thousand photos from flea-markets in Cairo and sent the lot of them directly to our printer, who glued them onto the cover and sent them out into the world, eliminating the middleman: us. This gesture — plundering one set of incidental archives to create another — seemed an appropriate way to herald the latest issue of Bidoun, which considers that ever-expanding entropy, the library. Building on Bidoun Projects’ recent exhibition at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York, we present a reading of five decades of printed matter, carefully selected with no regard for taste or quality, in an attempt to document every possible way that people have depicted and defined — slandered, celebrated, obfuscated, hyperbolized, ventriloquized, photographed, surveyed, and/or exhumed — that vast, vexed, nefarious construct known as “the Middle East.” The result is banal and offensive, a parade of stereotypes, caricatures, and misunderstandings of a sort that rarely makes it into the magazine, all the trappings of the Middle East as fetish: veils, oil, fashion victims; sexy sheikhs, sex with sheikhs, Sufis, stonings; calligraphy, the caliphate, terrorism; Israel."

Vydavatelstvo ROH Práce, Praha, 1956. 8vo. 427 pp. Illustrated. Excellent and unique copy bound in a very fine, elaborate tooled and gilt decoration showing a city gate. Topedge gilt, endpapers marbled. Binding is not signed but probably a czech communist era binding made as a personal gift to an important member of the party. With matching slipcase. 1st edition. - Antonín Zápotocký (1884 - 1957) Czech communist politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 and the president of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957. Born in Zákolany, Kingdom of Bohemia, Cisleithania (then in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic). His father was Ladislav Zápotocký, one of the founders of the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD), together with Josef Boleslav Pecka-Strahovský and Josef Hybeš. He was a delegate of the Left Wing of the CSSD to the Second Comintern Congress, held in Petersburg, 19 July – 7 August 1920. Together with Bohumír Šmeral, he co-founded the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) when it broke away from the CSSD in 1921. He was General Secretary of the KSC from 1922 to 1925. In 1940, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released in 1945. Zápotocký stayed in office until his death in Prague in 1957. He was also second Czechoslovakia president to die in office. His body was cremated at Strašnice Crematorium and interred. Zápotocký penned several novels depicting working class heroes, two of which were made into films - Red Glow Over Kladno (Rudá záre nad Kladnem) and New Warriors Will Rise (Vstanou noví bojovníci).

Denmark: Panorama Herlev, s.d. (1936) maybe early 1970's. 12mo in original slightly soiled wraps as issued. (31) illustrations, no text. Complete copy. Minor edgewear else overall very good copy of this extremely rare edition. Idylle printanière (Spring Romance) is probably Feodor Rojankovski’s best-known erotic production: A wordless erotic novel - strip novel one might call it. Here Rojan has done a wonderful job of recreating an erotic encounter in 1930s Paris, from the first glance in the metro station, to the entwinement in the back seat of a taxi, to the undressing and mutual exploration in the hotel room.

Parc Saint Léger / MAC / VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, 2010. 8vo two volumes cm 18×22,5; pp. 144+144 pp. Illustrated. Text in both French and English. Fine clean and complete set with the obi. First edition - SIGNED IN HAND WITH PENCIL TO INNERCOVER by the artist. -"A central work in the artist’s conception of the two exhibitions, “Les Maquettes en blanc (1995-2009)” presents all of Starling’s publications to date in one vitrine and their corresponding blank dummies in a second vitrine next to it. As Starling writes, this piece “mimics a series of other physical and intellectual journeys to be travelled in the exhibitions.” It seemed the logical starting point for the design of the catalog. THEREHERETHENTHERE is made of two volumes, one of which is the blank version of the other one, constituting its “dummy.” The other volume, however, simulates through offset printing the beige color and weave texture of the dummy’s cover and the white sticker on it presenting the paper stock information. These two volumes are held together with a red paper band showing the artist’s name, the title, the publishers’ logos, the bar code, and price. The size of this pair of books is an average calculated from all the books shown in “Les Maquettes en blanc.” Taking the artist’s idea of duality and transition further, the left-hand pages, set in Helvetica, constitute the French version of the book while the right-hand pages, set in Times, constitute the English version. The works in the two exhibitions are represented by onsite installation views, while all other works referred to in the essay are shown through their reproduction in previous publications. Copies of those publications were opened to the appropriate pages and scanned and reproduced in the present catalog on a one-to-one scale. The corresponding blank pages of those books’ dummies are reproduced in the same order with the exact same framing in the second half of the book. The different designers who worked on Simon Starling’s various publications are credited in the captions and bibliography. Text: David Julie, Patron Sandra et al.

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Ecstatic Peace Library, 2019. Tall large and very heavy 8vo in flexi boards. 464 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Some handling wear mostly to cover and edges else very good copy. The first English monograph of legendary French musique-concrete pioneer Luc Ferrari (1929-2005). Founding member of Groupe de Recherches (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer-the group and studio were dedicated to the electronic medium that changed composition forever. This sumptuous volume includes facsimiles of Ferrari's original compositions, notebooks, and the first English translations of his writings, including poetry and fictional works and correspondence, as well as a special full-colour section that includes the composer's own collage artwork.

Hoganas: Johansson & Jansson, 2020. Cloth covered hardcover with photograph pasted on front- and rear cover. (144) pp. Very good copy. First edition, signed in hand.

Forlaget Thaning & Appel, 2009. Stort format, hardcover. 440 sider med 300 illustrationer, heraf 150 i farver. Pænt eksemplar. Det autoritative værk om Eks-Skolen og den danske avantgarde i tiden 61 til 69; Peter Louis-Jensen, Poul Gernes, Per Kirkeby, Bjørn Nørgaard, Lene Adler-Petersen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen og Henning Christiansen blandt andre samt om forholdet til skolens lærere, blandt andet Richard Winther, om forholdet til Willy Ørskov, om samarbejdet med Joseph Beuys, om Tabernakel udstillingen på Louisiana og meget meget mere. Eminent læseværdigt værk.

Mousse Mag, 2010. Large, folded as issued (app. 62 x 87 cm). Very good copy. 1. ed.

London: Tate Publishing, 2014. Large tall 4to in wraps, as issued. 196 pages, richly color illustrated. Text in English. Light shelfwear else clean and well preserved near fine copy. First edition. Text by Leontine Coelewij, Colm Toibin. Interview by Theodora Vischer. "Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent and influential painters working today. In an era dominated by the mass media and a proliferation of images, her work is a testament to the meaning and potency of painting. Dumas draws on her expansive visual archive and the nuances of language to create intense, psychologically charged works which explore themes such as sexuality, love, death, and guilt, often referencing art history and current affairs. Her paintings and drawings are characterized by their extraordinary expressiveness and sometimes controversial subject matter. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Fondation Beyeler. Surveying the artist’s oeuvre from the mid-70s to the present, it features over 100 of her most important paintings and drawings alongside lesser-known works from the early period of her career. The Image as Burden also includes a new interview with the artist; extracts from previously published but lesser-known texts (some available in English for the first time); and a new short story from prize-winning author Colm Tóibín written in response to the paintings. Essays and texts from a wide range of contributors examine the key themes and motifs in her work and reflect on Dumas’s entire career."

Ridinghouse, 2009. Large thick and heavy 8vo in wraps as issued. 511 pages, with b/w illustrations. Minimal edgewear else very good and clean tight copy. First edition. A detailed account of a decade of artistic activity is accompanied by an extensive set of previously unpublished data, charting the exhibitions and sales of Conceptual works to galleries, public institutions and private collections. The relationships, support structures and strategies of dealer galleries – such as Konrad Fischer, Wide White Space and Lisson Gallery to promote artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Long and Lawrence Weiner – are revealed and make fascinating reading. Including numerous interviews with key figures of the period, Unconcealed exposes the new dealing, curatorial, collecting and teaching methods formed in this decade that continue to be critical to today’s art world.- Heavy item that may require extra shipping costs, please inquire before ordering this item!

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. Large oversized very heavy hardcover w protected jacket. 520 pages, with numerous finely printed illustrations. Includes index. First edition. Attractive copy. " This big and beautiful book presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan's greatest and most influential artists, together with a collection of essays that focus on a key aspects of the master's career. The book opens with an introductory essay by Gian Carlo Calza presenting an overview of the changing world into which Hokusai was born and through which he lived. This is followed by a series of essays, composed by distinguished Western and Japanese scholars, that present new research on a range of crucial areas of interest in Hokusai studies. These form a context for the core of the book, which embodies a retrospective of Hokusai's entire career, divided into seven chapters. Each chapter provides a succinct account of a phase in Hokusai's life, followed by a series of the finest and most representative works of that period. Great care has been taken throughout to choose for reproduction the best-preserved original prints that reveal Hokusai's mastery of line and colour to full advantage. This magnificent pictorial survey of Hokusai's prints, paintings and drawings is the first publication in English to make such a rich selection widely available, and to demonstrate the extraordinary range and quality of Hokusai's achievement. The final component of the book is a detailed scholarly commentary on each illustration that provides not only the necessary technical information but also a revealing analysis of style, color, composition and motif." Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering!