Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Kees van Bohemen and Arthur Spronken’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1968.

SM Cat. No 448 A+B.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Bissière at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 11 March–24 April, 1966.

SM Cat. No 392.

Designed by Wim Crouwel and Anneke Huig.

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

This book focuses on the extraordinary mythical traditions and ritual practices in a remote community in the Himalayan mountains, studied over a long period of field research by Michael Oppitz. It is the English version of his German original, first published in 1980 by Syndikat Verlag under the title Schamanen im Blinden Land, which has long since been out of print. That book came out in parallel to a film of the same name, today considered a classic. Now appearing in English as Shamans of the Blind Country. A picture book from the Himalaya the new version extends the old by more than a third of the original documentary photographs; it traces the historical changes that have transformed this mountainous region of Nepal over the last four decades in an extensive epilogue; and it suggests a wider context of ritual healing in the Himalaya by appending a selection of early pictures of shamanism in Siberia.

This publication contains the German philosopher Juliane Rebentisch’s seminal text Camp Materialism. Natural History in Jack Smith revised by the author and presented together with a new addendum A note on Camp Ridiculousness.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jason Rhoades: The Purple Penis and the Venus at Kunsthalle Nürnberg and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1998.

Jason Rhoades (1965–2006) is known for monumental, room-filling installations. These idiosyncratic sculptures incorporate a wide range of objects including products of mass culture combined with hand-made items and biographical references.

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

Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) was a prolific artist, writer, and critic, who became known both for her large-scale fabric sculptures—inspired by the lives of historical women—and her involvement in the feminist art movement.

In 1977, she began to create ephemeral outdoor installations using materials such as balloons, snow, paper, and fabric. Mayer called these projects “temporary monuments,”. This publication is the first comprehensive presentation of this body of work and includes Mayer’s documentation of these impermanent artworks.

A talk by Nick Mauss and Kathy Halbreich about Rosemary Mayer’s work is here.