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Various Artists

Poetry Bundle

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Conceptual Art Bundle

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Film Bundle

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East Village Bundle

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Sound Bundle

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Literary Bundle

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Various Artists

Something Else Press Bundle

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Mary Ellen Solt

The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt

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Jimmy DeSana

Jimmy DeSana Bundle

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Martin Wong

Martin Wong Bundle

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Greer Lankton

Sketchbook, September 1977

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David Wojnarowicz

Dear Jean Pierre

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Pippa Garner

Better Living Catalog

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Live Audio Essays

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Trinh T. Minh-ha

The Twofold Commitment

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Mel Chin and Helen Nagge

Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place

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Tony Conrad

Writings

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Various Artists

A Something Else Reader

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Steffani Jemison

A Rock, A River, A Street

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Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel

Identity Pitches

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DeForrest Brown, Jr.

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

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Constance DeJong

Reader

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Mary Heilmann

The All Night Movie

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William Wegman

Writing by Artist

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Various Artists

Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture

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Various Artists

Top Stories

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Constance DeJong

Modern Love

A facsimile edition of Constance DeJong’s long out-of-print 1977 novel.

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Michael Asher

Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979

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Godzilla: Asian American Art Network

From Basement to Godzilla

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Aram Saroyan

TOP

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Dara Birnbaum

Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)

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Dara Birnbaum

Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) (Signed Limited Edition)

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Dan Graham

Theatre

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Renée Green

Camino Road

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Cornelius Cardew

Stockhausen Serves Imperialism

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Yvonne Rainer

Work 1961-73

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Trevor Paglen

From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist

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Fia Backström

COOP a-script

COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backström, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders.

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Rick Myers

A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet

An artist book detailing Myers’ colorful attempt to fulfill a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

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David Lamelas

Publication

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Philip Corner

Popular Entertainments

A collection of musical works and a striking visual and poetic work unto itself, with Corner’s restless linguistic and graphical invention on full display.

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Claes Oldenburg

Injun & Other Histories (1960)

A collection of early writings by Oldenburg, with two illustrations.

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Various Artists

Newspaper

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Godzilla: Asian American Art Network

Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001

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Flora Yin-Wong

Liturgy

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N. H. Pritchard

The Matrix Poems: 1960-1970

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Women Artists in Revolution

A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution

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Various Artists

Black Art Notes

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Michael Snow

Cover to Cover

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Various Artists

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979

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Martine Syms

Shame Space

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Alexandro Segade

The Context

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Various Artists

Womens Work

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David Wojnarowicz

In the Shadow of Forward Motion

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Edit DeAk and Walter Robinson

Art-Rite

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Sol LeWitt

Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour

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Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

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Various Artists

Just Another Asshole #6

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Carolee Schneemann

Uncollected Texts

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Various Artists

Broken Music

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The Guerrilla Art Action Group

Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y.

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Sarah Crowner

Patterns

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Lucas Blalock

A Grocer’s Orgy

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C. Spencer Yeh

The RCA Mark II

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Art Workers Don’t Kiss Ass

A button featuring our update to one of the Art Workers’ Coalition protest slogans, “Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass.”

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Title TK

Title TK

An eponymous collection featuring ten performance transcripts from the conceptual band, Title TK, whose members Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, and Alan Licht engage in unscripted conversations about music, the music industry, and popular culture.

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Nora Khan and Steven Warwick

Fear Indexing The X-Files

A book that examines the cultural and political portrayal of fear, and its overlap with the rise of the internet, on the popular 90s television show The X-Files.

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Various Artists

Postcards

An ongoing series of postcards created by artists to address the political and social concerns of our times.

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Tuli Kupferberg

YEAH

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UJ3RK5

UJ3RK5: Live From The Commodore Ballroom

Live from the Commodore Ballroom captures a legendary 1980 performance by UJ3RK5, a band including artists Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace among others.

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Tuli Kupferberg

Kill for Peace

A two-sided poster celebrating Tuli Kupferberg’s “Kill for Peace,” which was the theme for the last issue of his magazine, YEAH, and the title of a song he later performed with his band, The Fugs.

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Douglas Huebler

Variable Piece 4: Secrets

Variable Piece 4: Secrets is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler’s classic artist book from 1978. It collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum.

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Siri Aurdal and Eline Mugaas

Siri Aurdal by Eline Mugaas

An artist book featuring Eline Mugaas collaging together decades of drawings, documentation, collages, and ephemera by Siri Aurdal.

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Lee Lozano

Notebooks 1967-70

A compilation of Lozano’s notebooks from 1967-1970, with selections ranging from her seminal “Language Pieces” to her studies for paintings.

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Dan Graham and The Static

Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London

A cassette featuring two live performances from 1979, Dan Graham performing his seminal Performer/Audience/Mirror and a 40 minute concert by The Static.

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C. Spencer Yeh

Solo Voice I – X

The first LP by C Spencer Yeh devoted entirely to the voice.

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Max Neuhaus

Program Notes

A facsimile edition of Max Neuhaus’s 1974 pamphlet that presents aphoristic statements and thoughts from the artist on space and sound.

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Various Artists

Fantastic Architecture

Fantastic Architecture is a reprint of Something Else Press’ 1970 Fantastic Architecture edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell.

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George Maciunas

Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and Other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial, and Tactile Art Forms

A facsimile edition of Maciunas’ oversized poster charting the development of Fluxus. The poster is house in a sleeve with two essays by Mats B. on Fluxus (one in English and one in Swedish).

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Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth

Canciones de Cadaques

A facsimile edition of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth’s double 45 record from 1976 that features the two artists alternately performing on vocals and guitar, with assistance from a barking dog named Chispas Luis.

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Darren Bader

77 and/or 58 and/with 19

77 and/or 58 and/with 19 is a collection of texts for 77 artworks by Darren Bader.

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Aram Saroyan

Complete Minimal Poems

The second edition of this celebrated collection, which gathers Aram Saroyan’s groundbreaking Concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s in a single volume.

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Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen

ALBUM

A compilation of the first ten issues of the Scandinavian zine ALBUM, which is comprised of photographic illustrations, advertisements, and other ubiquitous found media images.

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George Kuchar

The George Kuchar Reader

An expansive anthology of the writings that underscored George Kuchar’s work and life, featuring a wide range of ephemera alongside critical and autobiographical writings by the late underground auteur.

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Alex Hubbard

Removal Technician

A compilation of the two issues of Removal Technician, a zine produced by Alex Hubbard and Dan Mains  in the late nineties.

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Co La

Hegemony of Delete

A record of delicately deformed electronic music by Matthew Papich, aka Co La. 

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Cannibal

Cannibal

The debut record from the trio of artists/musicians Cary Loren, Cameron Jamie, and Dennis Tyfus.

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Carl Andre

Quincy

A facsimile edition of the 1973 artist book, in which Carl Andre commissioned photographs of his hometown Quincy, Massachussets.

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Aram Saroyan

EYEYE Tote Bag

A tote bag emblazoned with one of Aram Saroyan’s classic minimalist poems.

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Genesis P-Orridge

G.P.O. versus G.P-O

A facsimile edition of the artist book chronicling Genesis P-Orridge’s 1975 prosecution for disseminating pornographic material through the British mail.

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Various Artists

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

A facsimile edition of Something Else Press’ definitive survey of the Concrete poetry movement, edited by Emmett Williams and featuring works by 77 writers and artists.

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Florian Hecker

Chimerizations

An artist book documenting Florian Hecker’s work around the phenomenon of Auditory Chimeras, with texts by Reza Negarestani, Stefan Helmreich, and Catherine Wood.

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Guerilla Art Action Group

The Definitive/ist Manifesto

A poster of the Guerilla Art Action Group’s Definitive/ist Manifesto from 1981.

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Elad Lassry

On Onions

Elad Lassry’s first artist book interweaves a photographic study of onions with a commissioned text by Angie Keefer discussing their effect on human tear ducts and more.

 

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Sarah Crowner

Format

Sarah Crowner’s first widely distributed artist book is a roving collage of material addressing the artist’s concerns with the historical overlap of art, writing, fashion, and design.

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Lutz Bacher

Do you love me?

An artist book obliquely surveying the artist’s work and herself from the 70s to the present, via a series of personal interviews conducted by Bacher on herself with the curators, assistants, and friends she has worked with throughout the years.

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Rhys Chatham

Rêve Parisien

An LP of four trumpet compositions by legendary composer Rhys Chatham, originally performed at a Jacob Kassay exhibition in Paris in 2010.

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Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters Magazine

A compilation of the magazine collaboratively produced by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw from 1976-1979.

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Various Artists

MIRROR | ME

A zine developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by writer Brandon Stosuy and artist Kai Althoff at Dispatch Bureau in 2009.

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Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, John Miller

XXX Macarena

The first and last record by this art/music supergroup comprised of Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller.

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Various Artists

Avalanche (Trade Edition)

A facsimile edition of the full thirteen issues (1970-76) of the seminal magazine edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar.

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Dan Graham

Rock/Music Writings

The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential writings on Rock and Roll, with thirteen essays spanning from the late 1960s to the late 1980s.

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DISBAND

DISBAND

Long-lost live recordings of this loose group of feminist performers—Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson—from New York’s new/no wave heyday.

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Allan Kaprow

How to Make a Happening

The first widely available edition of Kaprow’s How to Make a Happening, recorded in 1965 and originally issued as an LP the following year.

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Aram Saroyan

Coffee Coffee

Infamous artist book by one of the 1960s’ most controversial poets. Aram Saroyan’s Coffee Coffee was originally published as a mimeographed edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer on their 0 To 9 press in 1967.

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Allan Kaprow

Some Recent Happenings

A general introduction to Happenings and a dispatch on the forms they were taking at a key point in their development.

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Allan Kaprow

Untitled Essay and Other Works

Three scenarios for Happenings and a key early statement, which originally accompanied the first published Happening in 1958.

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Dieter Roth

A Look into the blue tide, part 2

“A look into” the vast, multi-part work that developed out of a diary kept during Roth’s mid-60s sojourn in the United States.

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George Brecht

Chance-Imagery

The influential essay by Brecht, which frames examinations of the use of chance methods in Dada, Surrealism, Pollock, and Cage in a discussion of parallel historical developments in the sciences and elsewhere.

 

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Luigi Russolo

The Art of Noise

The 1913 Futurist manifesto in a translation by Robert Filliou.

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Robert Filliou

A Filliou Sampler

A collection of poems, plays, and performance works by the itinerant French Fluxus artist.

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Bengt af Klintberg

The Cursive Scandinavian Salve

A collection of event scores and scenarios by Klintberg, a Swedish folklorist who was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus.

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Dick Higgins

A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One

The first section of this major work by Higgins, a sprawling prose poem meant to be read aloud.

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John Cage

Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (1967)

A roving poem/essay also conceived as a “piece” for the printing press as instrument.

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Wolf Vostell

Berlin and Phenomena

Two large-scale performance works from the mid-60s, as chronicled by Vostell himself.

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Various Artists

A Zaj Sampler

A survey of works by the Zaj group, with contributions from Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, José Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortés, and others.

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Al Hansen

Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields

The full poem as recited by Hansen in a legendary 1958 performance in New York, at the intersection of the “backwash from the San Francisco Poetry Revolution” and the dawn of Happenings.

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Alison Knowles

By Alison Knowles

An overview of Knowles’ seminal early performance/event pieces (1961-65).

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Jackson Mac Low

The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois

A pair of structurally identical plays, each composed through the use of chance operations within a highly restricted lexicon.

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Jerome Rothenberg

Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events

A collection of event scores and descriptions adapted from a range of ethnographic sources, Ritual also implicitly functions as an examination of the contemporary Happenings scene in an expanded historical and anthropological context.

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Emmett Williams

The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems

A short but potent collection of poems by Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series.

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David Antin

Autobiography

A prototypical work by the pioneering poet and critic; one of his very first publications.

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Various Artists

Manifestos

The de facto centerpiece of the Great Bear series, an expanded “double-pamphlet” with contributions from a range of key artists and poets of the period.

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Various Artists

Great Bear Pamphlet Series

A limited edition collection of Primary Information’s facsimile edition of Something Else Press Great Bear pamphlet series.

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Various Artists

REALLIFE Magazine

A selection of writings and artists’ projects from REAL LIFE magazine, originally edited by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan.

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