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This Title is an Artwork of Mine - a group exhibition in a book / – en gruppeudstilling i en bog - SIGNED COPY.

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Revolver Publishing & Space Poetry, 2012. Squarish quarto in original wraps. 155 pages. Illustrated. Text in English. Minor wear. with an enclosed piece of paper: "this is not an artwork of mine / Mikkel Carl" (see photo).

1st ed. with handwritten note by Mikkel Carl, signed. - "A Kassen, Kristoffer Akselbo, Walead Beshty, Mikkel Carl, Simon Denny, FOS, Ryan Gander, Marc Ganzglass, Tue Greenfort, Jens Haaning, Mette Hersoug, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jacob Jessen, Marijn van Kreij, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Marc Nagtzaam, Navid Nuur, Henrik Olesen, Amalia Pica, Lea Porsager, Pind, Nikolaj Recke, Katya Sander, Kasper Sonne, Simon Starling. The idea originates from the sixties. In 1966 Mel Bochner exhibited "Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art". The show simply consisted of four binders placed on separate plinths. They each contained photocopies of various material selected according to the title. Two years later, gallerist Seth Sieglaub published "The Xerox book". Featuring works by Carl Andre, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner among others, the publication was a proposition for the exhibition catalogue as an artistic medium in its own right. Quite recently Mel Bochner's groundbreaking exhibition has been promoted through the publication of four completely identical catalogues. Instead of showing the four slightly varying photocopied versions of the original material, they have all rather surprisingly been made from one and the same photographic reprint. Seth Sieglaub's project is characterized by a similar paradox because in the end it proved far too expensive to produce a book made entirely photocopies. Thus "The Xerox Bbook" was duplicated using a regular printing press. Nevertheless, these two exhibitions radically transformed our comprehension of what art might be. But as Lucy Lippard has pointed out this so-called "dematerialization of the art object" all too quickly turned into a sort of "Xerox aesthetics". Functioning as a very successful brand, this particular look gave conceptual art its pyrrhic victory as it led most of its social and political ambitions to a dead end. Neither photocopy nor offset print are more neutral, or perhaps objective, than any other media. Their physicality is no less tangible than say oil paint, plaster or bronze, and if you consider a publication to be an exhibition in its own right it's probably located somewhere between the white cube and public space. However, its key strength is that it enables concentrated conceptual and sensuous qualities to flow across time and space. Anyone getting their hands on a copy of this book - whenever or wherever - will experience the presence of the artworks. "This title is an artwork of mine" presents 26 original works of art that exist solely as printed pages in a catalogue. The invited artists have more or less freely dealt with this context : graphic (re-)presentation of art. "This title is an artwork of mine" is a presentation and distribution of these rather different applications of the catalogue as a specific exhibition space."
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HAVE, Henrik:
Kirkegaards Antikvariat
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Edition After Hand, 1973. 8vo in printed illustrated wraps as issued. (52) pp. Illustrated throughout. Cover discolored with some foxing. First edition. Rare concrete poetry item.
WARHOL, Andy
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Moderna Museet, 1969 (1968). 4to. Original wrappers as issued. (638 pp.). Illustrated throughout with photos by Billy Name and Stephen Eric Shore among others. Very worn copy but complete. First edition, second printing, acceptable reference copy of the famous Warhol Stockholm-catalog - this most iconic of artists books. The catalogue for Warhol's first major European retrospective. Illustrated card covers, with a design after Warhol's 'Flowers' silk-screen. 614 black-and-white reproductions, divided into three sections: black-and-white reproductions of Warhol's work, followed by two sections of photographs of Warhol and his associates by Billy Name and Stephen Shore. "“As soon as the Factory opened, it became a hyperactive place. People began flocking there in droves for parties, to interview Andy, to take pictures, to make films, to become a part of it... Billy [Name] ran it like a theatre, vacuuming up after each performance and continually repainting the tinfoiling. He also became the Factory’s official recorder when Andy gave him his 35-mm camera and Billy began taking great photographs of the action, which he developed in an impromptu darkroom converted from one of the toilets. These photographs, as collected in the 1968 Moderna Muséet catalogue of Warhol’s first European retrospective in Stockholm, constitute the best visual documentary of the Silver Factory.” -Voctor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography. Warhol’s Moderna Muséet catalog “is a fine example of the catalogue-as-artist's-book, a form that ostensibly began with the Dadaists and Surrealists, and is produced with some of the roughest reproductions ever seen, which are entirely appropriate, and supplemented by a long section of Factory snapshots by Billy Name. The genre was revitalized by the Pop movement, and Warhol in particular, which demonstrates his position as a latter-day Dadaist. The Moderna Museet publication especially had a great influence upon Japanese photography in the late 1960s and 1970s, particularly the photobooks of the Provoke era” (Parr and Badger, Vol II). Published first by Moderna Muséet, Sweden, in 1968 as an exhibition catalogue for the show "Andy Warhol" at the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm, February - March, 1968, this the second printing, identical to the first.
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Hansell, Mike:
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Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover, w jacket. VIII, 268 pp. With illustrations. Fine clean copy. 1st edition.
Steinbach, Haim:
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Copenhagen: SMK - 2013. 8vo in stapled wraps as issued. 30 pages. Text in English and Danish. Illustrated. Fine copy. 1. ed. "What are quirky salt and pepper shakers doing next to some of the main masterpieces of art history? Haim Steinbach is deeply interested in objects and how they are displayed. In this exhibition he challenged our perception of the art museum as an institution by showing important works of art side by side with small everyday objects. In his works Haim Steinbach arranges objects from all sorts of contexts on shelves and walls and in display units. In fact we all collect things and place them next to each other – on a windowsill, the kitchen worktop, or a bathroom shelf. On a previous occasion Steinbach has explained that he regards the act of collecting and displaying things as a fundamental human practice: With my work, the bottom line is that any time you set an object next to another object you´re involved in a communicative, social activity. Haim Steinbach includes works of art from different eras and genres in his exhibition, presenting them in a way that is completely different from the usual approach taken by museums, which typically display art in accordance with chronological, thematic, or monographic principles. By making a break with those principles Steinbach creates a whole new contex".
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HAVE, Henrik:
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Edition After Hand, 1973. (28) pages printed on black paper with4 statements by the artist are printed recto in gray (one per page), on the back of both covers are applied two small envelopes containing 6 stickers (3/3) with the words "afsender" and "modtager" ( = sender and recipient in Danish language). Handmade edition, in a limited numbers of copies, signed and dated by the artist on the back cover. Cover discolored with some foxing. The envelopes are both unopened. First edition. Very rare concrete poetry item.
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Queneau, Raymond:
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Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. 8° in the original green printed wraps with a dustjacket. 219 (+1) pag. with illustrations. Clean wioth only minor rubbing to edges of the green cover, jacket somewhat worn, mainly to spine and back (please see photos). Overall a very good copy. Première édition anglaise publiée à Paris / First English language edition. (= 'The Traveller's Companion Series', No.74) translated by Eric Kahane and Akbar del Piombo (Norman Rubington); Kearney, 149. Published in the same year as the French text that is the source for the fabulous Louis Malle film in 1960. Rare with the original jacket.
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