art

Several standout plates from: Book of sports, or, Man of spirit's companion, London, J. Bailey, 1819. From: "Game Cocks"

A calendar for the year 1967 created by the artists Klaus Burkhardt and Luitpold Domberger. Featuring 6 optical art silkscreen prints, this work was issued in 26 copies only.

An retrospective/homage to the work of Lucio Fontana, reproducing in full his original Manifiesto Blanco from 1946 in which he set forth the parameters for his art movement, “spatialism”. (Fontana, Lucio, Noci G. Le, and Ugo Mulas. Manifiesto Blanco. Milano: Galleria Apollinaire, 1966.)

On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3, 2012: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Gertrude Stein in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1907.

Cover and dedicatory pages from Jean L'Anselme's Poèmes à la sourieuse rose [Poems to the smiling rose] (Genève : L.E.C., 1948), a group of pieces written by L'Anselme with his "unschooled" left hand, in an exercise drawing on the tenets of Art Brut, the school of artistic and linguistic experimentation defined by Jean Dubuffet, a champion of L'Anselme and the dedicatee of this volume.

Four issues of a deluxe poetry, art, and music magazine, Matière, published in Zurich, 1952-53.

The first issue of Icteric, an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who would go on to form the King Mob.