736 - 1327 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
= Arntzen/Rainwater L69: "A scholarly catalogue of the Dutch drawings in the Louvre."
Demonts, L. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord. Écoles Allemande et Suisse. Ibid., idem, 1937-1938, 2 vols., XII,60; (4),61-148p., num. ills. on 176 plates, bound unif. w. the preceding (sl. foxed). - AND 2 others: F. LUGT (and J. VALLERY-RADOT), Inventaire Général Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1936, contemp. hvellum); Inventaire Général. Les dessins des Écoles du Nord de la collection Dutuit (ibid., 1927).
- Frontwr. yellowed along margins. = Rare.
Minuit 25 Centimes. La Louvièrre, Daily-Bul, 1974, 1 fold. leaf (90x60 cm.), ills., printed on recto only.
= Issue of the Belgian surrealist periodical, w. contributions by Pol Bury.
AND 5 other miscel. publications, i.a. an announcement for the first issue of Vernissage. Kunst - Kritik - Kontakte (1960). - ADDED: a small stack of publications (programs, bulletins) by the Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (1968-1971).
- Most posters sl. yellowed along folds; the poster printed in gold (no.6) sl. thumbed and w. sl. wear along folds; 3 posters lack the accompanying card (see below).
= Complete series of posters by Pieter Engels (1938-2019) and Simon van Es. "One of the threads running through the work of Pieter Engels is the questioning of image and writing - or rather, the undermining of dogmas, values, evaluations, laws and notions of style (in the narrower sense) in the areas and fringes of contemporary visual art.
Owlgass was initially going to be shaped by means of purely linguistic publications, but eventually it became a combination of text and image, followed by a series of artworks. The strength of Pieter Engels texts often lie in their ironizing, relativizing and perhaps badinage (yet paradoxically: with great seriousness), the visual work is often a combination of these elements with which he continually stimulates the dogmatic in the visual arts. The 8 posters were sent in folded form worldwide by the worldwide wandering gallery of Simon Es (Engels alter ego). All the posters sent were accompanied by a card, which the recipient could return with a comment or request to receive a signed deluxe copy for a fee of one hundred dollars." (www.pieterengels.com). Comprises:
1. Temporary Event 1976. I.a. showing pieces of paper w. the names of various artists, and a fragment reading "The average conceptual art is the main reason of the present day, spiritual inflation in modern art because it is academical - boring - similar and rarely visual/(like this piece). Engels (the Rolls-Royce amongst artists)";
2. (Event of repetition) A critic in his time (...). Printed in black and gold;
3. Engels/ a magician amongst artists or a loner without claque. Printed in black and gold, recto showing Engels wearing a magician's top hat and holding a small shield with the aforementioned text;
4. "The impact of art is unchangeable (...)" Recto and verso w. a photogr. portrait of the artist, one showing Engels with a rose and a metal mask w. inscription "a rose amongst (an artificial bouquet of) fading artists";
5. Karl Marx (...). Showing a pair of boots, one w. attached shields reading "Down with mediocrity" and "Down with mass-communication" on the heel and the sole;
6. Engels & Es/ Duchamp. Printed in black and gold;
7. Engels & Es the r/best artists of Holland since [crossed out: Mondriaan] Jansen. Poster for the (fictional) exhibition "Self portrait of a century. Retrospective Museum Of Modern Art, New York";
8. Engels & Es mind-shares. Shows texts and percentages relating to shares and profits of the artists's activities.
ADDED: Idem. "(Project 'Owlglass') The first show of Simon Es, works about Engels". Fold. poster for an exhibition at "Es' (Worldwide Wandering) Gallery, guest of Galerie Yaki Kornblit, 25 Febr. - 22 March 1977", unif. w. the above. - AND 1 similar poster for a Pieter Engels exhibition at Orez Mobiel, The Hague 1979.
= Rare catalogue.
= I.a. Collectie Philippe Dotremont (1954); Sam Francis (1968); Josef Fassbender (1961); Livinus. Fotopeinture (1959); Paul Klee (1963) and Photographie. Eva Besnyö, Cas Oorthuys, Carel Blazer, Emmy Andriesse (n.d.).
- All w. owner's entry on inside frontwr. Contents fine. Wr. sl. worn/ duststoiled and sl. frayed along extremities; spine-ends partly dam.
= With a duplicate vol. of No.5. Beautiful art-deco periodical, also containing alluring and colourful advertisements in art-deco style.
- Sl. yellowed; folded. = Rare protest flyer handed out to visitors at the Köln 4th Art Fair.
Bubenik, G. Integrierte Kunst ist innerhalb der Gesellschaft ein Mechanismus der Veränderung. Berlin, n.publ. (the artist), 1966, broadside, 41,9x29,5 cm., printed in blue on recto only.
- Folded.
AND 2 others similar: "Manifest" gegen Avantgardismus (Basel, Panderma, 1958, fold. broadside on red paper. A few names crossed out in ink) and Liberté de Parole (Paris, Soleil noir, 1969, fold. brochure, photo(montage) ills., printed in black and red. Sl. worn/ yellowed, annot. in marker on last page).
= Still shrinkwrapped deluxe limited edition.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed.
= Exhibition catalogues and monograph bulletins by the avant-garde art center '"Kunstcentrum Badhuis" in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, focusing on conceptual and concrete art, in particular the Zero (Nul) Group. The initiator (and editor of these bulletins) was Antoinette Hilgemann-Stigter, with Ewerdt Hilgemann and Jan Hoekstra. The first 10 vols. not published under the name "Kunstinformatie".
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on a photogr. portrait of the artist on inside frontwr.: [in two speech balloons] "Voor Evert" "Van Straaten" and "Zestien jaar voorzitter SBMK waarvoor dank!".
Melissen, A. Jan Schoonhoven. Rott., nai010, 2015, 192p., (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to. - AND 6 others, i.a. HERMAN DE VRIES. meine poesie ist die welt. aus der heimat von den pflanzen (Schweinfurt etc., 1993, (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to) and G. CELANT, Piero Manzoni (Milan, 1991, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to).
- Leaves occas. loose(ning); sl. yellowed. Wrappers yellowed; spine-ends dam.
= Rare fourth issue of the periodical by the Dutch ZERO group.
= On the European Zero movement with contributions by i.a. Arman, Pol Bury, Lucio Fontana, Piero Dorazio, Henk Peeters, J.J. Schoonhoven, G. Uecker and J. Verheyen.
Lucio Fontana. Concetti spaziali. Ibid., Stedelijk Mus. cat. 412, 1967, no pagination, num. ills., orig. unif. wr., 4to. - AND 2 other Stedelijk Mus. catalogues on J.J. Schoonhoven (no.515/ 539).
= Advertising the publication of the first issue and announcing the second issue.
Lettres Rouges adressées à l'homme futur que chacun porte en soi. Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1965, fold. broadside, 60,5x39 cm., printed in black on a red ground, loosely inserted in publisher's Bulletin No. 3.
- Frontwr. of Bulletin sm. dam. by silverfish.
= Affiche d'interieur No 1. Comprises texts by Michel Deguy, Denis Roche, François Dufrêne, Robert Marteau, Artaud, Jean Pierre Faye, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Stanislas Rodanski.
Bubenik, G. Integrierte Kunst ist innerhalb der Gesellschaft ein Mechanismus der Veränderung. Berlin, n.publ. (the artist), 1966, broadside, 41,9x29,5 cm., printed in blue on recto only.
- Folded.
AND 6 other sm. miscellaneous publications. - ADDED: 20 lvs., each w. 40 unused identical poster-stamps with a portrait of Roland Topor.
= Extremely rare early conceptual art exhibition catalogue.
= Exhibition catalogue on visual and sound poetry organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1971. Incl. poems by Augusto de Campos, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Hansjorg Mayer, Andre Thomkins, and Emmett Williams.
- Slightly waterst. on both covers along spine.
= The frontwrapper with central medaillon printed in black, surrounded by 24 punctures, signed "L Fontana 64" in the print. Ruhé/ Rigo p.205: "The original design, ink on paper with punctured holes, 26x20 cm., was sold in the auction 'The Henk Peeters Collection', at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, June 11, 2001."