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W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian
Read MoreArthur Frank Wertheim
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.“W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and “Great Man,” who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.” (publisher’s blurb) Part of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History series.
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The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era
Read MoreDon B. Wilmeth; Milly S. Barranger
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.“The Group Theatre, a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.” (publisher’s blurb) Part of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History series.
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Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations
Read MoreLara D. Nielsen; Patricia Ybarra
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.“How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences.” (publisher’s blurb) Part of the Palgrave Studies in International Performance series.
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470
Read MoreLinda Woodrow
Hepburn: Melliodora, 2020.“In the 2030s, as the world spirals into ecological and economic meltdown, three generations of an Australian family must find a way to each other, and then a way to survive and make a good life. What will it be like, to live in a climate changed world? Meticulously researched, 470 explores the nature of resilience when the world suddenly tips.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Robin Boyd: Late Works
AU$49.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Raisbeck; Christine Phillips
Melbourne: Uro Publications, 2021.“This title unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of AustraliaÂ’s most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971. Bringing to light material buried deep in the archives of several national institutions, this book documents BoydÂ’s ambitions and struggles to shape AustraliaÂ’s understanding of itself as an urban nation during this time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Compost Index
Read MoreGabriel Kuri
Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2005.“Book about the work and thoughts of the Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri, published in co-production with CoNaCultA, with support from kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Franco Noero Gallery, Torino. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, and Maxine Kopsa.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Heath Course Pak
Read MoreTan Lin
Denver: Counterpath, 2012.“Like its predecessor, HEATH (plagiarism/outsource), Heath Course Pak exists somewhere between a Project Gutenberg version of Samuel Pepys Diary and a minute-to-minute news feed and blog of Heath Ledger’s death. Sad, appropriated, lyrical and confused, the book contains a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, the diary of a poetry workshop at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness. Multi-authored, and with numerous text blocks and photos, the revised edition contains 52 pages of new material, an interview, an annotated text, autographed photos of Jackie Chan and Heath Ledger, e-PostIts, COAs, and coffee/tea stains.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Radical Mix in Hanoi
Read MoreUlrich Kirchhoff; Louise Low
Milan: Kaleidoscope Press, 2010.Designs for a mixed use high density structure in Hanoi. Part of the exhibition Radical Mix in Hanoi: Typological Transformations by Ulrich Kirchhoff, guest Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on the occasion of “Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland” (Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Venice, October 2010).
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Outils / Tools / Werkzeuge: Bank in Bouge
Read MorePierre Hebbelinck, Sebastien Redecke
Liege: Editions Fourre-Tout, 2010.“The construction of a bank branch in Bouge (Belgium) – the subject of this book – was completed in June 2009. It generated a collection of documents, artefacts and intangible connections. We have organised all this in an editorial form, making it possible to read through a process, removing all mystique from every element to bring it down to its basic function and structure, the tool.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Terribly Awesome Photo Books
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Kooiker; Erik Kessels
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2012.“For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The groupÂ’s fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. ItÂ’s only in this area that itÂ’s possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. WhatÂ’s noticeable from these publications is that thereÂ’s a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. ItÂ’s also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Printed Web #1
Read MorePaul Soullelis
New York: Library of the Printed Web, 2014.“Featuring new web-to-print work by Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner, Clement Valla, David Horvitz, Chris Alexander, Christian Bök, Benjamin Shaykin, & and Paul Soulellis. Texts by Hito Steyerl and Kenneth Goldsmith.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Thorne Crissey; Lawrence Charles Parish
New York: Praeger, 1981.An accessible history of dermatology.
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Korean 12 Muse
Read MoreSeung Hyo Jang
Seoul: Sejong Center, 2004.Catalogue for an exhibition of humanoid robot sculpture. Rare, not recorded in OCLC at November, 2020.
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Ordinances Against a Set of Crack-brained Fellows, Commonly Called or Known by the Name of Poets
Read MoreThomas Gray
: The Murder Club, 1986.A short poetic diatribe against poets here printed in a limited form in the style of a private press poetry book. An excerpt from The Newgate Calendar, attributed to Thomas Gray, criminal nephew of the Exeter Hangman.
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Booze Built Australia
Read MoreWayne Kelly
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Company, 2017.This is the fascinating account of how AustraliaÂ’s development was fuelled by alcohol.
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Monuments to Nature
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Leighton
Hamburg: Jahr-Holding, 2002.Catalogue of work by environmental artist Patricia Leighton. This copy inscribed by Leighton.
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Ko-Kutani
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIdemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2004.A detailed catalogue of Ko-Kutani Japanese porcelain from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts collection. Primarily photographs, most of the text is in Japanese with some captions bearing English translation and an essay in English at the rear.
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Bittersweet
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColleen McCullough
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2013.A scarce signed copy of Colleen McCullough’s last book published two years before her death. McCullough was mostly blind due to illness and did not travel from her home, Norfolk Island, making signed copies of this work hard to come by. Provenance: Private collector that operated tours to Norfolk Island.
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Dramatic Anthroposophy
Read MoreAndrian Anderson
Dunedin: Threshold Publishing on behalf of the Department of Languages and Cultures, German Section, University of Otago, 2018.Identification and contextualization of primary freatures of Rudolf Steiner’s ‘anthroposophy’, as expressed in his “Mystery Drama’, Die Pforte der Einweihung (The Portal of Initiation).
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Illustrations of the Japanese Species of Bamboo
AU$1,850.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIsuke Tsuboi
Gifu and Tokyo: Kawada Teijiro and Hatsubaijo Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, 1916.The Tsuboi Bamboo Atlas comprises 109 loose colour lithographs of Japanese bamboo varieties with an English title page and index together with an 80 page book in Japanese. Presents examples of root systems, stems, with and without flowers and leaves, cross-sections, abnormalities, and fungus, at various scales, with Japanese and Latin titles, and English captions.