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Hitoshi Abe
(ABE, HITOSHI). Abe, Hitoshi. Osaka, JAPAN: Yamaki Art Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Near Fine.. 24pp, 41 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in Japanese and English. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the beautifully illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1987 Osaka gallery exhibition of vases, bowls, cups, and works on paper by prominent Japanese ceramicist Hitoshi Abe (not to be confused with the contemporary architect of the same name). A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 016821
Filed Under: Asian Art, Ceramics and Glass, Decorative Art, Exhibition Catalogues
Maidens Invited To The Goldfish Mansion One Lapis Lazuli Night: Mahoko Akiyama's Doll Collection
(AKIYAMA, MAHOKO). Akiyama, Mahoko. Tokyo: Pan-Exotica & Treville Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers in Die Cut Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in duotone plates. Text in English and Japanese. "I have always created dolls in accordance with the dictates of my heart at the time. Then I spend long hours in my room with the dolls I have finished creating or those that are unfinished, and photograph the various doll stories that float up in my imagination... In this manner, for several years, I have shot and collected one photo after another". From renowned Japanese doll maker/photographer Mahoko Akiyama comes this creepy little gem of a book that documents and reveals his very sexually charged creations. The follow-up to his 1991 title "Ange", these shadowy images provide a mysterious and brooding atmosphere that strongly evokes Hans Bellmer (especially in the hand-colored pastel images that pay homage to "La Poupee"), Bernard Faucon, David Hamilton, The Brothers Quay, and Katan Amano. A brand new, pristine example of this gorgeously designed and printed book housed in the publisher's printed, die-cut slipcase, bound with a baby blue ribbon, as issued. 4-309-90568-4 Inventory Number: 016121
Filed Under: Asian Art, Erotica, Exotica and Grotesqueries, Japanese Photography, Photography Monographs
Ay-O'S Graphic Works 1965-1973
(AY-O). Ay-O. Tokyo: Minami Gallery, 1973. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Catalogue Raisonné. Good +.. np (16pp), 99 b&w and 36 color illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of new prints by the Japanese-born, New York-based Fluxus artist Ay-O at his longtime Tokyo gallery. It features a full catalogue raisonné of his graphic work created between 1965 and 1973 along with a tipped-in 9 x 7 ¾" silver-gelatin photographic print of the artist smoking a pipe that has been SIGNED "Ay-O" in English below on the catalogue page. A most presentable example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies showing some light overall wear and soiling, browning to the rear cover, and a tiny diagonal soft crease through the upper foredge corner that bears the discreet previous ownership stamp of Ay-O's friend and noted artist Sam Francis - who also was represented by Minami Gallery - on the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 018649
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Catalogues Raisonné, Exhibition Catalogues, Signed Books, Graphics + Multiples, Original Art
Ay-O: New Paintings 3.7-26, 1977
(AY-O). Ay-O. Tokyo, JAPAN: Minami Gallery, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (6pp), 2 color and 2 b&w illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the slender six page catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition of new paintings by the Japanese-born, New York-based Fluxus artist Ay-O at his longtime Tokyo gallery. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some light overall wear and soiling and a slight diagonal soft crease through the upper foredge that bears the discreet previous ownership stamp of noted artist Sam Francis - who also was represented by Minami Gallery - on the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 018648
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues
Yoshifumi Hayashi: Traites Secrets Echanges Entre Monsieur Y. Physiologiste, Et Un Hermaphrodite Vaguement Sequestre Dans Le Boudoir D'Une Recente Mariee
(HAYASHI, YOSHIFUMI). Kuentz, Stephan Levy, Hiroshi Fujita & Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Very Good/Very Good. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in Japanese. These drawings created by noted contemporary Japanese Erotic artist Yoshifumi Hayashi between 1993 and 1996 are dark explorations of fetishized female physiology and mutating genitalia. If David Cronenberg and Hans Bellmer are your idea of a fun time, you'll most likely want to add this to the deep recesses of your library. A handsome example of this uncommon item in the publisher's printed obi showing some light scraping along the bottom edge of both boards as well as some minor creases to the jacket at the extremities. 4-8457-1099-4 Inventory Number: 013273
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Erotica, Exotica and Grotesqueries
Hirosada: Osaka Printmaker
(HIROSADA, KONISHI). Keyes, Roger S., Susumu Matsudaira, Pauline Sugino & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, 1984. First Edition 1/2000. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1984 traveling Museum exhibition, this is a well-researched and illustrated survey of the color theatrical prints of Osaka's Edo era master, Hirosada Konishi. A handsome example showing just a touch of wear and soiling to the covers along the bottom edge. 0-936270-22-5 Inventory Number: 025872
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art
Festive Wine: Ancient Japanese Poems From The Kinkafu - Deluxe Limited Signed Slipcased Edition With Twenty-One Original Signed And Numbered Woodblock Prints By Hana Maki
(MAKI, HAKU). Brannen, Noah & William Elliott. New York & Tokyo: Walker and Company & John Weatherhill, Inc., 1969. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 4to. 1/4 Leather Over Boards in Box. Illustrated Book. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 78pp, 21 illustrations in woodcut. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. With a bibliography. Published in 1969, this is Noah Brannen and William Elliott's significant translation of the "Kinkafu" scroll - a unique transcription of twenty-one ancient Japanese song-poems that was rediscovered in 1924 in the collection of rare books and manuscripts belonging to Prince Konoe that were sent to the Kyoto University Library for safe-keeping following the devastating earthquake and fires of 1923. This spectacular example of Post-War Japanese bookmaking contains English language typographic transcriptions of each of the twenty-one poems along with two scholarly essays on the form. These are printed by letterpress on handmade kyokushi paper and bound in gold foil-stamped white one-quarter top-grain goatskin over hemp-covered boards and housed in a cedar slipcase. The piece de resistance however is the twenty-one SIGNED AND NUMBERED color woodcuts commissioned from the noted late sosaku hanga artist Haku Maki that are matted and face each poem. A bright, well-preserved example of the exceedingly uncommon "enlarged, deluxe format first English language edition" that is limited to one hundred and fifty NUMBERED (61/150) copies SIGNED AND STAMPED by Haku Maki on the rear colophon as issued showing a few minor nicks, slight wear, and some mild discoloration to the white leather spine. It has been priced accordingly. LC 71-82642 Inventory Number: 024993
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions, Literature and Fiction, Signed Books, Graphics + Multiples, Original Art
Suehiro Maruo: Maruograph - Ii
(MARUO, SUEHIRO). Maruo, Suehiro, Suehiro Tanemura, Hiroshi Aramata & Masatoshi Nagase. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np, 86 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Milky Asobe and Hiromi Abe (Atelier Peyotl). This is the second of Treville's beautifully designed and printed hardbound anthologies of drawings by noted Manga illustrator Suehiro Maruo. A frequent contributor to the legendary underground magazine "Garo", Maruo's work is filled with images of violence, eroticism, and anguish in the style of Muzan-e. A most handsome example of the 1996 first printing. 4-8457-1090-0 Inventory Number: 022512
Akira Matsumoto: 1960-1990 - Limited Signed Slipcased Edition With A Signed Silkscreen Print
(MATSUMOTO, AKIRA). Matsumoto, Akira, Tsunehisa Hiruma, Masayoshi Homma & Makoto Nakamura. Tokyo: Gyarari Natsuhiko, 1991. First Edition 1/600 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 312pp, 358 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in Japanese and English. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the beautifully printed 1991 monograph on the noted Japanese Pop-turned-Abstract artist Akira Matsumoto. It contains essays by Tsunehisa Hiruma, Masayoshi Homma, and Makoto Nakamuraa along with a catalogue raisonné of works executed between 1960 and 1990. A most handsome numbered example (281/600) of the deluxe edition limited to six hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED by the artist in black ink on the title page with the SIGNED AND NUMBERED ORIGINAL COLOR SILKSCREEN PRINT "Arrangement (Inversion S 15)" laid in, in the publisher's gilt-debossed slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 022524
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Catalogues Raisonné, Pop Art, Signed Books, Graphics + Multiples, Original Art
Yasumasa Morimura: Ambiguous Beauty / Aimai-No-Bi - 1995 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project Artist's Multiple
(MORIMURA, YASUMASA). Morimura, Yasumasa. Santa Monica, CA: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 1995. First Edition. Artists' Multiple. Fine.. "Each year the Norton Family commissions an original artwork as a greeting for the holiday season. This year's is by Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. Morimura-san photographs himself in re-creations of important Western cultural images. His work explores the issues of meaning, identity, authenticity, and viewpoint: issues that have become key themes in contemporary cultural dialogue". For 1995's Christmas Project, Morimura contributed "Ambiguous Beauty" - the artist/photographer's rather unsettling, gender bending self-portrait as Marilyn Monroe (in Tom Kelley's iconic 1949 full-length nude against a red background) photomechanically reproduced on the face of an inexpensive Japanese hand-held folding fan. The fan is housed in a paper sleeve inside a silkscreened wooden case. A most handsome example of this charming object issued hors commerce in 1995, and never commercially available for sale. Inventory Number: 022649
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Japanese Photography, Limited Editions, Photography Monographs, Graphics + Multiples, Original Art
Munakata, Shiko 1903-1975 / Ikeda, Masuo B. 1934
(MUNAKATA, SHIKO) (IKEDA, MASUO). Kuwayama, George. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Very Good.. 20pp, 15 b&w illustrations + b&w covers. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the slender twenty page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition of twenty-six and twenty-four graphic works respectively by the noted twentieth century Japanese printmakers Shiko Munakata and Masuo Ikeda. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing a slight diagonal soft crease to the rear of the textblock. Inventory Number: 025880
Shiko Munakata: The "Way" Of The Woodcut
(MUNAKATA, SHIKO). Munakata, Shiko. Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Adlib Press, 1961. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (16pp), with three 12 x 8"monochrome woodcuts bound in. Designed by Igal Roodenko. Printed by James Lanier at the press of Igal Roodenko, "The Way of the Woodcut" was the third in a series of keepsakes published by the Pratt (Institute) Adlib Press under the direction of Fritz Eichenberg. Munakata was a guest instructor at the Pratt Graphic Art Center where he created three woodcuts entiled "At New York (Self Portrait)", "No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep", and "The Child Plants an Oak Tree in the Garden" printed from the original blocks especially for this edition. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to fifteen hundred copies whose debossed black wrappers show some typical sunning along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025878
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Limited Editions, Graphics, + Multiples, Original Art
Shiko Munakata
(MUNAKATA, SHIKO). Munakata, Shiko & Soetsu Yanagi. JAPAN: 1964. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Good.. np (72pp), 106 b&w and 1 color illustration. Text in Japanese and English. With a chronology. This is a nicely appointed 1964 paperbound Japanese monograph on the graphic work of noted "Shin Hanga" printmaker Shiko Munakata. It features Munakata's short essay "The Way of the Woodcut Print", a brief appreciation by Soetsu Yanagi, and over one hundred reproductions. A presentable example of this uncommon item showing some chipping and attendant paper loss along the spine, a crease to the bottom edge of the rear of the textblock, and a diagonal soft crease through the front cover and first few pages at the lowere foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025879
Keba Keba / Gaudy Tawdry
(MURAKAMI, TAKASHI). Kitagawa, Yujin & Takashi Murakami. Saitama, JAPAN: Takashi Murakami & Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., 2003. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Illustrated Book. Fine/Fine. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Chika Tamagawa. This is a charming, stylishly designed book for children written by Yujin Kitagawa (of the acoustic duo Yuzo) featuring illustrations by the hyper-popular Anime and Manga influenced Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami. It is the story of cute, fluffy outcast Keba Keba, who bestows his bright colors to the pale flowers, and becomes a cheerful, smiling cloud! A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon first printing in the publisher's printed obi, as issued. 4-939148-09-2 Inventory Number: 020276
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Comics and Comix, Illustrated Books, Music + Sound Art
© Murakami
(MURAKAMI, TAKASHI). Murakami, Takashi, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, Paul Schimmel & Mika Yoshitake. Los Angeles & New York: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2007. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 328pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Victoria Lam with Lauren Harden / Green Dragon Office. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the massive, beautifully designed and printed catalogue published in conjunction with the comprehensive 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles organized traveling retrospective of works by Takashi Murakami. Featuring insightful essays by curator Paul Schimmel, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, and Mika Yoshitake as well as hundreds of plates, it is the most comprehensive document to date on the hyper-popular Anime and Manga influenced Japanese artist. A brand new, most handsome example. 0-8478-3003-9 Inventory Number: 024661
Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket
(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Nara, Yoshitomo, Stephan Trescher & Banana Yoshimoto. Nurnberg, GERMANY & Tokyo, JAPAN. 2001 (2002).: Verlag fur Moderne Kunst & Kadokawa Shoten. Later Printing. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 203pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and Japanese. This is the comprehensive hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2001 Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg retrospective of the quirky Anime and Manga influenced drawings, paintings, and sculptures of renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. A most handsome example. 4-04-853336-3 Inventory Number: 020783
Yoshitomo Nara: I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Nara, Yoshitomo, Taro Amano & Midori Matsui. Yokohama, JAPAN: Nara Yoshitomo Exhibition Committee, 2001. Later Printing. 8vo. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 175pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This is a comprehensive catalogue of the quirky Anime + Manga influenced artist Yoshitomo Nara's drawings, paintings and sculpture published in conjunction with a 2001 touring Japanese Retrospective. A most handsome example with the CD-ROM of "Dolls that took part in the exhibition" laid in, as issued. 4-473-01839-3 Inventory Number: 020784
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Vinyl, DVD + CD
October 133: Art/ Theory/ Criticism/ Politics - Summer 2010
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 152pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization - Barry Flood, David Joselit, Alexander Nagel, Alessandra Russo, Eugene Wang, Christopher Wood, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Wake, Vestige, Survival: Sustainability and the Politics of the Trace in Allora and Calzadilla's Land Mark - Yates McKee, A Spectral Universality: Mona Hatoum's Biopolitics of Abstraction - Jaleh Mansoor, Wild Shanghai Grass - Molly Nesbit, Maison Tropicale: A Conversation with Manthia Diawara - Judith Rodenbeck, The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity - D. Graham Burnett, and Index: Numbers 130-133 (Fall 2009-Summer 2010). A most handsome example. 0-262-75283-2 Inventory Number: 023563
Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Art Theory, Asian Art, Cinema, Decorative Art, October, Periodicals, Photography
Shinro Ohtake: London/Honcon 1980
(OHTAKE, SHINRO). Ohtake, Shinro. Tokyo: Yobisha, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Self-Wrappers in Pictorial Box. Artist's Book. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Shinro Ohtake. The noted Japanese book artist's first publication, this is a really sweet little document of his travels during the year 1980. It is filled with clippings, saved detritus, and drawings - all collaged together. A brand new, pristine example acquired directly from Shinro Ohtake with the caption booklet and printed enclosures laid in, housed in the publisher's printed decorative cardboard box, as issued. 4-946419-39-X Inventory Number: 007957
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Artists' Books, Asian Art
Ch'i Pai-Shih, The Versatile Genius
(PAI-SHIH, CH'I aka BAISHI, QI). Wang, C.C.. Fort Thomas, KY: Pine Studios, 1976. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket. np (120pp), 52 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in English and Chinese. Ch'i Pai-shih - now known as Qi Baishi - was born in 1864 in Hunan province. He went on to become both a renowned painter in watercolor and carver of stone seals until his death in Beijing in 1957. One of the first Chinese artists to achieve international recognition during his lifetime, his prolific output is estimated to number over ten thousand individual works. This volume is a lovely survey of his watercolors with a brief essay in English and Chinese by the noted late Chinese-born, New York-based artist and Chinese art collector Chi-Chien "C.C." Wang. An internally handsome example of the 1976 first edition LACKING its dust jacket housed in the publisher's unprinted paper over boards slipcase. Both the book and slipcase show some light soiling, and the front pastedown bears a Chinese language inscription and stamped seal - possibly that of author C.C. Wang. It has been priced accordingly. LC 75-17069 Inventory Number: 024484
Filed Under: Asian Art
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters - Deluxe Limited Edition With A Signed Photogravure Print
(SUGIMOTO, HIROSHI). Sugimoto, Hiroshi & Dr. Hans Belting. New York & London: Sonnabend Sundell Editions & eyestorm.com, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Printed Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, 95 illustrations in b&w. Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegant hardbound survey of Hiroshi Sugimoto's meditative images of films projected in empty movie theaters jointly published in 2000 by Sonnabend Sundell Editions and eyestorm.com. A brand new, most handsome example in the publisher's silver paper-over-boards slipcase of the deluxe edition limited to one thousand copies accompanied by the lovely 17 1/8 x 21 1/8" photogravure print entitled "U.A. Walker, New York, 1978" NUMBERED AND SIGNED "H. Sugimoto" in pencil on the the lower right margin in the publisher's piano-hinged, brushed aluminum casse with limitation pastedown, as issued. 0-615-11596-9 Inventory Number: 025761
Filed Under: Asian Art, Cinema, Exhibition Catalogues, Limited Editions, Photography Monographs, Signed Books, Graphics + Multiples, Original Art
Hiroshi Sugimoto: L'Histoire De L'Histoire
(SUGIMOTO, HIROSHI). Sugimoto, Hiroshi & Kozo Fujimoto. Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 168pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Rie Shimoda. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the exquisite hardbound catalogue produced as the documentation of a 2003 Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition entitled "L'Histoire de L'Histoire". For it, the renowned photographer selected objects and sites of Japanese cultural and historical importance, photographed them, and then installed these images along with older works (the dioramas, seascapes and portraits) in a Tokyo gallery curated by the luxury goods concern Hermes. The resulting work is unlike any of Sugimoto's previous books, and hauntingly beautiful. A brand new, most handsome example. 4-89737-498-7 Inventory Number: 019731
Filed Under: Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Japanese Photography, Photography Monographs
Utamaro: No Utamakura / Utamakura: Secret Prints By Utamaro
(UTAMARO, KITAGAWA). Utamaro, Kitagawa. Tokyo: Gabun-Do, 1970. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 147pp, 16 color and 122 b&w illustrations. Text in Japanese. This is a monograph on the renowned Japanese Ukiyo-E master Kitagawa Utamaro's Late Eighteenth Century erotic masterpiece "UtaMakura (Poem of the Pillow)". Reproduced here are the original twelve color woodblock prints as full page hand-tipped color plates, with one small quirk. Published in 1970, in keeping with Japan's then strict censorship laws the scenes depicting exposed genitalia have each been photographed with an orange rice-paper square covering the offending area. All of the reproductions of the explicitly graphic Shunga throughout suffer from the same fate. Still, this is obviously a very detailed and scholarly study of Utamaro's erotic prints. A most handsome example of the book itself limited to five hundred unnumbered copies showing repairs to the hinges inside the boards with archival linen tape along with some mild overall wear to the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Inventory Number: 018208
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Erotica
Ai Weiwei: Circle Of Animals - Signed By The Artist
(WEIWEI, AI). Delson, Susan. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 220pp, 140 color and 15 b&w illustrations. With bibliographies. "Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads" features twelve large-scale bronze animal heads, each depicting a segment of the ancient Chinese zodiac. As a major work of public art, it is an extraordinary accomplishment in its own right. But as this book explains, the origins and motivation behind the piece are as compelling as the work itself. Ai Weiwei based the sculpture on a complex zodiac fountain that was built for an imperial retreat in eighteenth-century China. When the retreat was looted by European soldiers, the fountain's bronze animal heads were stolen - only seven of the twelve are known to survive. By reimagining the work Ai Weiwei confronts uncomfortable truths within Chinese and Western history. This book compares Ai Weiwei's work to the original zodiac heads; features interviews with Ai Weiwei conducted at various periods during the sculpture's development; offers a historical overview of the events surrounding the fountain's looting; and follows the trail of the original heads as they are sold and resold amidst political furor. The book tells the riveting story behind a highly acclaimed piece of modern art, while providing an introduction to one of our generation's most important artists". A brand new, pristine example of a handful of copies of the first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ai Weiwei" in black marker on a specially designed "Circle of Animals - Zodiac Heads" printed bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. The celebrated dissident artist and activist had been arrested by Chinese authorities just prior to the 2011 New York installation of this piece, and so unable to travel, agreed to sign a limited number of these for the book's US publication. 3-7913-4636-9 Inventory Number: 024539
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Signed Books
Tadanori Yokoo: Illustrations (Yokoo Tadanori: Gashu) - Limited Edition With A Signed Color Lithograph
(YOKOO, TADANORI). Yokoo, Tadanori. Kobe, JAPAN: Kobe Newspapers Publishing Center, 1983. First Edition 1/1200 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Slipcase. Graphic Design Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 57 color and 56 b&w illustrations. Text in Japanese. Designed by Tadanori Yokoo. Best known for his seventies album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, the Beatles, and more, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the Twentieth Century. Emerging from the turbulent post-war generation, his bold, unprecedented style mixed traditional Ukiyo-E imagery with Japanese comics, Western sexuality, and Pop Art to create an extraordinary body of work that continues to this day. Published in 1983, this massive (20 x 14 ½"), sumptuously produced tome focuses on Tadanori Yokoo's paintings and drawings as well as his better-known posters. It was limited to one thousand, two hundred copies - each containing one of four different color lithographs in an edition of three hundred. A bright, most handsome example of the book itself with the NUMBERED (134/300), SIGNED, AND DATED color print "Yokoo '83" in a printed paper portfolio, as issued, housed in the publisher's slightly worn and soiled decorative slipcase. 4-87521-124-4 Inventory Number: 022035
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Cinema, Limited Editions, Pop Art, Signed Books, Original Graphics, Graphic Art
Tadanori Yokoo: Postcards (Red Cover)
(YOKOO, TADANORI). Yokoo, Tadanori.. Osaka, JAPAN: Gallery Interform / Masaya Yamaguchi, 1996. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (52pp), 26 color illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. Designed by Jun Sato. Best known for his seventies album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, the Beatles, and more, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the Twentieth Century. He is also a well-known artist, photographer, and designer of installations. Published in conjunction with a 1996 Japanese gallery exhibition, this is a nicely presented book of twenty-six full color postcards that reproduce paintings by the artist. Many include art historical homages to Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall, Enzo Cucchi, etc., and include Yokoo and his wife as subject matter. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Inventory Number: 021185
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Graphic Design
Tadanori Yokoo: Postcards (Yellow Cover)
(YOKOO, TADANORI). Yokoo, Tadanori.. Osaka, JAPAN: Gallery Interform / Masaya Yamaguchi, 1996. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (16pp), 8 color illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. Designed by Jun Sato. Best known for his seventies album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, the Beatles, and more, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the Twentieth Century. He is also a well-known artist, photographer, and designer of installations. Published in conjunction with a 1996 Japanese gallery exhibition, this is a nicely presented book of eight full color postcards that reproduce computer-altered outdoor portraits of the Yokoo family - many including a falling water motif. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Inventory Number: 011910
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Graphic Design, Japanese Photography, Photography Monographs
The Bizarre Imagery Of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection
(YOSHITOSHI, TSUKIOKA). Keyes, Roger & George Kuwayama. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. Third Printing. Square 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 112pp, 10 color and 67 b&w illustrations. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the comprehensive 1980 traveling Museum exhibition of prints by the groundbreaking Japanese Ukiyo-E master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - known for his unorthodox and compelling images. A handsome example showing some very light wear and rubbing to the spine and covers. 0-87587-096-1 Inventory Number: 021870
Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Exotica and Grotesqueries
Title Unknown: A Two Volume Survey Of The Visual Representation Of Chinese Women In Early Twentieth Century Advertising
Author Unknown. CHINA. ND (Circa 1990).: Publisher Unknown. First Edition. 4to. Self-Wrappers in Slipcase. Graphic Design Survey. Fine./No Jackets - As Issued.. 104 + 118pp, profusely illustrated in color and monochrome. This is the lavishly-illustrated two volume study of the visual representation of Chinese women in modernist advertising during the first half of the twentieth Century. These cover the graphic design of packaging and print advertising for products originating domestically as well as the importation and marketing to Chinese women of well-known Western consumer brands such as Lifebuoy, Palmolive, Eveready, and others. As neither volume contains a single word of English, we are unfortunately at a loss to properly bibliographically describe this visual survey. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item in the publisher's illustrated cardboard and decorative cloth slipcase. 02-7631452-5 Inventory Number: 025971
Filed Under: Asian Art, Food and Drink, Graphic Design
Art Of Nagaland: The Barbier-Muller Collection, Geneva
Barbier, Jean Paul. Los Angeles & Geneva, SWITZERLAND: Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Musee Barbier-Muller, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Ethnographic Art Monograph. Fine.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. This is the English language version of the lovely catalog published in conjunction with a 1984 touring Museum exhibition of works from the renowned Barbier-Muller collection in Geneva. Featuring all new photography by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini, it illuminates the work of the tribal Naga - former practitioners of head-hunting - that inhabit the sub-Himalayan border region of India, China, and Burma whose wooden sculptures, textiles, and jewelry pictured here bear a striking similarity to Oceanic, and in particular Indonesian Art. A brand new, most handsome example. 2-88104-006-3 Inventory Number: 024263
Filed Under: Asian Art, Ethnographic Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Textiles
Shanghart Gallery: 10 Years
Bepler, Sine, Jens Hoffmann, Jonathan Napack & Philip Tinari. Sine Bepler & Uta Grosenick, Editors. Koln, GERMANY: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2007. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. As New/As New. 252pp, 150 color and 50 b&w illustrations. Text in English and Chinese. "Since its establishment in 1996, ShanghART gallery has fostered and embraced radicalism and diversity in Shanghai art. Located initially in a downtown hotel and thereafter in an old workshop in Fuxing Park, the gallery quickly became an international reference point for contemporary Chinese art. Today it is regarded as one of the country's most acclaimed and innovative cultural spaces. This publication is structured as a virtual exhibition, documenting key works by thirty-one represented artists including Ding Yi, Geng Jianyi, Hu Jieming, Hu Yang, Ji Wenyu, Li Shan, Liang Yue, Lu Chunsheng, Feng Mengbo, Pu Jie, Song Tao, Shen Fan, Shi Yong, Tang Guo, Tang Maohong, Wei Guangqing, Wang Guangyi, Wang Youshen, Wu Yiming, Xiang Liqing, Xue Song, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Yang Zhengzhong, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Zhou Zixi, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Enli, and Zhou Tiehai, as well as the gallery's own development. Its essays chronicle the history of the emergent Chinese art scene and detail the radical sociopolitical and cultural changes of the past decade". 3-86560-200-2 Inventory Number: 014337
Filed Under: Art, Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues
Peintures Monastere De Nor - Signed Limited Edition
Burawoy, Robert. Paris: Galerie Robert Burawoy, 1978. First Edition 1/300. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (26pp), 8 hand-tipped color illustrations with printed clear acetate overlays. Text in French. With a bibliography. This is the magnificently produced, massively oversized hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 exhibition of eight Tibetan Lamaistic paintings held at renowned Parisian specialist in Asian and Tribal Art, Galerie Robert Burawoy. Each artwork is reproduced as a color plate tipped to a handmade paper leaf with a clear acetate overlay that identifies the pantheon pictured beneath. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon document - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to three hundred copies NUMBERED (120/300) AND SIGNED "Robert" by the author, gallerist, and collector in black ink on the verso of the title page, as issued. Inventory Number: 024770
Filed Under: Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Limited Editions, Signed Books
A Group Of Five Catalogues Of Japanese Arms, Armor, And Swords (Including Armes Japonaises Dans Les Collections Privees Francaises / Japanese Armour In French Private Collections) Issued By Galerie Robert Burawoy
Burawoy, Robert. Paris. 1977, 1983, 1984, 1993 & 1994.: Galerie Robert Burawoy. First Editions. 4to or Folio. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalogs. Very Good. or Better.. 80pp + np (8pp) + np (8pp) + np (26pp) + np (14pp), each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French with some English and Japanese. This is a group of five catalogues each published in conjunction with an exhibition of Japanese Arms, Armour, and/or swords at renowned Parisian specialist in Asian and Tribal Art, Galerie Robert Burawoy. The first, and most significant is the paperbound in dust jacket edition of "Armes Japonaises Dans Les Collections Privees Francaises". Published in 1977, it is an informative, well-illustrated eighty page survey of one hundred and thirty-seven examples of Japanese arms and armor produced between the 16th and 19th century selected from French collections. The other four titles - all softbound and oversized - are "Japon: Kinko - Montures de Sabre Ornementales" (1983, 8pp), "Armures Du Japon" (1984, 8pp), "Sabres Du Japon" (1993, 26pp - limited to 600 copies of which only a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat), and "Armures Du Japon" (1994, 14pp). A most handsome group of these uncommon items showing just an occasional bit of edgewear or light creasing along their spines. Inventory Number: 024768
Filed Under: Asian Art, Exhibition Catalogues
Armes Japonaises Dans Les Collections Privees Francaises / Japanese Armour In French Private Collections - Signed Limited Hardbound Edition
Burawoy, Robert. Paris: Galerie Robert Burawoy, 1977. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/Near Fine. 80pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French with some English and Japanese. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition at renowned Parisian specialist in Asian and Tribal Art, Galerie Robert Burawoy, this is an informative, well-illustrated survey of one hundred and thirty-seven examples of Japanese arms and armor produced between the 16th and 19th century selected from French collections. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED "Tirage limité a 300 examplaires / No 159 / Robert" by the author, gallerist, and collector in black ink on the last page, as issued, whose dust jacket shows just a bit of wear along the extremities. Inventory Number: 024767
First European Symposium On The Arts Of The Samurai: 100 Selected Tsuba From European Public Collections - The Limited Edition With A Signed Presentation From Robert Burawoy
Haynes, Robert & Robert Burawoy. Foreword by Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke. Paris: Robert Burawoy, 1984. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Art Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, 103 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. With a bibliography. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of one hundred Tsuba shown during a 1984 symposium on "The Arts of the Samurai" held at The German Sword Museum in Solingen. Published by Parisian specialist in Asian and Tribal Art, Galerie Robert Burawoy, this survey illustrates each of the one hundred Japanese sword hilts selected from public collections in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Geneve, Paris, and London. A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon limited hardbound edition limited to three hundred NUMBERED (97/300) copies with a four hundred item bibliography not found in the trade version additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "for ..., Robert" from author and publisher Robert Burawoy to a well-known gallerist in black ink on the front pastedown. Inventory Number: 024766
The Silk Route And The Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art On The Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes
Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., Maximilian Klimburg, David L. Snellgrove, Fritz Staal, Michel Strickmann & Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Council, 1982. First Edition 1/4500. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Good.. 256pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography and a glossary of Sanskrit and other names and terms. Designed by Jack Carter. This is the catalogue for the important 1982 traveling Museum exhibition of the monastic arts of Central Asia that developed along the trans-Himalayan Silk Route. It is a well-designed and illustrated scholarly survey that remains an important reference. An internally most handsome example of the softbound edition showing some light wear, scuffing, and dulling to the covers, a tear to the wrappers at the crown of the spine, and a slight dent through the lower foredge tip with the publisher's errata sheet laid in. It has been priced accordingly. LC 82-620035 Inventory Number: 024626
Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., Maximilian Klimburg, David L. Snellgrove, Fritz Staal, Michel Strickmann & Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Council, 1982. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/Near Fine. 256pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography and a glossary of Sanskrit and other names and terms. Designed by Jack Carter. This is the catalogue for the important 1982 traveling Museum exhibition of the monastic arts of Central Asia that developed along the trans-Himalayan Silk Route. It is a well-designed and illustrated scholarly survey that remains an important reference. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition limited to five hundred unnumbered copies showing some typical light wear and dulling to the dust jacket. LC 82-620035 Inventory Number: 024065
Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., Maximilian Klimburg, David L. Snellgrove, Fritz Staal, Michel Strickmann & Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Council, 1982. First Edition 1/4500. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. 256pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography and a glossary of Sanskrit and other names and terms. Designed by Jack Carter. This is the catalogue for the important 1982 traveling Museum exhibition of the monastic arts of Central Asia that developed along the trans-Himalayan Silk Route. It is a well-designed and illustrated scholarly survey that remains an important reference. A bright, most handsome example of the softbound edition showing none of the typical wear and oxidization to the gold covers usually seen with this volume. LC 82-620035 Inventory Number: 023890
Out Of Actions: Between Performance And The Object, 1949-1979
Schimmel, Paul, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker & Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims & Keiko Okamura. Foreword by Richard Koshalek. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Printed Self-Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. 388pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese (with English captions). Designed by Lorraine Wild, Amanda Washburn, and Yuki Nishinaka. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the catalogue of the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated exhibition held at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art that subsequently traveled to Vienna, Barcelona, and Tokyo. "Out of Actions" surveyed the history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura. The artists included here are Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japanese language edition that includes two essays not found in the English version. Inventory Number: 025393
Filed Under: African-American Art, Art, Asian Art, California Artists and Arts, Conceptual and Minimal Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Mike Kelley, Music + Sound Art, Performance Art, Photography, Video Art