34.5 x 25 cm, pagination varies, 34 different numbers (including 3 double issues - nrs 21/22. 23/24, 32/33 and special nr 12 bis) plus nr 39. All = 85. A continuous early run of this important art journal that was initiated from Stephane Elizabeth from her  Galerie les Contemporains, along with her son Stepháne and daughter Anne-Marie.  The first issue (included here) was published on the occasion of the Düsseldorf Art Fair in October 1973. Contributions are from by Jospeh Beuys (2 covers), Marcel Broodthaers (3 covers), André Cadere, Charlier, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Ulay & Marina Abramovic, Ian Hamilton Finlay and others.

JOINT:

Paris: Elisabeth, Stepháne & Anne-Marie Rona. 1973 - 1981

NR 39, 34.5 x 25 cm, 48pp.

Very slight marking / browning on the odd issue but overall VG++.

Early numbers of this journal are hard to find and this early run is not available elsewhere that we know of.

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Six separate numbers - a complete run (although Vostell did later add an exhibition catalogue and designate it as De/collage 7 despite it being somewhat different in content to these copies) of this assmblage/artist's journal that predated vTRE and other Fluxus related artist publications.

The collection here consists of:

Decoll/age 1

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): June 1962

26 x 22cm, 32pp double fold out pages plus card covers with folds. The first number of the series with original contributions by Arthur Köpcke, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Volf Vostell and others. Slight wear to the right hand side of the folded wrappers else VG+. 

Decoll/age 2

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): November 1962

30 x 21cm, 42pp plus paper wrappers. Internal pages are mimeographed and stapled. Edited by Dick Higgins - the whole consisting of his "The Broadway Opera" translated into German. The front cover is a b/w photograph of the poet/artist outside a German cinema. With original publisher's wrap-around band - which is torn but complete and with original scotch tape closure still there but the glue has lost its adhesion. Very rare number from the series especially with the band.

Inserted: subscription leaflet for Decoll/age 1 and 2.

Decoll/age 3

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): December 1962

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (108pp plus 12pp) and wrappers. Internal pages include a transparent sheet and several folders, stapled, blank cover, printed jacket. Contributions by C. Caspari, Christo, Jed Curtis, Henry Flint, Dick Higgins, Gyogy Ligetti, Nam June Paik, Jan Voss, Vostell, F. Mon, Pera, F. Crowbridge, JP Wilhelm. The internal sheets include various types of printing: offset, mimeograph, screen printing. Illustrated throughout. VG+ although some wear/minor emerging tears along spine of the wrappers. 

Decoll/age 4

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): January 1964

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (132pp) and wrappers. A "Special Happenings" number with contributions by  Georges Brecht, Stanley Brouwn (including his USE THIS BROUWN stamped paper bag stuck to the third blank page - a rare edition), Allan Kaprow, Higgins, Paik, Jean Jacques Lebel, Tomas Schmit, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen and others. Most pages are double folded.  Very scarce.

Decoll/age 5

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): February 1966

Happenings / Stücke / Partituren

28 x 23 x 4cm (approx) outer card portfolio. The most important of the  series with many object multiples and print editions included in the publication. This consists of 22 multiple-elements including the first ever object multiple by Joseph Beuys: "Zwei Fraulen mit lenchtendem Brot" consisting of a block of painted chocolate fixed on a strip of printed paper and tipped on scroll. Other works are by René Block, Claus Bremer, Henning Christiansen, Hans Joachim Dietrich, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Franz Mon, Benjamin Patterson, Eckart Rahn, Gerhard Rühm, Vagelis Tsakiridis, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, ZAJ Group (which is signed). The Vostell work is a sealed sheet of printed paper with yellow dust/sand inside the sealed plastic and is complete and undamaged here. VG+ overall although the portfolio card folder is a little damaged as the internal uneven sheets have put pressure on the outer card. This is a scarce item to find in good condition and the Beuys contribution is particularly prized. 

Decoll/age 6

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): July 1967

29 x 21.7cm, unpaginated (174pp), plus card wrappers (reproducing the front page of Le Figaro from September 6, 1954). Texts in German and English. Contributions by Higgins, Maciunas, Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Milan Knizak, Vautier, Hansen, Kaprow, Paik, Franz Mon, Daniel Spoerri, Charlotte Moorman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Alison Knowles. Also laid into the pages is the original multiple of Diter Rot "das Blaue Geheul" a hand written card. 

There are very few complete runs of this journal available online and this is the cheapest we know of.

25 x 14cm, 12pp (2 white) sheets followed by 22pp (2 white) sheets in block book binding. Artist's book issued in 230 signed and numbered copies (by Roth in the colophon) which was a deluxe copy of Hans Jorg Mayer's Poesie magazine (here nr 3/4, the last number published) - some copies with additional unique elements such as here.

This book has a unique photo-collage (a cut up photo of the Rhine reflecting buildings which is signed ("D.R.") on a single page which is followed by a unique drawing in pen by Roth which is dated "72" so bound in later. The drawing (of a kneeling humanoid figure) is on a page that originally may have been an envelope or a paper shopping bag also contains what appears to be a slice of cheese which has made the drawing partially three-dimensional due to folds and bumps in the paper. The drawing and cheese were not found in all copies - in fact, a small number of copies have veal in the page rather than cheese. The text of the book is an extened "shit"  poem by Roth and a text "Der Ich, man, ein Jemand und Ich - in Basel am Rhein"

The colophon at the back of the book is (as noted above) signed and dated 1968 - this is number 170 from the entire edition.

The book is bound in leather (which may have come from veal or goat) - as manufactured by Roth's friend Rudolf Rieser from whose estate this book has come.

There are around seven pages stained by the cheese as it deteriorated which has unavoidably affected the drawing (which was probably Roth's intent) but the other book pages are VG+. The leather dustjacket has one small hole on the front and very minor chipping at the spine else all is VG+.

Unique version of what was already a very hard to find book.

30 x21 cm, 4pp announcement card and catalogue for a solo show. Internally there is a large colour image of a burnt matches work, a few words in Italian by Udo Kultermann and a short part exhibitions list. VG+.

15 x 21cm, unpaginated (c. 84pp). No wrappers but the pages bound by a metal tag. Roth's publishing house's catalogue with each page containing an image of a book, poster or ephemera by Dieter Roth or other artists including Arnuld Rainer and Hermann Nitsch printed black on green paper. VG+.

15 x 21cm, 4pp - announcement card with an colour painting by Rainer on the front of the card (first exhibited in Venice in 1978 at the biennale), internally gallery details. VG+.

First edition. 43 x 29cm, 44 pp plus outer cover. Stapled.  The catalogue for the exhibition of Dusseldorf Artists during the 1973 Edinburgh International Festival with original contributions by Beuys, Brecht, Filliou, Knoebel, Palermo, Polke, Richter, Rinke, Roth, Ruthenbeck, Spoerri, Walther and many others in this important vanguard publication.

The (unwieldy) title by Thomkins was chosen because of its palindromic character. 

Noted as an artist's book in both Polke's (nr 13) and Richter's catalogue raisonnes the truth is that neither had anything to do with the design of the publication which was entirely created locally from supplied photographs by an Edinburgh designer who worked for the printers, the Lutton Press - nonetheless this exhibition and publication is also notable for it being Beuys' first British exhibition. The cover of this publication is somewhat marked and browned with possible nascent foxing and the staples a little rusted but internally this is VG+.

A scarce document which was later reprinted by Demarco to try to cash in on its scarcity.

Aisbach: Verlaggaleria Leaman, n.d. (1981)
Printed plastic and card folder with metal ring binder. Content of individual contributions and multiples by a wide range of artists (many from the fields of conceptual art, visual poetry and some of the Fluxus- affiliated artists).

This number has original contributions Adolf Luther (small fragments of mirrors pasted to the card backing), .Hubertus Gojowczyk (a page from the German book tipped onto the card with what may be a plastic coating which has stained the opposite page), Rolf Bendgens (painted irregularly cut sheet with plastic transparent sheet either side), Arnulf Rainer (six b/w reproductions of works on gloss paper and an embossed impression of a long nail), Fransciso Pino (cut card pages),  George Brecht (Demi-Conversation Tapescription - a text on blue paper), Stephan Kukowski & Alan Czarnowski (a game instruction and b/w reproductions of paintings , Geza Perneczky (two rubber stampings) and Vera Rohm (a crushed varnished unidentifiable object which has stained the opposite page). The content page is an additional extra 3pp frontispiece photograph. All numbers are scarce especially the earliest ones. Fine in like folder.

15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a show of works on paper by Rainer. A mailed example with pasted on xerox address label and franked stamp. VG+.

24 x 23cm, 1pp printed cardboard with a "fire drawing" where the artist has burnt the paper. ” The instructions (in Italian) invite the owner of the work to set it on fire one more time to complete the work. Each is numbered from 3,000 such works and is signed in blue ink by the artist. This is number 0431. Each unique within a series.