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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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The Museum as Muse
  • reference book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28 x 23.5 cm.
  • 296 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 087070091X

The Museum as Muse

[Hardback Edition]

Kynaston McShine, Lilian Tone, Birgit Pelzer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stewart, Magdalena Dabrowski, Ecke Bonk, Jodi Hauptman, Kristen Erickson, Coosje van Bruggen, James Trainor, Thomas McEvilley, Sally Yard, Thomas Kellein, James Roberts, Kitty Scott, Kate Linker, Dave Hickey, Vito Acconci, Eve Arnold, Art & Language, Michael Asher, Lothar Baumgarten, Barbara Bloom, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Jan Dibbets, Lutz Dille, Mark Dion, Herbert Distel, Marcel Duchamp, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Elliot Erwitt, Roger Fenton, Robert Filliou, Larry Fink, Fluxus, Gunther Forg, Andrea Fraser, General Idea, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Candida Höfer, Komar and Melamid, Louise Lawler, J.B. Gustave Le Gray, Jac Leirner, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Allan McCollum, Christian Milovanoff, Vik Muniz, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Wilson Peale, Hubert Robert, Edward Ruscha, David Seymour, Robert Smithson, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Charles Thurston, Thompson, Jeff Wall, Christopher Williams, Fred Wilson, Garry Winogrand

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 14-June 1, 1999. Exhibition curated by, edited by, and with an essay by Kynaston McShine. Texts by artists and Lilian Tone, Birgit Pelzer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stewart, Magdalena Dabrowski, Ecke Bonk, Jodi Hauptman, Kristen Erickson, Coosje van Bruggen, James Trainor, Thomas McEvilley, Sally Yard, Thomas Kellein, James Roberts, Kitty Scott, Kate Linker, Dave Hickey. ... [details]

$95.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light wear to dust-jacket including a 6 mm. tear to spine edge and bumping of upper edge of recto. Light yellowing of page edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 30833]
Eight People from Europe
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white & color
  • 8 vol. : 24.5 x 18.9 cm. (vols. 1-8) ; 25.6 x 19.2 cm. (box)
  • 8 vol. : vols. 1 - 6 and vols. 7 - 8: 31 pp.( each); vol. 6: 33 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Eight People from Europe

Marlene Dumas, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Douglas Gordon, Sigmar Polke, Niele Toroni, Franz West, Kimio Nakayama, Kasper König, Laszlo Glozer, Lynne Cooke, Neal Benezra, Boris Groys, Valeria Liebermann, Julian Heynen, Stéphanie Moisdon, Nancy Spector, Anne Erfle, Bernard Marcadé

Catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma's contemporary art wing. Eight volume boxed exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held April - June, 1998. Curated by Kasper König. ... [details]

$450.00
Condition:  Very Good. Box is slightly crushed with bumping and tearing at corners and creasing along spine with 5 mm. tear to recto. Glued in cover image has 5 mm. tear and creasing. Volumes have bumping to top and bottom right corners of the volumes. Contents clean and unmarked. 10.7 cm. dog-ear to list of corrigenda. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 36638]
Days Off : A Calendar of Happenings
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27 x 6 x 6 cm. [rolled] ; 38.2 x 27.2 cm. (unrolled)
  • [63] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Days Off : A Calendar of Happenings

Allan Kaprow

Calendar style folio publication documenting Kaprow's Happenings "Round Trip," "Runner," "Transfer (For Christo)," "Pose," "Record II (For Roger Shattuck," "Shape," "Population," "Course," Travelog," "Fluids," and "Moving. ... [details]

$500.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Copy in extremely good condition with newsprint still fresh and not brittle. 4 mm. tear to left side edge of verso carrying through to last 7 pages ranging in size from 2 mm. - 4 mm. 2 mm. tear to bottom left edge of verso. Light yellowing of pages and curl to calendar from original distribution (originally issued rolled in plastic shrink-wrap). Otherwise Fine, clean and unmarked. Will shipped rolled as issued unless purchaser requests flat shipping for additional charge.
[Object # 38530]
$450.00
Condition:  Fair / Good. 12.2 cm. stain to bottom edge of recto. 6 cm. of loss to top left corner, 1.5 cm. tear to left side edge, 7 mm. tear to three hole punch, 4 mm. tear to additional hole edges. 1 cm. and 1.5 cm. tears to recto that carry through to over half of the pages. Additional tears to pages ranging from 7 mm. to 4 cm. Wear to verso includes 4.4 cm. fold with 2.5 cm. tear to top edge; 1 mm., 1mm., 1 cm., 3 mm. tears to verso edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Will be shipped rolled, as issued.
[Object # 38529]
MoMA PS1 : A History
  • reference book
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27.5 x 23.5 cm.
  • 304 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781633450691

MoMA PS1 : A History

Klaus Biesenbach, Bettina Funcke, Jonathan Lill, Alanna Heiss, Linda Blumberg, John Comfort, Martha Wilson, Richard Nonas, Jane Highstein, Philip Glass, Simone Forti, Tina GIrouard, Hannah Wilke, Nancy Holt, Marcia Hafif, Charlemagne Palestine, Carol Parker, Les Levine, Patrick Ireland, Sol LeWitt, Rudy Burckhardt, James Turrell, Jeff Weinstein, Chris Dercon, R.H. Quaytman, Tom Finkelpearl, Barbara Kruger, Oliver Shultz, Frederick Fisher, Antoine (Tony) Guerrero, Warren Niesluchowski, Larissa Harris, Marina Abramovic, Carl Andre, Lucio Pozzi, Janet Cardiff, Glenn D. Lowry, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Philip Aarons, Peter Eleey, Lawrence Weiner, Kevin Beasley, Huma Bhabha, Sarah Arison, Andrea Zittel, Cao Fei, Carolee Schneemann

"The first-ever history of New York's pioneering art space, with film stills, ephemera, and photography in a scrapbook style...Organized into four main sections that delve into the former school's rich history as an art center during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s up to the present, the book features in-depth conversations between Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach, the director of MoMA PS1 from 2010 to 2018, and more than 40 recollections by artists, curators and critics closely associated with the institution—including Marina Abramovic, James Turrell, agnès b, Rebecca Quaytman, Carolee Schneemann and Andrea Zittel. ... [details]

$45.65
Condition:  New
$35.98
Condition:  Used
Invitation to the Members Preview of Information
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • duotone
  • 10.8 x 18.7 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Invitation to the Members Preview of Information

Kynaston McShine

Two sided postcard / invitation published in conjunction with the members preview of "Information" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 1, 1970. "Information" was curated by Kynaston McShine and was on view to the public July 2 - September 20, 1970. [details]

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Invitation to a Cocktail Party and Special Preview of Information
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white & color
  • 13.6 x 10.4 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Invitation to a Cocktail Party and Special Preview of Information

Kynaston McShine

Single sided card / invitation published in conjunction with a cocktail party and special preview of the exhibition "Information" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 30, 1970. "Information" was curated by Kynaston McShine and was on view to the public July 2 - September 20, 1970. [details]

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Robert Ryman
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 30.3 x 23.8 cm.
  • 236 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1854371142

Robert Ryman

[Paperback Edition]

Robert Ryman, Robert Storr, Catherine Kinley, Lynn Zelevansky, Linda Norden

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Tate Gallery, London, February 17 - April 25, 1993. Traveled to: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, May 25 - August 16, 1993; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 22, 1993 - January 4, 1994; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, February 3 - April 17, 1994; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, July 23 - October 2, 1994. ... [details]

London / NY, United Kingdom / NY: Tate Gallery / The Museum of Modern Art,
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$175.00
Condition:  Very Good. Very light cover wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges may be required for this title.
[Object # 37072]
Love Forever : Yayoi Kusama, 1958 - 1968
  • ephemera
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 21.3 x 10.9 cm. (folded) ; 63.5 x 43 cm. (unfolded)
  • [6] pp. (folded) ; [2] pp. (unfolded)
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Love Forever : Yayoi Kusama, 1958 - 1968

[Exhibition Brochure]

Yayoi Kusama, Laura Hoptman

Folded poster / brochure published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 9 - September 22, 1998. Text by Laura Hoptman. Traveled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 8 - June 8, 1998. ... [details]

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Set of Nine Picasso and One Miro Postcards from The Museum of Modern Art
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 10 vol. : 13.9 x 8.9 cm.(each)
  • 10 vol. : [2] pp.(each)
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Set of Nine Picasso and One Miro Postcards from The Museum of Modern Art

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro

Set of ten black-and-white postcards [one Miro and nine Picasso] produced by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, circa 1943-1950s. Includes Picasso's "Study for 'Guernica': Horse's Head," 1937; "The End of a Monster," 1937; "Three Dancers Resting," 1925; "Seated Woman," 1938; "Four Ballet Dancers," 1925; "Study (Detail)," 1923; "Woman in an Armchair," 1938; "The Pipes of Pan," 1923; "Two Figures on the Beach," 1933; and Miro's "Statue," 1926. [details]

$300.00
Condition:  Very Good. Postcards are unmailed, clean and unmarked with very light wear to corners. Three of the Picasso postcards have additional light edge wear, including one with a slightly split corner.
[Object # 36534]
Press Release : American Sculpture Exhibition For U.S. Pavilion at N.Y. World's Fair
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 28 x 21.7 cm.
  • 6 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Press Release : American Sculpture Exhibition For U.S. Pavilion at N.Y. World's Fair

John Anderson, Leonard Baskin, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Herbert Ferber, Joseph Goto, Dimitri Hadzi, Raoul Hague, Edward Higgins, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Jacques Lipschitz, Seymour Lipton, Reuben Nakian, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Toshio Odate, Richard Stankiewicz, George Sugarman, Campbell Wylly

Press release published April 12, [1964], issued by United States Commission to the New York World's Fair and The Museum of Modern Art, announcing an American sculpture exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. ... [details]

$200.00
Condition:  Very Good. Folded in three. Light bumping of corners and edges. 5 mm. tear to recto. 5 mm. stain, 1 mm. and 2 mm. tears to verso page edge. contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 36327]
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