“As Gavin Delahunty writes, “Carl Andre has also made an art of words.” – a retrospective monograph which presents the artist’s poems. Carl Andre lays words on paper just as he lays pieces of metals or bricks on the floor. Formed by letters piled up in blocks of words assembled together, on top of each other, these poems, which he has written since the 1960s, arise as “sculptural configurations.” In the tradition of concrete poetry, words become adjustable entities moved around and placed within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper in order to create new configurations and patterns, and eventually new works of art. “Andre [ … ] understands the word as a concrete module, similar to the squares of industrial metal, wooden timbers, or bricks in his signature three-dimensional pieces,” writes Rob Weiner. The book includes essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valérie Mavridorakis, as well as curator Lynn Kost, and situates Carl Andre’s written works within their initial context in the 1960s at a time when Minimalism was being defined”
Edited by Lynn Kost and published by jrp Ringier with the Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, 2014. Oblonged 4to in hardcover with pasted on illustration to front. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. As new copy, still in publishers shrinkwrap
Designed by Nicolas Eigenheer and Vera Kaspar and Awarded: “Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2014”
“Valie Export: Zeit und Gegenzeit – Time and Countertime”. Published by Walther Koenig, 2010. Large heavy 4to hardcover, with jacket. 303 pages, richly illustrated. Text in both German and English Thorough introduction to the works of Valie Export 1st edition. Fine / as new
Lunds Konsthall, 1969. Kvadratisk 4to. Original grønt omslag. Mappe med løst indlagt materiale af de deltagende kunstnere (komplet). Poul Gernes, Kasper Heiberg, Stig Brøgger osv. Fint eksemplar
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Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 – 1957, on Anni & Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson a.m.o. Spector Books, 2019. 464 pages, with black-and-white reproductions throughout. New copy.
Wesleyan University Press,1983 (1973). Squarish softcover. (12), 217 pages. Fine clean and attractive copy Includes the texts “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)”, and “Mushroom Book”. These early printings are much better than the more recent new
