Piano Album

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Dick Higgins
Piano Album: Short Piano Pieces, 1962-1984
New York: Printed Editions, 1980
Music scores and instructions for performance
36 p.
28 x 21.5 cm.

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Table of Contents:
i – Sophokles I, page 1
ii – Gesti, page 2
iii – Long Arch, page 4
iv – Suggested by Small Swallows, page 6
v – Clouds, page 8
vi – Six Imitations for Piano and Pianist, page 10
vii – Sparks for Piano, page 11
viii – Touch #1 for Piano, page 14
ix – Sophokles II, page 17
x – Touch #2 for Piano, page 19
xi – Haydn in the Forest, page 20
xii – Litany Piano Pieces, pag 23
xiii – Piano Sonata #1, page 29

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“A beautifully produced collection of graphic,
verbal and notated scores…
With relevance to both music and literature,
Piano’s Album iconoclastic scores belong
in belles lettres and music libraries…” D.H.

http://issuu.com/amir_brito/docs/higgins_piano_album

Exercises

Kurt Johannessen
Exercises
Bergen/Noruega, 2013 (3ª ed.)

offset
84 p.
10 x 10 cm
Texto em inglês
1.500 ex.

Here is a hand book of exercises that hardly anyone has tried. The format is small, which makes it easy to take the book everywhere and practise anywhere when needed. The book has been printed in five editions since the first printed in 1994, and is therefore the absolute best seller.

Um manual de exercícios que poucos tentaram fazer. O pequeno formato facilita levar o livro para qualquer lugar e praticar os exercícios sempre que necessário. O artista doou três livros de exercício por ocasião da exposição realizada em 2013 no Museu de Arte da Pampulha (O livro como performance). Apresentamos alguns dos textos traduzidos:

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http://www.zeth.no/bokutdrag_bilder/exercises.html

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Grapefruit

Yoko Ono
Grapefruit: a book of instructions + drawings
introduction by John Lennon.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2000.
ISBN 9780743201100

“Thirty years ago, in 1962, I did an exhibition of instruction paintings at Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo. A year before, I did a show of instruction paintings at AG Gallery in New York, but that was exhibiting canvases with instructions attached to them. Displaying just the instructions as paintings was going one step further, pushing visual art to its optimum conceptualism; it would open up a whole new horizon for the visual arts. I was totally excited by the idea and its visual possibilities. To make the point that the instructions were not themselves graphic images, I wanted the instructions to be typed.”
(From the book Yoko Ono: Instruction Paintings, 1995)

http://www.a-i-u.net/yokosays.html

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Histórias do não ver

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Cao Guimarães
Ed. do autor, 2001

Histórias do não-ver é um livro composto de imagens, textos e fotografias gerados a partir de um experimento realizado entre 1996 e 1998. Durante esse período, Cao Guimarães pediu a amigos que o sequestrassem. De olhos vendados por todo o percurso e sem nenhuma informação do destino, o artista vive a experiência através de diversas possibilidades outras, que não a visão, de se perceber o mundo e as coisas ao seu redor e as registra através da fotografia “cega”. O projeto parte da “abolição da vontade” para uma submersão no desconhecido, no imprevisível.

“Naquele lugar não havia onde. Eu estava em algum lugar entre o lugar nenhum e o por toda parte. Eu estava presente e as coisas estavam em gerúndio. Tudo estava estando. Eu apenas estava. Tudo indo e vindo e passando. Aquilo não era um lugar, era o rastro de um lugar”

http://www.caoguimaraes.com/livro/historias-do-nao-ver-2/

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French Fries: a new play

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Dennis Bernstein, Warren Lehrer.
French fries : a new play
written by Dennis Bernstein, Warren Lehrer
designed by Warren Lehrer.

Purchase : Ear/Say ; Rochester : Visual Studies Workshop, 1984.
[104] p. : il. color.
20,9 x 27,5 cm.
offset.
700 ex.
ISBN : 0961387106
ISBN : 0898220394

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Esta é uma peça teatral que é encenada nas páginas do próprio livro. As falas de cada personagem são escritas em uma tipografia e uma cor diferentes. A história acontece em uma lanchonete. A capa foi impressa no mesmo material usado para as capas de cardápios.

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This edition is limited to 700 copies signed and numbered by the authors. The book is smythe sewn and encased in a die-cut hardbound wrap around cover. All photo-typesetting was set by Warren Lehrer on a berhold acs 3200 compugraphic 7500 and an itek quadritek 1200. Esther rothschild is set in Century Schoolbook Bold Italic. Carmen is set in Univers 75 (reversed). Flash is set in Clarendon Bold (bounce). Walley Dugan is set in Stymie Light and Bold. Jack Murphy is set in Helvetica Bold Condensed. Jo Jo is set in Bembo Roman. Louise Giallanza is set in Kabel Medium. The stage directions are set in Univers 55. News updates are set in Univers 67. The introduction, menu and colophon are set in Century Schoolbook Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Other typefaces used throughout the book: Bodoni Bold Italic, Windsor Elongated, Optima Roman, Cooper Black Italic, Helvetica Condensed Light, Futura Bold, Graphique Overlapped, Craw Clarendon, Umbra Caps, Jim Crow Caps, and Orplid.

http://artistsbooksonline.org/

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Great Bear. The Complete Set

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Originalmente publicado entre 1965 e 1967, os panfletos da coleção Great Bear foram uma espécie de “quem é quem” da vanguarda nos anos sessenta: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot e Emmett Williams são apenas alguns dos artistas da coleção, publicada pela Something Else Press. Todos os panfletos são grampeados e possuem 16 páginas (exceto o Manifesto, que tem 32 páginas). Enquanto todos compartilham o mesmo formato, cada título da série foi impresso em cores e tipos de papel diferentes. Fiel aos originais, cada panfleto da reedição publicada pela Primary Information foi impresso em vários tipos e cores de papel e a edição completa vem em uma caixa de madeira feita à mão. O nome da editora está em relevo seco em cada exemplar.

Originally published between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear contributors were a who’s who of the sixties avant-garde: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams, were just but a few of the artists/authors in the series. All of the pamphlets were staple-bound and 16 pages in length (except for the Manifesto issue, which was 32 pages). While they shared the same format,each title in the series was printed on varying colors and types of paper. True to the originals, each pamphlet will be printed on various types and colors of paper and the complete edition will come in a hand-made pine box.

Lista de panfletos

01. By Alison Knowles/Alison Knowles
02. A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One/Dick Higgins
03. Chance-Imagery/George Brecht
04. Injun & Other Histories (1960)/Claes Oldenburg
05. Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields/Al Hansen
06. Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events/Jerome Rothenberg
07. Some Recent Happenings/Allan Kaprow
08. Manifestos/Includes work by Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts and Emmett Williams
09. Berlin and Phenomena/Wolf Vostell
10. The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois/Jackson Mac Low
11. Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)/John Cage
12. The Cursive Scandinavian Salve/ Bengt af Klintberg
13. Autobiography/David Antin
14. Popular Entertainments/Philip Corner
15. A Filliou Sampler/Robert Filliou
16. Untitled Essays and Other Works/Allan Kaprow
17. A Look into the blue tide, part 2/Diter Rot
18. The Art of Noise/Luigi Russolo
19. The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems/Emmett Williams
20. A Zaj Sampler/ Contains work by Jose-Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortes, Javier Martines Cuadrado, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Tomas Marco, and Eugenio de Vicente

http://www.primaryinformation.org/projects/great-bear-pamphlet-series/

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Amor e Felicidade no Casamento

Amor e Felicidade no Casamento, 2008

livro de artista em parceria com Yana Parente – Coleção de fascículos “Amor e Felicidade no Casamento”

 

Jonathas de Andrade e Yana Parente, Amor e felicidade no casamento.
[Recife : Ed. dos autores, 2008].
1 luva com 5 cartazes: il. color.
16 x 12 x 1 cm + 2 fotos 9 x 12,7 cm.

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Luva com 5 cartazes (46 x 48 cm) numerados e dobrados em 12 partes (15,5 x 12 cm) cada. Acompanhada de 2 fotografias.
Todos os textos desta obra foram extraídos do livro “Amor e felicidade no casamento” de Fritz Kahn, Boa Leitura Editora S.A., com tradução de Guttorm Hanssen.
Impressão em offset.

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photoinstallation
80 photographs and pages from the book Love and Happiness in Marriage, by Fritz Kahn. Variable dimensions.
Art project, pictures: Jonathas de Andrade
Print design: Yana Parente
Actors: Luciana D’Anunciacao, Cristiano Lenhart
Recife, 2007

For Jonathas de Andrade’s Love and Happiness in Marriage, Luciana D’Anunciacao and Cristiano Lenhart performed the characters who personified ficcioned marriage scenarios.

The project sets out from the hypothesis that the moral structures that underpin middle-class relationships wind across generations that are equally conservative, and that absorb changes of customs only as things to be consumed and talked about.

This understanding of the moral of the in-between emerges from the book Amor e Felicidade no Casamento (Love and Happiness in Marriage), (by author Fritz Kahn, 1960) and triggers situations engendered by two characters in family homes which were emerging when the book appeared.

Love and Happiness in Wedlock is the name of a book on morals and good manners which teaches men and women about life and relationships by the German psychiatrist Fritz Kahn and was in commercial circulation during the 1960s. Today, its texts have been interwoven with photographs of the artist Jonathas de Andrade in a graphic project by the designer Yana Parente.

The collection is composed of five unfoldable fascicles fitting into a proper box. Each fascicle comes in an envelope, and the fifth fascicle comes with two pictures of the family and house, which is the scenario for this work and its characters.

Self-published
16 x 12 cm, 5 fascicles, colour offset, 2008
Edition of 2,000
$10 (USD) each fascicle or $40 (USD) for complete set

Available from the artists: jonathas [at] yahoo.com; yana.parente [at] gmail.com

The project Love and Happiness in Marriage was given shape in an individual study by the artist Jonathas de Andrade, which includes videos, slides, and a series of photographs aged with mould and which was exhibited at the Instituto Itaú Cultural (São Paulo), at Furnas Cultural (Rio de Janiero), and at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Pernambuco), all in Brazil.

Yana Parente has developed several special projects in graphic design and is currently a finalist in Premio Shell de Jornalismo in the “graphic creation in mewspaper design” category

 (via http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/books/?p=131)