Exhibition card: Addi Köpcke Bei Rene Block (11-30 September 1971).
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 the Fluxus artist Köpcke’s 1971 show at René Block’s gallery. Fine. More
Pictorial card. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1972.
Announcement card for a Beuys (1921-86) performance at 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 a group exhibition at Block’s New York gallery, opened earlier in 1974 with a performance by Beuys. 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
Pictorial card. New York: Rene Block Gallery, 1976.
Exhibition card distributed by Block’s New York gallery for Fluxus founder Bob Watts (1923-88). Fine. 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
Some black & white illus. 347; 279 pp. 2 vols. 4to, printed softcovers with flaps, titles on spines. Rennes: Editions Incertain Sens, 2022.
Both volumes of this invaluable collection of interviews conducted by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, a pre-eminent scholar of artists’ publications, with: Herman de Vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola, Simon Cutts, Leif Eriksson, and Hansjörg Mayer.
As new. WorldCat records four copies in North America (as of June 2023). 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
Color illus. Unpaginated. Small 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. N.p.: Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, 2006.
Signed copy of this 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. Signed by Monk on the colophon page. 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
A suite of original ink drawings on five cards (each 148 x 105 mm.), carefully pasted to thick black paper over a wooden board (545 x 745 mm.). [Amsterdam]: 1980.
Five original drawings by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) in which the letters of the alphabet encircle one after another in sequence. A version of one of these drawings was used on a postcard that he designed in the early 1980s.
In fine condition, with a loose paper slip signed and dated by Carrión; another slip, not in his hand, provides the title of this work. Provenance available on request. 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
Printed on both sides. Card, horizontal fold as issued. Maastricht: Agora Studio, [1972].
The rare card announcing an Agora Studio group exhibition during which Carrión showed his first bookwork Sonnet(s), which had been published by In-Out Productions earlier in the year. This show was very likely the book’s first public presentation. In the subsequent two years at Agora, Carrión had a solo show — Grammatica(s) (15 Feb.-1 March 1974) — and was part of a group exhibition in December of the same year (see Catalogue 237, no. 8).
Near fine; minor creasing.
❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016)... 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
Scroll on paper (340 x 15,130 mm.), silk brocade outer endpaper at beginning, wooden core roller. [Kyoto]: late Edo copy.
The Aoi Matsuri is one of the three most famous annual festivals in Kyoto; it now takes place on 15 of May each year and is held by the important Kamo shrines, the Kamigamo Shrine and Shimogamo Shrine. The festival’s origins can be traced to rites performed in the sixth century to appease the gods and to pray for bountiful harvests. It became a more formal annual ritual in the eighth century (Heian era), when Kyoto became the capital and... 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
One illus. Single folded sheet (=[4] pp.). San Francisco: La Mamelle, [1981].
The program for the 1981 performance of 6 plays at La Mamelle, an artist-run space in San Francisco. Two fellow stamp and mail artists, Bill Gaglione and Darlene Domel, participated in this rendition of Carrión’s work appropriating lines from six plays. Carrión first performed 6 plays in 1975, and in 1976 it was made into an artist’s book with an edition of 100 copies. Interestingly, the program here, lists the plays in a different order from the book. Gaglione’s alternate persona, dadaland, has contributed an illustration for one... 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. Cologne: Paul Maenz, [1974].
Postcard invitation to Salvo’s 1974 solo show with Paul Maenz, in Cologne. 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. 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, 1977.
Postcard invitation for Barry’s 1977 exhibition with Rolf Preisig. Verso text: “Celebrate, A Soundpiece Spoken by Janelle Reiring.” 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. 377. 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
Printed on both sides. Card. Munich, Rüdiger Schöttle, 1977.
Announcement card for Buren’s 1977 show with Schöttle. Fine. More