SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME, INC. / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / REPORT / 1920 - 1921
[1921]
The first annual report of the first permanent collection of modern art in the U.S.
Artists Books
THE DOCUMENTARY RECORD OF AN INFRINGEMENT: Environmental Art of a Pseudovandalist Nature
1978
Humorous artist's book documenting Joshua Alper's alteration of a billboard.
Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book
[ca. 1970?]
Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella, neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink.
DIE VOLLKOMMENE GASTGEBERIN IST FUR MICH DIE 'DAME MIT DER PEITSCHE" [Cover Title - "For me the perfect host is the "lady with a whip"]
[ca. late 1960s]
An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book, elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist.
A L'OMBRE DES ARBRES
2006
Photographs taken in Greenwich Park in London and in the Bois de Cambre in Brussels by the Belgian architect and photographer.
DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II.
2005
Artist-book exhibition catalog for Barney's traveling show of 2005-06.
ATLAS
1983
The first US edition of the first book by this English cartoonist, known for his darkly surreal and humorous drawings.
MINDERNES VIRKSOMHED
[1935]
Artist's book by the Danish surrealist, a student of Klee and Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
ART WORK / NO COMMERCIAL VALUE
1972
Assemblage anthology (a la Kostelanetz's contributors' journal ASSEMBLING) in the Fluxus/mail art traditions: "The intent of this book is to call attention to activities in the area of notebooks, community art and correspondence art and to encourage other people to launch projects of their own."
SLINGS AND ARROWS
(1988)
Handmade and modified artist's book, opening to reveal two diorama-like three-dimensional scuptural scenes, using the book's original leaves for background and base for dense and intricate layers of collaged imagery.
CHANCE-IMAGERY
(1966)
First separate edition of Brecht's essay on automatism and other artistic processes incorporating chance, reprinted from its original appearance in Collage magazine as a Great Bear Pamphlet by Something Else Press.
GHOSTING ALONG
1981
Signed limited first edition of this handmade photocopied photobook of black and white images with ghostly double exposures and other photographic manipulations. Rare; not found in OCLC.
NUITS VEGETALES
1938
Black and white papier déchiré (torn paper) frontispiece by Hans Arp [Jean Arp].
EIGHT POEMS EIGHT DRAWINGS
1981
One of just ten copies produced of this portfolio, issued by Buczak's own Money For Food Press.
71-73
1974
Uncommon conceptual artist's book in uncommonly good condition.
SUPPORT HER
n.d.
Artist's book repurposing vintage women's lingerie advertisements.
I-VI
1990
Deluxe edition of Cage's Charles Eliot Northern Lectures, delivered at Harvard between 1988-1989.
NOTATIONS
(1969)
First edition of this foundational investigation into the modern score as visual (and not just musical) art, from Dick Higgins's noted press.
LISTEN
1975
Signed limited edition of this graphically bold artist's book based on and inspired by Erik Satie's 1914 SPORTS ET DIVERTISSEMENTS.
ACRCIT
(1971)
Scarce and cryptic self-published newspaper ("a labyrinth without a center") by the French-born, California-based conceptual and performance artist.
SUBWAY
1977
Italian artist's book that can be read in two different orientations.
SELF PORTRAIT FINGER
1999
First edition. Self-portraits of various angles of John Coplans' fingers and hands, seen intimately close.
MARIA
(1954)
Scarce first edition, privately printed by Cornell in an edition of about 100 copies and given away to his friends as presents, augmented with a collaged element to the last page.
INTERLUDE
1984
Handmade artist's book, produced during an artist-in-residence grant at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York.
SOUL CATCHERS
1986
Handmade artist's book, with "soul catcher" defined inside the front cover ("...that which is used to keep the spirits of the dead/departed in the community: to imprison the souls of wrong-doers: that which engages, traps, or otherwise takes hold of the innermost being or nature (soul.")
