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A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

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New Observations : Erotics of Doubt
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.4 cm.
  • 23 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : Erotics of Doubt

No. 74 (February 15 - March 31, 1990)

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, John Johnston, Susan A. Davis, Felix Guattari, Norman Bryson, Amelia Jones, Amy Gerstler, John Welchman, Mary Boochever

Issue number 74 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and John Johnston. Contents include: "Body Count," by Susan A. Davis; "Introduction," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and John Johnston; "The Refrain of Being and Meaning: Analysis of a Dream About A. ... [details]

$75.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light rubbing and yellowing soiling of covers. 3 cm. gentle dog-ear to bottom right corner of table of contents with light 1.5 cm. area of yellow soiling. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39840]
New Observations : The Fairytale : Politics, Desire and Everyday Life
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 28 x 21.6 cm.
  • 27 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : The Fairytale : Politics, Desire and Everyday Life

No. 45 (1987)

Curt Belshe, Ana Busto, Sarah Drury, Hilary Kliros, Lise Prown, Steven Schiff, Jack Zipes, Didi Heller, Fredric Jameson, Martin Winn, Vito Acconci, Jean Fisher, Andrea Frazer, Betsy Hearne

Issue number 45 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Curt Belshe, Ana Busto, Sarah Drury, Hilary Kliros, Lise Prown, and Steven Schiff. Contents include: "Introduction," by the guest editors; "Fairytale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale," by Jack Zipes; "The Perfect Crime: Oscar Wilde's 'The Happy Prince,'" by Didi Heller; "A Possible Model For Fairy Tales," by Vito Acconci; "Four Ways of Looking at a Fairy Tale," by Fredric Jameson; "Rumpelstiltskin is My Name," by Martin Winn; "Coyote Comes Laughing," by Jean Fisher; "Fairy Tales," by Andrea Fraser; and "'Beauty and the Beast;'" The Survival Story," by Betsy Hearne. [details]

$75.00
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39565]
$65.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Sunning of covers with light yellow soiling including a 6 mm. area on the verso. Additional rubbing and dusting of covers. 8.7 cm. dog-ear to page 28, contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38585]
New Observations : Art & Amusement
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.4 cm.
  • 23 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : Art & Amusement

No. 57 (May 1988)

Alan Moore, Philomena Marano, George Melrod, Laura Zelaznick, Tom Finkelpearl, Steve Barry, Richard Eagan, Amy Slaton, Edwin Schlossberg, Don Snyder

Issue number 57 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Alan Moore. Contents include: "Introduction," by Alan Moore; "Technology as Theme Park: A Nutshell History of the World's Fairs," by George Melrod; "Art in America," by Laura Zelaznick; "Amusement Resistance," by Tom Finkelpearl; "Alive on the Inside: Report from Coney Island," by Richard Eagan; "Shots in the Dark," by Amy Slaton; "United States of America," by Edwin Schlossberg; and "Inferno: Coney Island," by Don Snyder. ... [details]

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New Observations : International Style
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.4 cm.
  • 23 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : International Style

No. 55 (March 1988)

Brian Boigon, Vikky Alexander, Gertrude Stein, Eddy Rifter, Collins & Milazzo, Gordon Lebredt, Donald McKay, David Clarkson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexander Pilis

Issue number 55 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Brian Boigon. Contents include: "Victoria Spacing," by Brian Boigon; "R.M. Schindler Prefabrication Vocabulary: The Panel-Post Construction," by Vikky Alexander; "Composition as Explanation," by Gertrude Stein; "Pick Up Your Corners," by Eddy Rifter; "Chinatown International," by Collins & Milazzo; "Beinahe Nichts (Almost Nothing)," by Gordon Lebredt; "Domesticated Transients," by Donald McKay; "On Indivisibility (In the Domain of the Digital Deluxe)," by David Clarkson; and "Thus Spake Zarathrustra (Excerpt)," by Friedrich Nietzche. ... [details]

$20.00
Condition:  Very Good. Sunning and rubbing of covers with gentlecurl to bottom right corner of periodical. Contents clean and unmarked. Includes a two page subscription form inserted.
[Object # 36391]
New Observations : Escriture, The French Mind
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.4 cm.
  • 23 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : Escriture, The French Mind

No. 54 (January / February 1988)

Serge Gavronsky, Julia Kristeva, Anne-Marie Albiach, Ludovic Janvier, Marcelin Pleynet, Emmanuel Hocquard, Leslie Kaplan, Jacques Roubaud

Issue number 54 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Serge Gavronsky. Contents include: "Once Again," by Serge Gavronsky; "Interview with Julia Kristeva," by Serge Gavronsky; "Work Vertical and White," by Anne-Marie Albiach; "Go, Monster," by Ludovic Janvier;" "Poems," by Marcelin Pleynet; "Alley of Pepper Plants in California," by Emmanuel Hocquard; "The Brooklyn Bridge," by Leslie Kaplan; and "Interview with Jacques Roubaud," by Serge Gavronsky. ... [details]

$20.00
Condition:  Good. Sunning and rubbing of covers with curl to bottom right corner of periodical. On the last page an advertisement measuring 13.9 x 10.4 cm. has been cut out. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 36390]
New Observations : Radical Consumption and The New Poverty, A Discourse on Irony and Superfluity
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27.8 x 21.5 cm.
  • 23 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : Radical Consumption and The New Poverty, A Discourse on Irony and Superfluity

No. 51 (October 1987)

Collins & Milazzo, Ross Bleckner, Saint Clair Cemin, Philip Taaffe, Abraham David Christian, James Welling, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Allan McCollum, Annette Lemieux, Sarah Charlesworth, Gretchen Bender, Jonathan Lasker, David Diao, Salvatore Scarpitta, Not Vital, Meg Webster, Peter Nagy, Suzan Etkin, Peter Halley, Joel Otterson, John Dogg, Ti Shan Hsu, Joel Fisher

Issue number 51 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited and with text by Collins & Milazzo. Artists include Ross Bleckner, Saint Clair Cemin, Philip Taaffe, Abraham David Christian, James Welling, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Allan McCollum, Annette Lemieux, Sarah Charlesworth, Gretchen Bender, Jonathan Lasker, David Diao, Salvatore Scarpitta, Not Vital, Meg Webster, Peter Nagy, Suzan Etkin, Peter Halley, Joel Otterson, John Dogg, Ti Shan Hsu, and Joel Fisher. [details]

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New Observations : The First Energist Book
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.3 x 22 cm.
  • unpaginated
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : The First Energist Book

No. 9, March 1983

Ronny Cohen, Peggy Cyphers, Nancy Arlen, Tom Butter, Arthur Cohen, David Ebony, Cynthia Gallagher, Gerrit Henry, Deborah Kass, Kathryn Kennedy, Lucio Pozzi, Barbara Quinn, Randal Rupert, Takao Saito, Judith Shea, Leora Stewart, Robin Tewes, Gwenn Thomas, Kathleen Thomas, Peter Zabielskis, Christina Zounek

Issue number 9 of periodical edited by Ronny Cohen and Peggy Cyphers. Contributions by Ronny Cohen, Peggy Cyphers, Nancy Arlen, Tom Butter, Arthur Cohen, David Ebony, Cynthia Gallagher, Gerrit Henry, Deborah Kass, Kathryn Kennedy, Lucio Pozzi, Barbara Quinn, Randal Rupert, Takao Saito, Judith Shea, Leora Stewart, Robin Tewes, Gwenn Thomas, Kathleen Thomas, Peter Zabielskis, and Christina Zounek. ... [details]

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  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • duotone
  • 27.5 x 21 cm.
  • 32 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

New Observations

No. 96 (July / August 1993)

Mike Topp

Periodical with Mike Topp as guest editor. Contributions by David Humphrey, Joe Brainard, Sue Williams, Erik Satie, Jean Michael Basquiat, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, William Wegman, Paul Violi, Jessica Diamond, Giorgio De Chirico, Raymond Pettibon, Gregory Crewdson, Hal Sirowitz, Curtis Mitchell, Raymonde Linossier, Dominique Dibbell, David Lynch, Richard Prince, Amy Yamada, Sherrie Levine. [details]

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New Observations : A Memory Palace
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27.3 x 21.1 cm.
  • 35 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : A Memory Palace

No. 121 (Spring 1999)

Charlie Citron, Sylvia de Swaan, Bernhard Geyer, Susanne Greven, Daniel Dewaele, Odili Donald Odita, Ann Rosén, Jennie C. Jones, Sandi Slone, David Lillington, Siobhan Davies, Leo, Douglas Allsop, Susanna Harwood Rubin, Caro Bensca, Stefan Bohnenberger, Stephen Berg, Anna Best, Martin Zet, Keiko Sei, David Mills, Jårg Geismar, Milos Vojtêchovsky, Otis Laubert, Thomas Pospiszyl, Filip Turek, Eran Gratvol, Peter Lelliott, Sharif Waked, Naomi Aviv, Tzibi Geva, Judith Fleishman, M.S. Umesh, Edgar Harris, Peter Haffenden, Albertine Viegas, Monitien Boonma, Richard Thomas, Franklin Sirmans, Lorraine O'Grady, Paul Tabak, Binghui Hangfu, Wang Zhiyuan, Toshihiro Yashiro, Denise Carvalho, Miguel Rio Branco, Theo Schepens

Issue number 121 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Charlie Citron. Essays "A Global House: From Place to Place," by Charlie Citron; "Star Studded Strangler," by Bernhard Geyer; "You Don't Know Me," by Susanne Greven; "I am You Poster Project," by Daniel Dewaele; "Vogue," by Odili Donald Odita; "News Memory," by Ann Rosén; "Insert Breath," by Jennie C. ... [details]

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New Observations : Art in the Folds
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27.3 x 21.1 cm.
  • 32 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and numbered

New Observations : Art in the Folds

No. 110 (January/February 1996)

Elena Berriolo, Roland Flexner, Josefina Ayerza, James Welling, Dominique Nahas, Oliver Herring, James Nares, Polly Apfelbaum, John Coplans, Gregory Volk, Igor Kopystiansky, Dorothea Rockburne, Saul Ostrow, Nancy Rubins, Sarah Charlesworth, Todd Ayoung, Faye Hirsch, Peter Halley, David Reed, George Sugarman, Terry Winters, David Ward

Issue number 110 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Elena Berriolo and Roland Flexner. Essays "Introduction," by Elena Berriolo and Roland Flexner; "So She Unfolds. ... [details]

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