Dorothea Baer (5 results)

Taschenbuch / geringe Gebrauchsspuren Zustand gut.

Erste Ausgabe. 21 x 21 cm. Erste Auflage, Nicht paginiert. Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Bilderfolge. Minimale Lagerungsspuren, insgesamt noch sehr gut.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. [ca. 1962]. Broadside, approximately 6½ x 5½ inches. Printed in red on green paper. Embossed with seal of Uranian Press in lower margin. Signatures of Dorothea Baer and Richard O. Tyler over rubber stamps of their monograms on verso. Faint toning at bottom edge, else fine. Small Uranian press broadside of the ancient Christian symbol of the fish, in a decorative border, signed in the print by Dorothea Baer Tyler with her "d.b.t." monogram. The caption prints, "ICHTHUS," the Greek word for fish, as an acronym for the Greek words for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." No date is provided for the print, but circa 1962 is likely; that year, "ichthus" was also printed on the cover of the Uranian Press's 1962 portfolio, 9 GNOSTIC TRACTS (there, in Greek letters), in red on green paper. Dorothea Baer Tyler frequently alternated, as she does here between the initials in the print and those in her monogram on the verso, between using "Baer Tyler" and "Baer" alone.Dorothea Baer (1926-2012) cofounded the Uranian Press in 1958 with her husband, Richard Oviet Tyler (1926-1983) shortly after the two moved to New York City from Chicago, where both had attended the School of the Art Institute. By 1960, they had installed four printing presses in the basement of a Lower East Side tenement. Under the Uranian imprint, the Tyler and their friends produced chapbooks, broadsides, and artist's books through the mid-1960s. Later, they would produce photcopied flyers and zines as the Uranian Tract Society and Uranian Phalanstery. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Tyler was a fixture in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and early 1960s, selling the Press's wares from a pushcart in the yard of Judson Memorial Church, a nod to both contemporary Jewish peddlers of the Lower East Side and the chapmen of Elizabethan England. He played an important, if still underappreciated, role in the nascent expanded arts movements of the New York avant garde scene with both the Press and its performance arm, the Uranian Alchemical Players. The Uranian circle expanded into a quasi-religious collective incorporating Jungian and Gnostic ideas of creativity and consciousness, LSD, Western astrology, alchemy, Tibetan Buddhism, and the political thought of Charles Fourier, becoming known officially in 1974 as the Uranian Phalanstery. After the death of Richard in 1983, Baer maintained the Phalanstery until her own death in 2012; it survives today under the care of her protégé, Mehdi Matin. Baer, Dorothy [Tyler] (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Art. Condition: Very Good Plus. Numbered 80/100. [ART]. Richard Oviet Tyler (1926-1983), Dorothea Baer Tyler (1929-2012). "Uranian Press Art Envelope Containing 4 Zines, 2 Exhibition Posters, 1 Sculpture with Broadside, 1 Press Release, and 1 Business Card, including The Schizophrenic Bomb, Stolen Paper Review 3, and Liberty Long Cut." New York: Uranian Press. Printed at the Sign, October 31, 1977. Envelope and much of its contents numbered in ink 80/100 and stamp dated. The envelope was packaged for the October 31, 1977, opening of Tyler's art exhibition "Liberty Long Cut" at Hunter Arts Gallery at Hunter College. Schizophrenic Bomb (12 pp.) and Stolen Paper Review (8 pp.), both also initialed and numbered in ink, are rarer reissues of only 100 copies than the initial releases published in 1959 and 1961 in editions of 300. Both feature off-set images of Tyler's distinctive woodcuts. Liberty Long Cut, a 38 pp. mimeographed zine of Tyler's collage art, is embossed with the press's logo, and stamped in red on the front wrapper; stamped in blue is a 2 pp. piece on the Gnostic Lyceum Temple's theory of incantatory music. One exhibition poster, stamped by Tyler on recto and verso, uses Tyler's letter of dismissal from Lehman College to promote his show at Hunter College. Another Xeroxed or mimeographed exhibition flyer promotes an extension of Tyler's show at Off the Walls. An included standard press release from Hunter Arts Gallery calls Tyler's show "highly ingenious" and Tyler a "most unusual artist." Most interesting and entertaining of the packet's contents is a playful sculpture of a cigar, wrapped in a stamped broadside that warns of the dangers of smoking, that opens into a papier-mache flag, perhaps first developed for the American Bicentennial, which was a preoccupation of Tyler's. A finely printed business card for the Uranian Press rounds out the collection. The 13 x 10-inch envelope, which is 8 oz when full, is itself stamp dated, numbered in ink, and was originally priced $7. All items in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition, though the envelope shows toning, shelf-wear, and has some spotting. See: Printed Matter 95491 B, 108388 B, 95490 B, 108386 C, 108387 C, and the exhibition "The Schizophrenic Bomb: Richard Tyler and the Uranian Press." "Richard and Dorothea Tyler, two artists who met while attending SAIC in 1956, established the Uranian Phalanstery in 1974. The organization has its roots in the late 1950s, when the couple first moved into two adjacent buildings in LES. These buildings housed their press and organization for over 30 years. The Phalanstery itself was influenced by a diverse range of texts, religions, and spiritual practices, specifically the teachings of Fourier, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living communally. The Phalanstery was concerned with confronting the dominant ethos of society, interjecting spiritual aspects into everyday life, and pioneering what is now referred to as 'New Age' ideas. Richard Tyler viewed creativity as 'a mantic procedure of the intuitive function' and was dedicated to merging life with art by building a supportive, nurturing community of like-minded artists. To spread the message of the Phalanstery, Richard Tyler would sell publications as The Uranian Press, along with political trinkets, from a pushcart which he would walk from his basement studio on 326 E. 4th Street to the corner of Judson Church, at Lafayette and E. 4th Streets.".…

Broadside. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 4 broadsides, approximately 20 x 8 1/2 inches, in original printed paper folder, 21 x 8 3/4 inches. Printed on tan paper. Signed and numbered in pencil on front cover of folder by Baer and Kaplan. Front cover of folder embossed with seal of the Uranian Press. Fine. Numbered 298 of 400 copies. The first Uranian Press "Broadside Ballads Folio," inspired by the the blackletter broadside ballad of Elizabethan England, advertised in the 1960 Uranian Press Catalogue One, and sold by Uranian Press founder Richard O. Tyler in the Judson Church Yard in Greenswich Village. The poems are composed by Victor Lorenz Kaplan, a.k.a. Ralph Mucklefoot, type set by young apprentices Michael Martin and Conard Skalbo, and illustrated with woodcuts by Dorothea Baer, wife of Richard Tyler and co-founder of the Uranian Press and the later Uranian Phalanstery. The first three broadsides, "Simple Simon," Of Hodge wrack'd by the New Plaguge & Mucklefoot's Prescription of Deliverance," and "Ralph O' Bellvue," bear 1959 imprints and are presumably the items referred to in the Press's 1959 ELIZABETHAN BALLADS broadside. The fourth broadside, "A Fable for Foxes," and printed folder bear 1960 imprints. Richard Oviet Tyler (1926-1983) established the Uranian Press in 1958 in the basement of a tenement on the Lower East Side where, by 1960, he had installed four printing presses. Under the Uranian imprint, Tyler, his wife, Dorothea Baer Tyler, and friends produced chapbooks, broadsides, and artist's books through the mid-1960s. Tyler was a fixture in Greenwich Village during this period, selling the Press's wares from a pushcart in the yard of Judson Memorial Church, a nod to both contemporary Jewish peddlers of the Lower East Side and the chapmen of Elizabethan England. He played an important, if still underappreciated, role in the nascent expanded arts movements of the New York avant garde scene with both the Press and its performance arm, the Uranian Alchemical Players. The Uranian circle expanded into a quasi-religious collective incorporating Jungian and Gnostic ideas of creativity and consciousness, LSD, Western astrology, alchemy, Tibetan Buddhism, and the political thought of Charles Fourier, becoming known officially in 1974 as the Uranian Phalanstery. OCLC records six copies. Tyler, Dorothea Baer (illustrator).…