stanley brouwn: la paz (14 February-16 March 1970).
Title-leaf, 21 leaves, printed on rectos only. Square 4to (194 x 198 mm.), black wrappers with white printed text, staple-bound. Schiedam: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 1970.
The artist’s first artist’s book/exhibition catalogue published to mark a solo museum exhibition. Brouwn (1935-2017) invites the reader to walk in the direction of 21 cities around the world: La Paz, Rangoon, Havana, Helsinki, Georgetown, Seoul, Washington, Warsaw, Dakar, Khartoum, Tokyo, Dublin, Peking, New Delhi, Madrid, Montevideo, Bern, Brazzaville, Ottawa, Moscow, and Guatemala.
“In the process of turning the pages, readers may make a series of mental leaps from one spot on the globe to another. During the exhibition, visitors could follow lines on the floor pointing in the direction of those cities towards which they were told on a label to walk a certain distance. The representation of different distances and directions engenders multiple possibilities for spatial experience with direct reference to the globe and the global, no matter how many meters one is meant to walk toward a given geographical destination.”–A. Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s, Redefining Reality (2001), p. 180.
A fine copy of a rare and early Brouwn publication.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005).
A. Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du Livre d’artiste: Introduction à l’art contemporain (2nd ed.: 2012), p. 164 (pictured).
Price: $1,450.00
Item ID: 11456
