Primary Information is James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff. The non-profit publisher of artists books, artist writings, out of print publications and editions is very good at resurrecting the past in order to preserve the future.
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Avalanche. Co-founded by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar in 1970, the curator and editor (respectively) aimed to create a magazine on art from the artist's point of view. A groundbreaking experiment in the presentation of contemporary culture in the US and Europe at the time, they still contain some of the most provocative and probing content produced in recent decades. Each issue included news, interviews, artists’ texts, and documents of art and art making. Among the featured artists were Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Philip Glass, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Yvonne Rainer, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor.
Square Magazine Format:
Avalanche 1, Fall, 100 pages, b/w, Earth Art, 1970
Avalanche 2, Spring, 140 pages, b/w, Body Works, 1971
Avalanche 3, Fall, 100 pages, b/w, Post-Studio Sculpture, 1971
Avalanche 4, Spring, 100 pages, b/w, Conceptual Art, 1972
Avalanche 5, Summer, 84 pages, b/w, Performance, 1972
Avalanche 6, Fall, 100 pages, b/w, Vito Acconci, 1972
Avalanche 7, Winter/Spring, 84 pages, color, Humor, 1973
Avalanche 8, Summer/Fall, 84 pages, b/w, 1973
Tabloid Newspaper Format:
Avalanche 9, May/June, 36 pages, b/w, Video Performance, 1974
Avalanche 10, December, 52 pages, b/w, 1974
Avalanche 11, Summer, 40 pages, b/w, 1975
Avalanche 12, Winter, 40 pages, b/w, 1975
Avalanche 13, Summer, 48 pages, 2-color, 1976
This limited edition, facsimile box set contains all thirteen issues produced from 1970-76. 19.25" l x 10" h x 2" d. $150. Add to cart
Great Bear Pamphlet Series. Originally published by Something Else Press from 1965-67. Nearly every major artist of the 60s avant-garde is represented as either subject or author. At the time (and now still), the accessible and affordable format gave everyperson the opportunity to learn more about the new work of the day. From musical scores to treatises on subject to critical theory to artist multiples, the series is as brilliant as it is subversive - radical ideas concealed in traditionalist form. Staple-bound, multi-colored. 5.75" x 8.75", 16 pages. $12 each.
The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois/Jackson Mac Low
The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems/Emmett Williams
A Zaj Sampler/Contains work by Jose-Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortes, Javier Martines Cuadrado, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Tomas Marco, Eugenio de Vicente
Popular Entertainments/Philip Corner
Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields/Al Hansen
The Cursive Scandinavian Salve/ Bengt af Klintberg
By Alison Knowles/Alison Knowles
Berlin and Phenomena/Wolf Vostell
A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One/Dick Higgins
Chance-Imagery/George Brecht
Injun & Other Histories (1960)/Claes Oldenburg
Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events/Jerome Rothenberg
Some Recent Happenings/Allan Kaprow
Manifestos/Includes work by Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Roth, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams
Diary: Change the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)/John Cage
Auto Biography/David Antin
A Filliou Sampler/Robert Filliou
Untitled Essays and Other Works/Allan Kaprow
A Look into the blue tide, part 2/Diter Rot
The Art of Noise/Luigi Russolo
