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Eastern European Artists' Books
Contrary to the common understanding of the social and artistic situation in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, which tends to ignore differences in favor of a homogeneous view that suitably supports the political agenda of the cold war, developments in art were rather heterogeneous. As in the West, the production of artists' books in the East during the 60s, 70s, and 80s was connected to differing neo-avant-garde, conceptual, performance-based and post-conceptual practices, announcing the opening not only towards innovative forms, but also towards innovative ways of presentation, circulation, distribution, and validation outside of the established art system. Practices of artists' books, magazines and so-called “pages as an alternative space” emerged as a form together with neo-avant-garde practices, in opposition to ideological instrumentalization of art as well as in opposition to a moderate bourgeois, apolitical and decorative modernism. Artists were attracted to printed matter thanks to its simplicity and functionality, its directness and effectiveness in the dissemination of their ideas.
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It As It
[Unmuzzled OX]
Michael Andre, Brian Buczak
New York, NY: Money for Food Press. 1990

Text by Michael Andre; illustrated by Brian Buczak.

Category: Book

$25.00


Notable Days
Pavel Büchler
London, England: Book Works. 1990

“Notable Days” is the Czech expatriate’s response to recent events in Eastern Europe and their transformation into history. The book looks at the ways we measure time and, through this, how we form views of events and construct a memory of them in the form of history. Buchler extracts fragments of newspaper phrases and photographs, made abstract through enlargement, and places them into a new context within the pages of the book, endowing them with their own “history.” Compelling for both its underlying ideas as well as its graphic presentation of them.

Category: Book

$25.00


The Lucy Stories
Brian Buczak
New York, NY: Money for Food Press. 1985

This book combines short fictional diary-like accounts of the Eighties New York art scene with Victorian drawings. In English.

Category: Book

$50.00


D Is For Drawing
Yane Calovski
Frankfurt; Rotterdam, Germany; Netherlands: Revolver- Archiv Für Actuelle Kunst; Veenman Publishers. 2006

D magazine is a periodical produced out of Macedonia in a deluxe softcover book format that highlights the work of individual artists as well as group exhibitions related to drawing. While not explicitly themed, this issue contains a great deal of sequential and narrative drawings that borrow from comic books and storyboards. It also features a selection of a coloring book project by a trio of artists that uses the work of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch as source material.

Contributors: Ivanka Apostolova, Sandra Boeschenstein, Gordan Dachev, Bjorn Hegardt, Jorge Queiroz, Aleksandar Stankovski, Florian Zeyfang, Simone Van Dijken, Oskar Korsar, Mile Nicevski, Jenny Perlin, Stefan Rauter, Roland Senoner, Paul Thuile, Francisco Valdes, Chris Warrington, Letizia Werth

Category: Periodical

$18.00


Life in the Lifeless : Site-ations - Staten island
Zsuzsa Dárdai
Budapest, Hungary: Shadow Weavers Foundation. 2002

The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island sponsored the research and exhibition of Hungarian artist Zsuza Dárdai at the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Focusing on butterflies, cicadas, and dendrites found in the SIIAS collection, the artist made digital prints that reflect her interest in the overlapping of organic and inorganic systems, the intersection of nature, science and art.

Category: Book

$5.00


Moskovski Portreti/ Moscow Portraits
Goran Djordjevic
Zagreb, Yugoslavia. 1990

A collection of painted portraits, along with abstract paintings, by the artist. Text appears in Slavic and in English.

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$60.00


Der Planet
Stepan Grygar, Zdenek Primus
Prague, Czech Rep.: Umbrella Editions. 1993

Rolling through city streets and sidewalks, a large rubber ball picks up and deposits the detritus of the urban landscape. Nineteen black-and-white photographs document the shifting geographies of an earth surface comprised of that very detritus—leaves for its continents, rocks for it islands, blankness for it oceans. Viewing the microcosm as if the cosmos, this book speaks in the monumental language of outer-space photography and collapses an entire geographic history onto the surface of a rolling, rubber ball.

Category: Book

$22.00


Brigade Lepote
Gledalisce Helios
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: Cankarjev Dom. 1990

"Nothing will stop you the mad foreigner. No one sees you walking with a tick tick in your dick. You set a bomb in the Queen City of the big nation to start the war that stops when silence breaks the ears of dead people." These opening words are the only text in English. All others are in Slovenian. The book includes photographs of scenes from theater productions and sketches for costumes.

Category: Small Book

$13.00


In the Jungle
Viktor Kopasz
Prague, Czech Republic: Posam/Primus. 1998

Category: Book

$30.00


Zaveti
Viktor Kopasz and Jaromir Typlit
Prague, Czech Republic: Edice Strelec. 2001

A beautiful collection of black and white and color photographs of shadows designed and formatted to interplay with text. A signed and numbered photograph by Viktor Kopasz is included in each book. In Czech.

Category: Book

$280.00


To Be or To Be
Martón Koppány
Port Charlotte, FL: The Runaway Spoon Press. 1996

Visual poetry, "subtle conceptual poems that investigate various ways of being and not being."

Category: Book

$3.00

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