Saturday, September 30, 2017

Olaf Nicolai | La Luna / Der Mond







Olaf Nicolai
La Luna / Der Mond (Monaco / München, 28.01.2013, 08.01 pm - 08.08 pm)
Brussels, Belgium: MOREpublishers, 2017
23 x 32 cm.
Edition of 24 signed and numbered copies [+ 12 AP]

The 97th project issued in the Morepublishers' hors série is a sheet of analogue negatives (illford, 3600 ISO, 36 frames) and a C-print. Each print is unique and the buyer receives the other images in the edition via the sheet of negatives.

La Luna / Der Mond is available from the publisher for 350 €. Contact them at info@morepublishers.be for more information.

Friday, September 29, 2017

WHAT DID YOU BRING?




John Cage, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles
WHAT DID YOU BRING?
Chicago, USA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1967
[unpaginated], 10 x 6.5 cm., staple-bound
Edition size unknown

A program booklet for an evening of Happenings staged at Second City, Chicago, October 23, 1967, which features scores and program notes for Cage's Variations VIII, Knowles' String Piece and Bean Roll Readings; Ben Vautier's Apple and other events. Higgins provided the program notes and design.


Thursday, September 28, 2017

Henri Chopin | Le Dernier Roman Du Monde







Henri Chopin
Le Dernier Roman Du Monde
Paris, France: Edition Cyanuur, 1970
[unpaginated], 20.5 x 20.5 cm., w/ 45 rpm record
Edition of 1150 numbered copies


Artist book with 7" single containing the 1957 audio poem "Peche de nuit", which can be heard on Youtube, here. An additional deluxe version of fifty signed and numbered copies contained three silkscreen prints by Raoul Haussman and a silkscreen print by Bertini.



Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Rodney Graham | Awakening Cross






Rodney Graham
Awakening Cross, 2006
Silver, cord
10.8 × 6.4 × 0.6 cm
Edition of 12

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Claude Closky | Votre Beauté





Claude Closky
Votre Beauté
Paris, France: Self-published, 1995
24 pp., 9,5 x 14,5 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

An early artist book by Closky whose title translates to "Your Beauty".

Monday, September 25, 2017

Fluxattitudes




[Fluxus]
Fluxattitudes
Ghent, Belgium/Buffalo, USA/New York City, USA: Imschoot/Hallwalls/New Museum, 1991
62 pp., 62, 22.9 x 15.3 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

Edited by Cornelia Lauf and Susan Hapgood and designed by Nancy Dwyer, for the exhibition that ran from February 23rd to March 27th, 1991, at Hallwalls and then travelled to the next year to The New Museum in New York from May 10th to August 16th.

The title includes texts by Lauf, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Susan Hapgood, Bruce Altshuler, Kristine Stiles, Tod Lippy, Douglas Kahn, Ted Byfield, and Owen Smith. Exhibited artists included Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Guillaume Bijl, George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Meg Cranston, Nancy Dwyer, Brian Eno, Robert Filliou, Henry Flynt, Ken Friedman, Group Material, Al Hansen, Sohei Hashimoto, Geoff Hendricks, Hi Red Center, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Joe Jones, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, Zini Lardieri, Liz Larner, György Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Christian Marclay, Jackie McAllister, Jill McArthur, Larry Miller, Peter Moore, Cady Noland, Yoko Ono, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, Peter Schmidt, Thomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Chieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Laura Stein, James Tenney, Tiravanija, Yasunao Tone, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Yoshimasa Wada, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young.

“FluxAttitudes explored the tenets and significant influence of the Fluxus movement. The conceptually based works included performance, music, mail art, film, and audience participation projects, many responding to the dominant themes of the 1992 Presidential election.”
-From The New Museum Annual Report, 1992-1994

Laurie Anderson: Works from 1969 to 1983



[Laurie Anderson]
Laurie Anderson: Works from 1969 to 1983
Philadelphia, USA: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1983
95 pp., 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7", softcover
Edition size unknown

An early monograph on Anderson's work, from the exhibition of the same name which ran from October 14th to December 4th at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
The exhibition later traveled to the Frederick S. Wright Gallery at UCLA, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the Queens Museum in New York.

The title includes four essays, a chronology of Anderson's work, catalogue of works, and bibliography.

Available one ABE books for between twelve and, ah, thirteen-hundred and twelve dollars. See below.