Najaar 1982 [Fall 1982].
40 pp. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Amsterdam: 1982.
Scarce bookseller catalogue, listing books on modern art, architecture, design, photography, music, and theater. Fine. More
40 pp. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Amsterdam: 1982.
Scarce bookseller catalogue, listing books on modern art, architecture, design, photography, music, and theater. Fine. More
Black & white illus. throughout. [24] pp. Tall 8vo, printed wrappers. Arles: Le Méjan/Actes Sud, 1989.
Scarce Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) artist’s book published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Eglise Saint-Martin du Méjan d’Arles (3 July-3 September 1989). From the preface (in trans.): “These images were cut out from a 1972 weekly specialized in criminal news stories; they inexorably present the mixed faces, murderers or victims, of these forgotten dramas."
Fine.
❧ Jennifer Flay, ed., Christian Boltanski — Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991 (1992), pp. 186-87.
Bob Calle, ed., Christian Boltanski: Livres d’Artiste, 1969-2007 (2008), p. 61. More
Many black & white illus. [80] pp. Small 4to, printed softcover. Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1973.
Signed copy of this uncommon Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) artist’s book. It not only photographically documents the possessions of the titular Oxonian but also the numerous rejections Boltanski received from museums and cultural institutions around Europe. Text in parallel French, English, German. The photographs were taken by Peter Ibsen, director of Oxford’s Museum of Modern Art.
A fine copy, signed by the artist and numbered with a stamp (no. 280) on the title-page. Unknown edition size, though according to Calle, 50 copies were numbered with a.... More
310 black & white illus., on rectos only. [24] leaves. 8vo (210 x 141 mm.), orig. semi-stiff printed wrappers, perfect-bound. Paris: CNAC, 1974.
First edition, an excellent copy of Boltanski’s fifth inventory, documenting all the earthly possessions of a randomly selected person, this time a resident from Bois-Colombes, a suburb of Paris. This book was published for an exhibition (15 October to 2 December 1974) at the Centre national d’art contemporain. Earlier versions of this piece took place in Baden-Baden, Jerusalem, Oxford, and Copenhagen.
Boltanski explains the intention of this work in the Avant-Propos (in trans.): “The inventory of objects... More
Black & white illus. [32] pp. 12mo, beige printed wrappers. Cologne: Salon Verlag, 1999.
Signed copy of this Christian Boltanski (1944-2022) photographic artist’s book, from an edition of 1000. The artist has signed on the inside of the upper wrapper. Fine.
❧ B. Calle, ed., Christian Boltanski, Livres d’Artiste: 1969-2007 (2008), p. 106. More
101 pp. & colophon. 8vo, illustrated softcover. Montreal: Centre for Expanded Poetics & Anteism, 2021.
First edition, a delightful risograph-printed book edited by Amaranth Borsuk (b. 1981), poet and professor. It includes definitions by Erica Baum, Jen Bervin, Tia Blassingame, Sarah Bodman, Stephen Bury, Steve Clay, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Craig Dworkin, Bhanu Kapil, Janice Lee, Steve McCaffery, Scott McCarney, Bea Nettles, Elika Ortega, Lisa Pearson, Michalis Pichler, Tatiani G. Rapatzikou, Kyle Schlesinger, Tate Shaw, Michael Snow, Buzz Spector, Jan Voss, etc., etc.
As new. First printing of 350 copies. More
Engraved frontis.; eight engraved vignettes and head- & tailpieces, 19 finely engraved plates (most folding) & some engravings in the text. 18 p.l., 254, [36] pp. of index & errata. Thick 8vo (160 x 105 mm.), late 18th-cent. marbled boards (extremities a little rubbed & worn). Dresden: [C. G. Nitzsche], 1765.
An important German edition of Bosse’s Traité des manières de graver en Taille douce (1st ed., in French: 1645), considerably augmented for the German audience. This work was translated and published by Carl Gottlieb Nitzsche from the 1745 Cochin edition. The Cochin edition was the first to promote etching... More
Three black & white illus. 9 unnumbered pages. 8vo (210 x 135 mm.), orig. gray printed wrappers (a little sunned), staple-bound. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1936.
A scarce Braque exhibition catalogue of paintings made since 1931, featuring mostly still lifes along with two nudes. It lists 20 paintings, three of which are illustrated. Rosenberg had lured Braque away from Daniel Henry Kahnweiler and his brother Léonce in 1922. Braque’s first solo exhibition at Paul Rosenberg’s famed gallery on 21, rue la Boëtie took place in 1924. The final page of this catalogue announces future exhibitions for Seurat, Picasso, Monet, Matisse and... More
Many black & white illus. 43 unnumbered pages. 8vo (180 x 128 mm.), orig. printed semi-stiff pictorial wrappers. Munich: Galerie Heiner Friedrich, 1978.
An uncommon catalogue of 26 Broodthaers editions and multiples. With a check-list at the end with information on edition size, medium, and publisher. Each work is illustrated.
In very good condition, with a few tape marks to the lower cover. More
Six illus. [8] leaves. Very, very tall 12mo (394 x 73 mm.), printed semi-stiff wrappers, staple-bound. Nice: Villa Arson, 1995.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book/exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with his Villa Arson exhibition (20 January-19 March 1995). Near fine copy; minor scuffing to the lower wrapper.
❧ H. Ruhé, stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Details on recto, verso blank. Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2021.
Posthumous Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition organized by the haubrok foundation at the KW Institute in Berlin. Fine. More
Printed on recto only. Card. Berlin: haubrok foundation, 2012.
Scarce card made for Brouwn’s 2012 haubrok foundation exhibition. Fine. More
Printed on one side only. Card. Berlin: haubrok foundation, [2018].
Scarce Brouwn exhibition card produced by the haubrok foundation. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Card. Villeurbanne: Institut d'art contemporain, 2012.
Announcement card for a brouwn (1935-2017) museum exhibition that never occurred. The artist withdrew weeks before the vernissage. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1970.
Postcard invitation to Stanley Brouwn’s debut show at Konrad Fischer’s gallery.
“Stanley Brouwn’s first of five solo exhibitions at Fischer’s gallery, it opened in December 1970. The artist presented works documenting the number of steps he had taken while wearing a pedometer on his walks through several neighborhoods of Düsseldorf prior to the exhibition. The aspect of movement and the site-specific reference, which were key features in the exhibitions at Konrad Fischer’s gallery at the time, were also central here.”–Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet)... More
Artist’s name on recto, details on verso. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1978.
Invitation to Brouwn’s 1978 show, it was held at Konrad Fischer’s Platanenstrasse gallery. In fine condition.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 145.
Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005) More
Details on verso. Postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1976.
Postcard invitation to Brouwn’s third exhibition with Konrad Fischer. A fine copy, mailed to Hermann Kern of Munich.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 115.
Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on one side. Postcard. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1977.
Scarce postcard made for Brouwn’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. Fine.
❧ H. Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on one side only. Postcard. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1976.
Postcard produced on the occasion of stanley brouwn’s solo Van Abbemuseum exhibition in 1976. Fine.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Antwerp: Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2008.
Postcard invitation to Brouwn’s 2008 show with Szwajcer. Fine. More
Printed on recto only. Small postcard. Berlin: haubrok foundation, 2014.
Scarce card distributed by the haubrok foundation. It is made to measure 1/2 brouwnfuss x 1/10 m (=13 x 10 cm). Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1973.
A scarce uncorrected example of the postcard invitation for Brouwn’s second show at Konrad Fischer. In excellent condition. Mailed to Judith Cahen (b. 1938).
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 74
H. Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005).
B. Tonini, ed., Artists’ Invitations 1965-1985 (2019) 174. More
14 black & white illus. [10] pp. 4to (270 x 215 mm.), printed softcover. Eindhoven: prins bernhard fonds, 1980.
Very scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) catalogue, published to mark the artist receiving the David Röell-Prijs from the Prins Bernhard Fonds in 1980; unknown edition size. It contains reproductions of twelve this way brouwn drawings from 1964 and 1 m, 1 step (1980). Text in English.
In near fine condition; some minor scuffing to the spine and the lower cover
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
[12] leaves. 4to (219 x 180 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1977.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition catalogue/artist’s book published for his solo exhibition at Whitechapel; edition of 1000 copies and printed by Westerham Press. The measurements in the catalogue fluctuate between “1000 mm + 876 mm” and “1000 mm + 884 mm.”
Near fine.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More