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Mitchell writes 'Skilled at landscape and figures, his fame was equal to that of Ganku and he occupied a position in relation to Ganku similar to that of Rosetsu in relation to Okyo'. Holloway describes and reproduces him amply. This fine album with its bold line and outline shows across double pages both peaceful and complex compositions, generally using pale color, sometimes semi comic or more often simply pastoral, and occasionally devoting the composition to a sprig of plum blossom or a bird on a twig of willow.
The colors are quietly and subtly handled, the range very wide. Hillier has a lot to say about Bumpo in his Chapter 11, page onwards, and reproduces rather inadequately several examples from this book. Figure painted in black acrylic. Titled, signed and dated with pencil on sketchbook page. The five photos chosen for the work form a compact module directed toward livable and lived in spaces, houses for insomniacs. The text appears in blocks of varying sizes of type whose outline forms a border inspired by the drawings of houses. From to , he produced more than photo canvases—landscapes of the outskirts of Barcelona— exhibited for the first time in at the Kunsthalle in Berne.
In , he represented France at the Venice Biennial. His work, translated into German, English and French, is as difficult to decipher as his biography, a life he likes to invent through the course of his various interviews and encounters. His writing, infused with the Japanese aesthetic and photography, stands out for its radical minimalism. Konstantin Grcic Born in Germany in His modular furniture, developed over the last few years mainly for Classicon and Magis, are among the designs that make him a major figure in contemporary design.
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The effect obtained is that the image is both projected onto the wall and reflected in the plexiglass - hence disturbing the viewer's vision. The viewer is confronted with an inderterminate space which cannot be focused on properly. Cloth-covered board box containing one loose page as issued, with offset lithograph with one line of text, in miniscule font: Sticker with title and press on cover; numbered on recto.
Published by Michael Werner, Cologne. Edition of 50 copies. Within the grid and beyond the pattern. Display copy n Every key of your keyboard on a page made with my own TypeFace Risograph printed on 90 grams paper spiral bounding , 70 pages Limited edition of ; signed display copy. Deluxe edition portfolio of only 10 copies consisting of compositions printed on gram Munken Pure uncoated paper.
With these dots, 8 different embroidery stitches can be made. A book without text, it reads easily, with work that displays some extraordinarily disciplined and dedicated research, placing abstract forms rhythmically with tremendous chromatic power and opulence. Each color combination in this book appears only once. Edition of only 10 copies. The sold out book was an Edition of Deluxe edition portfolio of only 10 copies consisting of compositions from the large-edition book of same title, printed on gram Munken Pure uncoated paper.
With these dots, eight different embroidery stitches can be made. When processed by the computer the stitches become lines and new graphic possibilities arise.
Lines can be repeated or joined to form a longer line. Lines can be rendered with outline or without. Lines can be reproduced as form or as in-between form. Lines and in-between forms can be put on top of, one another in layers. Eight colors are employed in various combinations, with each combination appearing only once, generating 48 two-color combinations and 56 three-color combinations.
Four-color combinations yield 72 options. Hand sewn cotton leporello book, with screenprinting, in cloth box with colophon. Edition of 8 variants, with 2 AP. Each copy is signed and numbered. Each book is handmade from repurposed fabrics the artist found in Mexico City.
She designed small buttonholes in between the panels so the work can be hung as a banner as well, choosing either side. Hand sewn cotton accordion pleated leporello book, with screen printing, in cloth box with colophon. Each book is handmade from repurposed textiles the artist found in Mexico City. She designed small buttonholes in between the panels so the work can be hung as a banner as well, choosing either side for display.
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Carrieri was a leading photojournalist and cinematographer associated with the Italian neorealists. Carrieri spent time photographing in the suburbs as well as in the centre of Milan, focusing his attention mostly on the less glamorous working side of this hard Italian city.
The City and Its People. Published by Achille Mauri Editore. Agnetti, encased in printed cardboard box. Thermoformed plastic multiple and accompanying booklet with text on the artist by Vincenzo Agnetti, encased in printed cardboard box. Published by Achille Mauri Editore, Milan. Grenoble, Knokke, Rotterdam, Paris. Numbered copy, signed by the artist. Text in French and Dutch. Loose as issued in publisher's box. One of 20 copies on Japon Nacre, with frontispiece and the Justification page signed.
First American edition, with two original lithographs specially prepared for this book and with beautiful color reproductions of the artist's works. Illustrated are various drafts as well as the final versions of the 12 stained glass windows designed by Chagall one for each of the tribes of Israel for the synagogue of the hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. With 10 original etchings by Chagall. Loose as issued with slipcase.
Book signed by author, artist and editor. Illustrated with etchings by Chagall. Folio, bound in original publisher's wrappers. Teriade Editeur, , Teriade Editeur, , first Chagall edition, two volumes, number of exemplars total edition , printed on Montval paper, signed by Marc Chagall on the justification page. The complete book with the Bible text, illustrated with original etchings by Marc Chagall; pp. In very close to excellent condition. Size of each book 18 x Printed by Louis Fort. This is one of 15 deluxe copies on Japan paper, from an edition of Numbered 4 on the justification with the drawing.
Emily Charley An Album of British seaweed specimens , There is a full page poem about seaweeds which begins " The depths of the ocean, afford us a home, We ride to the shore on billows white foam" and is bordered by different types of seaweed. Included is one specimen collected from the Potomac River dated and another is sent from a friend "Lowestaft ". It shows us that the owner of this book kept on adding to it over 25 years and has been cherished for many years. An early seaweed album excecuted with perfection and preserved in very fine condition. Translated from the French by John Spanton.
First edition in English with the color wood engravings by Edmund Evans. Routledge first published Spantons translation in with merely one color plate, but for subsequent editions he had the present attractive blocked sunburst binding created and charged Edmund Evans to make color wood engravings not chromolithographs. Most of the prints in the book illustrate the effects of neighboring colors on the appearance of a given hue.
Because all the colors were shown in discrete relatively large areas, not overlapping with any other color, these illustrations were particularly suited to Evanss method of color printing" Friedman, Color Printing, n. The text was first published in Despite Chevreuls authorization of the translation, the text is shorter and condensed than the first translation, but this is the first edition to include the plates and a chapter on military clothing.
Birren on Chevreul, pp. This edition not in Birren Collection, Herbert, or Indergand. The color woodblock printing is sophisticated, imitating accurately the effects of the watercolor brush. There are amusing devices such as turtles aiming bow-and-arrow at a spread lotus leaf held out by another turtle; depictions of ordinary life of the fishermen coming home with their catch; bold and excellent compositions of flowers and leaves in a remarkable number of colors; a boat party on a lake by the mountains; a bird flying into wisteria; a marvelous great kimono whose wearer sits at her calligraphy.
Jack Hillier, an authority on the art of the Japanese book, used the illustration of mountain pines on the cover of his definitive study on the genre Ehon. This is a superb copy, the printing particularly clear. Thread-bound book; 26 illustrated sheets and three sheets of text; woodblock; ink and color on paper. Signed, with red seal. This work by Chinnen must rank high among the whole large group in book history which illustrates the ordinary doings and customs of the day. Hillier admires it especially: Soft transparent pastel-like shades were employed and used broadly over areas sufficiently large to enable one fully to savor individual colors", and he reproduces several of which one can most enjoyably admire the double page of preparing nori seaweed.
The colors are less brilliant than in the "Sonan Gafu" by the same artist but the effect is not less dashing. Chinnen's books follow across more directly from one page to the next book. Original binding of silver printed over pale blue paper covers. Loose sheets in cream paper portfolio. This copy has a dedication and includes a drawing by Cocteau, dated , on the title page. Unique screen printed book, 22 pages, all pages glows in the dark. The pages are overprinted with a layer of transparent phosphorescent paint. Phosphorescence's slow time scale of re-emission of light is associated with "forbidden" energy state transitions in quantum mechanics.
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Turning a flash light on and off will revel the duality of the work like an x-ray. Unique screen printed book, 24 pages, all pages glows in the dark. A unique book featuring 32 original art works. Each piece is a screen printed monotype in which we push the boundaries of the serigraphy technique as well as experiment with forms, colors, layers and composition. It plays with a conceptual mise en abyme as well as refers to the textual whole of the work. Salamander Editions [Joseph Cornell], Original printed stapled wraps.
MARIA was privately printed by Cornell in an edition of about copies and given away to his friends as presents. The work was inspired by nineteenth-century opera singer Maria Malibran-Garcia and was produced with the same precision and care Cornell brought to his other work. It is in many ways a Cornell work in book form with the appropriation of text, the use of a decorative headpiece from yet another book, and dealing with one of Cornell's signature obsessions. A twenty Page bond artist's book consisting of ten double page screenprinted color images, bound in a grey cloth cover and contained in a matching box, plus a separate copy of one of double page images screenprinted on two loose sheets.
Each page measures The specimens are pressed on the sheet with a seperate letterpress card with Genera. This fine set is complete and in very fine condition. Folio with 12 volumes of over nature-printed plates depicting plants of which the flowers are enlarged and handcoloured. The flowers of the depicted plants are drawn enlarged and are almost all handcoloured. One of the largest "herbiers" ever published and the largest nature-printed plant book ever made! They give the actual appearance of the plants very accurately and the separate drawings of the flowers in colour are well done".
With 12 color lithographs. This Don Quixote trilogy is comprised of Don Quixote: The Warrior's Heard, Don Quixote: In this trilogy Dali depicts Don Quixote, Cervantes' idealistic Spanish nobleman who fancied himself a knight fighting the world's injustices; he saw flocks of sheep as enemy armies, and served the causes of truth and beauty.
It has been said that Don Quixote's quest was an allegory of the eternal search for goodness and truth, with an idealism that appeared to be madness in a world that sometimes viewed heroism and love as a form of insanity. How interesting Dali must have found this satirical romantic! The play suffered terribly on opening night, but thanks to the ingenuity of the actor Frederick Lemaitre and some major revisions, it soon became quite popular.
Frederick Lemaitre turned the character into a proud, confident, and devious swindler. For a whole year the artist kept a record of the different bruises — accidental she points out — she detected on her body.
She opted for close-up framing in order to reinforce their plastic quality. What they form appears to be sensual and abstract landscapes. We called upon Pierre Charpin because we felt he would be most apt at entering into dialogue with the artist and the author, being particularly sensitive to the metamorphic quality of their language. The casing is made up of two shells in molded plastic that are fitted together with magnets. Her work has appeared in a number of personal exhibitions: He teaches literature in New York where he lives with his family.
In tandem with his limited editions, and prototypical studies, he collaborates with various companies as Post Design, Zanotta, Montina, Venini, Alessi… He was awarded Designer of the Year at the Furniture Salon in Paris The book is a work of psychogeography, detailing a period in Debord's life when he was in the process of leaving the Letterists, setting up Lettrism International, and showing his 'first masterpiece', Hurlements en Faveur de Sade Howling In Favour Of Sade , a film devoid of imagery that played white when people were talking on the soundtrack and black during the lengthy silences between.
Credited to Guy-Ernest Debord, with structures portantes 'load-bearing structures' by Asger Jorn, the book contains 64 pages divided into three sections. The first section is called 'June ', and starts with a quote from Marx: Let the dead bury the dead, and mourn them The second section, 'December ', quotes Huizinga, and the third, 'September ', quotes Soubise. The work contains two separate layers. The first is printed with black ink, reproducing found text and graphics taken from newspapers and magazines. The second layer is printed using coloured inks, splashed across the pages.
These sometimes connect images and text, sometimes cover them, and sometimes are seemingly unconnected. The black layer contains fragments of text, maps of Paris and London, illustrations of siege warfare, cheap reproductions of old masters and questions such as 'How do you feel about the world at the moment, Sir? A bound volume of the Numbered Limited Edition of 1, copies, this being Exemplaire No Of 40 plates [executed c] of which 10 are in colour.
Printed on water marked " Marais" paper, the monochrome plates are evenly browned as usual to varying degrees. Small folio 12"x9" with Ballet plate facing the half title and frontis portrait. With 25 reproductions on clear acetate of the X-rays, which were printed on aluminum.. Black soft rubber end leaves. Delvoye, with the help of a radiologist, had several of his friends paint themselves with small amounts of barium and perform explicit sexual acts in medical X-ray clinics. Un rayon de bonheur". Complete with the page English translation bound in at the back.
Thick large 4to, full leather mosiac binding by Creuzevault with simulated wood grain covers and slipcase. The Artist and the Book A page linen bound book with text by Christopher Bucklow to accompany the exhibition of the same name held in at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, of photographs of the River Taw and sea shoreline. This book contains a unique photogram, a fragment from the first works that Derges made on the River Taw in Title-page and 33 pages each with a photo in colour, back-page with imprint, numbering and signature, japanese binding, in white cardboard box with title on spine.
Combined with the omission of color, this leads to an architectural lightness that infuses the relief with a harmonious and balanced effect. Herman de Vries created his first white collages in The artistic starting point is the new beginning, the zero point, the search for an objective art that is shorn of emotional value. It was the most important time for me personally. Printed in west Germany. In English - Robin Redbreast's territory: Text in Dutch, English, French and German. He describes how he 'laid out the form of the new territory with small poles, like a drawing on the ground,' thereby drawing the robin out beyond the thicket in the Amsterdam park that was its customary habitat.
The sculpture was comprised by the movements of the bird between the erected poles. Complete set lacking only the second supplement of Roth to the second volume which consists of blank black and white pages with black cover; otherwise complete; in fine condition. Mark Dion Fragments of travel, exploration and adventure , Christophe Daviet-Thery and XN editions In his first book project Dion assumes the guise of an 18th or 19th century scientist who explores an unknown land he kindly includes a buffalo leather pop-up map of this terra incognita and exhaustively documents the native flora and fauna.
The book is exquisitely constructed to convincingly carry out this fiction: Contains twenty-seven bound-in lithographs, offset printed; six bound-in digital prints; five loose lithographs, offset printed; and two loose digital prints. Edition of 36 with 9 A. Edition of 6 deluxe copies with original drawing. Released in , the SMS portfolio represented a collaboration between some of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Frequented by artists, curators, performers and composers both accomplished and aspiring, Copley's loft became renowned for its utopian morale and hospitable working conditions, which included "a buffet perpetually replenished by nearby Zabar's Delicatessen, an open bar, and a pay phone with a cigar box filled with dimes.
Soft photographic cover, open slipcase, original cardboard ribbon. Direction, book design by Kitadai. Limited copies, numbered. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, , p. The Japanese Photobooks of the s and 70s. First published as a prototype of advertising, the books appear to be a showcase for experimental photographic methods with a taste of humor.
Artistes Divers DA Dessins. Librarie des Arts Decoratifs , s Portfolio of new and modern collection of Trademarks from the time period. Complete with 64 colored plates. Ausstellung Des Seutschen Reichs , These were painting manufacturers catalogues for craftsmen who would be able to copy the designs shown as well as order the actual paint colors being shown. The back of each volume shows what paint colors were used for each design on each page. Folio containing 8 color pochoir plates each with 5 to 6 different designs on each page. Missing 1 color plate to be complete.
International Business Machines, Very Good A collection of photographs, primarily 3 x 4 inches, in an old Minox Print Album, documenting various IBM facilities, mostly related to final packaging of equipment. The album sleeves are coming apart, and would benefit from relocation into another format. The photos themselves are generally in good shape with good contrast. We left them in this album to preserve their order. A few images have been removed if ever there. One appears to be a punch-card machine read to go.
We see what appear to be high-speed line printers, reel-to -reel tape drives, and smaller terminal printers in this group. There is also a pocket in rear with some very small negatives a quick view appears to be more than half family images, with a few that might be manufacturing related, though what and where we can't tell. Perhaps these are clues to the owner if blown up to viewable size. In our experience photograph albums that document any portion of the computer industry are scarce on the market. These don't appear to be professional images some of the images aren't exactly complementary from a packaging perspective and are likely to have been taken by someone who worked there or a tour group member.
Near complete 29 issuse minus n. Complete Review in original general folder-cases made in grey cardboard and linenprinted Rokkor in the back. All in excellent shape. Dai Toa Kensetsu Gaho , Kimura, Kanzano, Sekiguchi, Nishino, Sakaguchi. Front is a tour-de-force of design and photography: Essentially a propaganda magazine it was intended for foreign audiences and presumably distributed to embassies.
It was apparently published in fifteen languages. Front was a propaganda magazine intended for foreign audiences launched by Tohosha, a publishing company established by members of the International Press Photography Association, at the behest of the army General Staff office with funding from private corporations.
A large-format pictorial magazine, it was produced in fifteen languages and distributed to the countries of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Each issue was devoted to a particular subject e. Toward the end of the war the magazine moved to the building that housed Mojima Yasuzo's photography studio, but the offices were destroyed in an air raid in , along with the "Tokyo at War" issue, which had just been printed and remained undistributed.
Altogether, nine issues were published. After the war, the staff set up a short-lived publishing company, Bunkasha. A facsimile edition of Front was published in three volumes in Portfolio with 7 original etchings in color, each with poems by a contemporary writer. Folio, loose in printed wrappers with cloth slipcase. Extra suite of the etchings, each signed by the following artists: Portfolio containing 14 original graphics, each accompanied by poems of a contemporary writer.
Folio loose in printed wrappers and cloth slipcase. Each front cover is an original lithograph, 13 of the 15 lithos are in bright colors. Included also is 2-page foldout with the title, contents and introductory text by Asger Jorn. All housed in a fragile paper case with a color-lithographed design. The 15 fascicules are in perfect condition, the case with a couple of very insignificant creases and one flap slightly repaired; a far better than average copy.
This "experimental art encyclopedia" is a historically very important document on the CoBrA art movement. Poeme de Paul Eluard. Each etching signed by the artist. Loose in gray laid paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and tie strings. With 20 full page original graphics, either lithographs or etchings. Edition limited to copies. With 20 original prints by the leading artists of the 'Ecole de Paris': On Japan paper with a suite on Arches paper of all the plates in the book.
Oblong 4to, publisher's white portfolio, outer ruling in black and white, upper side with embossed metal pieces of Renault's emblem and a small star, blue paper doublures with geometrical design in black. One of Draeger's finest productions for the celebrated French car-maker. An artist's book interspersing typographical images of vertical lines or steel piping with their photographic corollaries; minimal text. Near fine in wrappers. Jan Vercruysse, First Edition.
An artist's book with a single photograph on the front cover; contents are repetitive vertical lines and typography riffing off the parallel steel rods of the cover image. Staple to the front cover, else near fine in perfect bound photo illustrated wrappers. An artist's book of 64 photographs of steel pipes in 14 documented locations. Undervalued, especially in relation to other similar artist's books of the same era. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dobke, Books and Multiples, pg. Dieter Roth Drawings 27 Drawings made on the aeroplane , Signed in Pencil on cover- 40 kopiebuch.
Published by Dieter roth's Verlag, Basel. Edition 2 of 10, numbered and signed, roman numbering. Artist books - Dieter Roth: In Roth created entire series: Published by edition Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart, London. This is the copy n 41 of Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Letterpress and pen on white paper, in paper cover. Edition of , numbered and signed.
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Artist's book in the form of issue 9 of11 issues, an anti-magazine which was part of the Gorgona group. Each issue with an original stupiogramme drawing by the artist. The art group Gorgona existed in Zagreb from until A very fine copy! Text by Octavio Paz. Abrams, New York, New York, The occasion was a famous exhibition of avant-garde art in Amsterdam in , 'Bewogen Beweging' Moving Movement. Uncut in very fine condition. The art magazine edited by Christian Zervos featured the Large Glass in The cover consists the contrast of two complementary colors, that is, red and blue. Staring at this cover,the blue color part is sunk and the small heart at center floats in blue back.
The pursuit of such a illusional visual eftect was Duchamp's life-time theme. One color plate and 93 documents reproduced in facsimile in the collotype printing plants of Vigier et Brunissen, Paris box, lined in green silk. Signed and dated in orange inside box spine. Aaron and Barbara Levine. Hand bound book with laser cut leaves. Signed on inside with two original color photographs.
Book is housed in a hand sewn white cloth bag with yellow letters "TE". Sold to fund a road trip undertaken by the artist from San Francisco to New York. Emin sold the book at galleries and other venues where she would give one-night performances reading from it. The text is fractured into seven modules, each contained within a uniform yellow form whose outlines recall the design of the casing. His is one of the pioneers of color photography in the United States.
To this day he has had five books published: His last novel, An Outline of the Republic published in England and India as Surface has just been published in paperback. Bibliographic information QR code for Terre promise d'Afrique. Oblong folio, beautiful mulberry morocco with abstract pictorial design based on frontispiece image, with brown, turquoise, gold, black, and white onlays on both front and rear covers, author and artist's names in white along spine, by Legatoria Artistica Ascona; original pictorial wrappers bound in; suede-lined morocco-backed faux bois covered chemise and matching slipcase.
Cramer 39; Cailler With plates 13, 17, 28, 33 signed "Max Ernst" and missing plate 32 - incomplete lacking one plate. Numero Special de la Nef. One of only 65 copies printed, with two colour lithographs by Ernst. Signed on the colophon by both Breton and Ernst. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: Book-Sculpture with 12 Acrylic cubes with small figurines mounted in chrome on the book 'Infra-Noir'. With text by Claude Pelieu, published by Soliel Noir. Artist Book with 12 acrylic cubes with small figurines inside.
Copy n 77 of Copy from the regular edition of , containing 18 original woodcut prints by M. Escher 6 full-page plates, 10 majuscules, 1 tailpiece and text by Jan Johannes Lodewijk Walch about the witch of Oudewater. Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper 1. Icones Fucorum cum characteribus sytematicis synonimis auctorum et descriptionibus novarum specierum. Beschreibungen der neuen Gattunge , Contemporary half calf, richly gilt ornamented spines, with blue and red gilt lettered labels, marbled sides. The hand coloured copper engravings are by Esper. Volume I constists of 4 parts and volume II of 3.
The plates are superbly handcoloured. A very fine and clean copy. Printed 24 pages 24 one-sided four-colour laser copies, bound, handwritten title. A4, oversize, stapled, adhesive binding, in plastic transparent folder packaged in a fiberboard envelope bearing an imprinted label. Written in , published in Published by Dieter Roth's Verlag, Basel. Original covers by Dieter Roth. Dieter Roth Essays Ein Essay: Uber das Verhalten des Allgemeinen zu oder gegennuber dem Besonderen bzw.
Printed by Prentsmidja Jons Helgasonar, Reykjavik. Printed by Prentsmioja Jons Helgasonar Reykjavik. This is one of the printer copy so not numbered but signed , dated Publoshed by Verlag, Reikjavik. This is copy number of Dieter Roth Essays Franz Eggenschwiler: Published by edition Hansjorg Mayer Stuttgart.
Thereof numbered and signed as introduction to a portfolio of prints by Franz Eggenschwiler. Printed by Prentsmioja Jons Helgasonar. Published by Verlag Reykjavik. This copy is one off the printer copy and is not signed. Dieter Roth Essays wer war mozart ein essay von d. Printed by prentsmioja jons helgasonar reykjavik. Published by verlag reykjavik. This is the printer copy so unsigned. Constantin Ritter von Ettingshausen Pflanzenfossilien von Radoboj. With 95 nature-printed plates and text-illustrations physiotypes. Unbound in the original half leather box.
Report on the work Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum. With 10 nature printed plates. Luciano Fabro Ogni ordine e contemporanea d'ogni altro ordine: Redentore in Venice , BK. Silkscreen folio in cardboard dust jacket 59 tables Edition n 55 of copies signed and numbered. Printed by Alfredo and Enrico Rossi. Translation of the Preface: Dante, in the Convivium, indicates the reading of works of art according to four senses or interpretations: I built this work because it is readable parallel along these ways.
Each order is contemporary of every other order: I translated The co-planarity in contemporaneity. I have broken down the three architectural orders of the facade of the SS. Redentore as if Palladio had kept them in the wild, varying from time to time the spatial dislocation: Adam and Eve of van Eyck, higher, far from each other: Abuse of the philological method in the examination of the facade of SS. It cannot have a genuine love of order without the denial of the order. Every problem is a will. The second occurrence is when he wonders where his lover ends: Curves and snakes, light and mother-of-pearl, shadows and earth: Feinstein altered a 19th century Victorian album containing mounted specimens of seaweed by adding fragments of erotic black and white photographs.
She manipulates the given objects and photographs as collages that provoke voyeuristic associations. A poem on one page, nine pages of images. Wallpaper sheets with collage, rivet bound in red cloth-covered boards, 85 pages. Wood box with sliding plexiglass lid comprising a folder containing 25 photographic reproduction sheets on card, showing in close up the left hand of various artists including Andy Warhol, John Cage, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein, Arman, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, and others.
The plexiglass cover is imprinted with a silkscreened palm covered with annotations in red. Text by artist in German. In perfect condition; increasingly scarce as each contribution belongs in the oeuvre of the respective artist. Signed and numbered in red inside back cover. Fischli, Peter and Weiss, David.
Book signed by both artists along with a photograph signed on the back. The book uncut along with signed and numbered "LF"pink elliptical multiple. Brossura editoriale in cartoncino floscio con titolo sul piatto superiore e astuccio. Complete and in original portfolio with ties in fine condition. Ben Franklin Full sheet of nature printed American currency from Hall and Sellers printed front and back showing 8 Notes on the one sheet.
The algae of the Dalmatian coast. With 26 nature printed plates. Published in Paris from Aux Depens d'un Amateur,with suite and 3 extra drawing. Copy number 7 of Goldilocks and the three bears, a Cosmic Fairy Tale. Black and white photographs. In a gray dropback box. With an extensive, analytical Introduction by Amei Wallach. Large folio; 34 UV coated, color photographs; full-back leather; blind-stamped colophon on orange hand-made paper, laid into black hand-made paper covered clamshell box, black ribbon tie; illustrated label affixed to box recto.
Artist book of white, pop-up landscapes inspired by the popular non-fiction novel Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, an account of the architect responsible for the Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition and the serial killer who worked in its midst. Gabbiani has painstakingly cut in white paper miniature the architectural structures, most notably the Ferris wheel, that reveal the magical appeal and horrifying events of that Worlds Fair. Edition of 20 copies with deluxe copies, each having a print with the book. This has the print and is 4 of FIRST artist's book of white, pop-up landscapes inspired by the popular non-fiction novel Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, an account of the architect responsible for the Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition and the serial killer who worked in its midst.
Edition of 20, this being copy number Both see their work-the roman noir and photography respectively-as a form of very effective militancy. He is considered to be the best photojournalist in modern-day Mexican history. He has had some fifty books published, among them Four hands, St. He is considered a leading figure in the genre of the roman noir. P September Graphic design: We follow the inner dialogue of a Mexican in his eighties, a millionaire, obsessed by sex, about to take to the road.
He is on his way to Ciudad Juarez to steal an Aztec mask of inestimable value from his twin brother. Each work contains 4 diptychs made of two prints, opposite each other, with the shape of a creek cut out of the text block. Side-stapled in original photo-illustrated wrappers. Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi: Benjo contains a series of photographs taken in Tokyo restrooms of the toilets and attendant graffiti. Each page of Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tach contains three photographs showing different young women on the beach in bathing suits. Below each photograph is the girl's address and telephone number, half of which are allegedly made up, the rest genuine according to Shuji Terayama, who apparently tried phoning all of them.
The last book, Five Girls, contains photographs of five models posing in various styles. Soft cover- Luigi Ghirri 5 January was an Italian photographer. Born in Scandiano, Ghirri began taking photographs in , mostly working in a milieu of conceptual artists. From he focussed primarily on photographing architecture and the Italian landscape.
A rare title of one of the best known italian photographer. In particular, Ghirri's poetics of space moves from insistent decontextualization and estrangement to a notion of affective space, combining a sense of inhabiting with one of errance, a fascination with the new with a nostalgia for the old and the marginal, and a critique of contemporary society with an attachment to a sense of place and of the individual as vanishing traces.
C-Print, signed and dated on verso and on card. Published in the Thomas Demand book, La carte d'apres nature. First monograph published in Italy by Feltrinelli Milano and text by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle with another smaller catalogue. Book comprising 12 original etchings on Rustic China paper. Edition of 40 copies, numbered and signed by the artist and publisher, in it's original parchment cover. Fascinated by the practice of representing the same sitter again and again to reveal the constant variability of a single person, Giacometti often took his wife, his mother, and his brother as subjects.
In the series of 12 prints from which this work originates, the artist illustrates the Dada writer and editor Iliazd Ilia Zdanevich , who was known as the architect, designer, and publisher of illustrated books of the School of Paris. Giger"s first book, with his strange sci-fi ultra-Swiss pop imagery, which led to his designing Aliens.
Only published in large paper-back. With 35 folded engraved plates. German naturalist and traveller in Russia, nephew of J. Gmelin author of the 'Flora Sibirica'. The author of this first monograph of the algae was Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin. The 'Historia Fucorum' was conspicuous because of its careful descriptions and its illustrations" Stafleu. Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. Black and white offset-printed artist's book self-published by the artist in , 68 pages.
Incorporates several quirks such as no page numbered 24, two pages numbered 26, and no pages 57 and Title page, introduction by Achille Comte plus 71 hand colored lithographic plates by Grandville. The title page has been expertly repaired, the plates are in very good condition with the smallest bit of spotting to some. Each plate is succeeded by a short piece of satirical prose, using Grandville's anthropomorphic creations as their inspiration. Bound in full black morocco with gilt tooling. A complete set of 12 books on how to learn Kanji by the Typo-Eye Group- okuizumi motoaki, kaniso yukio, kuwayama yasaburo, baba yuji, mizui tadashi, and yoshida yoshihiro.
Two square quarto vols. Original silver coated wrappers, printed in black, original silver coated portfolio, printed in black, all laid into the original silver papered box. A fine copy, with the print in fine condition. First edition, offset lithograph in color, on wove paper, with text book and book of reproduction of blown up images. Andreas Gursky is a German photographer best known for his vast color architectural landscapes. His point of view is often so far from the object that it is difficult to tell what it is. In this photograph, hundreds of windows simply become tiny squares and lose their meaning as architecture.
Museum Haus Lange, With an invitation and a press release for the show laid in. Gursky's first and rarest book, featuring 18 color images shot between and , prior to digital alteration. Although not widely known most likely due to the restrained edition size , this catalogue marks the high point of Dusseldorf School color photography. Fine in plain stapled wrappers in a close to fine card jacket with French flaps, very lightly soiled along the spine edge and rear panel. Fine in plain stapled wrappers in a fine card jacket with French flaps.
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Concessions to maintain social cohesion in a class-divided society also help disorganize the dominated classes and reinforce the appearance that the democratic state promotes the general interest. In short, state power must be seen in relational terms, i. But Poulantzas did not explain how specific programmes and policies consolidated support and neutralized resistance during the various stages of the fascist period. Nonetheless, this would become a major theme in his work on authoritarian statism in the s cf. Poulantzas also suggests that national-popular hegemony and hegemony within the power bloc are generally concentrated in the same class or fraction.
But he also recognizes that these two forms of hegemony can be dislocated or unevenly developed. But, in all cases, it is the general form of the state or regime that is crucial. Poulantzas wrote his first major state-theoretical work before Althusser had introduced the concept of repressive and ideological state apparatuses.
Following Althusser, he defines the ISAs in terms of their principal function — ideological inculcation and transmission as opposed to repression — and also insists that they are part of the state system. This is because they help to maintain social cohesion which is the generic function of the state and because their operation depends on the indirect support of the RSA. Poulantzas also notes that the failure of the working class to conquer the ISAs as well as the RSA could permit the bourgeoisie to reconstitute itself as the dominant class through bastions among the ISAs. These ideas are further developed in Staatstheorie.
This argues that the state has a key role in constituting social classes because it resorts to organized physical repression and also intervenes in the organization of ideological relations and the dominant ideology. Indeed, the ruling ideology is embodied in the state apparatuses and constitutes an essential power of the ruling class. Poulantzas also extended the idea of the integral state from political and ideological class analysis to economic relations. The former encompasses economic, political, and ideological relations and involves the state and the mental-manual division as well as the circuit of capital and non-capitalist relations of production.
Indeed, Poulantzas always placed the social relations of production in this expanded, or integral, sense at the heart of his analysis of class struggle. From his first encounter onwards, he criticized Gramsci and sought to remedy his alleged failings by integrating his work into a more comprehensive theoretical framework. For example, he argued that the Italian had failed to locate the specificity of the various regions of capitalist society in terms of its particular institutional matrix.
This criticism is rather brazen because Poulantzas adopted the same position in his own preliminary comments on hegemony and the state More generally, while Poulantzas agreed that the state is actively involved in helping to constitute and modify the unstable equilibrium of compromise, he was far more sensitive than Gramsci to how this occurs through the specific institutional materiality of the capitalist type of state and its different forms at different stages and in different conjunctures. In contrast, Gramsci was more attuned to the many and varied modalities through which social forces sought to maintain class domination and social cohesion from inclusive hegemony through passive revolution to force-fraud-corruption and direct, open class war.
Thus Poulantzas interpreted state power as a form-determined condensation of the balance of forces in political and politically-relevant struggle. This requires attention to two aspects of the state system: Gramsci had little to say about this in concrete terms, partly perhaps because of the fluidity of the Italian case and partly because of his more general interest in the social bases of state power rather than the details of institutional design.
State, Power, Socialism seems to mark a partial retreat from Gramsci under the influence of his emerging relational approach and Foucauldian ideas. He also argued that there is typically no rationally formulated, global political strategy and that the general line of political class domination or hegemony? This seems to call the concept of hegemonic class leadership into doubt and to dissolve it in favour of a more Foucauldian than Gramscian perspective.
Poulantzas also argued that Gramsci had failed to appreciate the importance of representative democracy, pluripartism, and the rule of law for a transition to democratic socialism. In contrast Poulantzas sees the state as an institutional ensemble that crystallises class contradictions and conflicts within itself and can therefore be undermined from within. In opposition to these alleged problems in Gramsci, Poulantzas calls for a Copernican revolution in socialist political thought.
There is some confusion about the meaning of this new term both for Gramsci and Buci-Glucksmann. As Guido Liguori notes, Gramsci himself writes of lo stato integrale , the state in its inclusive sense, rather than of lo stato allargato or expanded state Liguori For she notes that, for Gramsci, the expanded state refers both to a reorientation in the general Marxist theory of the state and to the expansion of the capitalist state in a particular period of capitalist development There could be several forms of such an integral state, however, and not just that typical of Americanism and Fordism cf.
Poulantzas , on authoritarian statism; Hirsch on the nationale Wettbewerbsstaat ; and Jessop on Schumpeterian workfare postnational regimes. Whereas Althusser regarded him as irredeemably idealist in a tradition shaped by Hegel, Croce, Gentile, etc. We might describe this as the period when the integral state began to be enlarged, becoming thereby an expanded state. In any case, from onwards, Gramsci is said to have devoted all his political reflections to the concept of hegemony and its theoretical and political implications.
According to Buci-Glucksmann, he argued that this crisis was also the crisis of a certain form of Marxism, of a false and unilateral analysis of the state. It is concerned, instead, with her own use of his ideas as she reconstructs and interprets them about the integral and expanded states. In the ancient and medieval state, both politico-territorial and social centralization were minimal the former being a function of the latter. In a certain sense, the state was a mechanical bloc of social groups, often of different races.
Still citing Gramsci, she continues that the modern state replaces this mechanical bloc of social forces with the subordination of subaltern groups to the active hegemony of the leading and dominant group. It abolishes certain forms of autonomy, which are reborn in other forms: For it presupposes a leading class that can exercise hegemony and a social group that can ensure the homogeneity of the historic bloc i. It also presupposes a hegemonic apparatus, i. In developing this concept, he could also resist economist and spontaneist arguments that one-sidedly emphasized economic determinism or political action.
In addition, Gramsci emphasized the material reality of ideologies and their location in a hegemonic apparatus that formed an integral part of the state ; cf. Second, regarding revolutionary strategy, in contrast to Poulantzas, who appropriated Gramscian concepts primarily to understand the constitution of bourgeois hegemony in the capitalist type of state and who continued to rely for some time on a Leninist vanguard conception of proletarian revolutionary strategy, Buci-Glucksmann not only emphasizes the nature of the integral state for bourgeois hegemony but also its implications for revolutionary strategy.
Thus, commenting on the New Economic Policy, she writes that:. This strategic objective is diametrically opposed to the strategy of permanent revolution. Indeed, a strategy of frontal attack in the conditions of the developed capitalist societies would reproduce economism and was bound to lead to defeat In short, Gramsci established close links between the strategy of war of position and the struggle for a new historic bloc, whereby the revolutionary movement should aim to win state power in an integral sense rather than just obtain a share in the exercise of existing government power s.
This depended in turn on a political gnoseology of superstructures Specifically, they argue that the Keynesian welfare state that corresponds to the Fordist accumulation regime enlarges erweitert the field of politics and the state and, a fortiori, also enlarges the field for struggles over hegemony The state is not situated outside the economy and does not intervene from outside but has a crucial constitutive role in the expanded reproduction of the economy. Moreover, in place of a state that secured political class domination through the atomization of the masses in civil society, the state now organises them by accepting their presence more or less direct, more or less corporatist, inside the state.
In short, rather than remaining outside the state, the dominated classes are now represented inside it For politics inserts itself directly into the field of economic development, penetrating into reproduction, medical care, education, family life, etc. In this context, the crucial site for the enlargement of the state is the welfare state, which is reorganized along Fordist-Taylorist lines and also generalizes norms of mass consumption and social welfare from organized labour to the population as a whole In this context social democratic parties become more and more clientelist, corporatist, interclassist, and technocratic The boundaries between public and private are also modified with the result that the enlarged state becomes a site of permanent alliances and compromises.
In short, the four key features of the enlarged state are: The crisis of this enlarged state emerged from onwards, was politically and culturally accelerated in , and became economically acute from , thereby casting doubt on its continued organizational viability and its legitimacy.
The authors identify two possible exit routes from this organic crisis: Needless to say, the crisis of the enlarged state has intensified since Buci-Glucksmann and Therborn finished their book and developed events and, while the trend towards authoritarian statism has certainly intensified cf. Poulantzas ; Jessop , there have been additional significant transformations in the nature of the capitalist state that affect its forms of economic and social intervention, its scale and scope of operations, and its forms of government and governance cf. He then developed his own distinctive structural — and in part functionalist — analysis of the state apparatus as a special machine of class domination.
He was most interested in this regard in how the bourgeois democratic state both disorganized the subaltern classes and organized a capitalist power bloc through enabling the development of national-popular hegemony. She also applied the arguments that developed after this break in general methodological terms by highlighting the real importance of the state in its inclusive sense lo stato integrale and its links to the ethico-political, to organic intellectuals, and to the historic bloc. Because of varying dates of the first publication of unpublished MSS or TSS and of subsequent translations, dates are given first for the drafting of the relevant manuscript or first date of publication, as appropriate, and second for the edition used.
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