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 student designs.
…de Pe a Pa
Celina Uralde - 1962
Experimental poetry by Celina Uralde with cover illus. and prologue by Gyula Kosice.
BAILARINA Y COUPLETISTA / DANZAS SUGESTIVAS
La Habanerita - [1912]
A dancer's trade card, mailed to a talent agency.
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.
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?
Rauschenberg: Selections
Robert Rauschenberg - [1968]
Experimental "collage" catalogue essay in an early and uncommon catalogue.
A ruptura da fotografia nos anos 50
José Filho Oiticica - 1983
España 1936-1965
[Horna, Kati] Comite de Ayuda al Pueblo Español - 1964
Solidarity publication illus. by the Hungarian-Mexican photographer with early reproductions of her Guerra Civil images.
El Movimento Estridentista
Germán List Arzubide - [1927]
Reading copy of the first edition.
OPTICA
Xavier and Carolyna Meade - 1978
Vibrant print portfolio with mystical descriptions of Mexico at the end of the Dirty War.
Album del Primer Gran Baile Debutantes de la Ciudad de México
1965
Portrait album celebrating the first debutante ball in Mexico City.
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.
Guía de Exposiciones: Mayo; Junio; and Julio. México 68: Programa cultural de la XIX Olimpiada
Comité Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada - 1968
Three gallery guides issued by the '68 Olympic Committee's Cultural Program.
In the route of friendship. México 68: Programa cultural de la XIX Olimpiada
Comité Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada - 1968
Three Frente Popular Handbills: Gratitud a Méjico; Homenaje a Mexico; and Salud Hermano Méjico
Los Amigos de Méjico, et al. - ca. 1936-1939
Spanish gratitude for Mexican assistance during the Spanish Civil War.
Saluda a Méjico
(CNT-AIT) - ca. 1936-1939
Propaganda celebrating Mexican support of Republican Spain.
Album Surrealista de Ovarina Merck
Delia Ingenieros - 1938-1941
Surrealist scrapbook by the Argentinian microbiologist, magician, and Borges associate, Delia Ingenieros.
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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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.
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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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Two Manuscript Documents Certifying the Chargeability of “Native Indian” Women
[New Bedford Overseers of the Poor] - 1820
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[Album Amicorum]
Alma Elias - 1895-1916
German-Jewish manuscript friendship album.
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La voz infinita and La cenicienta del jazz
Letizia Repetto Baeza - 1928; 1930
Two rare novels by the Chilean journalist, signed by the author.
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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 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
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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).
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Mexico
Comité Organizador de la Participación en la Exposición Ibero-Americana de Sevilla - 1929
Large format propaganda album, presenting glories of post-revolutionary Mexico.
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Cuauhtemoc: Serie Biografia, No. 1
[Gustavo Valcárcel and Adolfo Mexiac (Illustrator)] - 1956
Condensed biography by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista with illustrations by Adolfo Mexiac.
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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.
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(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.
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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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Papeles Pintado Para La Encuadernacion
Luis Lladós Plá - n.d.
Marbled paper sample album.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.