David Wojnarowicz, Signed (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Wojnarowicz, David; Romberger, James; Van Cook, Marguerite (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook on the title page.We will request additional shipping costs after your order for this specific book due to its rarity based on actual shipping costs to your destination. Currently media mail within the US is $4.92 plus $1.00 for packaging for a total of $5.92. This will not slow down the shipping of the book.Thank you for understanding. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near fine. First edition. Rare signed copy of Wojnarowicz's first book, with a brief but revealing autograph note from him laid in. A selection of monologues from "junkies, prostitutes, male hustlers, truck drivers, hobos, young outlaws, runaway kids, criminal types, and perpetual drifters" (DIARIES) the artist began gathering as early as 1974 during his travels hitchhiking and train-hopping across America, SOUNDS IN THE DISTANCE marks this influential multimedia artist and AIDS activist's first book. Issued in an edition of 500 copies, according to our colleagues at Granary Books, "Jim Pennington, printer and editor at [publisher] Aloes, reports that Bookslinger, their sole American distributor, may well have pulped their considerable stock when they went out of business circa 1984." A scarce book (OCLC notes just 7 scattered copies in the US), it is quite rare signed. The brief autograph note from Wojnarowicz loosely laid into this copy explains: "The guy in the cover photo was sleeping near Beaubourg Museum in Paris. One of the local drunks." An excellent example of this important debut. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original saddle-stapled black-and-white pictorial wrappers, featuring a photograph by Wojnarowicz. With a rear cover blurb by William S. Burroughs. [2], 52, [2] pages. Signed by Wojnarowicz on the title page: "David Wojnarowicz NYC '83." Small autograph note in Wojnarowicz's hand conveying the book loosely laid in; approximately 50 words, on a 4'' x 6'' piece of scrap paper (bottom edge torn, as sent). Touches of shelfwear. Clean, sound, and sharp overall. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Wojnarowicz, David; Romberger, James; Van Cook, Marguerite (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook on the title page.We will request additional shipping costs after your order for this specific book due to its rarity based on actual shipping costs to your destination. Currently media mail within the US is $4.92 plus $1.00 for packaging for a total of $5.92. This will not slow down the shipping of the book.Thank you for understanding. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by David Wojnarowicz on the inside front cover with his signature and a 1990 date. The printed ISBN is 094558074, though not a valid contemporary ISBN. Some edge wear to cover. Rare catalog for this controversial show. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine Rubber Wrapper. First Edition/Limited Edition. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. ?This project is a collection of images and texts, defining and expressing the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side, and is a statement of the underlying force of ?art as a means of resistance? It is both a documentation and expression of social/political issues in our neighborhood, and on a larger scale to symbolize similar conflicts in other parts of the world.? [Bulletspace] Printed at Bullet Space (an anarchist squatter community since 1982), The Lower East Side Workshop, Black Cat Printshop, Cooper Union, and the Brandywine Workshop. Funded by Art Matters, Artist Space, Northstar Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation. The work includes 32 silkscreened posters [on Mohawk vellum paper], all signed by the artists: Paul Castrucci; John Fekner; Stash Two; Tom McGliynn & Emily Carter; Day Gleeson & Dennis Tomas; Nadia Coen; Anton Von Dalen; Juan Sanchez; Martin Wong; Miguel Pinero & Andrew Castrucci; Betzaida Concepcion; Seth Tobocman; Sabrina Jones; Red Rodriquez; Marguerite Van Cooke & James Romberger; Neighborhood News; David Wojnarowicz; Lee Quinones & Eduardo Galleano; Lady Pink; Sebastian Schroeder; Missing Foundation; Salter Sipser; Bruce Witsiepe; Will Sales; Vincent Galgliostro & Avram Finkelstein; Eric Drooker. "This project is a collection of images and texts concerning the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side [of Manhattan]." It presents a series of posters created to bring attention to New York City's campaign of condemning entire blocks of decent low-income housing in order to demolish them and build more taxable high-rise housing. It is a document of an impressive and provocative public art project featuring some of the most well-known artists of this activist art movement centering on housing, economics, healthcare, gay and lesbian and other civil rights.and of the American art world of the time. Many of the artists have become well-known in recent years, with their works represented in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Brooklyn Museum, etc. Several artist included have emerged as major figures in the Graffiti Art Movement. Several are now faculty at prestigious colleges. Each of the posters was printed in an edition of approximately 300, half formed the core of this book series, the rest were posted in the neighborhood. These posters catalyzed and sometimes escalated the intensity of the dialog around the ongoing issues of gentrification, conservation, urban development and social justice that is the bedrock of the Lower East Side experience. Beyond that, culturally the posters embody a 20th Century movement where artists combined innovative materials, design and aesthetics with radical and populist politics that had a great impact on the art world of New York and beyond. The unusual, heavy, lead-covered binding was designed to convey the feeling of oppression. The significance of the work.and a reason for its increasingly scarcity.can be seen in an overview of institutions who now hold a copies: Brooklyn Museum, NY; Cooper-Hewitt, NY; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, MA; Getty Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Gutenberg Bibliotek, Germany; Herzon Museum, Germany; Mainz Bibliotek, Germany; MoMA, NY; Museo del Commune di Milan, Italy; Offenback Bibliotek, Germany; Pesci Museum, Italy; Smith College, MA; Spencer Collection at Yale University, CT; Staadt Museum, Germany, Stielich Bibliotek, Germany; University of Kansas, KS; Kohler Art Library at University of Wisconsin, WI; Victoria and Albert Museum, UK; Wellesley College, MA; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY." [Bulletspace] The final line of the forward to Your House is Mine reads, ?We have taken this opportunity to unite the following people in this collaborative project, as a statement of ?art as a means of resistance.?? It is a remarkable statement. Very minor shelf/edge wear to spine, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black rubber sheet wrapper, numbered in white ink with the limitation. Wooden boards, rubber hinges, bolted spine, boards/spine covered in lead, painted lettering on boards. fo. np. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Limited numbered edition, this being ___ of 150. All posters signed by the artist.

Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand, "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / (copyright) 1986 / Photo (copyright) R Kern," with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso. A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation, the film was shot unscripted over two days, and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood, specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father, played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother, and the young East Village model Leg, who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos, starred as the lead, daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner, and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas, the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table, angrily proclaiming, "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Signed.