Takao Hiwasaki is credited with reviving the wood engraving technique in Japan, where it was introduced by Britain in the Meiji period as a means of quickly reproducing works before falling out of favour with the arrival of photomechanical methods. He taught himself the medium in the 1960s after reading Onchi Koshiro’s book on Japanese printmaking, Nihon no gendai hanga, as a fine art technique rather than for reproduction, applying his Modernist, sometimes Surrealist styles to his compositions. This inspired the formation of the group Nomi no Kai (The Chisels) by admirers and followers of the technique, which helped launch Japan’s wood engraving renaissance in the 1970s.

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

The Books and Life of Raymond Roussel is a biographic and bibliographic study of the French author Raymond Roussel (1877–1933). It was researched and written by the art historian Michael Sanchez. The book takes the form of an inventory of every known state of every edition of Roussel’s lifetime publications. Interwoven into this bibliographic data are texts that analyze the relationship between Roussel’s literary procedures, the material construction of his books, and his life. The book also includes a list of primary and secondary literature related to Roussel.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 19 April–19 June, 1979; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, June 24–August 5, 1979; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, July 20–August 6, 1979, The Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui, April 1980.

Including artists; Mako Idemitsu, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Hakudo Kobayashi, Akira Kurosaki, Toshio Matsumoto, Kyoko Michishita, Tsuneo Nakai, Ko Nakajima, Fujiko Nakaya, Hitoshi Nomura, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Keigo Yamamoto

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

Produced on the occasion of Jan Dibbets exhibition at the Dutch Pavilion, XXXVI Venice Biennale, 1972. With a text by Rudi Fuchs.

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

Vertikal Klub is a manual for future installations of the “Vertical Club”, a project launched by Willem Oorebeek in 1994 and which has been developing ever since. The book not only compiles in an archaeological way present and (potential) future members of the “Vertical Club”, but also reflects on the use and representation of the human figure in print media. Text and image are connected in a radical way, pushing the idea of administrative visual statistics towards the absurd. “Vertikal Klub” raises the question as to the admission policy and representational use of the human figure in dark times.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ana Mendieta: Body Tracks at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, 19 October, 2002–23 February, 2003.

Considered a pioneer of performance art, land art and body art, Ana Mendieta left Cuba for exile in the US in her early youth and died under tragic circumstances in 1985. Linking avant-garde forms of expression with the spiritual mysticism of SanterÌa, a syncretistic religious movement, but also with issues of gender and questions of migration, her work is relevant still today.

With texts by Patrick Dondelinger and Laura Roulet.