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Subject: Visual Art (46 records)

Les Aventures d'el Momo Thumbnail

Les Aventures d'el Momo

Maurice Lemaitre

1968

Lemaitre's pop-surreal May '68 comic. Reader fills in the blanks.

Rubber Vol. 4, Issue #1: Table-project Thumbnail

Rubber Vol. 4, Issue #1: Table-project

Pim Wiersinga

1981

Exhibition detail for Robin Crozier's Table-project. His stamp sequences are "reminiscent of mail-art projects".

Artpolice (Fall 1982) Thumbnail

Artpolice (Fall 1982)

Frank Gaard

1982

"An unconscious (for better or worse) art journal concerned primarily with possibility of art in a world on the brink of extinction."

Artpolice (Summer 1986) Thumbnail

Artpolice (Summer 1986)

Frank Gaard

1986

"I am an art student. I have a $600 tuition bill to prove it. Dad worked hard in his corporation to get me here."

Folk Art of Oceania Thumbnail

Folk Art of Oceania

Maurice Leenhardt

1950

Art historical examination of Oceanic art. Masks, sculpture, pottery from Guinea, Tonga, Easter Island, and more.

Local Heroes Thumbnail

Local Heroes

Burlington Cultural Center

1989

Canadian correspondence artists honor their heroes. Catalogue for the exhibition held at Burlington's Cultural Center (ON).

Kerger Immer Arger Thumbnail

Kerger Immer Arger

Alfred Kerger

1991

Self-published account of Alfred Kerger's art actions, correspondence, and interventions in the '80s.

Botswana Live Thumbnail

Botswana Live

The Botswana Society

1993

Text for the National Museum's 1993 exhibition of Botswanian folk art. Emphasis on traditional art and craft-making, versus the emerging (Western) possibility of formal art education.

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8 Thumbnail

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8

Csaba Polony

1983

First issue after a 4-year lapse. Essays and graphics discuss rationalism, culture in Nicaragua, photography, and the role of art in the labor movement.

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #4 Thumbnail

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #4

Richard Olsen

1975

Summer 1975 publication discusses communal art possibilities, imperialism via art world, and proletarian film-making.

Agit Prop: Performance in Banff Thumbnail

Agit Prop: Performance in Banff

Lorne Falk

1982

Documentation for Walter Phillips Gallery's "agitprop" performance series, featuring Rosler, et al. Discussion of the role of politics in art (and vice versa).

Виктор Васнецов Thumbnail

Виктор Васнецов

Nadejda Chanina

1979

Review of Viktor Vasnetsov's ouevre, ranging from depictions of St. Petersburg's suburbs to "epic historical compositions".

Веселкові барви Thumbnail

Веселкові барви

Майя Эссаулова

1971

Rainbow colors. Showcase of Ukrainian decorative (folk) art: ceramics, sculpture, fibers.

Jan K. Elzinga en zijn mechanisch kunstwerk "Salomo's Eerste Rechtspraak" Thumbnail

Jan K. Elzinga en zijn mechanisch kunstwerk "Salomo's Eerste Rechtspraak"

K. Elzinga

1978

Discussion of Jan K. Elzinga's mechanical puppetry, particularly his major work “Solomon's first judgment" (1900).

La Plastique Lettriste Et Hypergraphique Thumbnail

La Plastique Lettriste Et Hypergraphique

Maurice Lemaitre

1956

Lettrist and Hypergraphic Plastic. Lemaitre presents a visual poetry of symbols, maps, and graphics.

Как оформить выставку в городе Thumbnail

Как оформить выставку в городе

В.П. Борисов

1978

How to arrange an exhibition in the city. Late Soviet instruction for installing art in public.

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State Thumbnail

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State

Frank Zirbel

1989

Psycho Unity makes a second appearance. Comics originally serialized in Houston's Public News.

Scrawls Thumbnail

Scrawls

Frank Zirbel

2003

Zirbel's bike messenger street drawings and accompanying notes, '90-'95.

At Maxwell Street Thumbnail

At Maxwell Street

Tom Palazzolo

2008

Palazzolo's artful homage to Maxwell Street during its cultural heyday. Vibrant collection of essays and photos.

Clark Street Thumbnail

Clark Street

Tom Palazzolo

2019

Palazzolo photo-documents Clark and surrounding neighborhoods in early '60s Chicago.

Ракурсы Родченко Thumbnail

Ракурсы Родченко

Александр Лаврентьев

1992

Survey of Rodchenko's photographic career, from Neues Sehen experimentation to forays into sports journalism, documenting public gatherings, etc.

Seriös Thumbnail

Seriös

Galerie Wanda Reiff

1988

Reiff collects, in her words, intriguing and confrontational art for this 1988 exhibition in Maastricht.

Kunstenaars uit Brabant Thumbnail

Kunstenaars uit Brabant

Stedelijk Museum

1958

Catalog for Stedelijk's 1958 exhibition of artists from Brabant. Images of figurative, abstract, and sculptural work.

Asahi Camera #12 (December 1967) Thumbnail

Asahi Camera #12 (December 1967)

Asahi Camera

1967

December 1967 issue of Asahi. Figures, humanistic scenes, and technical manuals for cameras.

Asahi Camera #5 (May 1967) Thumbnail

Asahi Camera #5 (May 1967)

Asahi Camera

1967

May 1967 edition of Japan's longest-running photography magazine. Emphasis on nature and cityscapes.

Art Ancien du Mexique et du Perou Thumbnail

Art Ancien du Mexique et du Perou

Musée des Beaux-Arts

1971

Documentation for Lyon's early '70s exhibition of ancient Mexican and Peruvian artifacts.

Naivi '87 Thumbnail

Naivi '87

Zagreb City Galleries Gallery of Primitive Art

1987

Catalog for Zagreb's major outsider exhibition in 1987. Extensive introduction to international art brut.

ArTRANDOM #50: From the Outsider Archive, London Thumbnail

ArTRANDOM #50: From the Outsider Archive, London

Monika Kinley

1989

Samples of American/European art brut (Darger, etc.), sourced from London's Outsider Archive.

Visions Vol. 5 / We Are Not Alone Thumbnail

Visions Vol. 5 / We Are Not Alone

Rebecca Hoffberger

2000

Catalog for AVAM's 1999 exhibition on aliens, angels, and other outsiders.

When Truth Was Called A Witch Thumbnail

When Truth Was Called A Witch

Frank Zirbel

1989

Zirbel's ink drawings accompany haunted Reagan quotes.

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury Thumbnail

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury

Frank Zirbel

1985

Do you want a career in modeling?

Recent Painting USA: The Figure Thumbnail

Recent Painting USA: The Figure

Museum of Modern Art

1962

Early '60s figurative exhibition at MoMA feat. Sabine friend Elinore Schnurr.

The Twenty-first International Exhibition of Water Colors Thumbnail

The Twenty-first International Exhibition of Water Colors

Art Institute of Chicago

1942

550 artworks from the Art Institute's 21st watercolor exhibition. 12 works are printed.

Maurice Lemaitre: Lettriste Thumbnail

Maurice Lemaitre: Lettriste

Sandro Ricaldone

2002

Catalogue for Galleria Peccoli's Lemaître exhibition in Italy.

Initiation à la Haute Volupté Thumbnail

Initiation à la Haute Volupté

Isidore Isou

1960

Initiation to high pleasure. Collection of erotic drawings and Lettrist symbols.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Oct 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Apr 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Mar 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Feb 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Summer 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V)

Armin Lehmann

1966

May 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Apr 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Feb 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Jan 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

International Surrealist Bulletin #4 Thumbnail

International Surrealist Bulletin #4

Surrealist Group In England

1936

Mid-30s report on surrealist activities in England.

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire Thumbnail

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire

Chicago Surrealist Group

1976

Exhibition text for the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, 1976.