American Imaginations
Richard Kostelanetz
Published by Merve Verlag, Berlin, 1983, 158 pp., 12 × 17 cm, German
Price: €10

An exploration and anthology of the work of Charles Ives, Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Robert Wilson. In German and English.

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

#1983 #johncage #mercecunningham #merveverlag #richardkostelanetz
Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art
Archive I: Ephemera
Published by Edition Telescope, Kofu-City, 2023, 512 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 25.7 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €58 (Temporarily out of stock)

The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was a private museum that opened in Kiyosato, Yamanashi Prefecture in 1990 and closed in 2014. This book, focusing exclusively on the museum’s “Ephemera” collection, is the first volume of a series of archival books on the museum’s collection.

This volume includes the works of Yutaka Matsuzawa, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, Daniel Buren, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Hanne Darboven, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, stanley brouwn, Tony Cragg, Wolfgang Laib, and many others.

#2023 #claesoldenburg #cytwombly #danielburen #donaldjudd #hannedarboven #johncage #marcelduchamp #robertrauschenberg #stanleybrouwn #tonycragg #wolfganglaib #yutakamatsuzawa
Partituren, Geshichten, Plexigramme, Siebdrucke
John Cage
Published by Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 1972, 4 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German
Price: €9

Produced on the occasion of Arakawa – Der Mechanismus der Bedeutung / John Cage (Kammerkunsthalle), at Kunsthalle Bern, 6 May–18 June, 1972. With text by Carlo Huber.

#1972 #ephemera #johncage #kunsthallebern
F.R. David: “Take, Eat”
Will Holder, Andrea di Serego Alighieri (eds.)
Published by Uh Books, Brussels and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Spring 2022, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 19 cm, English
Price: €11

This 21st issue of F.R. David is edited by Will Holder with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Seemingly more fragmented than usual, it includes contributions, quotes, found materials, and excerpts from Maggie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Octavia Butler, John Keats, Alice Notley, Paul Abbott, Bernadette Mayer, Fred Dewey, John Cage, Marion Keiner, Anne Carson, and others. An afterword by Nicolas Schoffer entitled “Microtime” concludes this wandering, inscrutable journey.

#2022 #alicenotley #andreadiseregoalighieri #annecarson #bernadettemayer #frdavid #freddewey #johncage #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #maggienelson #marionkeiner #octaviaebutler #uhbooks #willholder
Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties
Linda M. Montano
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001, 553 pages (b/w ill.), 15.3 × 22.7 cm, English
Price: €36 (Temporarily out of stock)

Performance artist Linda Montano invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance that documents the production of art in an important and often misunderstood community.

Among the more than 100 artists Montano interviewed from 1979 to 1989 were John Cage, Lorraine O’Grady, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Stuart Sherman, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas, Faith Ringgold, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Adrian Piper, Carolee Schneemann and Chris Burden. Her discussions with them focused on the relationship between art and life, history and memory, the individual and society, and the potential for individual and social change.

#2001 #adrianpiper #alisonknowles #allankaprow #caroleeschneemann #chrisburden #jacksonmaclow #joanjonas #johncage #lorraineogrady #martharosler #mierleladermanukeles #performance #stuartsherman
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
Cornelius Cardew
Published by Primary Information, New York, 2020, 126 pages, 14 × 22 cm, English
Price: €17 (Out of stock)

Originally published in 1974, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is a collection of essays by the English composer Cornelius Cardew that provides a Marxist critique of two of the more revered avant-garde composers of the post-war era: Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. A former assistant to Stockhausen and a champion of Cage in England, Cardew provides a cutting rebuke of the composers’ works and ideological positions, which he saw as reinforcing an imperialist order rather than spotlighting and serving the struggles of the working class.

#2020 #corneliuscardew #johncage #karlheinzstockhausen #primaryinformation