Wroclaw: Osrodek Teatru Otwartego "Kalambur," 1980. Many black-and-white photographs. 141 pp. Yellow paper covers.. 17 x 23.2 cm (oversquare). Extensive text in Polish, with brief English and French summaries. "‘Paratheatre,' the third issue of ‘Open Art,' attempts, for the first time in Poland, to provide a documentation of Polish paratheatrical..... More
Malmö Konsthalls Katalog nr. 130, 1988. 23 color plates printed one side + 3 blank leaves + 2 texts and publication information laid in on separate leaves. Paper covers. (stiff, heavily textured, unprinted paper). 36 x 30 cm. Dark, experimental photographs, mostly abstract and Conceptual. Fine. No copies in OCLC..... More
New York: Art-Rite Publishing Co., 1973-1978. Newsprint with self covers. All issues roughly letter size. Normal condition is browned at the edges. No. 21, the virtually unobtainable final issue, is a facsimile. It consisted of a cover, with no contents. Judy Rifka decorated each copy with a unique work of..... 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
[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
![Ideas at the Idea Warehouse, June 16–July 11, 75 [an Assembling]. Peter Frank](/pictures/thumb/41009.jpg?v=1545185079)
New York: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1975. 26 leaves printed one side only, with images, text, drawings, a mounted card, etc. Paper covers, stapled through left edge. 28 x 21.6 cm (standard US letter size). The participating artists are: Kirsten Bates, Bil Beirne, Anthony McCall, Michael McClard, Jim..... 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
[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
San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1977. Inscribed 9/77 to David and Eleanor Antin. Many monochrome illustrations on 12 leaves (variously, single, double, and triple size; a total of 46 pages), all loose in printed tan paper folder. 22.9 x 20.4 cm (page size). The Harrisons' environmental art is justly..... 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
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
![Sol LeWitt / Ace / Dec. 3, 1968–Jan. 11, [1969] (poster). Sol LeWitt](/pictures/thumb/20121.jpg?v=1545184944)
Los Angeles: Ace, 1968. Color offset lithograph. 18 inches / 45.6 cm square. Dark grids printed on process blue background. Folded in four, with soft creases in corners. Near fine. The scan cannot begin to capture the original. Includes original 9.5 x 12.5-inch mailing envelope postmarked November 27, 1968. **Free..... 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
New York: Independent Curators, International, 2003. Profusely illustrated with illustrations and diagrams (some color). 128 pp. Decorated paper covers. 28 x 23.4 cm. A fascinating visual treatment of world affairs and the ways they are linked, often invisibly. Pale yellow background of spine and front cover faded; otherwise, clean and..... 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
Fluxus cv V TRE Number 7. 4 pp. Printed in black on pale green paper. 56 x 43.4 cm / 22 x 17 in. Folded in eighths to letter size for mailing. The front page, shown in 2 scans, features photographs of the Fluxorchestra concert at Carnegie Recital Hall, 1965..... More
![Proof sheet of Maciunas designs for Fluxus labels.] Poster. George . Fluxus Maciunas, 19311978](/pictures/thumb/40613.jpg?v=1603570742)
New York: Fluxus, [probably 1969]. Poster. Proof sheet of 23 to 25 Fluxus labels, flat, unfolded & uncut. White paper printed in black on one side. 44.5 x 57.1 / 17.5 x 22.5 in. Some designs identified here with Fluxus Codex page references: Brecht, Games & puzzles, pp. 197ff (1964);..... More
New York: ReFlux Editions [Barbara Moore] for Ubu Gallery, 1996. Die-cut mask of the late, lamented founder of Fluxus, with eyeholes and fold-out nose; elastic strap. About 25 x 19.5 cm. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Toronto: Society for Art Publication, 1967. Periodical with 7-inch Flexidisc and tabloid insert ("Artscan"). Profusely illustrated (color centerfold). 22 pp. Contents: "Technology and environment,": by Marshall McLuhan;"The sensory dynamics of new technology," by Arnold Rockman; "Severini's abstract rhythm of Madame S.," by Joshua C. Taylor; "Velvet Underground in Hamilton," by..... More
