Poster printed on pink paper stock announcing the festival in Paris organized by Jean-Jacques Lebel, with a series of performance art, happenings, and other events taking place from May 17 through May 25, 1965, featuring contributions from important Fluxus figures such as Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Charlotte..... More
Collection of approximately 270 total pieces of mostly hand-drawn ink and/or pencil tattoo flash designs on tracing paper, some hand-colored as well, with some carbon transfers, compiled and most likely drawn by an artist named Patrick Ford from the Ozarks region of Missouri. Some wrinkling or folding to many pieces..... More
Double-sided poster/catalog from the first major exhibition of abstract art in Italy, held in Rome at the Galleria Roma from March through April 1948, containing a sort of manifesto about abstract art, a statement on the exhibition from Ettore Sottsass Jr., additional texts from Piet Mondrian, George Morris, G. Formaggio..... More
1968. A complete run in 5 issues of the short-lived Antwerp-based serial under the editorial direction of Werner Spillemaeckers, devoted to the dissemination of avant-garde art and literature and 1960's culture, with poems, prose, reviews, essays, and analysis by numerous progressive cultural figures. Illustrated throughout after photographs and artworks by..... More
Unpaginated (23 pp.) catalogue for the group exhibition held at Artists Space from January 7 through 22, 1977, with an auction on January 22, directed by Helene Winer, coordinated by Patrick O'Connell, and auctioneered by David Reddon, with more than 60 artists participating including John Ahearn, Diane Bertolo, Charles Clough..... More
Unpaginated (26 leaves, some printed recto only, some printed recto and verso) catalogue printed on the occasion of the Festival of East-West Music organized by Fabio Sargentini at L'Attico in Rome, held June 3 through June 17, 1974, the catalogue consisting of black and white photographs of each of the..... More
Zagreb, 1966. (59.5 × 42 cm). Single leaf folded five times horizontally and once along the vertical axis. With numerous small reproductions. In English and Croatian. Very good. An exhibition poster for the SC (Student Center) Gallery in Zagreb in 1966, illustrated with the work of seventeen Yugoslav artists including..... More
Incomplete collection of the third series of the Canadian concrete poetry publication edited by bpNichol, David UU, and Bill Bissett, comprised of three-page typed and stapled introduction on yellow, blue, and pink paper stock listing contents, news items, letters, and announcements of other publications and productions, a small pamphlet "Gerry..... More
Double-sided poster containing: the program of the festival, taking place through May, June, and July of 1965; lists of participants which included Mario Bucci, Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Emilio Isgrò, Lucia Marcucci, Lamberto Pignotti, Aldo Rossi, Adriano Spatola, Luigi Tola, Antonio Bueno, Silvio Loffredo, Elio Marchegiani, Luciano Ori, Dick Higgins..... More
Paris: Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, 1952. 22 x 17.5 cm. Original cardstock wrappers, light green front cover and black-and-white illustrated rear cover featuring a drawing by Gabriel Pomerand. 286 pp., scattered illustrations showing images from photographs. Some creasing to front cover, light browning and dust-staining to wrappers, minor wear along spine, slight..... More
Warsaw: Remont Gallery, [1976]. 8vo. (20.3 x 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled thick paper wrappers. 8 pp.; some extremely light soiling and browning, very light wear along spine, overall good condition. A slim exhibition catalog from the Remont Gallery, the contemporary art gallery in Warsaw established and run by photographer Henryk..... More
A complete run in 18 issues, ca. 5-18 mimeographed leaves each, of the serial edited by Lemaître, containing Lemaître's experimental alphabets, concrete poetry, opinions, correspondence with other members of the Letteriste movement, including Gabriel Pommerand, Jacques Spacagna, Alain Satie, Isidore Isou, and others, commentaries concerning Lettrist manifestos, bulletins, artistic contributions..... More
A complete run in 2 issues (12 and 8 pp., respectively) of the short-lived Lettrist journal conceived of by a group of young students consisting of Thierry Paul-Lévy, Paulette Liétard, Patrick Brault, Guy Chastel, and Jean-Charles Depaule, and published with the help of the Lettrists, directed by Jacques Spacagna with..... More
Ostrava: Český fond výtvarných umění v Ostravě, 1965. Octavo (20.3 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [20] pp. Twelve reproductions. Very good; a few underlined words on p. 18. Scarce catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in May 1965. With an introductory..... More
Unpaginated (40 pp.) collaborative volume from the two legendary Munich artist groups, Spur and Wir, with brief manifesto from the group comprised of 12 statements, the rest of the volume consisting almost entirely of illustrations in the form of 25 linocuts (9 in color), by a range of artists including..... More
Paris: Altagor, circa 1940s-1970s. Various sizes, most ca. 10.5 x 14 cm or 21 x 13.5 cm. Loose as issued, on varying paper stocks. Very light toning and scattered foxing; overall about very good. André Vernier, known as "Altagor" (1915–1992), was an artist, sound poet, painter, musician, composer, and musical..... More
![Book ID: 51239 Poster: “Abbildung der Wirklichkeit” [The depiction of reality]....](/pictures/thumb/51239_2.jpg?v=1614718669)
[Germany, 1972]. Original silk-screened poster, partially painted, measuring 86 × 61 cm. Trace of glue to corners, else about very good. Satirical political poster issued to coincide with the documenta 5, held in 1972 in Kassel. The contemporary art fair's theme during the 1972 iteration revolved around the concepts of..... More
Unpaginated photobook dedicated "allen noch lebenden Widerstandskämpfern des Dritten Reiches", comprised of approximately 29 black-and-white images from the funeral of three members of the RAF, each accompanied by a short explanatory text on the opposite page, with some pages of just text taken from contemporary newspaper reports, the images depicting..... More
![Book ID: P004198 Teorie textů [Theory of texts]. Edice Odeon. Bohumila...](/pictures/thumb/P004198_1.jpg?v=1665521601)
Prague: Odeon, 1967. Square octavo (17.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrapper over printed paper wraps; pictorial end-papers; 133, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Bense’s structuralist approach to texts, which became one of the first theoretical works of concrete poetry. The text was edited and expanded for..... More
Leather suitcase containing 12 signed and numbered original artworks by leading members of the "New Realist" or "Nouveau Réalisme" movement, comprising 10 prints, 1 sculpture, and 1 two-piece Plexiglas work, with accompanying introductory fascicule featuring text in French, German, English, and Italian signed by editor Attilio Codognato, each of the..... More
![Book ID: 52144 New Reform Nieuws [New Reform News]. Nr. 34. Roger D`Hondt](/pictures/thumb/52144_1.jpeg?v=1658256011)
Aalst: [self-published], 1978. Three leaves bound with a single staple to upper left corner, mimeographed in black, blue and red ink to rectos and versos, measuring 35 × 24 cm. Light soil and creasing to front page; a horizontal crease from folding. Else about very good. A monthly bulletin in..... More
Prague: SČSVU, [1966]. Octavo. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [8] pp. Numerous reproductions of Ovčáček’s work, including concrete poetry, on the wrappers and throughout. Very good. Scarce catalog of an exhibition held in Prague in early 1966, apparently the first solo exhibition of Ovčáček’s work. Born 1933, Ovčáček was one of..... More
Ostrava, 1980. Small quarto (24 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [29] pp. Printed on coated stock, with forty reproductions, some full-page. Very good. Scarce provincial catalog of an exhibition of Ovčáček’s visual works, including graphic art, painting, and sculpture, structured around letters and words. Held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia..... More
Unpaginated artist's book from the poet and painter associated with the British Poetry Revival and Fluxshoe, the UK offshoot of Fluxus, containing an abstract mix of poetry, notes on printing methods, lists, graphs, illustrations, diagrams, and collage, primarily mimeographed in red and blue ink and blue and white paper stock..... More
![Book ID: P4607 Várovní znamení [Warngedichte; Warning signs]. Erich Fried, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P4607_1.jpg?v=1591722733)
Prague: Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1969. Slim octavo (24 × 10 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers designed by Milan Grygar, over blind wrappers; 78, [1] pp. Light wear and toning to edges of dust-wrappers, else about very good. First editon of these translations into Czech by Jiří Gruša of poems by Erich Fried..... More