new arrivals:
artists' publications
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Complete set of Fluxus artist Geoff Hendricks' sky postcards, scarce individually and rare as a set. Cards 1 - 6 issued by Black Thumb Press; cards 7-13 by Sky Works. From the library of Ken and Ann Mikolowsky, co-founders of Detroit's Alternative Press.
$750.00
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Complete set of five numbered but untitled found photos, later issued by Hendricks as a limited edition artist's book.
$125.00
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Geoffrey Hendricks' A SKY ANATOMY. Limited edition of 26, this copy one of only 11 issued in jacket.
$150.00
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Document of a Geoff Hendricks' and Brian Buczak's performance piece. Signed by both artists.
$75.00
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ESKIMOS. INDIANS. ARABS. DUTCH. CHINESE. JAPANESE: by the late artist Brian Buczak, issued by the press he co-founded. Contains six black and white illustrations, with the titular words.
$150.00
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Rare 1982 artist's book by Factory superstar Taylor Mead. Photocopied hand-written and -drawn text and illustrations tell the story of a monster and "a handsome prince [who] was terrorizing the local inhabitants...They fought like hell." No copies found in OCLC or trade; not mentioned on a contemporary list of Money for Food Press titles issued in 1982. This book stands as the earliest and apparently only published version of this work, which Mead would revisit and rework in various media over the next three decades.
$500.00
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The aptly titled SHOES, a sumptuous pairing of erotic poems by Valeria de Serpa and Kirk Robertson with semi-fetishistic color plates by D.R. Wagner, each an approximately life-size reproduction of a miniature needlepoint tapestry. One of 100 signed and numbered copies. OCLC located eight copies, almost all of them in the West.
$575.00
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Assemblage of photocopied images, exhibition announcements and programs, and postcards from Australian artist Richard Tipping, as originally mailed to Ken Mikoloski, co-founder of Detroit's Alternative Press. Includes reproduced images of posters previously exhibited as well as examples of work intended for the planned but never-published SIGNS OF AMERICA. A unique collection of ephemera with the artist's commentary.
$125.00
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TOWERS, an artfully constructed book-within-a-book (1982) by Alan Stone, with his drawings. Signed.
$50.00
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Rare Neoist mail art and zine assemblage. Neoism - equal parts parodic art movement and subcultural affiliation - drew electic inspiration from the Fluxus, Dada, conceptual art, and experimental poetry movements, reaching a peak of activity in the early 1980s followed by schism and decline. This collection is one of a long-running series of limited-edition mailings organized by Baroni beginning in the late '70s: "This tourist portfolio commemorates the first international flight to Akademgorod (the Promised Land of Neoism) as organized in January 84 by Agenzia Neoista Italiana." Contributors include Jurgen Olbrich, Clemente Padin, Henning Mittendorf, Emilio Morandi, David Zack, Carlo Pittore, Boris Wanowitch, Eva Lake, Ginny Lloyd, Al Ackerman, Pete Horobin, and "Monty Cantsin;" the latter was an "open pop star" identity initiated by Istvan Kantor and used freely and widely by various Neoist artists, as were later iterations "Karen Eliot" and "Luthor Blisset." OCLC locates no holdings.
$750.00
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Increasingly scarce memorial tribute to Frank O'Hara, with decorations and illustrations by Joe Brainard, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
$500.00
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Diter Rot's A LOOK INTO THE BLUE TIDE PART 2. From the Great Bear Pamphlet series. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. "[E]xcerpted from Roth's Die blaue Flut" (Frank p. 75).
$125.00
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Miscellany of poems and short works by Dick Higgins, from his iconic Something Else Press. Title stands for "Freaked Out Electronic Wizards & Other Marvelous Bartenders Who Have No Wings," per the publisher's preface.
$100.00
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Another classic from Higgins' press. One of 2000 copies. Includes work by Raoul Hausmann, Franz Mon, Gerhard Ruhm, Wolf Vostell, Stefan Wewerka, Claes Oldenburg, Kurt Schwitters, Carolee Schneemann, Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Buckminster Fuller.
$75.00
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First printing of this uncommon Dick Higgins manifesto.
$50.00
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O'Gallagher's cut-up poems, edited by Jan Herman and distributed by City Lights Books. SIGNED and uncommon thus.
$150.00
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Artist's book (ca. 1989) by Jan Voss consisting of approximately 1kg of waste packaging originally used for assorted consumer goods. This copy is numbered 20, and the discarded packaging constituting the book's pages all appears decidedly '80s (e.g. the cardboard reliquary that once held the legendary Sword of Omens from Thundercats). The back cover indicates that copies could at one time be ordered through Boekie Woekie, an Amsterdam artists' bookstore co-founded by Voss in 1986 as an artists' collective, then specializing exclusively in handmade and self-published or small-press artists' books. Though ostensibly an open edition, only a few dozen copies of Dokumente appear to have been produced, each unique. OCLC locates only one holding (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).
$300.00
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Artists' book in anthology form from this highly-regarded artistic residency program that has hosted the likes of Dan Graham, Phillip Glass, John Cage, Richard Serra, Steve Reich, Vito Acconci, Janet Fish, Bill T. Jones, Nam June Paik, and numerous others. Organized in order of residency, each artist was asked to contribute four pages for inclusion. With no other requirements, the contributions include art, notes, drafts, sketches, poetry, photography and other documents. Also includes much on the program itself: histories, photos, bibliographies of performances, exhibitions, etc. An important document.
$500.00
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Ornate unique artists' book with thoroughly referential pop-art sensibilities. The artist's identity is unknown: aside from a recurring signature ("T" followed by a five-pointed star). The untitled book's collages and three-dimensional assemblages use a wide variety of materials (plastic, paint, printed transparency, markers, toys), with a particular emphasis on fashion design (images of T-shirts, purses, and jeans abound). Recurring symbols include skulls, guns, movie/concert posters, album covers, and icons borrowed from other pop artists, including Richard Prince's bunny skull (right) and Warhol's banana. Altogether, an ornate, elaborate, and consistently surprising outsider book.
$850.00
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Artist's book produced during Leon Ferrari's period of exile in Sao Paulo, before his return to Argentina in 1991. Black and white line drawings of increasing complexity, framed by the dictionary definitions of "hombre" and "mujer" at the book's beginning and "fin" at its end. Ferrari's work drew increasing religious censorship and political persecution during the 1960s and '70s, which escalated until he was forced to flee to Brazil, where he remained for a decade and a half. A resolutely political conceptual artist, Ferrari continued to produce work in a variety of media during his years of exile. Scarce. OCLC locates eight scattered holdings, with just six in the US.
$600.00
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Thanks for taking a look!
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