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Kathy Acker Implosion Wedge Press, Inc., New York, USA, 1983 Softcover, 20 X 12.5 Cm., Staple Bound, 28 Pages Kathy Acker Implosion Wedge Press, Inc., New York, USA, 1983 Softcover, 20 x 12.5 cm., staple bound, 28 pages. An artist book by Kathy Acker written in the form of a play set during the French Revolution. Text in English. Designed by Mark Magill. Images in black, white, and orange. $20.00 CDN Kathy Acker & the Mekons Pussy, King of the Pirates Top Stories, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1981. Audio CD This disk, and novel it is adapted from, are based on ``Treasure Island,'' Daniel Defoe's ``The General History of Pirates'' and a Japanese film version of ``The Story of O.'' $15.00 CDN Dave Allen The Mirrored Catalogue D’Oiseaux 2003 7", 45 rpm vinyl A recording of mocking birds mimicking the sounds of French Composer Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'Oiseaux, an experimental composition for piano, based on bird songs. Nature reflecting art reflecting nature. Signed by the artist. $80.00 CDN Bas Jan Ader The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1992. Paperback, 24 x 16,8 cm., 36 pages Artist book published posthumously in an edition of 500 copies. From Ader’s performance The Boy who fell over Niagara Falls, 2 week reading of Reader's Digest story at Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam. $80.00 CDN Ayo / George Maciunas / Fluxus Ayo’s Rainbow Staircase Environment Fluxus, New York, USA, 1965 Offset announcement, 35.6 x 9.5 cm. George Maciunas designed announcement for Ay-O's Rainbow Staircase Environment, November 20th, 1965, as part of Fluxfest. The announcement was intended to be folded, accordian-style, like a staircase. $125.00 CDN Laurie Anderson Stories From the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective 1972 – 1992 HarperPerennial, New York, 1994. Hardcover, 21.6 x 28 cm., 288 pages A retrospective as artist book, written and designed by the artist as a self-portrait of sorts. Contents include: The Dream Before, My Father's Back Pocket, Speak My Language, Earshot, Juke Box, On the Road, Alter Egos, Some Books, Talkshow, The Audience, Sets, Angels and Aliens, The Body Shop, Like a Paper Doll, Lip Synch, etc. Remains the most comprehensive overview of Anderson work. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Signed by Anderson. $350.00 CDN Laurie Anderson Stories From the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective 1972 – 1992 HarperPerennial, New York, 1994. Softcover, 21.6 x 28 cm., 288 pages A retrospective as artist book, written and designed by the artist as a self-portrait of sorts. Contents include: The Dream Before, My Father's Back Pocket, Speak My Language, Earshot, Juke Box, On the Road, Alter Egos, Some Books, Talkshow, The Audience, Sets, Angels and Aliens, The Body Shop, Like a Paper Doll, Lip Synch, etc. Remains the most comprehensive overview of Anderson work. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. $60.00 CDN Laurie Anderson Words in Reverse Top Stories, Buffalo, USA, 1979 Paperback, staple bound, 21 x 14 cm., 16 pages. Artist periodical. Top Stories prose periodical #2. First edition. Text extracts from Anderson’s performances Like A Stream (1978) and Americans on the Move (1979). $20.00 CDN Laurie Anderson Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology Warner Bros/Rhino, Los Angeles, USA, 2000 Audio Recording. 2 CD set with 50 page booklet Career spanning retrospective CD featuring 35 songs, from O Superman to The End of the World. With contributions by Brian Eno, Bill Laswell and Peter Gabriel. The well-illustrated booklet includes an essay by Gillian G Gaar. $25.00 CDN John Baldessari Fable: A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable. Anatol AV Filmproduktion, Hamburg, Germany. 1977 Softcover, 4 x 5.25" (folded), 45.5 x 65" (unfolded). Accordion fold Artist's book, in four parts., with each section folding out from the center. When completely unfolded the book forms a cross. "Part of the work is a horizontal foldout of thirteen pictures. On all but one of the images the artist has written nouns or adjectives in yellow, which are to be read syntactically from left to right. The center picture represents the verb, and is intersected by a vertical foldout of images with alternative verbs written on them." “The concertina or accordion format of Fable…successfully liberates it from its origins as a wall piece, and reinterprets is contents through a historical book structure." Reference: pp. 100 - 102 JOHN BALDESSARI. Coosje van Bruggen. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA / Rizzoli, New York, NY. 1990; p. 118. This copy incomplete only in so much as it is missing the small folder that once housed the book. Complete copies sell for between three and five thousand dollars. $1000.00 CDN John Baldessari Brown and Green and Other Parables i8 and the Reykjavik Art Museum, 2001. Soft cover. 1st Edition. i8 and The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. 2001. 16mo. Soft cover. 24 pages. 10 color reproductions. Edition of 1500. $35.00 CDN Matthew Barney / Jonathan Bepler Music for Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5 BMI Records, USA, 1999 Audio Recording. Audio CD. Beplers orchestra score, performed by the Budapeset Philharmonic Orchestra. 24 page booklet colour booklet includes brief essay by Arthur C Danto. Signed by both Barney and Bepler on the picture disk. $225.00 CDN Matthew Barney / Jonathan Bepler Music for Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2 BMI Records, USA, 1999 Audio Recording. Audio CD. The soundtrack to the film, with a 24 page booklet filled with colour images , including drummer Dave Lombardo (of Slayer) covered in bees. Signed by both Barney and Bepler on the picture disk. $225.00 CDN Iain Baxter Media works Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 1992 Softcover, 27.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm, 151 pages. Documents a flurry of activity by Baxter and his influential NE Thing Company. Signed by the artist. $100.00 CDN Vanessa Beecroft VB 08 – 36 Vanessa Beecroft Performances Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, 2000. Hard Cover. 9.75 by 12 inches. Pictorial boards, 176 pages. Richly illustrated with colour plates, this volume is the first to focus on Beecroft’s controversial live nude model performances. $100.00 CDN Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik In Memorium George Maciunas Edition Block, Berlin, Germany, 1982 2 LP set Live recording of the Fluxus-Soiree at the Rene Block Gallery in 1978. (Broken Music pg. 100) Small split to lower edge. $200.00 CDN (Joseph Beuys) David Thistlewood (editor) Diverging Critiques University Press & Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1995 Softcover, 19 x 24 cm., 214 pages Contributions by D Thistlewood, J Cladders, D Kuspit, F Haks, P Kort, A Duncan, C Tisdall, U Kockel, F Mennekes, T Atkinson, M Smith, D Bellman, A MacPhee. $30.00 CDN (Joseph Beuys) Lynne Cooke & Karen Kelly (editors) Arena - Where Would I Have Got If I Had Been Intelligent ! Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA, 1994 Hard Cover, 9¾" - 12", 294 pages $50.00 CDN (Joseph Beuys) Honey is flowing in all Directions Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999 Hardcover, 30 x 21.4 cm., unpaginated Photographs of the installation ``Honeypump`` in Kassel, Germany, 1977. $35.00 CDN Joseph Beuys Early Watercolors W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, USA, 1993 Softcover, 19 x 14 cm., 102 pages $15.00 CDN (Joseph Beuys) Gotz Adriani, Karin Thomas Life and Works Barron’s Educational, Inc., New York, USA,1979. Softcover, 308 pages Published on the occasion of the 1979 Sao Paulo Biennale, this dense volume serves as an exhibition catalogue but also as an illustrated life of the famed German artist. With texts by Gotz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz and Karin Thomas. $75.00 CDN Marc Bijl Forever" Flash Art Vol XXXXX #666 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2002 Glossy, softcover, 26 x 18 x cm., 72 pages. An exhibition catalogue produced in the format of Flash Art Magazine, complete with mock articles, interviews, headlines, photos and design. Signed by the artist. $75.00 CDN Bill Bissett Image Being bewointment press, Vancouver, 1975 Softcover, staple bound. This hand-bound volume contains a unique drawing and is from the collection of renowned author Earle Birney, whose signature is on the inside front cover. Edition of 300. $150.00 CDN Bill Bissett Tuff Shit Love Pomes Bandit/Black Moss Press, Windsor, Canada, (1970). Stapled wrappers, 11 x 8.5 inches, 12 pages $25.00 CDN Christian Bok Eunoia Coach House Books, Toronto, Canada, 2001 Softcover, 105 pages 'Eunoia' means 'beautiful thinking' and is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. Each of the five chapters in this ‘novel’ is univocalic: making use of only one vowel. A challenging feat of composition and technical skill, Bok has worked this into a series of compelling narratives and rhythms. $22.00 CDN Christian Boltanski White Shadows Bayou Books, Houston, USA, 1991 Boxed, 15 x 20 (box), 17.5 x 350 cm (accordion fold). An artists' publication consisting of a boxed accordion folded, black-and-white, series of photographs of negative images of "white shadows" created by Boltanski. Reference: "Christian Boltanski: Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966- 1991," Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, and Portikus, Frankfurt, 1992, pp. 208. ISBN 0936080264. Edition of 500. $120.00 CDN George Bowering Baseball The Coach House Press, Toronto, Canada, 1967. Oblong, 24 pages One of 500 copies of this early Coach House Press gem, by the poet who would become Canada's first poet laureate. Bound into green felt-like wrappers in the shape of a pennant. Some very minor wear to the tip of the pennant, mostly light creasing. $450.00 CDN Gavin Bryars Farewell to Philosophy Point Music, London, UK, 1996 Audio CD Three orchestral works by Bryars with Charlie Haden, Nexus and Julian Lloyd Weber.
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