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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Marcel Duchamp, 1968
More Duchamp! Because, why not?
Here’s a 30 second video showing all the elements of this piece!
The author, Octavio Paz, was a Mexican poet and was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. This set contains an essay by Paz about Duchamp, a selection of Duchamp’s writing compiled by Paz, several reproductions and a stand up cut-out of Duchamp.
Find other Marcel Duchamp materials in our special collection
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Marcel Duchamp - Deluxe Exhibition Catalog, 1991
This deluxe exhibition catalog was published for the exhibition Marcel Duchamp at Ronny Van de Velde, IJzerenpoortkaai 3 2000 Antwerpen Belgium, September 15 - December 15, 1991.
The deluxe exhibition catalog comes in a reproduction of a chessboard designed by Duchamp in 1937. Inside are several items including: a volume of essays by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz, a portfolio of reproductions of Duchamp’s works, a photograph of Duchamp, a copy of the ordinary edition of the Ronny van de Velde catalog, and an audiocassette of an interview with Duchamp in 1959 and Duchamp reading “The Creative Act”.
The portfolio of reproductions includes: Allégorie de Genre (1943), Door for Gradiva (1937/1968), Moonlight on the Bay at Basswood (1953), Self Portrait in Profile (1958), Etant donnés 1˚ la chute d’ eau, 2˚ le gaz d’éclairage (1946-1966), Where do we go from here? (1961), les anaglyphes géométriques (1912), Cheminée anaglyphe (1968), and The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (unfinished due to his death).
No. 748/850
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Fluxus 1
In a previous post about Fluxus, we highlighted the Fluxus Year Box One. The Fluxus 1 box was published first and the Fluxus Year Box One contains a sampling from previous works, including art pieces from Fluxus 1. Highlighted here are art pieces either unique to Fluxus 1 or not published in the previous post.
Fluxus was a group of international avant-garde artists that formed in Germany in 1962 and was active until the late 1970s… Read more
Excerpts from their manifesto:
Purge the world of bourgeois sickness and intellectual, professional and commercialized culture
Promote living art, an-art and non art reality
Fuse the cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united front & action
When you remove the book from its box, you are delighted to find a book of envelopes, each containing a different art piece. Flipping through each page and searching for the items inside the envelope, gives one a sense of receiving a letter in the mail or opening a gift.
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Left: Lindsay Keating, Assistant to the Arts and Architecture Librarian, University of MN Right: Deborah Boudewyns, Arts and Architecture Librarian, University of MN. I’m Lindsay and I’m the one that updates this tumblr! I created this poster I about this tumblr account! We presented it today at the National Art Libraries Society of North America.
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We are in Fort Worth, TX for the next few days at the ARLIS (Art Librarians Society of North America) conference! We are presenting a poster about Art Libraries on tumblr!
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We are pleased to announce that we will be highlighted in an upcoming article, The Libraries’ Zine Collection: Inspiring Assignments and Art, written by Jon Jeffyres about our zine collection and recent exhibit, Protest Publishing and Art: From the Copy Machine to the Internet. Here’s a little taste:
“The University of Minnesota Libraries houses a unique collection of handmade publications that are sparking scholarly engagement and creative inspiration. Over the past year Arts & Architecture Librarian, Deborah Ultan, partnered with faculty to incorporate the Marshall Weber Culture Wars Zine Collection into multiple classes.The collaboration culminated with the exhibition “Protest Publishing and Art: From the Copy Machine to the Internet”, where highlights from the zine collection were shown with zines and poster art made by students, faculty, and community members.”
The article will be published in the upcoming issue of University of Minnesota’s magazine, “Continuum.”
New Acquisition: Southern Landscapes
Published by 21st century editions, this gorgeous book is a limited edition of 58 copies.
Photographs by Sally Mann
Text by John Stauffer
Edited by John Wood
Edition: 58 copies
11 bound and 3 loose platinum prints 13 x 15 inches
Handcrafted in New England
Currently being cataloged and will shortly be available for perusal from our collection.
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Fluxus Preview Review by George Maciunas, 1963
We have severalFluxusitems in our collection, this scroll is one of the recent additions.
Vertical scroll printed in offset (both recto and verso) on three joined strips of coated stock, rolled as issued. The scroll includes a montage of scores, performance photographs, information on future performances, listing of past and future Fluxus publications, and the definition of the hyper-word “Fluxus”. Contributors include: Eric Anderson, Ben Patterson, La Monte Young, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Daniel Spoerri, J. J. Lambert, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, etc. Editorial committee: Chairman, George Maciunas; Cross section, Nam June Paik, Emmett Williams; U.S. section, La Monte Young [and others], as well as sections representing other countries.
WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: The Bookmaker - Deb Rindl, 2000
WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: EDVARD MUNCH ETCHINGS, 1950
Perhaps this format isn’t quite as weird, this item contains a portfolio, several loose etchings from Munch, in a wrapper and matching box. There is also a separate booklet with contextual information.
Munch is best known for his work “The Scream.” He was a Norwegian artist whose work dealt with the depth of human psychology.
“As early as 1885, Edvard Munch felt the need to develop a bolder and more simplified style of painting, which we have now come to know as ‘expressionism’. He was one of those artists who reacted against naturalism, and led a movement which has since dominated modern art. It took Munch ten years to produce his own expressionist style, which was the formative influence of the German School of 1902, and which later in 1940 influenced American experimental art. Both as a painter and as a graphic artist, Munch searched to express the hitherto unplumbed depths of the human soul.”
-Johan H. Langaard, Tate Britian
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Holzpostkarte - Joseph Bueys , 1974
How would you like to receive this postcard in the mail?
Joseph Bueys was a German artist and prominent figure of the Fluxus movement. Primarily a sculptor and performance artist, he participated in time-based “happenings” and Impermanent installation art. He shared the Fluxus values of pushing at and seeking to eradicate the boundaries of the art world.
Find more Joseph Bueys materials in our special collections!
Pst….you can see an online collection of his works at the moma!
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Flux Paper Events - George Maciunas ©1976, 1998
Another humorous work by Fluxus! The “paper events” include pages that have been wrinkled, torn, stapled, hole punched, perforated, painted on, folded, and two pages stuck together with gum!
Find more Fluxus materials in our rare art book collection!
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COLLECTION HIGHLIGHT: Berghaus jugendstil-album, 1973
This album contains 38 reproductions of art nouveau posters by a variety of artists. Here are a few highlights!
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