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.

Please note this is a heavy bundle and shipping will be higher than usual - please enquire.

37.5 x 21.5cm, 1pp. Black on white poster listing the full gamut of artists included in this annual event organised by Moorman. Lists many well known names such as Ay-o,  Al Hansen, Joe Jones, Takehisa Kosugi, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Carolee Schneemann, Lil Picard, Giuseppe Chiari, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Michael Snow, Tashi Ichiyanagi, Jud Yalkut, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit, Emmett Williams and many many more. Very good+. One of the scarcer posters from the event to find for some unknown reason.

30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph from original negative taken at the press conference for Billy Kluver's 9 Evenings initiative where he attempted to include scientists and engineers in the arts to inform artists of new available technologies. John Cage is speaking and one can identify Billy Kluver, Öyvind Fahlström, Lucinda Childs, David Tudor, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg at the top table amongst others.

This image was originally taken by Fred McDarrah and his estate retains copyright on the image so this is sold for personal use and not for reproduction. This is in very good condition and a crisp modern print (post 1990s we suspect) from original negative. If this was a vintage print we would charge much more.

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.

205 x 26cm, 233pp plus original card covers. , Exhibition catalogue of post-World War II multiples and works in editions, including prints, posters, sculpture, artists' books, etc., by European and American artists.

There were 509 works exhibited in this huge and important show.

Foreword and introduction by Gert von der Osten; essays by Erhard Kästner, Horst Keller, Karl Gerstner, Willi Bongard, Othmar Metzger and Hein Stanke and biographical notes on the artists. Text in German.

Included are von Agam, Albers, Alechinsky, Antes, Appel, Arp, Baumeister, Bellmer, Beuys, Braque, Chagall, , Christo, Dine, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Ernst, Esteve, Faßbender, Francis, Fruhtrunk, Geiger, Giacometti, Grieshaber, Hamilton, Hartung, Hockney, Johns, Jones, Jorn, Leger, Lichtenstein, Matta, Matisse, Miro, Nay, Nevelson, Newman, Oldenburg, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Rot, Soto, Soulages, Stella, Tapies, Tinguely, Warhol and Wols.

A VG example. 

21 x 30cm, printed envelope content of 27, 30 x 21cm, 1pp offset inserted loose pages and one 42 x 30cm folded poster which wraps around the other sheets and a small 7.5 x 21cm, 1pp address card for the FIU. card . The catalogue for a Fluxus event which included contributions from Nam June Paik (here mis-detailed as Name Jun Paik (sic)) with the outer poster, Joseph Beuys - an artist designed postcard "Bonzenbybjer" reproducing a drawing and other collated page works.

The outer folded sheet has some wear around the fold (with small tears) else everything else is VG+ and the outer envelope is also VG+. A scarce item.

15 x 10.5cm, 1pp black on pink announcement leaflet for these two early gallery performances by Paik and Moorman including Robot Opera. Very scarce. Fine.

30 x 25,5 x 7cm, unpaginated (appr. 250 pp). Transparent plastic covers, plexiglass spine, the all bound with metal screws. Texts throughout in both German and English by Evelyn Weiss. The all encompassing exhibition catalogue which accompanied the famous exhibition of "Art of the Sixties" from the Ludwig collection.

Printed on styrofoam and brown wrapping papers with full colour plates tipped on and with b/w portraits of the artists printed on transparent foiles, this is the scarce second edition (the first is very rare) amongst the five different editions issued during the run of the show, each of which was extended and increased in size.

The artists featured cover the entire range of pop art and include J. Albers, J. Beuys, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Lucia Fontana, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, et al.

This is a tour-de-force of book art as designed by Wolf Vostell. This copy is in near fine condition and is scarce as the second edition (as noted above the first is extremely scarce and the three other editions after this one much less so). A lovely item indeed.

56 x 43cm, 4pp. Tabloid format. Text and pictorial contributions from Brecht, Christo, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Tinguely, Ben Vautier, et. al. + found texts and images, as well as adverts for Fluxus events and products. Primarily designed under the direction of George Maciunas. Formerly folded (as usual) and some browning along folds and some edge damage but otherwise VG. Silverman No. 459. Now rare.

55 x 42.5cm. 4pp. Tabloid format. Printed on white stock. First edition - the first copy of v Tre (vTre) substantially designed by Maciunas rather than Brecht and included the full page poster for the Flux-Symphony Orchestra which was designed to be torn off from the newspaper and used as a wall poster. Texts include Brecht: "Something about Fluxus", a discussion between Brecht and Allen Kaprow and a text by Paik on his exhibition in the Galerie Parnass of 1963. Some minor pinholes at corners else VG+. One of the harder copies of v TRE to find.