GRAPH BOOKS OFFERS PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
WE ARE FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
Gallery
New Acquisitions
Seven leaves of hand-painted wallpaper designs
19th century
Prize-winning nineteenth-century designs.
…de Pe a Pa
Celina Uralde - 1962
Experimental poetry by Celina Uralde with cover illus. and prologue by Gyula Kosice.
Instruction chrétienne pour l’éducation des filles
(Francoise d’Aubigné) - 1687
On the Christian education of girls, dedicated to the scandalous second wife of Louis XIV, the Madame de Maintenon.
Comitè Econòmic d’Espectacles Públics
1936
A class-conscious film schedule for the CNT/AIT collectivized theaters in Girona.
Carteleras. Año I, No.1 - Año 1, No.3 (all published?)
1937
Advertising for UGT-CNT controlled theaters in Valencia, unrecorded in OCLC.
Las Juventudes Libertarias de Artes Gráficas protestan [...]
Comisión pro-Cultura Juventudes Libertarias de Artes Gráficas - ca. 1936-38
The FAI's youth cultural commission defends Barcelona's Municipal Band.
La Tragedia Social de la Mujer
Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta - 1933?
Signed copy of a rare imprint by the radical Cuban feminist.
La Cuestion Sexual. No. 1 through No. 9 (all published?)
1934
Spanish Republican Sex Ed.
Cultura Sexual. Nos. 3-6, 8-10, 13
ca. 1935-1936
Unrecorded Guerra Civil-Era Sexuality Series
Collection of 66 Film Stills from Cardona’s Las Luchadoras Series
1963-1964
Women wrestlers battle Aztec mummies and a henchman named Mao in these Mexploitation classics.
Graphische Ausstellung veranstalet vom Verein Kölner Buchdrucker ...
1920
Unrecorded book arts exhibition supplement.
Poem 1 and Poem 2. From Penny Poems, No. 31
Claes Oldenburg - 1959
The earliest Oldenburg publication?
Sol LeWitt
Scarce catalogue of an exhibition at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles.
Rauschenberg: Selections
Robert Rauschenberg - [1968]
Experimental "collage" catalogue essay in an early and uncommon catalogue.
[Stokes Patent Engraving Machine]
1851?
Drawing (and engraving?) of a modified anaglyptograph, designed to convert sculpture to two dimensions.
Album Surrealista de Ovarina Merck
Delia Ingenieros - 1938-1941
Surrealist scrapbook by the Argentinian microbiologist, magician, and Borges associate, Delia Ingenieros.
Aire. No. 1 (Junio 1937) through No. 4 (Primavera 1938) (all published)
1937-1938
A highlight of Spanish Civil War print culture, rare complete.
Proceedings of the First International Congress of African Culture
1962
Full transcripts and plates of delegates' presentations on African arts, music and dance; incl. Felix Idubor, Vincent Kofi, and Alfred Barr.
Women
A Featured Collection
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Dara Birnbaum: Video
1995
Swedish exhibition poster.
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Backlash Times: Feminists Fighting Pornography
1984
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Woman’s Scrapbook with Manuscript Text and Hand-colored Plates
20th Century
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VOW [Voice of Women]: Bulletin of the African National Congress (S.A.) Women’s Section. No. 2
1973
Reporting on feminist and antiapartheid movements.
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Potatisdrömmar
Gunilla Bandolin - 1993
Exh. cat. for Swedish sculptor and land artist.
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65th Commemoration, Paris Commune, at Webster Hall
1938
Modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey.
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Instructor: Life Drawing: Life Composition
Peggy Bacon - ca. 1930s
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BAILARINA Y COUPLETISTA / DANZAS SUGESTIVAS
La Habanerita - [1912]
A dancer's trade card, mailed to a talent agency.
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Redención: Revista Mensual Feminista. Año III, Núm. 18
1917
Single issue of a Catalan suffragist periodical, seemingly unrecorded.
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Two Manuscript Documents Certifying the Chargeability of “Native Indian” Women
[New Bedford Overseers of the Poor] - 1820
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The Sacrifice of Madaline, or, From Earth to Glory by a Skyrocket
P.W. Walthall - [1905]
Christian biography of a young teacher, describing her death by firework.
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[Album Amicorum]
Alma Elias - 1895-1916
German-Jewish manuscript friendship album.
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COLLECTION OF PROPAGANDA PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SECCIÓN FEMENINA
ca. 1941
40 photographs of the women's wing of the Spanish fascist movement, most taken by the Nazi propaganda service SS-PK
Latin America
A Featured Collection
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Apóstrofes: Revista de la Escuela de Periodismo Universidad Católica. Año I, No. 1–No. 3
1982
Unrecorded student movement publication.
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Forma: Revista de Arte. Nos. 6-7
1942
One issue of the uncommon Chilean arts serial, with essay by David Siqueiros on antifascist mural project.
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Study for a bas-relief sculpture for Las Cristalerías Rigolleau
Urbici Soler - 1928
A pencil and gouache study for an overdoor panel at the Rigolleau company's new building, Buenos Aires.
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Publisher’s Promotional Leaflet for “Art in Ancient Mexico”
[Diego Rivera] - 1941
Ephemera from a key moment in the popularization and appropriation of pre-Colonial Mexican art in the United States
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Nuestra Raza: Organo de la Colectividad de Color. Año III, No. 25
1935
Afro-Uruguayan political and cultural periodical advocating racial equality.
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Collection of 31 photographs of Chilean modern dance pioneer Andrée Haas
ca. 1930-1940
Vintage photos of the founder of Chile's first modern dance program.
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Sala Permanente de Artes Plásticas de Cuba
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - ca. 1955
Inaugurating the permanent exhibition of Cuban Art at the new Palácio de Bellas Artes, Havana.
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Guatemala Moderna
Alberto Valdeavellano - 1902
Modern Latin America. Photomontage.
Modernism
A Featured Collection
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Photographs of the Construction of the Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, Buenos Aires
1970
Municipal modernism.
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Teatre del Poble: La música a través del poeta
1937
Autographed program from Republican Teatro del Pueblo.
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L’Emballage Moderne: La Caisse Carton
1935
Modern. Cardboard.
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Bohemia-Moser-Praha
1941
A political tableware catalogue.
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Eight Sample Albums of Decorative Aluminum Foils
Aluminium-Walzwerke Singen G.m.b.H - ca. 1936-1939
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Papeles Pintado Para La Encuadernacion
Luis Lladós Plá - n.d.
Marbled paper sample album.
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Collection of 550+ Taishō and Shōwa Matchbox Labels
ca. 1920-1940
Japanese Art Deco design for matchbox labels, incl. tea rooms, cafés, dance halls, and wartime propaganda.
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Publicité Divers
1939
90+ Examples of Vintage French Deco Graphics
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Acier: Vente Et Services Automatiques
1960
The future is vending machines.
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Willem Sandberg. Three Stedelijk Museum Exhibition Catalogues, 1935-1941.
Ephemera and Oddities
A few more bits of fun.
Sol Lewitt.
Pride in Kitchen and Bathroom: A Sure Sign of Excellent Housekeeping.
An essay on the Arbutus Uva Ursi and Pyrola Umbellata ….
A doctoral dissertation describing the effects of Bear-berry on gonorrhea patients.
Pedrito Contreras y Juan del Campo.
Peronist propaganda illustrated by humorist Pedro Segui.
Nosotros: [Revista Mensual Anarquista].
Valencian anarchist serial associated with the Teatro del Pueblo movement.
A Fable.
Satirical antiwar fable illus. by the pacifist Southall.
On the Question of Homosexuals and the Party.
Marxist Leninist repudiation of homosexuality documents the mixed history of communism and LGBTQ rights.
1968: An Opera (in English) by J. Jordan.
Souvenir program for drag opera about Warhol-Solanus affair.
Scream. No. 1.
Gay rights at Buffalo State University, otherwise unrecorded.
Processed World: Special Sex Issue..
Post-situationist magazine for the radical office worker.
Sun Annual.
International nudist serial.
Minus 8.
Asia-Pacific Alternative Press Syndicate; coverage of Miss Universe in Hong Kong, student protests, etc.
Modeling Soap Sculptures in White Soap.
Ceramicist Margaret Postgate's first career as the soap sculpture queen.
Art: The Independent Review. No. 1 (Dec. 1987) and No. 2 (Mar. 1988).
Artists deliver straight-talk about conditions and political realities of the artworld in apartheid-era South Africa.
Album of late 19th Century Albumen or Gelatin-Silver Prints of Gubbio and Perugia.
Late-19th-century Italian album combining amateur and professional photography.
Recueil des instruments de chirurgie orthopédie et mobiliers.
Instruments of amputation followed logically by prosthetics.
The Victim Did It.
Sue Williams exhibition poster.
Books from the estate of Mark Tobey.
Otherwise unrecorded sales list of abstract artist Mark Tobey's library.
File Megazine Vol. 5, No. 4 (1983).
Mondo Cane Kama Sutra Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog
STUBBS—U.T.C.: STAR WARS?.
CND protests corporate sponsorship at the Tate Gallery.
Album Recuerdo de la Alhambra.
Orientalism at the Alhambra. Vintage albumen prints.
Çayir Yapraklari (Leaves of Grass).
Avant-garde typography and experimental book design in the first Turkish translation of Walt Whitman.