Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1978. 12 b/w plates + [24] pp. White paper covers. 21.1 x 27.7 cm (oversquare). This grouping of drawings by three remarkable artists was curated by Betty Trumbull. Essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Channa Horwitz, and Joyce Cutler Shaw. Agnes Denes' work involves..... More
Wroclaw, Poland: the author, 1985 (from introduction). Almost entirely illustrations by well over 100 international artists of pieces made on May 21, 1984 and based loosely on works by Albrecht Dürer, especially his woodcut "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." 75 unpaginated leaves printed only on rectos. Decorated white paper..... More
Amherst, MA: Northampton Museum of Modern Art [fictional?], 1978. 4-page letter-size folder displaying 46 rubber stamps for use in rubber-stamp art, mail art, and the like. The images include a twin-hulled WWII P-38, a flying fish, a carrot, a mask of Tutankhamen, a portrait of Karl Marx, a cowboy on..... More
Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1991 [also stamped: Galerie M. u. R. Fricke, Düsseldorf]. Profusely illustrated (some color,including one gatefold plate). 75 pp. Black, decorated boards, with clear plastic cover bearing part of the design. 25.3 x 19.8 cm. A beautifully designed book on this Yugoslavian minimal and environmental sculptor. Only 8 copies..... More
Tijuana, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2021. 1000 copies. First edition. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA). It was underwritten by MassMOCA; El Colegio de la Frontera, in Tijuana; The Athenaeum, in La Jolla; and the Stamps Gallery at the..... More
[Wiesbaden, Germany? Manufacturer unknown, circa 1990?]. A stamped aluminum license plate 11.4 x 47.2 cm (oversquare). Jerome and Diane Rothenberg bought this in Wiesbaden, Germany, around 1990, thinking it a multiple, but I have found no trace of another like it. Wiesbaden, where George Maciunas was living in the early..... More
Artist's book. Profusely illustrated. Approximately 100 pp. 23.4 x 30.4 cm. (oversquare). Bound at the short edge with staples and capped with a sliding black plastic spine. This inventive and alarming catalogue opens with a sheet of heavy, very flexible clear plastic. A clear, sealed polyvinyl envelope follows. It contains..... More
NYC & LA: Works, 1972. Artist's book. "Except for what you are reading on this page, this book has no words or printed images. It is as the title suggests a book of sounds. The pages in sequence make a quiet drama of subtle noises. "By turning, fumbling and rustling..... More
[Pasadena, California: the artist: 1977]. Signed by the artist. 20 plates printed on both sides of 10 leaves of stiff, coated paper, and divided horizontally into 4 proportioned segments that can be combined in the manner of a split-page children's book (created since the 18th century, when they were known..... More
Oceanside, California: Oceanside Museum of Art, 2014. 75 illustrations (mostly color). 63 pp. Decorated paper covers. 21.7 x 28 cm. Dave Hampton's text chronicles the development of avant-garde art in San Diego (and, yes, there was such a thing), through the work of four then-young artists. "Spitting In The Wind"..... More
New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, First edition, 1982. 127 plates & illustrations (16 in color). 144 pp. (the first 32 on yellow paper). Wire spiral binding with fluorescent pink card stock folded and bound at the open edges. 23.2 cm square. Two small flaws on the front cover (see scan)..... More
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New York: Gagosian Gallery, 23 September 2000. An invitation in the form of a printed ping pong ball to an exhibition at the gallery. 37 mm diameter. With white, printed pasteboard box 41 mm on each side; plus leaflet on thin paper 11.4 cm square, folded into three and wrapped..... More
San Francisco: John Irwin, 1962-1963. 12 original issues, unbound as issued, in decorated paper covers. When the first sample copy of the June 1962 issue of Artforum arrived in the mail during the summer of 1962, with its mostly exclusive emphasis on California exhibitions, I thought it doomed. How wrong..... More
San Francisco 1962-1964; Los Angeles, 1964-1967; New York, 1967-present. 253 fine, original issues in decorated paper covers, as issued. When the first issue of Artforum arrived in the summer of 1962, it seemed hopelessly parochial, with its nearly exclusive emphasis on California exhibitions. Even that issue, however, featured an article..... More
[Sevillle?]: Junta de Andalucia, 1989. ISBN 84-86620-04-X. 2 volumes. Largely illustrations (photographs, drawings, and documents) of elaborately constructed, imaginary animals: a snake with six pairs of legs; a winged elephant; a fanged rabbit; and other marvels. 111 pp. Tan paper covers with titling in dark brown, and plain card slipcase..... More
Wichita, Kansas: Wichita State University, Department of Art Education, College of Fine Arts, 1979. 11 photographs. Unpaginated; [28] pp. Black paper covers. 28 x 21.7 cm. Laid in: an 8-line poem typed (not a carbon copy or printed) on the verso of a piece of UCSD letterhead (where Kaprow was..... More
Ostfilden-Ruit, Austria: Hatje Cantz / Los Angeles, MAK Center, 2004. Approx. 122 plates & ills. (27 color & 5 double-spread). Unpaginated [approx. 140 pp.] Plain white covers with clear plastic jacket, with title and decoration printed on the verso. 25.4 x 20 cm. The text includes several writings by Klein..... More
Paris: the author, 1972. Artists' book [an assembling]. Profusely illustrated. 136 pp. Stiff white paper covers. 27.1 x 21 cm. Apparently published as a 5th-year retrospective of the Yvon Lambert Gallery in lieu of an exhibition at the Festival d'Automne in Paris (and in protest to it?). Contributions by 29..... More
New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1991. 10 plates (7 in color). 37 + [1] pp. Gray card covers with b/w plates applied front and back. 23 x 15 cm. The color plates consist of homages to Marcel Duchamp ("Fountain" in gold-plated bronze), Man Ray ("La Fortune," an installation of 6..... More
London: Lisson Gallery,1974. Artist's book. 48 pp.with 23 paired descriptions and examples comprising a manual of straight lines of differing lengths, angles, and positions, with the descriptions on the versos of the pages and the examples on the facing rectos: e.g., at random, "a line from the midpoint of the..... More
Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1988. 8 plates. Unpaginated [24 pp.]. 19 x 21.6 cm (oversquare). Black paper covers with white text and color plate on front cover. The informative text by Betty Bright identifies the many unexpected sources and routes through which Lewitt arrrives at his seemingly rigid..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, ©1969. 22 plates (some with multiple images). [36] pp. Pale blue printed acetate wrapper over blue cover with image of the heavens. 21.5 x 28 cm (standard US letter size, oversquare). Six spaces within the museum created by Michael Asher, Larry Bell, Dan Flavin..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1985. 3 sheets of newsprint printed both sides in both directions, approx. 54 x 86 cm / 21-1/4 x 30 in. The nested sheets are folded in 8ths to make a roughly letter-sized publication of 48 pp. or a large tabloid of 24. The..... More
LAICA, June 30-August 14, 1984. Part of the Olympics Arts Festival. Primarily illustrations. 90 pp. Light blue and magenta paper covers. 29.2 x 21 cm. The work encompasses photography, installation, environmental art, conceptual art, painting, silkscreen, and performance. Includes biographical data. Fine copies. More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art [LAICA], 1983. 3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp. 20. 8 x 15 cm. Yellow paper covers.. 1000 copies. 2) Abhasa, image-bearing light: Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd; a collaboration..... More
