sigh

... Cy Twombly's house...

from Entrails, Heads & Tails (photographic essays and conversations on the everyday with ten contemporary artists...) by Paola Igliori (with Alastair Thain), Rizzoli, NY, 1992

previously

E.W.

The Alphabet Symphony by Emmett Williams, 1962 (26 photographs of the performance "Universal Poem". Photos by Bernard Kirchoff)
from FLUXUS by Thomas Kellein, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

Figures

from Fun With Figures by Mae and Ira Freeman, Random House, NY, 1946

(thanks again Burgin)

Dry Songs

Dry Songs and Scribbles by Donovan Leitch, Doubleday, NY, 1971

Vija Celmins

working photos

from Vija Celmins (interviewed by Chuck Close, edited by William S. Bartman), A.R.T. Press, 1992
Thanks to Greg for reminding me to revisit this book (and Vija's work). I love her.

more

Look!

Three by Tana Hoban

Look Again!, Macmillan Publishing Co., NY, 1971

Take Another Look, Greenwillow Books, NY, 1981

Round&Round&Round, Greenwillow Books, 1983

Regulate your insults

Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise's writings to herself / Mantelpiece

from Entrails, Heads & Tails (photographic essays and conversations on the everyday with ten contemporary artists...) by Paola Igliori (with Alastair Thain), Rizzoli, NY, 1992

Paloma

Paloma Picasso on summer vacation at Villa La Californie, Cannes, France, 1957. Photographed by David Douglas Duncan.
from Goodbye Picasso by David Douglas Duncan, Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1974

truth forever bending/always hopeful never ending

Don't It Drag On by Chris Smither, Tomato Records, 1971 (art direction and design by Milton Glaser, photographs by Duane Michaels)
One song that I return to over and over again---I've Got Mine. Listen here. See also this cover by Kria Brekkan and Avey Tare. Troubles come by threes/doing what they wanna/instead of doing what they oughta/ I've got mine./Some are quickly passed/others seem to last/hold on.

Kiki and her sisters

Kiki Smith family photos from the PBS series ART21, Season Two, Episode One, STORIES, 2003.
Kiki and her sisters, Bebe and Seton, building models for their father, the sculptor Tony Smith. "We made, mostly, paper models for him, like thousands of tetrahedron and octahedron flattened models, and then we would sit and put them together, after school, every day."

Ben: terrain vague

(Terrain Vague, 1961, 1970 / Partie Du Tout A Ben, 1960 / Le Temps, 1961 / To Change Art Destroy Ego, 1965, 1968 / Centre Du Monde, 1962 / Jeter Dieu a la Mer, 1962 / Voiture, ca. 1964-65 / Voiture, ca. 1964-65 / Le Vitres De Magazins, 1979 )
From Strip Tease Intégral de Ben (Rétrospective Ben [Vautier]), Somogy editions d'art/ MAC Lyon, Paris/Lyon, 2010 (french language)

previously and previously

make your own...

from Make Your Own Monstrosities with Tooth and Nail by George Daniels, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1959 ("Comedy" do-it-yourself manual with a few inadvertently nice photos and a cover by Tomi Ungerer. Still not recommended.)

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