48 - 556 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
79 228 Fluxus Zero etc Heliczer P 
- Glassine frontwrapper torn in outer edge (±3 cm.); glassine covers sl. scratched. Otherwise fine.
= SIGNED by P. HELICZER in ballpoint on yellow frontwrapper. Rare publication from the pioneering avant-garde press run by Heliczer and Angus MacLise.
79 229 Fluxus Zero etc Henderikse J Wiehager R and Melissen A 
= WITH a mounted mixed media work (shredded dollar bill within pencil border) by the artist on htitle, SIGNED in pencil.
AND 3 others on the same: A. MELISSEN, Works on paper 1957 (Eindh., 2013, ills., orig. boards, obl. 8vo. SIGNED by the artist, "2013" and "H/2" in ballpoint on first free endpaper); IDEM, Jan Henderikse Kaleidoscopia (ibid., 2013, col. ills., orig. boards, obl. 8vo) and IDEM and R. WIEHAGER, Jan Henderikse. Assemblages, Installations, Ready-Mades (Brugge, 2008, (col.) ills., orig. boards. Printed in 300 copies. SIGNED by the artist in pencil on title-p.).
79/230 Fluxus Zero etc Internationaal Instituut voor herscholing van Kunstenaars 
- Some flattened folds; sm. tears in outer blank margins; lacking some sm. portions from the right blank margin.
= Curious satirical pamphlet, advertising art seminars teached by Reinier Lucassen ("Cursus pop-art (bijcursus "Het naakt in het landschap")", Jan Dibbets ("Cursus "hard-edge" (bijcursus "Nieuwe installaties")" and Ger van Elk ("Cursus plestik en polyester sculptuur nieuwe stijl (bijcursus "Doctrine van het nieuwe zien")". Some quotations: "(...) Weet u het ook niet meer? Vrienden, verzamelaars kijken u niet langer aan? Normaal schilderen of boetseren bestaat niet meer? Moet nu ieder integer kunstenaars [sic] de hand aan zichzelf slaan...? NEEN ! ! ! Wij wijzen u een nieuwe weg ! ! ! Ook u kunt weer meetellen! Na onze cursus gaan alle deuren weer voor u open. (...) Hebt u nog een ruimte vrij van 2x2 meter; ... teken dan Nu in op onze speciale cursus "Hoe word ik een hippe galarie[sic]-houder?" (...) Voor een snelle weg naar de contraprestatie, schrijf dan eens naar ons zusterinstituut "Fameuse Artists School". (...)".
ADDED: "Gans Zijn aarde is van Zijn heerlijkheid vol". (Amst.), galerie Espace, n.d. (1967), invitation leaflet, 8,1x30 cm., printed on light-green paper, recto only.
- Vertical middle-fold; some vague creases.
= Invitation to "Een kersttentoonstelling (...) voor U ingericht door Dibbets, Ger van Elk en Lucassen allen vast verbonden als leraren aan het I.I.v.H.v.K. (...)". Both (very) rare.
79 231 Fluxus Zero etc Kentridge W 
- Paper ticket loosening.
= With an original signed col. serigraph by W. KENTRIDGE loosely inserted (19,5x11,5 cm.).
79/232 Fluxus Zero etc Kunstinformatie No 1 41 
= The complete set of exhibition catalogues and monographic bulletins by the avant-garde art center '"Kunstcentrum Badhuis" in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, focusing on conceptual and concrete art, in particular the Zero (Nul) Group. The initiator (and editor of these bulletins) was Antoinette Hilgemann-Stigter, with Ewerdt Hilgemann and Jan Hoekstra (the addressee). The first 10 vols. not published under the name "Kunstinformatie". Also with 3 "Kunstpublikatie" vols. and 2 duplicates.
79/233 Fluxus Zero etc Manifest gegen nichts für die Internationale Ausstellung von nichts Manifesto contra niente per l'esposizione Internazionale di niente Manifeste contre rien pour l'expos
- All outer edges (4 cm.) folded.
= Exhibition organized by Carl Laszlo, Rolf Fenkart, Bazon Brock, Herbert Schuldt, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. Very rare.
79/234 Fluxus Zero etc Manifest tegen niets Ter gelegenheid van de internationale tentoonstelling van niets in de eerste galerie ter wereld voor de laatste kunst Einde 
79/234 Fluxus Zero etc Manifest tegen niets Ter gelegenheid van de internationale tentoonstelling van niets in de eerste galerie ter wereld voor de laatste kunst Einde 
- Yellowed/ browned; both w. sm. tear in lower blank margin.
= The pamphlets are letterpress signed by i.a. Armando, Onorio, C. Laszlo, P. Manzoni, Schoonhoven and A. Köpcke.
"Bekendmaking". Pamplet on red paper, Arnhem, Hollandse Informele Groep, n.d. (±1960), recto only, 25x16cm.
= Letterpress signed by Armando, Kees van Bohemen, Henderikse, Henk Peeters and J.J. Schoonhoven.
AND with a gold coloured matchbook, 4,8x3,8 cm., w, "Armando. Henderikse, Henk Peeters. Schoonhoven" on upper cover (closed w. a staple).
79 235 Fluxus Zero etc Manzoni P 
= In May 1961 Piero Manzoni produced a work of art consisting of 90 tin cans filled with his own excrement. Facsimile issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversay of the famous art work Merda d'artista by Manzoni.
79 236 Fluxus Zero etc Marroquin R 
- Two sm. tears at spine-ends. Otherwise fine. = Rare Fluxus inspired artist book.
79 237 Fluxus Zero etc Martin J H Valentyn H van den and Visser M 
= Contains facsimile reprint of Zero 1, 2 and 3.
AND 5 others on the same, i.a. D. PÖRSCHEMANN and M. SCHRAVEMAKER (ed.), Zero (Amst. etc., 2015, num. ills., orig. perforated wr. w. red translucent plastic dustwr., 4to); C. HUIZING and T. VISSER (ed.), nul = o. De nederlandse nul-groep in internationale context (Schiedam, 2011, ills., orig. wr., 4to) and B. TIL (ed.), Zero. Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/ 60er Jahre (Düsseldorf, 2006, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to).
79 238 Fluxus Zero etc Mekas J and Maciunas G 
79 238 Fluxus Zero etc Mekas J and Maciunas G 
- Lacks upper pin in hinge.
= Published the same year as Mekas' documentary "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania," about his return trip to the village where he was born. Very rare Fluxus publication. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VIII.
79/239 Fluxus Zero etc Modifications Baj Jorn Spoerri Text F de Vree 
= Published on the occasion of the exhibitions Modifications Baj - Jorn - Spoerri at the Ronny van de Velde gallery in Antwerp. The vols. on Baj and Spoerri SIGNED by the artist.
79 240 Fluxus Zero etc Morellet F 
- Backstrip sl. sunned.
= Orig. wr. (titled in pencil by the artist on front- and backwr.). The first plate shows a pattern of parallel black lines; on every next plate the same, but (sl.) rotated pattern of lines is added, thus more and more filling the page. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.
AND 2 others on/ by the same, both exhibition catalogues w. (col.) serigraphs by F. MORELLET.
79/241 Fluxus Zero etc Motion in Vision/ Vision in Motion Ed M Callewaert 
- Aluminum leaf rubbed. Wrapper sl. ruststained around staples; backwrapper loose.
= Catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition at the Hessenhuis Antwerpen, March 21 - May 3, 1959 with contributions by the participating artists: Breer, Bury, Klein, Mack, Mari, Munari, Mecker, Rot, Soto, Spoerri, Tinguely, Van Hoeydonck. Contributions to the catalogue by Emmet Williams, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Pol Bury, Dieter Roth, Jean Tinguely, Paul Van Hoeydonck and Heinz Mack. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
79 242 Fluxus Zero etc Munari B 
79/243 Fluxus Zero etc Nota Studentische Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst und Dichtung No 1 4 Ed G von Graevenitz and J Morschel 
- Owner's entry on title of vols. 2 and 3. Backstrips sl. rubbed. Otherwise very fine.
= A very rare complete run of this scarce German avant-garde journal with contributions by Bazon Brock, Peter Hamm, Ferdinand Kriwet, Gisela Neumann, Elisabeth Borchers, Franz Mon, Raoul Hausmann, Georges Schéhadé, Bernard Schultze, Alberto Burri, Claus Bremer, Bernard Buffet, John Cage, Jean Bazaine, Alfred Jarry, Heinz Mack, Dieter Roth, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Victor Vasarely, Otto Piene, the Noigandres Group and others. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
79/244 Fluxus Zero etc Nova tendencija 3 Tendencije/ Tendencies 4 and 5 Ed B Bek 
- Sm. rubbed spot on frontwrapper of 3rd vol.; vol. 5 contents loose.
= Three catalogues of the significant exhibition series Nova Tendencija (New Tendency). It developed into a dynamic platform dedicated to visual research of art and new (computer) technologies. Five shows in total took place between 1961 and 1973. Nouvelle Tendance/ New Tendency was an art movement founded in Yugoslavia in 1961, but soon became international in scope as part of the broader European post-informal art movement in the 1960s and 70s. Participating artists and artists groups included Bruno Munari, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, François Morellet, Otto Piene, Dieter Roth, Günther Uecker, Henk Peeters, Herman de Vries, Julije Knifer, Picelj, Gruppo Di Ricerca Cibernetica, Equipo 57 and Zero. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
79/245 Fluxus Zero etc Nul = 0 Serie 1 no 1 November 1961 Tijdschrift voor de nieuwe konseptie in de beeldende kunst Ed Armando H Peeters H de Vries 
79/245 Fluxus Zero etc Nul = 0 Serie 1 no 1 November 1961 Tijdschrift voor de nieuwe konseptie in de beeldende kunst Ed Armando H Peeters H de Vries 
- Wrappers sl. worn/ scratched. = Rare first issue of the periodical by the Dutch ZERO group.
Nul = 0. Serie 1, no.2. April 1963. Tijdschrift voor de nieuwe tendenzen in de beeldende kunst. Ed. H. Peeters, H. de Vries. Ibid., idem, 1963, 17-36,(2)p., collage of sm. mounted blue ("Yves Klein blue") square on black leaf, ills., printed in 300 copies, orig. wr. w. ills. of fingerprints of P. MANZONI on frontwr., 4to.
- Wrappers sl. sunned along edges.Otherwise fine.
= Second issue of the periodical by the Dutch ZERO group dedicated to the recently deceased Piero Manzoni and Yves Klein. Rare.
79/246 Fluxus Zero etc Nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig 
= On the European Zero movement with contributions by i.a. Arman, Pol Bury, Lucio Fontana, Piero Dorazio, Henk Peeters, J.J. Schoonhoven, G. Uecker and J. Verheyen.
De nieuwe stijl. Werk van de internationale avant-garde. Vol. 1 and 2. Ibid., De Bezige Bij, n.d. (1965-1966), 2 vols., 180; 206p., photogr. ills. i.a. by P. MECHANICUS, orig. not unif. wr.
79/247 Fluxus Zero etc ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUP PORTRAIT of three members of the Dutch Nul Groep Henk Peeters Jan Schoonhoven and Jan Henderikse with H J Kraaijenbrink 