Punk Picasso
Larry Clark
New York, NY : AKA Editions. 2003

The title of Larry Clark’s opus punk Picasso is lifted from a passage in David Denby's review of the artist's film, Bully that reads “…as the camera wanders-grazes among naked thighs and tattooed torsos, this punk Picasso combines the multiple desires of lover, artist and voyeur…” The book displays, in scrapbook format, a loose chronological overview of the celebrated artist’s provocative career.

The material presented spans family snapshots (his American Indian great grandfather, his father playing golf, a portrait of his mother as a professional photographer with Rollei and flash in hand, Clark with his son’s soccer team); unpublished images from Tulsa and 42nd St.; photographs from the set of his first film Kids and his new film Ken Park; clippings from reviews of exhibitions and films; correspondence; transcribed stories; Roger Maris ephemera; portraits of skateboarders, River Phoenix (images appropriated from Teen Magazines), Clark’s lover Tiffany and their dog Snappy; Page Six headlines and reproductions of vinyl records that act as a silent soundtrack to the raucous visual narrative.

punk Picasso gathers together scraps that chart the life of the artist and his creations, which in Clark’s case, are inseparably entwined.

Category: Book

$1,000.00

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Keith : Six Drawings 1979
Chuck Close
New York, NY : Lapp Princess Press. 1979

Six gridded drawings of one model using six different mark making and thumb printing techniques. The portraits are reproduced on pages folded into the larger accordion folds of the actual size grids, setting up an interesting scale relationship between the book and the reader's hands and gives the reader an intimate experience of Close's working process. Number 12 in the Lapp Princess Press series.

Category: Book

$40.00

Typewriter Poems
Peter Finch, editor
New York and Cardiff, NY and Wales : Something Else Press and Second Aeon Productions. 1972

Twenty-two practitioners of the art of the typewriter poem contribute to this slim volume of experimental letters. Includes Thomas A. Clark, Bob Cobbing, and Michael Gibbs.

Category: Book

$25.00

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TellusTools
[Christian Marclay Limited Edition]
Collins, Louise Lawler, Jackson, Kiki Smith, Tomlinson, Joe Jones, Christian Marclay, Alison Knowles, Montgomery, Mori, Linton, Whitehead, Lemaitre, Lindahl, Schellenbaum, Goldstein
New York, NY : Harvestworks. 2001

This special edition comes with one of thirty original unique signed photograms of audio tape by Christian Marclay.

TellusTools is a double 12-inch vinyl record compilation and includes work by Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Louise Lawlor, Christian Marclay, and Kiki Smith among others. The double-record set comes packaged in a gatefold cover designed by Christian Marclay. The two records provide the basis for additional experimental work—they are duplicates that can be mixed into new pieces. A great gift for perspective DJs, or anyone else interested in experimental audio.

Founded in 1983, Tellus is a non profit recording label whose mission is to "…collect, document, and define the art of audio by publishing works from emerging and established artists…". Along with artists residencies and other projects, Tellus has produced an expertly curated series of cassettes and later CDs featuring thematic selections of audio arts and experimental music.



Category: Multiple

$4,800.00

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Group Work
Temporary Services
New York, NY : Printed Matter. 2007

Based on a pamphlet published by Temporary Services in 2002 titled Group Work: A Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration from a Variety of Sources and Practices, this publication provides a multitude of perspectives on the theme of Group Work by practitioners of artistic group practice from 1960s to the present. The publication presents interviews with Canadian collective General Idea; Chicago collective Haha; the dutch punk band The Ex; the Vienna-based WochenKlausur; Croatian artist group What, How & for Whom (WHW); Funkadelic album designer Pedro Bell; and Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D); along with essays on The Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (better known as Jane) and the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers. A list of words used to describe group practices and a working list of hundreds of collectives from the last four decades rounds out the publication.

Category: Book

$19.95

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