stephen seemayer (6 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Stephen Seemayer mail art postcard. Image of Seemayer performance art piece on front of card. Text and address on verso of April 12, 1979 postmarked card. Corner bends and worn black edges. Discoloration on address side. 4 x 6 inches. Redacted with black rectangle for privacy. Black rectangle not on original piece that buyer will receive.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Stephen Seemayer mail art postcard. Image of Seemayer performance art piece on front of card. Text and address on verso of March 21, 1979 postmarked card. Corner bends and worn black edges. Discoloration on address side. 4 x 6 inches. Redacted with black rectangle for privacy. Black rectangle not on original piece that buyer will receive.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Stephen Seemayer mail art postcard. Image of Seemayer performance art piece on front of card. Text and address on verso of March 15, 1979 postmarked card. Corner bends and worn black edges. Discoloration on address side. 4 x 6 inches. Redacted with black rectangle for privacy. Black rectangle not on original piece that buyer will receive.

75 pp.; 27.8 x 21.6 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; 1981 issue of High Performance, The Performance Art Quarterly, edited by Linda Frye Burnham. Contents include: "Editor's Notes," by Linda Burnham; "Plimtonization," MO David; "Skit in Defense of Poetry," by Michael Andre; "Stephen Seemayer's 'Young Turks,'" review by Hunter Drohojowska; "Still Missing After All These Years? A Response to L.A.'s white/male Sixties show," by Carol Quint; "M. Staff Brandl's 'Dusk Rituals for Egypt,'" by Thomas Emil Homerin; "Birthdaze," by Barbara T. Smith; "Revealing the Numinous: Theory and Practice in Seattle Performance," by Gary Reel; "Excerpts from a new source book by Contemporary Arts Press;" "Correspondence artworks by: E.F. Higgins, Billy Curmano, Lerner & Turner, Nancy Frank, Lon Spiegelman, Jerri Allyn, Jeffrey Vallance, Monique Safford; "Between the Diaspora and the Crinoline: Bonnie Sherk interviewed by Linda Frye Burnham and "When the Dust Settles: Mark Boyle interviewed by Mark Bloch." Front Cover: "Cover Girl," by Bonnie Sherk. Back Cover: "Challenge," Labat versus Chapman 1981, photo by F. Stop Fitzgerald. Very Good. Light edgewear and bumping of bottom edge of covers with light creasing. 7 mm. tear to recto wrapping around to spine with and additional 5 mm. tear to verso wrapping around to spine. Contents clean and unmarked.

63 pp.; 27.8 x 21.7 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Spring 1980 issue of High Performance, The Performance Art Quarterly, edited by Linda Frye Burnham. Contents include: "Spaces;" "Stephen Seemayer: Profiled and interviewed by Linda Burnham;" "Jerry Dreva: An Introduction;" "Jerry Dreva: A Letter;" "Dreva Questions Dreva" "Artist's Chronicle," by Phil Berkman, Robin Yvonne King, John Sheridan, Julie Wallace Keller, Valerie Bechtol, Anne Mavor, Marianne Bonetti, John Duncan, Ross Muirhead, Darryl Sapien/Performance Foundation, Richard Alpert, Danny Devos, Bill Gordh, Barbara T. Smith, Rachel Rosenthal, Linda Nishio, Jerri Allyn, Diane Holland, John Ryskamp, Ruedi Schill, Sandra McKee, Bob & Bob, Planstudio Siepmann, Mark Smith, John Boone, Barbara Cavaliere, and Al Payne. Front cover: Stephen Seemayer. Back cover: Jerry Dreva. Good. 7 mm. tear with some loss to top of spine edge and 6 mm. tear with loss to bottom of spine edge. 16 ccm. area of yellowing and yellow soiling to recto. 6 cm., 2 mm., 1.1 cm. areas of yellow soiling to verso. Rubbing of covers and light edge wear. Contents clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. An artist's book, profusely illustrated in black-and-white, presenting the "documentation, notes, and shooting script" for Seemayer's film of the same name, which was screened once in 1981 and then not again until its restoration in 2013, and which captured the principal figures of the incipient downtown scene at a pivotal moment in Los Angeles arts history. This copy from the collection of California artist Sabato Fiorello (d. 2017). Signed and inscribed to him, at various points throughout the book, by Seemayer and at least eight of the profiled artists, including publisher Linda Burnham,Andy Wilf and The Dark Bob, Marc Kreisel,Woods Davy, Monique Safford (?), John Schroeder, and Edie Ellis. Perfect-bound in wraps; 186pp.; 10 x 8 in. Illustrated with 400 photographs from the film and additional records. Condition: about near fine, with some minor rubbing along the spine hinges and a crease to the bottom corner of the rear cover. A unique, multiply signed document of the early downtown Los Angeles art scene. Signed by Author(s).