New York: Dwan Gallery, 1968. 8 7/8 x 12" sheet of thick kraft card stock, printed entirely with flocked sand. The exhibition announcement for this important show devoted to Land Art, which included work by Carl Andre, Konrad Bayer, Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim... More about Earth Works
New York: 1982. 4 1/4 x 6" postcard, printed on both recto and verso. A postcard invitation for two sets by the band on March 14, 1982 at The Underground, as part of the Porous Nights at the Underground series. The invitation was good for complimentary admission for 2. The... More about Invitation for a 1982 Performance at The Underground
New York: ABC No Rio, 1980. 8 1/4 x 12 1/4", offset printed. The poster for the 1980 exhibition at ABC No Rio, curated by Christy Rupp, director of City Wildlife Projects, which followed the first incarnation of the exhibition the year prior at Fashion Moda. Folded three times, else fine. More about Poster for Animals Living in Cities
New York: Sonnabend Gallery, [1976]. 4 x 8" postcard, offset printed on coated card stock. The beautifully designed invitation to this important 1976 exhibition at Sonnabend, in which Acconci famously extended a long, low table out the third floor window, so that below it looked like a diving board or... More about Where Are We Now (Who Are We Anyway?
New York: 0 to 9, 1969. 4to, mimeographed from typescript, drawing and holograph, and side-stapled into an unprinted cover. One of an estimated edition of 200 copies. Though not denoted as such, from the collection of Athena Tacha. The sixth number of the periodical, with contributions from Jasper Johns, Yvonne... More about 0 to 9 Number 6
New York: 0 to 9, 1969. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed and offset-printed leaves on various colors and thicknesses of card stock, one of which folds out. Side-stapled. The legendary document for this series of streetworks, published as a supplement to the sixth number of 0 to 9. With contributions from Arakawa... More about Street Works
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1975. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once. Bas Jan Ader's final work, published as an Art & Project Bulletin as he departed on his final known voyage. The inner panels are photographically illustrated. The rear panel reproduces the sheet music for "A Life on the... More about Art & Project Bulletin 89. "In Search of the Miraculous" (Songs for the North...
Netherlands: Marion van Wijk & Dalstar Veenman Publishers, 1997. First edition. 4to, 216 pp, xeroxed in b/w and tape bound with black cloth tape into color covers, with color reproductions of maps inside covers. Artists' book with extensive documentation of van Wijk and Koos Dalstra's investigations into the circumstances of... More about In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File
Bronx: Fashion Moda, [1979]. 8 12 x 14" poster, offset printed on orange paper stock. Rare poster for an early 1979 screening of Ahearn's martial arts film, shot on Super 8 and featuring Nathan Ingram, which predates Wild Style. A very early, if not the first showing of the film... More about The Deadly Art of Survival
Stuttgart: The Artist, 1977. 8vo, [24] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated in b/w. Artists' book addressing torture, sadism and violence, some of it re-documenting earlier work. Some light creasing and a touch of fading along spine. Very good. More about Violence Permanente
Paris: Sorbonne, 1986. 4to, 88 + [64] pp. [illustrations]. Mechanically reproduced on rectos only, and comb-bound into a cover sheet illustrated in color, and an unprinted glassine cover sheet. Inscribed by the author at the title page. An early, perhaps unrecorded, and substantial work on graffiti, Basquiat and Haring, perhaps... More about NEW YORK: Basquiat et Haring. "Graffitistes" Gratifies
West Benton, Iowa City: Plagiarist Press, 1992. First edition. Oblong 32mo, xerox press, saddle-stapled wraps. Artists' book featuring xeroxed, appropriated imageries from pornography, with captions. "No Thanks to the vice-president for providing the inspiration for this publication." - back cover. Fine. More about Let's Put Some Spunk Back Into The Traditional Family Values
New York: 1982. A gathering of 50 items collected by an attendee at the anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, which remains the largest political demonstration in the history of the United States. On that date approximately 1 million people gathered in the city and converged upon Central Park. The... More about 50 Signs, Leaflets, Artifacts and Periodicals Collected at the June 12, 1982 Anti-Nuclear...
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Paris: Comite de Lutte Anti-Nucleaire, 1958. Square 8vo, single sheet folded once. With papillon [3 1/8 x 5 1/4", offset printed on cream gummer paper] laid in. A powerful manifesto by the Surrealist Group against nuclear science and proliferation at the close of the 1950's. The text was written by... More about Demasquez Les Physiciens. Videz Les Laboratoires [with Papillon
New York: Limelight, [1986]. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset printed in color on coated paper. Folded once. The invitation flyer for this Tuesday, October 7th show by the avant / No Wave project offering free admission for the recipient and a guest- undated, but likely from 1986. Members pictured... More about Antler Live at the Limelight
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1976. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the remarkable periodical issued from the influential gallery run by Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren. Over the course of almost 20 years the gallery issued 156 of these bulletins, in almost... More about Incomplete Circle Neons and Drawings. Art & Project Bulletin 98
New York: The New Museum, 1981. 8vo, oblong saddle-stitched wraps, 52 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in English. The catalog for the 1981 exhibition at the New Museum, providing an invaluable reference to several downtown alternative arts spaces: Gain Ground, Apple, 98 Greene Street, 112 Greene Street Workshop, 10... More about Alternatives in Retrospect. An Historical Overview 1969-1975
Amsterdam: 1943. Amsterdam: dated 1941 [actually, 1943]. ALS on lined prison stationary, marked 'S.G.S. 8105-1942’. 29 lines, written in pencil. Addressed to “Eep” [Marius Roland Holst], and signed “Tiky.” One line blacked out, likely by a censor. With an accompanying letter by Willem Sandberg to Roland Holst about the damage..... More about Letter from Prison to Marius Roland Holst, with Related Ephemera including an Issue of De Vrue...
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1971. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 500-1000 copies printed. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With contributions from Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Stuart Knight, and Graham Howard, Near fine with a small green sticker to back... More about Art-Language. The Journal of Conceptual Art. Vol 1, No. 4
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1972. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 500-1000 copies printed. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With contributions from Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton, Kevin Lole, and Graham Howard. Near... More about Art-Language. Vol. 2, No. 1
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1972. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 500-1000 copies printed. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With contributions from Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, David Bainbridge, and Victor Burgin. Near fine with... More about Art-Language. Vol. 2, No. 2
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1973. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 500-1000 copies printed. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With typed sticker number correction to issue number, as the issue was accidentally printed with the number of the previous issue... More about Art-Language. Vol. 2, No. 3
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1974. First edition. 4to, 130 pp, printed wraps.. Though unstated, one of 500-1000 copies printed. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. A special issue of the periodical, which collects a series of texts and equations which were produced in conjunction... More about Art-Language. Vol. 2, No. 4
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1970. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 1000 copies. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With contributions from the editors and Frederic Barthelme, Stephen McKenna, Ian Burn, Robert Brown - David Hirons, Michael THompson, and Mel Ramsden... More about Art-Language. The Journal of Conceptual Art. Vol 1, No. 2
Coventry, UK: Art & Language, 1970. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 1000 copies. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. With contributions from the editors and Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth, Mel Ramsden, Graham J. Howard, and B. Bihari. Near fine with a.... More about Art-Language. The Journal of Conceptual Art. Vol 1, No. 3