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Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y.
The Guerrilla Art Action Group
$20.00 $16.00
Notebooks 1967-70
Lee Lozano
A compilation of Lozano’s notebooks from 1967-1970, with selections ranging from her seminal “Language Pieces” to her studies for paintings.
$30.00 $25.00
Postcards
Various Artists
An ongoing series of postcards created by artists to address the political and social concerns of our times.
$1.00
A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet
Rick Myers
An artist book detailing Myers’ colorful attempt to fulfill a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
$18.00 $14.00
Modern Love
Constance DeJong
A facsimile edition of Constance DeJong’s long out-of-print 1977 novel.
$18.00 $14.00
2016 Annual Subscriptions
Various Artists
Receive all of Primary Information’s titles for 2016 for one low price.
$125.00
Annual Subscriptions
Various Artists
Receive all of Primary Information’s titles for 2017 for one low price.
$125.00
Title TK
Title TK
An eponymous collection featuring ten performance transcripts from the conceptual band, Title TK, whose members Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, and Alan Licht engage in unscripted conversations about music, the music industry, and popular culture.
$20.00 $16.00
COOP a-script
Fia Backström
COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backström, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders.
$18.00 $14.00
Kill for Peace
Tuli Kupferberg
A two-sided poster celebrating Tuli Kupferberg’s “Kill for Peace,” which was the theme for the last issue of his magazine, YEAH, and the title of a song he later performed with his band, The Fugs.
$5.00
Complete Minimal Poems
Aram Saroyan
The second edition of this celebrated collection, which gathers Aram Saroyan’s groundbreaking Concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s in a single volume.
$20.00 $16.00
DISBAND
DISBAND
Video footage of twelve songs performed by DISBAND at Franklin Furnace in April 1979.
Publication
David Lamelas
Publication is a facsimile edition of the 1970 artist book by David Lamelas. It features contributions from thirteen international artists and critics who the artist chose due to their relationship to language-based practices.
$16.00 $12.00
Rock/Music Writings
Dan Graham
The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential writings on Rock and Roll, with thirteen essays spanning from the late 1960s to the late 1980s.
$18.00 $16.00
Fantastic Architecture
Various Artists
Fantastic Architecture is a reprint of Something Else Press’ 1970 Fantastic Architecture edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell.
$28.00 $22.00
Program Notes
Max Neuhaus
A facsimile edition of Max Neuhaus’s 1974 pamphlet that presents aphoristic statements and thoughts from the artist on space and sound.
$10.00 $8.00
77 and/or 58 and/with 19
Darren Bader
77 and/or 58 and/with 19 is a collection of texts for 77 artworks by Darren Bader.
$22.00 $16.00
Solo Voice I – X
C. Spencer Yeh
The first LP by C Spencer Yeh devoted entirely to the voice.
$20.00 $15.00
Removal Technician
Alex Hubbard
A compilation of the two issues of Removal Technician, a zine produced by Alex Hubbard and Dan Mains in the late nineties.
$15.00 $12.00
Hegemony of Delete
Co La
A record of delicately deformed electronic music by Matthew Papich, aka Co La.
$20.00 $15.00
REALLIFE Magazine
Various Artists
A selection of writings and artists’ projects from REAL LIFE magazine, originally edited by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan.
$30.00 $22.50
Rêve Parisien
Rhys Chatham
An LP of four trumpet compositions by legendary composer Rhys Chatham, originally performed at a Jacob Kassay exhibition in Paris in 2010.
$20.00 $15.00
MIRROR | ME
Various Artists
A zine developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by writer Brandon Stosuy and artist Kai Althoff at Dispatch Bureau in 2009.
$12.00 $8.00
DISBAND
DISBAND
Long-lost live recordings of this loose group of feminist performers—Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson—from New York’s new/no wave heyday.
$14.00 $9.00
A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One
Dick Higgins
The first section of this major work by Higgins, a sprawling prose poem meant to be read aloud.
$10.00 $8.00
Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields
Al Hansen
The full poem as recited by Hansen in a legendary 1958 performance in New York, at the intersection of the “backwash from the San Francisco Poetry Revolution” and the dawn of Happenings.
$10.00 $8.00
Manifestos
Various Artists
The de facto centerpiece of the Great Bear series, an expanded “double-pamphlet” with contributions from a range of key artists and poets of the period.
$10.00 $8.00
The Art of Noise
Luigi Russolo
The 1913 Futurist manifesto in a translation by Robert Filliou.
$10.00 $8.00
Berlin and Phenomena
Wolf Vostell
Two large-scale performance works from the mid-60s, as chronicled by Vostell himself.
$10.00 $8.00
Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events
Jerome Rothenberg
A collection of event scores and descriptions adapted from a range of ethnographic sources, Ritual also implicitly functions as an examination of the contemporary Happenings scene in an expanded historical and anthropological context.
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Some Recent Happenings
Allan Kaprow
A general introduction to Happenings and a dispatch on the forms they were taking at a key point in their development.
$10.00 $8.00
The Cursive Scandinavian Salve
Bengt af Klintberg
A collection of event scores and scenarios by Klintberg, a Swedish folklorist who was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus.
$10.00 $8.00
The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois
Jackson Mac Low
A pair of structurally identical plays, each composed through the use of chance operations within a highly restricted lexicon.
$10.00 $8.00
By Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles
An overview of Knowles’ seminal early performance/event pieces (1961-65).
$10.00 $8.00
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (1967)
John Cage
A roving poem/essay also conceived as a “piece” for the printing press as instrument.
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The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems
Emmett Williams
A short but potent collection of poems by Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series.
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Popular Entertainments
Philip Corner
A collection of musical works and a striking visual and poetic work unto itself, with Corner’s restless linguistic and graphical invention on full display.
$10.00 $8.00
Chance-Imagery
George Brecht
The influential essay by Brecht, which frames examinations of the use of chance methods in Dada, Surrealism, Pollock, and Cage in a discussion of parallel historical developments in the sciences and elsewhere.
$10.00 $8.00
A Filliou Sampler
Robert Filliou
A collection of poems, plays, and performance works by the itinerant French Fluxus artist.
$10.00 $8.00
Untitled Essay and Other Works
Allan Kaprow
Three scenarios for Happenings and a key early statement, which originally accompanied the first published Happening in 1958.
$10.00 $8.00
Injun & Other Histories (1960)
Claes Oldenburg
A collection of early writings by Oldenburg, with two illustrations.
$10.00 $8.00
Autobiography
David Antin
A prototypical work by the pioneering poet and critic; one of his very first publications.
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A Zaj Sampler
Various Artists
A survey of works by the Zaj group, with contributions from Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, José Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortés, and others.
$10.00 $8.00
A Look into the blue tide, part 2
Diter Rot
“A look into” the vast, multi-part work that developed out of a diary kept during Roth’s mid-60s sojourn in the United States.
$10.00 $8.00
Avalanche (Signed Limited Edition)
Various Artists
The complete thirteen issues 1970-1976 Limited edition of 100 signed and numbered by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp.
$1,000.00
Art Workers Don’t Kiss Ass
A button featuring our update to one of the Art Workers’ Coalition protest slogans, “Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass.”
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On Onions
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry’s first artist book interweaves a photographic study of onions with a commissioned text by Angie Keefer discussing their effect on human tear ducts and more.
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The George Kuchar Reader
George Kuchar
An expansive anthology of the writings that underscored George Kuchar’s work and life, featuring a wide range of ephemera alongside critical and autobiographical writings by the late underground auteur.
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Destroy All Monsters Magazine (Limited Edition)
Destroy All Monsters
A boxed and signed edition of Destroy All Monsters Magazine with 8×10 silver print by Cary Loren and a small glycine baggie of dirt from God’s Oasis–the commune Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw lived in from 1974 to 1976 and which served as the collective’s musical practice space
$1,000.00
Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
Quadrupel Konzert
Dieter Roth
A concert from 1977 where Roth played a Hammond organ, the Great Hall’s house organ, a piano, and a French horn alongside live recordings.
Fear Indexing The X-Files
Nora Khan and Steven Warwick
A book that examines the cultural and political portrayal of fear, and its overlap with the rise of the internet, on the popular 90s television show The X-Files.
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An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
Various Artists
A facsimile edition of Something Else Press’ definitive survey of the Concrete poetry movement, edited by Emmett Williams and featuring works by 77 writers and artists.
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Format
Sarah Crowner
Sarah Crowner’s first widely distributed artist book is a roving collage of material addressing the artist’s concerns with the historical overlap of art, writing, fashion, and design.
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Variable Piece 4: Secrets
Douglas Huebler
Variable Piece 4: Secrets is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler’s classic artist book from 1978. It collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum.
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XXX Macarena
Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, John Miller
The first and last record by this art/music supergroup comprised of Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller.
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Harmonica Curse
Dieter Roth
First published in 1981 and was comprised of 74 double-sided C60 cassettes. Each cassette contains two tracks that feature the artist improvising on his hexagonal red concertina.
Lorelei
Dieter Roth
Originally released in 1978, the recording features Dieter Roth on piano along with his children, Vera and Björn.
IRL
JEQU
IRL takes the form of a mood board wrapper with an interview inside: a discussion with Luc Boltanski on the meaning and future of artistic critique, introduced with a text by JEQU (Howie Chen and Jason Kakoyiannis).
UJ3RK5: Live From The Commodore Ballroom
UJ3RK5
Live from the Commodore Ballroom captures a legendary 1980 performance by UJ3RK5, a band including artists Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace among others.
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Siri Aurdal by Eline Mugaas
Siri Aurdal and Eline Mugaas
An artist book featuring Eline Mugaas collaging together decades of drawings, documentation, collages, and ephemera by Siri Aurdal.
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Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London
Dan Graham and The Static
A cassette featuring two live performances from 1979, Dan Graham performing his seminal Performer/Audience/
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Canciones de Cadaques
Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth
A facsimile edition of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth’s double 45 record from 1976 that features the two artists alternately performing on vocals and guitar, with assistance from a barking dog named Chispas Luis.
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Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and Other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial, and Tactile Art Forms
George Maciunas
A facsimile edition of Maciunas’ oversized poster charting the development of Fluxus. The poster is house in a sleeve with two essays by Mats B. on Fluxus (one in English and one in Swedish).
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How to Make a Happening
Allan Kaprow
Text and audio for Allan Kaprow’s How to Make a Happening, which was originally published as an LP on Mass Art in 1966.
ALBUM
Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen
A compilation of the first ten issues of the Scandinavian zine ALBUM, which is comprised of photographic illustrations, advertisements, and other ubiquitous found media images.
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Cannibal
Cannibal
The debut record from the trio of artists/musicians Cary Loren, Cameron Jamie, and Dennis Tyfus.
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Quincy
Carl Andre
A facsimile edition of the 1973 artist book, in which Carl Andre commissioned photographs of his hometown Quincy, Massachussets.
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Chimerizations
Florian Hecker
An artist book documenting Florian Hecker’s work around the phenomenon of Auditory Chimeras, with texts by Reza Negarestani, Stefan Helmreich, and Catherine Wood.
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The Definitive/ist Manifesto
Guerilla Art Action Group
A poster of the Guerilla Art Action Group’s Definitive/ist Manifesto from 1981.
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EYEYE Tote Bag
Aram Saroyan
A tote bag emblazoned with one of Aram Saroyan’s classic minimalist poems.
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G.P.O. versus G.P-O
Genesis P-Orridge
A facsimile edition of the artist book chronicling Genesis P-Orridge’s 1975 prosecution for disseminating pornographic material through the British mail.
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Destroy All Monsters Magazine
Destroy All Monsters
A compilation of the magazine collaboratively produced by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw from 1976-1979.
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Avalanche (Trade Edition)
Various Artists
A facsimile edition of the full thirteen issues (1970-76) of the seminal magazine edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar.
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Do you love me?
Lutz Bacher
An artist book obliquely surveying the artist’s work and herself from the 70s to the present, via a series of personal interviews conducted by Bacher on herself with the curators, assistants, and friends she has worked with throughout the years.
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How to Make a Happening
Allan Kaprow
The first widely available edition of Kaprow’s How to Make a Happening, recorded in 1965 and originally issued as an LP the following year.
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Coffee Coffee
Aram Saroyan
Infamous artist book by one of the 1960s’ most controversial poets. Aram Saroyan’s Coffee Coffee was originally published as a mimeographed edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer on their 0 To 9 press in 1967.
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Great Bear Pamphlet Series
Various Artists
A limited edition collection of Primary Information’s facsimile edition of Something Else Press Great Bear pamphlet series.
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Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner AKA the Xerox Book
Seth Siegelaub
One of Seth Siegelaub’s most revered publications and a crucial exhibition for 1960s Conceptual art, this book presents work from each of its seven eponymous artists.
Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #20
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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July/August 1970
Seth Siegelaub
July/August 1970 is a 48-page exhibition featuring 37 artists curated by Seth Siegelaub within Studio International.
Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #1
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #10
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #22
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #11
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #12
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #14
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #15
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #16
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #17
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #18
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #19
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #2
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #21
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #23
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #25
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #27
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #28
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #29
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #3
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #30
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #31
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #32
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #5
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #6
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #7
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #8
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition) 2016 #9
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
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The United States Servicemen’s Fund Art Collection
Seth Siegelaub
This publication catalogues the artworks donated to raise money for the United States Servicemen’s Fund in 1971.
18 PARIS IV.70
Seth Siegelaub
This publication, documenting the work of 18 artists, was published by Seth Siegelaub and accompanied Michel Claura’s gallery show of the same name in 1970.
Dan Graham’s Greatest Hits (Vol. Four)
Dan Graham
A compilation of Dan Graham’s favorite songs, compiled by the artist in 2011
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January 5 – 31, 1969
Seth Siegelaub
This publication, organized by Seth Siegelaub, was presented as the centerpiece of an exhibition of the same name and features the work of Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawerence Weiner.
July, August, September 1969
Seth Siegelaub
This trilingual catalogue, organized by Seth Siegelaub, presents the work of 11 artists that was exhibited internationally over a three-month period.
March 1969
Seth Siegelaub
Alternatively titled One Month, this book was organized by Seth Siegelaub and presents the work of North American and European artists in the form of a calendar.
Catalogue for the Exhibition
Seth Siegelaub
This publication accompanied a month-long exhibition organized by Seth Siegelaub at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in 1969.
Remainder I-V
Sam Moyer
This new stone-bronze painting edition builds directly on the centerpiece of Sam Moyer’s most recent exhibition, creating five new works: a series of smaller-scale wall works that incorporate the shattered fragments of a massive marble platform sculpture.
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Remainder I-V
Sam Moyer
This new stone-bronze painting edition builds directly on the centerpiece of Sam Moyer’s most recent exhibition, creating five new works: a series of smaller-scale wall works that incorporate the shattered fragments of a massive marble platform sculpture.
Siegelaub / The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement
Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky
The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement, drafted by Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky in 1971, is a contract meant to be used by artists upon sale of his/her work.
Format (Limited Edition)
Sarah Crowner
Format housed in unique sleeves sewn from residual painted canvas from Sarah Crowner’s studio.
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Format (Limited Edition)
Sarah Crowner
Format housed in unique sleeves sewn from residual painted canvas from Sarah Crowner’s studio.
A Poor Man’s Keys To The New Art
Barbara Moore
Barbara Moore reflects on her time as founding Editorial Director of Something Else Press and its Great Bear Pamphlets Series.
Documents 1
Art Workers Coalition
A collection of correspondence, press, and ephemera surrounding the foundation and rise of the Art Worker’s Coalition, published at the height of the group’s activity in 1969.
Open Hearing
Art Workers Coalition
A monumental collection of statements originally published in the wake of the first public meeting of the Art Workers’ Coalition at the School of Visual Arts in New York on April 10, 1969
Something Else Press Newsletters 1966-83
Dick Higgins
Consisting of theoretical missives, musings, gossip, and semi-regular reportage on the activities of a host of now-legendary figures, the Something Else Newsletter offer an unparalleled window onto the Something Else universe between 1965 and 1983.
An Anti-Catalog
A landmark publication of the 1970s, An Anti-Catalog is a thoroughgoing critique of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s bicentennial exhibition in 1976 through a series of “written and pictorial essays” by members of Artists Meeting for Cultural Change.
Complete Minimal Poems (Limited Edition)
Aram Saroyan
A limited edition of Complete Minimal Poems with hand-drawn covers by Aram Saroyan.
The Early History of Avalanche
Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp
This publications chronicles the conception and production of Avalanche magazine between 1968-1972, as well as the artistic milieu from which it emerged.