Albert Vree (6 results)

Saddle-stapled softcover 8vo in printed wrappers, with pages printed in black and white. 24 pp. Text in Dutch and French. Rubbing to covers, including wear and darkening along extremities, rust to staples, and age toning throughout. Else very good. Publication featuring an homage to French poet Pierre Albert-Birot, including early writings, poetry, and concrete poetry created between 1916 -1962. Published by De Tafelronde as a supplement to issue IX-1.

Softcover 4to in wrappers printed in orange and black and pages printed in black on glossy stock. 64+2 pp. Text in Dutch. Catalogue issued on the occasion of this 1975 exhibition at Internationaal Cultureel Centrum (ICC) in Antwerp showcasing the first twenty years of the long-running publication focusing on experimental and concrete poetry edited by Paul de Vree in collaboration with Henri Chopin, Freddy de Vree, and Henri-F. Jespers. Includes a chronology and timeline of when issues were published, cover designs, texts and essays about the publication, and visual and concrete poetry contributions by Pierre Albert-Birot, Victor Vasarely, Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh), Sarenco, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Timm Ulrichs, Bob Cobbing, Steve McCaffery, G. J. de Rook, Mary Ellen Solt, Jochen Gerz, and Hansjörg Mayer among others. Also includes a two-page index of participating artists between 1953 and 1973. Partial sunning to covers along top third and spine, a faint bump at crown, and darkening along text block extremities. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Paul de Vree, Poezie in Fusie, De Bladen Voor de Poezie, Lier, Belgium, 1968. 304 x 208mm, 128pp. Printed black on white stock. Printed by Sanderus in Oudenaarde, commissioned by de Bladen Voor de Poezie. Cover design by Walter Pluym. Introduction by Paul de Vree who edited this International Concrete Poetry Anthology. Illustrations of work by the editor together with Pierre Albert-Birot,Alain Arias-Mission, Ronaldo Azerido, Stephen Bann, Max Bense, Julien Blaine, J.F.Bory, Edgar Braga, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Ugo Carrega, Henri Chopin, Hans Clavin, Bob Cobbing, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, john Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Hochen Gerz,Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, B.Grogerova, J.Hirsal, Jose Lino Grunwald, Brion Gysin, Dom Sylvester Houedard, ernst Jandl, Jiri Kolar, F.Kriwet, A.Lora-Titino, Hansjorg Mayer, Franz Mon, M.Nannucci, D.Pignatari, Diter Rot, Gerhard Ruhm, John Sharkey, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Timm Ulrichs, Jiri Valoch, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Herman de Vries, Ivo Vroom, Emmett Williams, Pedro Xisto et al. Text in Flemish. Condition: slight toning throughout, general wear to hard cover on edges and corners, Very Good +.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good + / Near Fine. 1st Edition. FORM MAGAZINE. Complete set: Issues 1-10. (Summer) 1966- (October )1969.The most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, architecture, avant-garde magazines et al. Interest in FORM itself has grown in recent years: while studying for his Ph.D. the Portuguese architect Joaquim Moreno made a particular study of the magazine, contending that it is essentially a magazine about little magazines of the avant-garde. Moreno was part of the research group that produced 'Clip Stamp Fold' (M + M books, Princeton, 2011), which features interviews with Bann and Steadman. Issues often include a Great Little Magazines section. Each issue is about 9.5 inches square, illustrated, with 32pp (apart from one issue with 36pp). Number 1: Contents includes Film as Pure form by Theo Van Doesburg (first translation of 1929 essay), The Activity of Structuralism by Roland Barthes, Experimental Aesthetics by Carlyn Cumming, essay on Fernand Leger, Great Little Magazines No.1 : Secession with work by William Carlos Williams, Hans Arp Yvor Winters / Number 2: Contents includes Le Parc and The Group Problem by Frank Popper; A Little Night Music by Charles Tomlinson; Articles by Gillo Dorfles; Poem by Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano. Great Little Magazines No.2: Blues with work by Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford./ Number 3: Contents includes Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Articles on and by Charles Biederman and 'The Electrical -Mechanical Spectacle' by El Lissitzky. Great Little Magazines No 3: 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi./ Number 4: Contents includes: Brighton Concrete Poetry Exhibition , notes, map & full review (exhibition organised by Form's editors), Black Mountain College, Albers 'Graphic Tectonics', 'What is Kentetism' ? Two essays by Charles Biederman, Poems by Anselm Hollo. Review of Mecano magazine in Great Little Magazines No.4 (therefore discussion of Van Doesburg) - which includes translation of Van Doesburg text. / Number 5: Contains Hans Jaffes - De Stijl and Architecture, features on Bernard Lassus and Raul Hausmann, and in the Black Mountain Series John A. Rice, George Zabriskie and designs for college buildings by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Great Little Magazines No.5 'RAY' with work by Sidney Hunt, I. K. Bonset ( Theo Van Doesburg) and Kurt Schwitters./ Number 6: The contents include essays on Russian unofficial art, and on the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy; John Evarts and Jean Charlot writing on Black Mountain; and poems by David Chaloner. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (Part 1). / Number 7: March / 1968. Contents include Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia, Cinema and Semiology, by Peter Wollen, new American Photography, Abraham Moles on Vasarely. Airfields by Simon Cutts. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (author index part 2). / Number 8: The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. / Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana./ Number 10: The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Simon Cutts. Art in Crisis by Charles Biederman, Structuralism & Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette. Great Little Magazines : LEF by Richard Sherwood & articles from LEF by Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky. Together with printed letter from the editor, Philip Steadman, sent to contributors when the magazine finished & flier for Form subscriptions. Condition: Some light toning and halding to covers. Overall very good+/near fine.

POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. Numbers 9-25,1961 -1967 - all original. 17 issues in total. Edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay, POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. is seen as the most important concrete poetry journal of the 1960s in Britain. The journal title comes from Robert Creeley's poem "Please" (1959). The early numbers are black & white, but later numbers involve colour (often silkscreen) illustrations as the concrete poetry movement blossomed. It has become highly influential for both poets and artists (see for example the ICA group exhibition POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. of 2009). Issue no. 10 is 'a concrete number', including Augusto de Campos, Eugen Gomringer, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Edwin Morgan. Issue no. 12 is a 'Visual Semiotic Concrete' edition. Issue no. 18 is a collaboration, with writings and script by Ad Reinhardt and drawings and layout by Bridget Riley. Issue no. 25 the final issue is dedicated to one-word poems. Contributors include : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pete Brown, Anselm Hollo, Lorine Neidecker, Gael Turnbull, Marvin Malone, Cid Corman, Jerome Rothenberg, Guillaume Appolinaire, Larry Eigner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edwin Morgan, Cesar Lopez Nunez, Jonathan Williams, Tom McGrath, Spike Hawkins, Georg Trakl, Robert Garioch, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Robert Creeley, Vladimir Mayokovsky, Yury Pantratov, Libby Houston, Eugen Gomringer, Michael Shayer, Mary Ellen Solt, Peter Stitt, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Lyle, Margot Sandemann, Heinz Gappmayr, Pedro Xisto, Hamish MacLaren, George Macklay Brown, Eli Seigel, Pierre Albert-Birot, Francis Ponge, Edward Wright, Emil Antonucci, Charles Biederman, Jim Nicholson, Ronald Johnson, Bernard Kops, Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Augusto de Campos, Edgard Braga, Bridget Riley, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Lax, Jeffrey Steele, Kenelm Cox, Stephen Bann, Hansjorg Mayer, Edward Lucie-Smith, Alan Riddell, Astrid Gillis, Aram Saroyan et al. Ref: IN NUMBERS (PPP Editions, Switzerland, 2009) pages 9, 18, 314-321. Also exhibited in the show of that name, ICA, 2012. Murray pages 2-3. Condition: most issues near fine, some very good with slight bruising to edges (see image of issues 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25 showing edgewear/handling marks).

Albert de Vree (illustrator). 'MUSSENSCHRIK IN DE STORM'Scarecrow in a ghostly storm scene; surreal atmosphere.Made by Albert de Vree after own design.Medium: Mezzotint engraving on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 44 x 23.8 cm (17.32 x 9.37 inch). Image size: 37.5 x 25 cm. (14.76 x 9.84 inch).ALBERT DE VREE, STORM, SCARECROW, GHOST, MEZZOTINT, ABSTRACT | PCO-EXPO-57BACKGROUND INFORMATIONLillo, Belgium.Biography engraver: Albert de Vree (born 1942), Belgian mezzotint engraver known for surreal and atmospheric works. Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.