VOSTELL, WOLF (designer). – Gert von der Osten [introduction]:. LUDWIG COLLECTION. Kunst der sechziger Jahre. 4. verbesserte Auflage. [Art of the Sixties. 4th revised edition.]

Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1970. Large and very heavy 4to 9.5 x 11.75 inches with pages bound embossed flexible plastic flexible covers and a hardcover acrylic spine; bound with stainless steel bolts as issued. Illustrated throughout with color plates on multiple paper stocks and printing effects, including 169 tipped-in plates and a portrait of each represented artist printed in black-and-white on transparent slipsheets, fold-outs and more. Text in German and English. A zeitgeist-defining tour-de-force of book design and production by Fluxus master Wolf Vostell. A tight and very well-preserved copy

This is the 4th enlarged edition of this famous and striking exhibition catalogue, which is itself a work of art. Wolf Vostell designed the catalogue for the Ludwig collection of contemporary art, given as a permanent loan to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Köln. – Very important catalogue to emerge from Germany documenting the art of the Sixties, based on the exhibition at Cologne’s Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Thick, tall quarto, strong metallic screws holding together the plastic binding. Designed firmly in and of the experimental period it covers. Beautiful production including butcher paper, onionskin and graph paper. Includes a “Personal Word” by Peter Ludwig, essays by Horst Keller and Evelyn Weiss, a section of quotes by the included artists, an explanation of terms and a “Druckgraphik” section in addition to the “Katalog.” Artists include Joseph Albers, Carl Andre, Horst Antes, Richard Artschwanger, Larry Bell, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hartung, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Morris Louis, Piero Manzoni, Marisol, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardi Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Segal, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Richard Tuttle, Victor Vasarely, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman and Wols among others.