Search Results: Authors starting with J from Tim Byers Art Books

Bremerhaven.: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst., 1972. Sheet (50 x 48 cm).. The poster for Bas Jan Ader’s “Broken Fall (Organic)” exhibition at the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven (poster designed by Jürgen Wesseler). The exhibition dates were 17 June - 1 July 1972. The titles, as well as the exhibition’s opening days and hours are screenprinted in grey, with the text framing a mounted black-and-white offset freeze-frame from the video ""Broken fall (organic)"" showing Bas Jan Ader falling from a branch. A fine copy. [Ref. E. Kleimann - 50 Jahre Avantgarde. Das Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, no. 31].

Cologne.: Galerie Jöllenbeck., 1971. Original wrappers, stapled. Mild yellowing to covers, otherwsie good.. (30 x 21 cm).. pp. (20). Texts by Blume and illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions of the artist or his drawings. Early artist’s book by Blume, a pioneer of staged photography. With this photo-story, Blume concocts a bizarrely distorted world of instability and the supernatural. Provides an early glimpse of the ‘Blumenvase’ which was to appear in the artist’s later works.

(Cologne)., 1960. The Ballettabend or “Ballet Evening” took place in the auditorium of the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium in Cologne on the 5th of October 1960. The participants were none other than the great dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham and his dance partner Carolyn Brown, together with the composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor. The evening’s production concluded with “Music Walk with Dancers” pairing a new duet for Cunningham and Carolyn Brown with John Cage’s indeterminate work “Music Walk”. Cunningham and Brown performed a series of movement tasks such as waltzing, skipping, running, dancing a softshoe, doing warm-up exercises, balancing on a dolly, and sitting in chairs. Cage and David Tudor walked about the space playing piano. This set of six seemingly unpublished photographs (each with a printing date stamp of 08.11.61 on verso) show the major protagonists: a relaxed portrait of Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown during rehearsals (17.8 x 18.5 cm); two… Read More