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

Berlin.: Oberbaumpresse., 1966. Original card wrappers, with gummed spine. Lacks the original red dust-jacket.. (30 x 21 cm).. pp. 2, (16), 2. With 6 text illustrations. Artist’s book, the first to be printed by the Oberbaumpresse. Two young advertising colleagues, Hartmut Sander, 26, and Martin Dürschlag, 24, founded the printing press in a former shoemaking factory on the Oberbaum Bridge across the Spree River in Berlin in 1966. Unlike its subsequent highly political publications, the Oberbaumpresse’s first books were comparatively unpolitical - with pop and provo-poems. Using an age-old machine, they printed this collection of poems by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. The American-style poems are accompanied throughout by Dürschlag’s seemingly Pop-art inspired illustrations, printed in black or sepia. Published in an edition of 280 copies, with the first 30 examples signed by the author. This copy is signed instead by Dürschlag and not Brinkmann.

New York.: The Jewish Museum., 1968. (8.5 x 21 cm).. The printed invitation to the opening night of Kynaston McShine’s exhibition of the work of Gene Davis, Robert Irwin, and Richard Smith, held at the Jewish Museum, New York, March 19, 1968. The invite consists of three pieces of card, the first with printed details on blue paper, the second with an abstract design in purple on white card, with Richard Smith in capitals lower right, and triangular incisions to upper edge, the third a plain white card sheet with Robert Irwin blindstamped to lower edge. All three pieces with single staple to lower corner, first sheet with glue residue from a sticky label to upper left corner.

London & Sunderland.: Generative Art Group / Ceolfrith Press., 1973 & 1975.. Two volumes, original wrappers, stapled.. (22 x 15.7 cm; 21 x 15.2 cm).. pp. 64; 48. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Two booklets by the Generative Art Group (GAG), both sent to Ira Licht at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (with mailing envelope stamped 1976). Accompanied by a handwritten letter from Paul Neagu, dated 7 April 1976: “Mr R. Demaerco has wrote to me to inform that you have ask for more informations about my work !? … Please receive the two catalogues in this envelope and I will be ready to send you a lot more material, on my work, if you are really interested”. In 1972 London-based Romanian artist Paul Neagu established the Generative Art Group, seemingly encompassing five members: Neagu, painter Husny Belmood, designer Philip Honeysuckle, painter Edward Larsocchi and poet Anton Paidola. In reality, Neagu generated all the work himself, and the other artists were entirely imaginary,… Read More

Heidelberg.: Edition Staeck., 1985. Publisher’s printed wrappers.. (29.7 x 20.9 cm).. pp. 159, (1). Colour and black and white illustrations. Exhibition catalogue, Heidelberger Kunstverein and Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Lists over 300 works produced by Edition Staeck. This copy signed in red pen on the front cover by Joseph Beuys.

Wuppertal.: Verlag Kalender., 1960. Publisher’s card wrappers, with printed dust jacket, stapled with black tape spine. Plain blue endpapers.. (27.9 x 30 cm).. pp. (12). Wuppertal hosted the first Fluxus-titled exhibition at the Galerie Parnass in 1962, and it was also the home to the publishing venture Verlag Kalender, run by Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich. Their productions brought together an asortment of Fluxus artists, including Paik, Patterson, Roth, Wiiliams, and LaMonte Young, and encompassed concrete poetry, graphic music notation, action music, and Happenings. This artist book, published in an edition of 50 copies, is composed of 6 sheets with printed verse by Hubert Gersch, and a single lithograph by Ebeling printed in black on a sheet of red silk. [No copies listed on WorldCat, KVK or institutional holdings].

Mönchengladbach.: Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach., 1974. Cardboard box with text by Johannes Cladders on card insert, and cardboard leporello with 12 black-and-white offset illustrations.. Box (20.3 x 16 x 2.8 cm).. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a box. The inner side of the lid is spray-painted by Richter with grey anti-rust paint. This copy with slight dent to the lid, with resultant slight cracking to spray-paint. From the edition limited to 330 numbered copies. [Ref. Butin & Gronert - Gerhard Richter Editions, no.54].

Milan.: Galleria Schwarz / ED 912., 1969. Original wrappers, stapled. Mild staining to covers, otherwise good.. (24.3 x 16.9 cm).. pp. (16). Black-and-white illustrations. Exhibition catalogue, February 1969. With an introduction by Tommaso Trini and an essay by Daniela Palazzoli. Texts in Italian, French, English and Portuguese. Gian Emilio Simonetti was one of the rare Italian protagonists of the Fluxus movement in Italy with Giuseppe Chiari. Simonetti was the promoter of Fluxus in Milan, through the ED.912 centre, and the publication of the magazine ‘Bit’. Beginning in 1964, Simonetti, impressed by the research of John Cage, began composing ‘Mutica’, seventeen pieces of silent music where the visual aspect of the signs and colours play a primordial role. This catalogue captures how colour was important to Simonetti, with the internal pages being printed in a variety of colours.

Aachen.: Gegenverkehr e.V., 1970. Publisher’s wrappers, stapled.. (19.8 x 20.8 cm).. pp. 16. With five black and white illustrations. Catalogue for Gilbert & George’s exhibition at the Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst Aachen in October 1970. The catalogue consists of a reprint of the text from their boolet “to be with art is all we ask”.

Milan.: Françoise Lambert., 1970. Single card printed in black.. (14.5 x 19 cm).. Announcement card for one of the early Gilbert & George exhibitions, ‘Frozen into the Nature for you Art’, which opened at the gallery of Françoise Lambert in Milan on 13 June 1970.

New York.: Gian Enzo Sperone., 1974. (26.5 x 19 cm), unfolded.. Exhibition invitation. Single folding sheet printed single side only, text printed in green on onion paper. The exhibition of three works is announced: Giovanni Anselmo - “Particolare”, 16 projectors (1974); Donald Judd - “Untitled"", six boxes, polished brass (1974); Joseph Kosuth - “Titled (A.A.I.A. I.)” Ety: exterior / interior, 7 units comprising in Whole (1967).

London.: Royal College of Art., 1963. (75 x 50 cm). Poster fully backed onto canvas.. Rare poster for the very first exhibition of works produced by the RCA Graphics school, London, April - May 1963. The poster, designed by Thelma Roscoe, is a legendary image of the British burgeoning Pop Art scene. The touring exhibition took stock of fifteen year’s work by the graduates of the school, and included posters by David Gentleman, book covers and advertisements by Alan Fletcher, a cookery strip by Len Deighton, and a still from Ridley Scott’s recently completed student film, ‘Boy on a Bicycle’, starring his younger brother Tony.

Hannover.: Gedruckt im Fischerstra_ssn'er Presschen., 1963. Original card wrappers, stapled with cloth tape spine; lithographed dust-jacket. A fine copy.. (25.3 x 21.2 cm).. pp. (42) printed on double uncut leaves. In the late 1950s Thomas Bayrle learned the technique of lithography and etching from Eberhard Behr, and in 1961 together with Bernhard Jäger founded the Gulliver Press as a publisher of avant garde artist books. Grasdeuter is an example of the early collaborative book work of Bayrle and Jäger. It is illustrated with eight original hors-texte lithographs, four by each artist. The prints are interspersed with leaves of text by Aldona Gustas. Each text leaf is printed in a different type on different papers. Published in an edition of 30 hand-numbered copies, signed by Baryle, Jäger and Gustas. [Rare. WorldCat lists only two copies at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main].

London.: Art for All., 1973. Original publisher's white printed wrappers with titles to front cover in black. Mild creasing to corners.. (20.4 x 12.8 cm).. [2 folded sheets]. Inserted leaf of cream paper with preface recto and text 'Six Points / towards a better understanding' verso, page with text 'Sculpting Words' and 'GG' red stamp (page pasted to rear wrapper). The rare ephemeral booklet, the 'guide' for one of Gilbert and George's earliest works, 'Singing Sculpture'. Gilbert & George's 'Singing Sculpture' work, performed over a number of years, was one of their earliest and most iconic 'hits'. For the performance they painted themselves in bronze and sung and danced to a 1930s song titled 'Underneath the Arches'. The booklet was first published in 1970, with this example issued for G&G’s performances in 1973, possibly in Australia.