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A list of treasures that would be lovely to see online and a way to contribute to Monoskop and the internet.

Interwar avant-garde

• (Posted.) El Lissitzky, Hans Arp, Die Kunstismen/Les Ismes De L’Art/The Isms of Art: 1914-1924, Erlenbach-Zürich/Munich/Leipzig: Eugen Rentsch, 1925. (German)/(French)/(English)
• (Posted: 1-2, 4, 7-12, 14.) Bauhaus books series, 14 vols., 1925-30. (German)
• Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold (eds.), Foto-Auge / Oeil et Photo / Photo-Eye, Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind, 1929. Catalogue. (German)/ (French)/(English)
• (Posted.) František Kalivoda (ed.), Telehor: The International Review New Vision, Vol 1, Nos 1-2, Brno, 1936. (English)/(Czech)/(German)
• (Posted.) Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.), Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, London, 1937.
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, Paul Theobald, 1947.
• Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers (ed.), El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts, trans. Helene Aldwinckle, London: Thames and Hudson, 1968; 1980.
• Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension, Princeton University Press, 1983; 2013.
• Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, University of California Press, 1985.
• (Posted.) Roman Jakobson, My Futurist Years, trans. Stephen Rudy, ed. Bengt Jangfeldt, New York: Marsilio, 1997, 345 pp.
• Margarita Tupitsyn, El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration, Yale University Press, 1999.
• Timothy O. Benson, Éva Forgács (eds.), Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
• Yuri Tsivian, Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties, 2004.
• (Posted.) Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, University of California Press, 2005.
• (Posted.) Julia Vaingurt, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s, Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Literary theory

• Stephen Bann, John E. Bowlt (eds.), Russian Formalism: A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation, Edinburgh: Scottish Academy Press, 1973; New York, 1974.

Marxist aesthetics

• (Posted.) Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings, eds. Stefan Morawski and Lee Baxandall, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1973, 175 pp; New York: International General, 1974, 179 pp; Telos Press, 1983.
• (Posted.) Margaret A. Rose, Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 216 pp; 1988.
• Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics & Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism, Verso, 1988, 312 pp.

Media theory and media aesthetics

• Friedrich Kittler, Horst Turk, Urszenen. Literaturwissenschaft als Diskursanalyse und Diskurskritik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977, 409 pp. (German)
• Eric A. Havelock, Jackson P. Hershbell (eds.), Communication Arts in the Ancient World, New York: Hastings House, 1978, 162 pp.
• (Posted.) Friedrich Kittler, Grammophon Film Typewriter, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1986. (German)
• Peter Klier, Jean-Luc Evard (eds.), Mediendämmerung: Zur Archäologie der Medien, Berlin: Tiamat, 1989. (German)
• Neil Strauss, Dave Mandl (eds.), Radiotext(e), Autonomedia, 1993. [1]
• Régis Debray, Transmitting Culture, trans. Eric Rauth, New York: University of Columbia Press, 2000; 2004.
• (Posted.) Friedrich Kittler, Musik und Mathematik I: Hellas 1: Aphrodite, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2006. (German)
• Wolfgang Ernst, Friedrich Kittler (eds.), Die Geburt des Vokalalphabets aus dem Geist der Poesie: Schrift, Zahl und Ton im Medienverbund, Munich: Fink, 2006. (German)
• Eric Kluitenberg (ed.), Book of Imaginary Media, Rotterdam: NAi, 2006.
• Friedrich Kittler, Musik und Mathematik I. Hellas 2: Eros, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2009. (German)
• Ana Ofak, Philipp von Hilgers (eds.), Rekursionen: Von Faltungen des Wissens, Munich: Fink, 2010. (German)
• Grey Room 43 (Spring 2011), Special issue: "Audio/Visual". [2]

Music, music theory, sound art and sound studies

• Pierre Schaeffer, À la recherche d'une musique concrète, Paris: Seuil, 1952. (French)
  • (Posted.) In Search of a Concrete Music, trans. John Dack and Christine North, University of California Press, 2012, 244 pp.
• Pierre Schaeffer, Traité des objets musicaux, Paris: Seuil, 1966; 2nd ed., 1977. (French)
• Germano Celant, The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977, 121 pp. Catalogue. [3] (English)/(French)
• Sound: An Exhibition of Sound Sculpture, Instrument Building and Acoustically Tuned Spaces, Pasadena, CA: Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1979, 68 pp. Early catalogue of sound art.
• René Block, Lorenz Dombois, Nele Herltling, Barbara Volkmann (eds.), Für Augen und Ohren. Von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment. Objekte. Installationen. Performances, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1980, 312 pp. Early catalogue of sound art. (German)
• Wolfgang Müller, Geniale Dilletanten, 1982. Manifesto and photos from the Grosse Untergangshow, Festival der Geniale Dilletanten, Tempodrom, Berlin, 1981. (German)
• Vito Acconci, William Hellermann, Don Goddard, Sound/Art, New York: The Foundation, 1984, 29 pp. Early catalogue of sound art.
• Ruth Katz, Carl Dahlhaus (eds.), Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music, 4 vols., Pendragon, 1987.
• Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier (eds.), Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks, Berlin: DAAD Galerie and gelbe Musik, 1989, 279 pp. Catalogue. (English)/(French)/(German)
• Douglas Kahn, Gregory Whitehead (eds.), Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, MIT Press, 1992, 452 pp. [4]
• Erik Satie, Musiques d'ameublement, Salabert, 1999. 'Furniture music' scores written from 1917 to the 1920s.
• Alvin Lucier, Reflections: Interview, Scores, Writings 1965–1994, 2nd ed., Cologne: MusikTexte, 2005, 528 pp. (English)/(German)
• (Posted.) Osiris 28: "Music, Sound, and the Laboratory From 1750-1980", eds. Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell and Myles W. Jackson, University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Film

• P. Adams Sitney (ed.), The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, New York: New York University Press, 1978. Contains the often-hard-to-find theoretical writings of experimental filmmakers, beginning in France in the 1920s and continuing internationally through the 1970s.
• Holger Wilmesmeier, Deutsche Avantgarde und Film: Die Filmmatinee "Der absolute film" (3. und 10. Mai 1925), 1994, 220 pp. (German)
• Millennium Film Journal 58, 35th Anniversary Edition: Since 78, Vol. 1 (Fall 2013).

Artists' writings, Art history and theory

• Zero magazine, eds. Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, 3 issues, 1958-61; facsimile, MIT Press, 1973.
• Peter Stansill, David Zane Mairowitz (eds.), BAMN: Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera, 1965-70, Penguin, 1971.
• Harald Szeemann, Le mammelle della verità / The Breasts of Truth, 1978. Catalogue of an exhibition of the utopian enclave/proto-hippie resort.
• Laura Hoptman, Tomas Pospiszyl (eds.), Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, MIT Press, 2002, 304 pp. [5]
• Oskar Hansen, Towards Open Form, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver and Warsaw: Foksal, 2005. (English)/ (Polish)
• Olav Velthuis, Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money, Rotterdam: nai010, 2005.
• Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, MIT Press, 2005, 344 pp. [6]
• Devin Fore, Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature, MIT Press, 2012, 416 pp. [7]

Art and the machine, Electronic and media art

• Pontus Hultén (ed.), The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, Museum of Modern Art, 1968, 218 pp.
• (Posted.) Les Immatériaux, 1: Épreuves d'écriture, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985. Catalogue. (French)
• Stephen Kovats (ed.), Ost-West-Internet/Media Revolution. Electronic Media in the Transformation Process of Eastern and Central Europe, Campus Verlag, 1999.
• Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, Catherine Mason (eds.), White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, MIT Press, 2009.

Architecture

• Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors, Cologne: Walther König, 1982.
• Catherine de Zegher, Mark Wigley (eds.), The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond, New York: Drawing Center, and MIT Press, 2001.

Philosophy

• Martin Heidegger, Sojourns: The Journey to Greece, SUNY Press, 2005.

Conceptual writing

• (Posted.) Kenneth Goldsmith, Seven American Deaths and Disasters, powerHouse, 2013, 176 pp.

History and philosophy of science, technology, media and computing

• Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Routledge, 1989.
• (Posted.) James Nyce, Paul Kahn (eds.), From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine, London: Academic Press, 1991.
• (Posted.) Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology, Toronto: Anansi, 1992.
• Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman, Instruments and the Imagination, Princeton University Press, 1999, 352 pp. Contents.
• Georg Trogemann, Wolfgang Ernst, A. Y. Nitussov (eds.), History of Computer Devices in Russia, Friedrick Vieweg & Son, 2001.

Political theory

• Padraic Kenney, Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, History and Obstinacy, ed. & intro. Devin Fore, trans. Richard Langston, Zone Books, 2014, 541 pp. Introduction.

More, from Monoskop Log wishlist and elsewhere

• Bruno Zevi, Towards An Organic Architecture, Faber & Faber, 1950.
• Michel Benamou, Charles Caramello (eds.), Performance in Postmodern Culture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977, 234 pp.
• (Posted.) Jimmie Durham, A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics, Kala Press, 1993.
• K. Michael Hays (ed.), Oppositions Reader: Selected Readings from A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture 1973-1984, Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
• Bruce Clarke, Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics, University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Bruce Clarke, Linda Dalrymple Henderson (eds.), From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature, Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Cultural Critique 80 (Winter 2012): "Desiring Human: Machines in the Soviet Union, East Asia, and the United States". [8] [9]

The list continues on Monoskop Log.

First posted on 26 June 2014.