Solana Beach, California: the artist, 1971. An original, unmailed card from Eleanor Antin's series of 51 postcards mailed between March 15, 1971, and July 9, 1973. This one, the 32nd in the narrative, was taken at "The Pillbox," California, on September 8, 1971. Photography by Philip Steinmetz. 11.5 x 17.8..... More
Solana Beach, California: the artist, 1971. An original, unmailed card from Eleanor Antin's series of 51 postcards mailed between March 15, 1971, and July 9, 1973. This one, the 32nd in the narrative, was taken on Route 101 in California, on February 9, 1971. Photography by Phel Steinmetz. 11.5 x...... More
New York: Artforum, 1971. This issue of Artforum, with its five startling photographs and chilling cover by Diane Arbus, established her as a force to be reckoned with. "… [H]er singular, often shocking portraits emerged among the most iconic and modern images of the 1960s." She "famously wrote in 1971..... More
New York: Artforum, 1971. This issue of Artforum, with its five startling photographs and chilling cover by Diane Arbus, established her as a force to be reckoned with. "… [H]er singular, often shocking portraits emerged among the most iconic and modern images of the 1960s." She "famously wrote in 1971..... More
![Item #01916 A few rays of hope: Baldessari, Brach, Cohen, Harrison, Schapiro, Todd [poster]. John...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/01916.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644615280)
La Jolla, California: University of California, San Diego, Art Gallery, [1968]. Poster. Offset lithograph printed in black with light blue sky on uncoated white paper. 46.5 cm x 59.7 cm / 18.3 in x 23.5 in. John Baldessari designed this subtly witty poster for a 1968 group show of artists..... More
Santa Ana [? Probably Orange], California: Purcell Art Gallery, Chapman College, February 21 - March 16, 1968. Poster. Offset lithograph in black on thin, metallic silver paper. 43 x 55.9 cm / 16.9 x 22 in. Verso blank. Folded in four. A two-man show, curated by artist Harold Gregor, then..... More
San Francisco, 1964. In 1963, when Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations, his first book, he sent two copies to the U.S. Copyright Office, one to establish copyright, the other destined for the collection of the Library of Congress. Great! Recognition for the young artist. As you might imagine, LC..... More
![Item #69052 Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. LACKS the controversial Lynda...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69052.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1545182491)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This issue has become extremely rare, due to a much-sought-after color ad featuring the artist Lynda Benglis in a transgressive pose. Only the leaf containing the advertisement is missing. The 6-page article about her is present, along with articles that may be of interest to other..... More
![Item #69050 Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. Complete with controversial...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69050.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681005252)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This much-sought-after and vanishingly rare issue features on its second leaf a transgressive color photograph of the artist Lynda Benglis wearing sunglasses with white frames, a modest earring, a challenging expression, a nice coating of body oil, and a very convincing dildo at least a foot..... More
![Item #69053 Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. Lynda Benglis issue. Complete,...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69053.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1545182491)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This issue has become vanishingly rare, due to a much-sought-after color ad featuring the artist Lynda Benglis in a transgressive pose. The issue also contains articles that may be of interest to other people. In addition to a 6-page article on Ms Benglis, other subjects are..... More
New York, 1973. Richly illustrated (part color). 95 pp. 27 x 26.5 cm. The entire issue is devoted to advanced cinema, with articles by Annette Michelson, Sergei Eisenstein(on Mayakovsky), Paul Arthur, Roland Barthes, Phoebe Cohen, Noel Carroll, Rosalind Krauss, Fred Camper, Hollis Frampton, and a Brakhage filmography by Joyce Rheuban..... More
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1964. Profusely illustrated (with 1 plate in color). 58 pp. Original paper covers. 27 x 26.5 cm. The cover, printed in black on a metallic silver background, is an homage to Warhol's own compositions: a grid of six copies of Hopper's portrait of Andy Warhol in dark..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1903. Folder on Enfield watermarked laid paper, with facsimile of Maeterlinck's holograph letter on the first three pages and Sadakichi Hartmann's English translation on the fourth. About 29.3 x 20.3 cm folded. From the abstract to "Eduard Steichen and Maurice Maeterlinck: the symbolist connection," by Lucy..... More
[Pasadena: the artist], 1972. Artist's book. 16 photographs. 40 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.1 x 22.2 cm. Portraits of various "iceboxes" by the photographer and first wife of Allan Kaprow, with snippets of recollection and refrigerator thought. Fine. More
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1967. Ed Ruscha's characteristically witty wedding announcement shows him asleep in a large, rumpled bed with two coeds. The full-page photo by Jerry McMillan is on p. 7 of this issue. The contents include: Gothic parallels, by Sidney Tillim; Olitski and shape, by Michael Fried; Manet at..... More
![Item #100788 "Untitled" (photograph) [sand]. Meg Spears](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
San Francisco: the artist, 1980. Framed black-and-white photograph, apparently of a sculpture made of sand that resembles both a very full pair of lips and two pairs of conjoined buttocks. The mat opening is 18 x 24 cm; the black metal frame is 38 x 42.5 cm, with glass. A...... More
[Arizona? per OCLC]: [The artist], 1974. Artist's book. 58/166 signed, numbered copies. 29 [sic] plates (21 color) using solarization and other techniques. 30 unnumbered leaves printed on rectos only. Cream-colored paper covers with titling in dull green. 20.2 x 15.2 cm. Near fine, with slight discoloration of cover. OCLC locates..... More
