recommended art books

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, December 03, 2009, 11:16:12 PM

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Potier

#90
Just got this one yesterday, can't wait to jump in:



Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979
Various Artists
Edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre

https://primaryinformation.org/product/women-in-concrete-poetry-1959-1979/

MyrtleLake

This question didn't seem to warrant a new topic, so I will ask here:

VOD159: CLOCK DVA HOROLOGY IV 1976-1981 320 page Book with 2x7inch.
Comprehensive Anthology of early Clock DVA 1976-1981.

What exactly is this? Is the book a written history of the period? A visual collection of visual art, pamphlets, show flyers, or... ? Both? I have no idea and cannot find anywhere on the Vinyl On Demand Facebook posts nor elsewhere on the internet a further explanation than the short, ambiguous blurb above. Has anyone laid hands on this book? Thanks for any insight!

MateriaPrima

Hermann Nitsch, The Gesamtkunstwerk of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, published in 2015 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Insanely huge art book of 968 pages, if you're into Hermann Nitsch this is the document. It's an incredible tome covering all of his work from the actions to the paintings and drawings, theater and opera staging, even his musical scores. There are essays by Nitsch and others throughout and a whole section devoted to some of Nitsch's key texts on the philosophy of his work. There is a German version and an English version, it looks like the English version might be out of print. I got mine off AbeBooks for a reasonable price. Definitely worth it if you're really into this.

"In addition to functioning as a substantial documentation of his work and in a sense preserving and disseminating it, it was important to me that this book should reflect the artist's own style of editorial and graphic work. The artist Hermann Nitsch should help shape and design his reference work, so that it captures his Gesamtkunstwerk for posterity in a way that is authentic, genuine, and entirely in the artist's spirit. The focus of this extraordinary book project was not just a monograph on Hermann Nitsch but a monograph on and by Hermann Nitsch. A magnum opus on his magnum opus." -Michael Karrer, Editor

German Edition ISBN 978-3-86335-702-3
English Edition ISBN 978-3-86335-703-0

absurdexposition

Save for making a new thread I suppose this might be the best spot for this:

Anyone have intel on a photo book, I'm assuming from 70s/80s, which collects movie stills of actors in the roles of Nazis (or at least in uniform - I only remember a photo of Clint Eastwood from Where Eagles Dare)? I saw a used copy on Amazon about 12 years ago but it was quite expensive. I kept it in my wish list but it was eventually removed and I don't recall the name of it. It's a hard thing to try and google as well.
Primitive Isolation Tactics
Scream & Writhe distro and Absurd Exposition label
Montreal, QC
https://www.screamandwrithe.com

JLIAT

Quote from: absurdexposition on April 28, 2021, 06:50:57 PM
Save for making a new thread I suppose this might be the best spot for this:

Anyone have intel on a photo book, I'm assuming from 70s/80s, which collects movie stills of actors in the roles of Nazis (or at least in uniform - I only remember a photo of Clint Eastwood from Where Eagles Dare)? I saw a used copy on Amazon about 12 years ago but it was quite expensive. I kept it in my wish list but it was eventually removed and I don't recall the name of it. It's a hard thing to try and google as well.

Not a book but i remember an art exhibit which did this- some time ago at the tate i think, and tracked this down...

https://www.phillips.com/detail/PIOTR-UKLA%C5%83SKI/NY010417/132


and from this i traced the book!  The Nazis by Piotr Uklański

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603864.The_Nazis

There is a copy for sale https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9783905509229/Nazis-Uklanski-Piotr-3905509229/plp  £ 1,064.54 !!!!!!!!




absurdexposition

#95
Wow yes, that's it, thanks!

Damn, what a price...

Be interesting to see that as an exhibit as well.

EDIT: And here is the Eastwood image I remember https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-Nazis-9783905509229
Primitive Isolation Tactics
Scream & Writhe distro and Absurd Exposition label
Montreal, QC
https://www.screamandwrithe.com


cr

Does anybody know more about this movement and the related Inside artzines? Is it worth getting them?

https://artscum.org/

Thanks!


cr

Just got this one last week and now browsing through it. At first glance, this is really beautiful!

https://www.lannoopublishers.com/en/dark-and-dystopian-post%C2%ADmortem-fairy-tales


cr

Diane Arbus: Revelations

Highly recommended!

Manhog_84

Narok Exhibition Catalogue is currently on sale at Timeless for 18€. I got mine few days ago. Some great stuff in it.

Mass Graven Image

A topic of great interest for me has always been the conflict in Northern Ireland, especially the I.R.A. itself.
The murals that are ubiquitous in Northern cities that are the primary battlegrounds between the English Loyalist paramilitaries, occupation forces and the I.R.A. paramilitary have always been of great fascination.
A series of 5 books chronicling the messages through the years called "Drawing support: murals in the North of Ireland" by Bill Rolston is a great series and well worth checking out.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-support-murals-North-Ireland/dp/0951422936

Araxuus

First time hearing about this book series, thank you for the tip.

Mass Graven Image

The Game Of Saturn – Decoding The Sola-Busca Torrochi

Very interesting read with a lot of interesting rare images of occult / esoteric studies that are little to almost forgotten. The history of modern Tarot is explored here.





P.i.L.-Lu

Just realized this great topic exists!

Highest recommendations for this book of which I have read only up to a bit over half way now:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Classics-Mountains-My-Life/dp/0141192917

Real life stories beat fiction each and every time.

Author's ethics in his mountaineering art was the same with any true art: expose yourself to danger to become yourself and steer clear from the masses.