Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art. Marian Goodman Gallery & The MIT Press, 1999. In original 8vo black hardcover, no jacket. XX, 198 pages. With illustrations bw. Fine clean copy
Julie Ault’s introduction to Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita. Four Corners Books, 2006. Large 4to in wraps as issued. 128 pages, richly illustrated. Back cover and last pages with a dent. Overall a good to very good clean copy.
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.
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 – 1957, on Anni & Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson a.m.o. Spector Books, 2019. 464 pages, with black-and-white reproductions throughout. New copy.
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…