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ARTIST'S BOOKS A - Z ROBERT BARRY FISCHLI AND WEISS SYLVIE FLEURY HAMISH FULTON GILBERT & GEORGE KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON ROB VAN KONINGSBRUGGEN LUIGI ONTANI ELIZABETH PEYTON GERHARD RICHTER WILLY VAN SOMPEL ULAY / MARINA ABRAMOVIC OLA VASILJEVA LAWRENCE WEINER ROBERT BARRY  There it is, 1982 20,3 x 20,3 cm, Ottenhausen Verlag, Aachen, Germany, artists' book, SC with wrappers, unpaginated, perfect copy. FISCHLI AND WEISS  Peter Fischli David Weiss, 1999 27,5 x 21,2 cm, loose pages with original white banner and grey cardboard in center to support the heavy weight paper. * Extremely ingenius artist book which opens as a pile of loose unbound reproductions of double photo shots of colourful flowers for many years collected by the artists. Amazingly simple artist book for breaking the rules of binding a book by keeping the pages together with a wrapper. Unhandy indeed for slippery fingers! Sealed as issued, pristine copy. SYLVIE FLEURY  The Art of Survival, 1993 27 x 21 cm Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joannuem, Graz. Colour and b/w illustrations, SC, 72 pp. * Important and very first catalogue conceptualized by the artist as a fashion magazine and hence an artist book. The magazine includes an order form perforated in page for the 'Edition 120 - cuddly paintings' published by Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie in Graz. Very fine copy, apart from small rubbing at lower part of spine. Extremely rare. € 140,- plus € 8,- registered mail HAMISH FULTON  Nepal, 1975 A 20 day walking journey from Dolalghat following the trail to the Everest icefall 20,8 x 28,7 cm. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Colour and b/w illustrations documenting a 20 days walking journey. Artist book, oblong size, SC, edition 1000. Pristine copy. GILBERT & GEORGE  The Paintings (with Us in the Nature), 1972 21 x 14,8 cm booklet, English text, Dutch translation on last page, 4pp., ill., very fine copy. GILBERT & GEORGE  Dark Shadow, 1974 19,6 x 13,5 cm signed in red felt pen ink on title page, edition nr 1162/2000, 256 pp., very good copy, apart from faded dedication on endpaper. KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON  Circles, 1973 20,8 x 20,8 cm 3 b/w photo plates showing circles in water made by throwing a stone of equal weight as each page in the book. Cat. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nr 550, HC, edition 500. Good copy. * Thin and poetic artist book. Each page is thicker than the previous one and each stone thrown into the water by the artist created apparently a different circle in the water. € 60,- plus € 8,- registered mail SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON   Art, Meaning & Love and On Pins & Nails, 2002 21 x 14,7 cm, digital mat colour photo plates showing reproductions of works, two volumes with artist contributions. Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, 20 pp. and 24 pp., SC, edition 100 * Cute booklets in a limited edition with poetic texts written by the artist and in each volume a center fold conceptual artwork in print ROB VAN KONINGSBRUGGEN   Rob van Koningsbruggen, 1975 15 x 24 cm, 16 pp., interview by Carel Blotkamp, each publication contains a small original canvas (15 x 48 cm) with charateristic paint stroke representing a Fundamental Painting by the artist from 1975. Centraal Museum Utrecht Mededelingen, nr 10, perfect copy. LUIGI ONTANI Acervus, 1978 11,7 x 7,7 cm, mini-book printed on pink glossy paper and wrappers, of which 3 fold out pages, illustrated throughout. Near mint copy, first editon, 2.500 copies, 36 pp., edition Dacic Dematteis & Maffei, Tübingen ELIZABETH PEYTON Tony sleeping, 2000 15,9 x 12,2 cm, SC, small artist's book with photos and drawings in print on Tony sleeping. Wears on cover. ELIZABETH PEYTON Prince Eagle, 2001 24,8 x 18,7 cm, SC, artist's book in plastic cover as issued with full page color plates, Powerhouse Books, 144 pages, edition of 3000. Pristine copy. GERHARD RICHTER  War cut, 2004, 25 x 21 cm, hard cover, numbered, edition 2400; nrs 1-200 are signed. Pristine copy. * In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his "Abstraktes Bild Nr 648-2", 1987. Working over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. War Cut follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images. A conceptual and impressive artist's book about the war in Iraq and war in general communicated through newspapers. WILLY VAN SOMPEL  Van Sompel, 1985, 20 x 13,8 cm, hard cover, edition 300; nrs 1-300 are numbered, signed. Printed on different kinds of thin and heavy paper with many tipped in colour plates; two reproductions on original blotting paper, Dutch texts by the artist, Franky D.C., Lieven Van den Abeele, Joseph Orban, Marie Charlie Wensch and Benoît Angelet, 121 Art Gallery, Antwerp. Pristine copy. ULAY / MARINA ABRAMOVIC  Two Performances, n.d. [1979] 15,7 x 24,1 cm SC, De Appel, edition 1000, 50 pp. * In spite of its title this semi-artists book contains three items: two ultra short dialogues for Two Performances (Performance 21 "The Brink" and Performance 22 called "In a given space") and an extra artist book-in-the-book called Detour with conceptual on-liners put next to odd and in a mystic way commented Australian landscapes. Detour is about "Exposure to chance / Extended vulnerability / Primordial soundings" as stated in the book and which is not mentioned on the cover. OLA VASILJEVA   Sezon, 2010 25 x 18 cm 11 sheets printed on different kinds of coloured paper, cover, edition 75 LAWRENCE WEINER  Relative to Hanging, 1975 17 x 11 cm silver coloured artist's book, all pages printed with blue ink, SC, edition 500. Edition After Hand, Ringkřbing, Denmark. * This small booklet defines five ways of handling a national flag (of Denmark): 1. having stood for (as), 2. having stood in (as), 3. having stood up (as), 4. having stood over (as), 5. having stood down (as) and hence creating various images of how one may use a flag. In fact based how man has used a flag, e.g. in a patriotic sense, a colonistic way, a representing manner, and so on. Good copy, apart from tiny soft bending at left top of cover and price note in pencil on title page. artist's books compiled  Thick Air, 1983 16 x 22 cm x 3 cm / each booklet 21 x 14,7 cm 9 sympathetic booklets in cardboard box with sticker, each booklet signed by the artist, Museum Fodor, edition 250 of which 100 are signed, nr 31/100, good copy. PRINTS A - Z data list is under construction OLIVIER MOSSET OLIVIER MOSSET  Quebec, 1999 50 x 65 cm, offset print, 250 grams/m˛, edition 70, signed and numbered ART BOOKS A - Z BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON EVA BESNYO MARCEL BROODTHAERS ERIK DIETMAN KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON ALAN JONES DONALD JUDD ILYA KABAKOV HILMA AF KLINTS RUVEN LEVAV ROY LICHTENSTEIN RICHARD LONG RENÉ MAGRITTE BOB NICKAS DIETER ROTH ULAY AND ABRAMOVIC HENK VIS LEO VROEGINDEWIJ WOLF WEZEL EMMETT WILLIAMS LUUK WILMERING PETER WÜTHRICH BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON Iceland, cat. HC English, 27,2 x 21,1 cm, La Biennale di Venezia 1995, signed and dated with dedication to Hreinn Fridfinnsson - € 25,- EVA BESNYO ''n Halve eeuw werk' 1982, Feministische Uitgeverij Sara, Conditie: niet storende naalddunne kras op omslag, binnenwerk in uitstekende staat. Kijkboek met ca 100 zeer goede reproducties op paginagroot formaat, interview met de kunstenaar - € 30,- MARCEL BROODTHAERS 28. 1. 1924 / 28. 1. 1976, cat.nr 286, SC Dutch-German, 22 x 26 cm, 1981 Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 72 pp. ill. Fine - € 70,- ERIK DIETMAN Atlantis Stockholm 1987, monography HC Swedish-French-English, 28,5 cm x 22 cm, 160 pp. ill., 900 grams - € 12,- KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON Teikningar / Drawings 1972-88, cat. SC Icelandic-English, 20,5 x 26,9 cm, Listasafn Reykjavíkur 1989 € 15,- KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON Donald Judd, Richard Long, Kristjan Gudmundsson 1988, cat. SC Icelandic, 20,4 x 27,2 cm, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik - € 15,- SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON  'Situations', 1980, SC catalogue nr 671, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam - € 65,- DONALD JUDD Donald Judd, Richard Long, Kristjan Gudmundsson 1988, cat. SC Icelandic, 20,4 x 27,2 cm, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik - € 15,- ALAN JONES  Catalogue 1967, Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery, London. Particularly desirable catalogue for sticker/decal made by artist and mounted on softcover, six loose sheets with illustrated pages. Good condition. Slightly stained with light touches of wear only. ILYA KABAKOV Ilya Kabakov, cat. SC French, 32 x 24 cm, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris 1986, ill. - € 30,- RUVEN LEVAV losbladige cat. 21 x 14,8 cm, 1982, met originele tekening en doosje, gesigneerd, gedateerd, editie 50 - € 25,- HILMA AF KLINTS cat. Norwegian-Finnish-English 26,8 x 21 cm, Nordiskt Konstcentrum 1988, pp.64, ill. - € 15,- ROY LICHTENSTEIN  Catalogue 1968, Tate Gallery 1968, 50 pp., softcover, illustrated throughout. Good condition. RICHARD LONG Donald Judd, Richard Long, Kristjan Gudmundsson 1988, cat. SC Icelandic, 20,4 x 27,2 cm, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik - € 15,- RENÉ MAGRITTE  page 13 >  Hanover Gallery, London 1964, 18 pp., softcover, illustrated throughout. Light wear to covers, otherwise good condition. Rare. * About page 13. The repetition of the same image in four compartments (almost identical except for the presence of the seated man in the upper left section only) is itself highly unusual in Magritte's work. A.N. Girling, in an article in The Stereoscopic Society Bulletin, has pointed out that 'cross-eyed' viewing of the two pairs of images, and especially the lower pair, produces a strongly three-dimensional stereoscopic effect, which because of a slight sideways displacement of the images he believes must have been deliberate. However, Mme Magritte writes (letter of 20 January 1977) that she never heard her husband speak of stereoscopes, that he took no interest in the bizarre pairs of photographs of a stereoscopic kind and that the family never possessed a stereoscope. It may be added that the table and stools have also been shifted downwards in the lower pair of images, and one looks more down onto them. Though the painting was reproduced by Julien Levy in 1936 as 'Now you don't', Magritte confirmed that the original title was 'Man with a Newspaper'. When asked whether it could have any connection with Bergson's theories of time on account of its repetition of an image and the fact that a man is present in one compartment but is absent from the other three, he replied (31 July 1965): "Man with a Newspaper" ... like my other paintings, is concerned with the description of a thought combining forms (visual) drawn from the tangible world - but in such a way that mystery is evoked. ...... "Man with a Newspaper" is the image of a thought and the latter does not correspond to a philosophical doctrine. Bergson's theories describe ideas; what I paint contains no idea. I paint something to be seen: "an image in itself' which is the image of a thought "in itself". This thought (like all mystery) defies interpretation. However, it is possible to speak of this thought, to comment on the image which describes it. To do this well requires inspiration. Though this picture was exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1931-'32 with the date 1930, it was first reproduced in the issue of Variétés dated 15 January 1929. Magritte, in the letter quoted above, confirmed that it was painted in 1928. David Sylvester, who dates it late 1928, says that X-ray photographs of the rather larger picture 'The Annunciation' 1930 (114,5 x 146,5 cm) show the presence of a different composition underneath, including what appears to be the same figure of a seated man reading a newspaper. * The suggestion of a three-dimensional stereoscopic effect is also caused by the more emphasized shadows in the right upper and lower part of the painting in which the interior depicts more shadow. BOB NICKAS 'Collection diary', 2004, published by JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG - € 7,50 new * Sympathetic diary of curator Bob Nickas as collector for one year. Every month an art piece of (yet?) non-stars is purchased by him. Develops quickly a collector's mentality of chasing artworks and being-the-first, though. Nevertheless he does not belie his nature by putting his most favorite piece on the cover of this book. It is a drawing of Dave Muller with circles of watercolour and two text balloons saying: "This show sucks!" and "Yeah, change it!" Bob Nickas has this hanging on his wall and reads this everytime he is on the next job of curating a show. DIETER ROTH Dieter Roth, Nylistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik 1982, cat. SC, incl. two interviews from 1978 by Ingólfur Margeirsson and Art Kristinsson/Eggert Einasson, [16 pp.], ill. b/w; fine, though front cover with some light spots - € 35,- ULAY AND ABRAMOVIC  'Relation Work and Detour', 1980 24,6 x 23 cm, monography with many photos, edition 2500, 236 pp. * Remarkable book about the artists attitudes and sympathies for mysticism raised by personal confrontations with archaic cultures and physical-mental challenges created by their own conceptual recipies. This is "A vital book" as is stated by the artists in the colophon. This well worked out monography gives an impressive view of what the concepts of their performances was all about, mainly due to the extensive amount of photos of various moments of each performance. Printed in a comparatively large edition yet this book is not very easy to find. Very good copy. HENK VIS 'Nu stil', 1984, 21 x 15 cm, geniet, stofomslag van transparant papier, tekst en vele tekeningen, editie 500 en 100 ex. genummerd, gesigneerd, nr 44/100 - € 60,- LEO VROEGINDEWEIJ Kunstenaarsboek met cirkels, 1980, Art & Project, Amsterdam, editie 500 - € 90,- EMMETT WILLIAMS  WOLF WEZEL '96/96', 1978, visual book with geometric images, three pages inside have been bend slightly, else in good condition, Ottenhausen Verlag, München - € 10,- My Life in Flux - and vice versa 1991, SC English, Stuttgart-London, 1st ed., 496 pp. ill.; very fine - € 32,- LUUK WILMERING 'All I need / All you need', 1993, 22 x 15,5 cm, prentbriefkaart met ophanggaatje, kunstenaarstekst, oplage 100, envelop met sticker, gesigneerd, genummerd, kunstenaarsuitgave - € 55,- PETER WÜTHRICH  So ist the Welt / Thus is the World 1997, HC German, Walther König, Köln, texts by Gérard A. Goodrow, Renate Puvogel, ill. CATALOGUES A - Z JONATHAN BOROFSKY LUCY LIPPARD GERHARD RICHTER JCJ VANDERHEYDEN OTTENHAUSEN VERLAG JONATHAN BOROFSKY  Jonathan Borofsky, 1984 20,9 x 15 cm, SC, Moderna Museet Stockholm, texts by Olle Granath, Joan Simon, Dieter Koepplin and Richard Armstrong in English and Swedish, black and white ill. with two tipped in colour plates, added: 1 extra colour plate, 125 pp. LUCY LIPPARD - curator: Seattle Art Museum / Vancouver Art Gallery  557,087, 1969 10 x 15 cm, 100 - 138 artist's cards, original brown envelope. Very fine copy. VITO ACCONCI, M. ALHADEFF, CARL ANDRE, K. ARNATT, RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, MICHAEL ASHER, T. ATKINSON, JOHN BALDESSARI, M. BALDWIN, ROBERT BARRY, R. BARTHELME, IAN BAXTER, G. BEERY, MEL BOCHNER, B. BOLLINGER, JONATHAN BOROFSKY, D. BURGY, DANIEL BUREN, R. CASTORO, G. CURNOE, HANNE DARBOVEN, WALTER DE MARIA, JAN DIBBETS, C. DIKEAKOS, R. DOOTSON, R. FERRER, BARRY FLANAGAN, A. GERBER, DAN GRAHAM, HANS HAACKE, A. HAY, M. HEIZER, EVA HESSE, DOUGLAS HUEBLER, R. HUOT, S. KALTENBACH, ON KAWARA, EDWARD KEINHOLZ, R. KINMONT, JOSEPH KOSUTH, C. KOZLOV, JOHN LATHAM, BARRY LA VA, SOL LEWITT, L.R. LIPPARD, R. LOUW, D. LINDON, T. MAYTHEM, BRUCE MCLEAN, ROBERT MORRIS, BRUCE NAUMAN, N.E. THING CO., NY GRAPHIC WORKSHOP, DENNIS OPPENHEIM, J. PERRAULT, ADRIAN PIPER, P. RAWN, P. ROHM, ALLEN RUPPERSBERG, ROBERT RYMAN, EDWARD RUSCHA, FRANCK SANDBACK, A. SARET, G. SAWCHUK, RICHARD SERRA, R. SIMS, ROBERT SMITHSON, KENNETH SONNIER, F. VINER, JEFF WALL, LAWRENCE WEINER, IAN WILSON & JANNET WRIGHT * Exhibition catalogue '557,087' / '955,000' named after
the number of residents of the two hosting cities Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery.
Organised by Lucy Lippard in 1969 for which each artist was asked to make an index card for the catalogue as well as an artwork for the exhibition.
Works of conceptual art, process art, land art. € 580,- OTTENHAUSEN VERLAG  Katalog 1981-1982, 1981 21 x 15 cm, SC, stapled, 21 pp. Good copy, apart from dog's ear at lower right of cover * Original price list of Ottenhausen Verlag in Aachen and Munich. Wellknown German publisher of artist's books by Roberta Allen,
Luciano Bartolini, Heinz Gappmayer, Roman Opalka, Giuseppe Spagnulo. As stated in this price list Ottenhausen Verlag represented publishers like
Beatrix Wilhelm Verlag, Edition Und, Multi Art Points in Amsterdam, Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, Exit Edizioni in Luga/Ravenna, Tau/Ma
publications in Bologna. Interesting data on many publications of these publishers. GERHARD RICHTER  Atlas - 8 post cards, 2009 14,8 x 10,5 cm, 8 postcrads in cover, original celluloid envelope, pristine copy. JCJ VANDERHEYDEN  JCJ Van der Heyden, 2003 28,5 x 21 cm, SC, many colour photo plates, Chinese and English, introduction by Qin Jian and one text of the artist: 'From the big bang to the final snap', 52 pp. € 45,- plus € 8,- registered mail MAGAZINES A - Z KUNSTBEELD MEDEDELINGEN METROPOLIS M NOLLENBULLETIN OAOA SIGNALS KUNSTBEELD Kunstbeeld, maart 1987, 'Rudi van de Wint, Het constante zoeken naar 'de tegenspraak'', Cees Straus, pp. 34-38, ill. € 10,- MEDEDELINGEN R.W. VAN DE WINT, Mededelingen nr. 30, zomer 1980, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, waarin 'Van de Wint in gesprek met Egberts van Faassen', pp.1-12, ill., driehoekig formaat: 29,5 x 29,5 x 29,5 cm, zeldzaam. € 120,- METROPOLIS M R.W. VAN DE WINT, Metropolis M, nr 4/maart 1986, waarin art. 'Rudi van de Wint', de traditie en de Nollen', Egbert van Faassen, pp. 10-15, ill. € 10,- NOLLENBULLETIN R.W. VAN DE WINT, Nollenbulletin, nr 1/2 1982, St. De Nollen, pp.24 € 80,- R.W. VAN DE WINT, Nollenbulletin, nr 1/2 1986, St. De Nollen, pp.32 € 50,- OAOA  OAOA, 2008 Issue 3 First self published magazine OAOA / The Oceans Academy Of Arts, publisher Ola Vasiljeva with contributions of Edgar Heiss, B.G. Reivax, Marianne Vierř, John Hey, Malin Svensson and Ola Vasiljeva, 24 pp. € 10,-  OAOA, 2010 Issue 4 Self published magazine OAOA / The Oceans Academy Of Arts, publisher Ola Vasiljeva with contributions of Harm van den Dorpel, Marianne Vierř and Ola Vasiljeva, screenprinted in 2 colours on newspaper; sun burnt by the publisher, 4x folded screenprint recto, edition ca 100, € 10,- SIGNALS  Signals, 1964 - 1966 Issues 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 A near complete run of 9 magazines of the legendary 60’s publication Signals. Published under the direction of Paul Keeler and artist David Medalla to promote international art and European, Latin, Central and South American artists represented by the Signals Gallery in London, but which also dealt with a wide array of artistic and aesthetic issues of the avant- garde of the 1960's, with excerpts from writings and texts by numerous noted artists and critics, profusely illustrated throughout showing artworks, cultural figures. This cutting-edge journal documented exhibitions at the Signals showroom in London, and includes images, poems, critical essays, scientific digests, photographs and experimental art news. Basically documenting exhibitions and events in Britain and abroad, Signals brought together leading innovative artists, writers and poets of the time and, in addition, established a context for kinetic, time-based, performance and environmental art. Artists featured in these original magazines include Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Lygia Clark, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Díaz, Eduardo Chillida and Marcela Salvadori and many others. There are 10 issues and 9 magazines in total, as numbers 3 and 4 are combined into a twin issue. Here lacking original magazines numbers 1 and 5. REFERENCE BOOKS AND GENERAL CATALOGUES English Art Today 1960-76 First edition, small quarto, 2 volumes in perfect card slipcase - 468 pages, illustrated British Council exhibition catalogue comprehensive reference to the sixties generation of David Hockey, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, Bridget Riley et al., Italian - English, Milan Electra 1976 - € 60,- art handling and costs of transport insurance are not included in the price multiples, editions, films A - Z |
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