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The kind of mosaic of the Pistols ephemera spread is captioned by Stevenson's chronology and biography, personal critical commentary, and concrete poetry, adding a kind of mad structure to the composition absolutely in line with being out-of-line, like the Pistols themselves. \",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/SexPistol_Cover.jpg?v=1604975855\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 2,\n \"ibsn\": 4609534656627,\n \"title\": \"Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Whitney Library of Design. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine, tanning and slight fading to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Fine, very slight signs of shelf wear at edges. 224pp. 250 illustration. (ill. in b/w) This volume is the first to rescue the study of women's influence in architecture from the domestic to the design. Led by an intent and culturally aware introduction, the volume is structured according to sections that determine a women's place in domesticity, architectural history, criticism, contemporary women architects, and the idea of spatial symbolism. Framing and following these subjects are a slew of almost relentless illustrations: sketches, blueprints, and photographs from all angles of the womans architectural progress take up more space than the texts––the pictures have as much say as any essay. The research and creation of this book was made possible as a publication and exhibition organized by The Architectural League of New York's Archive of Women in Architecture. Ed. by Susana TorreForward by Maria O'Hare With essays by: Susan Fondiler Berkon, Sara Boutelle, Doris Cole, Dolores Hayden, Carolyn Johnson, Naomi Ledd, Lucy R. Lippard, Jane McGroarty, Judith Paine, Suzanne Stephens, Mary Otis Stevens, Gwendolyn wright\",\n \"price\": 48,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/WomeninArchitecture_Cover.jpg?v=1604948957\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 3,\n \"ibsn\": 4609529675891,\n \"title\": \"Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther; Elective Affinities; Novella\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Suhrkamp Publishers. 1988. Goethe's Collected Works , Vol. 11. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight tanning over time. 196pp. The Sorrows of Young Werther (trans. Victor Lange).Elective Affinities (trans. Judith Ryan).Novella (trans. Victor Lange).Three of the most influential of Goethe's extensive body of work, of which this volume is a part. Most famous to literature and melancholy is The Sorrows of Young Wether , the moody and impossible story of inaction and desire, a kind of discursive masochism of the idea of love. So tortured was this character and his tragic tale, the book inspired an alarming spurt of suicides at the time of its first publication. Literature and criticism ate up Goethe's outcast complex and textual representation of self-abasement, emotional outbursts, and foreclosed desire's stuttering momentum. The book is found by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and serves as source material for critics like Roland Barthes and Maggie Nelson. This volume is the definitive collection to become familiar with Goethe, and the character that persists as a symbol and theme in all Goethe's works, as well as literature and art today. Ed. by David E. Wellbery.Jacket illustration: Andy Warhol, 1981. \",\n \"price\": 50,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/14.Goethe_Cover.jpg?v=1604950890\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4,\n \"ibsn\": 4609523875955,\n \"title\": \"Stéphane Mallarmé: Collected Poems (trans. and comments by Henry Weinfield)\",\n \"description\": \"Berkeley, Los Angeles. University of California Press. Printed on archival paper. Hardcover. Book Condition: Like New. Jacket Condition: Fine, slightest signs of shelf wear. 282pp. French and EnglishThe care and consideration that went into this complete collection of Mallarmé's poetry can be felt throughout, from the introduction by translator Henry Weinfeild to the fit of the lithe serif font on the page. The poetry and prose poems breathe, the symbolist image sigh themselves from sign to sign. And the experimental, broken poems of free verse gasp across the page, making a symbol of language and an experience of reading that troubles itself into a new relationship between poetry and the text––one that would be in the unconscious of writing in the next century. Concrete poetry and graphic design were born of the rules Mallarmé broke into a new idea of a poetics, a simultaneously movable and mutable text. Each poem is printed in French and English and is followed by allegorical and discerning analysis by Weinfield. No Mallarmé is missing from this book. The volume is a monolith of literary history, at the exact edge of language before the 20th century would have its way with it.Trans. and w. commentary by Henry Weinfield.Jacket illustration: Robert Garrison, la vache enragé \",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Mallarme_Cover.jpg?v=1604974326\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 5,\n \"ibsn\": 4609512603763,\n \"title\": \"Primitive Arts: An Exhibition (1962)\",\n \"description\": \"BLos Angeles. UCLA Art Galleries. 1962. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine, but for tanning and fading to the pages over time. 31pp. (ill. in b/w; exh. cat.)A large-format exhibition catalogue for 1962 exhibition at UCLA, 'Primitive Arts.' Ambitiously conceptualized by Art Historian Ralph C. Altman, the intention was to expand the vision of a currently limited public perception of primitive art. His introductory essay is a testament to the curatorial and critical process of not only assembling, but trying to convey an understanding of his collection, as a group and individual works. The exhibition is a kind of index, built on the conceptual and physical bases that determine what work is, looks like, and feigns a primitive quality. The ephemeral and ritual realm of the primitive in art is reproduced in black and white reproductions that fill the page, as well as a full exhibition checklist with descriptions. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Primitive Arts,' UCLA Art Galleries, 4 March–15 April, 1962. Exh. organized by Ralph C. 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Intended to be a an archive of the shows you might have missed, the periodical is an ephemerist–– curating exhibition photos, catalogues, letters, and other traces for you to combine with your ideas, to challenge and add to your perspective of how to design the living and working spaces of your life. \",\n \"price\": 180,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Bulletin_Cover_Draft.jpg?v=1604949280\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 7,\n \"ibsn\": 4609494745203,\n \"title\": \"The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney\",\n \"description\": \"London, Boston. Faber and Faber Limited. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Like New. 70pp. After Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, it was over a year until the publication and subsequent reveal of the poet's latest work, here in The Spirit Level. Like the architect in his poem fasted on the doorstep of his gift, the collection reveals a poet still exacting more from the practice of poetry even past awards and recognition. In an alchemy of established mastery and the bright pursuit for new means of expression, The Spirit Level makes a horizon of ascension; bringing Apollo in line with the contemporary human conditions of family, politics, and elegy, marking another phase of Heaney's lasting patrimony. Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year (UK). Jacket illustration: Detail of Bees from MS Ashmole (Oxford: Bodleian Library, fol. 75x. 1559. ill. in colour). \",\n \"price\": 45,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Heaney_Cover.jpg?v=1604958246\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 8,\n \"ibsn\": 4609199177843,\n \"title\": \"I Advance with a Loaded Rose by Douglas Blazek\",\n \"description\": \"San Francisco. Wowindows Press. 1969. Ed. of 650. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine. unpag. Chapbook with poems by Douglas Blazek and an original serigraph by T.L. Kryss, its colours still blazing. Hand-printed in an edition of 650 at Twowindows Press in San Francisco. The paper quality and type are still pristine, framing a poetry that holds up just as well. Blazek's poems speak directly to you, in broken pieces of imagery or thoughts interrupting themselves with a linebreak or sudden volte towards another matter. If the line were to go on, stay too long or complete the picture, it would trip into something more than language can hold; so Brazek skirts around that break-place, watching and collecting what he sees in little pieces: I sit at nighton my pile of coalin a desertedcoal-pile worldwhile my eyes ridelike motorcycleson the moon.Original serigraph cover by T. L. 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Nonetheless, Franks imbues his careful study of this molecular disinformation campaign with analysis of the material itself, the mentality of the 1970's science community, and asides that discuss the importance and science of our actual water, incredible all by itself.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Polywater_Cover.jpg?v=1604952978\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 10,\n \"ibsn\": 4609181646963,\n \"title\": \"The Amphora 6 (Fall, 1971)\",\n \"description\": \"1971. San Francisco. The Headstone Press. Little Magazine series; Fall, 1971; Issue no. 6 of 7 issues. Softcover. Book Quality: Fine, only slight tanning to pages over time. unpag. (ill. in b/w).Ed. David Head; guest ed. David Gitin.Cover by Charles Amirkhanian.Printed by Thorp Springs Press (Berkeley, 1971).Original drawing on last leaf, drawn in pencil.From the eponymously named Little Magazine movement's little explosion of radical publishing in the 1960's and 70's, The Amphora was a poetry magazine borne this wild excitement for collaboration. Of course this quality comes from the contributors and collage of materials, the context and connection. But that collective energy is also the subtext of editorial gestures; entrusting a guest editor, the printer's personal stamp on the first page, the kind of unrelated, anonymous hand-drawn illustration with grooves still in the paper. With this spirit of both experiment and earnest effort, this issue is one that features some of the iconic voices that grew and/or thrived during this moment in literary history.Ft.: Peter Hiley, Diane di Prima, Carl Rakosi, Lewis MacAdams, Denise Levertov, Andrew Crozier, Larry Eigner, Clark Coolidge, JAck Collom Maria Gitin, Ron Silliman, Charles Amirkhanian, David Gitin, Bruce Dalziel. \",\n \"price\": 20,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Amphora6_Cover.jpg?v=1604955709\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 11,\n \"ibsn\": 4609175486579,\n \"title\": \"Album Baudelaire: Iconographie et Réunie et Comentée par Claude Pichois (French)\",\n \"description\": \"1974. Paris. Éditions Gallimard. First edition. Hardcover. French. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning and soft fraying at the tip of ribbon bookmark. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading over time. 315pp. (ill. in b/w).This seemingly petite hardcover is secretly prolific––intimate like a photo album but thorough as a biography, Pichois presents his image archive like evidence of a Baudelaire that lived, walked around, was inspired by the same world. Photos, sketches, handwriting, friends: we see Baudelaire as collaborator, without shouting Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! But truly, this volume is a map of Baudelaire's attachments and extensions, what he was moved by and who else's art and writing he moved. Over 400 black & white image. Compiled & w. commentary by Claude Pichois.Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 65,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.Baudelaire_Cover.jpg?v=1604951757\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 12,\n \"ibsn\": 4609167130739,\n \"title\": \"JENNIFER BARTLETT: RHAPSODY (Int. by Roberta Smith)\",\n \"description\": \"1985. New York. Harry N. Abrams Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivd illustrations & slight tanning to white edges of pages. Jacket Cover: Near Fine, slight fading over time & gentle signs of shelf wear, no scratches or marks. 107pp. Over 600 colour plates w. exh. chronology. (ill. in colour & b/w).Beautiful catalogue of Jennifer Bartlett's Rhapsody series, with notes by the artist and an introduction by Roberta Smith (Rhapsody: The Story of the Mind in Action). Rhapsody is as numinous as it is numerous, a visual event that unfolds and refolds in real time, real space, and above all, real thought. Bartlett's grid-backed, colorful abstraction is driven by an implicit effort to explain itself: we don't see so much as watch the work, reading between the lines, learning endlessness also means labour, (mis-)translation, and a sense of an ending. Rhapsody was Bartlett's final exhibition, rigorously immortalized on the page: over 600 colour plates, a full exhibition history, and thorough work descriptions professionally catalogue the powerful series as much as Smith's introduction conceptualizes it, determining Rhapsody as something to think about as much as look at. Intro. by Roberta Smith. Ed. by Anne YarowskyDesign by Samuel N. AntupitJacket illustrations: Row 19, Plate 130 (front cover); Row 4, Plate 27 (back cover); Row 21, Plate 143 (front inside flap); Row 41, Plate 282 (back inside flap).\",\n \"price\": 55,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/11.Rhapsody_Cover.jpg?v=1604948473\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 13,\n \"ibsn\": 4609140686963,\n \"title\": \"Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel: 650 Modelle aus katalogen von 1927–1958 (German)\",\n \"description\": \"1986. Munich. Bangert Verlagn GmbH. German. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slightest tanning to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Near fine with slight signs of shelf wear at edge of spine. 179pp. (ill. in b/w).A sweeping collection of Bauhaus and German prewar design models, pulled from catalogs from 1927–1958. The focus of the archive is Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, German tubular furniture. Specifically, the book follows the pipeline that was innovated by designers like Thonet and Erick Dieckmann Cebado, and collectives like Drabert and Mauser. The development of these sloping places to sit, the timeline of their circuity and conceptual architecture, is illustrated with extensive reproductions of sketches, photographs, advertisements, and variations on the Bauhaus tubular theme that has inspired and persisted in designs today. Illustrated in black & white; Ed. by Alexander von Vegesack.Text in German. \",\n \"price\": 200,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Tubular_Cover.jpg?v=1604957089\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 14,\n \"ibsn\": 4605696278643,\n \"title\": \"L'Art Brut Magazine, nos. 1-8 ed. by Jean Dubuffet & le Compagnie de l'Art Brut (French)\",\n \"description\": \"Paris. La Compagnie de L'Art Brut. Nos. 1-8, 1964–1966. Softcovers. Book Conditions: Near Fine, slight fading on spine and signs of gentle use over time. 8 eds., 100-150pp. (ea.) (ill. in b/w & colour). French.French magazine from the 1960's published by la Compagnie de l'Art Brut, a movement founded in 1948 driven by Dubuffet as a platform for the exhibition, collection, and consideration of Art Brut. Their periodical publication here features intersectional, anti-genre essays, monographs, and collaborations that exhibit the collective's purpose: to showcase work by and for those artists without overwrought intellectual backgrounds, qui l'invention s'exerce [...] sans qu'aucune incidence en vienne altérer la spontanéitié in whom the invention operates [...] without any incidence altering the spontaneity .Collection includes: - 6 issues, themed and ft. selected artists, conceptual projects, essays, and both colour & b/w reproductions w. bibliographic information - 2 monographs: No. 2 of Adolf Wölfli & No. 7, of Alöise; w. accompanying essays and catalogue index Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 650,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.ArtBrut_2.jpg?v=1603824795\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 15,\n \"ibsn\": 4605286711411,\n \"title\": \"Color by Quant: Your Complete Personal Guide to Beauty and Fashion\",\n \"description\": \"New York, St. Louis, San Francisco. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight signs of shelf wear. 145pp. (ill. in colour & b/w). In this volume, color theory meets the ultimate look for the fashion-forward. May Quant gives tips that range from hair treatments, full-face makeup party faces, pattern control, and more, all accompanied by editorial photos of models and stunning sketch illustrations. Organized like an annotated bibliography of style with headers like Beige Rage, Tricks with Lips, and Colour Tips O.K.?, the volume is a hybrid kind of artist book in its own category–one that screams its something you have just got to have.By Mary Quant and Felicity Green.Photography: Stuart MacLeodMake Up: Regis HuetBeauty Illustrations: Lynne RobinsonFashion Illustrations: Colin BarnesColour Consultant: Ursula HudsonDesign: Lisa Tai\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Quant_Cover_fe59a05f-4cc4-42f8-9512-6b13f8b23099.jpg?v=1603897799\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 16,\n \"ibsn\": 4605284548723,\n \"title\": \"James Joyce's Tower by Richard Ellmann\",\n \"description\": \"Dublin. Richard Ellmannl; F. Lionel Monro (as Administrator of the Estate of James Joyce). 1969. Oversized softcover with spiral bounding. Book Condition: Fine, some fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, fading along spine and shelf wear to delicate edges. 23pp. (ill. in b/w). This rare chapbook is a concentration on the connection between biography, imagination, and place. Anchored by geography, Ellmann uses Sandycove in Dublin as the grounds of his inquiry: into Joyce's personal experience and time spent there, to the setting it became for Joyce's characters, and into the idea of the site of memory and return. With a roving biographic text, personal photographs, reproductions of tickets and letters, and even maps, this volume is a case for the tower - the emblem - for the recurring symbols that in a writer or artist's works, becomes a way into perceiving the life of the figure, in this case of Joyce, himself.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Joyce_Cover.jpg?v=1603826117\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 17,\n \"ibsn\": 4605282156659,\n \"title\": \"Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno\",\n \"description\": \"London. NLB. 1974. Hardcover. First English edition. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, very slight shelf wear at edges. 249pp.Adorno’s lucid and poetic meditations are recorded here in slanted fragments, addressed to figments from a society set in the everyday affliction of late capitalism. The volume is aphoristic and structurally, totally unique compared to Adorno's other work, modeled like a list of the big thinker's grievances pinned to the page. He works through his resentments to literary heroes, psychoanalytic assumptions, cults of personalities, religious idioms, and language itself–to all the image that have gone stale, or still, or seemed, in his opinion, to have stopped making meaning without the consensus of a contemporary context. Somewhere between prose and allusive meditations, Adorno's fragments inspire further reading without obfuscating the inherently universal message that resonates deeply with the same social, personal, and ethical problems that are stirring today.Trans. from the German by E. F. N. Jephcott.\",\n \"price\": 125,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/3.Adorno_Cover.jpg?v=1603807223\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 18,\n \"ibsn\": 4605278814323,\n \"title\": \"Translations by American Poets (ed. 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With each poem printed alongside their originals, the variety of techniques and interpretations of the task in this volume is a fascinating and almost intimate kind poetic project for the readers themselves. Project by the Poetry Center of the New York YHMASupported by the Bollingen Foundation, under direction of Miss Elizabeth Karay.Detailed acknowledgments and index for foreign poets/poems.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Translations_Cover.jpg?v=1603899434\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 19,\n \"ibsn\": 4605277110387,\n \"title\": \"Erich Mendelsohn: Complete Works by the Architect (Sketches, Designs, Buildings)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Princeton Architectural Press, Inc. 1992. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. 249pp. (ill. in b/w). After architect Erich Mendelsohn is this edition of a slightly more completed Complete Works of the Architect , adding to his original catalogue of his work. Originally self-published in 1930 as a monograph of his small, scrawled wartime sketches and early commercial projects, this revision takes Mendelsohn's original editorial vision as both guide and inspiration. This volume includes full-scale reproductions of Mendelsohn's work as a soldier in the First World War, reproductions of his visions and blueprints for city structures, and facsimile's of the architect's intensely personal drawings. This catalogue of image follows two of his essays, translations in which he predicts the dynamism and intuition that would come to influence the architecture that would follow after him, and that we still recognize today. Trans. to the English by Antje Fritsch.Originally pub. Erich Mendelsohn. Das Gesamtschaffen Des Architekten (Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlarg, 1930).\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Mendelsohn_Cover.jpg?v=1603807142\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 20,\n \"ibsn\": 4605271900275,\n \"title\": \"Image Being by Bill Bissitt\",\n \"description\": \"Vancouver. blewointmentpress Press. 1975. First Edition (ed. of 300). Chapbook w. card cover and various-sized had-made pages. Interior Condition: Fine/Like New. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some signs of shelf wear. Original illustration by the author. (ill. in colour & b/w).A secluded little collection of pages, somewhere between print art, philosophy, and poems. Bill Bissett closes his chapbook between an illustrated card cover and black end pages that engulf the slideshow of his experimental poems. On little multi-coloured, handmade pages, Bissett turns phrases and symbols into little hand-pressed, letter-less words. With restraint and attention to space, Bissett's rearrangements and dismantled phrases reveal how much we rely on our language symbols to make sense, daring us to let down our associations and let imagination fill in the blanks.Signed with original illustration by the author.\",\n \"price\": 25,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.Concrete_Cover.jpg?v=1603900672\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 21,\n \"ibsn\": 4605268197491,\n \"title\": \"Ed Ruscha: Leave Any Information at the Signal\",\n \"description\": \"Full title: Leave Any Information at the Signal. Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages Cambridge, London.The MIT Press. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slight shelf wear at spine. Jacket Condition: N/A. pp.455 (ill. in b/w).A comprehensive collection of Ruscha in writing, on writing. Or rather, as editor Alexandra Schwartz begins her introduction with, a collection of discursive evidence of Ruscha's notorious history of refusing to play along. This slew of text is loosely organized into personal writings, interviews, conversations, proposals, and beautiful facsimiles of his notebook illustrations and notes in bit and pages. Published together, the various texts begin to form a discursive character of Ruscha that is both cheeky and earnest–who, despite all this material, leaves one always wanting to know more.Ed. and with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz.Includes bibliographical references and index.An 'OCTOBER' book.\",\n \"price\": 75,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/6.Ruscha_Cover.jpg?v=1603808398\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 22,\n \"ibsn\": 4605264756851,\n \"title\": \"Moholy-Nagy: Photographs & Photograms by Andreas Haus\",\n \"description\": \"London: Thames & Hudson. New York: Pantheon Books. 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, very slight fading. Jacket Condition: Fine/Like New. 150pp. 150 b/w plates & 78 ill. (ill. in colour & b/w).Haus has produced here a critical composition of the diverse perspective and practice of artist, thinker, and technician Moholy-Nagy. A seminal figure in the Bauhaus art movement and founder of the Chicago School of Design in 1939, Haus goes deeper than biography in this monograph of Nagy's accomplishments and revelations. Haus looks at Nagy's innovations and conceptual impulses (the camera-less photogram, the role of painter who raised photography to the status of art) for the inner urgency Nagy left us with, a new way of critically interacting with the culture of aesthetics and art. Trans. from the German by Frederic Samson.Jacket Photo: In the Stadium , Lyons (1929?).First published: Moholy-Nagy: Fotos und Fotogramme (Munich: Schirmer/Mosler Verlag, 1978). \",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/4.Nagy_Cover.jpg?v=1603808211\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 23,\n \"ibsn\": 4605219111027,\n \"title\": \"Yves Klein: Selected Writings, 1928–1962\",\n \"description\": \"1974. London. The Tate Gallery. Softcover. Book Condition: Near Fine: Very fine interior with marked shelf wear to cover pages. 79pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Archival photographs from MMe Klein-Moquay (w. listed cat. rais.)Biography, exh. history and bib. of Yves KleinA monograph for the Tate London's 1974 collage kind of exhibition, brought together by fragments from the internal world of the eponymous Yves Klein. From the archive of works, photographs, documents, and personal perspectives generously shared by Klein's widow, this exhibition catalog strives to reveal Yves Klein the practicing artist, rather than Klein the idea and influence he'd so quickly become. The introduction makes it plain: Who better to write about Yves Klein that Klein himself? And the catalog continues, chronologically, with Klein's own personal and critical notes - on his identity as an artist, the social and critical crowd, the discovery of that blueness - leading the way, underlining every page.Ed. w. selected writings from J & J (Jacques Caumont and Jennifer Gough-Cooper). Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yves Klein , The Tate Gallery, London, 20 March – 15 March 1974.\",\n \"price\": 120,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/9.Klein_Cover.jpg?v=1603824611\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 24,\n \"ibsn\": 4605198631027,\n \"title\": \"Brett Weston: Photographs\",\n \"description\": \"1966. Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine, shelf wear to front/back covers. 39pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Catalogue of 32 black & white platesBibliography and exh. history ( –1965).Original Brett Weston monograph from a 1966 solo exhibition featuring his abstract and specifically tactile photographic work. Newhall's introduction follows the life of Weston's work by marking points along the line of his shifting point of view, both as an artist and in his personal and professional life. What remains consistent is whatever can be captured starkly–the inherent contrasts of black and white, the depth and distances of landscape, turning objects and places into outlines of dark and light. Looking beyond the content of his collected works, the monograph acknowledges the artist's commitment to the rituals of serious printing and the darkroom, and addresses the future adventures and countries the artist planned to explore––new places to command for new forms. Introduction by Nancy Newhall (rev. from essay orig. pub. in Photography ( London), v. 16, no. 6, June 1961.) Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Brett Weston. Photographs, Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 27 January – 20 March 1966.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/5.Weston_Cover.jpg?v=1603808309\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 25,\n \"ibsn\": 4605187948659,\n \"title\": \"Dead Battery by Andy Spade\",\n \"description\": \"Oakland, New York. Serious Literature Publishing. 2019. First Edition (ed. of 200). Softcover. Book Condition: Like New. unpag. pp. (ill. in b/w).Conceptual art and design book by Andy Spade. Spade’s handwriting is reproduced on the dedication page, framing an image of the artist with iPhone camera at the ready, his arms stretched out in front of me [...] when suddenly my battery dies. What follows is a procession of uniformly-designed pages that recall some sort of uncanny photo album. The captions implicate scenes of a man crying into his grapefruit, redhead with a black eye. But the sheets are shaped by empty squares and fitted with clever captions that hint, presumably, at what the i-camera everyman glimpses at but never fully grasps. Facsimile of author’s signature on dedication page.Cover design by Sam Gray.\",\n \"price\": 15,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.DeadBattery_Cover.jpg?v=1603807078\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 26,\n \"ibsn\": 4603184873587,\n \"title\": \"Looking Good: A Guide for Men by Charles Hix (w. Photos by Bruce Weber)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Hawthorne Books, Inc. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, seldom fading to some pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some shelf wear and marks on back cover. 219pp. 150 photographs, 25 drawings (ill. in b/w). This relic from the seventies is a totally earnest, super informative, almost innocent catalog of eye candy and euphemisms is the definitive beauty guide for men. Columnist Christopher Hix has compiled an anthology of men's tips and tricks (and illustrated examples) for the man actively in search of the look, filled with recommendations for a sensible self-care program based on logic and good clean fun. The hair salon magazine-sized handbook is divided into Hair, Face, The Body, & Hands and Feet. The subsections have their own unique range. But one gets the feeling that even if Hix's guide has actual merit, it wouldn't be much without Bruce Weber's subversive, erotic, and totally fun photographs. Bearded men with dogs looking handsome, clean-cut blue-eyed boys, the man giving an enthusiastic example of how to lather up–for Weber's first publication of his work in print, he made it clear that he had an eye for what's looking good.Photographs by Bruce Weber. Drawings by Kas Weber.\",\n \"price\": 70,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.LookingGood_Covercopy_bec70ccf-ec82-4552-a3bd-a9f1d032b097.jpg?v=1603234042\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 27,\n \"ibsn\": 4603173109875,\n \"title\": \"The Work of Jean Dubuffet by Peter Seltz & with texts by the artist\",\n \"description\": \"New York. The Museum of Modern Art. (w. Art Institute of Chicago & Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art). 1962. First Edition. Softcover with dustjacket. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning to outer edges. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, slight shelf wear w. vivid illustration. 187pp. 104 black & white ill. and 21 full-page color plates. (ill. in colour & b/w).This exhibition catalog is a collaborative exposition of Dubuffet, in honor of his life's work. Dubuffet himself designed the cover and has written three essays for the publication. The internality Dubuffet has decided to share with us, mere spectators of his art, comes through in an almost stream-of-conscious kind of writing; his ideas are impressive and surprising, at times almost mythical, and strikingly personal throughout. Printed with both black & white and colour plates relating to the texts at hand, this publication is a truly thoughtful Memoir of Jean Dubuffet, true to his practice and especially true to his word.Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition Jean Dubuffet , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 21 February–8 April 1962 [trav. to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles]Curated by Peter Seltz.Three essays and Cover design by Dubuffet.\",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Dubuffet.jpg?v=1603161279\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 28,\n \"ibsn\": 4603170521203,\n \"title\": \"China Diary by Stephen Spender & David Hockney\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine with seldom marks on pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading on back cover. 200pp. 158 illustrations. (ill. in colour & b/w).This richly illustrated artist book is a charming chronicle of artist David Hockney and poet Steven Spender's 1981 trip to China. Presented in a diary format, the writing speaks directly to their experience, developing perspective, and daily travails. There are hardly any pages without a Hockney illustration making a watermark behind the print, or photo reproductions of tourist-Spender's pictures. A specific and rather personal publication, it has a lot to say about travel, about the artist's interpretation of place and the text's ability to rename those image in your memory, which always feel so far away. 158 watercolors, drawings, and photographs, including 58 plates and 1 map. Photographs by Stephen Spender, Gregory Evans.Illustrations by David Hockney.Map Illustration by Hanni Bailey. \",\n \"price\": 50,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.ChinaDiary.jpg?v=1603213875\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 29,\n \"ibsn\": 4603168817267,\n \"title\": \"The Figure of Beatrice: a study in Dante by Charles Williams\",\n \"description\": \"London. Faber and Faber Limited. 1943. Seventh impression, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, some shelf wear and tanning over time. Jacket Condition: Fine, unfortunate cut to inner front jacket flap according to convention of previous owner. 238pp.Reading Dante, one is attuned to the figure of Beatrice that haunts his lines. She is a symbolic and allusive device: a way into the text, which Charles Williams boldly takes in The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante. Taking the Beatrice figure as the subject of his study, he is able to remain specific–he separates his essay into the themes and narratives that frame her reference in Dante's successive poems. Following this chronological structure, his line of inquiry establishes itself, enough that he can trouble the text with the metaphysical and psychological questions that, perhaps in turn, resembles Dante's Beatrice, at the edge of the line he has to trouble on his own.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Beatrice_Cover.jpg?v=1603154968\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 30,\n \"ibsn\": 4603168653427,\n \"title\": \"Barnett Newman by Thomas B. Hess\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Walker and Company. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivid reproductions, gentle fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight markings on back cover. 91pp. 27 plates w. photo reproductions (ill. in colour & b/w).From Thomas Hess, a critic and the editor of Art News magazine, is the first thorough monograph dedicated to Barnett Newman. Newman was a major influence to the artists that came after him, who followed the path he opened into color fields, the stripe, and encounters with an un-figured, monumental canvas. In this publication, Hess takes us through a rigorous timeline and analysis of Newman's life and work, presenting both biography and art history in the same sentence. Thorough and intimate, the text is framed by black & white photos of Newman throughout his life, along with vibrant plates of his works. It is interesting: Newman's opinion is that his art represents a way of freeing ourselves from memory, association, nostalgia, myth...the image[s] [I] produce [are] the self-evident one[s] of revelation. 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Omnibus Press. 1978, 1995 (16th Printing). Softcover Magazine. Book Condition: Fine, interior like new; slight shelf wear to exterior spine. 35pp. Illustrated throughout. (ill. in colour & b/w).A definitive, guerilla zine anthology of everything Sex Pistols edited, photographed, and designed by Ray Stevenson. The facsimile collage is a textural element that formally compliments the perception of wildness in the actual image and texts. Stevenson has layered newspaper clipping, show still, and photos of the slouchers, posed and unposed, in colour and black and white. The kind of mosaic of the Pistols ephemera spread is captioned by Stevenson's chronology and biography, personal critical commentary, and concrete poetry, adding a kind of mad structure to the composition absolutely in line with being out-of-line, like the Pistols themselves. \",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/SexPistol_Cover.jpg?v=1604975855\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 2,\n \"ibsn\": 4609534656627,\n \"title\": \"Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Whitney Library of Design. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine, tanning and slight fading to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Fine, very slight signs of shelf wear at edges. 224pp. 250 illustration. (ill. in b/w) This volume is the first to rescue the study of women's influence in architecture from the domestic to the design. Led by an intent and culturally aware introduction, the volume is structured according to sections that determine a women's place in domesticity, architectural history, criticism, contemporary women architects, and the idea of spatial symbolism. Framing and following these subjects are a slew of almost relentless illustrations: sketches, blueprints, and photographs from all angles of the womans architectural progress take up more space than the texts––the pictures have as much say as any essay. The research and creation of this book was made possible as a publication and exhibition organized by The Architectural League of New York's Archive of Women in Architecture. Ed. by Susana TorreForward by Maria O'Hare With essays by: Susan Fondiler Berkon, Sara Boutelle, Doris Cole, Dolores Hayden, Carolyn Johnson, Naomi Ledd, Lucy R. Lippard, Jane McGroarty, Judith Paine, Suzanne Stephens, Mary Otis Stevens, Gwendolyn wright\",\n \"price\": 48,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/WomeninArchitecture_Cover.jpg?v=1604948957\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 3,\n \"ibsn\": 4609529675891,\n \"title\": \"Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther; Elective Affinities; Novella\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Suhrkamp Publishers. 1988. Goethe's Collected Works , Vol. 11. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight tanning over time. 196pp. The Sorrows of Young Werther (trans. Victor Lange).Elective Affinities (trans. Judith Ryan).Novella (trans. Victor Lange).Three of the most influential of Goethe's extensive body of work, of which this volume is a part. Most famous to literature and melancholy is The Sorrows of Young Wether , the moody and impossible story of inaction and desire, a kind of discursive masochism of the idea of love. So tortured was this character and his tragic tale, the book inspired an alarming spurt of suicides at the time of its first publication. Literature and criticism ate up Goethe's outcast complex and textual representation of self-abasement, emotional outbursts, and foreclosed desire's stuttering momentum. The book is found by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and serves as source material for critics like Roland Barthes and Maggie Nelson. This volume is the definitive collection to become familiar with Goethe, and the character that persists as a symbol and theme in all Goethe's works, as well as literature and art today. Ed. by David E. Wellbery.Jacket illustration: Andy Warhol, 1981. \",\n \"price\": 50,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/14.Goethe_Cover.jpg?v=1604950890\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4,\n \"ibsn\": 4609523875955,\n \"title\": \"Stéphane Mallarmé: Collected Poems (trans. and comments by Henry Weinfield)\",\n \"description\": \"Berkeley, Los Angeles. University of California Press. Printed on archival paper. Hardcover. Book Condition: Like New. Jacket Condition: Fine, slightest signs of shelf wear. 282pp. French and EnglishThe care and consideration that went into this complete collection of Mallarmé's poetry can be felt throughout, from the introduction by translator Henry Weinfeild to the fit of the lithe serif font on the page. The poetry and prose poems breathe, the symbolist image sigh themselves from sign to sign. And the experimental, broken poems of free verse gasp across the page, making a symbol of language and an experience of reading that troubles itself into a new relationship between poetry and the text––one that would be in the unconscious of writing in the next century. Concrete poetry and graphic design were born of the rules Mallarmé broke into a new idea of a poetics, a simultaneously movable and mutable text. Each poem is printed in French and English and is followed by allegorical and discerning analysis by Weinfield. No Mallarmé is missing from this book. The volume is a monolith of literary history, at the exact edge of language before the 20th century would have its way with it.Trans. and w. commentary by Henry Weinfield.Jacket illustration: Robert Garrison, la vache enragé \",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Mallarme_Cover.jpg?v=1604974326\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 5,\n \"ibsn\": 4609512603763,\n \"title\": \"Primitive Arts: An Exhibition (1962)\",\n \"description\": \"BLos Angeles. UCLA Art Galleries. 1962. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine, but for tanning and fading to the pages over time. 31pp. (ill. in b/w; exh. cat.)A large-format exhibition catalogue for 1962 exhibition at UCLA, 'Primitive Arts.' Ambitiously conceptualized by Art Historian Ralph C. Altman, the intention was to expand the vision of a currently limited public perception of primitive art. His introductory essay is a testament to the curatorial and critical process of not only assembling, but trying to convey an understanding of his collection, as a group and individual works. The exhibition is a kind of index, built on the conceptual and physical bases that determine what work is, looks like, and feigns a primitive quality. The ephemeral and ritual realm of the primitive in art is reproduced in black and white reproductions that fill the page, as well as a full exhibition checklist with descriptions. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Primitive Arts,' UCLA Art Galleries, 4 March–15 April, 1962. Exh. organized by Ralph C. 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Intended to be a an archive of the shows you might have missed, the periodical is an ephemerist–– curating exhibition photos, catalogues, letters, and other traces for you to combine with your ideas, to challenge and add to your perspective of how to design the living and working spaces of your life. \",\n \"price\": 180,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Bulletin_Cover_Draft.jpg?v=1604949280\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 7,\n \"ibsn\": 4609494745203,\n \"title\": \"The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney\",\n \"description\": \"London, Boston. Faber and Faber Limited. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Like New. 70pp. After Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, it was over a year until the publication and subsequent reveal of the poet's latest work, here in The Spirit Level. Like the architect in his poem fasted on the doorstep of his gift, the collection reveals a poet still exacting more from the practice of poetry even past awards and recognition. In an alchemy of established mastery and the bright pursuit for new means of expression, The Spirit Level makes a horizon of ascension; bringing Apollo in line with the contemporary human conditions of family, politics, and elegy, marking another phase of Heaney's lasting patrimony. Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year (UK). Jacket illustration: Detail of Bees from MS Ashmole (Oxford: Bodleian Library, fol. 75x. 1559. ill. in colour). \",\n \"price\": 45,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Heaney_Cover.jpg?v=1604958246\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 8,\n \"ibsn\": 4609199177843,\n \"title\": \"I Advance with a Loaded Rose by Douglas Blazek\",\n \"description\": \"San Francisco. Wowindows Press. 1969. Ed. of 650. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine. unpag. Chapbook with poems by Douglas Blazek and an original serigraph by T.L. Kryss, its colours still blazing. Hand-printed in an edition of 650 at Twowindows Press in San Francisco. The paper quality and type are still pristine, framing a poetry that holds up just as well. Blazek's poems speak directly to you, in broken pieces of imagery or thoughts interrupting themselves with a linebreak or sudden volte towards another matter. If the line were to go on, stay too long or complete the picture, it would trip into something more than language can hold; so Brazek skirts around that break-place, watching and collecting what he sees in little pieces: I sit at nighton my pile of coalin a desertedcoal-pile worldwhile my eyes ridelike motorcycleson the moon.Original serigraph cover by T. L. 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Nonetheless, Franks imbues his careful study of this molecular disinformation campaign with analysis of the material itself, the mentality of the 1970's science community, and asides that discuss the importance and science of our actual water, incredible all by itself.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Polywater_Cover.jpg?v=1604952978\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 10,\n \"ibsn\": 4609181646963,\n \"title\": \"The Amphora 6 (Fall, 1971)\",\n \"description\": \"1971. San Francisco. The Headstone Press. Little Magazine series; Fall, 1971; Issue no. 6 of 7 issues. Softcover. Book Quality: Fine, only slight tanning to pages over time. unpag. (ill. in b/w).Ed. David Head; guest ed. David Gitin.Cover by Charles Amirkhanian.Printed by Thorp Springs Press (Berkeley, 1971).Original drawing on last leaf, drawn in pencil.From the eponymously named Little Magazine movement's little explosion of radical publishing in the 1960's and 70's, The Amphora was a poetry magazine borne this wild excitement for collaboration. Of course this quality comes from the contributors and collage of materials, the context and connection. But that collective energy is also the subtext of editorial gestures; entrusting a guest editor, the printer's personal stamp on the first page, the kind of unrelated, anonymous hand-drawn illustration with grooves still in the paper. With this spirit of both experiment and earnest effort, this issue is one that features some of the iconic voices that grew and/or thrived during this moment in literary history.Ft.: Peter Hiley, Diane di Prima, Carl Rakosi, Lewis MacAdams, Denise Levertov, Andrew Crozier, Larry Eigner, Clark Coolidge, JAck Collom Maria Gitin, Ron Silliman, Charles Amirkhanian, David Gitin, Bruce Dalziel. \",\n \"price\": 20,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Amphora6_Cover.jpg?v=1604955709\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 11,\n \"ibsn\": 4609175486579,\n \"title\": \"Album Baudelaire: Iconographie et Réunie et Comentée par Claude Pichois (French)\",\n \"description\": \"1974. Paris. Éditions Gallimard. First edition. Hardcover. French. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning and soft fraying at the tip of ribbon bookmark. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading over time. 315pp. (ill. in b/w).This seemingly petite hardcover is secretly prolific––intimate like a photo album but thorough as a biography, Pichois presents his image archive like evidence of a Baudelaire that lived, walked around, was inspired by the same world. Photos, sketches, handwriting, friends: we see Baudelaire as collaborator, without shouting Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! But truly, this volume is a map of Baudelaire's attachments and extensions, what he was moved by and who else's art and writing he moved. Over 400 black & white image. Compiled & w. commentary by Claude Pichois.Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 65,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.Baudelaire_Cover.jpg?v=1604951757\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 12,\n \"ibsn\": 4609167130739,\n \"title\": \"JENNIFER BARTLETT: RHAPSODY (Int. by Roberta Smith)\",\n \"description\": \"1985. New York. Harry N. Abrams Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivd illustrations & slight tanning to white edges of pages. Jacket Cover: Near Fine, slight fading over time & gentle signs of shelf wear, no scratches or marks. 107pp. Over 600 colour plates w. exh. chronology. (ill. in colour & b/w).Beautiful catalogue of Jennifer Bartlett's Rhapsody series, with notes by the artist and an introduction by Roberta Smith (Rhapsody: The Story of the Mind in Action). Rhapsody is as numinous as it is numerous, a visual event that unfolds and refolds in real time, real space, and above all, real thought. Bartlett's grid-backed, colorful abstraction is driven by an implicit effort to explain itself: we don't see so much as watch the work, reading between the lines, learning endlessness also means labour, (mis-)translation, and a sense of an ending. Rhapsody was Bartlett's final exhibition, rigorously immortalized on the page: over 600 colour plates, a full exhibition history, and thorough work descriptions professionally catalogue the powerful series as much as Smith's introduction conceptualizes it, determining Rhapsody as something to think about as much as look at. Intro. by Roberta Smith. Ed. by Anne YarowskyDesign by Samuel N. AntupitJacket illustrations: Row 19, Plate 130 (front cover); Row 4, Plate 27 (back cover); Row 21, Plate 143 (front inside flap); Row 41, Plate 282 (back inside flap).\",\n \"price\": 55,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/11.Rhapsody_Cover.jpg?v=1604948473\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 13,\n \"ibsn\": 4609140686963,\n \"title\": \"Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel: 650 Modelle aus katalogen von 1927–1958 (German)\",\n \"description\": \"1986. Munich. Bangert Verlagn GmbH. German. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slightest tanning to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Near fine with slight signs of shelf wear at edge of spine. 179pp. (ill. in b/w).A sweeping collection of Bauhaus and German prewar design models, pulled from catalogs from 1927–1958. The focus of the archive is Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, German tubular furniture. Specifically, the book follows the pipeline that was innovated by designers like Thonet and Erick Dieckmann Cebado, and collectives like Drabert and Mauser. The development of these sloping places to sit, the timeline of their circuity and conceptual architecture, is illustrated with extensive reproductions of sketches, photographs, advertisements, and variations on the Bauhaus tubular theme that has inspired and persisted in designs today. Illustrated in black & white; Ed. by Alexander von Vegesack.Text in German. \",\n \"price\": 200,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Tubular_Cover.jpg?v=1604957089\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 14,\n \"ibsn\": 4605696278643,\n \"title\": \"L'Art Brut Magazine, nos. 1-8 ed. by Jean Dubuffet & le Compagnie de l'Art Brut (French)\",\n \"description\": \"Paris. La Compagnie de L'Art Brut. Nos. 1-8, 1964–1966. Softcovers. Book Conditions: Near Fine, slight fading on spine and signs of gentle use over time. 8 eds., 100-150pp. (ea.) (ill. in b/w & colour). French.French magazine from the 1960's published by la Compagnie de l'Art Brut, a movement founded in 1948 driven by Dubuffet as a platform for the exhibition, collection, and consideration of Art Brut. Their periodical publication here features intersectional, anti-genre essays, monographs, and collaborations that exhibit the collective's purpose: to showcase work by and for those artists without overwrought intellectual backgrounds, qui l'invention s'exerce [...] sans qu'aucune incidence en vienne altérer la spontanéitié in whom the invention operates [...] without any incidence altering the spontaneity .Collection includes: - 6 issues, themed and ft. selected artists, conceptual projects, essays, and both colour & b/w reproductions w. bibliographic information - 2 monographs: No. 2 of Adolf Wölfli & No. 7, of Alöise; w. accompanying essays and catalogue index Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 650,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.ArtBrut_2.jpg?v=1603824795\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 15,\n \"ibsn\": 4605286711411,\n \"title\": \"Color by Quant: Your Complete Personal Guide to Beauty and Fashion\",\n \"description\": \"New York, St. Louis, San Francisco. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight signs of shelf wear. 145pp. (ill. in colour & b/w). In this volume, color theory meets the ultimate look for the fashion-forward. May Quant gives tips that range from hair treatments, full-face makeup party faces, pattern control, and more, all accompanied by editorial photos of models and stunning sketch illustrations. Organized like an annotated bibliography of style with headers like Beige Rage, Tricks with Lips, and Colour Tips O.K.?, the volume is a hybrid kind of artist book in its own category–one that screams its something you have just got to have.By Mary Quant and Felicity Green.Photography: Stuart MacLeodMake Up: Regis HuetBeauty Illustrations: Lynne RobinsonFashion Illustrations: Colin BarnesColour Consultant: Ursula HudsonDesign: Lisa Tai\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Quant_Cover_fe59a05f-4cc4-42f8-9512-6b13f8b23099.jpg?v=1603897799\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 16,\n \"ibsn\": 4605284548723,\n \"title\": \"James Joyce's Tower by Richard Ellmann\",\n \"description\": \"Dublin. Richard Ellmannl; F. Lionel Monro (as Administrator of the Estate of James Joyce). 1969. Oversized softcover with spiral bounding. Book Condition: Fine, some fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, fading along spine and shelf wear to delicate edges. 23pp. (ill. in b/w). This rare chapbook is a concentration on the connection between biography, imagination, and place. Anchored by geography, Ellmann uses Sandycove in Dublin as the grounds of his inquiry: into Joyce's personal experience and time spent there, to the setting it became for Joyce's characters, and into the idea of the site of memory and return. With a roving biographic text, personal photographs, reproductions of tickets and letters, and even maps, this volume is a case for the tower - the emblem - for the recurring symbols that in a writer or artist's works, becomes a way into perceiving the life of the figure, in this case of Joyce, himself.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Joyce_Cover.jpg?v=1603826117\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 17,\n \"ibsn\": 4605282156659,\n \"title\": \"Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno\",\n \"description\": \"London. NLB. 1974. Hardcover. First English edition. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, very slight shelf wear at edges. 249pp.Adorno’s lucid and poetic meditations are recorded here in slanted fragments, addressed to figments from a society set in the everyday affliction of late capitalism. The volume is aphoristic and structurally, totally unique compared to Adorno's other work, modeled like a list of the big thinker's grievances pinned to the page. He works through his resentments to literary heroes, psychoanalytic assumptions, cults of personalities, religious idioms, and language itself–to all the image that have gone stale, or still, or seemed, in his opinion, to have stopped making meaning without the consensus of a contemporary context. Somewhere between prose and allusive meditations, Adorno's fragments inspire further reading without obfuscating the inherently universal message that resonates deeply with the same social, personal, and ethical problems that are stirring today.Trans. from the German by E. F. N. Jephcott.\",\n \"price\": 125,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/3.Adorno_Cover.jpg?v=1603807223\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 18,\n \"ibsn\": 4605278814323,\n \"title\": \"Translations by American Poets (ed. Jean Garrigue)\",\n \"description\": \"Athens. Ohio University Press. 1970. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine, some marks on bottom edge. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some fading and signs of shelf wear. 371pp. This is a unique and treasurable volume of over 100 poems from around the world, translated by some of the most recognizable English-inclined poets. The compilation comes from a project intended to introduce foreign voices into the English poetry scene, as well as to highlight the art of translation itself. Poets across the board, including Elizabeth Bishop, Kenneth Rexroth, W.S. Merwin, Louise Levertove, etc. are animated by the symbols and sounds of a text that, before looking further, are already being interpreted as parts of a poem. Listening to or looking at poetry in another language reminds the poet of the outlines like sound and shape that are the bodies of poetry, and that in translation, become a doorway to enter into further understanding. With each poem printed alongside their originals, the variety of techniques and interpretations of the task in this volume is a fascinating and almost intimate kind poetic project for the readers themselves. Project by the Poetry Center of the New York YHMASupported by the Bollingen Foundation, under direction of Miss Elizabeth Karay.Detailed acknowledgments and index for foreign poets/poems.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Translations_Cover.jpg?v=1603899434\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 19,\n \"ibsn\": 4605277110387,\n \"title\": \"Erich Mendelsohn: Complete Works by the Architect (Sketches, Designs, Buildings)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Princeton Architectural Press, Inc. 1992. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. 249pp. (ill. in b/w). After architect Erich Mendelsohn is this edition of a slightly more completed Complete Works of the Architect , adding to his original catalogue of his work. Originally self-published in 1930 as a monograph of his small, scrawled wartime sketches and early commercial projects, this revision takes Mendelsohn's original editorial vision as both guide and inspiration. This volume includes full-scale reproductions of Mendelsohn's work as a soldier in the First World War, reproductions of his visions and blueprints for city structures, and facsimile's of the architect's intensely personal drawings. This catalogue of image follows two of his essays, translations in which he predicts the dynamism and intuition that would come to influence the architecture that would follow after him, and that we still recognize today. Trans. to the English by Antje Fritsch.Originally pub. Erich Mendelsohn. Das Gesamtschaffen Des Architekten (Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlarg, 1930).\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Mendelsohn_Cover.jpg?v=1603807142\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 20,\n \"ibsn\": 4605271900275,\n \"title\": \"Image Being by Bill Bissitt\",\n \"description\": \"Vancouver. blewointmentpress Press. 1975. First Edition (ed. of 300). Chapbook w. card cover and various-sized had-made pages. Interior Condition: Fine/Like New. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some signs of shelf wear. Original illustration by the author. (ill. in colour & b/w).A secluded little collection of pages, somewhere between print art, philosophy, and poems. Bill Bissett closes his chapbook between an illustrated card cover and black end pages that engulf the slideshow of his experimental poems. On little multi-coloured, handmade pages, Bissett turns phrases and symbols into little hand-pressed, letter-less words. With restraint and attention to space, Bissett's rearrangements and dismantled phrases reveal how much we rely on our language symbols to make sense, daring us to let down our associations and let imagination fill in the blanks.Signed with original illustration by the author.\",\n \"price\": 25,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.Concrete_Cover.jpg?v=1603900672\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 21,\n \"ibsn\": 4605268197491,\n \"title\": \"Ed Ruscha: Leave Any Information at the Signal\",\n \"description\": \"Full title: Leave Any Information at the Signal. Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages Cambridge, London.The MIT Press. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slight shelf wear at spine. Jacket Condition: N/A. pp.455 (ill. in b/w).A comprehensive collection of Ruscha in writing, on writing. Or rather, as editor Alexandra Schwartz begins her introduction with, a collection of discursive evidence of Ruscha's notorious history of refusing to play along. This slew of text is loosely organized into personal writings, interviews, conversations, proposals, and beautiful facsimiles of his notebook illustrations and notes in bit and pages. Published together, the various texts begin to form a discursive character of Ruscha that is both cheeky and earnest–who, despite all this material, leaves one always wanting to know more.Ed. and with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz.Includes bibliographical references and index.An 'OCTOBER' book.\",\n \"price\": 75,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/6.Ruscha_Cover.jpg?v=1603808398\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 22,\n \"ibsn\": 4605264756851,\n \"title\": \"Moholy-Nagy: Photographs & Photograms by Andreas Haus\",\n \"description\": \"London: Thames & Hudson. New York: Pantheon Books. 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, very slight fading. Jacket Condition: Fine/Like New. 150pp. 150 b/w plates & 78 ill. (ill. in colour & b/w).Haus has produced here a critical composition of the diverse perspective and practice of artist, thinker, and technician Moholy-Nagy. A seminal figure in the Bauhaus art movement and founder of the Chicago School of Design in 1939, Haus goes deeper than biography in this monograph of Nagy's accomplishments and revelations. Haus looks at Nagy's innovations and conceptual impulses (the camera-less photogram, the role of painter who raised photography to the status of art) for the inner urgency Nagy left us with, a new way of critically interacting with the culture of aesthetics and art. Trans. from the German by Frederic Samson.Jacket Photo: In the Stadium , Lyons (1929?).First published: Moholy-Nagy: Fotos und Fotogramme (Munich: Schirmer/Mosler Verlag, 1978). \",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/4.Nagy_Cover.jpg?v=1603808211\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 23,\n \"ibsn\": 4605219111027,\n \"title\": \"Yves Klein: Selected Writings, 1928–1962\",\n \"description\": \"1974. London. The Tate Gallery. Softcover. Book Condition: Near Fine: Very fine interior with marked shelf wear to cover pages. 79pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Archival photographs from MMe Klein-Moquay (w. listed cat. rais.)Biography, exh. history and bib. of Yves KleinA monograph for the Tate London's 1974 collage kind of exhibition, brought together by fragments from the internal world of the eponymous Yves Klein. From the archive of works, photographs, documents, and personal perspectives generously shared by Klein's widow, this exhibition catalog strives to reveal Yves Klein the practicing artist, rather than Klein the idea and influence he'd so quickly become. The introduction makes it plain: Who better to write about Yves Klein that Klein himself? And the catalog continues, chronologically, with Klein's own personal and critical notes - on his identity as an artist, the social and critical crowd, the discovery of that blueness - leading the way, underlining every page.Ed. w. selected writings from J & J (Jacques Caumont and Jennifer Gough-Cooper). Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yves Klein , The Tate Gallery, London, 20 March – 15 March 1974.\",\n \"price\": 120,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/9.Klein_Cover.jpg?v=1603824611\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 24,\n \"ibsn\": 4605198631027,\n \"title\": \"Brett Weston: Photographs\",\n \"description\": \"1966. Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine, shelf wear to front/back covers. 39pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Catalogue of 32 black & white platesBibliography and exh. history ( –1965).Original Brett Weston monograph from a 1966 solo exhibition featuring his abstract and specifically tactile photographic work. Newhall's introduction follows the life of Weston's work by marking points along the line of his shifting point of view, both as an artist and in his personal and professional life. What remains consistent is whatever can be captured starkly–the inherent contrasts of black and white, the depth and distances of landscape, turning objects and places into outlines of dark and light. Looking beyond the content of his collected works, the monograph acknowledges the artist's commitment to the rituals of serious printing and the darkroom, and addresses the future adventures and countries the artist planned to explore––new places to command for new forms. Introduction by Nancy Newhall (rev. from essay orig. pub. in Photography ( London), v. 16, no. 6, June 1961.) Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Brett Weston. Photographs, Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 27 January – 20 March 1966.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/5.Weston_Cover.jpg?v=1603808309\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 25,\n \"ibsn\": 4605187948659,\n \"title\": \"Dead Battery by Andy Spade\",\n \"description\": \"Oakland, New York. Serious Literature Publishing. 2019. First Edition (ed. of 200). Softcover. Book Condition: Like New. unpag. pp. (ill. in b/w).Conceptual art and design book by Andy Spade. Spade’s handwriting is reproduced on the dedication page, framing an image of the artist with iPhone camera at the ready, his arms stretched out in front of me [...] when suddenly my battery dies. What follows is a procession of uniformly-designed pages that recall some sort of uncanny photo album. The captions implicate scenes of a man crying into his grapefruit, redhead with a black eye. But the sheets are shaped by empty squares and fitted with clever captions that hint, presumably, at what the i-camera everyman glimpses at but never fully grasps. Facsimile of author’s signature on dedication page.Cover design by Sam Gray.\",\n \"price\": 15,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.DeadBattery_Cover.jpg?v=1603807078\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 26,\n \"ibsn\": 4603184873587,\n \"title\": \"Looking Good: A Guide for Men by Charles Hix (w. Photos by Bruce Weber)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Hawthorne Books, Inc. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, seldom fading to some pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some shelf wear and marks on back cover. 219pp. 150 photographs, 25 drawings (ill. in b/w). This relic from the seventies is a totally earnest, super informative, almost innocent catalog of eye candy and euphemisms is the definitive beauty guide for men. Columnist Christopher Hix has compiled an anthology of men's tips and tricks (and illustrated examples) for the man actively in search of the look, filled with recommendations for a sensible self-care program based on logic and good clean fun. The hair salon magazine-sized handbook is divided into Hair, Face, The Body, & Hands and Feet. The subsections have their own unique range. But one gets the feeling that even if Hix's guide has actual merit, it wouldn't be much without Bruce Weber's subversive, erotic, and totally fun photographs. Bearded men with dogs looking handsome, clean-cut blue-eyed boys, the man giving an enthusiastic example of how to lather up–for Weber's first publication of his work in print, he made it clear that he had an eye for what's looking good.Photographs by Bruce Weber. Drawings by Kas Weber.\",\n \"price\": 70,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.LookingGood_Covercopy_bec70ccf-ec82-4552-a3bd-a9f1d032b097.jpg?v=1603234042\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 27,\n \"ibsn\": 4603173109875,\n \"title\": \"The Work of Jean Dubuffet by Peter Seltz & with texts by the artist\",\n \"description\": \"New York. The Museum of Modern Art. (w. Art Institute of Chicago & Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art). 1962. First Edition. Softcover with dustjacket. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning to outer edges. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, slight shelf wear w. vivid illustration. 187pp. 104 black & white ill. and 21 full-page color plates. (ill. in colour & b/w).This exhibition catalog is a collaborative exposition of Dubuffet, in honor of his life's work. Dubuffet himself designed the cover and has written three essays for the publication. The internality Dubuffet has decided to share with us, mere spectators of his art, comes through in an almost stream-of-conscious kind of writing; his ideas are impressive and surprising, at times almost mythical, and strikingly personal throughout. Printed with both black & white and colour plates relating to the texts at hand, this publication is a truly thoughtful Memoir of Jean Dubuffet, true to his practice and especially true to his word.Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition Jean Dubuffet , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 21 February–8 April 1962 [trav. to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles]Curated by Peter Seltz.Three essays and Cover design by Dubuffet.\",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Dubuffet.jpg?v=1603161279\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 28,\n \"ibsn\": 4603170521203,\n \"title\": \"China Diary by Stephen Spender & David Hockney\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine with seldom marks on pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading on back cover. 200pp. 158 illustrations. (ill. in colour & b/w).This richly illustrated artist book is a charming chronicle of artist David Hockney and poet Steven Spender's 1981 trip to China. Presented in a diary format, the writing speaks directly to their experience, developing perspective, and daily travails. There are hardly any pages without a Hockney illustration making a watermark behind the print, or photo reproductions of tourist-Spender's pictures. A specific and rather personal publication, it has a lot to say about travel, about the artist's interpretation of place and the text's ability to rename those image in your memory, which always feel so far away. 158 watercolors, drawings, and photographs, including 58 plates and 1 map. Photographs by Stephen Spender, Gregory Evans.Illustrations by David Hockney.Map Illustration by Hanni Bailey. \",\n \"price\": 50,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.ChinaDiary.jpg?v=1603213875\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 29,\n \"ibsn\": 4603168817267,\n \"title\": \"The Figure of Beatrice: a study in Dante by Charles Williams\",\n \"description\": \"London. Faber and Faber Limited. 1943. Seventh impression, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, some shelf wear and tanning over time. Jacket Condition: Fine, unfortunate cut to inner front jacket flap according to convention of previous owner. 238pp.Reading Dante, one is attuned to the figure of Beatrice that haunts his lines. She is a symbolic and allusive device: a way into the text, which Charles Williams boldly takes in The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante. Taking the Beatrice figure as the subject of his study, he is able to remain specific–he separates his essay into the themes and narratives that frame her reference in Dante's successive poems. Following this chronological structure, his line of inquiry establishes itself, enough that he can trouble the text with the metaphysical and psychological questions that, perhaps in turn, resembles Dante's Beatrice, at the edge of the line he has to trouble on his own.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Beatrice_Cover.jpg?v=1603154968\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 30,\n \"ibsn\": 4603168653427,\n \"title\": \"Barnett Newman by Thomas B. Hess\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Walker and Company. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivid reproductions, gentle fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight markings on back cover. 91pp. 27 plates w. photo reproductions (ill. in colour & b/w).From Thomas Hess, a critic and the editor of Art News magazine, is the first thorough monograph dedicated to Barnett Newman. Newman was a major influence to the artists that came after him, who followed the path he opened into color fields, the stripe, and encounters with an un-figured, monumental canvas. In this publication, Hess takes us through a rigorous timeline and analysis of Newman's life and work, presenting both biography and art history in the same sentence. Thorough and intimate, the text is framed by black & white photos of Newman throughout his life, along with vibrant plates of his works. It is interesting: Newman's opinion is that his art represents a way of freeing ourselves from memory, association, nostalgia, myth...the image[s] [I] produce [are] the self-evident one[s] of revelation. 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Hess\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Walker and Company. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivid reproductions, gentle fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight markings on back cover. 91pp. 27 plates w. photo reproductions (ill. in colour & b/w).From Thomas Hess, a critic and the editor of Art News magazine, is the first thorough monograph dedicated to Barnett Newman. Newman was a major influence to the artists that came after him, who followed the path he opened into color fields, the stripe, and encounters with an un-figured, monumental canvas. In this publication, Hess takes us through a rigorous timeline and analysis of Newman's life and work, presenting both biography and art history in the same sentence. Thorough and intimate, the text is framed by black & white photos of Newman throughout his life, along with vibrant plates of his works. It is interesting: Newman's opinion is that his art represents a way of freeing ourselves from memory, association, nostalgia, myth...the image[s] [I] produce [are] the self-evident one[s] of revelation. Well, Hess takes all the things Newman doesn't believe in, and presents a dimensional representation that doesn't lack in revelation, of Newman as a person, a painter, and a critical point in art history. Cover: Barnett Newman, Treble , 1960. Oil, 20 ¼ x 6 ¾ in.\",\n \"price\": 125,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/6.Newman.jpg?v=1603160682\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4603168817267,\n \"title\": \"The Figure of Beatrice: a study in Dante by Charles Williams\",\n \"description\": \"London. Faber and Faber Limited. 1943. Seventh impression, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, some shelf wear and tanning over time. Jacket Condition: Fine, unfortunate cut to inner front jacket flap according to convention of previous owner. 238pp.Reading Dante, one is attuned to the figure of Beatrice that haunts his lines. She is a symbolic and allusive device: a way into the text, which Charles Williams boldly takes in The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante. Taking the Beatrice figure as the subject of his study, he is able to remain specific–he separates his essay into the themes and narratives that frame her reference in Dante's successive poems. Following this chronological structure, his line of inquiry establishes itself, enough that he can trouble the text with the metaphysical and psychological questions that, perhaps in turn, resembles Dante's Beatrice, at the edge of the line he has to trouble on his own.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Beatrice_Cover.jpg?v=1603154968\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4603170521203,\n \"title\": \"China Diary by Stephen Spender & David Hockney\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine with seldom marks on pages. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading on back cover. 200pp. 158 illustrations. (ill. in colour & b/w).This richly illustrated artist book is a charming chronicle of artist David Hockney and poet Steven Spender's 1981 trip to China. Presented in a diary format, the writing speaks directly to their experience, developing perspective, and daily travails. There are hardly any pages without a Hockney illustration making a watermark behind the print, or photo reproductions of tourist-Spender's pictures. A specific and rather personal publication, it has a lot to say about travel, about the artist's interpretation of place and the text's ability to rename those image in your memory, which always feel so far away. 158 watercolors, drawings, and photographs, including 58 plates and 1 map. Photographs by Stephen Spender, Gregory Evans.Illustrations by David Hockney.Map Illustration by Hanni Bailey. \",\n \"price\": 50,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.ChinaDiary.jpg?v=1603213875\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4603173109875,\n \"title\": \"The Work of Jean Dubuffet by Peter Seltz & with texts by the artist\",\n \"description\": \"New York. The Museum of Modern Art. (w. Art Institute of Chicago & Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art). 1962. First Edition. Softcover with dustjacket. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning to outer edges. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, slight shelf wear w. vivid illustration. 187pp. 104 black & white ill. and 21 full-page color plates. (ill. in colour & b/w).This exhibition catalog is a collaborative exposition of Dubuffet, in honor of his life's work. Dubuffet himself designed the cover and has written three essays for the publication. The internality Dubuffet has decided to share with us, mere spectators of his art, comes through in an almost stream-of-conscious kind of writing; his ideas are impressive and surprising, at times almost mythical, and strikingly personal throughout. Printed with both black & white and colour plates relating to the texts at hand, this publication is a truly thoughtful Memoir of Jean Dubuffet, true to his practice and especially true to his word.Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition Jean Dubuffet , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 21 February–8 April 1962 [trav. to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles]Curated by Peter Seltz.Three essays and Cover design by Dubuffet.\",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Dubuffet.jpg?v=1603161279\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4603184873587,\n \"title\": \"Looking Good: A Guide for Men by Charles Hix (w. Photos by Bruce Weber)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Hawthorne Books, Inc. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, seldom fading to some pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some shelf wear and marks on back cover. 219pp. 150 photographs, 25 drawings (ill. in b/w). This relic from the seventies is a totally earnest, super informative, almost innocent catalog of eye candy and euphemisms is the definitive beauty guide for men. Columnist Christopher Hix has compiled an anthology of men's tips and tricks (and illustrated examples) for the man actively in search of the look, filled with recommendations for a sensible self-care program based on logic and good clean fun. The hair salon magazine-sized handbook is divided into Hair, Face, The Body, & Hands and Feet. The subsections have their own unique range. But one gets the feeling that even if Hix's guide has actual merit, it wouldn't be much without Bruce Weber's subversive, erotic, and totally fun photographs. Bearded men with dogs looking handsome, clean-cut blue-eyed boys, the man giving an enthusiastic example of how to lather up–for Weber's first publication of his work in print, he made it clear that he had an eye for what's looking good.Photographs by Bruce Weber. Drawings by Kas Weber.\",\n \"price\": 70,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.LookingGood_Covercopy_bec70ccf-ec82-4552-a3bd-a9f1d032b097.jpg?v=1603234042\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605187948659,\n \"title\": \"Dead Battery by Andy Spade\",\n \"description\": \"Oakland, New York. Serious Literature Publishing. 2019. First Edition (ed. of 200). Softcover. Book Condition: Like New. unpag. pp. (ill. in b/w).Conceptual art and design book by Andy Spade. Spade’s handwriting is reproduced on the dedication page, framing an image of the artist with iPhone camera at the ready, his arms stretched out in front of me [...] when suddenly my battery dies. What follows is a procession of uniformly-designed pages that recall some sort of uncanny photo album. The captions implicate scenes of a man crying into his grapefruit, redhead with a black eye. But the sheets are shaped by empty squares and fitted with clever captions that hint, presumably, at what the i-camera everyman glimpses at but never fully grasps. Facsimile of author’s signature on dedication page.Cover design by Sam Gray.\",\n \"price\": 15,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.DeadBattery_Cover.jpg?v=1603807078\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605198631027,\n \"title\": \"Brett Weston: Photographs\",\n \"description\": \"1966. Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine, shelf wear to front/back covers. 39pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Catalogue of 32 black & white platesBibliography and exh. history ( –1965).Original Brett Weston monograph from a 1966 solo exhibition featuring his abstract and specifically tactile photographic work. Newhall's introduction follows the life of Weston's work by marking points along the line of his shifting point of view, both as an artist and in his personal and professional life. What remains consistent is whatever can be captured starkly–the inherent contrasts of black and white, the depth and distances of landscape, turning objects and places into outlines of dark and light. Looking beyond the content of his collected works, the monograph acknowledges the artist's commitment to the rituals of serious printing and the darkroom, and addresses the future adventures and countries the artist planned to explore––new places to command for new forms. Introduction by Nancy Newhall (rev. from essay orig. pub. in Photography ( London), v. 16, no. 6, June 1961.) Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Brett Weston. Photographs, Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 27 January – 20 March 1966.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/5.Weston_Cover.jpg?v=1603808309\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605219111027,\n \"title\": \"Yves Klein: Selected Writings, 1928–1962\",\n \"description\": \"1974. London. The Tate Gallery. Softcover. Book Condition: Near Fine: Very fine interior with marked shelf wear to cover pages. 79pp. (ill. in b/w) (exh. cat.)Archival photographs from MMe Klein-Moquay (w. listed cat. rais.)Biography, exh. history and bib. of Yves KleinA monograph for the Tate London's 1974 collage kind of exhibition, brought together by fragments from the internal world of the eponymous Yves Klein. From the archive of works, photographs, documents, and personal perspectives generously shared by Klein's widow, this exhibition catalog strives to reveal Yves Klein the practicing artist, rather than Klein the idea and influence he'd so quickly become. The introduction makes it plain: Who better to write about Yves Klein that Klein himself? And the catalog continues, chronologically, with Klein's own personal and critical notes - on his identity as an artist, the social and critical crowd, the discovery of that blueness - leading the way, underlining every page.Ed. w. selected writings from J & J (Jacques Caumont and Jennifer Gough-Cooper). Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yves Klein , The Tate Gallery, London, 20 March – 15 March 1974.\",\n \"price\": 120,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/9.Klein_Cover.jpg?v=1603824611\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605264756851,\n \"title\": \"Moholy-Nagy: Photographs & Photograms by Andreas Haus\",\n \"description\": \"London: Thames & Hudson. New York: Pantheon Books. 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, very slight fading. Jacket Condition: Fine/Like New. 150pp. 150 b/w plates & 78 ill. (ill. in colour & b/w).Haus has produced here a critical composition of the diverse perspective and practice of artist, thinker, and technician Moholy-Nagy. A seminal figure in the Bauhaus art movement and founder of the Chicago School of Design in 1939, Haus goes deeper than biography in this monograph of Nagy's accomplishments and revelations. Haus looks at Nagy's innovations and conceptual impulses (the camera-less photogram, the role of painter who raised photography to the status of art) for the inner urgency Nagy left us with, a new way of critically interacting with the culture of aesthetics and art. Trans. from the German by Frederic Samson.Jacket Photo: In the Stadium , Lyons (1929?).First published: Moholy-Nagy: Fotos und Fotogramme (Munich: Schirmer/Mosler Verlag, 1978). \",\n \"price\": 60,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/4.Nagy_Cover.jpg?v=1603808211\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605268197491,\n \"title\": \"Ed Ruscha: Leave Any Information at the Signal\",\n \"description\": \"Full title: Leave Any Information at the Signal. Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages Cambridge, London.The MIT Press. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slight shelf wear at spine. Jacket Condition: N/A. pp.455 (ill. in b/w).A comprehensive collection of Ruscha in writing, on writing. Or rather, as editor Alexandra Schwartz begins her introduction with, a collection of discursive evidence of Ruscha's notorious history of refusing to play along. This slew of text is loosely organized into personal writings, interviews, conversations, proposals, and beautiful facsimiles of his notebook illustrations and notes in bit and pages. Published together, the various texts begin to form a discursive character of Ruscha that is both cheeky and earnest–who, despite all this material, leaves one always wanting to know more.Ed. and with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz.Includes bibliographical references and index.An 'OCTOBER' book.\",\n \"price\": 75,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/6.Ruscha_Cover.jpg?v=1603808398\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605271900275,\n \"title\": \"Image Being by Bill Bissitt\",\n \"description\": \"Vancouver. blewointmentpress Press. 1975. First Edition (ed. of 300). Chapbook w. card cover and various-sized had-made pages. Interior Condition: Fine/Like New. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some signs of shelf wear. Original illustration by the author. (ill. in colour & b/w).A secluded little collection of pages, somewhere between print art, philosophy, and poems. Bill Bissett closes his chapbook between an illustrated card cover and black end pages that engulf the slideshow of his experimental poems. On little multi-coloured, handmade pages, Bissett turns phrases and symbols into little hand-pressed, letter-less words. With restraint and attention to space, Bissett's rearrangements and dismantled phrases reveal how much we rely on our language symbols to make sense, daring us to let down our associations and let imagination fill in the blanks.Signed with original illustration by the author.\",\n \"price\": 25,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/8.Concrete_Cover.jpg?v=1603900672\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605277110387,\n \"title\": \"Erich Mendelsohn: Complete Works by the Architect (Sketches, Designs, Buildings)\",\n \"description\": \"New York. Princeton Architectural Press, Inc. 1992. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. 249pp. (ill. in b/w). After architect Erich Mendelsohn is this edition of a slightly more completed Complete Works of the Architect , adding to his original catalogue of his work. Originally self-published in 1930 as a monograph of his small, scrawled wartime sketches and early commercial projects, this revision takes Mendelsohn's original editorial vision as both guide and inspiration. This volume includes full-scale reproductions of Mendelsohn's work as a soldier in the First World War, reproductions of his visions and blueprints for city structures, and facsimile's of the architect's intensely personal drawings. This catalogue of image follows two of his essays, translations in which he predicts the dynamism and intuition that would come to influence the architecture that would follow after him, and that we still recognize today. Trans. to the English by Antje Fritsch.Originally pub. Erich Mendelsohn. Das Gesamtschaffen Des Architekten (Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlarg, 1930).\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/2.Mendelsohn_Cover.jpg?v=1603807142\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605278814323,\n \"title\": \"Translations by American Poets (ed. Jean Garrigue)\",\n \"description\": \"Athens. Ohio University Press. 1970. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine, some marks on bottom edge. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, some fading and signs of shelf wear. 371pp. This is a unique and treasurable volume of over 100 poems from around the world, translated by some of the most recognizable English-inclined poets. The compilation comes from a project intended to introduce foreign voices into the English poetry scene, as well as to highlight the art of translation itself. Poets across the board, including Elizabeth Bishop, Kenneth Rexroth, W.S. Merwin, Louise Levertove, etc. are animated by the symbols and sounds of a text that, before looking further, are already being interpreted as parts of a poem. Listening to or looking at poetry in another language reminds the poet of the outlines like sound and shape that are the bodies of poetry, and that in translation, become a doorway to enter into further understanding. With each poem printed alongside their originals, the variety of techniques and interpretations of the task in this volume is a fascinating and almost intimate kind poetic project for the readers themselves. Project by the Poetry Center of the New York YHMASupported by the Bollingen Foundation, under direction of Miss Elizabeth Karay.Detailed acknowledgments and index for foreign poets/poems.\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Translations_Cover.jpg?v=1603899434\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605282156659,\n \"title\": \"Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno\",\n \"description\": \"London. NLB. 1974. Hardcover. First English edition. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, very slight shelf wear at edges. 249pp.Adorno’s lucid and poetic meditations are recorded here in slanted fragments, addressed to figments from a society set in the everyday affliction of late capitalism. The volume is aphoristic and structurally, totally unique compared to Adorno's other work, modeled like a list of the big thinker's grievances pinned to the page. He works through his resentments to literary heroes, psychoanalytic assumptions, cults of personalities, religious idioms, and language itself–to all the image that have gone stale, or still, or seemed, in his opinion, to have stopped making meaning without the consensus of a contemporary context. Somewhere between prose and allusive meditations, Adorno's fragments inspire further reading without obfuscating the inherently universal message that resonates deeply with the same social, personal, and ethical problems that are stirring today.Trans. from the German by E. F. N. Jephcott.\",\n \"price\": 125,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/3.Adorno_Cover.jpg?v=1603807223\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605284548723,\n \"title\": \"James Joyce's Tower by Richard Ellmann\",\n \"description\": \"Dublin. Richard Ellmannl; F. Lionel Monro (as Administrator of the Estate of James Joyce). 1969. Oversized softcover with spiral bounding. Book Condition: Fine, some fading to pages. Jacket Condition: Near Fine, fading along spine and shelf wear to delicate edges. 23pp. (ill. in b/w). This rare chapbook is a concentration on the connection between biography, imagination, and place. Anchored by geography, Ellmann uses Sandycove in Dublin as the grounds of his inquiry: into Joyce's personal experience and time spent there, to the setting it became for Joyce's characters, and into the idea of the site of memory and return. With a roving biographic text, personal photographs, reproductions of tickets and letters, and even maps, this volume is a case for the tower - the emblem - for the recurring symbols that in a writer or artist's works, becomes a way into perceiving the life of the figure, in this case of Joyce, himself.\",\n \"price\": 40,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/12.Joyce_Cover.jpg?v=1603826117\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605286711411,\n \"title\": \"Color by Quant: Your Complete Personal Guide to Beauty and Fashion\",\n \"description\": \"New York, St. Louis, San Francisco. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight signs of shelf wear. 145pp. (ill. in colour & b/w). In this volume, color theory meets the ultimate look for the fashion-forward. May Quant gives tips that range from hair treatments, full-face makeup party faces, pattern control, and more, all accompanied by editorial photos of models and stunning sketch illustrations. Organized like an annotated bibliography of style with headers like Beige Rage, Tricks with Lips, and Colour Tips O.K.?, the volume is a hybrid kind of artist book in its own category–one that screams its something you have just got to have.By Mary Quant and Felicity Green.Photography: Stuart MacLeodMake Up: Regis HuetBeauty Illustrations: Lynne RobinsonFashion Illustrations: Colin BarnesColour Consultant: Ursula HudsonDesign: Lisa Tai\",\n \"price\": 30,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/7.Quant_Cover_fe59a05f-4cc4-42f8-9512-6b13f8b23099.jpg?v=1603897799\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4605696278643,\n \"title\": \"L'Art Brut Magazine, nos. 1-8 ed. by Jean Dubuffet & le Compagnie de l'Art Brut (French)\",\n \"description\": \"Paris. La Compagnie de L'Art Brut. Nos. 1-8, 1964–1966. Softcovers. Book Conditions: Near Fine, slight fading on spine and signs of gentle use over time. 8 eds., 100-150pp. (ea.) (ill. in b/w & colour). French.French magazine from the 1960's published by la Compagnie de l'Art Brut, a movement founded in 1948 driven by Dubuffet as a platform for the exhibition, collection, and consideration of Art Brut. Their periodical publication here features intersectional, anti-genre essays, monographs, and collaborations that exhibit the collective's purpose: to showcase work by and for those artists without overwrought intellectual backgrounds, qui l'invention s'exerce [...] sans qu'aucune incidence en vienne altérer la spontanéitié in whom the invention operates [...] without any incidence altering the spontaneity .Collection includes: - 6 issues, themed and ft. selected artists, conceptual projects, essays, and both colour & b/w reproductions w. bibliographic information - 2 monographs: No. 2 of Adolf Wölfli & No. 7, of Alöise; w. accompanying essays and catalogue index Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 650,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/10.ArtBrut_2.jpg?v=1603824795\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4609140686963,\n \"title\": \"Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel: 650 Modelle aus katalogen von 1927–1958 (German)\",\n \"description\": \"1986. Munich. Bangert Verlagn GmbH. German. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, slightest tanning to pages over time. Jacket Condition: Near fine with slight signs of shelf wear at edge of spine. 179pp. (ill. in b/w).A sweeping collection of Bauhaus and German prewar design models, pulled from catalogs from 1927–1958. The focus of the archive is Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, German tubular furniture. Specifically, the book follows the pipeline that was innovated by designers like Thonet and Erick Dieckmann Cebado, and collectives like Drabert and Mauser. The development of these sloping places to sit, the timeline of their circuity and conceptual architecture, is illustrated with extensive reproductions of sketches, photographs, advertisements, and variations on the Bauhaus tubular theme that has inspired and persisted in designs today. Illustrated in black & white; Ed. by Alexander von Vegesack.Text in German. \",\n \"price\": 200,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/Tubular_Cover.jpg?v=1604957089\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4609167130739,\n \"title\": \"JENNIFER BARTLETT: RHAPSODY (Int. by Roberta Smith)\",\n \"description\": \"1985. New York. Harry N. Abrams Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine, vivd illustrations & slight tanning to white edges of pages. Jacket Cover: Near Fine, slight fading over time & gentle signs of shelf wear, no scratches or marks. 107pp. Over 600 colour plates w. exh. chronology. (ill. in colour & b/w).Beautiful catalogue of Jennifer Bartlett's Rhapsody series, with notes by the artist and an introduction by Roberta Smith (Rhapsody: The Story of the Mind in Action). Rhapsody is as numinous as it is numerous, a visual event that unfolds and refolds in real time, real space, and above all, real thought. Bartlett's grid-backed, colorful abstraction is driven by an implicit effort to explain itself: we don't see so much as watch the work, reading between the lines, learning endlessness also means labour, (mis-)translation, and a sense of an ending. Rhapsody was Bartlett's final exhibition, rigorously immortalized on the page: over 600 colour plates, a full exhibition history, and thorough work descriptions professionally catalogue the powerful series as much as Smith's introduction conceptualizes it, determining Rhapsody as something to think about as much as look at. Intro. by Roberta Smith. Ed. by Anne YarowskyDesign by Samuel N. AntupitJacket illustrations: Row 19, Plate 130 (front cover); Row 4, Plate 27 (back cover); Row 21, Plate 143 (front inside flap); Row 41, Plate 282 (back inside flap).\",\n \"price\": 55,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/11.Rhapsody_Cover.jpg?v=1604948473\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4609175486579,\n \"title\": \"Album Baudelaire: Iconographie et Réunie et Comentée par Claude Pichois (French)\",\n \"description\": \"1974. Paris. Éditions Gallimard. First edition. Hardcover. French. Book Condition: Fine, slight tanning and soft fraying at the tip of ribbon bookmark. Jacket Condition: Fine, slight fading over time. 315pp. (ill. in b/w).This seemingly petite hardcover is secretly prolific––intimate like a photo album but thorough as a biography, Pichois presents his image archive like evidence of a Baudelaire that lived, walked around, was inspired by the same world. Photos, sketches, handwriting, friends: we see Baudelaire as collaborator, without shouting Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! But truly, this volume is a map of Baudelaire's attachments and extensions, what he was moved by and who else's art and writing he moved. Over 400 black & white image. Compiled & w. commentary by Claude Pichois.Text in French.\",\n \"price\": 65,\n \"image\": \"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2454/products/1.Baudelaire_Cover.jpg?v=1604951757\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 4609181646963,\n \"title\": \"The Amphora 6 (Fall, 1971)\",\n \"description\": \"1971. San Francisco. The Headstone Press. Little Magazine series; Fall, 1971; Issue no. 6 of 7 issues. Softcover. Book Quality: Fine, only slight tanning to pages over time. unpag. (ill. in b/w).Ed. David Head; guest ed. David Gitin.Cover by Charles Amirkhanian.Printed by Thorp Springs Press (Berkeley, 1971).Original drawing on last leaf, drawn in pencil.From the eponymously named Little Magazine movement's little explosion of radical publishing in the 1960's and 70's, The Amphora was a poetry magazine borne this wild excitement for collaboration. Of course this quality comes from the contributors and collage of materials, the context and connection. But that collective energy is also the subtext of editorial gestures; entrusting a guest editor, the printer's personal stamp on the first page, the kind of unrelated, anonymous hand-drawn illustration with grooves still in the paper. 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