First edition paperback monograph of photographs by Peter Hujar featuring portraits taken between 1974-75, including his now famous picture of Susan Sontag in repose, as well as portraits of skeletons from a catacombs taken in 1963. ... [details]
"In the original French edition of this book, Pierre Cabanne wrote, shortly before Duchamp's death: 'These interviews with Marcel Duchamp took place in his sutdio at Neuilly [near Paris], where he and his wife live during the six months they spend in France each year. ... [details]
"One of the best appreciations of a modern popular musician that's ever been written. In sharp contrast to most of the literature on popular music, it is articulate, it is written by someone who actually knows what he is talking about (Tamm's knowledge of both the mechanics of a studio and a wide variety of music from classical through pop is awesome), it is amazingly free of the usual polemics, hysteria and rhetoric which characterize this kind of book, and it is carefully systematic in the way it deals with Eno and his work. ... [details]
Critical theory about the work of Eva Hesse, "combines biography and criticism, formal analysis and psychological readings, to present a complete portrait of the life of this complex and compelling artist. ... [details]
Anthology of writings on and by John Cage. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. Written contributions by Virgil Thompson, Henry Cowell, Edward Downes, Michael Zwerin, Merce Cunningham, Barbara Rose, and Dore Ashton. ... [details]
"Following Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, André Malraux was summoned by Jacqueline Picasso, the artist's widow, to her home at Mougins in the South of France. There, surrounded by Picasso's powerful last paintings 'painted face to face with death,' and his art collections destined for the Louvre, Malraux recollected Picasso's rebellious life and the metamorphosis of his art. ... [details]
"In the '20s the Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and begun to make love. Noewhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the most joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplins in modern art. ... [details]
