ASPEN: The Magazine in a Box
Complete ten-issue run of this elaborately produced and hugely influential artists' magazine, one of the defining publications of the 1960s.
Complete ten-issue run of this elaborately produced and hugely influential artists' magazine, one of the defining publications of the 1960s.
Rare signed portfolio documenting Hsieh's third extended performance piece, a full year in New York City spent outside shelter of any kind (save for 15 hours inside a police station courtesy of the NYPD), issued in conjunction with an installation at Franklin Furnace.
First edition of this classic study of Maori tattooing, profusely illustrated with photographs and Robley's own drawings.
Author's own offprint of his article on forensic identification via tattoos — with annotations in his hand.
Rare catalogue of the third Havana Biennial, a rich and energetic exhibition with a global reach, curated by the staff of the Centro Wifredo Lam under Cuba's Ministry of Culture, opening a week before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Original watercolor study, possibly for a potential mural, from noted social realist, WPA painter, and muralist Edward Laning (1906-1981).
Circle of fifths with relative minor chords and bar of music drawn in black marker.
First edition catalogue of this major international exhibition, conceived as a anti-colonialist corrective to the contemporary art-world ethnocentrism typified by MoMA's much-criticized 1985 "Primitivism" show.
Scarce exhibition catalogue from the groundbreaking first show of Darger's previously unknown works.
Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form," and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision.
Signed first printing of this exhibition catalogue for the first US retrospective of Acconci's work.
Uncommon catalogue of Szeemann's innovative and controversial 1969 exhibition, an international survey of Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which played a major role in redefining the role of the modern curator.
Paper resulting from experiments carried out with college students in the Psychology department of Sarah Lawrence College, reprinted as part of the series Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1946, 33, 3-70.
First printing of this two-volume set designed and conceived by the artist.
A rare, truncated publisher's dummy copy of this noted, critical study of Motherwell's major works.
Contains illustrations of people from various times and places in history (Victorian England, medieval Europe, cavemen, etc.) with blank faces covered by a question mark, with the intent of substituting one's personal snapshots of friends in the faces.
Printed in Paris by Horizons de France under the artistic direction of Maximilien Vox, with his design and typography throughout.
Set of 38 monthly lesson plans for school art teachers, each containing a new column ("Intimate Comments in the Field of Art") with an overview of new publications and exhibitions, followed by an illustrated project for schoolchildren with target grade levels, working materials, educational goals, and detailed instructions.
First English language edition of this catalogue raisonné, with text in both French and English.
Signed first edition of this monograph, illustrated with 17 black and white plates.
Early gallery show of Schnabel's infamous plate paintings.
Second revised edition (stated) of this standard reference of one of the most influencial artists of the 20th century.
Catalogue issued to accompany Stout's exhibition at the UMKC Belger Arts Center, scarce inscribed by the artist.
Uncommon catalogue of Futurist-influenced visual poetry throughout the greater part of the twentieth century.
This exhaustive catalog, published in English, Hebrew and Arabic, contains detailed images and descriptions of the inscribed gems collected by Benjamin Zucker.