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
18th century
Prize-winning student designs.
…de Pe a Pa
Celina Uralde - 1962
Experimental poetry by Celina Uralde with cover illus. and prologue by Gyula Kosice.
Two Manuscript Documents Certifying the Chargeability of “Native Indian” Women
[New Bedford Overseers of the Poor] - 1820
Poem 1 and Poem 2. From Penny Poems, No. 31
Claes Oldenburg - 1959
The earliest Oldenburg publication?
Primer Bienal de la Habana ‘84: Catalogo General
Museo Nacional de Cuba and Centro Wifredo Lam - 1984
Scarce [association] copy of the first Cuban contemporary art biennial catalogue. Signed? by Mexican artist Fanny Rabel.
In the route of friendship. México 68: Programa cultural de la XIX Olimpiada
Comité Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada - 1968
FUK: The Underground Dating-Service.
Underground Enterprises - ca. 1970
Unrecorded countercultural matchmaking service.
Radioactivo: Poderoso Fertilizador y Estimulante Para La Vegetación
Banco del Radium [Banque du Radium, Paris]. - [1915]
Unrecorded promotional booklet for radium soil enrichment from the Parisian Banque du Radium, associated with Marie Curie's lab.
Sous la jupe: illustré
G. Maindouce - ca. 1933-1935
Detourned fetish photography from Studio Biederer and Diana-Slip (Brassaï, Kertesz, and Schall, et al.).
Cultura Física y Sexual. All Published
Ángel Martín de Lucenay - 1935-1936
Rare Spanish Republican-era pulp sexuality series with images by Foto Mayo (Hermanos Mayo).
How We are Defending the Health of Our Soldiers and Sailors: 309 Houses of Shame Closed
State Law Enforcement and Protective League - 1918
Otherwise unrecorded illus. antiprostitution pamphlet, California.
Kissing: the art of osculation, curiously, historically, humorously, and poetically considered
George Manson - 1888
Uncommon 19th-century cover illustration of two men kissing.
30 Years of Amalgamated Cooperative Housing, 1927-1957
Amalgamated Housing Corporation - 1958
Caracas: Ciudad Moderna
[1955?]
Photobook of military-led modernism.
An Investigation of the Needs and the Design of an Orbiting Space Station with Growth Capabilities
John R. Dossey and Guillermo Trotti - 1977
Scalable space colony study with countercultural architectural methodologies.
Quattro Lustri di Attività dell’Impresa Ferrero & Grossi, Roma, MCMXII-MCMXXXII
1932
Substantial presentation album documenting the reurbanization of Rome in the fascist era.
Arquitectura i urbanisme
Associació d'Arquitectes de Catalunya; Sindicat d'Arquitectes de Catalunya - 1931-1937
Near-complete run of a rare Catalonian architectural serial, charting the political and cultural upheaval of the Spanish Second Republic.
Album Surrealista de Ovarina Merck
Delia Ingenieros - 1938-1941
Surrealist scrapbook by the Argentinian microbiologist, magician, and Borges associate, Delia Ingenieros.
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
Women
A Featured Collection
Backlash Times: Feminists Fighting Pornography.
1984
VOW [Voice of Women]: Bulletin of the African National Congress (S.A.) Women’s Section. No. 2.
1973
Reporting on feminist and antiapartheid movements.
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.
65th Commemoration, Paris Commune, at Webster Hall.
1938
Modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey.
Instructor: Life Drawing: Life Composition.
Peggy Bacon - ca. 1930s
[Album Amicorum].
Alma Elias - 1895-1916
German-Jewish manuscript friendship album.
Cabinet Card of Louise Michel.
ca. 1890
Anarchist and revolutionary feminist who led a women's brigade during the Paris Commune.
Presenting tonight the Queen of Pantomime and Statuesque Grace and Beauty, Miss Cora Neilson [...].
[1888]
Broadside featuring actress Cora Neilson as the cross-dressing, cross-ethnic heroine of the colonial fantasy, "French Spy."
Dealers in Patent Rights, Look To Your Interests!.
Lechner & Stump - [1866?]
Rare broadside with striking illustration.
Latin America
A Featured Collection
Apóstrofes: Revista de la Escuela de Periodismo Universidad Católica. Año I, No. 1–No. 3
1982
Unrecorded student movement publication.
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.
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.
Publisher’s Prospectus 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
A ruptura da fotografia nos anos 50
José Filho Oiticica - 1983
U/topistas: Estudio para proyectos contemporaneous
Universidad Sagrado Corazón, Galería de Arte and Michelle Marxuach Galería - 2000
Published in conjunction with PUERTO RICO ‘00 (PARENTESIS EN LA CIUDAD).
Mexico
Comité Organizador de la Participación en la Exposición Ibero-Americana de Sevilla - 1929
Large format propaganda album, presenting glories of post-revolutionary Mexico.
Cuauhtemoc
[Gustavo Valcárcel and Adolfo Mexiac (Illustrator)] - 1956
Condensed biography by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista with illustrations by Adolfo Mexiac.
Cartilla Maya-Español para los monolingües Mayas de Yucatan, Campeche y Quintana Roo
[Angelina Beloff (Illustrator)] - 1946
Maya-Spanish children's primer, illustrated by Beloff and Gabriel Fernández Ledesma.
(Brujería) [La] Historia de la Curación de Antigua de San Pablito Pahuatlan, Pue. 10 Agosto de 1975
ca. 1975-1981
Otomí brujo manuscript on amate paper.
Cine Cubano. Año 1, No. 3 and Año 2, No. 6.
1960; 1962
La mujer uruguaya reclama sus derechos políticos
Paulina Luisi - 1930?
Women's rights conference proceedings with iconic world map of women's suffrage.
Arquitectura y Desarrollo Nacional: XIII Congresso Mundial de la UIA, Mexico
1978
Unrecorded program for UIA architecture congress, Mexico City
La Arquitectura en Venezuela
Comité Ejecutivo del IX Congreso Panamericano de Arquitectos - [1955]
Bold graphics in an otherwise unrecorded promotional booklet.
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.
Modernism
A Featured Collection
Photographs of the Construction of the Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, Buenos Aires.
1970
Municipal modernism.
Teatre del Poble: La música a través del poeta.
1937
Autographed program from Republican Teatro del Pueblo.
Papeles Pintado Para La Encuadernacion.
Luis Lladós Plá - n.d.
Marbled paper sample album.
Graphische Ausstellung veranstalet vom Verein Kölner Buchdrucker ....
1920
Unrecorded book arts exhibition supplement.
Eight Jail and Prison Equipment Catalogues.
Decatur Iron and Steel Co., Roanoke Iron and Bridge Works, Southern Steel Co., Van Dorn, and VANCO - ca. 1965-1975
Modern marketing for the emergent prison-industrial complex.
Publicité Divers.
1939
90+ Examples of Vintage French Deco Graphics
Acier: Vente Et Services Automatiques.
1960
The future is vending machines.
Willem Sandberg. Three Stedelijk Museum Exhibition Catalogues, 1935-1941..
Ephemera and Oddities
A few more bits of fun.
Press Photograph of Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael.
Sensationalist news coverage of a transgender criminal case.
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.
Las Juventudes Libertarias de Artes Gráficas protestan [...].
The FAI's youth cultural commission defends Barcelona's Municipal Band.
Carteleras. Año I, No.1 - Año 1, No.3 (all published?).
Advertising for UGT-CNT controlled theaters in Valencia, unrecorded in OCLC.
Comitè Econòmic d’Espectacles Públics.
A class-conscious film schedule for the CNT/AIT collectivized theaters in Girona.
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.
Woman’s Scrapbook with Manuscript Text and Hand-colored Plates.
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
Dara Birnbaum: Video.
Swedish exhibition poster.
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.