Artelt, Paul

(Paris), Internationale Situationniste / printed in Copenhagen by Permild & Rosengreen, 1959. 28x21. 64 pp. Original sandpaper covers, a fine copy kept in a protective black cloth / brown board box with printed front title "MÉMOIRS" copied from the book. In accordance with a statement on the title page, Mémoires is produced according to the practice of 'détournement' established by the Lettrist International founded by Debord and adopted by the Situationists. The book is a collage of cut-ups of text and images printed mostly in black and adorned with Jorn's 'portable structures' - vivid colour shapes reminiscent of Jackson Pollock paint drippings. In 2009, the French government stepped in to prevent Yale University from acquiring Debord's personal archives, continuing almost everything he produced from the 1950s as well as his library, typewriter and spectacles. Andrew Gallix commented in an article in The Guardian, that Debord would be spinning in his grave - had he not been cremated following his suicide in 1994 - at the idea of being officially recognized as a national treasure: "In 1959, Debord and the artist Asger Jorn published Mémoires, which was bound in sandpaper so that it would attack any book placed next to it. For years, this lethal dust jacket served as a perfect symbol of Debord's abrasiveness: he was the ultimate outsider whose ideas could never be assimilated by the mainstream."

Recklinghausen, Aurel Bongers, 1977. 23x25. 18 leaves with text, nine full-page reproductions of compositions in black, grey and white, and two photos + nine double-folded thick paper leaves, each with one colour silkscreen plate. A very good copy in publisher's printed white boards. The nine silkscreen plates are reproductions of works from Albers's "Homage to the Square" series: Study to Homage to the Square - R-I d-5, 1969 / Homage to the Square - R-III a-4, 1968 / Study to Homage to the Square - blue + darkgreen with 2 reds, 1955 / Homage to the Square - Protected Blue, 1957 / Homage to the Square - Renewed Hope, 1962 / Homage to the Square - Grisaille and Patina, 1965 / Study to Homage to the Square - La Tehuana, 1951 - 1956 / Study to Homage to the Square - Yes Sir, 1955 / Homage to the Square - Selected, 1959. The other reproductions are from Albers's 'Transformation eines Schemas'. Introductory studies by Jürgen Wissman ('Homages to the square als Wechselwirkung der Farbe'; 'Strukturale Konstellationen als Mehrdeutigkeit der Linie'); poems and statements by Albers, biographical chronology, and catalogue of the reproduced works.

(Istanbul), Yapi Kredi Yayinlar, (1991). 27x22. 536 pp. Ca 440 colour photos including 400 full-page, plus more than 400 small-size colour photos in descriptive catalogue. Publisher's blind-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy.

Louvain-la-Neuve, Institut Supérieure d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, 1977. 27x21. 520 pp. Ca 460 photos including 110 full-page, and 30 maps and (groups of) drawings. Pictorial wrappers over blank wrappers as issued. Very light wear to the external wrappers, weak unobtrusive corner scuffing, otherwise fine. (Publications d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de l'Université Catholique de Louvain, XII).

(London: Burns ?) 2002. 33x23. 320 pp. 100 full-page colour photos of rugs (plus eight double-page), ca 160 small-size colour photos of details; ca 50 photos and reproductions and 13 maps in the text. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket, an excellent copy, inscribed by the author.

Paris, Galerie Flak, 2006. 24x22. 184 pp. (including all endpapers). Ca 200 photos (190 in colour including 60 full-page) of Mumuye statuary from Northeastern Nigeria, and three maps. Publisher's pictorial boards. Bilingual text and captions in French and German.