Tanam Press: Eating Through Living by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin

Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin
Eating Through Living
New York City, USA: Tanam Press, 1981
176 pp., 13 x 20 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown



"I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT BRAINS, TUMORS, AND CAULIFLOWER LOOK ABOUT THE SAME AND I ALWAYS PICTURE THEM ON WHITE PLATES."

"IT CAN BE STARTLING TO SEE SOMEONE'S BREATH, LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD. YOU USUALLY DON'T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR."

"THERE IS A PLEASURE IN STAYING HOME TO ADJUST EACH PHYSICAL DETAIL SO THAT WHEREVER THE EYE FALLS, THERE IS HARMONY. THEN YOU GO OUTSIDE AND DO THE SAME."

“HAVING 2 OR 3 PEOPLE IN LOVE WITH YOU IS LIKE MONEY IN THE BANK”

Tanam Press: R. Buckminster Fuller's Tunings

R. Buckminster Fuller
Tunings 
New York City, USA: Tanam Press: 1979
12" LP
Edition size unknown

Often omitted from Fuller's discographies, this rare disk is the last recording produced before his death in 1983. According to a listing from the time, the 33 1/3 LP contained three "verbal chapters" on Fuller's philosophy, and sold for $7.98. The recording was made in the author's home in Sunset, Maine, on August 22nd, 1979.

The above ex-library copy sold for $103 in an online auction in 2010.

Tanam Press: Susan Sontag's Debriefing

Susan Sontag
Debriefing
New York City, USA: Tanam Press, 1979
12" LP, 36:50
Edition size unknown

Susan Sontag reads excerpts from Debriefing, written in 1973, and originally published in the American Review in 1975. It later appeared in a collection of short stories titled I, etcetera, published in 1978.

It's available to buy here, for $14.22. CDN,  or to download here. Read an excerpt from the author's site, here.

Buckminster Fuller's Tunings and Sontag's Debriefing were the first publications of Tanam Press, founded by Reese Williams in 1979. For more information visit Printed Matter, who are hosting an exhibition of the Press' output which opens next week and runs until the end of June.

Tanam Press: Hotel

(Reese Williams, ed)
Hotel
New York City, USA: Tanam Press, 1980
[unpaginated], 21.5 x 13.5 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

Synopsis: An anthology of artists' writings including Michael Meyers: "A Smaller History," Reese Williams: "A Study of Leonardo," Jenny Holzer & Peter Nadin: "Living," Laurie Anderson: "Dark Dogs, American Dreams," Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: "Exilee Temps Morts," Mike Roddy: "Frost Fun Fiction Fall Forest," and Richard Nonas: "Montezuma's Last Dead Breakfast in Mexico".

Available for between $25 and $50 US, here.

The title was also available in hardcover (top).

On May 17th, Printed Matter opens an exhibition of books published by the Tanam and NFS Presses. For more information, visit their site, here.