Transition

No. 26 (Winter 1937)

Marcel Duchamp, Ferdinand Man Ray, Fernand Leger, Eugene Jolas, James Johnson Sweeney, James Agee, Forrest Anderson, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Randall Jarrell, Raymond Queneau, André de Richaud, Muriel Rukeyser, Sanders Russell, Camille Schuwer, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Michael Stuart, Aaron Copland, Brassaï, Edward Weston, André Lhote, Grace Pailthorpe, Karl Blossfeldt, Josef Albers, Alberto Magnelli, Joan Miró, Jean Hélion, Hans Hartung, John Piper, Wolgang Paalen, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Julio González, Nahum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Erwin Panofsky, Charles Tracy, Alexander Calder, Stuart Gilbert, Georges Pelorson, Keidrych Rhys, Wendell Bennett, Leo Frobenius, Frans M. Olbrechts, J.M. Richards, Edwin Denby

Winter 1937 issue of the periodical "Transition," edited by Eugene Jolas, associate editor James Johnson Sweeney. Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb." Includes "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; "work in Progress. ... [details]

First Papers of Surrealism

Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte, Sidney Janis, Kurt Seligmann, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Jean Arp, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Matta, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, David Hare, Morris Hirshfield, Frida Kahlo, Wilfredo Lam, Alexander Calder, Paul Delvaux, Esteban Frances, Giorgio de Chirico, Meret Oppenheim, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Leonora Carrington, Andre Masson, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Richard Oelze, Victor Brauner, John Goodwin, Jimmy Ernst, Ralph Nelson, Lawrence Vail, Bob Loughlin, Hedda Sterne, William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Kay Sage, Barbara Reise, Frederic Kiesler

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 14 - November 7, 1942. Introduction by Andre Breton, foreword by Sidney Janis. Includes texts by R.A. Parker and Henri Matisse. Edited by Andre Breton. ... [details]

For the Benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theatre School

LeRoi Jones, William Patterson, Domenick Capobianco, Barbara Teer, Gary Haynes, William White, John Moore, Toni Escoe, Bill MacAdam, James Fair, David Smyrl, Leo Garen, Ed Cambridge, Jill Spruill, Jamie Sanchez, Gary Bolling, Bostic Van Felton, D'urveille Martin, Gary Hanes, Antonio Fargas, Walter Jones, Tony Hudson, Norman Bush, Nat White, Robert Hooks, Carol Hellings, Johny Goodings, Ron Turbeville, Judy Chesman, Ruby Bailey, Virginia Humphreys, Louis Gossett

Flyer for "Benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theatre School" held on March 1, 1965. Performances at the benefit include "Experimental Death Unit #1" by LeRoi Jones, "Black Ice" by Charles Patterson, "The Toilet" by LeRoi Jones, and "The Black Tramp" by Nat White. ... [details]

Carnegie Hall Program Insert for "Jail to Jungle: Charlotte Moorman & Nam June Paik," perfomed on February 10, 1977

Charlotte Moorman, Norman J. Seaman, Nam June Paik, Steve Jobes, Clive Alexander Barnes, Beege Barkett, Brad Blaisdell, David Bourdon, Leo Burmester, Reverend Al Carmines, Don Creech, Kit Fitzgerald, John Gruen, Sheila Hendrickson, Jacqueline Knapp, Donald Keyes, Crista Lorne, Bruce McKeown, Carman Moore, Philip Murphy, Robert Projansky, Robert O'Reilly, John Sanborn, Norman Seaman, Shirlee Strother, Ken Urmston

Carnegie Hall Program Insert for "Jail to Jungle: Charlotte Moorman & Nam June Paik," presented by Norman J. Seaman, perfomed on February 10, 1977. Cast included Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Steve Jobes, Clive Alexander Barnes, Beege Barkett, Brad Blaisdell, David Bourdon, Leo Burmester, Reverend Al Carmines, Don Creech, Kit Fitzgerald, John Gruen, Sheila Hendrickson, Jacqueline Knapp, Donald Keyes, Crista Lorne, Bruce McKeown, Carman Moore, Philip Murphy, Robert Projansky, Robert O'Reilly, John Sanborn, Norman Seaman, Shirlee Strother and Ken Urmston. ... [details]

Set of Documentation of the Workings of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) between 1966 and 1968

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), Billy Klüver, Robert Rauschenberg, Herman D. Klenin, John R. Pierce, Ralph C. Gross, Robert Morris, Leon Harmon, Ken Knowlton, Marta Minujin, Per Biorn, Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, Peter Moore, Simone Whitman, Oyvind Fahlström, Deborah Hay, John Cage, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Whitman, Alex Hay

Set of ten publications and documents of the formation of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) and their projects. Includes: a three page press release announcing the alliance between E.A.T. and the American Foundation on Automation and Employment, Inc. ... [details]

Twenty-One Issue Set of "Women Artists Newsletter" (1975 - 1978)

21 vol. : Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1975) ; Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1975) ; Vol. 1, No. 3 (June - July 1975) ; Vol. 1, No. 4 (September 1975) ; Vol. 1, No. 5 (October 1975) ; Vol. 1 - 3, No. 1 - 10 (April 1975 - April 1978) ; Vol. 2, No. 6 (December 1976) ; Vol.1, No. 9 (February 1976) ; Vol. 2, No. 5 (November 1976) ; Vol. 2, No. 7 (January 1977) ; Vol. 2, No. 8 (February 1977) ; Vol. 2, No. 9 (March 1977) ; Vol. 2, No. 10 (April 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 1 (May 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 2 (June 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 5 (November 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 6 (December 1977) ; Vol. 3, No. 7 (January 1978) ; Vol. 3, No. 8 (February 1978) ; Vol. 3, No. 9 (March 1978) ; Vol. 3, No. 10 (April 1978)

Cynthia Navaretta

Incomplete twenty-one issue set of the feminist arts periodical Women Artists Newsletter, edited by Cynthia Navaretta. Issues include Volume 1, Numbers 1-5 and 9; Volume 2, Numbers 5-10; Volume 3, Numbers 1-3, and 5-10, all published between April 1975 and April 1978. ... [details]

Second Annual New York Festival of the Avant Garde [New York Avant Garde Festival]

Charlotte Moorman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allan Kaprow, James Tenney, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier, Robert Delford Brown, Olga Kluver, Lette Eisenhauer, Robert Breer, Garry Harris, David Behrman, Marjorie Strider, Michael Kirby, Allen Ginsberg, Vincent Gaeta, Gloria Graves, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Peter Leventhal, Mary Bauermeister, Matthew Raimondi, Malcolm Goldstein, Marilyn Reiley, Joseph Shor, Jacob Glick, Benjamin Patterson, Mary Barnette, Alice Kogan, Mary Kucier, Charles Morrow, Jame Lee, George Brecht, Joe Jones, Lorenzo Thomas, Nam June Paik, Frederic Rzewski, Philip Corner, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Robert Moran, Stefan Wolpe, Lukas Foss, Bertram Baldwin, Terry Jennings, Earle Brown, John Cage, Guisseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Richard Maxfield, Kaniharu Akiyama, Harvey Sollberger, Mario Davidovsky, Yannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Luc Ferrari, Robert Bayley, Philip Jameson, Gyorgy Ligeti, Henri Pousseur, Peter Moore, Gordon Mumma, George Cacioppo, Robert Ashley, Carl Spelbring, Bruce Wise, George Crevoshay, Carolee Schneemann, Rochelle Weinstein, Edgard Varese, Vincent Cavalli, Adrian Gnam, Ryo Hei Nakagawa, William Lewis, Fred Mills, Donald Stratton, John Bergamo, Edward Burnham, Raymond Desroches, Fred Eckler, Richard Fitz, Paul Price, Howard Zwickler

Program for the Second Annual New York Festival of the Avant Garde held at Judson Hall, New York, August 30 - September 13, 1964. Organized by N. Seaman and Charlotte Moorman. Performances and contributions by Charlotte Moorman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allan Kaprow, James Tenney, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier, Robert Delford Brown, Olga Kluver, Lette Eisenhauer, Robert Breer, Garry Harris, David Behrman, Marjorie Strider, Michael Kirby, Allen Ginsberg, Vincent Gaeta, Gloria Graves, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Peter Leventhal, Mary Bauermeister, Matthew Raimondi, Malcolm Goldstein, Marilyn Reiley, Joseph Shor, Jacob Glick, Benjamin Patterson, Mary Barnette, Alice Kogan, Mary Kucier, Charles Morrow, Jame Lee, George Brecht, Joe Jones, Lorenzo Thomas, Nam June Paik, Frederic Rzewski, Philip Corner, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Robert Moran, Stefan Wolpe, Lukas Foss, Bertram Baldwin, Terry Jennings, Earle Brown, John Cage, Guisseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Richard Maxfield, Kaniharu Akiyama, Harvey Sollberger, Mario Davidovsky, Yannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Luc Ferrari, Robert Bayley, Philip Jameson, Gyorgy Ligeti, Henri Pousseur, Peter Moore, Gordon Mumma, George Cacioppo, Robert Ashley, Carl Spelbring, Bruce Wise, George Crevoshay, Edgard Varese, Vincent Cavalli, Adrian Gnam, Ryo Hei Nakagawa, William Lewis, Fred Mills, Donald Stratton, John Bergamo, Edward Burnham, Raymond Desroches, Fred Eckler, Richard Fitz, Paul Price, and Howard Zwickler. ... [details]

Steve Reich : Drumming for Eight Small Tuned Drums, Three Marimbas, Three Glockenspiels, Male and Female Voices, Whistling, and Piccolo

Steve Reich, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers, Ross Hartenberger, James Preiss, Jon Gibson, Joan La Barbara, Judy Sherman, Jay Clayton, Ben Harms, Gary Burke, Frank Maefsky, James Ogden, Maureen Crowe, Peter Moore

Double album vinyl record with illustrated gatefold sleeve and a folded [30] page musical score of Steve Reich's "Drumming for Eight Small Tuned Drums, Three Marimbas, Three Glockenspiels, Male and Female Voices, Whistling, and Piccolo. ... [details]

Holy Holy Art Cards : Fancy Assorted Christmas Selection

Don Celender, Francis Bacon, J. Oliver Mitchell, Ivan C. Karp, Donald Judd, Wayne Thiebaud, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pearlstein, Ernest Trova, Elaine de Kooning, Alexander Liberman, Richard Estes, Cy Twombly, Lucy Lippard, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Norman Rockwell, Marisol, Richard L. Feigen, Jim Dine, Bob Morris, Denise René, Richard Lindner, Robert Motherwell, George Segal, Paul Jenkins, Thomas Hoving, John Coplans, Harry N. Abrams, Clyfford Still, Richard Artschwager, Isamu Noguchi, Andrew Wyeth, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Josef Albers, Henry Geldzahler, Mark Tobey, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hilton Kramer

Set of playing cards by Don Celender featuring images of well known artists, writers, and gallery owners, superimposed over images of religious figures. Verso has a quote about or by the art world figure pictured. ... [details]