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Asger Jorn & Guy-Ernest Debord: Fin de Copenhague. Conseiller technique pour le détournement G.-E. Debord – 2001 reprint. Paris: Editions Allia, 2001 (1957). In-8. 26 pp. Compositions en couleur d’Asger Jorn sur des collages de Guy Debord. Some minor wear to cover and some handling wear inside but clean
Re-issue of a book which original edition is one of the most outstanding modern art book objects, and made in just 24 hours: Jorn and Debord rushed into a newsagents, stole a huge amount of magazines and newspapers, and spent a drunken afternoon collaging elements together. The next day they arrived at the printers with 32 collages, which were transferred to lithographic plates. Jorn then sat at the top of a ladder over the zinc plates, dropping cup after cup of Indian ink onto them. The plates were then etched and printed over the black texts and images




