Primary Information (original) (raw)
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Glenn Ligon
She Knows What She Wants
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Wade Guyton
Untitled
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Barbara T. Smith
I Am Abandoned
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Various Artists
THING
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N. H. Pritchard
The Mundus
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Various
Contextures
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Mary Ellen Solt
The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
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Jimmy DeSana
Salvation
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Jimmy DeSana
Quotations from Jimmy DeSana
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Jimmy DeSana
Jimmy DeSana Bundle
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Tiffany Sia
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries
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Martin Wong
Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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Greer Lankton
Sketchbook, September 1977
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Live Audio Essays
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Trinh T. Minh-ha
The Twofold Commitment
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Mel Chin and Helen Nagge
Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place
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Tony Conrad
Writings
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Various Artists
Something Else Press Bundle
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Various Artists
A Something Else Reader
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Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel
Identity Pitches
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DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Assembling a Black Counter Culture
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Constance DeJong
Reader
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Mary Heilmann
The All Night Movie
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William Wegman
Writing by Artist
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Various Artists
Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture
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Various Artists
Top Stories
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Michael Asher
Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979
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Godzilla: Asian American Art Network
From Basement to Godzilla
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Aram Saroyan
TOP
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Constance DeJong
Modern Love
A facsimile edition of Constance DeJong’s long out-of-print 1977 novel.
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Dara Birnbaum
Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)
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Dara Birnbaum
Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) (Signed Limited Edition)
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Dan Graham
Theatre
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Renée Green
Camino Road
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Cornelius Cardew
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
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Yvonne Rainer
Work 1961-73
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Trevor Paglen
From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist
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Fia Backström
COOP a-script
COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backström, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders.
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Rick Myers
A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet
An artist book detailing Myers’ colorful attempt to fulfill a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
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David Lamelas
Publication
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Philip Corner
Popular Entertainments
A collection of musical works and a striking visual and poetic work unto itself, with Corner’s restless linguistic and graphical invention on full display.
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Claes Oldenburg
Injun & Other Histories (1960)
A collection of early writings by Oldenburg, with two illustrations.
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Martin Wong
Das Puke Book
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Various
The Fluxus Newspaper
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Pippa Garner
Better Living Catalog
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David Wojnarowicz
Dear Jean Pierre
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Various Artists
Newspaper
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Steffani Jemison
A Rock, A River, A Street
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Godzilla T-Shirt
$20
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Godzilla: Asian American Art Network
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001
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Flora Yin-Wong
Liturgy
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N. H. Pritchard
The Matrix Poems: 1960-1970
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Women Artists in Revolution
A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution
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Various Artists
Black Art Notes
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Michael Snow
Cover to Cover
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Various Artists
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979
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Martine Syms
Shame Space
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Alexandro Segade
The Context
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Various Artists
Womens Work
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David Wojnarowicz
In the Shadow of Forward Motion
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Edit DeAk and Walter Robinson
Art-Rite
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Sol LeWitt
Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour
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Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie
The New Woman’s Survival Catalog
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Various Artists
Just Another Asshole #6
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Carolee Schneemann
Uncollected Texts
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Various Artists
Broken Music
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The Guerrilla Art Action Group
Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y.
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Sarah Crowner
Patterns
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Lucas Blalock
A Grocer’s Orgy
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C. Spencer Yeh
The RCA Mark II
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Art Workers Don’t Kiss Ass
A button featuring our update to one of the Art Workers’ Coalition protest slogans, “Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass.”
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Title TK
Title TK
An eponymous collection featuring ten performance transcripts from the conceptual band, Title TK, whose members Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, and Alan Licht engage in unscripted conversations about music, the music industry, and popular culture.
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Nora Khan and Steven Warwick
Fear Indexing The X-Files
A book that examines the cultural and political portrayal of fear, and its overlap with the rise of the internet, on the popular 90s television show The X-Files.
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Various Artists
Postcards
An ongoing series of postcards created by artists to address the political and social concerns of our times.
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Tuli Kupferberg
YEAH
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UJ3RK5
UJ3RK5: Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Live from the Commodore Ballroom captures a legendary 1980 performance by UJ3RK5, a band including artists Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace among others.
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Tuli Kupferberg
Kill for Peace
A two-sided poster celebrating Tuli Kupferberg’s “Kill for Peace,” which was the theme for the last issue of his magazine, YEAH, and the title of a song he later performed with his band, The Fugs.
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Douglas Huebler
Variable Piece 4: Secrets
Variable Piece 4: Secrets is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler’s classic artist book from 1978. It collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum.
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Siri Aurdal and Eline Mugaas
Siri Aurdal by Eline Mugaas
An artist book featuring Eline Mugaas collaging together decades of drawings, documentation, collages, and ephemera by Siri Aurdal.
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Lee Lozano
Notebooks 1967-70
A compilation of Lozano’s notebooks from 1967-1970, with selections ranging from her seminal “Language Pieces” to her studies for paintings.
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Dan Graham and The Static
Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London
A cassette featuring two live performances from 1979, Dan Graham performing his seminal Performer/Audience/Mirror and a 40 minute concert by The Static.
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C. Spencer Yeh
Solo Voice I – X
The first LP by C Spencer Yeh devoted entirely to the voice.
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Max Neuhaus
Program Notes
A facsimile edition of Max Neuhaus’s 1974 pamphlet that presents aphoristic statements and thoughts from the artist on space and sound.
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Various Artists
Fantastic Architecture
Fantastic Architecture is a reprint of Something Else Press’ 1970 Fantastic Architecture edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell.
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George Maciunas
Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and Other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial, and Tactile Art Forms
A facsimile edition of Maciunas’ oversized poster charting the development of Fluxus. The poster is house in a sleeve with two essays by Mats B. on Fluxus (one in English and one in Swedish).
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Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth
Canciones de Cadaques
A facsimile edition of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth’s double 45 record from 1976 that features the two artists alternately performing on vocals and guitar, with assistance from a barking dog named Chispas Luis.
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Darren Bader
77 and/or 58 and/with 19
77 and/or 58 and/with 19 is a collection of texts for 77 artworks by Darren Bader.
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Aram Saroyan
Complete Minimal Poems
The second edition of this celebrated collection, which gathers Aram Saroyan’s groundbreaking Concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s in a single volume.
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Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen
ALBUM
A compilation of the first ten issues of the Scandinavian zine ALBUM, which is comprised of photographic illustrations, advertisements, and other ubiquitous found media images.
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George Kuchar
The George Kuchar Reader
An expansive anthology of the writings that underscored George Kuchar’s work and life, featuring a wide range of ephemera alongside critical and autobiographical writings by the late underground auteur.
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Alex Hubbard
Removal Technician
A compilation of the two issues of Removal Technician, a zine produced by Alex Hubbard and Dan Mains in the late nineties.
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Co La
Hegemony of Delete
A record of delicately deformed electronic music by Matthew Papich, aka Co La.
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Cannibal
Cannibal
The debut record from the trio of artists/musicians Cary Loren, Cameron Jamie, and Dennis Tyfus.
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Carl Andre
Quincy
A facsimile edition of the 1973 artist book, in which Carl Andre commissioned photographs of his hometown Quincy, Massachussets.
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Aram Saroyan
EYEYE Tote Bag
A tote bag emblazoned with one of Aram Saroyan’s classic minimalist poems.
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Genesis P-Orridge
G.P.O. versus G.P-O
A facsimile edition of the artist book chronicling Genesis P-Orridge’s 1975 prosecution for disseminating pornographic material through the British mail.
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Various Artists
An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
A facsimile edition of Something Else Press’ definitive survey of the Concrete poetry movement, edited by Emmett Williams and featuring works by 77 writers and artists.
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Florian Hecker
Chimerizations
An artist book documenting Florian Hecker’s work around the phenomenon of Auditory Chimeras, with texts by Reza Negarestani, Stefan Helmreich, and Catherine Wood.
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Guerilla Art Action Group
The Definitive/ist Manifesto
A poster of the Guerilla Art Action Group’s Definitive/ist Manifesto from 1981.
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Elad Lassry
On Onions
Elad Lassry’s first artist book interweaves a photographic study of onions with a commissioned text by Angie Keefer discussing their effect on human tear ducts and more.
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Sarah Crowner
Format
Sarah Crowner’s first widely distributed artist book is a roving collage of material addressing the artist’s concerns with the historical overlap of art, writing, fashion, and design.
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Lutz Bacher
Do you love me?
An artist book obliquely surveying the artist’s work and herself from the 70s to the present, via a series of personal interviews conducted by Bacher on herself with the curators, assistants, and friends she has worked with throughout the years.
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Rhys Chatham
Rêve Parisien
An LP of four trumpet compositions by legendary composer Rhys Chatham, originally performed at a Jacob Kassay exhibition in Paris in 2010.
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Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters Magazine
A compilation of the magazine collaboratively produced by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw from 1976-1979.
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Various Artists
MIRROR | ME
A zine developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by writer Brandon Stosuy and artist Kai Althoff at Dispatch Bureau in 2009.
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Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, John Miller
XXX Macarena
The first and last record by this art/music supergroup comprised of Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller.
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Various Artists
Avalanche (Trade Edition)
A facsimile edition of the full thirteen issues (1970-76) of the seminal magazine edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar.
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Dan Graham
Rock/Music Writings
The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential writings on Rock and Roll, with thirteen essays spanning from the late 1960s to the late 1980s.
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DISBAND
DISBAND
Long-lost live recordings of this loose group of feminist performers—Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson—from New York’s new/no wave heyday.
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Allan Kaprow
How to Make a Happening
The first widely available edition of Kaprow’s How to Make a Happening, recorded in 1965 and originally issued as an LP the following year.
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Aram Saroyan
Coffee Coffee
Infamous artist book by one of the 1960s’ most controversial poets. Aram Saroyan’s Coffee Coffee was originally published as a mimeographed edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer on their 0 To 9 press in 1967.
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Allan Kaprow
Some Recent Happenings
A general introduction to Happenings and a dispatch on the forms they were taking at a key point in their development.
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Allan Kaprow
Untitled Essay and Other Works
Three scenarios for Happenings and a key early statement, which originally accompanied the first published Happening in 1958.
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Dieter Roth
A Look into the blue tide, part 2
“A look into” the vast, multi-part work that developed out of a diary kept during Roth’s mid-60s sojourn in the United States.
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George Brecht
Chance-Imagery
The influential essay by Brecht, which frames examinations of the use of chance methods in Dada, Surrealism, Pollock, and Cage in a discussion of parallel historical developments in the sciences and elsewhere.
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Luigi Russolo
The Art of Noise
The 1913 Futurist manifesto in a translation by Robert Filliou.
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Robert Filliou
A Filliou Sampler
A collection of poems, plays, and performance works by the itinerant French Fluxus artist.
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Bengt af Klintberg
The Cursive Scandinavian Salve
A collection of event scores and scenarios by Klintberg, a Swedish folklorist who was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus.
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Dick Higgins
A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One
The first section of this major work by Higgins, a sprawling prose poem meant to be read aloud.
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John Cage
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (1967)
A roving poem/essay also conceived as a “piece” for the printing press as instrument.
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Wolf Vostell
Berlin and Phenomena
Two large-scale performance works from the mid-60s, as chronicled by Vostell himself.
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Various Artists
A Zaj Sampler
A survey of works by the Zaj group, with contributions from Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, José Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortés, and others.
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Al Hansen
Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields
The full poem as recited by Hansen in a legendary 1958 performance in New York, at the intersection of the “backwash from the San Francisco Poetry Revolution” and the dawn of Happenings.
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Alison Knowles
By Alison Knowles
An overview of Knowles’ seminal early performance/event pieces (1961-65).
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Jackson Mac Low
The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois
A pair of structurally identical plays, each composed through the use of chance operations within a highly restricted lexicon.
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Jerome Rothenberg
Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events
A collection of event scores and descriptions adapted from a range of ethnographic sources, Ritual also implicitly functions as an examination of the contemporary Happenings scene in an expanded historical and anthropological context.
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Emmett Williams
The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems
A short but potent collection of poems by Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series.
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David Antin
Autobiography
A prototypical work by the pioneering poet and critic; one of his very first publications.
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Various Artists
Manifestos
The de facto centerpiece of the Great Bear series, an expanded “double-pamphlet” with contributions from a range of key artists and poets of the period.
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Various Artists
Great Bear Pamphlet Series
A limited edition collection of Primary Information’s facsimile edition of Something Else Press Great Bear pamphlet series.
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Various Artists
REALLIFE Magazine
A selection of writings and artists’ projects from REAL LIFE magazine, originally edited by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan.
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