Gifts
Barbara Bloom
Published by Ludion, Brussels, 2015, 112 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English
Price: €22

Barbara Bloom explores the nature of gifts in relation to aspects such as wrapping, covering and uncovering, pleasure, secrets, and generosity. Through an exploration of art historical and cultural practices, she reveals the complicated relationship we have with the concept of the gift, considering how these traded objects take on meaning and serve as symbols of our affections, but also anticipate a sense of loss. The gift is a means of apology, making advances, gaining trust, and providing assurances. Through gift-giving, we show a version of intimacy, love, and desire that is deliberate and controlled, but also often more meaningful than intended. With texts by Susan Tallman.

Comes with a bookplate signed by the artist.

#2015 #barbarabloom
Gondolas And Dooms Day Flotilla
John Chamberlain
Published by Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1990, 48 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22.8 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €19

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition held April 5, 1990–March 3, 1991 at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York. With a text by Gary Garrels and Charles Wright and conversations between Chamberlain and Lawrence Weiner and Chamberlain and Julie Sylvester.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1990 #johnchamberlain
Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers
Stan Brakhage
Published by McPherson & Co Publishers, New York, 1991, 183 pages (b/w ill.), 15.1 × 22.7 cm
Price: €12

In these eight biographies, Stan Brakhage brings us into intimate acquaintance with some of America’s most influential independent filmmakers; Jerome Hill, Marie Menken, James Broughton, Christopher MacLaine, Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner and Ken Jacobs.

#1991 #bruceconner #experimentalfilm #film #jeromehill #mayaderen #stanbrakhage
Über Daniel Buren
Jean-François Lyotard
Published by Edition Patricia Schwarz / Galerie Kubinski, Stuttgart, 1987, 84 pages (b/w ill.), 13.6 × 20 cm, German
Price: €10

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1987 #danielburen #jeanfrancoislyotard
16 Dagen
Pieter Holstein
Published by Groningen Museum, Groningen, 1977, 2 cards (b/w ill.), 14.5 × 10.2 cm, Dutch
Price: €10 (Out of stock)

Cards from a tear-off calendar with artist postcards for a series of events and screenings in the Groninger Museum in August 1977. Including artists were Fitzgibbon & Winters, Dekker, Taal Handelingen, Carolee Schnemann, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, Michael Waisvisz, David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Paul Sharits, Chris Langdon, Pieter Holstein, Nan Hoover, Barbara Bloom, Vito Acconci, Charlemagne Palestine.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1977 #ephemera #pieterholstein
16 Dagen
Barbara Bloom
Published by Groningen Museum, Groningen, 1977, card (b/w ill.), 14.5 × 10.2 cm, Dutch
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

Card from a tear-off calendar with artist postcards for a series of events and screenings in the Groninger Museum in August 1977. Including artists were Fitzgibbon & Winters, Dekker, Taal Handelingen, Carolee Schnemann, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, Michael Waisvisz, David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Paul Sharits, Chris Langdon, Pieter Holstein, Nan Hoover, Barbara Bloom, Vito Acconci, Charlemagne Palestine.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1977 #barbarabloom #ephemera