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Hungarian caricatures, 1933. For a unique album from Budapest of brilliant, original caricatures worthy of publication and exhibition, please click here.

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Between 1963 and 1980 the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman (known mostly for her work with Nam June Paik) organized fifteen increasingly elaborate festivals featuring a wide variety of performances in various locations. The first three were at Judson Hall, a small recital hall across from Carnegie Hall (not to be confused with Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village). Number 4 was in Central Park. Number 5 took over a Staten Island ferry. Number 6 paraded down Central Park West. The 7th was on two islands in the East River, the 8th, at the Lexington Avenue Armory. Festival number 9 occupied a vintage riverboat docked at South Street Seaport. Number 10 took place in Penn Central boxcars on a track at Grand Central Station. Number 11 was at Shea Stadium; number 12, at Floyd Bennett Field at Gateway National Park in Brooklyn. The World Trade Center was the site of the 13th. Number 14 took place on the Charles River in Cambridge. The final number 15 was at the Passenger Ship Terminal on the Hudson River. **By number 11 (1974) the casts and acknowledgments had grown to the length of movie credits. Among the many hundreds of performers were John Cage, David Tudor, Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, Ray Johnson, Joseph Beuys, John Lennon, Max Neuhaus, Yvonne Rainer, Laurie Anderson, Ornette Coleman, Geoff Hendricks, Shirley Clarke, Bob Watts, James Tenney, Meredith Monk, and Al Hansen. **For each of these festivals Charlotte Moorman published a poster, four of them in two versions. She designed the simple first three herself; number four was a collaboration with Jim McWiliams; the remaining eleven were his work. Like the festivals, the posters became larger and increasingly elaborate, with images and text in layers. Number 11 is a riot of color featuring multiple aerial views of Shea Stadium. Number 13 shows the Twin Towers from different views. If number 11 was a riot of color, number 14 is full-fledged revolution. The sequence ends with a 20-color extravaganza. **A few complete sets remain available of approximately 50 that could be assembled from Charlotte Moorman's estate. Numbers 1, 2, 8, and 9 appear in two versions. Please write or call for a complete descriptive list. Some posters also are available singly. Nearly all of these posters that might appear on the current market were folded and mailed. All of these are flat, uncreased, and unmailed, except 2b, 3, and both number 8s. Those four were folded but are unmarked and have been stored flat. Sizes range from 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches to 36 x 24 inches. Sets will be shipped in tubes.

Annual New York Avant Garde Festival [title varies]. Complete set of 19 vintage posters, 1963-1980
Moorman, Charlotte, organizer; McWilliams, Jim, poster designer (from 1966)
Between 1963 and 1980 the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman (known mostly for her work with Nam June Paik).. more
Price: $1,000.00

FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Francisco, 1949. Mullican's first one-man show. 4 plates and color decoration on title page. [16] pp. + tissue flyleaves. 25.3 x 15.8 cm. Tan paper covers decorated with elaborate drawing in black and title in red. 800 copies. Foreword by Richard B. Freeman; texts by the artists Wolfgang Paalen and Gordon Onslow-Ford. The two of them and Mullican formed the post-Surrealist San Francisco group Dynaton, which also had a legendary exhibition at the San Francisco Museum in 1951. This copy of a delicate publication is in better condition than it has any right to be.

Mullican: an exhibition of paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art July 19 through August 14, 1949
Mullican, Lee
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Francisco, 1949. Mullican's first one-man show. 4 plates and color decoration.. more
Price: $350.00

FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Lavishly illustrated with glorious fin-de-siècle covers in color. Identified cover artists are W. Granville Smith (1893), William Martin Johnson (1894), M. de Lipman (1895), H.S. Loury (1897), F. Richard Anderson (1898), Ernest Haskell (1899 & 1900), Sewell Collins (1901 & 1904), H.L.V. Parkhurst (1902), Hamilton King (1903), John Cecil Clay (1905), and Beverly Towles (1906). Size varies: about 49 x 35 to 42 x 29 cm. 32 to 124 pp. per issue. Illustrated features and profiles of actors and other theatrical figures, plus a wealth of advertisements. Marginal tears in 1889; 1890 secured with metal fastener, and rear cover detached and torn Most copies very nice. See also related listings for "Leander Richardson's Illustrated Dramatic News"; "San Francisco Dramatic Review"; and "Gallery of Players from the Illustrated American," ed. by Austin Brererton et al.

New York Dramatic Mirror [also New York Mirror; Dramatic Mirror], 20 Christmas issues 1886–1906 (except 1891)
Fiske, Harrison Grey, ed. & pub.
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Lavishly illustrated with glorious fin-de-siècle covers in color. Identified cover artists are W. Granville.. more
Price: $1,000.00

FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: Albert Skira, 1938. 6 hors-texte drawings by André Masson + 90 plates & illustrations. 66 pp. Paper covers decorated by Max Ernst. 31.4 x 24.6 cm. A scarce issue of the preeminent Surrealist periodical. Articles on Seurat, "L'Androgyne," film, and other subjects. Illustrations by Piero di Cosimo, Matta, Arp, Ernst, Tanguy, and others. Articles by Georges Hugnet, Paul Eluard, Nicolas Calas, Benjamin Peret, and others. Very neatly rebacked with red paper matching the original. Top corner bumped and a bit wrinkled.

Minotaure 11
Tériade [Teriade]
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: Albert Skira, 1938. 6 hors-texte drawings by André Masson + 90.. more
Price: $650.00

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