Broken Music, Various Artists, 2019
An exacting facsimile of a long sought after rarity, and the most comprehensive and indispensable printed resource on the subject of artists’ records. Produced with managing editor James Hoff on behalf of Primary Information in New York. Originally edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and first published in 1989, Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by artists between WWII and 1989.
Works included the publication are based on four criteria: Record covers created as original work by visual artists. Record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures). Books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object. Records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists. A flexi disc of a performance of Milan Knizak’s Broken Music is also included, in addition to a 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.
Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.
Management of print production and design:
Analysis of the original print production, materials, inks and finishes, signatures, dimensions, die cutting, caliper checks to interior and cover stocks, spine thickness.
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Retouching to print anomalies, surface and handling marks in the disbound, scanned original source copy.
Image processing and density settings.
Masking of the original halftone and line art design elements, for separate treatments to avoid moiré while ensuring optimal image detail and text sharpness.
Updated colophon and titling designed to seamlessly follow the original publication.
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Format: Softcover, sewn binding, 200 pages, offset printed B/W and CMYK, ribbon book mark, die cutting, 7 inch flexi disk record.
Dimensions: 8.25 x 10.25 inches
First printing edition: 2500