Mikuláš Galanda: Básne v kresbách (1930)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · avant-garde
The rare artist’s book Básne v kresbách [Poems in Drawings] by Slovak avant-garde painter and designer Mikuláš Galanda was published in the year he began teaching at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava.
Self-published, Bratislava, 1930
[10] sheets
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PDF (22 MB)
Comment (0)Marget Long: Flash + Cube, 1965-1975 (2012)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · 1960s, light, media technology, photography, vietnam war, war
“Flash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube — the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials — a “terrorist letter,” G.I. photographs from Vietnam, Sylvania flashcube advertisements, as well as Long’s photographs and photomontages—the book explores the links between light, war, history and photography.
Apart from its circulation as a novelty item online, the flashcube is largely forgotten. The history of photographic flash is also often relegated to a footnote and is strikingly under-analyzed. Yet flash’s blinding effects and military genealogy, and the flashcube’s precise contemporaneity with the war in Vietnam make this a rich analytical object with which to reflect on the cultural, political and economic imperatives of its moment. As Long’s deft work with this archive shows, the flashcube is good to think with.”
Publisher Punctum Books, New York, 2012
Open access
ISBN 9780615624426, 0615624421
[151] pages
Review: Anna McCarthy (Social Text, 2012).
PDF, PDF (33 MB)
Scribd (2nd ed, 2013)
Dan Graham: For Publication (1975)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · conceptual art, mass media
“For Publication reproduces a series of Dan Graham’s projects carried out between 1965 and 1969 that both drew from and were made to be inserted into the mass media. His Schema deal with quantifying linguistic and stylistic information from magazine articles; Detumescence was one of many projects that Graham deployed in paid advertising space of various magazines, as was Dan Graham Inc. and Likes: A Computer-Astrological Dating-Placement Service. Income Piece and the proposal for Aspen Magazine are reproduced as is Homes For America, originally published in Arts Magazine from Dec 1966-Jan 1967. In a section on Information, Graham situates his data-organization practices in the context of Ramon Lull, Borges, Marshall McLuhan, Mallarmé and Roy Lichtenstein.”
Catalog of exhibition held at the Gallery of the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County.
Publisher Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 1975
[32] pages
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