Brown and Green and Other Parables
John Baldessari
Reykjavik, Iceland : i8. 2001

Classic Baldessari. Funnny, sad, and droll, this title harks back to his first book "Ingres and other Parables", with stories with morals perfect for any budding artist. A strong tonic for an artworld that's lost its way.

Category: Book

$26.00

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Queer Zines
exhibition catalog
Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, editors
New York, NY : Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008

Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play. In a riotous assemblage of more than 200 pages, we find comprehensive bibliographies and sinful synopses for more than 120 zines by Alex Gartenfeld, excerpted illustrations and writings by zine makers, reprints of important articles in and about queer zines, a directory of important zine archives, and a list of zine outlets around the world. It also includes a 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald by Vince Aletti, Bimbox's pop-up genitalia (alas, not popping up here), Adam Block's early writings on zines from the Advocate, a "Where are They Now?" section that charts the careers of various queer zine pioneers, and excerpted interviews with GB Jones, Vaginal Davis, and Bruce LaBruce. See more here: http://www.queerzines.com

Category: Book

$25.00

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Punk Picasso
Larry Clark
New York, NY : AKA Editions. 2003

The title of Larry Clark’s opus punk Picasso is lifted from a passage in David Denby's review of the artist's film, Bully that reads “…as the camera wanders-grazes among naked thighs and tattooed torsos, this punk Picasso combines the multiple desires of lover, artist and voyeur…” The book displays, in scrapbook format, a loose chronological overview of the celebrated artist’s provocative career.

The material presented spans family snapshots (his American Indian great grandfather, his father playing golf, a portrait of his mother as a professional photographer with Rollei and flash in hand, Clark with his son’s soccer team); unpublished images from Tulsa and 42nd St.; photographs from the set of his first film Kids and his new film Ken Park; clippings from reviews of exhibitions and films; correspondence; transcribed stories; Roger Maris ephemera; portraits of skateboarders, River Phoenix (images appropriated from Teen Magazines), Clark’s lover Tiffany and their dog Snappy; Page Six headlines and reproductions of vinyl records that act as a silent soundtrack to the raucous visual narrative.

punk Picasso gathers together scraps that chart the life of the artist and his creations, which in Clark’s case, are inseparably entwined.

Category: Book

$1,000.00

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Keith : Six Drawings 1979
Chuck Close
New York, NY : Lapp Princess Press. 1979

Six gridded drawings of one model using six different mark making and thumb printing techniques. The portraits are reproduced on pages folded into the larger accordion folds of the actual size grids, setting up an interesting scale relationship between the book and the reader's hands and gives the reader an intimate experience of Close's working process. Number 12 in the Lapp Princess Press series.

Category: Book

$40.00

Typewriter Poems
Peter Finch, editor
New York and Cardiff, NY and Wales : Something Else Press and Second Aeon Productions. 1972

Twenty-two practitioners of the art of the typewriter poem contribute to this slim volume of experimental letters. Includes Thomas A. Clark, Bob Cobbing, and Michael Gibbs.

Category: Book

$25.00

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