Wissman, Jürgen (introductions)

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.

Wien & München, Jugend und Volk, 1968. 24x30. 10 leaves with facsimile including eight colour plates with text in right margin+ one leaf with impressum. Publisher's linen cloth with mounted front plate. An excellent colour facsimile of the the album dedicated by Kokoschka to Gustav Klimt and first published by Wiener Werkstätte in 1908..