Helsinki: Rakennustieto 2001. 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 183 pages, illustrated richly. Text in English. Some minor wear to cover but overall a solid, tight very good and clean copy.
Donald Judd monograph exhibition catalogue for Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988. This copy is SIGNED BY THE ARTIST / INSCRIBED in hand to free front endpaper BY DONALD JUDD to Danish architect Henning Larsen, dated 1992. “Für Henning Larsen / 13.1. 92 / Köln / Don Judd”.
Jonas Mekas’s autobiography I Had Nowhere to Go describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence. Published by Spector Books, 2020.…
Rare original folder published on the occasion of the Soviet exhibition at Pressa Cologne 1928. The exhibition showed graphic design, publishing and press material and El Lissitzky was in charge. His design for the exhibition brought together architecture, graphics, photography, film and sound. He combined photomurals, and letters of every thickness and type running in every direction, turning the Soviet pavilion into a vast multimedia installation. The present folder is a text only and Sergey Ingulov writes on the situation of the newspaper in the Soviet Union of 1928. Cover possibly by Solomon Telingater or maybe even El Lissitsky.
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…