Search Results: Movements / Fluxus from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Chico, CA: University Art Gallery, California State University, 1982. [39] pages, illustrations, portrait; 23 cm. An exhibition presented in the University Art Gallery--Taylor Hall, California State University, Chico, March 22 through April 22, 1982. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the artist, with a personalized inscription. Magnetic sculptures.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; Leonardo, 2005. Cloth, xiv, 486 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/top edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the… Read More

New York and Munich: Museum of Modern Art; Prestel, 1987. Cloth, 282 pages, illustrations (some colour), map, portraits; 31 cm. Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, June 4 to September 8, 1987, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 22, 1987 to January 3, 1988. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Berlinart: An Introduction, by Kynaston McShine; Art in Berlin, 1900-1937, by John Willett; Typical and Unique: Art in Berlin, 1945-1970, by Wieland Schmied; Visitors to a City in Exile, by Karl Ruhrberg; Fluxus and Fluxism in Berlin 1964-1976, by Rene Block; Hints of Utopia: Art in Berlin since 1977, by Michael Schwarz; Berlin and Film, by Laurence Kardish; Plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Milan: Charta, 2007. 242 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Text in English and French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: The sum of many parts = La somme de multiples parties, by Roselee Golberg; Bernar Venet, the linguistic mathematization of reality = Bernar Venet, la mathe matisation linguistique du reel, by Enrico Pedrini; Bernar Venet's "Performances" in context = Les "Performances" de Bernar Venet dans une problematique du contexte, by Damien Sausset; Catalogue raisonne ; Appendices.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1976. 47 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. An exhibition organized by La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, November 5 to December 5, 1976. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly rubbed, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Barton, VT: Something Else Press; Great Bear Pamphlet, no. 8, 1972. Cloth, xiv, 239 pages; 22 cm. Topstained blue (faded). Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar book cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

London: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 2006. Cloth, 152 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "70 'Kunstfibel' collages digitally remastered by Ann Noel with commentaries by the artist. "'In his third volume exploring the roots and fruits of "the most radical art movement of the past half century,' Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, following in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg and Ad Reinhardt. His colourful, pseudo-historical drawings, painstakingly remastered by Ann Noel for this edition, are often peopled with less than flattering made-up images of his real-life friends and colleagues. It is fun to watch the octogenarian poet, the oldest living Fluxus artist, assume the role of a know-it-all ringmaster in a three-ring circus limelighting the fanciful antics of the stars of Fluxus, Happenings and Performance Art - George Maciunas, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Ben Vautier, Claes… Read More

London and Bangkok: Edition Hansjorg Mayer; Distributed by Thames & Hudson, 2007. Cloth, 172 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: An estranged father-a much loved mother; Escape to Germany and emigration; Studying nomadism; Grand tours with Leokadia; Farewell to modern architecture; Art from letters and paper; Universal music with adding machine and ruler; The Fluxus festival dream; The role of Nam June Paik; Apre`s John Cage; The first festivals of new music; A diabolical pact; The faithful servant; Crisscrossing Europe; Fluxus comes to New York; Yoko Ono's influence; From New York's Shosoin treasury; The ballad of John and Yoko; In search of a Fluxus Island; The Fluxhouse cooperatives; A terrible end; The post cage Bauhaus Black Mountain College; The love of his life; Requiem.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1993. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Fluxus and the museum, by Elizabeth Armstrong; Fluxus: a brief history and other fictions, by Owen F. Smith; Fluxus publicus, by Simon Anderson; Between water and stone: Fluxus performance: a metaphysics of acts, by Kristine Stiles; The latest: Fluxus and music, by Douglas Kahn; Fluxfilms in three false starts, by Bruce Jenkins; Back to the future: Fluxus in context, by Andreas Huyssen.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. Cloth, 352 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the First American Edition. A collective portrait of George Maciunas, 1931-1978 based upon personal reminiscences gathered by Emmett Williams and Ay-O, and edited by Emmett Williams and Ann Noel. "George Maciunas was the founding member and leader of the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, Fluxus. Its members rejected the traditional systems of high art, practicing an extraordinary form of anti-art that encompassed everything from photography and pavement art to poetry and drama. This book, the first biography of this key figure in twentieth-century art, reveals the story of an unorthodox, contradictory and elusive genius." - Publisher. . 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Cloth, 496 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

1963. Postcard in Very Good condition, unmailed, with minor marks on reverse. Cards are sent in stiff mailers.. Very Good.

London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013. 95 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This book charts a project by London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson) with the participation of internationally celebrated artist Gustav Metzger to create a sculptural work by linking a computer-brain interface with industrial manufacturing technology. Using bespoke software, London Fieldworks produced 3D shape information from EEG readings of Metzger's brainwaves as he attempted to think about nothing. This data was translated into instructions for a manufacturing robot, which carved out the shapes from the interior of a block of stone to create a void space. An introduction by the artists, a text by Gustav Metzger and four contextualising essays by writers across the fields of literature, art, science and technology explore the diverse historical and conceptual grounding for and broader implications of Null Object's production process." - Publisher. CONTENTS:… Read More

Newark and New Brunswick, NJ:: Newark Museum; Rutgers University Press, 1999. xviii, 194 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published to accompany the exhibition, shown at the Newark Museum from February 18 through May 16, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "During the late 50's/early 60's, an amazing group of artists, including George Brecht, Geoffrey Hendricks, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Watts and Robert Whitman, were affiliated with Rutgers University. Off Limits examines a group of Rutgers artists who came together on the Rutgers University, New Brunswick, campus during the 1950s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. This groundbreaking book features more than 140 illustrations as well as interviews with Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Whitman, and Geoffrey Hendricks. Essays are by Simon Anderson, Joseph Jacobs, Jackson Lears, Joan Marter, and Kristine Stiles. Also included is… Read More

Takehisa Kosugi, 1993. Card (9 x 12 cm.) in fine condition. Printed for In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1993. Cards are sent in stiff mailers.. Fine.

Brooklyn, NY: Assembling Press, 1971. ca. 160 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Fluxus-related conceptual art, concrete poetry, xerox art by dozens of avant-garde artists.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Houston, TX, Berkeley, CA, and New Haven, CT: Menil Collection; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Yale University Press, 2012. Cloth, 110 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Silence. Organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Explores silence in 20th and 21st century art and films, including works by Joseph Beuys, Maya Deren, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Doris Salcedo." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.

West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1974. 235 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean inside copy. Minor blemish (faint droplet stain) on front cover. From Dick Higgins' legendary Something Else Press; rare Fluxus document, with contributions by leading figures in the neo-avant-garde. "Sound art, things seen, poetry, nature, proposals, documentation, laughter, prose, commerce, occurrences, unspeakables, notations, reflections, interviews" - Cover. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Millerton, NY: Something Else Press; Second Aeon, 1972. 52 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. From Dick Higgins' Something Else Press; includes a lot of Fluxus-related material and Concrete Poetry.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Amulet Books, 2013. 177 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tail edge/front board bumped. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "This lyrical biography explores the life and art of Yoko Ono, from her childhood haiku to her avant-garde visual art and experimental music. An outcast throughout most of her life, and misunderstood by every group she was supposed to belong to, Yoko always followed her own unique vision to create art that was ahead of its time and would later be celebrated. Her focus remained on being an artist, even when the rest of world saw her only as the wife of John Lennon." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Collecting skies; 112 Chambers Street; Flying; The avant-gardist and the pop star; Peace, love, and art; Some time in New York City; Real life; "It's just you and me now, isn't it"; Mend piece.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.