mit press for the institute for architecture and urban studies cambridge ma (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 168pp. + subscription form bound in. Illustrated. Contributors include Fredric Jameson ('Reading Hitchcock'), Arthur C. Danto, Stuart Liebman, Nick Browne (on Carl Theodor Dreyer), Noel Carroll, and Joan Copjec. Soiling primarily to the wrappers and a short, unobtrusive scratch or dent to the front, the contents generally clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. iv, 224pp. + subscription form bound in. Illustrated. This issue devoted to the piece by Steinberg, with a postscript by John W. O'Malley, S.J. Small, unobtrusive pen annotation to the upper wrapper (presumably referring to the distributor, DeBoer), otherwise Very Good with moderate wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 132pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Jean Baudrillard ('The Beaubourg-Effect: Implosion and Deterrence'), Bernhard Leitner (in conversation with Albert Speer), Vivienne Dick (interviewed by Scott MacDonald), J. Hoberman (on Dick), Noel Carroll, and Albert E. Elsen and Krauss, plus an index to issues 17-20. Cut a touch unevenly towards the spine (in production), without much impact, the wrappers somewhat marked/rubbed superficially, but towards Very Good overall. Subscription card loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 112pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Jorge Luis Borges ('Film Reviews from "Sur"'), Joseph Cornell ('Nebula, The Powdered Sugar Princess'), Thomas Lawson (on Cornell), Hubert Damisch (on Delacroix), Serge Guilbaut, Joel Fineman (on 'The Importance of Being Earnest'), Douglas Crimp, and Krauss. Bound-in subscription card removed at the perforation; that aside, pencilled price to the upper wrapper which, along with the initial leaves, is a little creased/ruffled towards the tail edge, the lower wrapper with a mild circular impression, but towards Very Good overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 128pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Maya Deren ('From the Notebook of 1947' and an exchange of letters with Gregory Bateson), Michelson and Catrina Neiman (both on Deren), Sergei Eisenstein ('Letters from Mexico to Maxim Strauch and Ilya Trauberg'), Pierre Boulez and Michel Fano (a conversation), and Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Bound-in subscription card removed at the perforation; that aside, area of soiling/discolouration to the upper wrapper/spine head, the spine slightly toned.

120 pp.; 22.7 x 17.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Essays "On the Eve of the Future: The Reasonable Facsimile and the Philosophical Toy," by Annette Michelson; "Cinematographic Views," by Georges Méliès; "A Picturesque Stroll around Clara-Clara," by Yve-Alain Bois; "The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)," by Georges Didi-Huberman; "Interview with Jonas Mekas," by Scott MacDonald "On First Hearing about Hermeneutics," by Joseph Rykwert. Fair / Poor. Significant water damage and staining of covers. Partial separation of pages 1-6 from spine and full separation of pages 7-14 from spine. Light wave to pages, contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 128pp. + subscription form bound in. Illustrated. Contributors include Leo Steinberg (on Velazquez), Baudelaire (translated by Richard Howard), Yve-Alain Bois (on Robert Ryman), Guy Hocquenghem (interviewed by Douglas Crimp), Stephen Melville, and Krauss. Ineffective horizontal split around the spine, otherwise Very Good, the first page a little thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 108pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Pier Paolo Pasolini ('Observations on the Long Take' and 'What Is Neo-Zhdanovism and What Is Not'), Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi (on Pasolini), Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit (on Pasolini and Sade), Michael Nyman ('Against Intellectual Complexity in Music'), Craig Owens (continued), James H. Kavanaugh (on 'Alien'), Leo Steinberg, Douglas Crimp, and Krauss. Slightly rubbed and marked to the wrappers, the spine text a little smudged (though legible), but Very Good overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 120pp. + subscription form bound in. Illustrated. Contributors include Fredric Jameson ('"In the Destructive Element Immerse": Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and Cultural Revolution'), Hollis Frampton, Yvonne Rainer ('Looking Myself in the Mouth'), Martha Rosler (interviewed by Jane Weinstock), Peter Wollen, Joan Copjec (on Marguerite Duras), Philip Rosen, and Mary Ann Doane. Wrappers slightly marked/rubbed superficially, the fore edge with a mild area of soiling, and the spine with a scratch, but Very Good overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 132pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Robert Morris ('Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation'), Hollis Frampton (interviewed by Scott MacDonald), Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Krauss and Michelson (on Joseph Beuys), James Benning, Joel Fineman, Craig Owens, and Michelson (on Roland Barthes), plus an index to issues 9-12. Small, unobtrusive patch of soiling to the lower wrapper, otherwise Very Good, moderately shelfworn. Subscription card (a little tired) loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 112pp. + subscription form bound in. Illustrated. Contributors include Arthur C. Danto, Joan Copjec, Dana B. Polan (on Roland Barthes), Stephen Melville (on Vito Acconci), Abigail Solomon-Godeau (on Auguste Salzmann), Douglas Crimp (on Richard Serra), and Krauss. Neat pencilled price to the upper wrapper.

127 pp.; 22.8 x 17.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Fall 1984 issue of October, edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Essays include: "Broadness and Diversity of the Ludwig Brigade," by Hans Haacke; "An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture," by Walter Grasskamp; "A Conversation with Hans Haacke," by Yves-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp and Rosalind Krauss; "The Art of Exhibition," by Douglas Crimp; "From Faktura to Factography," by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and "Francis Picabia: From Dada to Pétain," by Yves-Alain Bois. Fair / Good. Significant water damage and staining and separating of some pages from spine. Light wave to interior pages, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 168pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Mikhail Kaufman (interview), P. Adams Sitney ('Image and Title in Avant-Garde Cinema'), Noel Burch, Alan Trachtenberg (on Walker Evans), Yve-Alain Bois (on El Lissitzky), Michelson (on Rene Clair), and Krauss (on Alfred Stieglitz), plus a portfolio of photographs by Leyda, a brief chronology, and a bibliography. Slightly rubbed and marked outwardly, the lower wrapper with areas of soiling, and the spine creased, but sound.

133 pp.; 22.7 x 17.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue 28 of the periodical October. Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Contents include: "To Situate Sublimation," by Jean Laplanche; "Sexuality and Aesthetics," by Leo Bersani; "Freud's Reflexive Realism," by Perry Meisel; "Transference: Letters and The Unknown Woman," by Joan Copjec; "Uncertainty," by François Roustang; "Italian Freud: Gramsci, Giulia Schucht, and Wild Analysis," by Jennifer Stone and "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse," by Homi Bhabha. Good. Light soiling and yellowing of covers. Underlining in pencil to pages 5-6 and 27-35. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 128pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Jacques Derrida ('The Parergon'), Craig Owens (on Derrida), Yvonne Rainer ('Working Title: Journeys from Berlin/1971'), Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Louis Marin (on Stendhal), and Krauss, plus an index to the first eight issues. Superficial splits and creasing to the spine, otherwise with more moderate wear. Subscription card loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 136pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Daniel Buren ('The Function of the Studio'), Jean-Francois Lyotard (on Buren), Hubert Damisch (on Marcel Duchamp), Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer ('A Conversation about "Glacial Decoy"'), Babette Mangolte (photographs of Brown's work), Rainer (a letter), Birgit Pelzer (on Dan Graham), Craig Owens (on Robert Smithson), and Michelson, Richard Serra and Clara Weyergraf ('The Films of Richard Serra: An Interview'). Slightly rubbed and marked outwardly, the spine with a crease, but Very Good overall. Subscription card loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 128pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Dziga Vertov ('The Factory of Facts and Other Writings'), Alfred H. Barr, Jr. ('Russian Diary 1927-28', along with Jere Abbott, John E. Bowlt, and Elizabeth Jones), A. V. Lunacharsky ('Gogol-Meyerhold's "The Inspector-General"'), Paul Schmidt (on Meyerhold), Margit Rowell (on Vladimir Tatlin), and Michelson. Outwardly somewhat rubbed and marked, the lower wrapper with an unobtrusive scuff, though Very Good internally.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 112pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Samuel Beckett ('. but the clouds .: A Play for Television'), Tom Bishop (on Beckett), Julia Kristeva ('Place Names'), Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet and Philippe Sollers ('The U.S. Now: A Conversation'), Octavio Armand (on Robert Morris), Hollis Frampton, Michael E. Brown, Krauss (on Sol LeWitt), and Michelson. Outwardly somewhat spotted/soiled and rubbed superficially, but towards Very Good overall.

171 pp.; 22.7 x 17.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Spring 1985 issue of October. Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Contents include: "Memoir of Hollis Frampton," by Barry Goldensohn; "A Portfolio of Photographs Letters from Framp 1958 - 1968 Erotic Predicaments for Camera," by Hollis Frampton; "Word Pictures: Frampton and Photography," by Christopher Phillips; "The Red and The Green," by Bruce Jenkins; "Interview with Hollis Frampton," by Peter Gidal; "Frampton's Lemma, Zorn's Dilemma," by Allen S. Weiss; "Propositions for the Exploration of Frampton's Magellan," by Brian Henderson and "Frampton's Sieve," by Annette Michelson. Very Good. Light rubbing, dust soiling, and scratching of covers with gentle bumping of corners. Contents clean and unmarked.

107 pp.; 23 x 17.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number 18 of the periodical October. Edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Douglas Crimp, and Joan Copjec. Contents include: "Nausea and Noesis: Some Philosophical Problems for Sartre," by Arthur C. Danto; "Flavit et Dissipati Sunt," by Joan Copjec; "Roland Barthes and the Moving Image," by Dana B. Polan; "The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition," by Rosalind Krauss; "Richard Serra: Sculpture Exceeded," by Douglas Crimp; "How Should Acconci Count for Us?," by Stephen Melville and "A Photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: Auguste Salzmann and His Times," by Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Good. Yellowing, dusting, and soiling of covers including a 2.4 cm. stain to recto. Underlinings and notations in red ink to pages 41-66.

152 pp.; 22.8 x 17.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Summer 1982 special issue of October on Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Contents include: "In a Year of Thirteen Moons," by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; "Narrative and Sexual Excess," by Robert Burgoyne; "Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others," by Douglas Crimp; "Bewitched by the Holy Whore," by Tony Pipolo; "Lili Marleen: Fascism and the Film Industry," by Thomas Elsaesser and "Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Complete Filmography." Very good. Light yellowing of covers with light dust soiling. Contents clean and unmarked.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 128 pages. Art journal published quarterly by MIT Press, on behalf of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Spring 1980. White wrappers, perfect binding, b&w illustration throughout. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy. Record # 850845.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 166pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this special thematic issue devoted to film books include: Philosophy and/as Film and/as if Philosophy - Arthur C. Danto; Reading Hitchcock - Fredric Jameson; The Anxiety of the Influencing Machine - Joan Copjec; Documenting the Left - Stuart Liebman; The Formalist's Dreyer - Nick Browne; Address to the Heathen - Noel Carroll. A handsome example showing just a bit of light wear and soiling. Journal.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 132pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Broadness and Diversity of the Ludwig Brigade - Hans Haacke; An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture - Walter Grasskamp; A Conversation With Hans Haacke - Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp & Rosalind Krauss; From Faktura to Factography - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; Francis Picabia: From Dada to Petain - Yve-Alain Bois. A most handsome example. Journal.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 120pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: An Introduction to the Notebook of Maya Deren, 1947 - Catrina Neiman; An Exchange of Letters - Maya Deren and Gregory Bateson; From the Notebook of 1947 - Maya Deren; On Reading Deren's Notebook - Annette Michelson; Letters from Mexico - Sergei Eisenstein; Bayreuth: The Centennial Ring - Annette Michelson; Chereau's Treachery - Jean-Jacques Nattiez; A Conversation - Pierre Boulez and Michel Fano. A bright, most handsome example showing some light sunning to the red ink along the spine. Journal.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 138pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: De Stijl, Its Other Face: Abstraction and Cacophony, or What Was the Matter with Hegel? - Annette Michelson; The Judgment Seat of Photography - Christopher Phillips; The De-Politicization of Gustave Courbet: Transformation and Rehabilitation under the Third Republic - Linda Nochlin; Alienating Alienation: Fredric Jameson's Revisionary Romance - Perry Meisel; When Words Fail Rosalind Krauss; Documenta 7: A Dictionary of Received Ideas - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. A most handsome copy. Journal.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Slight foxing top edge. A few marks to rear cover. Internally clean. Articles by Vidler, Brooks, Etlin, Lipstadt, Grumbach, Silverman, Porphyrios, Van Zanten, de Quincy. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.