World Food Books

Simon Yotsuya
Pygmalionisme — Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées (photography by Kishin Shinoyama)

1985, Japanese
Softcover (w. acetate dust jacket), 128 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan

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First edition of the incredible book of Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya, Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées, shot by Kishin Shinoyama, published in 1985 by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo. This stunning over-sized book is the finest photographic document of Simon's dolls created throughout his career, all dramatically shot by legendary Japanese photographer, and close friend of Yotsuya, Kishin Shinoyama, profusely illustrated in full colour gloss with each doll, including various angles, details, and display cases, accompanied by a section of Japanese texts by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Yoshiaki Tono, Minoruyoshioka, Shuzotakiguchi, and Kunio Iwaya, illustrated in b/w with portraits of Simon Yotsuya in his studio, his drawings and graphic works. Our favourite book on this magical artist.

Simon Yotsuya (b. 1944, Tokyo) started making dolls as a child, visiting exhibitions of dolls, and reads all the books he can find on the subject. In his mid-teens he visited Puppe Kawasaki, a doll maker and animator he greaty admired, devoting himself to the craft and becoming a poor high school student. In the early '60s, while working at a jazz coffee shop in Shinjuku, Yotsuya earned the nickname "Simon" (pronounced “Simone”), after his love for singer Nina Simone. He befriends Kuniyoshi Kaneko (painter) and Junko Koshino (fashion designer) and joins in the arts and literary scene. In 1965, he discovers the work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer through an article authored by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in the magazine “Shinfujin”, promptly abandoning his previous methods of doll-making to find his way as an artist, incorporating ball-joints into his dolls. Thereafter he becomes an admirer of Surrealism and immerses himself in the controversial Shibusawa's litterary works. In 1965, he also goes to see Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Performance for the first time. In the late 60s—early 70s Yotsuya pursued a parallel career to his doll-making as an actor and member of Juro Kara's legendary underground theater company Jokyo Gekijo, Situation Theater, regularly portraying a female doll. He appears in the movie "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" directed by Nagisa Oshima with the actors of the Situation Theater, but by 1971 he leaves the stage to concentrate on his own work. Simon exhibited at Expo 1970 in Osaka, the Tokyo Biennale in 1974 and by the end of the decade had opened his own doll-making school in Harajuku.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), the author of the influential Bellmer article (and novelist, editor, art critic, and translator of Bataille and Marquis de Sade), become a life-long friend of Yotsuya's and his most important advocate, editing the first major book of Yotsuya's work, entitled Pygmalionisme, in 1985. Devastated by Shibusawa's death in 1987, Yotsuya found it impossible to work for nearly two years. He eventually found solace in the Eastern Orthodox Church and was inspired to make a series of angels, which he dedicated to Shibusawa, and straightforward images of Christ. Having carved out his own masterful and unique form of expression, today Yotsuya enjoys international renown as the first ball-jointed doll maker in Japan.

Good—Very Good copy with general wear to book and publisher's jacket shrinkage with age, some light foxing.

File under: Simon Yotsuya Kishin Shinoyama Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Yoshiaki Tono Minoruyoshioka Shuzotakiguchi Kunio Iwaya Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan Eros Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art SALE

Raum Zeit Stille / Space Time Silence
Edited by Wulf Herzogenrath

1985, German
Hardcover, 184 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln

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Lovely 1985 hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, March 23—June 2, 1985, curated by German art historian and curator Wulf Herzogenrath, featuring Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Carl Gustav Carus, Marcel Duchamp, Jannis Kounellis, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevich, La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela, Barnett Newman, Nam June Paik, Arnulf Rainer, Odilon Redon, Mark Rothko, Reiner Ruthenbeck, and Georges Seurat. Heavily illustrated in colour and b/w with accompanying texts in German.

Good copy with some rubbing/flaking to silkscreened carbon black hardcovers, otherwise Very Good throughout. Previous owner's name to title page (that of Melbourne artist Bernhard Sachs).

File under: Josef Albers Joseph Beuys John Cage Carl Gustav Carus Marcel Duchamp Jannis Kounellis René Magritte Kasimir Malevich La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela Barnett Newman Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Odilon Redon Mark Rothko Reiner Ruthenbeck Georges Seurat Wulf Herzogenrath Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Art Sound / Music Fluxus Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Surrealism

Max Klinger

1985, German
Hardcover, unpaginated, 28 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kunst und Gesellschaft / Berlin

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Hardcover monograph on German artist Max Klinger (1857—1920) published by Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin in 1985. Profusely illustrated throughout with Klinger's incredible engravings, paintings and sculptures, reproduced in colour and b/w, accompanied by text in German by Renate Hartleb.

Max Klinger was a German artist known for his Symbolist paintings, prints, and sculptures. Influenced by the work of Francisco Goya, Arnold Böcklin, and the Italian Renaissance, Klinger’s art often focused on romantic yearning, eerie figures, and a sense of mystery, while his earliest work leaned towards the socio-critical. His series titled Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove (1881) earned him recognition for his skill in illustrating elaborate narratives of modern life. It was after the publication of the more dark, mystic work A Life (1884)—depicting a young woman abandoned, forced into prostitution, and rejected by bourgeois society—that he dedicated himself to more experimental, imaginative subjects, exploring dreamlike space. Born on February 18, 1857 in Leipzig, Germany, Klinger began his training at the Karlsuhe Art School under social Realist painter Karl Gussow, whom he followed to Berlin. In Berlin, Klinger studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and became acquainted with Japanese woodblock prints at the Kupferstichkabinett. The artist later moved to Paris, where in 1891 he self-published Painting and Drawing, marking the merit of the graphic arts as a medium suited to original expression and experimentation. Klinger’s work had a profound influence on the Metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Surrealists, and a generation of German graphic artists. Seven years after his death on July 5, 1920 in Naumburg, Germany, a high school in his hometown of Leipzig was named the Max Klinger Schule. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among many others.

Good—VG copy with only notable damage some chipping to top of spine, otherwise VG only light age.

File under: Max Klinger Renate Hartleb Kunst und Gesellschaft / Berlin Drawing Sculpture / Installation Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Out-of-print / Rare

Hans Bellmer
Peter Webb with Robert Short

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 300 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Quartet Books / London

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First 1985 hardcover edition of the first fundamental and comprehensive study of Hans Bellmer (1902—1975), the most provocative representative of Surrealism, authored by Peter Webb with Robert Short and published by Quartet in London. English edition. Heavily illustrated throughout with many rare images, in colour and b/w, many photographs and artworks, with bibliography, catalogue and references.

"Surrealism was one of the most exciting and influential of twentieth century art movements and much has been written about it since its great flowering in the 1930s. The lives and work of its leading figures (Ernst, Magritte, Dali and Miró) have been extensively researched, but Hans Bellmer, perhaps the most controversial and misunderstood of all the surrealists, has until now remained a mystery. Peter Webb, who interviewed Bellmer shortly before his death, has spent two years unravelling the story of this photographer, sculptor, painter, engraver and writer, and his book provides the first opportunity to evaluate Bellmer's considerable artistic achievement."—book jacket blurb

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hans Bellmer Unica Zürn Peter Webb Robert Short Quartet Books / London Surrealism Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Photography Sculpture / Installation Drawing Fetishism / BDSM Art

Max Ernst
Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher

1970, German
Softcover (printed cloth), 154 pages, 23 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart

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First printing of this wonderful cloth-covered, 1970 monographic catalogue on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany his solo exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein, in Stuttgart in 1970.

Max Ernst "Gemälde, Plastiken, Collagen, Frottagen, Bücher" ("Paintings, Sculptures, Collages, Frottage, Books") is a handsomely designed and profusely illustrated book covering much of his astounding career of work in full-colour and black and white plates. Includes a chronology (1909-1968), bibliography, list of works, and texts by Werner Spies, Lothar Pretzell, Helmut R. Leppien, Uwe M. Schneede, and a series of texts by Max Ernst himself, covering topics of Dada, Nature, Collage, Surrealism, etc. All texts in German.

Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism, and among the most original artists of the 20th century.

Very Good—Near Fine, well preserved and clean copy.

File under: Max Ernst Helmut R. Leppien Lothar Pretzell Uwe M. Schneede Werner Spies Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Susan Cianciolo
Work Shop

2004, English
Hardcover (clothbound w. illustrated obi strip), 160 pages, 22 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Petit Gras / Japan

$220.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the long out-of-print 2004 hardcover monograph on the work of New York fashion designer/artist Susan Cianciolo. This extensive, profusely illustrated book features a photographic archive of Cianciolo's RUN collections, workshops, performances, exhibitions, collaborations and workshops from the mid 1990s into the early 2000s. An artist who expresses the DIY spirit in all mediums, this wonderful document is a must for any fan. Edited by Taka Kawauchi, includes texts by Aaron Rose.

For the past twenty years, Susan Cianciolo has moved between fields and formats including fashion, performance, installation and filmmaking. After working as an assistant for X-Girl led by Kim Gordon, she produced her critically acclaimed and commercially successful RUN collection (1995–2001), a fashion line of hand crafted clothing made from found or recycled garments and textiles. Cianciolo collections are regularly featured in museums and galleries internationally; her designs, artworks, and films have been included in recent solo exhibitions at Yale Union in Portland, Oregon, 356 Mission Road in Los Angeles, California, and Bridget Donahue in New York, as well as in group exhibitions at White Columns, Lisa Cooley, and MoMA PS1, among others. Cianciolo identifies as "a designer who also makes art, and a conceptual artist who occasionally designs clothes".

Very Good copy with original illustrated obi-strip, some light marking and wear to cloth and edges.

File under: Susan Cianciolo Mark Borthwick Aaron Rose Petit Gras / Japan Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Art Textiles

HANS BELLMER
PHOTOGRAPHE

1983, Japanese
Hardcover (clothbound w. dustjacket), 152 pages, 20.5 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Orion Press / Tokyo

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Exquisitely designed and produced book dedicated entirely to the photography of the German artist Hans Bellmer (1902—1975). Produced in French by Editions Filipacchi, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Musee National D'art Moderne in Paris in 1983, this scarce Japanese hardcover printing (produced and printed in Japan that same year) features a different cover, with translations to the Japanese language of the introductory essay and texts. A beautiful photo book densely illustrated with colour and black and white reproductions of Bellmer's infamous doll photography, his many studies of the female nude (including those of his wife, artist Unica Zürn), and rare photography of his objects and sculptural assemblages, his studio, and more, this volume captures an important Surrealist visionary and one of the most daring artists of the 20th century through his stunning photography. Features the wonderful "La Poupee" — Hans Bellmer's articulated, anatomically amorphous Surrealist doll, reconfigured and captured through Bellmer's intimate hand-painted photographic images. "La Poupee" acquired iconic status as perhaps the purest exemplification of the Surrealist ideal of "convulsive beauty." Bellmer constructed his first doll in the early 1930s. André Breton and Paul Eluard described it as "the first and only Surrealist object with a universal, provocative power".

German artist Hans Bellmer (1902—1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous—notorious, even—for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. Many of Bellmer's works were inspired by the literary works of Comte de Lautréamont, Marquis de Sade and Georges Bataille, amongst others.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket with light wear/light foxing.

File under: Hans Bellmer Unica Zürn Orion Press / Tokyo Surrealism Photography Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art

Hans Bellmer
Die Puppe

1962, German
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 16.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gerhardt Verlag / Berlin

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1962 edition of Bellmer's "Die Puppe", published by Gerhardt Verlag in Berlin. German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous—notorious, even--for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. This collectable first edition of Die Puppe (The Doll) comprises a series of Bellmer's hand-painted photographs in the form of 10 monochrome and 15 coloured tipped-in plates accompanying his remarkable texts, here published for the first time. Bellmer's hand-coloured photographs subsequently acquired an iconic status as perhaps the purest exemplification of the Surrealist ideal of "convulsive beauty." Bellmer weaves a remarkably disparate set of concepts and intuitions—from fields as diverse as mathematics, morphology, optics and psychology—into a theory of eroticism that provides a totally unexpected rationale for his uncompromising art. His ideas are, in the words of poet Joë Bousquet, a "scandal to reason." The book also contains many b/w drawings by Bellmer along with prose poems by Paul Eluard. A book like no other!

Very Good—Near Fine preserved copy of this stunning edition with the die-cut decal cover. Light corner bump, light block shelf wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer Gerhardt Verlag / Berlin Eros Surrealism Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety
by Sue Taylor

2002, English
Softcover, 310 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 2002 paperback edition of this out-of-print study on Bellmer.

"The German-born surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his life-size pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating sexualized images of the female body-distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic theory to suggest why Bellmer was so driven by erotomania as well as a desire for revenge, suffering, and the safety of the womb. Tracing a repressed homoerotic attachment to his father, castration anxiety, and an unconscious sense of guilt, Taylor proposes that a feminine identification informs all the disquieting aspects of Bellmer's art.

Most scholarship to date has focused on Bellmer's work of the 1930s, especially the infamous dolls and the photographs he made of them. Taylor extends her discussion to the sexually explicit prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs he produced throughout the ensuing three decades. The book includes a color frontispiece and 121 black-and-white images (eight published here for the first time), as well as appendixes containing several significant texts by Bellmer previously unavailable in English.

Sue Taylor is Assistant Professor of Art History at Portland State University, Oregon.

"While ultimately subscribing to the conventional wisdom that the misogynist implications of Bellmer's many sinister images can never be altogether dismissed, [Taylor] insists that we look beyond their manifest content towards their latent meanings. Her tone and method is thus a long way from the punitive... literalism and crudity of much Bellmer criticism."—R. S. Short, Times Literary Supplement

"An impressive book by any standards. Every page displays intelligence, erudition and visual acuity."—Metapsychology

VG copy, light edge wear, faint edge tanning.

File under: Hans Bellmer Sue Taylor The MIT Press / Massachusetts Eros Gender Studies / Sexuality Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Painting

David Hammons

2025, English
Hardcover, 368 pages,‎ 28 x 28 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Hauser & Wirth / Los Angeles

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Hammons' body prints, flags and found-object sculptures come together in this artist's book documenting his thought-provoking conceptual exhibition.

This post-exhibition catalog revisits David Hammons’ 2019 show at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. A singular book created entirely under the artist’s direction, this publication illustrates the most expansive exhibition of this legendary artist’s work to date.

Said critic Jonathan Griffin of the original exhibition, "Alongside finished artworks, including framed examples of Hammons’s sublime drawings made with bounced basketballs and powdered Kool-Aid, there are plenty of apparently ad hoc, readymade interventions, installations in which it is unclear where one ends and the next begins. … Hammons, it seems, wants his viewers to relax, historiography be damned."

Born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, David Hammons moved to Los Angeles in 1963 at the age of 20 and began making his body prints several years later. He studied at Otis Art Institute with Charles White and became part of a younger generation of Black avant-garde artists loosely associated with the Black Arts Movement. In Los Angeles, Hammons was a cofounder of Studio Z, a group which included Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Joe Ray and others. Hammons has lived in New York since 1978.

File under: David Hammons Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Hauser & Wirth / Los Angeles Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater

Richard Tuttle
In Parts: 1998-2001

2002, English
Softcover (glue-bound w. fold-out pages), 96 pages, 21 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ICA / Philadelphia

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Scarce copy of the elaborate "In Parts: 1998-2001", wherein Richard Tuttle draws on 13 discrete bodies of work dating from 1998 to the early 2000s. This fully illustrated catalogue (with fold-out poster pages that capture details of Tuttle's work close-up with surrounding interiors and objects), expertly designed in collaboration with the Purtill Family Business, also includes an essay by Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and text by the poet Charles Bernstein, a frequent collaborator with Tuttle.

Very Good, light foxing to top edge, light tanning to boards.

File under: Richard Tuttle Charles Bernstein Ingrid Schaffner ICA / Philadelphia Art Drawing Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Painting Poetry Sculpture / Installation

Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period
by Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier

2008, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rizzoli / New York

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Rare first English hardcover edition of the immediately out-of-print, immediately collectible and invaluable monograph on visionary modern French designer Jean-Michel Frank, published by Rizzoli in 2008 after he original French edition by Norma in 2006. A beautifully printed hardcover book in original publisher's illustrated dust-jacket, profusely and lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w with hundreds of photographs including vintage shots of room settings and individual pieces. Preface by Bruno Foucart. Foreword by Alice Frank. Bibliography.

This monograph, now very scarce in English, examines both his life and work as a furniture and interior designer, and remains the key work on Frank.

"I wish one could more often see artists collaborating in arranging houses," said Frank, who admired the sets masterminded by the ballet impresario Sergey Diaghilev in conjunction with Picasso, Braque, Derain and Matisse. "The result would be, at the very least, something of our time, and alive."

Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was perhaps the most influential Parisian designer and decorator of the 1930s and 1940s, a refugee desolated by the Nazi occupation of France who had a short and tragic life which ended in suicide in 1941. Frank established his reputation and signature look with his 1926–27 design for Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles's hôtel particulier at 11 place des Etats-Unis in Paris. Man Ray's black-and-white images of the salon have become shorthand for le style Frank. The Noailles were leading progressives of their day and patrons of the major painters of Paris. Frank's style of understated luxury, vellum-sheathed walls, bleached leather, lacquer, quartz and shagreen perfectly complemented the Picassos and Braques on the walls. He collaborated with the artist Christian Bérard, the brothers Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Dali, and the architect-designer Emilio Terry. Frank's blocky, rectangular club chairs and sofas have been endlessly copied and produced by many admirers. He is credited for the design of the modern Parsons table, a stark form that Frank embellished with the most luxurious finish. His style continues to exert its influence through the powerful combination of the simplest forms and the most exquisite materials to produce objects that are truly noble and utterly modern. This book is a testimony to Frank's rigour and the timelessness of his design.

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier is a noted art historian based in Paris whose specialty is twentieth-century applied arts. He is a frequent contributor to leading French publications including Connaissance des arts and Maison francaise.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Jean-Michel Frank Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier Bruno Foucart Alice Frank Rizzoli / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art

Dolly-Dolly: Girl Doll
A dream special issue featuring a collection of enchanting girls created by doll artists

2004, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 120 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Graphic-sha / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful 2004 special edition of Japan's Dolly-Dolly magazine devoted entirely to girl dolls created by Japanese doll artists. An incredible collection of lush full-colour photographic galleries of girl dolls of the gothic lolita variety—many incredible life-size ball-jointed dolls, corpse-brides, Faeries, and macabre Alices—alongside artist profiles, featuring the work of many now well-known leading Japanese artists of the subculture and many rarely seen. Artists featured include Koizukihime, Ryo Yoshida, Mahoko Akiyama, Yuriko Yamayoshi, Ryu Kimura, Hiiro Yuka Yuri, Yoshiko Hori, Miho Sato, sun moon, Etsuko Miura, Ryo Hata, Yumi Urano, Gentaro Araki, IZARRA, Tamako, Toko Usui, Sumire Obata, pomegranate, Miu, melyu, Yogu. This issue moves far away from the usual Blythe dolls and barbies of Dolly-Dolly magazine into the artistic underground of Japanese doll-makers.

Dolly-Dolly was a Japanese book magazine (mook), "a book for those who love dolls and small, cute things. It features a wealth of photographs and helpful information to showcase wonderful dolls that will resonate with doll lovers. We hope that by looking at this book, making, and shopping for dolls, your doll life will become even more enjoyable."—publisher

Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

File under: Koizukihime Ryo Yoshida Mahoko Akiyama Yuriko Yamayoshi Ryu Kimura Hiiro Yuka Yuri Yoshiko Hori Miho Sato sun moon Etsuko Miura Ryo Hata Yumi Urano Gentaro Araki IZARRA Tamako Toko Usui Sumire Obata pomegranate Miu melyu Yogu Graphic-sha / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Hans Bellmer

1971, French
Hardcover (clothbound w. dustjacket), 88 pages, 25 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editions Filipacchi / Paris

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of this great monographic book on the work of Surrealist visionary Hans Bellmer, published in 1971 by Editions Filipacchi, Paris. Heavily illustrated throughout with wonderful reproductions of Bellmer's incredible drawings, photography, sculptures, paintings, alongside texts in French, biography and bibliography.

German artist Hans Bellmer (1902 – 1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous—notorious, even—for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. Many of Bellmer's works were inspired by the literary works of Comte de Lautréamont and Georges Bataille, amongst others. He was best known for the exquisite life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. "Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he'd been working as a draftsman for his own advertising company. He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. Bellmer was influenced in his choice of art form by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925)."

Very Good copy with light foxing to initials in VG dust jacket with some age and closed tears, preserved under removable mylar wrap.

File under: Hans Bellmer Editions Filipacchi / Paris Surrealism Drawing Art Eros Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sculpture / Installation

Haim Steinbach
Oeuvres Récentes

1989, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by CAPC / Bordeaux

$90.00 - Out of stock

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English language edition of this lovely 1989 catalogue of artist Haim Steinbach, well-known for his ‘shelves’ which put into question the identity of objects through selection, arrangement and presentation, published by capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with Steinbach's sculptural works from the 1980s, plus reference imagery, Steinbach's typographical works lacing accompanying essays by Germano Celant, John Miller, Jean-Louis Froment, Élisabeth Lebovici, plus an interview with Steinbach, exhibition history, bibliography, photographic portrait by Lina Bertucci, and more. A magnificent catalogue.

For more than four decades, Haim Steinbach has explored the psychological, aesthetic, cultural and ritualistic aspects of collecting and arranging already existing objects. His work engages the concept of “display” as a form that foregrounds objects, raising consciousness of the play of presentation. Steinbach selects and arranges objects – which range from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic – thereby emphasizing their identities, inherent meanings and associations. An important influence in the growth of post-modern artistic dialogue, Steinbach’s work has radically redefined the status of the object in art.

VG copy in G dust jacket with wear to the extremities, light creasing.

File under: Haim Steinbach Germano Celant John Miller Jean-Louis Froment Élisabeth Lebovici CAPC / Bordeaux Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Rosemarie Trockel
Post Menopause

2005, English / German
Softcover (w. folded poster dust-jacket), 192 pages, 22.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Rare 2006 edition (w. original fold-out dust-jacket poster) of Rosemarie Trockel's Post Menopause catalogue (raisonné), published on the occasion of the major 2005—2006 exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: Menopause, at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, and MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

This wonderful, major survey disappeared from print very fast, quickly becoming a valuable item in the mid-2000s. A catalogue raisonné of sorts, collecting Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980—2005 (sculpture, wool works, drawings, publications, garments, photography, video — including many very rarely seen objects), Post Menopause remains one the best, most comprehensive, and Trockel-esque books produced on one of Germany's most important and influential conceptual artists. Not surprisingly, since Post Menopause was realised in close collaboration between Trockel herself with Museum Ludwig curator Barbara Engelbach, and designed by her regular design collaborator, and sometimes muse, the great graphic designer Yvonne Quirmbach. Extensive chronological cataloguing of all works, biography, bibliography, and bilingual (English and German) essays by Brigid Doherty, Silvia Eiblmayr, Barbara Engelbach, Kasper König, and Gregory Williams.

A highly recommended and invaluable resource on the artist.

Rosemarie Trockel (*1952) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

VG/VG.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Barbara Engelbach Brigid Doherty Gregory Williams Silvia Eiblmayr Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Photography Drawing Conceptual Art Film / Video

Witness To Her Art
Adrian Piper, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Mona Hatoum, Daniela Rossell, Eau de Cologne ...

2006, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 26 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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First edition of this very special, now very rare catalogue published in 2006 on the occasion of the major survey exhibition Witness To Her Art, featuring the work of Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and the seminal magazine Eau de Cologne, published by gallerist Monika Sprüth between 1985 and 1989. Profusely illustrated throughout with artworks by all artists, reproductions of important artist publications, installation views, and many works by other related artists, alongside texts by Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Monika Sprüth, Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson, Norton Batkin, Johanna Burton, Aruna D’Souza, Pamela Franks, Janet Kraynak, David Levi Strauss, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ann Reynolds, Hamza Walker, and many more.

Publisher's blurb:
"This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen—all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, "Witness to Her Art" presents works by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and "Eau de Cologne," a magazine published by gallerist Monika Sprüth. The artworks are accompanied by original writings by the artists, contemporaneous criticism and newly commissioned essays by Pamela Franks, Aruna D'Souza, Johanna Burton, David Levi Strauss, Hamza Walker and Cuauhtémoc Medina. The ambitious works presented and interpreted herein invite us to consider the impact of the feminist revolution across generations while rendering obsolete any stigma associated with shows or catalogues limited to women artists. Taking its lead from Conceptualism, feminism, and from its included artists, "Witness to Her Art" reaches for art history's capacity as a medium of world-making."

Highly recommended. Very Good copy with light edge wear/rounding to stiff overlay boards.

File under: Adrian Piper Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Monika Sprüth Adrian Piper Kara Walker Daniela Rossell Mona Hatoum Cady Noland Jenny Holzer Rhea Anastas Michael Brenson Norton Batkin Johanna Burton Pamela Franks Janet Kraynak David Levi Strauss Ann Reynolds Hamza Walker Aruna D'Souza Cuauhtémoc Medina Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Photography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Post Human
by Jeffrey Deitch

1992, English
Softcover (french-folds), 144 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by FAE Musee d'Art Contemporaine Pully / Lausanne

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First 1992 English edition of the legendary Post Human exhibition catalogue, published on the occasion of the touring exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch, June 1992—October 1993. Post Human brought together the work of leading young international artists confronting a new artificial “real” world; a new figuration. The participating artists examine the media’s obsession with the “virtual reality” of the body beautiful through works that reveal the neuroses that plague contemporary society. In Deitch's words, this lavishly designed catalogue "explores the implications of genetic engineering, plastic surgery, mind expansion, and other forms of body alteration, to ask whether our society is developing a new model of the human being. It poses the question of whether our society is creating a new kind of post-human person that replaces previous constructions of the self. Images from the new technological and consumer culture and the new, conceptually oriented figurative art of thirty-six young artists will endeavor to give us a glimpse of the coming post-human world."

Featuring the work of Dennis Adams, Janine Antoni, John M Armleder, Stephan Balkenhol, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Taro Chiezo, Clegg & Guttmann, Wim Delvoye, Suzan Etkin, Fischli / Weiss, Slyvie Fleury, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Damien Hirst, Martin Honert, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, George Lappas, Annette Lemieux, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Yasumasa Morimura, Kodai Nakahara, Cady Noland, Daniel Oates, Pruitt & Early, Charles Ray, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Pia Stadtbäumer, Meyer Vaisman, Jeff Wall.

"Post Human was virtually a manifesto trumpeting a new art for a new breed of human. As Deitch’s text explained in the fragmented mottos that punctuated the billboard-style graphics of Dan Friedman’s catalogue design, “It is becoming routine for people to try to alter their appearance, their behavior, and their consciousness beyond what was once thought possible.” And we go on to read, “With the embrace of artificiality, Realism as we used to know it may no longer be possible.” The glossy color plates spoke volumes, whether the illustrations came from art or from “life.” The catalogue was to become something of a cult item that triggered the imaginations of many younger artists. Here was a permanent anthology of the “posthumanity” that surrounds us not only in galleries but on television, in magazines, even in real life, where the friendly androids among us chatter on about Botox and face-lifts. In the catalogue pages, one could see, for instance, four photos of Jane Fonda in four completely different but equally synthetic guises; Pat Buchanan being made up by a cosmetician for a TV appearance; computer morphs of once- human faces; before-and-after bellies and buttocks; and dead center, a profile view of Michael Jackson, clearly the sun god of this new solar system, who would later be deified by Jeff Koons.

This pure plastic environment, whether peopled by Ivana Trump or Barbie, set the stage for the artists in the show, whose works played perfectly in this parallel universe that was quickly replacing that old-fashioned thing called Nature. The result was a complete reshuffling of the contemporary-art deck, with an international mix of thirty-six artists (singles and pairs) that embraced Thomas Ruff and Jeff Wall, Clegg & Gutmann and Pruitt/Early, Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney and Yasumasa Morimura, Charles Ray and Martin Kippenberger. A new dynasty had installed itself, and this ruling class demanded fitting ancestry."—Robert Rosenblum, Artforum (October 2004)

"Looked at from the point of view of being difficult cultural issues to a broader public than usual, the project Post Human could not have come about at a better time. (…) Deitch’s central thesis—that the voluntary manipulation of the human body through surgery, cosmetics and exercise, combined with recent technologies allowing us to simulate the experience of reality, have produced a culture in which the body no longer serves as a cohesive, organic reference point—fits well in an age in which pop starts, politicians and even artists themselves seem to delight in changing their physical identities to suit their purposes. No longer the domain of privacy and difference, the body has become a public crossroads where the merging of real and artificial, organic and synthetic, and even good and evil, is taking place right before our very (ahem) eyes."—Dan Cameron, Frieze (September–October 1992)

Good—Very Good copy of the sought after English language edition (the catalogue was produced in five languages) some wear to extremities, light light knocking/creasing to boards and spine, but overall a handsome copy.

File under: Dennis Adams Janine Antoni John M Armleder Stephan Balkenhol Matthew Barney Ashley Bickerton Taro Chiezo Clegg & Guttmann Wim Delvoye Suzan Etkin Fischli / Weiss Slyvie Fleury Robert Gober Felix Gonzalez-Torres Damien Hirst Martin Honert Mike Kelley Karen Kilimnik Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons George Lappas Annette Lemieux Christian Marclay Paul McCarthy Yasumasa Morimura Kodai Nakahara Cady Noland Daniel Oates Pruitt & Early Charles Ray Thomas Ruff Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Pia Stadtbäumer Meyer Vaisman Jeff Wall Fischli & Weiss David Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Peter Fischli/David Weiss Jeffrey Deitch FAE Musee d'Art Contemporaine Pully / Lausanne Group Shows / Collections Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sculpture / Installation Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare

Rosemarie Trockel
Anima

1994, English / German
Softcover, 72 pages, 15.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Cantz Verlag / Berlin

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Excellent, long out-of-print Rosemarie Trockel book, published in 1994 on the occasion of an exhibition at MAK Vienna. Designed by the artist herself, this publication focuses primarily on her video works of the nineties. Rosemarie Trockel began working with the medium of film in 1993, pursuing the line of development that had begun with her sculptures and objects. Her videos are concerned with people and animals, as in the slow-motion video entitled Out of the kitchen into the fire (1993), in which a female nude viewed from the rear lays an egg filled with black ink. Bizarre constellations and sequences reveal a certain irony in these works. Rosemarie Trockel's precise observations of natural processes, her use of materials, which she alters, reinterprets and places in unusual and surprising contexts, make her a very interesting contemporary artist. Rather than producing new "images" herself, she has the capacity to generate new images in the mind of the viewer.

As New copy.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Elfriede Jelinek Holger Liebs Marietta Franke Cantz Verlag / Berlin Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
Vision. Provocation. Dada.

2025, English
Hardcover, 304 pages, 29 x 22 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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A spectacular appraisal of one of the most innovative avant-garde artists of the Dada scene

Raoul Hausmann fought convention all his life. Radically resolved to be "unscrupulously honest" in both art and life, the Dadaist was a multimedia activist of the first hour and a sharp-tongued critic of society. Now his visionary output can be enjoyed in all its breadth. With more than 300 illustrations, this catalogue from the Berlinische Galerie traces his path: the early Expressionist works, gems of Dada from the Berlin years, Hausmann's photography, but also fashion, dance and literature, and the artist's lesser-known productivity in exile. Twelve essays by international experts in the history of art and literature, media studies, and psychoanalysis examine the multilayered oeuvre to offer a multifaceted panorama of Hausmann's astonishing significance—even today. Another appealing feature of the catalogue is its attractive, artistic design.

Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971) was an exceptionally innovative avant-garde artist. He co-invented collage, explored body, words, and space in early happenings, merged the visual with the haptic, and translated sound into images. In and beyond art, the provocative "Dadasoph" called out the establishment.

Edited by: Ralf Burmeister, Thomas Köhler
Graphic Design: Gregor Schreiter
Texts by: Hanne Bergius, Peter Bexte, Ralf Burmeister, Amélie Castellanet, Annina Guntli, Nadine Hartmann, Thomas Köhler, Annelie Lütgens, Agatha Mareuge, Nils Philippi, Bernd Stiegler, Hélène Thiérard, Timm Ulrichs, Michael White

File under: Raoul Hausmann Hannah Hoch Ralf Burmeister Thomas Köhler Hanne Bergius Peter Bexte Amélie Castellanet Annina Guntli Nadine Hartmann Annelie Lütgens Agatha Mareuge Nils Philippi Bernd Stiegler Hélène Thiérard Timm Ulrichs Michael White Hatje Cantz / Berlin Dada Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Photography

Koizukihime
Derrière les paupières: Doll Works Collection

2000, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 80 pages, 27 x 19.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kadokawa Shoten / Tokyo

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First 2000 hardcover edition of this lavish photo book, Derrière les paupières (Behind the Eyelids), collecting the delicate ball-jointed bisque doll works of renowned Japanese doll artist Koizukihime (b. 1955). Koizukihime's ethereal gothic dolls exude a quiet, timeless beauty, imbued with the softness of enternal youth. Shot intimately by Japanese photographer Sakichi Kataoka, her nymphish girl creations—whether coffined, stigmatic, in slumber, or in erotic undress—are set in macabre, dreamlike scenarios of ritual, eros and death. Koizukihime began creating ball-jointed dolls in 1980 – the entire body is divided into parts, each connected by a sphere at the joints, allowing the joints to move freely. An artistic method radicalised by Hans Bellmer. By 1996, Koizukihime was creating all-bisque ball-jointed dolls, introducing high-end antique doll methods of late 19th century France, making all of the doll's parts out of fired porcelain and joining them with strong elastic bands.

VG copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Koizukihime Kadokawa Shoten / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

Secret Doll Underground: Japanese Surrealist Dolls from the Yaso Collection, Tokyo
Edited by Yuichi Konno

2014, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 28 x‎ 21.59 cm
Published by Creation Books / London

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The modern era of underground doll-making in Japan began in the late 1960s, with the experiments of Simon Yotsuya and Nori Doi. Directly inspired by the Surrealist Doll constructed by Hans Bellmer in 1932, Simon Yotsuya created a series of ball-jointed, life-sized dolls which featured in his ground-breaking "Eve In The Past And The Future" exhibition in Tokyo, in 1973.

Simon Yotsuya's work inspired a new wave of avant-garde Japanese doll-making, headed by artists such as Ryo Yoshida and Katan Amano, which has continued to flourish to the present day. SECRET DOLL UNDERGROUND, presented by Yuichi Konno, features dolls by fifteen artists, from Simon Yotsuya onwards, with over 80 full-sized colour photographs never before published outside Japan. It also includes Konno's introductory history of the underground doll in Japan.

Yuichi Konno is the editor of Yaso, an independent arts and culture publication founded in 1979.

File under: Hans Bellmer Simon Yotsuya Nori Doi Yuichi Konno Creation Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Eichwald (Michaela Eichwald)
Edited by Elena Filipovic and Renate Wagner

2025, English / German
Softcover, 288 pages, 28 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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The first monograph on an German artist Michaela Eichwald (b. 1967) who consistently explores the "fundamental and inexhaustible problems of art" in her work, engaging with the interplay between material and form.

The publication charts more than three decades of Michaela Eichwald’s singular and shapeshifting practice that spans painting, sculpture, writing, and more elusive forms, creating idiosyncratic visions and (visual) worlds. Eichwald shifts expertly between the disciplines, drawing her unconventional work titles from sources that range from Medieval mysticism to bureaucratic solecisms. Alongside rich reproductions of her works, the publication delves deep into her creative universe – featuring rare archival material and selections from her long-running, legendary blog, uhutrust.com, active since 2006.

Contributions by Michaela Eichwald, Elena Filipovic & Renate Wagner, John Kelsey, Matthias Mühling, Monika Rinck & Stephanie Weber.

File under: Michaela Eichwald Michaela Eichwald Elena Filipovic Renate Wagner John Kelsey Matthias Mühling Monika Rinck Stephanie Weber Walther König / Köln Painting Art Sculpture / Installation