IMI KNOEBEL – Dia Art Foundation 1988
New York: Dia Art Foundation. Oct. 1987 to June 1988. Oblong large 8vo in wraps as issued. 37 pages, with 12 plates. Texts in English by Franz Dahlem, Katharina Schmidt, and Johannes Stüttgen. Cover shelf- and edgeworn else fine.
1st ed.
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
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
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London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1986. 8vo. Softcover. 269 pp. Illustrated. Name to title page and some pencil notes in chapter five and two pages a bit soiled else overall a good to very good solid copy of this hard-to-find item
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Classic monograph on El Lissitzky “Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration”. Edited by Margarita Tupisyn. Fine copy.
