Search Results: Titles starting with A from Tim Byers Art Books

New York.: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum., 1993. Publisher’s wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with creasing to rear cover.. 34.6 x 27 cm.. pp. 112. “Lothar Baumgarten’s site-specific work for New York’s Guggenheim Museum, AMERICA Invention, is comprised of two pieces: the painted installation in the Frank Lloyd Wright building and this publication. Just as Baumgarten’s wall work appropriates the architectural structure of Wright’s museum, this publication usurps the format of Guggenheim Magazine. This ‘issue’, however, has been designed by the artist, together with his long-time collaborator Walter Nikkels, and is intended to be a work in itself.” (from the catalogue’s Foreword). Most of the catalogue consists in fact of Baumgarten’s photographs of the Pitt Rivers Museum collection of ethnographic objects, taken between 1968 and 1970. This copy inscribed in 1993 by Baumgarten on the opening page.

Frankfurt am Main.: Dato Galerie., 1962. Single sheet, folded as issued. Pinholes to corners, with resultant rust marks & minor loss to sheet edge.. (21.2 x 84 cm) unfolded.. Original flyer/brochure for Geopfert’s exhibition at the Dato Galerie in Frankfurt, January - February 1962. It was at this show that Goepfert exhibits his Optophonium for the first time - a wall of reflectors with optical and phonetic impulses. The brochure is printed with William Simmat’s text ‘Jenseits traditioneller Malerei’. Rare. Worldcat lists only two copies in European libraries. [Ref. Zero 5. The Artist as Curator. Collaborative initiatives in the International Zero Movement 1957-1967, p. 463].

Vienna.: Galerie nächst St. Stephan., 1966. Single sheet, offset printed in black on pink paper.. (21 x 15.3 cm).. The original printed announcement for the ‘Actions Concert for Al Hansen’, held on the evening of 29 October 1966 at cleric Otto Mauer’s Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna. Besides Muehl and Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler also took part, meaning that three of Vienna Actionism’s main proponents performed together while also allowing a wider circle of Viennese artists to join. Alongside Kurt Kren and Peter Weibel, Oswald Wiener appeared with the Actionists for the first time. Further participants included the painter and musician Christian Ludwig Attersee, the writer Reinhard Priessnitz and Dieter Haupt. Many of the artists’ contributions took place simultaneously throughout the evening: Kren passed filmstrips around the audience, Attersee projected a one-hour film (Gartenfilm) on to the wall, and Weibel, accompanied by Muehl performed his ‘action lecture 2’ through the… Read More

Cologne.: Kiepenheuer & Witsch., 1991. Original wrappers.. (23.3 x 16 cm).. pp. 112. Black-and-white illustrations. Inscribed by Oehlen on the front flyleaf, “Dem Schüler Karl, Peter, Dieter, Wolfgang, Heinz … herzlich gewidmet von Albert Kurt Bert Oehlen”.

Brescia.: Edizioni “Amodulo”., 1968-70.. Publisher’s wrappers, stapled.. Three volumes. (9.9 x 30 cm).. pp. 20; 20; 28. Black and white illustrations throughout. First three numbers of Sarenco’s visual poetry periodical. With photographs of artwork and contributions by and features on Rosanna, Chiesi, Sarenco, Giusi Coppini, Germana Arcelli & Roberto Comini, Ennio Bianco, Jacques Lepage, Piedro Meldini, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Jean-François Bory, Timm Ulrichs, G.Valentin.

New York.: Heiner Friedrich., 1970. Original red printed wrappers. Minor rubbing and creasing to covers, overall very good.. (20.7 x 23 cm).. pp. (112), printed on seven different colour paper stock. Includes the two loose sheets laid in (musical score and perforated sheet) and 2 mounted envelopes with contents (performance scores). Second edition. Works by George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, David Degener, Walter de Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Malka Safro, Simone Forti, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young.

Rotterdam.: Galerie Het Venster., 1964. Original silver paper wrappers, stapled. Some creasing to covers.. (19.6 x 25 cm).. pp. (4) + (12) insert. Catalogue for one of Gribling’s early solo exhibitions at the Galerie het Fenster, Rotterdam, June 1964. Includes a catalogue of the 14 exhibited works (all again showing Gribling’s fascination with the use of polyester in his paintings), as well as the artist’s new manifesto, “Proposities voor een aproportionele schilderkunst”. Both the manifesto and the exhibited works show Gribling’s growing interest in banality and mass culture. A central half-width bound-in insert includes a text by H.R. Hoetink and an 8-page colour screenprinted reproduction of the artist’s surname (blue on glossy red paper). This copy signed by Gribling on the inner rear cover, and numbered ‘no.19’ from an unspecified edition.

Tübingen.: Edition Daci_., 1975. Original printed wrappers. Rubbing to adges and with short 2cm tear to lower edge of front wrapper.. (21 x 30 cm).. pp. (56). Black-and-white illustrations throughout, including many full-page bleed. The meander, a serpentine shape stylised and popularised throughout classical Greek and Roman art and architecture, was eventually to find its way to the forefront of the European avant-garde when, in 1960, Croatian painter Julije Knifer - a member of the Yugoslavian proto-Conceptualist Gorgona Group - declared that from that moment on, his work would consist exclusively of the meander. Knifer’s primary output for the rest of his forty-year career would be meanders, created across a broad spectrum of techniques, materials, and scales, but almost always created in black-and-white. From 1971 Knifer started to produce large-scale meanders on exterior and interior walls, and in 1975, in an abandoned quarry near Tübingen, with help of many collaborators, he painted a 20 x… Read More

Paris.: Galerie Stadler., 1975. Original wrappers stapled. A fine copy, still in the original mailing envelope from the Atelier Rainer in Vienna.. (25 x 20 cm).. pp. 36. With 33 black-and-white illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Stadler Gallery, Paris, May-June 1975. With the loosely enclosed accompanying text by Peter Weibel, translated into French.

Toronto.: Art Metropole., 1985. Original wrappers, stapled.. (27 x 19 cm).. pp. (64). Catalogue published by Art Metropole, with this issue entirely designed by Lawrence Weiner, with cover design and page-headings throughout. Art Metropole, founded in 1974 by AA Bronson and General Idea, was the leading distributor of artists' books and publications in North America, pre-dating Printed Matter. The catalogue contains annotated lists of artists' books, anthologies, monographs, periodicals, audioworks and videotapes available from the Toronto based non-profit store. This copy includes the loosely inserted 16-page addendum, also designed by Weiner. [Ref. Dieter Schwarz - Lawrence Weiner. Books 1968 - 1989, Catalogue Raisonné - Designed Books, no. 11].

Lund.: Lunds Konsthall., 1967. Folded poster, printed offset in black and orange on thin transparent paper. A fine copy.. Unfolded (59 x 41.5 cm); folded 20 x 14 cm.. Original programme poster for the Swedish Fluxus concert at Lunds Konsthall, March 10-12, 1967. Two versions of this poster exist, the first, presented here, designed by Ben Vautier, which was eventually rejected because of its emphasis on Vautier’s ART TOTAL. George Brecht was to design a second version, which was the one produced and used for the event. The concert in Lund was organised by Vautier, Brecht, and P.A. Gette, and included works by Fluxus artists such as Eric Anderson, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Tomas Schmit, Mieko Shiomi, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young. Examples of this first version of the programme are rare. [Ref. Fluxus etc. - The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, no. 660, only Brecht’s second version of the poster is listed].

Düsseldorf.: Mediacontact., 1971-73.. 11 issues. Original wrappers, each signed or stamped by the contributing artists.. (30 x 21 cm).. pp. 8-24 per issue. ""Information from artists and artists’ groups in whose working fields a consciousness-building concept is discernible."" It was with this short sentence that publisher/artist Dietmar Kirves – also known to many as a German member of the ""NO!art"" movement – characterised his two publication series ""art information"" and ""media news"". With the two series, Kirves' aim was to create a platform for making information on contemporary art accessible to a broad public inexpensively, and thus to encourage a creative dialog with the public. In the period from 1970 to 1973, Kirves asked artists belonging to various art movements – generally of an anti-art-establishment nature – to submit momentary takes on their working processes as well as examples of their work. In the ""art information"" series, editions by Joseph Beuys, Michael Buthe,… Read More

Philadelphia.: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania., 1964. Original wrappers, stapled. Small stains and minor browning to covers, otherwise a very good copy.. (28 x 21.6 cm).. pp. (20). With 14 black-and-white offset illustrations. “The present exhibition brings together, in my opinion, some of the most memorable shows of 1963-64. These particular artists through their wide public exposure have created the atmosphere of the past season and will affect future developments. Their influence, however, is more than from a shared spirit or attitude than from individual techniques. It is this immediate attitude we hope to capture” (T-Grace Sharpless, Curator and Institute of Contemporary Art Director). One of the rarest exhibition catalogues relating to the emergence of American Pop art. The “Atmosphere ’64” exhibition in Philadelphia ran from April 17 - June 1, 1964, and included the work of 14 artists” John Chamberlain, Burgoyne Diller, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy… Read More

Berlin.: Reinhard Onnasch Ausstellungen., 1983. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor staining to rear cover.. (21 x 21 cm).. pp. (24). With 20 illustrations including 8 in colour and a photograph of the artist in his garden. Exhibition catalogue, Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, October - December 1983. This copy with an original pen drawing by Attersee on the title page, depicting a cocktail glass. The drawing is signed and dated Oct 83.

Vienna.: Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst., 1984. Publisher’s glossy printed wrappers.. (28 x 23.5 cm).. pp. 120. Colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue with texts in German, Italian, French and English. Foreword by Hans Hollein. This copy signed and dated in pen by Attersee on the half-title page.

Cologne.: Galerie der Spiegel., 1965. Slight fading to folds of poster, with resultant short tear to single fold.. (83 x 59 cm., unfolded).. Poster printed single side, black on pink paper. Folded poster accompanying exhibition of Edition MAT multiples held at Galerie der Spiegel, 8 October - 12 November 1965. Illustrates works by Arman, Baj, Pol Bury, Christo, Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Morellet, Julio Le Parc, Soto and Spoerri. Poster printed single side, black on pink paper. Artist and designer Karl Gerstner and Galerie Der Spiegel, under director Hein Stünke, joined Spoerri in publishing the 1964 series of multiples. In 1965 Stünke bought Edition MAT from Spoerri, who then founded publishing offshoots Editions MAT MOT and TAM THEK. The poster also includes MAT MOT editions by George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Maurice Henry, Dieter Roth, André Thomkins and Emmett Williams. All editions marked with their published price. [Ref: Katerina Vatsella - Edition MAT: Daniel Spoerri, Karl Gerstner und das… Read More