A wondrous artists' project with cover image by Judy Rifka and essay text by Rene Ricard. 7 one-sided letterpress sheets in corrugated brown cardboard covers, the covers with a 3-color screenprint by the Rifka printed by Heinrici Studios, Ltd. ... [details]
Printed Matter [founded by Sol LeWitt, Edit deAk, Lucy Lippard, Carl Andre, Pat Stein, Walter Robinson, Robin White - with a board that also had Ingrid Sischy, Carol Adroccio, Amy Baker, Clive Phillpot, and Howardena Pindell] is the world's venerable distributor of artists' books - from 1976 through 1986 it issued an annual catalogue of all it's inventory - 1000s of artists' books, artists' periodicals, artists' audioworks, and other artists' publications. ... [details]
Artist's book with prose / poem by Kathy Acker and original artwork by Michael McClard. [details]
Exhibition announcement card for Jean-Michel Basquiat's third one-man show held April 8 - May 8, [1982]. Card printed in salmon with black text, no image. [details]
Catalogue of available issues of Kontext Magazine, Artizien Magazine, and other material published by Kontext Publications between 1969 and 1982. Introduction by Michael Gibbs. Text in English. [details]
Print published by SST Records, home of the seminal Southern California punk band Black Flag. Edition size unknown, but perhaps 250 ~ 400 copies. [details]
A signed and numbered editioned print from SST Records by Raymond Pettibon circa 1982. Total teenage bedroom angst quality artwork. Keep the soundtrack in your head, man. [details]
Parachute magazine of contemporary art, 29th issue released Winter 1982-1983. Essays include: "The Enduring of the Artsystem," by Gary Kibbins; "Deassaisissement et Réappropriation : De L'émergence du "Photographique" dans l'art Américain," by Guy Bellavance; "Colour Video/ Vulgar Potential," by Peggy Gale; "Colin Campbell," interview by Peggy Gale; "L'éloquence des Moyens: Aperçu des Peintures de Jean-Marie Martin," by Paul-Albert Plouffe; "Andrew Jackson," by Stephen Horne; "Mirrorings," by V. ... [details]
Set of 21 issues of the irregularly published Public Illumination Magazine, featuring texts and artwork by dozens of contributors identified solely by pseudonyms. Edited by Mike Topp. Volumes included: No. ... [details]
Issue edited by Al Goldstein. Essays "Screw You," by Al Goldstein; "Old Feminists Never Die, They Just Go off the Rag," by Dan Shocket; "Sex Scene," by Rick Stewart; "Smut from the Past," by J.J. Kane; "Swing Thing : Jerking on a Chain Gang," by Don & JoJo Hughes; "Mail Order Madness : Wooden Tit Be Loverly," by John Milton; "Guest Dirty Diversions : There's a Seka Born Every Minute," by David Alexander; "Naked City," by Josh Alan Friedman. [details]