GRAPH BOOKS OFFERS PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
WE ARE FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
Gallery
New Acquisitions
Templo Myrurgiano: Erigido en la Argentina por Falcon & Cia. en el año 1939
Presentation album promoting modernized offices in the iconic Palacio Estrugamou block in Buenos Aires.
Ultramar. Año I, No. 11959
First issue of the Chilean avantgarde publication, unrecorded in OCLC.
Art: The Independent Review. No. 1 (Dec. 1987) and No. 2 (Mar. 1988)1987-1988
Artists deliver straight-talk about conditions and political realities of the artworld in apartheid-era South Africa.
Contrapropuesta. Nos. 4-5 (all published?)1981-1982
Architectural journal by students at Chile's Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica, no locations recorded in OCLC.
Collection of 31 photographs of Chilean modern dance pioneer Andrée Haasca. 1930-1940
Vintage photos of the founder of Chile's first modern dance program.
Proceedings of the First International Congress of African Culture1962
Full transcripts and plates of delegates' presentations on African arts, music and dance; incl. Felix Idubor, Vincent Kofi, and Alfred Barr.
Collection of 550+ Taishō and Shōwa Matchbox Labelsca. 1920-1940
Japanese Art Deco design for matchbox labels, incl. tea rooms, cafés, dance halls, and wartime propaganda.
Progressive Canton1921
English guide to the modernizing of Canton's architecture and infrastructure by Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary Republic of China.
Afgrijs. No. 1 (March 1984) through No. 7 [1986?] (all published)
Experimental serial by anarchist art press.
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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The Victim Did It
1993
Sue Williams exhibition poster.
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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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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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Celebrating the Inauguration of the Afro-Uruguayan journal “Nuestra Raza”
1933
Nuestra Raza's editorial board joins other Uruguayan intellectuals to toast the black culture periodical. Together with first issue.
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Guantánamo, Base Naval Yanqui de Crímenes y Provocaciones
1970
Anti-American propaganda.
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Plataforma Revolucionaria: Discursos
1958
Surprisingly scarce publication with illus. by a principal artist of the Taller Gráfica Popular.
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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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Sala Permanente de Artes Plásticas de Cuba
ca. 1955
Inaugurating the permanent exhibition of Cuban Art at the new Palácio de Bellas Artes, Havana.
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Conferencia Popular por la Paz de América
1936
Argentinian Pan-Americanism, lead by feminist physician Alicia Moreau de Justo.
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Guatemala Moderna
1902
Modern Latin America. Photomontage.
Ephemera and Oddities
A few more bits of fun.
Album of late 19th Century Albumen or Gelatin-Silver Prints of Gubbio and Perugia.
Somewhat mysterious document of late-19th-century Italy combining amateur and professional photography.
Recueil des instruments de chirurgie orthopédie et mobiliers.
Instruments of amputation followed logically by prosthetics.
Books from the estate of Mark Tobey.
Otherwise unrecorded sales list of abstract artist Mark Tobey's library.
Dolores—The Woman of Tragedy!.
Sculptor Jacob Epstein's "The High Priestess of Beauty."
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.