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40 x 31cm, printed plastic bag with the same artwork as the front of the record and verso publisher details. This is signed by boldly by Joseph Beuys in black felt tip on the front. This bag is far more rare than the record and very few examples still exist. Slight handling creases else VG+.

9.3 x 12 x 2.3cm, two part plastic box with compartments each containing a vintage key and with original printed label designed by George Maciunas. A "continuation edition" produced by Barbara Moore using vintage parts that she found in Maciunas' estate. The plastic is stamped "reflux" to differentiate from the original release of the boxes, nonetheless these are now very rare. In very good ++ condition.

9.5 x 17.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show of films by artists - listed participants include Boetti, Simonetti, Calzzolarie, Maciunas, Nauman, Vautier, Oppenheim, Coleman, Acconci, Graham, Kounellis, Nagasawa and others. A design by Maurizio Nannucci on the front. VG+. Scarce.

28 x 21cm, 1pp black on white offset. A Flux Newsletter circulated by Maciunas to friends and others on his mailing list with the programme for the title performance.

The programme lists two parts to the evening's performances - the first a collective work by Ay-o, Dan Lauffer, Maciunas, Cheiko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Bob Watts, Bici and Geoff Hendricks who each initiated a different paper action (ripping, crumpling, turning pages of a book) to a metronome and following an Olivetti adding machine paper roll.

The second is entitled "Kill Paper, Not People" and the score is reproduced - with Ay-o dressed in a Sumurai suit of armour firing arrows at a large sheet of paper with consequent actions.  VG+. An early Fluxus document.

30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph from original negative showing a number of paper airplanes being thrown into the air from the balcony (the paper planes were made from Fluxus leaflets) at a Fluxis concert in Carnegie Hall in 1965.

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.

30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph from original negative showing a Fluxus performers onstage at a Fluxus concert in Carnegie Hall in 1965 where the musicians were wrapped in bandages.

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.

20 x 14cm, 124pp plus pictorial card covers.  Artist's book entitled "Collection de lunettes présenté par Daniel Spoerri avec, en regard, d'inutiles notules par François Dufrène" - translates as "Collection of Daniel Spoerri's glasses, with useless texts by François Dufrène". The inner pages are printed in orange and black with each recto page with an image of the artist wearing rather impractical spectacles (such as the famous glasses with long needles on the inside that would puncture the eyeballs if really worn). The 57 photographs were taken by Vera Spoerri and Christer Christian. The typographic cover was designed by George Maciunas.

This is a rare book which normally costs over £1,000 but sadly this copy displays a lot of water damage where the orange colour has leeched onto the photographs on most pages as a result we are offering it at a third of the normal price. Some pages display rippling from the water after it had dried out. Else good.

dont une imprimée sur papier transparent, broché, couverture de Georges Maciunas.57 photographies de Vera Spoerri et Christer Christian montrant Daniel Spoerri portant des lunettes choisies dans sa collection.Söhm p.104 n°160, reproduit. Hendricks, p.488 à 490, reproduit en couleurs p.163. Silverman 415. Exemplaire neuf.(103443)
[Paris, France] [Publication Year: 1963]

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.

58 x 43.5cm, 4pp broadside. The second of the eleven issues of the official Fluxus newspaper designed by George Maciunas in his mix of vintage clipart and photographs and experimental typography and with contributions by George Brecht, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, and others. Folded for mailing as issued else VG++. Very scarce.

58 x 43.5cm, 4pp broadside. The third of the eleven issues of the official Fluxus newspaper designed by George Maciunas in his mix of vintage clipart and photographs and experimental typography and with contributions by George Brecht, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, and others. Folded for mailing as issued else VG++. Very scarce.

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.