Flynt, Henry. Maciunas, George, design. Fluxus
Proof. Flat, unfolded & untrimmed in a single sheet of red-orange paper comprising 4 pp. 43.2 x 86.4 cm / 17 x 34 in. Illustrations, plans, projections. Contents, Appendices1-5: 1, Soviet prefabricated building system; 2, Maciunas' prefabricated building system; 3, Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome; 4, Citroen 2CV; 5, Electric guitar and organ. The half-sheet text portion of the document is not present. A little shallow creasing. Ref: Fluxus Codex, pp. 250-251. Copies only at Northwestern and the University of Minnesota. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order.
Denes, Agnes; Horwitz, Channa; Shaw, Joyce Cutler
12 b/w plates + [24] pp. White paper covers. 21.1 x 27.7 cm (oversquare). This grouping of drawings by three remarkable artists was curated by Betty Trumbull. Essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Channa Horwitz, and Joyce Cutler Shaw. Agnes Denes' work involves speculation on maps and geometrical figures and their imaginative possibilities. Channa Horwitz used mathematical progressions in time to create wonderful visual effects. Joyce Cutler Shaw, an important environmental artist, also did a great deal of work exploring verbal elements, alphabets, and artists' books. This show featured fields and rivers of handwriting based on repeated personal names: Abigail, Adeline, Agatha, etc. Somewhat browned at the edges; a small, rough patch at the top, front edge. Scarce.
Weiner, Lawrence (1942-2021)
Single sheet of coated paper printed one side in orange, blue, and red, with buff background. Approximately 68.6 cm / 27 in. square, folded in ninths to approximately 23 cm / 9 in. square. Alfred MacAdam writes in Art News for April 12, 2017, "We may wonder what the 'inherent destiny of any object' at hand might be, above and beyond decay and dissolution, but the 'abrogation (or abolition or cancellation) of inherent destiny'implies the removal of 'the object at hand' from the flux of time or contingency. It is only possible through the translation of the word-object into a work of art, whose alternate language is Wiener's dazzling deployment of color." Near fine, folded, with one small, shallow crease at one corner. The fragment in the scan represents about 1/5 of the whole image. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.
Godard, Keith
Artist's book. "Except for what you are reading on this page, this book has no words or printed images. It is as the title suggests a book of sounds. The pages in sequence make a quiet drama of subtle noises. "By turning, fumbling and rustling the pages, you will find all that is intended." [From the copyright page.] One leaf of lightweight tan paper bearing title and copyright pages; 4 leaves of what appears to be fine, lightweight, handmade white paper; 5 leaves of natural waxed paper; 3 leaves of unbleached tissue; 4 leaves of brownish yellow-orange tissue; 3 leaves of tan tissue; 4 leaves of lighweight parchment (the first with light foxing on the front); three leaves of silver foil paper, facing verso, the verso and recto to make a reflective opening); and concluding with two leaves of stiff paper fastened together in the middle with what undoubtedly was a sound-making device a half century ago but now is silent. 26 leaves total. Stiff, coated white covers. 21 cm square. Signed and dated "73" at the bottom inside cover. The neatly printed name of the previous owner, a filmmaker, written at the top of the inside cover. Signs of light handling. Near fine, except as noted. A poetic and ingenious concept, the book was created and produced while the artist was on the part-time faculty of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) between 1971 and 1973. The black border in the scan is background, not part of the cover design. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.
Teraoka, Masami. Hess, Lynda
B/w portrait & 8 color plates printed one side on very stiff paper, with facing descriptions, plus 4 pp. of biography, collections, and bibliography. Stiff, off-white paper covers printed in black. 28 x 21.5 cm. This copy belonged to my late friend Joan Hugo, the extraordinarily talented and much-lamented librarian of Otis Art Institute during its glory days neighboring MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. She would have been an untiring champion of Teraoka's brilliant updating of traditional ukiyoe woodblock prints. Inscribed lightly in pencil by Lynda and Masami on the title page. The laid-in card is an announcement for the "Forty-first annual exhibition, Artists of Hawaii, 1999." It is photocopied on greenish-yellow card stock 20.2 x 12.6 cm. The verso contains a long, holograph message by Masami about the work of Ann Hamilton and other subjects. The slides are in two plastic, "archival preservers." Slight browning on cover edges and some rubbing at extremities. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.
B/w portrait & 8 color plates printed one side on very stiff paper, with facing descriptions, plus 4 pp. of biography, collections, and bibliography. Stiff, off-white paper covers printed in black. 28 x 21.5 cm. This copy belonged to my late friend Joan Hugo, the extraordinarily talented and much-lamented librarian of Otis Art Institute during its glory days neighboring MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. She would have been an untiring champion of Teraoka's brilliant updating of traditional ukiyoe woodblock prints. Inscribed lightly in pencil by Lynda and Masami on the title page. The laid-in card is an announcement for the "Forty-first annual exhibition, Artists of Hawaii, 1999." It is photocopied on greenish-yellow card stock 20.2 x 12.6 cm. The verso contains a long, holograph message by Masami about the work of Ann Hamilton and other subjects. The slides are in two plastic, "archival preservers." Slight browning on cover edges and some rubbing at extremities. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.
