Periodicals

(858) 456-6623 or 454-4443 • laurence@mcgilvery.com • P.O. Box 852, La Jolla, CA 92038

Current Catalogue

Artists Numbers 1-137
General art Numbers 138-239
Architecture Numbers 240-286
Russia! Numbers 287-301
Periodicals Numbers 302-360
Old & rare Numbers 361-429
New Additions

Search Tips

Periodicals

305. Art in America. Most issues available from 1960 on. $15 and up

306. Art international. Edited by James Fitzsimmons. Lugano, Switzerland, 1959-1979. Complete volumes 3-20, unbound and bound, and most single issues. Various prices

A beautifully produced survey of the best mainstream contemporary art of its times. Most issues in the first several volumes are extremely scarce.

307. Artforum. Edited by John Irwin [later Philip Leider, John Coplans, Amy Baker, and others]. San Francisco [later Los Angeles, then New York], 1962-2004.

From its rather unpromising beginnings as a San Francisco Bay Area review organ, Artforum quickly evolved under the editorship of Philip Leider and then John Coplans into the liveliest, most interesting, occasionally scandalous, sometimes irritating, large-circulation art magazine in the world. It would not be stretching the point to say that Artforum and its editors and writers were active participants, not merely observers and recorders, in the major art movements of the late 1960s and on. Sets, single volumes (some bound), and most single issues available at various prices, $15 and up.

311. Broom: an international magazine of the arts. Edited by Harold A. Loeb and Alfred Kreymborg. Rome. Volume I, number 4, February 1922. $250

Cover by Gordon Craig (?). 9 mounted plates. Pp. 289-384. Dec wrappers. Backstrip almost entirely gone; shaken; overlapping edges of covers creased and torn.

312. – –the same. Broom. Edited by Harold A. Loeb. Volume 3, number 4, November 1922. $250

Original woodcuts by Ladislas Medgyes (color cover design) and Natalie Goncharova (2 ornaments in text). 5 photographs by Paul Strand. Pp. 241-312 + [2] pp. prelims. and [4] pp. ads at end. Backstrip chipped and missing top section. Some staining at top of covers and adjacent leaves.

313. – –the same. Broom. Volume 4, number 2. January 1922 [sic; must be 1923]. $250

Original color woodcut cover by Goncharova. 8 plates + pp. 73-[140]. Covers dusty and with light stains; backstrip chipped and separating at head and tail. Pp. 81-8 very badly opened.

314. – –the same. Broom. See description above. Several other incomplete copies offered for the covers:

315. Volume 2, number 2, December 1921. Original woodcut cover by E. Prampolini. $100

316. Volume 2, number 4, July 1922. Cover by Léger. Long closed tear near bottom of design. $35

317. Volume 3, number 1, August 1922. Cover by Marcoussis. Present are 8 (of ?) original woodcut decorations by Max Weber, and 1 of 3 woodcuts by Derain. $100

318. Volume 3, number 2, September 1922. Original woodcut cover by Gris. $100

319. Volume 5, number 1, August 1923. Cover by Lurçat. $25

320. Volume 5, number 3, October 1923. Cover by Edward Nagle. $25

322. The bulletin of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. NY, 1927-29. 21 issues $125

Volume 4, number 2 (December 1927)-volume 5, number 12 (October 1929). Lacking Volume 5, nos. 4 & 6 (January and April 1929). A few covers soiled; slight water damage at the bottom edge of a few issues; other minor defects.

Cobra–see General list

323. De stijl: maandblad foor nieuwe kunst, wetenschap en kultuur. Edited by Theo van Doesburg. Nos. 79-84. Leiden, 1927. Jubileum-serie (XIV). On cover: 10 jaren Stijl 1917-1927. $600

70 plates & illustrations. 55 pages. Decorated wrappers. 27.1 x 21.8 cm. Bound along short edge with cover reading vertically but text horizontally; two pages per side numbered 1-110. Covers badly chipped.

COMPLETE RUN
327. The Fox. New York: Art & Language, 1975-76. $200

Volume 1, number 1 through number 3, 1975-76 (all published). Some illustrations. Stiff wrappers. 28 x 21.5 cm. Edited by Joseph Kosuth, Sarah Charlesworth, Mel Ramsden, and others.

THE LEADING PERIODICAL ON PERFORMANCE ART
328. Burnham, Linda Frye, and Durland, Steven, editors. High performance: the performance art quarterly [subtitle varies]. Nos. 1-76, plus out-of-series issue (all pub.; ceased with 76). Edited and published by Linda Frye Burnham [later Steven Durland]. Los Angeles [later Santa Monica], 1978-Summer 1997. $1100

Number 1 in partial photocopy; numbers 3, 6, 10 in good-quality photocopies. All other issues original, most as new. Summer 1992, "The violence and the verdict," is an out-of-series issue. Number 23 is an album of 2 LP records and not available separately. Perhaps the longest-lived magazine of its type, High Performance has features on Rachel Rosenthal, Chris Burden, Bill Viola, John Cage, Diamanda Galas, and many others. Most single issues also available at US$15 and up. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 23 (LP album), and 58/9 not available singly in original copies. Full sets with more issues in photocopy also available at somewhat lower prices. Please inquire for details.

329. – – –High performance. Available single issues: nos. 4, 8, 11/12 through 22, 24 through 76, and Summer 1992. most issues $15

SIGNED BY JOHN CAGE
330. – – –High Performance. John Cage 75th birthday celebration, number 38, volume 10, number 2, 1987. $25

Boldly signed on cover in silver ink. Cage's thoughts on performance, compiled by Richard Kostelanetz, pp. 20-9. A limited number of copies available.

HIGH PERFORMANCE PUBLICATIONS
331. Allen, Terry. Torso Hell. Los Angeles: High Performance Audio, n.d. Cassette tape HP013. $30.00

332. Antin, Eleanor. Being Antinova. Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983. $35.00

Cloth, limited edition. 26 x 18 cm. 87 pp. 31 illustrations on 16 plates. ("Recollections of my life with Diaghilev") and 29 illustrations in the text.

333. – – –Antin, same. Decorated wrappers. $17.50

Decorated wrappers. 21.6 x 25.3 cm (oversquare). Profusely illustrated (part color).

335. Brooks, Iris, editor New music across America. Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts/Santa Monica: High Performance Books, 1992. $15.00

Decorated wrappers. 28 x 21.5 cm. 80 pp. 38 illustrations.

336. The Dark Bob. Gold Coast Performance Art Festival, San Francisco 1983: The Least I can do/ On Pico. Beverly Hills, CA: M.I.T.B. Records, ©1983. 7-inch long-playing record in decorated sleeve. $10.00

Decorated wrappers. 20.3 x 23 cm (oversquare). Profusely illustrated (part color).

338. Hennessy, Noreen. Girl Scout cookies. AND Eckert, Rinde. Shoot the moving things. Los Angeles: High Performance Audio, n.d. Cassette tape HP015 $10.00

339. Kelley, Mike. The peristaltic airwaves & Plato’s cave, Rothko’s chapel Lincoln’s profile. Los Angeles: High Performance Audio, n.d. Cassette tape HP012. $20.00

Decorated wrappers. 25.3 x 18.1 cm. [155] pp. 61 plates & illustrations. Describes and illustrates dozens of performances. Also includes interviews, conversations, and autobiographical material.

Decorated wrappers. 20.3 x 20.2 cm. Texts by both authors, and photographs by Becky Cohen.

End High Performance publications

COMPLETE RUN
343. It is: a magazine for abstract art. Edited by Philip G. Pavia. NY: Second Half, 1958-65. $750

Nos. 1-6, Spring 1958-Spring 1960 & Autumn 1965. Profusely illustrated (part color). Original wrappers. Approx. 29 x 24 cm. One of the few publications directly connected with the Abstract Expressionists. Panel discussions, artists’ statements, and many reproductions. Contributing artists include Guston, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Reinhardt, Lee Krasner, Kline, Tworkov, and many others. Number 6, published after a 5-year hiatus, is devoted to Waldorf Panels 1& 2 on Sculpture, held February and March 1965 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There are relatively few publications of any kind with direct contributions from Abstract Expressionist artists. Philip Pavia, the editor and publisher, is a well-known sculptor. Arntzen/Rainwater Q193.

Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst–see General list

344. Ostasiatische Zeitschrift. The Far East. L'extrême Orient. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Kultur und Kunst des fernen Ostens. Hrsg. von Otto Kummel, Erich Hanisch [und] William Cohn [later edited by Gesellschaft fur Ostasiatische Kunst]. Neue Folge erster Jahrgang [to achtzehnte Jahrgang]. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1924-42/43. $400

18 vols. in 17. Many hors-texte plates, illustrations., etc. Cloth & bds. 27 x 20 cm. Suspended 1928. Lacks pp. 1-128 of vols. 15/16 (1939/40). Nice set with library bookplates and tiny stamp on verso of title pages.

345a. ReD : Mesicnik pro moderni kulturu [Review of Devetsil: Monthly of Modern Culture]. [Numbers] 1-10. Ed. by Karel Teige. Praha: Odeon - Jan Fromek, 1927-28. $650

Profusely illustrated.360, 23, [1], 4 pages. 22.2 x 17.3 cm. Red half-cloth over decorative boards; original covers and ads bound in at rear; rubbing, tears in rear joint; former owner’s name; internally near fine with some pencil notes. First year complete (of three, 1927-31) of the seminal Czech modernist revue, bound in one volume. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Czech Modernism, [1989], p. 258.

Reveil, Le, NY, 1825-26–see Old and rare listings

Russian revolutionary periodicals–see Russia! list

COMPLETE RUN
353a. Stefan, Ruth, editor. The tiger's eye. The tiger's eye on arts and letters. Numbers 1-9 (all published), October 1947-October 1949. $500

Many plates (some color, some mounted). 108-144 pp. per issue. Decorated wrappers. 25.8 x 18.4 cm. Average condition for this fragile publication, with various cover defects. Please ask for details. Number 3 contains an errata sheet, and the 16-page pamphlet "The swelling under the waves" by Allan Block is laid into number 5.

One of the most inventive and influential of American little magazines. Among the hundreds of international contributors are Thomas Merton, William Stafford, Marya Zaturenska, Marianne Moore, Barnett Newman, Rufino Tamayo, Mark Rothko, Joan Miro, Anaïs Nin, Henri Michaux, Raymond Queneau, Boris Pasternak, Kenneth Rexroth, Adolph Gottlieb, René Magritte, Morris Graves, Max Ernst, Kenneth Patchen, Theodore Roethke, Pablo Picasso, Mark Tobey, William Carlos Williams, Robert Motherwell, Yves Tanguy, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Eugene Berman, Georges Braque, Stephen Spender, Babette Deutsch, Robert Duncan, Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Calder, Hans Arp, Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip Zadkine, Isamu Noguchi, Constantin Brancusi, Naum Gabo, Conrad Aiken, William Baziotes, Pablo Neruda, T.S. Eliot, Ad Reinhardt, Loren MacIver, Georges Bataille, Kurt Seligmann, Richard Eberhart, Maya Deren, Horace Gregory, Wallace Fowlie, John Cage, Richard Wilbur, Alberto Giacometti, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault, Yves Tanguy, Wassily Kandinsky, Dorothea Tanning, Charles Henri Ford, Louise Bourgeois, Antonin Artaud, Kenneth Fearing, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Genet, and William Everson.

COMPLETE RUN
354. Trans/formation: arts, communication, environment; a world review. Edited by Harry Holtzman. New York: Wittenborn, Schulz, 1950-52. $175

Volume 1, number 1-3, 1950-52 (all published). Original wrappers, 21 x 27.5 cm (oversquare). This early attempt at bridging the gap between art and science featured writers in many fields, including Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, Nicolas Calas, Bernard Rudofsky, Gyorgy Kepes, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and John Cage. Each issue contains one of Ad Reinhardt’s wonderful "comics" commenting on the art scene. Karpel S239

Verve–see Chagall in list of artists

357. View: through the eyes of poets. Charles Henri Ford, editor. New York, 1941-47. Most single issues available from series 1, number 6 through series 7, number 3. various prices

OVER 100 ORIGINAL PRINTS
358. XXe siècle. Edited by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (nos. 1-44; later, Alain Jouffroy). Paris, 1951-80. Nouvelle série, numéros 1-54, 1951-Jan [sic] 1980. Lacks numbers 29-31. $9500

Decorated wrappers or boards, as issued. About 31.5 x 24.5 cm. A few issues have an unobtrusive name or stamp on the cover or flyleaf, and another few have minor cover defects, as usual. Overall, a fine set. Profusely illustrated with about 107 original prints by Chagall (4), Miró (7), Picasso, Henry Moore (3), Ernst (3), Magritte (2), Arp (3), Calder (2), Dubuffet, Villon, Marini (6), and many, many other major modern artists. Typically, each issue contains one or more original prints and is devoted to a specified theme, e.g., "Art et poésie depuis Apollinaire," "Art et humour au XXe siècle," and 2 volumes on U.S. art. The earlier issues are extremely elusive. Numbers 15 and 17 were published both in French and English, with different prints in each edition. Both versions of these two issues are present here. We have a list of all these issues itemizing original prints and condition. Altogether, the series contains 68 issues, but the later ones missing here are far less important than those present in this run.

Countdown Calendars | Century Dispute | Contact