Documentext New York (11 results)

Hardcover. Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Glossy black dj with bw photo and yellow lettering. 271 pp. full of bw photos. For seven years, from 1956 to 1962, a young French artist electrified the European art world with visual, conceptual and performance art works far ahead of their time. His rise was wildly celebrated by some as the appearance of a prophetic genius, and derisively dismissed by others as scandalous nonsense. His monochrome paintings, body art works, fire paintings, conceptual exhibitions and music, and monumental public space works threatened to upend the very categories of art, in both Europe and America. Indeed, after his tragically premature death in 1962, some of the most far-reaching transformations in contemporary art would follow directly in his wake. But by the 1970s his reputation seemed headed for oblivion, until in 1977 a young classics scholar at Rice University, Thomas McEvilley, proposed Klein for a retrospective show to Dominique deMenil, then director of the Rice gallery, and wrote several texts about Klein that would transform our understanding of Yves Klein's aesthetics. The project grew to involve major institutions, resulting in 1982 with exhibitions in Houston, New York, Paris and Chicago. Virtually overnight Yves Klein's art reentered the art canon. Coincidentally, the career of an important critic was launched. Yves the Provocateur provides the "skeleton key" to clearly examine the full dimensions of Klein's accomplishment. In two opening essays, McEvilley briefly surveys and places Klein's art into context. Then, in the centerpiece essay -- which amounts to a miniature critical biography bearing all the best features of a novella -- he traces the formative and crucial events in Klein's life. Finally, he describes Klein's intellectual development, demonstrating how Klein embedded and parodied in his work the philosophical system of a particular form of Rosicrucianism. An extensive chronology is appended at the end. Yves the Provocateur collects Thomas McEvilley's writings on Klein which rejuvenated Klein's stature and hitherto have only been available in journals and hard-to-find exhibition catalogues. Together they constitute an important document in contemporary art history. The publication of this book is timed to coincide with the major Klein retrospective at the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington, DC on May 16, 2010, and later at the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, on October 23. NF/NF but art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Various (illustrator).…

First Edition. First edition. Small oblong softcover. [28 pages.] Features text by Ted Castle. Includes color and black and white illustrations, a checklist, biographical information, list of previous exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Second printing (stated). Sewn binding softcover, in dustjacket I have rated this copy only "Fair" because it has ***significant highlighting***. Otherwise very good, with a little wear and faint browning along bottom edge. Unclipped dustjacket is nice, with some sunning to spine but little wear.…

Hardcover. Dark aqua cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket, unpaginated, 18 BW and 12 color illus. Title on cover: SCHNEEMANN. A combination of two exhibition catalogues from the Max Hutchinson Gallery, featuring artwork by American artist Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939). With essays by Ted Castle and Julia Ballerini. The exhibition checklists cite 30 and 56 pieces respectively, and 30 are pictured here. Concludes with an artist chronology with exhibitions history and bibliography. This hardbound copy does NOT include the signed lithograph found in others. G+ (Bottom edge of binding is rubbed near spine; a few instances of foxing esp. on inside of dj; remnants of a label and mark on top of dj; otherwise only lightly aged inside.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition (1982.) This is #19 of 200 copies signed by Stan Brakhage. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. 4to with 262 pages. The book is in very good condition. The interior is clean and tight. Pictures available on request. Blue spine/gold text. #035822 Size: 4to. Signed. Film.…

Rilegato. Condition: molto buono. "Schneemann's remarkable "More Than Meat Joy" documents a large portion of this performance artist's career: 1958 to 1977. The book is particularly rich because it uses the artist's own documentation: photos, notes, sketches, commentary, and script-like documents. " Text: McPherson Bruce. cm 27x22; pp. 288; BN; hardcover with dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cover somewhat discolored. Otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Good (Protective Cover). tight binding; some blue paint same page as inscription from artist/author; clipped dust jacket corner with 'oop' next to it Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. By Author.

Mappe mit Leporello und Begleitband mit CD-Rom zusammen im Schuber: 8 Leporellos, OKart.-Mappe; 78 Seiten, 1 Bl., 1 beiliegende CD in Beilagentasche an der hinteren Umschlaginnenseite, OKart., OPp.-Schuber, 30 x 20 cm. Mit eigenhändiger Widmung und Signatur von Herbert Schuldt auf dem Schuber. Die Widmung vom 16. Oktober 1998 gilt Joachim Kersten. - Außerdem mit eigenhändiger Widmung und Signatur von Schuldt auf Vortitel des Textbandes. Die Widmung vom 17. Oktober 1998 gilt ebenfalls Joachim Kersten. - Außerdem mit eigenhändiger Widmung und Signatur von Schuldt auf dem Titelleporello. Die Widmung vom 17. Oktober 1998 gilt wiederum Joachim Kersten. - Deutsch-Englische lyrische Gemeinschaftsarbeit von Kelly und Schuldt auf der Basis von Hölderlins "Am Quell der Donau". - Enthält den 1. Teil (die Leporellos mit dem Text Hölderlins links und der Übersetzung von Schuldt rechts), den 2. Teil (den Textband mit den assoziativ lautlich übersetzenden Zeilen von Hölderlin, Kelly und Schuldt und dem Text der Schallgeschwister/sound siblings) und den 3. Teil (CD in Beilagentasche auf der hinteren Umschlaginnenseite des Textbands: Schallgeschwister/sound siblings). - Die Leporellos durchgehend in zweifarbigem Druck (blau und schokoladenfarben gedruckter Text); der Textband teils mehrfarbig (Schrift in Blau, Braun, Mauve, Grün, Rot). Provenienz: Joachim Kersten (Rechtsanwalt und Literaturvermittler, 1946-2023; Nachlassexlibris auf den vorderen Umschlaginnenseiten). - Der Schuber etwas gebräunt; gutes Exemplar.…

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "For Aldis & Maria - dear friends, with admiration, love, & thanks, Carolee 12/87 - NY - Venice - NY", and with the recipient's blindstamp to the front free endpaper. The recipient was the notable American art dealer Aldis Jerome Browne (d. 2019), founder of Aldis Browne Fine Arts in New York City. He distinguished himself by assisting major museums, including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Met, and LA's Getty Museum, acquire works for exhibitions. A "maven, connector, and art advocate", Browne "lent his considerable prowess to help artists, collectors, businesses, and political activists bring attention to various endeavours and causes" (obituary, Legacy online). Oblong quarto. Original blue boards, spine lettered in red, front cover in blind, red endpapers. Foot of spine bumped, a few marks to covers; jacket price-clipped, sunned and a little soiled, edges nicked with occasional chip or short closed tear: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.…