Frank Stella / Sept. 27 - Oct. 15 / Opening Tues. Sept. 27, 5 - 7 / Leo Castelli, 4 E 77

Frank Stella

Poster / announcement published in conjunction with show held September 27 - October 15, 1960. First one-man exhibition of Frank Stella at Leo Castelli Gallery, featured artist's "Aluminum" series paintings, on which this poster's silver design is based. [details]

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 5 (Spring 1960)

P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. Matta, Harlod Rosenberg, Alfred Russell, Jon Schueler, Jack Tworkow, Robert Vaughan, David Young

Issue number five out of six issues, published from 1958 - 1965. Texts by P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. ... [details]

Aileen Passloff and Co. / Monday Evening, February 22 / The Living Theatre

Ray Johnson, Aileen Passloff

Single-sided flyer designed by Ray Johnson for performance by Aileen Passloff and Co. at The Living Theatre held February 22, 1960. Dancers included Joan Baker, Gerard King, Gerard Martin, Milda Memenas, Vincent Warren, and Phyllis Wax. ... [details]

Announcement : The Street

Claes Oldenburg

Oversized flyer / announcement published in conjunction of Claes Oldenburg's one-man exhibition, "The Street," held May 6 - 9, 1960. Frequently shown horizontally as dictated by Oldenburg's script in the drawing, the flyer should be presented vertically as the collage is of street walkers. [details]

Artists' Book : More Ray Gun Poems

Claes Oldenburg

Artist's book published on the occasion of Claes Oldenburg's "Ray Gun Spex" performances held at Judson Memorial Church, New York. [details]

Birth : Stimulants and Exhibition

No. 3, Book 2

Birth, Tuli Kupferberg, Ray Johnson, William Burroughs

Issue of artists' publication that addresses the subject of drugs ( both illegal and legal) and society via appropriated images and writing from historical medical texts, newspapers, and other literature by writers such as William Burroughs, that addresses this subject. ... [details]

Book 1

Paul Talman

Artist's book by Swiss designer Paul Talman, published by Dieter Roth's publishing company, Forlag Ed. Book consists of white pages, with English language texts, and interspersed pages of colored acetate that overlay pages on which given colors are written about. ... [details]

Confessions of an Art Addict

[Hardcover Edition / First Edition]

Peggy Guggenheim, Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Autobiographical account of the collection and collecting of Peggy Guggenheim. Includes "Introduction" by Alfred H. Barr Jr. Chapters by Guggenheim include "Gilt-Edged Childhood"; "Marriages"; "Guggenheim Jeune"; "Serious Collecting"; "Life with Max Ernst"; "Art of this Century"; "Venice and the Biennale"; "Palazzo Venier dei Leoni"; "Ceylon, India and Venice Again"; "New York Revisited. ... [details]

Dimanche : 27 Novembre 1960. Numéro Unique [aka : Yves Klein présente : le dimanche, 27 novembre 1960 : Festival d'art d'avant-garde, novembre-décembre 1960 : la révolution bleue continue : le journal d'un seul jour : numéro unique] [aka : Yves Klein Presents : Sunday, 27 November 1960. The Diary of a Single Day. The Blue Revolution Continues]

Yves Klein

As part of the theatrical presentations of the Festival of Avant-garde Art in November-December 1960, I have decided to present the ultimate form of collective theater: a dimanche for everybody. ... [details]