Recto with green text on red, details on verso. Postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1982.
Postcard invitation to an exhibition by the duo at Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst. Fine.
❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992). More
Many small brush & black ink drawings in the margins throughout. 111 folding leaves. 8vo (232 x 157 mm.), later patterned wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: (in trans.): “copied by Tanaka on 29 January 1830.”
The index on the first two pages describes the arrangement of the manuscript: by sections of the body. These include the upper section (head, eyes, nose, teeth, throat, and lungs), middle section (heart, abdomen, hips), and lower section (urinary tract, large intestine, rectum, and legs). This is followed by one page describing treatments, which are either fast-acting or long-term. There is a further division of treatments... More
Diagram & details on recto. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1979.
Announcement card for Allen’s 1979 solo show with John Weber. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1975.
Postcard invitation to Andre’s 1975 solo exhibition with Barbara Cusack’s gallery in Houston. In excellent condition. Mailed to Eve Sonneman and Bob Yucikas. More
45 (of 51) black & white photographic postcards constituting the artist’s famed mail art piece; photographs by Philip (Phel) Steinmetz. Photographic postcards, all stamped & postmarked. N.p.: Self-published, 9 February 1971-9 July 1973.
An impressive near-complete collection of Eleanor Antin’s postcards, all mailed on, or in one case before, the designated mailing dates noted in the eponymous 1999 monograph on the piece. All of these serially mailed photographic postcards, except for one (100 Boots in the Market, no. 4), were sent to the movie and stage actress Ruth Ford (1911-2009), the host of legendary salons at her apartment in the... More
A few black & white illus. Unpaginated. Tall 8vo, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Paris: [1995].
Scarce bookseller’s catalogue issued by Jean-Dominique Carré, this one is devoted to the books and exhibition catalogues of Annette Messager (b. 1943). 62 items are offered, including unique works and books that were printed in very small editions. An essential reference work for publications by or about Messager.
Near fine; faint creasing to the wrappers. WorldCat records two copies. More
Many illus. (one full-page fold-out). 66 pp. (erratic pagination). Oblong 12mo, printed softcover, black plastic over spine. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute, [1978].
A rare and charming interactive exhibition catalogue on the history of the book and the future of artists’ books. From the introduction by Pamela P. Houk: “BOOK FORMS is a participatory exhibition which demonstrates the diversity of artists’ books. The forms include books as sculpture; painted, drawn and collaged books; handmade paper books; diaries; fine printed limited editions; flip books; picture books; paperbacks; scores; and video-tapes. In several reading and activity areas, visitors are invited to... More
Black & white illus. on recto, details on verso. Postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 2000.
Postcard invitation for Bächli’s exhibition in May-June 2000. Fine. More
Large illustrated single sheet poster (420 x 300 mm. unfolded). [Lund, Sweden]: Beau Geste Press, 1976.
An extremely rare poster issued by Beau Geste Press for an exhibition at the Galerie S:t Petri in Lund, Sweden; one of 500 copies produced. Managed by Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion, and David Mayor, Beau Geste Press, based in Devon, UK, was active from 1970 to 1976. The press collaborated with numerous artists and authors, all of whom are listed on this poster: Beuys, Carrión, Filliou, Gibbs, Higgins, Hompson, Kostelanetz, Maciunas, Saito, Schneemann, Shiomi, Valoch, etc., etc. For example, two of Ulises Carrión’s bookworks... More
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details to verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1988.
Postcard invitation to the Becher’s 1988 exhibition with Konrad Fischer. A fine reproduction of one of their photographs is on the recto. In fine condition. Mailed to Margaret Raspé of Berlin.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 253. More
Printed on recto only. Thick card. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1987.
Card announcing Benglis’s 1987 exhibition with Paula Cooper Gallery. Fine.
❧ See Paula Cooper Gallery’s website for several installation photographs. More
Illus. & details on recto, printed text on verso. Pictorial card. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1978.
Scarce piece of Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) ephemera from the end of the 1970s. Benglis’s first show with Cooper was held Feb.–March 1970. The text on the verso is excerpted from José Ortega y Gasset’s An Interpretation of Universal History.
In fine condition.
❧ See Paula Cooper Gallery’s website for several installation photographs. More
Printed on recto, opening hours written on verso. Postcard, mailed. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1980.
A rare mailed example of this postcard announcing Benglis’s 1980 presentation with Paula Cooper. Fine; mailed to Eve Sonneman.
❧ See Paula Cooper Gallery’s website for several installation photographs. More
Reflective silver recto with printed details, verso blank. Postcard, mailed. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1984.
Memorable piece of exhibition ephemera, produced on the occasion of Benglis’s show at Paula Cooper. Near fine; horizontal crease. Mailed to Eve Sonneman.
❧ See Paula Cooper Gallery’s website for several installation photographs. More
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Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, [1970].
An extremely rare piece of art ephemera, the postcard invitation for Lynda Benglis’s first-ever solo gallery show, held at Paula Cooper where the artist was working part-time. One of Benglis’s sculptures is pictured on the recto. She had an earlier one-person show at the University of Rhode Island's Main Gallery in 1969, but this was her solo debut with an art dealer.
Benglis shared this amusing anecdote about the exhibition with Artforum in 2018: “One day in 1970, Clement Greenberg came... More
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Printed on recto only. Postcard, mailed. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1982.
Postcard for Lynda Benglis’s 1982 show at Paula Cooper Gallery. Near fine; mailed to Eve Sonneman.
❧ See Paula Cooper Gallery’s website for several installation photographs. More
Illus. on recto. Single sheet, vertical & horizontal folds as issued. Amsterdam: 1978.
Rare flyer announcement for an exhibition by Italian artist and poet Mirella Bentivoglio (1922-2017) at Other Books and So. It depicts some examples of her “letraset metaphors,” “stamp-poems,” and “ideo-poems.”
In excellent condition.
❧ Catalogue 237: Ulises Carrión (2022), p. 181. 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
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1975.
Postcard invitation for Buren’s 1975 show at Cusack Gallery in Houston. In fine condition. Mailed to Eve Sonneman and Bob Yucikas. More
86, [1] p. 8vo (225 x 155 mm.), orig. printed red semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Cullompton, Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1973.
First edition, the deluxe version on vibrant multi-colored Strathmore Grandee paper and exceptionally signed twice by Carrión (1941-89). Arguments was printed in a total edition of 400 copies, 200 on Huntsman white cartridge and unsigned, and 200 deluxe copies and signed on the verso of the title-page. The present copy is remarkable for its additional signature on the recto of the first blank leaf, especially given that the artist hardly ever signed his bookworks and reluctantly produced a.... More
70 pp. Small 4to (210 x 160 mm.), pictorial semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Amsterdam: VOID distributors, 1980.
The essential compendium of Ulises Carrión’s polemical essays; printed in an edition of 500 by Hetty Huisman’s VOID Distributors. His trailblazing theories and beliefs about artists’ books and mail art remain influential to this day. “The New Art of Making Books,” first published in Plural no. 41 (1975), is frequently cited by contemporary book artists.
The book includes his most important essays: “The New Art of Making Books,” “From Bookworks to Mailworks,” “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis,” “Rubber Stamp Art,” “Mail Art... More
Many black & white illus. 5 p.l., 179 pp. & Notes. 8vo, crimson pictorial softcover, title on spine. New York: Tanam Press, 1983.
First edition, second printing (1st printing: 1982) of Cha’s Dictee. “Published in 1982 by the now defunct Tanam Press, Dictee is about mothers and martyrs, revolutionaries and uprisings. Divided into nine chapters named after the Greek muses, Dictee documents the violence of Korean history through the personal stories of Cha’s mother and the seventeen-year-old martyr Yu Guan Soon, who led the protest against the Japanese occupation of Korea and then died from being tortured by Japanese soldiers... More
Black & white illus. [5] p.l., 179 pp. & Notes. 8vo, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1995.
First printing of the Third Woman Press re-publication of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee; the first edition was published by Tanam Press in 1982.
“Published in 1982 by the now defunct Tanam Press, Dictee is about mothers and martyrs, revolutionaries and uprisings. Divided into nine chapters named after the Greek muses, Dictee documents the violence of Korean history through the personal stories of Cha’s mother and the seventeen-year-old martyr Yu Guan Soon, who led the protest against the... More
Printed on one side. Large card. Milan: Galleria Toselli, 1972.
Announcement card for Darboven’s 1972 show with Toselli. In fine condition.
❧ Germano Celant, ed., + spazi, Le gallerie Toselli (2019), p. 233 (installation photograph on pp. 250-51). More