[1970s] Barry, Acconci, Ruppersberg Four catalogues/artists' books including: (1) Vito Acconci, Catalogue of Headline & Image. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1978. Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 54 pp. Text in English. Complete with supplement in Dutch. (2) Robert Barry: All the things I know but of which I am not at the moment thinking. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1974. Softcover, 27.5 x 21.5 cm, 40 pp. (3) Robert Barry, Belmont 1967. Eindhoven/Essen, Van Abbemuseum/Museum Folkwang, 1977. Spiral bound, 21 x 27.5 cm, 41 pp. Artists' book featuring an alternation of words and circular photographic colour images, all printed on glossy black sheets. (4) Allen Ruppersberg: Between the Scenes, The Fairy Godmother. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1973. Softcover, 20.5 x 20.5 cm, 36 pp. All publications in fine condition.

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[1970s] Information. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer 1970 Softcover, 27.5 x 21 cm, 208 pp. First edition. Legendary exhibition curated by Kynaston McShine, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Includes entries by more than 150 artists from 15 countries, including Vito Acconci, Art & Language, George Brecht, stanley brouwn, Daniel Buren, Donald Burgy, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Caraballa, Hanne Darboven, Group Frontera, Dan Graham, Giorno Poetry Systems, Edward Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, Yoko Ono et al. Striking silkscreened cover with rubbing and tiny tear along spine. Interior text and images are crisp. A facsimile catalogue was released in 2019, this is the original edition from 1970.

Lot 6148

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

[1970s] Lucy R. Lippard: 955,000 Landmark catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by Lippard at The Vancouver Art Gallery, January 13 to February 8, 1970. Consists of 138 loose index cards, each 10 x 15.5 cm. First catalogue in an ongoing series by Lippard, with the title referring to the population number of the city where the exhibition took place: Vancouver (955,000), Seattle (557,087) and Buenos Aires (2,972,453). Randomly-distributed cards containing introduction, bibliography, artists' proposals and conceptual works. Among the 62 artists in the exhibition were: Acconci, Artschwager, Baldessari, Barry, Darboven, Dibbets, Graham, Hesse, Kawara, Le Va, LeWitt, Nauman, Piper, Ruscha, Weiner. In unmarked original manilla envelope, with age wear. Approx. 10 cards with small dent on upper margin, all other cards in very good condition.

Lot 6154

Estim. 100 - 200 EUR

[1970s] Paul Bonger and Rick Vermeulen, Sonsbeek '72 Arnhem, Stichting Sonsbeek, 1972. An artists' project by Bonger and Vermeulen who revisited the influential Sonsbeek 71 exhibition sites one year after the show, archiving what happened to the artworks. Their field-work resulted in a 3 volume catalogue, 13.5 x 17 cm, containing 360 filing cards with b/w images of the original location of the work on recto and notes about the whereabouts of the work on verso. Edition of 700, text in Dutch and English. Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Daniel Buren, Wim T. Schippers, Edward Ruscha, Paul Sharits, Dan Graham, Hanne Darboven et al. Moderate scuffing on covers, glue binding on one copy partly loose. (total 3)

Lot 6159

Estim. 80 - 150 EUR

[1970s] Rooms P.S.1 New York, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1977. Softcover, 26 x 25.5 cm, 136 pp. Famous catalogue for the inaugural exhibition of P.S.1 in Long Island City in June 1976. Curated by Alanna Heiss, 'Rooms' featured site-specific installations by 78 artists in classrooms, hallways, the attic and roof of the decrepit former school building. Participating artists included Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Nam June Paik, Lynn Hershman, Walter de Maria, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer Bartlett. Cover with crease and spine-wear, notation of former owner on rear of front cover, generally a fine copy.

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