Featured: Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins: Wüste, Meer und Sterne Desert, Sea & Stars

Edited by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Texts by Hubertus Butin, Julia Friedrich
Hardcover

"The many admirers and devotees of Vija Celmins (born 1938) at last possess a serious overview of the Latvian-born, New York-based artist's work in this volume. For more than a half-century, Celmins has quietly mined a narrow but infinitely rich range of theme and palette, extrapolating whole worlds of photorealist detail from four seemingly simple motifs: the surface of the sea, the night sky, the desert and the spider web. In oil paintings, prints and charcoal or graphite pencil drawings that revisit these motifs over and over, as if researching them to comprehend their infinities of detail, Celmins confines herself to the colors black, white and gray, preserving a spacious sobriety and calm exactitude for her potentially romantic subjects. This essential volume reproduces more than 60 variations of Celmins' precisely depicted seas, skies, deserts and webs, which in the artist's seemingly dispassionate renderings restore vastness and wonder to our sense of the cosmos."






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Featured: Two By Dick Higgins & Bern Porter

Two collections of Dick Higgins Fluxus tomfoolery, illustrated by Bern Porter




Die Fabelhafte Getraume Von Taifun Willi (out of print)
Abyss Press, 1970 (1970)
Paperback






City With All The Angels (out of print)
Unpublished Editions, 1974
Paperback




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Featured: Aspen Magazine In A Box 5+6: The Minimalism Issue

Aspen Magazine In A Box Issue 5+6
All 28 listed items are present including all advertisements.
Rare and out of print

New Arrival: Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin
Hardcover

Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin’s paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. Martin attributed her grid-based works to metaphysical motivations, lending a serene complexity to her oeuvre that has defied any easy categorization. Perhaps for this reason, critical and scholarly analysis of her paintings has been scarce—until now. This important new anthology brings together the most current scholarship on Martin’s paintings by twelve multidisciplinary essayists who consider various aspects of the artist’s four-decade career.

Organized by Dia Art Foundation, whose extensive holdings of Martin’s paintings and ambitions to support in-depth research on the works are unparalleled, the publication brings renewed focus and energy to Martin’s career and her contributions to the art historical narrative.




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New Arrivals: Philip Guston

Philip Guston
Marlborough, 1970
Paperback in clear printed mylar dust jacket

A beautiful copy of the catalog for the 1970 show at the Marlborough Gallery, which heralded Guston's return to figurative painting. The new work was savaged by the critics and ended his affiliation with Marlborough but pointed to a possible exit from the various cul-de-sacs created by modernism over the 20th century.




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Featured: Vintage Art Annuals

Art In America, No. Two 1964
wrap around cover by Roy Lichtenstein
Hardcover, illustrated boards




Art News Annual XXXVI: Narrative Art, edited by Thomas Hess & John Ashbery
cover by Saul Steinberg
Hardcover with dust jacket




Art In America, No. Two 1961
wrap around cover by Saul Steinberg
Hardcover, illustrated boards




Art In America, No. Four 1964
wrap around cover by David Smith
Hardcover, illustrated boards

Featured: Three Pamphlets

Asger Jorn, Open Creation And Its Enemies
Pamphlet

"Three texts from one of the founders of the Lettrists and the Situationist International, all translated from Internationale Situationniste. Open Creation establishes how Jorn used developments in mathematics to underscore the situationist project. Also included are his "Manifesto" and his critique of Isidore Isou—"Originality And Magnitude."






Thomas De Quincy, The Peasant Of Portugal
Pamphlet

"A curious Gothic revenge tale in which the events narrated gradually unwind to be revealed as problems of text and writing: plot as a means of generating a text. Empty and unnerving."




Among the Cannibal Christians
Pamphlet

"Did the early Christians take the command "eat of my body," a bit too literally? And just what did "the Body and Blood of Christ" really consist of? A fascinating study into the use of hallucinogens and ritual cannibalism amongst the early Christians..."




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Featured: Two Art Books

Mythologie du Sein
Bibliotheque Internationale D'Erotologie, 1966
Hardcover




Charles Bouleau, The Painter's Secret Geometry
Hacker,1980
Hardcover, illustrated boards




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New Arrivals: Art

The Russian Avant-Garde: 1908-1922
Paperback





The Expressionists
George Braziller, 1957
Hardcover with dust jacket




Gauguin Woodcuts
Paul Hamlyn, 1963
Hardcover with dust jacket
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Milton Avery
The Brooklyn Museum, 1966
Hardcover






Wassily Kandinsky, The Spiritual In Art
Guggenheim Museum, 1956
Hardcover




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