• current project

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.

image from A Popular Western Story
  • recent objects
THE SOCIETY ARCHITECT PONDERS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE / ODER: WIE SIE KRIEGEN WAS SIE NICHT VERDIENEN
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
  • 88 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883754455

THE SOCIETY ARCHITECT PONDERS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE / ODER: WIE SIE KRIEGEN WAS SIE NICHT VERDIENEN

Lawrence Weiner, Peter Gordon, Gerd de Vries

Catalogue published on the occasion of the performance of the opera "THE SOCIETY ARCHITECT PONDERS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE / ODER: WIE SIE KRIEGEN WAS SIE NICHT VERDIENEN," by Lawrence Weiner and Peter Gordon, held at National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, September 8-10, 2000; and Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundes Republik Deutschland, Bonn, November 8 & 11-13, 2000. ... [details]

$85.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Rubbing of cover edges, and scuffing of covers, otherwise Fine. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 6616]
Why I Got Into Art (Vaseline Muses)
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.9 x 13.6 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883751510

Why I Got Into Art (Vaseline Muses)

Mike Kelley, Diedrich Diederichsen

Artist's book by "Anonymous," aka : Mike Kelley, detailing why he got into art -- naked women. Essay by Diedrich Diederichsen. Contains 22 photographs, in black-and-white, manipulated to have soft-core porn qualities of Yoko Ono, Lynda Benglis, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann and other women engaged in nude dance performances, guerrilla actions, happenings, avant-garde theatre, actions, performances, gallery advertisements, body art, gesture art, etc. ... [details]

$400.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light edge-wear including slight curling of cover edges. Light soiling of text block edge, contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 36696]
Mike Kelley : 99.9998% Remaining
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • other special feature[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 21.5 cm.
  • 94 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9783863352318

Mike Kelley : 99.9998% Remaining

Mike Kelley, Harald Falckenberg

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of Mike Kelley presented as a tribute exhibition in collaboration with the LUMA Foundation at The 19th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Long Island, NY, held July 28 - September 16, 2012. ... [details]

$250.00
Condition:  Fine. As issued.
[Object # 38803]
George Brecht : Notebooks I, II, III
  • artists' book
  • pictorial boards
  • offset-printed
  • spiral bound
  • slipcase
  • duotone
  • 29.5 x 22.5 cm.
  • 3 vol. : [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883751448

George Brecht : Notebooks I, II, III

[Three Volume Set]

George Brecht, Dieter Daniels, Hermann Braun, Kasper König

Three volume annotated facsimiles of George Brecht's Champion Note Books kept from June - September 1958 (Notebook I); October 1958 - April 1959 (Notebook II); April 1959 - August 1959 (Notebook III), when he attended John Cage's class held at The New School for Social Research. ... [details]

$250.00
Condition:  Fine. All volumes are clean and unmarked. Lacks paperboard slipcase.
[Object # 39060]
Ísland / To Place : Pooling Waters
  • artists' book
  • cloth boards issued without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26.5 x 21 cm.
  • 2 vol. : 1 vol. [unpaginated] ; 1 vol. 172 pp.
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883751871

Ísland / To Place : Pooling Waters

[Two Volumes]

Roni Horn

Two volume set of books representing the fourth volume in Roni Horn's series To Place. Volume I of "Pooling Waters" includes black-and-white and color photographs taken in Iceland between 1990 and 1993; Volume II includes texts by Roni Horn, in English and Icelandic. [details]

$400.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light scuffing of covers and cover edges, otherwise Fine. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 38829]
Donald Judd : Early Work 1955 - 1968
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 17.5 cm.
  • 160 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781891024511

Donald Judd : Early Work 1955 - 1968

[First Edition]

Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Kunsthalle Bielefield, Germany, May 5 - July 21, 2002. Traveled to the Menil Collection, Houston, January 31, 2002 - April 27, 2003. ... [details]

$125.00
Condition:  Fine. In publisher's issued shrink wrap, clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 38244]
Donald Judd : Early Work 1955 - 1968
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24 x 17 cm.
  • 160 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Donald Judd : Early Work 1955 - 1968

Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Kunsthalle Bielefield, Germany, May 5 - July 21, 2002. Traveled to the Menil Collection, Houston, January 31, 2002 - April 27, 2003. ... [details]

$75.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light rubbing of cover edges, four 1 mm. black marks on recto, bumping of top right corner of recto, and bumping of top edge of verso. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 38365]
Baldessari : While Something is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There : Works 1988 - 1999
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 24 cm.
  • 123 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883753963

Baldessari : While Something is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There : Works 1988 - 1999

John Baldessari, Thomas Weski, Dave Hickey, Meg Cranston, Diedrich Diederichsen

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany, September 26, 1999 - January 2, 2000. Traveled to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany, January 16 - April 2, 2000. ... [details]

$85.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Rubbing of covers with light dust soiling and 5 cm. and 1 cm. area of indentation to recto. Scratching of verso and 3 mm. of soiling to verso and rubbing of corners. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges may be required for international orders.
[Object # 36304]
Second House
  • artists' book
  • pictorial boards
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 19.3 cm.
  • [224] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • ISBN 3883759570

Second House

Richard Prince

Artist's book by Richard Prince published in conjunction with show held at Gladstone Gallery, New York, April 30 - June 18, 2005. Composed of photographs by Prince. "Prince's upstate New York Second House makes a home, literally, for the increasingly physical work of an artist once best known for his studio photographs of magazines. ... [details]

$95.00
Condition:  Fine. In publisher's shrink-wrap.
[Object # 23305]
Sol LeWitt : Books 1966 - 1990
  • catalogue raisonné
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 24.5 cm.
  • 64 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883751324

Sol LeWitt : Books 1966 - 1990

Sol LeWitt

Catalogue raisonné of artists' books by Sol LeWitt published between 1966 and 1990. [details]

$350.00
Condition:  Fair / Very Good. Significant 24.5 x 14 cm. area of yellow soiling to verso cover which carries over lightly to inside back cover and the last page of the book. Light yellowing of recto with light soiling measuring 7 mm., 5 mm., 5.6 cm., and 1.5 cm. Bumping off top and bottom right corners of publication. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38821]
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