Robert Breer, First Edition (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Robert Breer Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Museum Tinguely Basel 2011. Pages are really clean and tight, covers look nice. In German. Very nice catalog of his work.

Brossura. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. BREER Robert (Detroit 1926 - Tucson 2011), New York, Galeria Bonino, LTD, 1967, 19,2x25,4 cm., brossura, pp. [12 cover included), cover illustrated in two colors, 7 photographic illustrations in black and white (of which 3 on double page). Exhibition catalog (New York, Galeria Bonino, 14th November - 9th December, 1967).

senza rilegatura. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. BREER Robert (Detroit 1926 - Tucson 2011) Köln, Galerie Ricke, 1968, 21x15 cm, [4], invitation sheet folded in two parts, illustrated with line images published on the occasion of the exhibition (Cologne, Ricke Gallery, 6 March - 6 April 1968).

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Publisher's stiff printed wraps bound by two black plastic screws. First edition. Near Fine with very faint creasing to front wrap, a little shelf wear to rear wrap. From the collection of "design guru" and notable collector of postmodern objects Jim Walrod with his emboss on the first page. This rare flipbook was produced for the Manchester band New Order, whose avant-garde dance music epitomized the postmodern blending of high and mass culture, for one of their biggest hits: the moody techno song "Blue Monday." Copies were sent out for friends of the Hacienda, Factory Records' head honcho Tony Wilson's Situationist-inspired nightclub. It was co-designed by William Wegman, famous for his portraits of his own dogs. Filmmaker Robert Breer created an animation of one of Wegman's Weimaraners to be flipped through (presumably along with the song) in a kind of "manual video." Music videos were all the rage at the time. Madchester, Wegman's Weimaraners, Factory Records, music videos, The Hacienda-- peak '80s style was achieved here.