Edition 1. Art & Aesthetics

Art Gallery of Ontario Presence and Absence: The Films of Michael Snow from 1956 to 1991 An intro to Michael Snow prepared on the outfolds of a cardboard schedule of a screening of the artist's films by the Gallery in 1994. 5 panels, 6.5 x 8.5, both sides printed green, black & white. As New condition. $15. Baratloo, Mojdeh & Clifton J. Balsch ANGST: Cartography Bird's-eye view of the industrial wasteland centred around Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal at the turn of the 20th Century. Photos to the verso, architectural drawings recto with a running thread of "Cities & Desire 5" from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino along the recto border. Replaced a 'regular issue' of SITES magazine. Paperbound 106pp. 5 x 8 in As New condition. $30. Barker, W.W. & Marc Glassman BLACKLISTED A journal in 8.5 x 11 magazine format in support of a film series on McCarthyism and its effects on American Cinema and the lives of its would-be film-makers. 22pp. Fine condition, $20. Bevington, William, in coordination with Jan Rous and Jiri Setlik Book Design in Prague, 1960-1990 Catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union, New York City in 1992. Vellum sleeves fully wrap the paper covers and are printed 'poezi-poezie' in brown block letters on their four inside panels. 20pp., 6.5 x 12 in mint condition. $20. Castleman, Riva A Century of Artists Books Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name held at theMoMA in 1993. Celebrates the illustrated book as an art form. 76 of the 224 illustrations are in colour. Laminated cardstock covers, 9 x 11, 264pp. in Fine condition $35. Cadieux, Genevieve Genevieve Cadieux Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Power Plant, Toronto in 1988. 12pp., 8 x 11, some stains to matte cover stock. Inside papers a grade of vellum. $15. Chambers, G.B. Folksong-Plainsong: A Study in Musical Origins First published in 1956, this is the 2nd Merlin Press edition of 1972 with a preface added by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Text sewn tightly into cloth boards in As New condition. Dustjacket shows wear at corners. 6 x 8, 122pp. $40. de Duve, Thierry Pictorial Nominalism Translated by Dana Polan, with a foreword by John Rajchman for the Theory and History of Literature Series (#51) of the University of Minnesota Press. Subtitled, "On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade", it moves a post-structuralist critique of abstraction into the wider forum of critical theory. This is the laminated, paper-bound edition of 1991. With bends and dents to the back corners and 11 half-tone illustrations from Duchamp's work. 6 x 9, 224 pp. Good condition. $20. de Silva, Anil and Otto von Simson editors Man through his Art, Volume 1: War and Peace. With colour plates from Tassili, Sahara; Elura, India; Tun-Huang, China; Strasbourg, France; Greece, Hawaii, Japan, the Louvre, Paris, Boston, Munich Madrid, Florence and London. First edition of 1964, with thick boards slightly warping outwards at the corners. Printed in Great Britain for the New York Graphic Society and funded in part by UNESCO. No dustjacket, 8 x 12, 64 pp. in overall fine condition, $50. Dech, Jula and Ellen Mauer, editors Da-da zwischen reden zu Hanna Hoch Auf Deutsch. Over 30 contributors, hundreds of black and white plates and nine full-colour reproductions from Hoch's massive oeuvre. First edition from Berlin's Orlanda Frauenverlag. published in 1991. 7.5 x 9.5, 312 pp. Stains to top face and back cover. Text and illustrations printed on fine art paper. $65. Depero, Fortunato Futurism and Advertising Translation of 'Il futurismo e l'arte pubblicitaria' introduced by the translator, Pasquale Verdicchio. Added to it are 6 pages of graphic ads Depero designed for the Campari company in Itlay during the 20's as well as an English treatise the artist published in New York in 1930, 'A B C of Italian Futurism'. Published in pamphlet format with card-stock covers by the Parentheses Writing Series of La Jolla CA in 1990. Stained covers, pen-marked, overall good condition. $15. Ehrenzweig, Anton The Hidden Order of Art That the secret to a painting is in its brush-strokes. Paladin mass market edition of 1970; 4.5 x 8, 318 pp with an additional 24 pages of b x w plates. $20. Gance, Abel Napoleon This is Gance's original screenplay for Napoleon translated by Moya Hassan and introduced by Kevin Brownlow. Paperbound covers have scratches but overall condition is fine. Faber and Faber, 1990, 5 x 8.5, 220pp. $25. Gordon, Mel, editor Dada Performance A daDA playbook with an editor's introduction as spare and to the head as any of its included texts. Second laminated, paper-covered edition of 1993 in fine condition. 6 x 9, 165 pp. $25. Greenaway, Peter Flying out of this World The possiblity of personal flight. The Louvre as your easel, and you're Peter Greenaway. Page of prose for each picture, 46 of them in colour. 8 x 12, 200 pp., lamintaed paper covers from 1994. Still Fine condition. $40. Hart, Mickey and Frederic Lieberman Planet Drum The wold-beat of rhythm presented psychedelically by the Grateful Dead percussionist. A bend in the cover so only Fine condition this 9 x 11 paperback of 224 graphically exploding pages. First Edition Paperback of 1991. $50. James, Robin, editor Cassette Mythos Large-format paperback from the 'citizens of the real music underground' before there was a world wide web for anyone but the military. Punk ethos by Autonomedia. 8.5 x 11, 196 pp. in As New condition. First edition of 1992 but most of what's discussed is usually 5 to 10 years older than that. $45. Jarman, Derek Dancing Ledge Life and art of Derek Jarman according to its liver and cineaste. 40 years, 154 pp. First American edition of 1993 from Overlook. Edited by Shaun Allen. The dustjacket and top face have soot stains and the bottom face is grease-marked. 7 x 9.5, $35. John, Augustus The Marchesa Casati With notes and commentary by David Wistrow. Documents the purchase and protraitive context of Augustus John's painting by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1934. Booklet format, 8.5 x 11, 16 pp., As New condition. $15. Johnson, Brian D. Brave Films Wild Nights 25 years of festival Fever. Gold wrapped, paperbound story of the Toronto International Film Festival over its first quarter century. Every caption and header is printed inmargin bleed-off, but it's a Random House publication so it must have been on purpose. 8.5 x 11, 366 pp. in As New condition $40. Johnston, Jude, and Joyce Mason, editors Issues of Censorship 16 contributors, 14 issues addressed. Published by A Space in 1985. The heavy on the back cover, who's presumably from Ontario's Consumer Relations looks a lot like Mr. Smith from the 'Matrix' movies. Guess he improved his position. 8.5 x 11, 78 pp. As new, except the paint's peeling from the front spine. So fine. $20. Julian, Philippe Dreamers of Decadence First Pall Mall Press Edition of 1971reprinted for Praeger of London & New York in the same year. Subtitled, "Symbolist painters of the 1890's" it has a weirdly, 'Black sabbath' feel to it, what with its pink sunrise back dustjacket (slightly torn) and Gustave Moreau's drawings playing through the title pages. Text in As New shape though, so Fine condition overall. 7 x 10, 272 pp. containing 149 illustrations, 49 in full colour ending with extensive indices of both its illustrations and of the painters, poets and musicians associated with the movement. $45. Karmel, Pepe Jackson Pollock Subtitled, "Interviews, Articles, and Reviews", it has some art grant application forms too. Cover has some fine repro detail of Number 31 (1950) . Grease stain and foxing to top face, still outrageously fine condition for its subject: 6.5 x 10, 284 pp. $30. Koehnline, James Magpie Reveries Icongraphic mandalas. Kick-ass collage. Front and back paper covers are in full reds and aquas colour. Everything inside is b x w -all 46 more collages -which is maybe a way of containing this energy so it still resembles a book. Foreword by Hakim Bey. Zono Autonomedia. And the back cover got wrinkled up too. So good condition only, $25. Levy, Evan Recent Sculptures Photographs, by Teresa Maie Webster of the scupltor's rolled steel work in various installations, introduced by Linda Genereux. & x 10, 32 pp., $15. Littlefield, Angelika The Dada Period in Cologne Catalogue to an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1988. Startling use of black and red in the matte card-stock covers and matching vellum end-papers. All illustrations in half-tone however. 8.5 x 12, 36 pp. with some staining to the upper back cover and some stress at the front spine. Good $15. McLuhan, Marshall and Harley Parker Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting How the poet and the painter re-focus our senses. Usually a painting or a poem on the verso with McLuhan's purposely tangential comments ooposite. First edition hardcover of 1968, the only blemish being a tear to the back of the dustjacket. So fine condition overall. 6 x 9, 276 pp. $60. Morris, Lynda and Robert Radford The Story of the Artists International Association 1933 - 1953 Chronicles the years of this activist artists group through a reading of its newsletters, bulletins, exhibitions and annual meetings. "AiA" printed green on the original light yellow card stock covers. 8. x 12, 96 pp in As New condition, $25. Murray, Joan Richard Gorman: Naked Eye An essay on the Ottawa born artist Richard Gorman, with 7 full-colour reproductions of his art accompanying it. made into a catalogue for the 1990 show at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. This is copy # 260 of an edition of 500. Fine condition, 7 x 9.5, 32 pp. perfect bound catalogue. $20. Panofsky, Erwin Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art Studies the Italian Renaissance as it developed in the art and literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. After a text of some 210 pp. there follows 32 pages of bibliography and indices and then 157 black and whites plates. First Paladin paperback edition of 1970. 5.5 x 8 in Fine condition $20. Pater, Walter The Renaissance First Mentor mass-market printing of 1959 with an intro prepared especially for it by Louis Kronenberger. Complete with caricatures of the guild artist on the front cover and lurid prose blurbs on the back one. 4.5 x 7, 160 pp in As New condition $20. Rabinowitch, David Konstruktion des Sehens: Zeichnungen mit Farbigen Elementen / Color Property drawings: The Construction of Seeing Following the painterly theory of Rabinowitch through texts in German by himself, Erich Franz and Walter Klepac and their English translation by Brigitte Kalthof through some 25 drawings, primarily pencil and coloured pencil on paper. plain sleeve wholly wrapped around the blank card covers. 8 x 12, 112 pp. in As New condition $50. Sterbak, Jana Jana Sterbak Catalogue for a Power Plant, Toronto exhibition of four works by Sterbak including, Vanitas - Flesh Dress for Albino Anorectic in 1988. Essay on the works written by Ihor Holubizky, then Curator. Some bends to the corner, 8 x 11, 12 pp. in fine ondition $12. Tolstoy, Leo What is Art? Floral cloth boards cover this small volume which appears to have been owned privately -there's an owner's inscription at the front -then donated to a small library and then put up for sale once again. Published in 1898, it's 4.5 x 6.5, 296 pp. followed by 16 pp. of advertisements for other publications by Henry Altemus of Philadelphia. Cloth boards torn at the front; fair condition $15. Zimmer, Heinrich Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization The classic in the field. First Harper Torchbook edition published in 1962. Edited by Joseph Campbell. Back then we were all calling them 'torchbacks'. 248 pp. of text and indices followed by 30 pages of half-tone illustrations. 6.25 x 8. Fine condition $20.