Le Cahier De Dessin (Book)
A facsimile of the first works by Lettrist artist Broutin, who joined the French avant-garde movement in 1968. This pamphlet features asemic writing by Broutin, a kind of wordless writing characteristic of Lettrist art that has no meaning in terms of language.
Perspectives (Book+2CD)
Very rare artist's book! A full-color book with 56 pages of paintings and visual works by Wolfgang Meyer-Tormin and Luc Ferrari, with photographs by Alberto Ricci. Limited private edition, 200 copies - 75 pages and 2 CDs, English - German - French
Disc 1 – Wolfgang Meyer Tormin– Vom Klavier pour Klavier IV – Sieben Stücke (1987)– Aspekt II (1983)– Vom Klavier pour Klavier IV – Neuen kleine Stücke (1985)– Zwölf Klangfelder (1968)– Aspekt IV (1983)– Von Fern Her (extrait de Vom Klavier pour Klavie…
Advertisements 1971/1972 (Book)
2024 stock Actionist, maker of objects, writer and graphic artist Dieter Roth created an exceptionally diverse and convoluted oeuvre. In Lucerne he published a series of small ads twice weekly in the newspaper «Anzeiger Stadt Luzern und Umgebung», consisting of an aphorism and signed by his initials. Embedded in advertisements from «real» life, these ads conjured the surreal, subversive side of existence as in statements like «A good beginning is an evil end», «A tear is as evil as a good word» …
Tears In Lucerne (Book)
2024 stock Dieter Roth left his mark in Lucerne: close, long-standing friendships and traces in his works. Tränen in Luzern (Tears in Lucerne) complements the volume Inserate 1971/1972 with material for the original version of the Tränenmeer (Sea of Tears) project that – with its instalments and different stages of development – counts as one of Roth’s major literary projects. An in-depth essay by Stefan Ripplinger places Tränenmeer within Roth’s œuvre as a whole, and an entertaining interview …
Sketchbook, September 1977 (Book)
Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key insights into the artist’s mind before her move to New York in 1978, where she would go on to have a prolific career making lifelike dolls, theatrical sets, photographs, drawings, and paintings.
Containing drawings, behavioral diagrams, and occasionally confessional writing, the journal is a record of imagining the body and mind re…
Songs Without Words And Music (Book)
Very nice artist's book by Ramuntcho Matta.
103 Arten Beethoven zu singen / 103 Ways of Singing Beethoven (book)
*2024 Stock * English/German artits' book, 32 pages.
Symphony No. 1 – Music for the Inner Ear (Book)
English Edition, 314 pages. Symphony No. 1 is an entire symphony of 3 movements, described in text so the music unfolds itself as music for the inner ear, challenging the dicta above, by claiming that Music begins when words begin. The reader becomes the listener, that will become co-composers by creating music with their inner ear. The symphony is released by Forlaget Vandkunsten Finishing the symphony back in the spring of 2016 and after having 4 different layouts the symphony finally found i…
Concerto For Modern, Movie, And Pop Music For Ten Instruments And Voice
Artist's book / exhibition catalogue and audio CD published in conjunction with "Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice" a concert by Stephen Prina held at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 18, 2010 and a screening of two films by Prina held March 19, 2010.. For 30 years, Stephen Prina (born 1954) has enjoyed a simultaneous career as a visual artist and as an acclaimed musician, both under his own name and with The Red Krayola. Having kept his artistic int…
De—Composed
„de—COMPOSED“ — New artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk. The catalog documents acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 Audio-CDs. A complex assemblage, composed of documentation photos, texts and drawings, becomes an interlocking whole in its dynamic flows and fields and animates the paper as a vibrantly structured visual composition. A piece of music for the eyes, in which the bou…
Remembering a Dance Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019 (Book)
Parts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainer’s 1965 performance for ten people and twelve mattresses, represents a turning point in the American choreographer’s oeuvre. “My mattress monster,” as Rainer calls it, was built in her formative years with the experimental downtown New York group Judson Dance Theater. In this work, she asserted her exploration of “ordinary” actions as well as her disregard for narrative constructions to create an intricate choreography that unfolded with a new scene every thir…
Coverscaping Discovering Album Aesthetics (Book)
*2023 stock* Coverscaping focuses on the semiotics, poetics, and rhetoric of album covers. Working from the assumption that record sleeves may represent a visual genre in its own right, the essays engage in various ways with what one might call the pictorial component of recorded music. The contributors run the whole gamut from close readings of individual covers to more theoretical or philosophical explorations of the aesthetic nature and artistic value of album covers. Coverscaping aims to car…
You’ll Know When You Get There - Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (Book)
*2023 stock* As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and el…
Mainframe Experimentalism Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts (Book)
*2023 stock* Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art." Juxtaposing the original works alongside scholarly contributions by well-established and em…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 4 – Legs
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.Limited edition of 50 copies for each series.
Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pionee…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 3 – Cars
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.
Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 2 – Women & Flowers
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.
Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022 (Book)
Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022 is Roscoe Mitchell's first exhibit with Corbett Vs. Dempsey. The exhibit is accompanied by an in-depth 140-page full-color catalog reproducing over 100 of Mitchell’s paintings, with an interview by John Corbett.
Roscoe Mitchell is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator. The Penguin Guide to Jazz described him as "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz; All About Jazz stated in 2004 that he had been "at the forefront of modern music" …
Sensorialité excentrique (Book)
"All that man has undertaken and done until today was: only failure !!!! A New Civilization! urgently!"
Chronicles Vol.3
Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.