Pictorial card. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1971.

Card announcement for the Fluxus artist Köpcke’s 1971 show at René Block’s gallery. Fine. More

Pictorial card. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1971.

Card announcement for Wolf Vostell’s 1971 exhibition with René Block. Fine. More

Pictorial card. New York: [1974].

Card announcement for this landmark exhibition to inaugurate Block’s newly opened gallery in New York. For three straight days the artist was locked in the gallery with a coyote. Caroline Tisdall documented the performance.

In fine condition. More

Many black & white illus. Ca. [85] pp. 4to (228 x 182 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers, title on spine. Tokyo: Galerie Watari, 1983.

A rare On Kawara (29,771 days, i.e. 1932-2014) exhibition catalogues; it is curiously supplemented by miniature stickers of the artist’s signature Date Paintings. We’ve also learned that the One Million Years Foundation no longer recognizes this publication as part of the printed oeuvre about the artist. Founded in 1972 by Shizuko Watari (1932-2012), Galerie Watari hosted exhibitions by Kawara, Haring, Broodthaers, Nam June Paik, and Shinro Ohtake. The gallery closed in 1989 and the year after, Watari... More

Color illus. Unpaginated. Small 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. N.p.: Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, 2006.

Rare Jonathan Monk (b. 1969) exhibition catalogue. The show was inspired by the work of Robert Barry. Includes an interview with the artist. Text in English and French. In fine condition. More

Black & white illus. throughout. Unpaginated. Large 4to, printed softcover, title on spine. [Geneva: Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, 2019].

The long-awaited companion volume to Hervé Fischer’s seminal 1974 work on stamp art. From the lower cover (in trans.): “Conceived as the second volume of Fischer’s book, Art & Communication marginale published by Balland, Paris, in 1974, the present work assembles an important group of specimens of artists’ stamps collected by the Ecart group. Planned for printing repeatedly delayed between 1976 and 1980, the book did not appear until 2019, following the MAMCO project on Mail Art…

“The printing of... More

Two sheets, printed on rectos only, and program card. [Stockholm]: Fylkingen, 1979.

A small group of materials related to Carrión’s appearance at Fylkingen in February 1979. Fylkingen is an artist-run Swedish organization for the support and distribution of experimental music and art. We include here: a program of Carrión’s performance on 17 February; a brief biography of Carrión and Yvonne Rainer (who performed two days later); and a card listing Fylkingen performances from February to May 1979.

All in fine condition.

❧ G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), p. 144. More

At beginning of scroll is a map (440 mm. in length) depicting the 66 province names of Japan, each with a temple, with colored indications of bodies of water requiring boats. Woodblock-printed scroll on paper (250 x 2975 mm.), endpaper at front covered on outside with blue paper with manuscript label: “Hono daijomyoten rokujurokubu ryaku engi” [“Donation of Lotus Sutra to 66 Sacred Places. History”], wooden core roller. At end (in trans.): “Edo. 23 May 1706,” but this may be a later printed edition of an early scroll or manuscript.

In Edo Japan travel restrictions relaxed, allowing the population greater... More

Many woodcut illustrations, including five double-page woodcuts. 30; 29; 29 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto: Ten’nojiya Ichirobei, 1743.

First edition. “The author Nakane Genjun (1701-1761) was a Wasan and calendar scholar. He was the son of Nakane Genkei (1662-1733). This book is not a systematized Wasan book but one that is mainly compiled from mathematical recreations, featuring inserted illustrations throughout. It freely covers an assortment of both hard (academic) and soft (recreational) materials…

“At the end, it introduces the results of the fields into which most... More

Printed on both sides. Postcard. Cologne: Paul Maenz, [1975].

Postcard invitation to Salvo’s 1975 show with Maenz, with a party invitation attached by sticker. In fine condition.

❧ Gerd de Vries, ed., Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst der Zeit: Paul Maenz Köln, 1970 – 1980 – 1990, p. 254. More

Printed on both sides. Postcard. Brussels: Paul Maenz, [1974].

Postcard invitation to Salvo’s 1974 solo exhibition at Maenz’s Brussels gallery. Fine.

❧ Gerd de Vries, ed., Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst der Zeit: Paul Maenz Köln, 1970 – 1980 – 1990, p. 254. More

Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1974.

Postcard invitation for Barry's solo debut with Rolf Preisig. In fine condition. Mailed to Kurt Hermanns of Cologne.

❧ S. Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2010), p. 376. More