takis burroughs william (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 4to. [10 pp]. Soft Cover. Very Good. Yellowing. Minor creasing along edges. Green stain on front cover. BW Plates. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author.Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA) (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-1977). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Préface de Pierre Restany. Paris : Editions Galilée, 1984. Un volume (33x21,5 cm) pleine toile sous jaquette, 267 pages. Textes de Héléna et Nicolas Calas. Entretien de Takis avec Pierre Restany "L'homme dans l'espace". Abondamment illustré des oeuvres et installations de Takis. Edition originale. Livres.

Card envelope. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. 27 x 35cm very good card envelope containing a reproduction of a Takis object. Cream-coloured card slightly browned. Has a short text in French by Marcel Duchamp and a lengthier one by William Burroughs which begins: 'Takis is working with and expressing in this sculpture thought forms of metal - Silent flowers twist in mineral pollenization - And you hear metal think as you watch disquieting free floating forms move and click through invisible turnstiles - Cold blue mineral music of thinking metal - You can hear metal think in the electromagnetic fields of Takis sculpture.'.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. David Medalla (ed.), Signals / Newsbulletin of Signals London, Vol.1, Nos. 3-4, Oct-Nov 1964. 507 x 342mm. 24pp.'Special Twin Issue'. Takis featured on cover. Contents include: 'Magnetic Manifesto' by Takis; 'The Takis Dialogues'; 'Robot Art and Architecture' by P.K.Hoenich; 'Victor Musgrave on Art No.2'; 'Electron Notes, 1964' Liliane Lijn. Also includes contributions by Marcello Salvadori, Walter Gropius, Alan Ansen, William Burroughs, Marcel Duchamp, Brion Gysin and others. Signals magazine was named in hommage to the work of Takis. This issue is presently (July 2019) shown as part of the Takis exhibition at Tate Modern. Signals London was a short-lived yet highly influential British venue dedicated to 1960s avant-garde artists from Europe and Latin America. Through their exhibitions, events and publications, they established fruitful cross-border networks between these regions and introduced early manifestations of Fluxus, Kinetic and Op art to Britain. Having evolved from the Centre for Advanced Creative Study, Signals London was situated in London's West End between 19641966. Condition: Folded as issued and folded on centre, some wear to the centre of spine on outside page, some wear to folds on outer page and edges of pages, light toning. Some evidence of 2 vertical creases/fold, with light surface wear to the folded edge. Overall VG. Large format item, requires extra postage.

Card covers. Zustand: Good in wraps. First Edition. 26 x 34cm good card covered catalogue designed as a simple printed folder with two laid-in illustrations with with text on the inside rear cover by William Burroughs. Card covers slightly browned.