| Primary InformationPrimary Information is a non-profit organization devoted to printing artists books, artist writings, out of print publications and editions. Primary Information was formed in 2006 by Miriam Katzeff and James Hoff to foster intergenerational dialogue through the publication of artists’ books and writings by artists—emerging, mid-career, and established. Our period of focus is from the early Sixties to the present, with an emphasis on the conceptual practice begun in the mid Sixties and the strategy of using publications as an extension of this practice.
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Reps: D.A.P. Sales Rep DirectoryTITLE ALPHABETICAL INDEX Text by Lucy Lippard, Agnes C. Denes, Emily Genaeur, Silvia Goldsmith, Grace Glueck, Poppy Johnson, Brenda Miller, Faith Ringgold, et al.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489767
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 1/19/2021
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By Eline Mugaas, Elisa Storsveen.PRIMARY INFORMATION/TEKNISK INDUSTRI ASISBN: 9780985136499
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 12/31/2014
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489705
USD $16.00 | CAN $22.5Pub Date: 6/2/2020
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Edited by Emmett Williams.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136437
USD $28.00 | CAN $38.5Pub Date: 2/28/2014
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Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk.PRIMARY INFORMATION/PRINTED MATTERISBN: 9780991558575
USD $40.00 | CAN $54Pub Date: 10/29/2019
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By DeForrest Brown, Jr.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489736
USD $16.00 | CAN $22.5Pub Date: 12/7/2021
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Text by Willoughby Sharp, Liza Béar.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869748
USD $150.00 | CAN $180Pub Date: 5/31/2010
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489750
USD $16.00 | CAN $22.5Pub Date: 2/23/2021
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558599
USD $34.00 | CAN $49.95Pub Date: 11/20/2018
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By Renée Green.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489781
USD $16.00 | CAN $22Pub Date: 4/13/2021
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136468
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 4/30/2014
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Edited with text by Branden W. Joseph.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558551
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 2/27/2018
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By Aram Saroyan.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869755
USD $10.00 | CAN $12.5Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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By Aram Saroyan. Preface by Ron Silliman.PRIMARY INFORMATION/UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEISBN: 9780985136482
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869731
USD $18.00 | CAN $25.5Pub Date: 9/30/2009
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Foreword by Alex Kitnick.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489774
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 6/29/2021
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689638
USD $22.00 | CAN $30.5Pub Date: 8/25/2015
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Text by Keith Arnatt, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michel Claura, Gilbert & George, et al.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689614
USD $18.00 | CAN $25.5Pub Date: 9/27/2016
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Introduction by Félix Guattari.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098688
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 4/14/2020
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Text by Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869786
USD $30.00 | CAN $35Pub Date: 6/30/2011
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PRIMARY INFORMATION/PRINTED MATTERISBN: 9780990689683
USD $16.00 | CAN $23Pub Date: 3/28/2017
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Text by Angie Keefer.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136413
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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Edited by Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689607
USD $28.00 | CAN $38.5Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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By Nora Khan, Steven Warwick.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558568
USD $12.00 | CAN $17.5Pub Date: 8/22/2017
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689645
USD $18.00 | CAN $25.5Pub Date: 10/25/2016
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Introduction by Catherine Wood. Text by Reza Negarestani, Stefan Helmreich.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136420
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 5/31/2013
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Edited by by Genesis P-Orridge, COUM.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136444
USD $16.00 | CAN $23Pub Date: 9/30/2013
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Text by Mats B.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689669
USD $16.00 | CAN $23Pub Date: 3/22/2016
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Edited by Dick Higgins. Introduction by Alison Knowles, Hannah Higgins. Texts by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869717
USD $150.00 | CAN $180Pub Date: 10/1/2007
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Edited by Barbara Ess, Glenn Branca.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098619
USD $14.95 | CAN $19.95 UK £ 12.99Pub Date: 1/22/2019
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869762
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 4/30/2010
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098602
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 11/20/2018
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869793
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489743
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 11/17/2020
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Edited with text by Benjamin Buchloh.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098640
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 7/27/2021
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LIGHT INDUSTRY/PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489712
USD $30.00 | CAN $42Pub Date: 11/3/2020
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Edited by Brandon Stosuy, Kai Althoff.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869779
USD $12.00 | CAN $17.5Pub Date: 11/30/2010
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By Constance DeJong.PRIMARY INFORMATION/UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEISBN: 9780991558520
USD $18.00 | CAN $24.95Pub Date: 5/23/2017
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By Miriam Katzeff, Thomas Lawson, Susan Morgan. Introductions by Thomas Lawson, Susan Morgan, Matthew Higgs.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780978869700
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 6/1/2007
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558544
USD $18.00 | CAN $25.5Pub Date: 5/23/2017
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136406
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 1/31/2013
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558582
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 5/22/2018
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Text by Will Bradley, Eline Mugaas.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689676
USD $30.00 | CAN $40Pub Date: 7/26/2016
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PRIMARY INFORMATION/PRINTED MATTER, INC.ISBN: 9781732098664
USD $16.00 | CAN $24.95Pub Date: 9/17/2019
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By Cornelius Cardew. Text by Rod Eley, John Tilbury.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098695
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 3/24/2020
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Edited by Andrew Lampert.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780985136475
USD $27.50 | CAN $37.5Pub Date: 10/31/2014
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By N.H. Pritchard.PRIMARY INFORMATION/UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEISBN: 9781734489798
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 3/30/2021
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Edited by Kirsten Grimstad, Susan Rennie.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098671
USD $30.00 | CAN $45Pub Date: 10/22/2019
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558506
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 2/28/2017
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Edited by Constance DeJong, Andrew Lampert.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780991558513
USD $24.00 | CAN $31Pub Date: 11/26/2019
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Text by Trevor Paglen.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098626
USD $20.00 | CAN $29.95 UK £ 17.5Pub Date: 5/21/2019
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9780990689690
USD $40.00 | CAN $54Pub Date: 11/21/2017
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Edited by Alex Balgiu, Mónica de la Torre.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781734489729
USD $30.00 | CAN $42Pub Date: 10/6/2020
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PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098657
USD $24.00 | CAN $31Pub Date: 6/18/2019
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Text by Yvonne Rainer.PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781732098633
USD $40.00 | CAN $55Pub Date: 4/14/2020
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| | | NEW PUBLICATION By Renée Green.
Originally published in 1994, Camino Road is the debut novel of acclaimed New York–based artist and writer Renée Green (born 1959). Set between the late 1970s and early 1980s, and combining the genres of road novel, countercultural memoir, travel journal, epistolary novel and screenplay, it is the record of the mind of a young woman coming of age as an artist, traveling in Mexico and exploring the bohemian milieu of 1980s New York.
Serving as both homage to and parody of the historically male-dominated genre of the road novel, Camino Road interrogates the tropes of the form through the unusual perspective . . . .go to book page >> |  | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | PRIMARY INFORMATIONPbk, 4 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 12 bw. | 4/13/2021 | In stock | US $16.00 |
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| NEW PUBLICATION Text by Lucy Lippard, Agnes C. Denes, Emily Genaeur, Silvia Goldsmith, Grace Glueck, Poppy Johnson, Brenda Miller, Faith Ringgold, et al.
Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and cultural workers organized around advancing the place of women in the art world. Members of W.A.R. included Juliette Gordon, Sara Saporta, Therese Schwartz, Muriel Castanis, Cindy Nemser, Dolores Holmes, Betsy Jones, Silvia Goldsmith, Jan McDevitt, Lucy Lippard, Grace Glueck, Poppy Johnson, Brenda Miller, Faith Ringgold, Emily Genauer, Agnes Denes, Doloris O'Kane and Jacqueline Skiles.
Active from 1969 to 1971, W.A.R. was founded as the women’s caucus of the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC). AWC mobilized around . . . .go to book page >> |  | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | PRIMARY INFORMATIONPbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 80 pgs / 10 duotone. | 1/19/2021 | In stock | US $20.00 |
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| FORTHCOMING Foreword by Alex Kitnick.
This facsimile edition of Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) was completed in 1977 as a single handmade copy by the multimedia artist Dara Birnbaum (born 1946). It includes notes for works such as Attack Piece, Mirroring and Pivot: Turning Around Suppositions, where Birnbaum interrogates the role of mass media in contemporary society and its means of production through sketches, transcripts, photographs and diagrams for installations and videos that take as their subject film clichés, gender roles, patriotism, emotional states and psychology, among others.
Note(s) documents her contributions to the burgeoning Conceptual art movement and underscores . . . .go to book page >> |  | STATUS: Forthcoming | 6/29/2021 This title is not yet published in the U.S. To pre-order or receive notice when the book is available, please email orders @ artbook.com | PRIMARY INFORMATIONPbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 350 pgs / 19 color / 25 bw. | 6/29/2021 | Awaiting stock | US $30.00 |
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| NEW PUBLICATION By N.H. Pritchard.
Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was given little support and was not promoted, and it has long been out of print. However, it remains a cherished item for fans of poetry due to its unique composition, and difficult but rewarding poetics. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into . . . .go to book page >> |  | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | PRIMARY INFORMATION/UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEPbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs. | 3/30/2021 | In stock | US $20.00 |
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| NEW PUBLICATION
A new artist’s book by California-based artist Martine Syms (born 1988), Shame Space explores the possibilities of narrative and identity, collecting journal writings by the artist from 2015 to 2017 in which she attempts to capture her shadow self, alongside image stills from the video project Ugly Plymouths. The text entries form the voiceover of Mythiccbeing (pronounced my thick being’), a black, upwardly mobile, violent, solipsistic, sociopathic, gender-neutral femme” digital avatar who has iterated across several of Syms’ recent exhibitions. In Syms’ installations, Mythiccbeing manifests variously in video, audio and as an interactive chatbot that responds to the viewer’s communications . . . .go to book page >> |  | STATUS: Out of stock Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory. | PRIMARY INFORMATIONFlexi, 5.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 190 color. | 11/17/2020 | Out of stock | US $20.00 |
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| NEW PUBLICATION Edited with text by Tom Lloyd. Text by Amiri Baraka, Ray Elkins, Francis & Val Gray Ward, Jeff Donaldson, Melvin Dixon, Babatunde Folayemi, Bing Davis.
A collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd and first published in 1971, Black Art Notes was a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition at the Whitney Museum, but grew into a concrete affirmation of Black Art philosophy as interpreted by eight Black artists,” as Lloyd notes in the introduction.
This facsimile edition features writings by Lloyd, Amiri Baraka, Melvin Dixon, Jeff Donaldson, Ray Elkins, Babatunde Folayemi, and Francis & Val Gray Ward. These artists position the Black Arts Movement outside of white, Western frameworks and articulate the movement as one created by and . . . .go to book page >> |  | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | PRIMARY INFORMATIONPbk, 8.25 x 8.25 in. / 80 pgs. | 2/23/2021 | In stock | US $16.00 |
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