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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: KACERE by JOHN KACERE (1996) • The ridiculously scarce Japanese-only publication on the work of John Kacere. • Published by Images of Erotic Art in Tokyo in 1996, this fantastic monograph reproduces his famous photorealist paintings in full colour across roughly 140 landscape pages, broken into chapters "Lace", "See Through", "Delta", "Cotton", "Hip", and "Garter". Includes quotes from John Kacere in English, plus short texts and biography in Japanese, portrait of the artist in his studio, and more. • John C. Kacere (23 June 1920 – 5 August 1999) was an American artist. Originally an abstract expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his iconic paintings depict the midsection of the female body. Although he rejected the term, Kacere is considered one of the original photorealists. Kacere's first painting in this style was in 1969, involving the midsection of a woman dressed in lingerie. It was over three times life size. Kacere continued this type of painting throughout the rest of his career, making it an icon of the photorealism movement. Though figurative paintings, Kacere's works have often been considered still lifes or even landscapes. • One copy only, available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #johnkacere #kacere (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: KACERE by JOHN KACERE (1996) • The ridiculously scarce Japanese-only publication on the work of John Kacere. • Published by Images of Erotic Art in Tokyo in 1996, this fantastic monograph reproduces his famous photorealist paintings in full colour across roughly 140 landscape pages, broken into chapters "Lace", "See Through", "Delta", "Cotton", "Hip", and "Garter". Includes quotes from John Kacere in English, plus short texts and biography in Japanese, portrait of the artist in his studio, and more. • John C. Kacere (23 June 1920 – 5 August 1999) was an American artist. Originally an abstract expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his iconic paintings depict the midsection of the female body. Although he rejected the term, Kacere is considered one of the original photorealists. Kacere's first painting in this style was in 1969, involving the midsection of a woman dressed in lingerie. It was over three times life size. Kacere continued this type of painting throughout the rest of his career, making it an icon of the photorealism movement. Though figurative paintings, Kacere's works have often been considered still lifes or even landscapes. • One copy only, available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #johnkacere #kacere (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: KACERE by JOHN KACERE (1996) • The ridiculously scarce Japanese-only publication on the work of John Kacere. • Published by Images of Erotic Art in Tokyo in 1996, this fantastic monograph reproduces his famous photorealist paintings in full colour across roughly 140 landscape pages, broken into chapters "Lace", "See Through", "Delta", "Cotton", "Hip", and "Garter". Includes quotes from John Kacere in English, plus short texts and biography in Japanese, portrait of the artist in his studio, and more. • John C. Kacere (23 June 1920 – 5 August 1999) was an American artist. Originally an abstract expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his iconic paintings depict the midsection of the female body. Although he rejected the term, Kacere is considered one of the original photorealists. Kacere's first painting in this style was in 1969, involving the midsection of a woman dressed in lingerie. It was over three times life size. Kacere continued this type of painting throughout the rest of his career, making it an icon of the photorealism movement. Though figurative paintings, Kacere's works have often been considered still lifes or even landscapes. • One copy only, available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #johnkacere #kacere (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: BAUHAUS : 50 JAHRE (1968) • The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. • This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference catalogues ever published. • 370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index. All texts in German. • Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #bauhaus #herbertbayer #1968 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: BAUHAUS : 50 JAHRE (1968) • The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. • This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference catalogues ever published. • 370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index. All texts in German. • Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #bauhaus #herbertbayer #1968 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: BAUHAUS : 50 JAHRE (1968) • The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. • This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference catalogues ever published. • 370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index. • Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #bauhaus #herbertbayer #1968 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: BAUHAUS : 50 JAHRE (1968) • The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. • This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference catalogues ever published. • 370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index. • Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #bauhaus #herbertbayer #annialbers #waltergropius #1968 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TIL 6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: LANCE WYMAN: THE VISUAL DIARIES 1973-1982 - SKETCHES, NOTES, PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTED EPHEMERA (2017) • Throughout his long career Lance Wyman has kept a daily record of his creative processes: working drawings for logos; detailed specifications for urban way-finding systems; sketches for typefaces; notes to himself; records of conversations; colour swatches; Polaroids; and other forms of printed ephemera. • Now, many hundreds of pages from Lance Wyman’s ‘designlogs’ have been photographed, edited and made into a beautifully designed 872pp book, available in a limited edition. • Lance Wyman (B.1937, Newark, NJ, USA) is a graphic designer specializing in systems for cities, events, institutions and transit systems. Over the past 5 decades, he has helped to define the field of environmental graphics. • Available via our website and in the bookshop today. • #worldfoodbooks #lancewyman #uniteditions (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TIL 6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: LANCE WYMAN: THE VISUAL DIARIES 1973-1982 - SKETCHES, NOTES, PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTED EPHEMERA (2017) • Throughout his long career Lance Wyman has kept a daily record of his creative processes: working drawings for logos; detailed specifications for urban way-finding systems; sketches for typefaces; notes to himself; records of conversations; colour swatches; Polaroids; and other forms of printed ephemera. • Now, many hundreds of pages from Lance Wyman’s ‘designlogs’ have been photographed, edited and made into a beautifully designed 872pp book, available in a limited edition. • Lance Wyman (B.1937, Newark, NJ, USA) is a graphic designer specializing in systems for cities, events, institutions and transit systems. Over the past 5 decades, he has helped to define the field of environmental graphics. • Available via our website and in the bookshop today. • #worldfoodbooks #lancewyman #uniteditions (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TIL 6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: LANCE WYMAN: THE VISUAL DIARIES 1973-1982 - SKETCHES, NOTES, PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTED EPHEMERA (2017) • Throughout his long career Lance Wyman has kept a daily record of his creative processes: working drawings for logos; detailed specifications for urban way-finding systems; sketches for typefaces; notes to himself; records of conversations; colour swatches; Polaroids; and other forms of printed ephemera. • Now, many hundreds of pages from Lance Wyman’s ‘designlogs’ have been photographed, edited and made into a beautifully designed 872pp book, available in a limited edition. • Lance Wyman (B.1937, Newark, NJ, USA) is a graphic designer specializing in systems for cities, events, institutions and transit systems. Over the past 5 decades, he has helped to define the field of environmental graphics. • Available via our website and in the bookshop today. • #worldfoodbooks #lancewyman #uniteditions (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 11-6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: JOHN DIVOLA - VANDALISM (2018) • Between 1974 and 1975, the American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – travelled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalised vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins, and torn arrangements of card, before cataloguing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach of forensic photography with staged interventions echoing performance, sculpture and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices, at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question, Vandalism helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language. • Available via our website and in the bookshop today. • #worldfoodbooks #johndivola #mackbooks #vandalism (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 11-6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: JOHN DIVOLA - VANDALISM (2018) • Between 1974 and 1975, the American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – travelled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalised vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins, and torn arrangements of card, before cataloguing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach of forensic photography with staged interventions echoing performance, sculpture and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices, at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question, Vandalism helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #johndivola #mackbooks #vandalism (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 11-6 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: JOHN DIVOLA - VANDALISM (2018) • Between 1974 and 1975, the American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – travelled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalised vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins, and torn arrangements of card, before cataloguing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach of forensic photography with staged interventions echoing performance, sculpture and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices, at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question, Vandalism helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #johndivola #mackbooks #vandalism (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 11-6 PM. #worldfoodbooks #melbourne (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TIL 5 PM. BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: CAROLEE'S by CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN (2016) • 'Caroleeʼs' is the second issue of The Magazine of the Artistʼs Institute. The first was 'Pierre's' by Pierre Huyghe. • Dedicated to Carolee Schneemann, it features a previously unpublished image archive from Schneemannʼs studio that documents half a century of morphological connections between her work and other visual material, including art, advertising, and popular culture. • A new long-form profile of Schneemann by writer Maggie Nelson accompanies this project and considers the artistʼs relationship to the history of her reception and Schneemannʼs significant influence on subsequent generations of feminists. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #caroleeschneemann #theartistsinstitute #waltherkönig (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY TIL 5 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN - UNCOLLECTED TEXTS (2018) • Uncollected Texts draws together a number of Carolee Schneemann’s earliest writings – many exceedingly rare and several that are published here for the first time – ranging from letters to the editor, dream journals, and film criticism, to satirical poems, detailed discussions of her art, and pointed feminist critiques. Edited by Branden W. Joseph, the book includes 30 texts by Carolee Schneemann written between 1956 and 1981, as well as an introduction by Joseph. • First published in short-run magazines like Caterpillar, Film Culture, The Fox, Manipulations, and Matter; academic journals such as Performing Arts Journal; and mainstream publications including The New York Times and The Village Voice, the writings gathered in this volume shed light on some of Schneemann’s most important artistic achievements. Schneemann writes about her most famous “kinetic theatre” piece, Meat Joy; anti-Vietnam War works such as Snows, Viet-Flakes, and Divisions and Rubble; the multimedia performance Up to and Including Her Limits; and the double-screen film Kitch’s Last Meal. Frequently referring to one another, the assembled writings produce a densely interwoven tapestry of cross-references that provide unique insights into Schneemann’s artistic development while also foregrounding the artist’s uniquely poetic style. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #caroleeschneemann #primaryinformation #brandenwjoseph (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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OPEN TODAY 11-5 PM. #worldfoodbooks #melbourne (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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