Aspen Magazine - Vol. 1 Nos. 5 & 6
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Academy Books and Records has been selling rare books and records since 1995.
RECORDS: 5 - 8" flexi discs:
- 16-2/3 rpm flexi with Samuel Beckett (read by Jack MacGowran) and Naum Gabo / Noton Pevsner;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Williams S. Burroughs and Alain Robbe-Grillet;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Morton Feldman and John Cage performed by Max Neuhaus;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Merce Cunningham;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Marcel Duchamp and Richard Huelsenbeck.
MAGAZINE: Aspen was a three dimensional multimedia "magazine" in a box, significant as a nexus for the 1960s avant-garde: writers, dancers, composers, filmmakers, and musicians. Aspen Magazine was a created by Phyllis Johnson, published on an irregular schedule between 1965 and 1971.
This double issue was guest edited by Brian O'Doherty. CONTENTS:
Contents sheet;
1 booklet with articles: "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes, "Style and The Representation of Historical Time" by George Kubler, and "The Aesthetics of Silence" by Susan Sontag;
5 - 8" flexi discs:
- 16-2/3 rpm flexi with Samuel Beckett (read by Jack MacGowran) and Naum Gabo / Noton Pevsner;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Williams S. Burroughs and Alain Robbe-Grillet;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Morton Feldman and John Cage performed by Max Neuhaus;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Merce Cunningham;
- 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Marcel Duchamp and Richard Huelsenbeck.
1 reel of 8mm film: Hans Richter "Rhythm 21" (1921), Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy "Lightplay: Black-White-Grey" (excerpt) (1932), Robert Morris / Stan VanDerBeek "Site" (excerpt) (1964), and Robert Rauschenberg "Linoleum" (excerpt) (1967);
Tony Smith "The Maze" [8 boards to be cut and assembled];
Printed inserts by Douglas Macagy, Michel Butor, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner [including 7 loose translucent sheets], Brain O'Doherty, Tony Smith, and Alain Robbe-Grillet; scores by Morton Feldman and John Cage;
Folder of loose advertisements: Artforum, Bolex, A Checklist of Something Else Press publications, and John Cage's "Silence / A Year From Monday".
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