Inaugural issue of the triannual art and poetry periodical "Down Under Manhattan Bridge" published in the Spring of 1980. Founded and edited by Dan Freeman. Includes images and texts by Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Ronald Markman, Leonard Dufresne, Arlene Slavin, Phillip Wofford, Ellen Brief, Vin Buchan, Sue Hanel, Eric Holzman, Emmy Hunter, Vincent Katz, Lyn Manelbaum, Mark Marek, Joe McDonnell, Jane McGilly, Alison Parkens , Jared Walker, Roland Parkins, Barbara Rosenthal, Cathy Saksa, Fred Schultz, S. ... [details]
Catalogue from 1985 offering for rental and sale 200 video programs by 85 independent producers of experimental video as well as back issues of Video Data Banks publication "Profile." Artists include Vito Acconci, Chantal Akerman,Max Almy, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Betty Asher, Dore Ashton, Alice Aycock, Myrna Bain, John Baldessari, Jennifer Bartlett, Gregory Battcock, Romare Bearden, Billy Al Bengston, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Stan Brakhage, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, John Cage, Judy Chicago, Christo, Chuck Close, A. ... [details]
History of Max's Kansas City with over 200 black and white photographs, profiles, memorabilia, and hundreds of personal reminiscences and testimonials. Texts by Yvonne Sewall Ruskin, Lou Reed, Leee Black Childers, Kent Wallace, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Cherry Vanilla and Jeremiah Newton. ... [details]
Small-scale publication on Concrete and Visual Poetry. Text by Paul de Vree. Includes work by Apollinaire, E.E. Cummings, Mary Ellen Solt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eugen Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Oyvind Fahlström, Max Bense, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Paul de Vree, Jonathan Williams, and many others. ... [details]
Critical theory by Cynthia Maris Dantzic, "...an extensive review of New York painters and their widely diverse works. It presents an overview of styles, mediums, subjects, even philosophies of art found in galleries, museums, and artists' studios of present-day New York, the oft-acknowledged Art Capital of the contemporary world. ... [details]
"A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture is the most comprehensive handbook of Chicago's public sculpture available and is an excellent companion to the heralded guide, Chicago's Famous Buildings. The product of prodigious research, including interviews with living artists, A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture provides individual entries on each of the works in the metropolitan area selected for the guide. ... [details]
Edited by Tod Lippy. Essays "Cuoca: An acclaimed New York City chef recalls learning how to cook-and how to live-in a small town in Northern Italy," by Jody Williams; "The Greatest: Savannah barber Ulysses Davis had a pastime: whittling wood sculptures, including these astonishing carvings of 40 U. ... [details]