Random stacks find. In the 1930s, large-scale public airports were a new and challenging building type for architects and engineers. This 1937 exhibition catalog explored recent developments. -jt
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Some ephemera selections from our Niki de Saint-Phalle artist’s file. -ds
Apollinaire (live! - on the left) and Andre Rouveyre at a Biofix studio which housed “une petite machine animee” in Paris in 1914 from a 1944 flip book reprint, Apollinaire: Filme en 1914. -ds
A while ago, I wrote a MoMA blog post on books about books - publications that take a close look at the history of a certain genre of books or a particular artist’s books or books that reproduce and recirculate out-of-print, special materials. Two great additions to this subject came in today. First, a catalog from a 2011 show, Written, Drawn and Stapled at the Glasgow School of Art on little American poetry magazines from 1965-1975. It gives great bibliographic info and images of over 150 books in the exhibition. Shown above is the cover of the catalog, followed by an Aram Saroyan poem from Another World (1971), third image is a Joe Brainard cover from a Lewis Marsh book (1971), and fourth is Alice Notley’s Incidentals in the Day World (1973) with a cover illustrated by Phillip Guston. -ds
The second new book about books is a University of California Press publication from 2011 on the experimental music journal Source: Music of the Avant-Garde (1966-1973) The book is not a straight reprint of content from Source, but the editors excerpted many great sections from 11 issues of the journal. Amazing contributions abound from Robert Ashley, Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, George Brecht, etc. etc. and the editors include a useful appendix that lists all the contents and contributors. -ds
Subways not working? Bookmobiles come in handy for emergency reading. We’re open on a normal schedule at both Manhattan and QNS, by the way. Images from the Weimar-era design journal Das Neue Frankfurt, v. 5, n. 8, August 1931. - jt
We have some sound materials too (they generally live in our Queens location) - like this album by the Canadian Humourist Rodney Graham. -ds
Rags was an exciting little fashion and counterculture magazine published out of San Francisco in the early 70s. Each issue contained a photography project in a series called Camera. In the May 1971 issue, Rags featured a LA-based artist named Ed Ruscha. -ds
(SOME MORE!) Un Autre Monde by the 19th century French caricaturist J.J. Grandville. He was a subject of study by Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin and also admired by the Surrealist Circle in 1920s Paris, where his personified objects, animals and vegetation were seen as precursors to surrealist imagery. Un Autre Monde was printed in 1844 and is one of the oldest books in our collection. -ds
