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ARS LIBRI ELECTRONIC LIST 127: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART

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1 The Hague. Gemeentemuseum & Eindhoven. Van Abbemuseum. CARL ANDRE. Jan.-March 1987. Foreword by Carl

Andre. Catalogue by Rita Sartorius. 176, (4)pp. Prof. illus. Tall 4to. Wraps. D.j. Catalogue raisonné, prepared in conjunction with the two concurrent exhibitions.

The Hague, 1987. $650.00 Freitag 194

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2 BASKIN, LEONARD. Demons, Imps & Friends. (2)pp., 18 plates. 4to. Dec. marbled boards, black leather spine gilt.

Edition limited to 450 numbered copies, printed on “various interesting papers” by pressman Harold McGrath. [Northampton, Massachusetts] (The Gehenna Press), 1976. $300.00


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3 Roma. Mario Diacono. JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT: Il campo vicino l’altra strada. 23 ottobre - 20 novembre 1982. (4)pp.

(single sheet of tan wove card stock, imprinted in red letterpress). Lrg. 8vo. Self-wraps. The very first catalogue, and the first monograph, published on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with a densely written text by Mario Diacono. The exhibition was devoted to the display of a single major painting, “Il campo vicino l’altra strada” (“The Field Next to the Other Road”).

Mario Diacono notes that this painting has been at times incorrectly dated 1981, and mentioned as painted and exhibited that year in Modena at the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, in the show titled SAMO. The work was indeed painted in Modena, but in 1982, for another exhibition that Basquiat had in fact planned at the Galleria Mazzoli which never actually took place. By an agreement between Basquiat's primary dealer at the time, Annina Nosei, and the Galleria Diacono, the work was then exhibited in Rome, in October 1982. Its price was set at 7 million lire, or about $5,000. In May 2015, the painting was sold at Christie’s for $37,125,000.

Roma, 1982. $3,000.00 Brooklyn Museum: Basquiat. Edited by Marc Mayer (Brooklyn, 2005), p. 216 (“Monographs and One- and Two-Person

Exhibition Catalogues”)


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4 BURKE, BILL. I Want to Take Picture. (60)pp. Prof. illus. Folio. Photo-illustrated boards. First edition of Bill Burke's

photobook documenting his travels to Thailand and Cambodia in the 1980s, with collages of photographs, ephemera, and handwritten diary entries. Fine. Small “Review copy,” stamped on title-page.

Atlanta (Nexus Press), 1987. $750.00 Parr & Badger 2, 40-41; Roth 258-259


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5 BURNABY. SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. Catalogue for the Exhibition. May-June, 1969. Exhibition organized by Seth

Siegelaub. (10)pp. 7 illus. Wraps. Catalogue of the important conceptual art exhibition, which took place throughout the University, in part via the school’s communication facilities. Participating were Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., and Lawrence Weiner.

Burnaby, 1969. $400.00


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6 EXPRESSION. NO. 3. (1947). 33, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Cover silkscreen and one original tipped-in color silkscreen by Moi

Solotaroff. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Texts by Moi Solotaroff, Daniel Rhody, Alfred Kouzel, Maynard Whitlow. Rare periodical run by the artist group The Studio of Modern Art, featuring Surrealist poetry, essays, drawings and original prints in silkscreen by a small collective of Southern California artists. Only four issues were published.

Los Angeles (The Studio of Modern Art), 1947. $200.00


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7 (HEARTFIELD, JOHN) AIZ (“Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”). Jahrgang XIV, Nr. 5, 31. Januar 1935. Hitlers Friedenstaube. “Die Saar wäre glücklich erledigt, jetzt lasse ICH MEINEN Habicht nach Süden vorstossen.” /

Hitlers Dove of Peace. The Saar having been happily disposed of, now let MY hawk move forward. (4)pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, with the Heartfield photomontage on rear cover. Folio. Orig. pictorial printed wrappers (edges slightly rubbed). Covers only (not complete issue) of AIZ with John Heartfield’s famous satirical photomontage of a “dove of peace,” depicting a hawk with a Nazi armband and the feather of the dove it has devoured in its mouth: “Hitlers Friedenstaube.” The caption in quotes refers to Theodor Habicht, whose name means hawk, ws the leader of the illegal Nazi Party in Austria, who had provided arms to the Austrian Nazis prior to his expulsion in June 1933. On front cover: “Winterhilfe” für Goering.

Prague, 1935. $450.00 Evans, David. John Heartfield: AIZ/VI, 1930-1938 (New York: Kent Fine Art, 1992), nos. 1/32 - 18/32; Siepmann p. 144ff.


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8 (HEARTFIELD, JOHN) AIZ (“Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”). Jahrgang XIV Nr. 6, 7. Februar 1935. Fantasie zwei Ostpaktjäger. Reichsminister Göring zum polnishcen Aussenminister Beck: “Lassen Sie mir den Hals

des Bären, Herr Kollege, dann lasse ich ihnen den Steiss.” Dem Beispiel Herrn von Papens folgend, der kürzlich nach Ungarn “jagen” fuhr, hat sich Göring zu einer ‘diplomatischen Jagd’ in die Urwälder von Bialowieza in Polen begeben./ Fantasy of two Eastern Pact hunters. Reich Minister Göring to the Polish foreign minister Beck: “You leave me the neck of the bear, Herr colleague, and I will leave you the rump.” Following the example of Mr. von Papen, who recently lead a “hunt” into Hungary, Göring has himself set out on a “diplomatic hunt” to the backwoods of Bialowieza in Poland. (16)pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, with the Heartfield photomontage on rear cover. Folio. Self-wraps. (edges slightly rubbed). Single issue of AIZ with John Heartfield’s photomontage with an adapted photograph of Göring that had appeared on the cover of the previous issue of AIZ (14#5, 31 January 1935). Józef Beck, Polish foreign minister from 1932 until 1939, was the architect of the German-Polish non-agression pact of 1934. The two men gaze up at the constellation “Grosser Bär,” which represents the Soviet Union.



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9 (HEARTFIELD, JOHN) AIZ (“Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”). Jahrgang XIV, Nr. 8, 21. Februar 1935. Es kommt der Tag... Die internationale Arbeiterklasse an Rákosi: “Sind auch stark die Mauern, die dich umgeben,

brüchig ist die Macht, die dich gefangen hält.” / The Day Will Come...the international working class to Rákosi: “As strong as the walls that surround you may be, the power that keeps you imprisoned is fragile.” (16)pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, with the Heartfield photomontage on rear cover. Folio. Self-wraps. (edges slightly rubbed). Single issue of AIZ with John Heartfield’s photomontage of a prison. The Hungarian Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi (1892-1971) was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1935. Extradited to Moscow in 1940, he returned to Hungary in 1944, and served as secretary of the Communist Party until the 1956 Hungarian revolution forced him to flee back to Moscow again. Cover title: Kriegsschauplatz Abessinien.



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10 (HEARTFIELD, JOHN) AIZ (“Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”). Jahrgang XIV, Nr. 9, 28. Februar 1935. Das Spiel der Nazis mit dem Feuer. “Wenn die Welt erst brennt, werden wir schon beweissen dass Moskau der

Brandstifter war.” The Nazis playing with fire. “When the whole world is burning, we will manage to prove that Moscow was the arsonist.” (4)pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, with the Heartfield photomontage on rear cover. Folio. Self-wraps. (edges slightly rubbed; expert tape repair to corner of rear-cover). Previous hinged mounts remaining at top-edge of rear cover. Covers only (not complete issue) of AIZ with John Heartfield’s satirical cover depicting Göring holding a firebrand that contained a two-page article on the second anniversary of the Reichstag fire that reiterated the view that the fire was an anti-Communist provocation by the Nazis, masterminded by Göring.



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11 (HEARTFIELD, JOHN) AIZ (“Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”). Jahrgang XV, Nr. 8, 20. Februar 1936. Der Sekt ist Steuerfrei! und das ist: Deutscher Sozialismus. “Die Steuer auf Schaumweine wurde aufgehoben.” Amtliche

Pressemeldung aus Berlin./ The Champagne is Tax free! And that is: German Socialism. (4)pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, with the Heartfield photomontage on rear cover. Folio. Self-wraps. (edges slightly rubbed). Previous hinged mounts remaining at top-edge of front-cover. Covers only (not complete issue) of AIZ with John Heartfield’s satirical juxtaposition of Goebbels and Göring drinking champagne with a woman in a festive setting, contrasted with a poor beggar woman and exhausted worker.



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12 KAPROW, ALLAN. How To Make a Happening. 33-1/3 rpm. l-p. record. Lrg. sq. 4to. Self-wraps. Among the most sought-

after of Kaprow’s Happenings records, the record sleeve has a silkscreened cover photo by Sol Goldberg from Kaprow’s Happening “Household” at Cornell University in 1964. This copy includes the plastic sleeve printed with the album title in red that was added to some copies when the record was distributed by Something Else Press.

New York (Mass Art Inc.), 1966. $600.00


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13 KILLIP, CHRIS. In Flagrante. With an essay by John Berger and Sylvia Grant. 93, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Photo-illus.

wraps. “The objective history of England doesn’t amount to much if you don’t believe in it, and I don’t, and I don’t believe that anyone in these photographs does either as they face the reality of de-industrialisation in a system which regards their lives as disposable. To the people in these photographs I am superfluous, my life does not depend upon their struggle, only my hopes.”

“This is a subjective book about my time in England. I take what isn’t mine and I covet other peoples lives. The photographs can tell you more about me than about what they described.”

“The book is a fiction about metaphor. Chris Killip.” Presentation copy, inscribed “For Bobbie,/ one of the more than/ alright people!/ Chris Nov 92.” on the half-title.

London (Secker & Warburg), 1988. $500.00 Parr/Badger II.299; The Open Book p. 340f.


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14 NEW YORK. THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. Six Painters and the Object. March-June 1963. (Exhibition

63/2.) (26)pp. 6 illus. Tall 8vo. Wraps. The seminal exhibition of Pop Art highlighting Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Roy Liechtenstein, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, with the striking catalogue designed by Herbert Matter.

New York, 1963. $175.00


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15 NEW YORK. P.S. 1 (PROJECT STUDIOS ONE). THE INSTITUTE FOR ART AND URBAN RESOURCES, INC. Rooms

P.S. 1. June 9-26, 1976. Introduction by Alanna Heiss. 127, (9)pp. Prof. illus. Sq. 4to. Wraps. The important inaugural exhibition by Alanna Heiss.

New York, 1976. $225.00


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16 RUSCHA, EDWARD, et al. Royal Road Test. [By] Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha, Patrick Blackwell. Third edition.

(64)pp. 36 halftone illus. 4to. Printed Wraps. Third edition. 2000 copies printed. Slightly bumped at upper corner of front-cover.

Los Angeles (Mason Williams and Edward Ruscha), 1971. $300.00 Engberg B10


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17 RUSCHA, EDWARD. Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles. (46)pp. 31 full-page plates (1 with folding tab). 4to. Wraps.

Second edition, limited to 2000 copies. Very good, with slight darkening to front-cover. N.p. (Edward Ruscha), 1974. $750.00 Engberg B5; Lauf/Phillpot p. 160; Lyons p. 98; Guest/Celant p. 54; Moore College of Art p. 68; Splendid Pages p. 199

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