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Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over the Place
Edited by Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville
2021, English
Softcover, 155 pages, 22.1 x 15 cm
Published by Black Widow Press / Boston
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This international anthology takes us to the seldom discussed and anthologized beginnings of the prose poem. It gathers the foundational writings of William Blake, Charles Baudelaire and Max Jacob alongside lesser-known practitioners such as Judith Gautier, Elena Guro, Renée Vivien, Mizuno Yōshū, Dino Campana, Liu Bannong and Marcel Lecomte. The writers presented here celebrate the diversity of a genre that, perhaps more than any other poetic form, has cultivated hybridity and in-betweenness at many levels, be they aesthetic, cultural or political. This volume should be indispensable to anyone interested in modern and contemporary poetics as well as, more generally, the permutations of literary tradition and innovation.
Edited and with an introduction by Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville. With over 20 translators from around the world.
Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès. She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World Reader, and edited anthologies on Manifestos - Isms, Surrealism, Twentieth Century French Literature. Among others, she has translated Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and René Char.
Michel Delville is a Belgian musician, writer and critic. Delville teaches literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of books about comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies.He was awarded the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold (2009), and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances. Besides his extensive discography, he has over 30 books published to date.
Maldoror
& The Complete Works of Comte de Lautreamont
1994, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Published by Exact Change / Boston
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Andre Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870). Lautreamont bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted line, "As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella." Maldoror's shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original edition--and perhaps no better invitation exists to this book, which warns the reader, "Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger."
This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautreamont's writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard's superior translation. For this latest edition, Lykiard updates his introduction to include recent scholarship.
Hajime Sorayama
Latex Galatea
2003, English / Japanese
Softcover (die-cut, embossed stiff slipcase w. internal illustrated card fold-out sleeve), 92 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Signed by artist,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo
$450.00 - In stock -
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First, deluxe edition of this rare Hajime Sorayama book published by Treville especially for the exhibition 'Hajime Sorayama - The Exhibition' at Ginza Graphic Gallery in 2003. Now out-of-print and collectible, this extra special copy is also signed by Sorayama himself on the cover "cleavage". Housed in an embossed, die-cut corset slipcase, with an illustrated, fold-out "pin-up" doubled-sided internal sleeve, both made from stiff card, this catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout with Japanese airbrush master Hajime Sorayama's erotic, futuristic, hyper-realistic illustrations with a heavy emphasis on latex and bondage mistresses. Includes his own commentary throughout (in English and Japanese), plus a special look inside his atelier.
Hajime Sorayama (b. 1947) is a Japanese illustrator famed for his precisely detailed, erotic portrayals of feminine robots and fetish pin-ups, and also well-known for his design work on the original Sony AIBO. He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object."
Very Good copy.
All Things About Canterbury Rock
2022, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 240 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo
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As the title suggests, this new volume edited by Koji Wakui and published in Japan in 2022, is entirely dedicated to the phenomenon of Canterbury Rock, something very close to the heart of World Food Books. Beginning with the "Canterbury Story", the book is broken into chapters around prominent pivotal artists, namely; Soft Machine; Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt; Caravan; Daevid Allen, Gong; Slapp Happy, Henry Cow; weaving together the tight-knit, over-lapping legacies of The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound), a musical scene centred around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The term describes a loosely-defined, improvisational, avant-garde style that blended elements of jazz, rock, and psychedelia, and has come to be associated with progressive rock, art rock and British jazz-fusion. These musicians played together in numerous bands, with ever-changing and overlapping personnel. Illustrated throughout with a comprehensive discography of the artists involved, the extensive Japanese texts by Isao Inubushi, Noboru Umemura, Tetsuto Koyama, Yoshio Tachikawa, Midori Mashita, Takumi Matsui, Jiro Morijiro Junichi Yamada, Akira Yamanaka, Koji Wakui are accompanied by band photos and album art. Includes: The Wilde Flowers, Caravan, Gong, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Soft Machine, Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Hatfield and The North, National Health, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Pip Pyle, Lol Coxhill, Mike Westbrook, Centipede, Anthony Moore, Dagmar Krause, Peter Blegvad, Fred Frith, Art Bears, Skeleton Crew, Massacre, The Work, Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward, John Greaves, Lisa Herman, Kevin Coyne, Lindsay Cooper, Here and Now, Alan Gowen, Elton Dean, Karl Jenkins, Arzachel, Egg, Dave Stewart, Steve Hillage, Camel, Bill Bruford, Gilgamesh, Richard Sinclair, Camel, Mother Gong, Banana Moon band.... and more!
Obscure Sound
Selected by Chee Shimuzu
2013, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rittor Music / Tokyo
$100.00 - Out of stock
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First, quickly out-of-print edition of Chee Shimuzu's wonderful Obscure Sound book published in 2013. First edition with a special dust-jacket designed by musician/artist EYヨ (Yamantaka Eye of Boredoms, Hanatarashi, Puzzle Punks, etc). An indispensable, insightful look into Chee's unique Organic Music sound and invaluable guide through many hand-picked records from all over the world by one of Japan's legendary collectors. Contains 640 record reviews broken into specific categories – organic, ethnic, psychedelic, spiritual, experimental, cosmic, meditative and floating, all illustrated with record cover artwork and listed with discographical details. Includes an interview with Japanese composer Yasuaki Shimizu and other columns. So many WFB favourites in one book. Absolutely essential!
Chee Shimuzu is a Japanese music selector, writer, producer, and record shop / record label owner.
Very Good copy, with small closed tear to lower contents page, light wear, otherwise great, complete copy with dust jacket (essential as verso features book index of all artists featured, and illustrated obi-strip).
New Age Music Disc Guide
2020, Japanese
Softcover (w. obi strip), 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Disc Union Books / Tokyo
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An epoch-making book, New Age Music Disc Guide, published in 2020 by the mighty Disc Union book imprint and compiled by new age music enthusiast, collector, writer and staff member of the Meditations record store in Kyoto, Tsunaki Kadowaki, is an essential and definitive overview of acoustic, ambient, electronic, and meditative sounds. The book collects and profiles over 600 international new age and ambient album recommendations, with full-colour reproductions of the cover artwork, spanning various styles and eras from the private issued 1970's underground, tracing global shifts in the music over decades all the way up to the genre's well-deserved current revival and re-evaluation. Also takes a look back at various inspirations earlier still (pre 1974), from folk, early electronic, krautrock, prog and cosmic jazz. Spans electronic, acoustic, balearic, "kankyō ongaku" (environmental music), ambient-oriented Japanese 'anime' soundtracks, modern classical, ethereal, fourth world, minimal, fusion, drone, library .... The book also features interviews with Haruomi Hosono, Yoshio Ojima, Chee Shimizu, Dubby, Spencer Dolan of Visible Cloaks and includes an article by Koki Emura of EM Records.
Some artists includes: Iasos, Ariel Karma, Francesco Messina, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Laurie Spiegel, K. Leimer, Gigi Masin, Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada, Robert Rich, Steven Halpern, John Elder, Ros Bandt, Pepe Maina, Giusto Pio, Richard Pinhas, Dorothy Carter, Emerald Web, Dominique Guiot, Suzanne Ciani, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Dolphins Into The Future, Hype Williams, Ana Roxanne, James Ferraro, Visible Cloaks, Susumu Yokota, S.E.N.S., Hiroki Okano, Yasuaki Shimizu, Popol Vuh, Yoshio Suzuki, Yas-Kaz, Axis, Aragon, Yutaka Hirose, Robert Ashley, Pauline Anna Strom, Dom, Arica, Moondog, John Fahey, Bobby Brown, Third Ear Band, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Klaus Schulze, Virginia Astley, Lino Capra Vaccina, Woo, Ashra, Iury Lech, Enya, Erik Wøllo, The Ghostwriters, Laraaji, Eric Tingstad, Deuter, Vidna Obmana, Constance Demby, Nik Tyndall, Eduard Artemiev, Peter Davison, Don Slepian, Mark Isham, Igor Savin, Roedelius, Jon Hassell, Michael Stearns, A.r.t. Wilson, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mark McGuire, Sean McCann, Joanna Brouk, Manuel Gottsching, Michael Hoenig, Carlos Maria Trindale / Nuno Canavarro, Steve Roach, Philippe Saisse, Roberto Donnini, Patricia Escudero, Luis Paniagua, Peter Michael Hamel, Morgan Fisher, Wally Badarou, Robert Turman, Malcolm Cecil, J.D. Emmanuel, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Tangerine Dream, David Lanz, Brainticket ............. to name but a few!!
Highly recommended resource to the music that is usually playing in the World Food Books shop!
The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music
1981, English
Softcover, 89 pages, 20 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Hearts of Space / San Francisco
$190.00 - Out of stock
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First, very rare edition of The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music: An Annotated Listing of the Music Heard Since 1973 on the Weekly Radio Program Music from the Hearts of Space, self-published by The Hearts of Space, San Fransisco. First produced in 1973 by presenter Stephen Hill with co-producer Anna Turner, Hearts of Space is a pioneering weekly syndicated public radio show in California featuring music of a contemplative nature drawn largely from the ambient, New Age and electronic genres, while also including classical, world, Celtic, experimental, and other music selections. For many years, Hill has applied the term "space music" to the music broadcast on the show, irrespective of genre. It is the longest-running radio program of its type in the world. It was first broadcast as Music from the Hearts of Space, a three-hour long late-night show on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Each episode ends with Hill gently saying, "Safe journeys, space fans ... wherever you are."
This annotated listening guide traverses the spectrum of space music presented on the radio throughout the 1970s-80s, with the editors providing introductions, glossary of genres, descriptions of each record, alongside interspersed reflections on sound by scholars, composers, artists, poets, architects — everyone from Cage to Inayat Khan, Steiner to Wagner. Includes a list of related material including reading, retail and mail-order sources, as well as a full index and record label contacts. An indispensable volume for anyone interested in ambient music, beautifully designed by Janaia Marisolle.
Good copy with light wear and creases.
NEW AGE: STONEHENGE TO JUNGLE B2B 1973/2000
2022, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 31 x 22 cm
Published by Dashwood Books / New York Cultural Traffic / UK
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New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle is a comprehensive collection of iconic UK rave, jungle, sound system and warehouse party flyers dating from the early 1973s to 2000.
The book is sourced and curated from the Mott Collection – an extensive archive that gathers paper ephemera of British popular culture from punk to rave – curated by artist and collector Toby Mott.
Crammed full of 575 entries of flyers and other collectables, New Age is a visual feast that charts the origins and progress of a series of youth rebellions that were to last for a generation. The book looks beyond the music into the fantastical visual language that propelled this subculture, offering a global perspective on how British party culture shifted through the decades.
New Age opens with an extensive array of iconic flyers created for the early 1970s free festivals of Stonehenge and Windsor. It then moves into the 1980s, when the boom of illegal London warehouse parties gave birth to acid house – visually embodied by its iconic smiley face, then evolved into sound system and dub clashes. As rave culture takes over, the designs of the flyers become more complex, unveiling a craving for dystopian experiences and surrealistic universes forged by the vision of masters of flyer art, the likes of Pez and Junior Tomlin – also known as the Salvador Dalí of Rave.
The book traces the rise of jungle music and more widely the aesthetic of the 1990s, digging into its Jamaican roots and bringing together reggae, rave and sound system culture, giving insight into the profound, and yet often overlooked, impact of the Black British community on rave music.
Featuring interviews with influential flyer designers such as Pez, Kaos, Junior Tomlin, and Dave Little.
Published by Corina Manu, Cultural Traffic and Dashwood Books 2022
Art and Design Direction: Jamie Reid Studio
Krautrock : Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy
2009, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London
$190.00 - In stock -
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First edition of the quickly out-of-print, now rarely seen Krautrock : Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy. One of the greatest books on the subject.
The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Communes were spreading, protests organised throughout the entire country, the desire to begin everything anew permeating the young. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Never a genre or a movement per se, Krautrock encompassed a very wild and diverse range of sounds, attitudes, and past musics, from free jazz to Karlheinz Stockhausen, from dada to Fluxus, from German Romanticism to the Mothers of Invention. The musicians operated outside any known categories, breaking new ground and turning their backs to both their country's past and the conventions of Anglo-American rock. Their vision fired the imaginations of generations of musicians after them: Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno, Nurse with Wound, PiL, DAF, Einsturzende Neubauten, to only name a few, have all acknowledged their deb to Krautrock's uncompromising ethics and innovative sounds. Profiling diverse key musical groups of the period, including Amon Düül (I & II), Can, Faust, Ash Ra Temple, Gila, Limbus, Walter Wegmüller, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Xhol, Between/Hamel, Guru Guru, Anima, Et Cetera/Wolfgang Dauner, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Embryo, Tangerine Dream, and many more, alongside the key producers (Plank, Dirks, Augustin, Kaiser) and records labels (Brain, Pilz, OHR, Kuckuck, etc.), and also a timeline of the period, this book quickly became a valuable resource. Profusely illustrated with with concert, studio and press photos, posters, record cover art and other rare visual material. Texts by Archie Patterson, Michel Faber, Erik Davis, David Stubbs, David Keenan, Ken Hollings, Brian Morton, Steve Krakow, Mark Pilkington, Gavin Russom, Stephen Thrower, and Ann Shenton make this is an essential compendium to a music whose spirit and ideas still vibrate through contemporary culture today. Quite a must, now rarely seen.
Edited by Nikolaos Kotsopoulos.
Very Good copy.
Chikashi Tanaka
Meherlation
1985, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. obi-strip), 210 pages, 28.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cultural Publishing / Japan
$160.00 - In stock -
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First edition of this truly amazing, rare and unsung Japanese photo-book by Chikashi Tanaka, Japanese hair designer to the stars, published in one edition in 1985. A gorgeous 10 year collection of monochrome photos taken by Tanaka throughout the 1970s and early 1980s of celebrities who were active in the period. "Although photography is clearly stated as a side interest, the photos taken by Tanaka, who was always close to the glamorous as a hair designer, intimately captures the real faces of the stars, which cannot be taken by a professional cameraman." Beautifully and candidly capturing the cool atmosphere of the period and the stars that illuminated it, back-stage, at the hotel, in the nightclub, in between, Tanaka intimately documents friends, the stars of the Japanese (and American, and European) screen and stage, leading actresses, singers, fashion models, fashion designers, actors, and others, including Kaori Momoi, Karen Graham, Brooke Shields, Masako Natsume, Ayumi Ishida, Inès de La Fressange, Ken Takakura, Juliette Gréco, Helmut Berger, Kiwako Taichi, Catherine Deneuve, Akiko Wada, Jerry Hall, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Moira Swan, Janice Dickinson, Seiko Matsuda, Princess Diana, Kimiko Kasai, Georges Moustaki, Mizue Takada, Hiromi Go, Ayako Wakao, Mikijirō Hira, Kaori Momoi, Yūsuke Suga, Hiromi Satō, Rumiko Koyanagi, Mao Daich, Mari Yoshimura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Jun Inoue, Beverly Johnson, Kimiko Ikegami, Nana Kinomi, Yoshiko Mita, and so many others. Really a beautiful collection to behold, with wonderful design and printing on warm, uncoated stock with a feel much like the early Comme des Garçons books.
Very Good copy with publisher's obi strip. Some light wear to covers and heavier wear, closed tears to uncommon obi.
Mark Borthwick
Are Plants People?
1999, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 11 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Purple Books / Paris Association Belle Haleine / Paris
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Wonderful first printing of this long out-of-print artist book by Mark Borthwick, published in 1999 by Association Belle Haleine and Purple Books in Paris. An intimate, pocket-sized volume that collects together a gorgeous selection of Mark Borthwick's personal and fashion photographs. Mark Borthwick is a British photographer, film-maker and musician now living in Brooklyn, New York. He is among the generation of photographers who in the '90s broke through the conventions of fashion photography, his distinct style being very light, intuitive and personal. He worked regularly shooting for Purple magazine, Vogue, and collaborated closely with Maison Martin Margiela in the 1990's. This book is in As New condition. Now very collectable.
Mark Borthwick
Synthetic Voices
1998, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. obi inserted), 210 pages, 21 x 27.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Synergy Inc. / Tokyo
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"Synthetic Voices", the great, long out-of-print photo-book of Mark Borthwick, published in Japan in 1998. The heart of 1990s fashion photography, "Synthetic Voices" was conceived more as an artists photo scrapbook and the most perfect collection of Mark's iconic work throughout the 1990's for Margiela, Purple, Self Service, Interview, Vogue Italia, etc., alongside his personal photography work, and texts. Chloë Sevigny, Hélène Fillières, Maison Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons, Paul McCarthy, Patti Smith, Kate Moss, Chloe Sevigny, Rita Ackerman, Kim Gordon, Sinead O'connor, and more, all here. An amazing photographer who captured and inspired an important period in (un)fashion photography with his playful and poetic, now iconic, images.
Designed by Mark Borthwock and Hideki Nakajima
Introduction by Jeff Rian and Olivier Zahm
Guest edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm (Purple prose)
Published by Synergy Inc., Tokyo.
Very Good copy. Includes obi.
PROVENCE AW 21/22 : The Poster Issue
Olamiju Fajemisin, Philip Pilekjær, Tobias Kaspar (Eds.)
2022, English
Softcover box folio + posters
Published by Provence / Nice
$48.00 - In stock -
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This limited edition of PROVENCE comes in the form of box folio filled with posters by contributing artists, galleries, historians, fashion designers, critics, enterprises, etc. including: Marc Asekhame, Brigade, Merlin Carpenter, CFGNY, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Rhea Dahl, Damien & The Love Guru, DAY6, Simon Denny, galeriepcp — Perks and Mini, Gessnerallee, Edgars Gluhovs, Samuel Haitz & Leda Bourgogne & Anne Fellner, Gloria Hasnay & Moritz NebenfuÌuehr, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Valeria Herklotz, Nina Hollensteiner & Albrecht Pischel, Karma International, Vera Kaspar, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Marie Karlberg, Milena Langer, Lulli 2020 — Jim C. Nedd — Nina Hollensteiner, Midway Contemporary Art, Olaf Nicolai, D'Ette Nogle, O-Town House, Walter Pfeiffer, Plymouth Rock, Sam Pulitzer, Ottolinger — Julien Ceccaldi, Marine Serre, Chen Shen featuring Gao Han, Wei Longwen & XYZ Lab, Kathrin Sonntag, suns.works, Swiss Art Awards, Una Szeemann, Galerie Tschudi, Hamish Fulton, Ilaria Vinci, Edition VFO, Nina Zimmer — Meret Oppenheim.
Snoopy and the Red Baron
by Charles M. Schulz
1967, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 68 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Holt Rinehart & Winston / Chicago
$30.00 - Out of stock
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1967 hardcover edition of Charles M. Schulz's classic, Snoopy and the Red Baron. This gorgeous book (one of the fine 1960s Holt hardcover editions) was the widespread introduction of what became a recurring storyline where Snoopy, beloved beagle of the 'Peanuts' comic strip, dons scarf, helmet and goggles, and boards his Sopwith Camel (a.k.a. his dog-house) to become Snoopy, fighter ace, in a life and death struggle with the Red Baron in World War I. The first comic strip featuring Snoopy fighting the Red Baron appeared jus a year earlier, on Sunday October 10, 1965.
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz, was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time.
Very Good copy in Good dust jacket preserved in mylar wrap.
Siouxsie and The Banshees Scrapbook 1976-1980
A History in Cuttings
1984, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Self-Published / UK
$120.00 - Out of stock
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Amazing and extremely rare Siouxsie and The Banshees Scrapbook 1976-1980, the incredible labour of love fanzine/scrapbook published anonymously in 1984 in the UK. No author and no publisher is credited to this wonderful book, but what you get is "120 pages of vital information" — practically everything there is to know about the first four years of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Includes the band history, discography, a list of all known bootlegs to date with cover artwork, gig and tape guide, rare photos of the band, interviews, press releases, advertisements, and endless press clippings from 1976 to 1980, including gig reviews, album reviews, interviews, articles, announcements... A work of DIY fanzine art, the pre-internet care and attention that has gone into this document makes for a perfect fan book. If only such a book existed for more groups of the period! Apparently a Volume 2 (1981-1984) was hoped to be published in September 1984... It seems this first volume was the only to ever see the light of day. A must for any Banshees fan!
Ex-library copy of the late Anthony (Matters) D'Ettorre of Australian punk bands Warpspasm, Magnacite, Death Sentence, the Rumjacks, Bastard Squad, Blackbreaks, Diggers With Attitude and more. Name to inner front cover.
Average-Good copy, with decent wear and old sticker marking to covers and spine. Internally good with tight binding.
L'Art Medical
by Romain Slocombe
1983, French
Softcover (w. plastic dust-jacket), 126 pages, 24 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Temps Futurs / France
$200.00 - In stock -
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First 1983 edition of the one-of-a-kind L'Art Medical, edited by French author, artist and core member of the "Bazooka" art collective and early Metal Hurlant magazine, Romain Slocombe. Published by Temps Futurs in France in 1983, this incredible book celebrates the phenomenon of "medical art", lavishly illustrated throughout with the incredible work of Slocombe, who brought us the provocative cult classic photobook, City of Broken Dolls. Anyone familiar with that book would know what to expect here. Photographs, paintings and illustrations, alongside Slocombe's study, with artworks throughout by fellow "Bazooka" art collective members, Kiki Picasso, Bernard Vidal, Natsuko, Yoshi Ichimura, Fred Chalmer, Loulou Picasso, plus Didier Eberoni, Kim Tchoun Kwang, Jena-Baptiste Mondino, Natsuko, Yoichi Nagata, Shigenari Onishi, and more. Full of paintings and photography of women in casts and slings, in hospitals and at accident scenes, medical erotica, body manipulation/mutilation, plus many visual historical references to violent fantasy, medical fetishism and bondage in film, illustration, erotic magazines, and other forms of popular culture from Japan and Europe. Nothing like it, and a long out-of-print collector's item.
Very Good copy still in original publisher's plastic dust jacket. Light wear and age.
Throw your books away, rally in the street!
Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
1967, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan
$190.00 - Out of stock
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Rare and iconic book, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1967) is a collaboration between legendary Japanese underground theater and film director Shuji Terayama, graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo and photographer/cinematographer Yasuhiro Yoshioka. As a precursor to Terayama's first audacious feature-length film of the same title, from 1971, this beautiful softcover book is filled with collages, photographs, graphics, drawings and texts (in Japanese), housed in an elaborate dust-jacket (with amazing Beatles homage lipstick collage on verso) typical of the bold and vibrant pop design style of Yokoo, reaffirms Terayama as a multi-talented avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, editor and photographer, and one of the central figures of the runaway movement in 1960s Japan. In the same year as this book was published, Terayama (in collaboration with Tadanori Yokoo and others) formed the Tenjo Sajiki, a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the prolific group was known for their stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. An amazing and rare early example of their published collaborative work.
Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.
Very Good copy with Good dust jacket. Light tanning and foxing, with a few small chips to dust jacket edges.
100 Posters of Tadanori Yokoo
1978, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. dust jacket, obi-strip, poster), 112 pages, 40.5 x 27.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo
$380.00 - Out of stock
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Stunning, very first 1978 Japanese edition of the wonderful over-sized collection of posters by legendary Japanese graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo. Published by Kodansha, only in Japan, this large, lavish volume is comprised entirely of beautiful full page reproductions of Yokoo's major poster works spanning his entire career to date (1978), in which his iconic photo-montage and print-making had a distinct psychedelic, erotic and esoteric spirit that captured international attention. A true avant-garde of the Japanese scene, this rich volume includes his famous works for the theatre company Tenjō Sajiki (w. director Shuji Terayama), exhibition and concert posters, and much more. Each work is accompanied by text by Koichi Tanigawa, and an introduction by world-renowned illustrator and graphic designer Milton Glaser, who had a close relationship with Yokoo.
Includes original publisher's obi-strip and the rarely preserved fold-out Yokoo poster! A Very Good and most complete copy of this first collectible edition. Highly recommended.
Tadanori Yokoo (横尾 忠則), born in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol" or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original, heavily reflecting Japan's cultural history and iconography. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organized by Mildred Constantine. Yokoo collaborated extensively with Shūji Terayama and his theater Tenjō Sajiki. He has also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. In 1968 Yukio Mishima claimed, "Tadanori Yokoo's works reveal all of the unbearable things which we Japanese have inside ourselves and they make people angry and frightened. He makes explosions with the frightening resemblance which lies between the vulgarity of billboards advertising variety shows during festivals at the shrine devoted to the war dead and the red containers of Coca Cola in American Pop Art, things which are in us but which we do not want to see."
The Fantastic Art of Beksinski
1929—2005
1998, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 72 pages, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Morpheus International / US
$290.00 - In stock -
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"Beksinski's powerfully unique paintings are such as I have never before seen" — H.R. Giger
Wonderful, scarce and collectible monograph capturing 30 years of the work of the great Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński, published by Galerie Morpheus in Las Vegas. First issued in 1998, this lavishly illustrated hardcover monograph reproduces Beksiński's surreal dystopian paintings spanning his entire career, alongside an introduction by James Cowen, texts by Tadeusz Nyczek, and great quotes and reflections throughout by Beksiński himself.
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929 – 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor. Beksiński had no formal training as an artist. Born in Sanok, he studied architecture in Kraków and worked as a construction site supervisor before turning to his passion for art, sculpting with construction site materials for his medium. His early photography would be a precursor to his paintings, often referred to as dystopian surrealism. Beksiński claimed, "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". Beksiński undertook painting with a passion, working intensely whilst listening to classical music and quickly becoming a leading figure in contemporary Polish art. In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his "fantastic period", which lasted up to the mid-1980s, during which he created his famed images of desolate, surrealistic landscapes with intricate depictions of anxious, abstracted figures and architecture in states of decay, mutation and decomposition. Although Beksiński's art was often dark, he himself was known to be a pleasant person with a keen sense of humour. Modest and somewhat shy, he avoided public events such as the openings of his own exhibitions and almost never visited museums or exhibitions in general. He always credited music as his main source of inspiration. Beksiński avoided concrete analysis of the content of his work, saying "I cannot conceive of a sensible statement on painting". Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005 by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money.
"In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh – whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish – thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust." — Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
Very Good in VG dust jacket.
Zdzisław Beksiński
1992, English
Hardcover, 144 pages, 24 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arkady / Warsaw
$600.00 - Out of stock
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Signed copy of the long out-of-print and collectible hardcover monograph on Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, published in 1992 by Arkady, Warsaw. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour reproductions of Beksiński's surreal dystopian paintings spanning his entire career, alongside an introductory text in Polish by Tadeusz Nyczek.
Already a scarce title on Beksiński, this copy is extra special with signature by the master himself in pen on first blank page after his ("Beksinski"). Rarely does a signed book appear by this artist.
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929 – 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor. Beksiński had no formal training as an artist. Born in Sanok, he studied architecture in Kraków and worked as a construction site supervisor before turning to his passion for art, sculpting with construction site materials for his medium. His early photography would be a precursor to his paintings, often referred to as dystopian surrealism. Beksiński claimed, "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". Beksiński undertook painting with a passion, working intensely whilst listening to classical music and quickly becoming a leading figure in contemporary Polish art. In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his "fantastic period", which lasted up to the mid-1980s, during which he created his famed images of desolate, surrealistic landscapes with intricate depictions of anxious, abstracted figures and architecture in states of decay, mutation and decomposition. Although Beksiński's art was often dark, he himself was known to be a pleasant person with a keen sense of humour. Modest and somewhat shy, he avoided public events such as the openings of his own exhibitions and almost never visited museums or exhibitions in general. He always credited music as his main source of inspiration. Beksiński avoided concrete analysis of the content of his work, saying "I cannot conceive of a sensible statement on painting". Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005 by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money.
According to Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro "In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh – whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish – thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust."
"Beksinski's powerfully unique paintings are such as I have never before seen" H.R. Giger
Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.
Marco Fusinato
DESASTRES
2022, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan
$85.00 - In stock -
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This major new catalogue is published to accompany Marco Fusinato's DESASTRES presentation at the Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, running from April 23 to November 27, 2022. DESASTRES is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. The artist will be performing during the opening hours of the Biennale—a total of 200 days. The presentation will be the first time the Australian Pavilion, located in the historic Giardini della Biennale, has been the site for a live durational performance.
Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinato's parents migrated to Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Fusinato (b. 1964) is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. DESASTRES is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass media images and art history. He uses an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images onto a freestanding floor-to-ceiling LED wall. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms. There is no theme as such, rather the immersion of sound and image is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. The intent is to create some kind of hallucination, elation in disorientation and exhaustion from confusion. The work is an invitation for audiences to come together within a high-intensity concentration of energy. What can't be seen, can be felt: sound as physical matter which creates a transformative experience.
This expansive publication features a new essay by Branden W. Joseph, professor of art history at Columbia University and an extensive interview by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor with Marco Fusinato. It also includes texts by critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli, AI researcher and author Kate Crawford, writer and curator Chus Martínez, and musicians/outre-guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Stephen O'Malley (SUNN O)))) and Bruce Russell (Dead C).
Marco Fusinato (b. 1964) is an Australian contemporary artist and noise-musician based in Naarm/Melbourne whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording.
As an artist, he conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, some of which continue across numerous iterations. Within these projects the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation, as if demonstrating a thesis. Working across disciplines and cultural fields, Fusinato explores the tensions and contradictions of opposing forces: underground culture/institutions, noise/silence, minimalism/maximalism, purity/contamination. He creates dynamic situations in which these energies are captured by combining allegorical appropriation with an interest in the intensity of a gesture or event.
Fusinato's work has been presented in many international exhibitions, including All the World's Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015); The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (2012); SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); and Australia: Antipodean Stories, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2019). His work was also included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013) and Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (2008–10), a European travelling exhibition of artists who have collaborated with the New York rock band, Sonic Youth.
H. R. Giger
N.Y. CITY
1981, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 40 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Charles E. Tuttle / Tokyo
$160.00 - Out of stock
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Scarce first Japanese edition (entirely in English language), published in Tokyo by Charles Tuttle, of this beautifully produced over-sized 1981 book by H. R. Giger. Foreword by Timothy Leary.
In 1981, a year after being awarded the Oscar for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for Alien, the book H.R. GIGER N.Y. CITY was published. This series of post Alien works, the result of an intense period of non-stop painting, literally day and night, were inspired by Giger's trip to New York City and a template which his colleague Cornelius de Fries, brought back from one of his excursions into the electronic industry. The stencil was actually a sheet of scrap metal from which electrical components had been punched out. Alongside these incredible works are drawings, articles, press clippings, posters and polaroids from Giger's time in New York City.
Fantastic Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger was born in 1940, the son of a chemist. He spoke of a father who viewed art as a "breadless profession", and strongly encouraged his son to enter into pharmaceutics. Despite this, in 1962, he moved to Zürich, where he studied Architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970. Giger's style and thematic execution have been hugely influential. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly Necronomicon and Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in Omni magazine continued his rise to international prominence. Giger is also well known for artwork on several music recording albums. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, he described as "biomechanical". His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery. His main influences were painters Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dalí. He was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger suffered from night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder, making his first paintings as a means of art therapy. In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.
Good copy, tight binding with some corner cover wear, tanning to page edges and foxing to preliminary pages.
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