An anthology of chance operations, concept art, anti art, indeterminacy, plans of action, diagrams, music, dance constructions, improvisation, meaningless work, natural disasters,...
Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, le mercredri 9 Octobre 1963. 20 x 20 cm, 26 pp. Catalogue for an early Fluxus event organized by poet and Flux artist Emmett Williams.
avec, en regard, d'inutiles notules par Francois Dufrene. Published by Fluxus special editions as no. B, 1963. First edition. 20 x 14 cm, 122 pp.
Episches gedicht in 619 gesangen, Maerz 63. Berlin, self-published, 1963. Collaged stapled book, 19.5 x 15 cm. Contains two introductory pages typed in black and red and 619 cut-out...
Self-published, 1964. Softcover, 11 x 11 cm. Edition size unknown but probably very small. Two sheets of white paper folded in six, creating 24 pp. Twenty pp. are mimeographed...
Festival der Neuen Kunst. 20. Juli 1964. Aachen, Technische Hochschule, 1964. Edited by Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell. 30 x 21 cm, 28 pp. First edition. Pictorial wrapper displays...
Cologne, 1962-1967. Edited by Wolf Vostell. Five issues (of 7 all published). Includes No.5 with various multiples and the rare issue No.2. De-coll/age contained reproductions...
Brown envelope sent from Spain by Wolf Vostell to Tjeerd Deelstra. Contains: a letter dated October 2 1963; a mint artists' booklet Television Decollage & Morning Glory/ 2 pieces...
Set of 17 original Great Bear Pamphlets (out of 20 all published). Published between 1965 and 1967, the contributors feature a who's who of the Sixties avant-garde. All of the...
Special lot containing written 'Excuses' by George Brecht. Handwritten and typed by the artist on Brecht & MacDiarmid headed notepaper. Acquired by Deelstra from Brecht's girlfriend...
George Brecht and Robert Filliou, Games at the Cedilla or the Cedilla Takes Off. New York, Something Else Press, 1967. First Edition. Artist book collaboration between Filliou...
Three publications including: Ample Food for Stupid Thought. New York/ Cologne/ Paris, Something Else Press, 1965. Hardcover with original ills. dust jacket. 96 pp. Edition of...
Basel/Zurich, The Nothing Else Review, 1966-67. Complete series of the obscure publication made by Swiss artist Spoerri and Kichka Baticheff while they lived in Greece. Dedicated...
Dokumente Documents Documenti. Hamburg, Merlin Verlag, 1971. Hardcover portfolio with ribbon containing eight envelopes with printed material by Spoerri, Emmett Williams and Pierre...
Includes: J'aime les Keftedes. Les hautes plaines de Mane, Robert Morel, 1970. + Gastronomisches Tagebuch. Berlin, Luchterhand Verlag, 1970. + Daniel Spoerris Gastronoptikum: eine...
Includes: Ben Dieu - Art Total Sa Revue. Nice, Self-Published, 1963. Walnut printed paper folder, with a collection of collages, texts and editions by Ben. 31 x 22 cm. 31 loose...
Review edited and published by Ben and Annie Vautier, Nice. Collection of printed matter and objects by various artists assembled in a plastic bag, ranging from a sugar cube to...
Ben Vautier, Tout No.10 Theatre. Nice, Self-Published, 1967. 16 pp., edition of 250. Near mint. + A little book of Ben. Stuttgart, Reflection Press, 1970. Edited by Albrecht D....
Vostell soziologisch, Eine Studie von Rainer Wick, Bonn, 1969. 75 pp. Original coloured wrapper by Wolf Vostell with a strip of chewing gum glued on. Signed by Vostell and numbered...
Itzehoe, Verlag Hansen & Hansen, 1965. Exhibition catalogue, artist book and multiple. Documents the legendary 24-hour performance that took place at the Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal,...
New York, Fluxus Editions/ George Maciunas, circa 1966. Flip-book with stills from Shiomi's film performed by Yoko Ono, photographed by Peter Moore in 1966.
Robert Breer, Flix. Montreal, La Cinematheque Canadienne, 1967. Flip-book by the American animation artist, filmmaker, and colour theorist known as the 'kinetic poet of the avant-garde'....
Four issues of the unique periodical devoted to film and art founded by Jonas Mekas, which appeared in 1955 to 1996 in New York. Both the famous Fluxus and the Warhol numbers are in this lot.
New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1965. First edition. Original brown burlap covers titled in salmon-pink. Original heavy acetate jacket. 31.5 x 31.5 x 5 cm, 341 pp.
Includes: Days Off: A Calendar of Happenings. New York, Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Offset on newsprint, stapled. 38.5 x 28 cm, 63 pp. Each page of this artist's...
Includes: A Hole to See the Sky Through, 1971. Double sided postcard with die cut hole at center. 10.5 x 15 cm. Artist's project by Yoko Ono published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg...
Bloomington, Paul Sharits and Indiana University, 1966. Stunning artist's book, letterpress printed and accordion folded with blue crepe paper.
Fluxus Editions, 1966. Blue folded and pasted card, with red and black offset. 16.5 x 16.5 cm.
Features the brochure: Down with Art! No More Art! Demolish Serious Culture, Demolish Lincoln Center. New York, Fluxpress, 1968. 27.5 x 10.5 cm, 12 pp. Flynt's first solo publication...
Munich, Heiner Friedrich, 1969. Softcover, 21 x 14.5 cm, 104 pp. Unnumbered edition of 2100 (98 were signed and numbered).
Black plastic folder sent to Tjeerd Deelstra in 1974. Contains typed dividers for La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and reviews featuring biographical information, reviews and several...
Alison Knowles, Journal of the Identical Lunch. San Francisco, Nova Broadcast Press, 1971, 72 pp. Artist's book by Fluxus pioneer Knowles, who ate the same lunch everyday for years...
Cologne, Driver Press, 1968. 21 x 26 x 10 cm. 35 serigraphs printed on white plastic sheets with foam and board, joined with four white plastic bolts. Edition of 30, this is 3/30....
Dorothy Iannone, Dorothy Iannone and her mother Sarah Pucci. Aachen, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, 1980. Catalogue/artist book in A4 format with separate folders, approx. 60 pp....
Five issues of the famous review of Viennese Actionism (17 all published 1969-1977). Edited by Gunter Brus while in exile in Germany, fleeing Austria's charges for subversive political/artistic...
Berlin, self-published, 1969. Staplebound, 30 x 21 cm, 70 stenciled pp. Assembled printed matter on Wiener Aktionist performances.
Valie Export and Peter Weibel editors, Wien: Bildkompendium Wiener Aktionismus und Film. Frankfurt, Kohlkunstverlag, 1970. Black wrappers, 318 pp. Landmark publication on Viennese...
Supreme publications and (original) documentation by these fierce representatives of performance art and new dance choreography.
Six books published by Something Else Press, founded by Dick Higgins in New York in 1964 to promote avant-garde material. His intention was to manufacture radical texts in conventional...
Includes Dick Higgins' first book: What Are Legends? A Clarification. Calais/Maine, Bern Porter, 1960, 48 pp. Some toning on wrappers else very good. Inserted is an original announcement...
Stuttgart, Reflection Press, 1969. Seven manifestos by Dadaist Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), assembled in a folded sleeve. Title stamped in red and green on front, Reflection Press...
24 issues of the prolific imprint of Fluxus artist Albrecht D, designed in a collage-like Xerox manner.
Original loose-leaf ringbinder. 23 x 22 cm, c. 300 pp. Profusely ills. texts, mostly in Dutch, some English. Published to accompany a five day workshop on Coincidence, with artistic...
FLUXshoe. Collompton, Beau Geste Press 1972. Edited by Felipe and Martha Ehrenberg and David Mayor. 29 x 21 cm, 144 pp. Offset and hand-coloured. Catalogue for the FLUXshoe 1972/73...
Collompton, Beau Geste Press, 1972. Deluxe edition of 60 plus 15 artists proof. This is number 32 signed by the artist. Mint copy of a remarkable and very rare artists' book.
The Paper Snake, The Something Else Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 27.5 cm, 96 pp. Seminal artists' book and the second title published by Something Else Press. Assembled...
Milano, Toselli, 1972. Monochrome black cover. 17 x 12 cm, c. 140 pp.
Aus der welt der welt band 1. Berlin, self-published, 1970. Lumbecked, hectographed. 15 x 14 cm, 272 pp. Stunning first artists' book by Schmit (1943-2006).
San Diego, Self-published, 1974. 15.5 x 12 cm, approx. 60 pp. Signed and dated. School autograph booklet with hand painted cover.
Signed copy. Dusseldorf, Galerie Schmela, 1972. Original blue wrappers with black taped spine. 31 x 21 cm, 59 pp. Featuring 57 offset lithographs on newsprint. Numbered 244/500,...
Lotta Poetica 46, Special issue on Joseph Beuys. March 1975, Brescia. Edited by Paul de Vree and Eugenio Miccini. 24 pp. Performance pictures by Caroline Tisdall. Cover designed...
Includes: signed copy of Joseph Beuys, Tekeningen Aquarellen. Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst/ Europalia 77, 1977. Grey felt cover. 23 x 20 cm, 259 pp. Numbered 1429/1500....
Signed copy of Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video. Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1999. Autographed in blue ink by the artist with the text: 'In 1957 New Music was the Center of all arts...
Signed copy of Wolf Vostell, Happening & Leben. Berlin, Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1970. Anthology documenting ten years of Vostells Fluxus happenings. Text mostly in German,...
Sammlung Feelisch. Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1970. Presents the collection of Feelisch, founder of VICE-Versand editions. Added is the invitation leaflet with a special offer...
Includes: Jurgen Becker and Wolf Vostell, Happenings fluxus pop art. Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1965. + Wolf Vostell, Aktionen happenings und Demonstrationen seit 1965. Reinbek, Rowohlt,...
Jon Hendricks, Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Hardcover. 25 x 29 cm, 616 pp. Indispensable catalogue raisonne of Fluxus objects (non-performance works) compiled by Jon Hendricks, the recognized...
Fluxus Etc. / Addenda I and II. Pasadena, Baxter Art Gallery, 1983, 298 pp./ 439 pp. Exhibition catalogues edited by Jay Belloi, Melanie Hedlund and Hendricks, who also curated...
Ubi Fluxus ibi motus, 1990-1962. Milan, Mazzota, 1990. Edited by A. Bonito Oliva, G. Di Maggio and G. Sassi. Extensive exhibition catalogue of the Venice Biennale in 1990. 27 x...
Fluxus, the most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties. Amsterdam, Galerie A, 1979, 32 x 29 cm. Black ringbinder with loose pp. in cardboard box. Important iconography...
Watford, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1969. 230 pp. Unique assemblings produced between May 1968 and May 1969 by Hansjorg Mayer with students and faculty at the Watford School of Art,...
Stuttgart/London, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1968, 22 x 31 cm. Handmade book with 50 colour printed sheets from the Rotaprint press, a new machine bought by the Watford School of...
Stuttgart/London, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1968. 26 x 36 cm. 16 portraits of the artist's friends, created by electrostatically photocopying a selection of random personal items...
Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel, 1965. Miniature book made of c. 150 cut-out newspaper sheets (Kolner Tageszeitung). In stamped original black cardboard box.
Chicago, William and Noma Copley Foundation, 1965. 23 x 25.5 cm. 30 loose components of various sizes (including folded sheets and posters) in a colourful cardboard portfolio.
Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1966. With original cover design by Diter Rot, initialed and numbered 326/1000 by the artist on the cover.
Dieter Roth, Gorgona No. 9, 1966. Zagreb, Josip Vanista, 1966. Periodical of the Gorgona artists group, this issue featuring Dieter Roth. 19.5 x 21 cm. 2 pp. Contains a glued in...
Nr. 1 Der Halbjahresschrift Fuer Poesie. Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1966. 25.5 x 14 cm, 26 pp. Letterpress on handmade paper. Edition of 130 signed and numbered copies,...
Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1967. 25 x 14 cm. 18 clear plastic sleeves filled with copper dyed glue substance, bound in plexiglass spine with metal bolts.
Stuttgart, Hansjorg Mayer, 1967-68. One of 230 signed and numbered copies bound in lamb embryo skin. This is number 179, signed Diter Roth in green ink on the rear colophon.
Ein tentatives Logico-Poeticum, dargestellt wie Plan und Programm oder Traum zu einem provisorischen Mytherbarium fur Visionspflanzen. Band 1: Das rot'sche Videum. Cologne, Dumont,...
Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1968. Miniature book (8.8 x 8.8 x 8.8 cm) made from approx. 800 multicoloured Rotaprints contained in a wooden stamped box (11.3 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm).
Berlin, Rainer Verlag, 1968. 152 pp. Non-woven original slipcase and title imprint on the back. Edition of 400 signed and numbered copies. This is No.102 signed in yellow ink....
Stuttgart/ London/ Reykjavik, Hansjorg Mayer, 1970. Multiple of two crushed light bulbs mounted on corrugated cardstock (23 x 18 x 4.5 cm).
Stuttgart, Hansjorg Mayer/Wasserverlag, 1970. Multiple consisting of an offset printed book bound in yellow painted corrugated cardboard sleeve. 23.5 x 19 x 9 cm. The sleeve contains...
Includes: Die Kakausener Gemeine. Stuttgart, edition Hansiorg Mayer, 1968. Serialized novel in form of a newspaper. 48 x 34 cm, 12 pp. Printed both sides beige on brown coloured...
Three of a total of six so-called essays published by Dieter Roth in the seventies. Includes: Eine Frage? (A question?). Reykjavic, Verlag, 1971, 64 pp. Edition of 200.
Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1971. 23 x 17.5 x 5.5 cm.
Reykjavik, Dieter Roth, 1973. 47 x 33 x 5.5 cm, approx. 1200 pp. Newsprint (original newspapers). Softcover, adhesive binding. Printed by Luzerner Stadtanzeiger. 150 numbered and...
Stuttgart/London, Edition Hansjorg Mayer (in cooperation with Dieter Roths Zug Verlag), 1978. 37 x 13 cm, 152 pp. First edition.
= Das Weinen No. 2 = Das Wähnen, Band 2b (Tränenmeer 5). Stuttgart, London, Edition Hansjörg Mayer and Dieter Roth, 1979. 17.5 x 12 cm, 528 pp.
Bastel-Novellle No.3 von Wix Stundenschaum. Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1978.
Stuttgart/ London, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1979. 25.2 x 18.8 x 3 cm, 256 pp. Yellow paper wrappers.
Published by Edition Hansjorg Mayer in an edition of 1000. 23 x 17.5 cm each. Includes 5 volumes: Band 2: Ideogramme, 1971. Some foxing on spine. + Band 4: bok 4 a and bok 5, 1972....
Published by Edition Hansjorg Mayer in an edition of 1000. 23 x 17.5 cm each. Includes 5 volumes: Band 9: Stupidogramme, 1975. Printed samples of the hand-drawn original series...
Published by Edition Hansjorg Mayer in an edition of 1000. 23 x 17.5 cm each. Includes 6 volumes: Band 15: Poetrie 5 bis 1, 1969. Rubbing on spine and cover.
Band 2. Ideogramme. Little wear to right bottom of cover + Band 3. Bok 2a und bok 2b + Band 4. Bok 4a und bok 5 + Band 5. Bok 3a - and Band 6. Bok 3c. Bottom spine worn. All edition...
Band 10. Variante der als "Quadratbuch" bei de Jong in Hilversum 1961 erschienen mappe. Stuttgart etc., Wasserpress (Water Press) vormals edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1970, printed...
New York Nice Cologne, Something Else Press, 1964. Rare classic Fluxus publication. Cover slightly worn around the edges, else a fine copy.
a force de tourner en rond et d'etre jaloux (entre 1960-1970). Nice, self-published, 1970. Original black two-hole metal ring binder, without the printed paper label on the cover...
Oldenburg, Art Agency, 1969. 15 x 10 cm, 462 pp. Artist's book by the German Mail Art and Fluxus artist, comprised of random newspaper clippings.
Aret 1968, den 28. november kl. 15.30, indletes dette byggeprojekt, der er udfrt af kunstnerne Eric Andersen, George Brecht og Arthur Kpcke. Edited by Knud Pedersen. Copenhagen,...
John Hendricks, Manipulations. New York, Judson Publication, 1967. Original ephemera and art objects from 12 Evenings of Manipulations at the NYC Judson Church Gallery. In printed...
Tenjo Sajiki. 25.5 x 25.5 cm, 8 pp. Coloured wrappers partly goldleaved. Contains the history of the Tenjo Sajiki Troupe from 1967-1973, with descriptions of various performances....
Eine Seriegraphie. 72/100. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 1983. Included is an extra copy.