Being Weiner's first artists' book simply is enough recognition regarding how important this book is in establishing a trend in the history of artists' publications. Be there no doubt - this book is the Godfather of not just the contemporary artists' book - alongside Ruscha's "Twentysix Gasoline Stations" - but holds parental rights to much of the history of contemporary art in general. [details]
Letter issued by Norma Becker and Dave Dellinger on March 16, 1968 encouraging readers to attend and contribute to the anti-war protest organized on Saturday, April 27, 1968 by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. [details]
Documents from "The Store," (1961) and "Ray Gun Theater," (1962) selected by Claes Oldenburg and Emmett Williams. Photographs by Robert R. McElroy. "Store Days is the remainings of the most significant monument of early 60's New York art - the events, theories, works and situations surrounding Claes Oldenburg's Store, which was on the one hand a real place where real sales were made, and on the other a set of ideas whose reverberations are still being felt. ... [details]
Press release distributed by Michael Alpert announcing the premier of Norman Mailer's film "Wild 90" at the New Cinema Playhouse, January 7, 1968. Starring Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox, and Beverly Bentley with Jose Torres, Dick Adler, Brian Hammil, Mara Lynn, Harold Conrad, Milt Machlin, Ramona Torres, and Lidia Ferrara. ... [details]
Cover illustration reproduces Marcel Duchamp's "Coeurs Volants." [details]
Issue edited by Sanderson Marks. Contents include "Swingling"; "French Girls? Take 'em Away!" by Pierre Laschaix; "The Great Mother-in-Law Disaster," by Paul Brock; "The Strange Hobby of Henri Landru," by Dick Halvorsen; "Women Who Support Their Men," by Alma Edwards; "A Voice of Protest," by Rolf Kirby; "Most Dangerous Job in Sports," by Phil Berger; "The Drinkers' Dictionary," by Garrett Williams; "Supergal Tests the Land Cruiser," by Liz Variorum; "Her Royal Highness," pictorial; "The New B. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1968. Text by E.C. Goossen. Artists include: Carl Andre, Darby Bannard, Paul Feeley, Robert Huot, Patricia Johanson, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Lyman Kipp, Sol LeWitt, Alexander Liberman, Morris Louis, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Antoni Milkowski, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Doug Ohlson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Raymond Parker, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Robert Swain, Sanford Wurmfeld. [details]
Revised edition of "The Banquet Years : The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France : 1885 to World War I," by Roger Shattuck. Artists include Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire. ... [details]
Book of visual / concrete poetry by Eugen Gomringer as translated by Jerome Rothenberg. Includes an excerpt from a letter from Rothenberg to Gomringer as a preface and biographical notes. [details]
Book of visual / concrete poetry by Eugen Gomringer as translated by Jerome Rothenberg. Includes an excerpt from a letter from Rothenberg to Gomringer as a preface and biographical notes. [details]
