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The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSven Spieker
Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2008.“The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past. Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways–from what Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp’s “anemic archive” of readymades and El Lissitzky’s Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive, Sven Spieker investigates the archive–as both bureaucratic institution and index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art–and finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies.
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Teddy Candoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art
AU$115.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Ondine Chavoya; David Evans Frantz
Los Angeles, New York, Monterey Park & Williamstown: Inventory Press, Independent Curators International, Vincent Price Art Museum & Williams College Museum of Art, 2024.“Accompanying the artistÂ’s first retrospective, this title examines the work of artist Teddy Sandoval. A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, for 25 years Sandoval produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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John Shirlow: Ten Etchings
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirlow
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 2005.Portfolio of ten etchings printed directly form Shirlow’s plates accompanied by an essay in letterpress by the publisher, Robert C. Littlewood, and a photographic frontispiece. The portfolio created by master Brisbane binder Fred Pohlmann in the style of Shirlow’s 1904 folio Five Etchings. Each etching titled in pencil and stamped with a facsimile signature. The etchings are of eight views of Melbourne, one of Sydney Harbour, and one of Hobart. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher. This copy with the letterpress prospectus.
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The Littlewood Press
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKatherine N. Simitian
Stoke-on-Trent: The Lytlewode Press, 2007.Being a monograph dealing with the development of an Australian private press featuring eighty-nine etchings printed in the atelier of The Press. A short history of the Littlewood Press from 1996 to 2007 featuring original etchings printed at the Press editioned from its published works and commissioned artists including Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Derham Groves, Allan Jordan, Trish Hart, Tony Irving, Pro Hart, Andrew Sibley, Caitlin Littlewood, Robbie Harmsworth, Peter Jones, Marc Severin, and Leslie Tarrant. Bound in stingray, likely the first Australian publication using this skin, the natural white star of the skin forming a decorative emblem to the spine. The idea for this book originated in 1996 when the publisher undertook to print ten additional copies of every etching printed at the press with the intention of creating a history volume at a later date. A number of the etchings are ex libris bookplates. One of the finest Australian art publications, limited to just 10 copies, signed and numbered by the author and the publisher, 5 of which are housed in Australian institutions. This copy is number 10 and includes the original prospectus, The History of The Littlewood Press, featuring an additional Trish Hart etching and signed by the publisher, Robert Littlewood. Issued with 81 of the 89 listed etchings, and with 4 of the Pro Hart etchings supplied twice, making for a total of 85 etchings and photographic portrait of the publisher. The plates not included as per the checklist are: 10. Trish Hart: Nesting Gull; 34. Tony Irving: The Old Kiosk [Black]; 37. Tony Irving: Home Alone [Black]; 39. Tony Irving: Ramsen Place; 40. Tony Irving: Drewery Lane; 42. Tony Irving: Hosier Lane; 43. Tony Irving: Waratah Place; 44. Tony Irving: China Town. The four Pro Hart plates that are included in duplicate are: 45. Singers at the Southern Cross Hotel; 46. Miner’s Kids; 47. Yabbie Picnic; 48. Gethsemane. The plates not included do not appear to have been removed, but as in true Private Press fashion, the difference in actual issue to the stated intention differing as per the whim, requirement, or temperament of the publisher.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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A Portfolio by Howard Chaykin Illustrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Chaykin
Denver: Middle Earth, 1977.Portfolio by American comic book artist Howard Chaykin, the first plate signed and numbered by him and with a COA signed by the publisher. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies.
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Pengar eller Livet
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Johan De Geer; Jan Hannertz
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1970.[Money or Life]. Photobook novella with captions in Swedish of De Geer and friends of the Swedish underground on an artistic and erotic romp about town
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Inter-Traveller: People Playing with the Dead
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTomoko Konoike
Tokyo: Hatori Press, 2009. -
Russell Drysdale, 1912-81
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Smith
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997. -
John Rigby: Art and Life
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Millington; Mark Rigby
Sydney: Playright Publishing, 2003. -
Stripperama
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Larter; Kelly Gellatly
Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2002.Catalogue of an exhibition 18 May – 28 July, 2002.
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Frida Kahlo och Tina Modotti
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Mulvey; Peter Wollen
Stockholm: Kulturhuset, 1982.The catalogue for the Swedish showing of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition of Frida Khalo and Tina Modotti curated by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Galleriet 19 Nov 1982 – 30 Jan 1983.
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Magpie Reveries: The Iconographic Mandalas of James Koehnline
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Koehnline
New York: Autonomedia, 1992.The cut-up collage art of James Koehnline. Preface by Hakim Bey.
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Behold !!! The Protong
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Szukalski
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2000.Introduction by Robert Williams. Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve.
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Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Irene Gammel; Suzanne Zelazo
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. The first major published poetry collection of German-born artist and poet, active in New York from 1913 to 1923.
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Manas Manna
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Venosa
London: Big O Publishing, 1978.Monograph of the visionary and fantastic realist painter Robert Venosa (1936-2011).
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Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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Ikuntji: Paintings from Haasts Bluff, 1992 – 1994
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarina Strocchi
Alice Springs: IAD Press, 1995.