Single sheet, printed on both sides. Amsterdam: Museum Fodor, 1980.
Flyer for Brouwn’s 1980 exhibition at the Museum Fodor in Amsterdam. From the text on the reverse (in trans.): “during a period of three weeks (from 29-1 – 18-2-80) stanley brouwn measured the length of x steps and y meters from day to day…”
In fine condition.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1970.
Postcard invitation to Stanley Brouwn’s debut show at Konrad Fischer’s gallery.
“Stanley Brouwn’s first of five solo exhibitions at Fischer’s gallery, it opened in December 1970. The artist presented works documenting the number of steps he had taken while wearing a pedometer on his walks through several neighborhoods of Düsseldorf prior to the exhibition. The aspect of movement and the site-specific reference, which were key features in the exhibitions at Konrad Fischer’s gallery at the time, were also central here.”–Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet)... More
Artist’s name on recto, details on verso. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1978.
Invitation to Brouwn’s 1978 show, it was held at Konrad Fischer’s Platanenstrasse gallery. In fine condition.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 145.
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Printed on one side. Postcard. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1977.
Scarce postcard made for Brouwn’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. Fine.
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Printed on one side only. Postcard. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1976.
Postcard produced on the occasion of stanley brouwn’s solo Van Abbemuseum exhibition in 1976. Fine.
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Printed on recto only. Small postcard. Berlin: haubrok foundation, 2014.
Scarce card distributed by the haubrok foundation. It is made to measure 1/2 brouwnfuss x 1/10 m (=13 x 10 cm). Fine. More
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[15] pp. Large 4to (270 x 210 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1977.
Scarce catalogue for Stanley Brouwn’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. Curated by Coosje van Bruggen, Rudi Fuchs, and Margriet Suren, this exhibition was first held at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Nov.-Dec. 1976, and presented 270 of Brouwn’s works. The present catalogue lists 271. Text in German.
Near fine; inoffensive and small marks to wrappers. Printed by Stämpfli in an edition of 800.
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[15] pp. 4to (270 x 210 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1976.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition catalogue, printed by the artist’s go-to printers Lecturis in an edition of 1000 copies. The Van Abbemuseum show was curated by Coosje van Bruggen, Rudi Fuchs, and Margriet Suren. It succinctly enumerates the 270 works on display. Text in English.
Near fine; faint spotting to lower wrapper.
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[12] leaves. 4to (219 x 180 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1977.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition catalogue/artist’s book published for his solo exhibition at Whitechapel; edition of 1000 copies and printed by Westerham Press. The measurements in the catalogue fluctuate between “1000 mm + 876 mm” and “1000 mm + 884 mm.”
Near fine.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
14 black & white illus. [10] pp. 4to (270 x 215 mm.), printed softcover. Eindhoven: prins bernhard fonds, 1980.
Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) catalogue, published to mark the artist receiving the David Röell-Prijs from the Prins Bernhard Fonds in 1980; printed in an unknown edition size. It contains reproductions of this way brouwn drawings from 1964 and 1 m, 1 step (1980). The text by museum director Rudi Fuchs is in English.
In near fine condition. Ownership stamp on title-page.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
19 sheets, printed on both sides, stapled. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, [1976].
A scarce exhibition check-list for Brouwn’s 1976 solo exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum. All 270 works that were displayed are listed here, as in the exhibition catalogue published the same year. Each work is concisely described in Dutch.
Near fine; small tear to the final sheet.
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Unpaginated. Square 4to (158 x 162 mm.), printed softcover, title on spine. Frankfurt: Portikus; Rotterdam: Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, 1993.
Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book co-published by Portikus and the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art; unknown edition size. We locate only a handful of copies in American institutions.
In this publication, Brouwn multiplies meters, ells, steps, and feet on each page, and converts them to centimeters. It was produced on the occasion of the 1993 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Very good copy; large diagonal crease to the lower cover and a smaller one to the upper... More
Line illus. throughout. [104] pp. Square 4to (156 x 161 mm.), printed white softcover, title on spine. Brussels: Gallery MTL, 1975.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book, published by Fernand Spillemaeckers’s MTL gallery in Brussels in an edition of 250 copies. This was the second book that the artist made with the gallery, the first was one step 1x-100x (1971). In this one there are 100 pages with ten vertical lines and “1000 mm” printed above, which in total amounts to the titular measurement.
A near fine copy; faint sunning to the covers.
❧ H. Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn... More
1 Eindhoven foot of gray plastic tube & a tall printed sheet (422 x 152 mm.) with a vertical line representing 1 Eindhoven foot and text. Eindhoven: 2005.
Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) multiple, it was available for purchase at a local hardware store, De Spijker, for the duration of the artist’s 2005 show at the Van Abbemuseum (22 January-17 April 2005).
From the printed sheet: “*one of the old dutch linear measurements, varying in length from those of other cities, as was customary for the time…
“1 m: in 1821 the kingdom of the netherlands was the first nation in... More
[1] blank leaf, title-leaf, [11] leaves (printed on rectos only) & colophon. Square 4to (226 x 226 mm.), printed wrappers, glue-bound. N.p.: Self-published, 1972.
A most rare self-published Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book, printed in an edition of 200. Virtually all of Brouwn’s later publications were made in concert with museums or galleries. WorldCat locates just one copy, at the Museum of Modern Art (NY). The printed measurements oscillate between ca. 842-889 mm., and resemble those found in Brouwn's Art & Project bulletin 63 (Nov.-Dec. 1972), also entitled Construction.
A near fine copy; a couple small and inoffensive brown marks... More
Illus. throughout. [64] pp. Square 4to (202 x 202 mm.), orig. printed gray wrappers. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1981.
A Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book published in conjunction with his show at the Van Abbemuseum. It consists of repeated black lines at identical intervals.
A fine copy, printed in an edition of 1000 copies.
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[96] pp. Square 4to (155 x 155 mm.), printed semi-stiff covers. Berlin: Wiens Verlag, 2013.
One of the artist’s last books, published in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition at the haubrok foundation; edition of 500 copies. The book is a transcription of part of the 1851 book Taschenbuch der Münz-. Maass- ind Gewichtsverhältnisse by Christian and Friedrich Noback which standardized European measurements, exchange rates, and weights.
In excellent condition. More
Unpaginated, printed on rectos only. Thick 4to (156 x 156 mm.), printed softcover, artist’s name on spine. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum; Barcelona: MACBA, 2005.
Uncommon artist’s book by Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017), jointly published by the Van Abbemuseum and MACBA in an edition of 1400 copies. The exhibition for which this book was printed took place at the Van Abbemuseum (23 January-17 April 2005); MACBA (22 June-25 September 2005); and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (14 December-5 March 2006).
The distances in the book are cyclically recorded from Africa, North America, Europe, South America, Oceania, Antarctica, Asia beginning on 24 January... More
[28] pp. & ads. Square 4to (198 x 204 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. Aachen: Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, 1971.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition catalogue/artist’s book. It lists 245 countries and regions preceded by the phrase “the total number of my steps in.” According to Ruhé, the exhibition consisted of “small cards with the text the total number of my steps in…, followed by the name of one of the 245 countries existing in the world early 1971.”
The curator Klaus Honnef (b. 1939) established the Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst – Gegenverkehr in 1968 with Will Kranenpohl, and artists Rune... More
49 black & white illus. [62] leaves, printed on rectos only. 4to (240 x 203 mm.), printed softcover, orig. publisher’s glassine jacket (a little soiled). Köln & New York: Verlag Gebr. König, 1971.
A Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) publication that is now quite scarce; printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies. This book serves as an introduction to the artist’s famed this way brouwn series — initiated in 1960 — in which Brouwn solicited passers-by to draw directions on a sheet of paper, which he then stamped "this way brouwn" and labeled his own work. Reproductions of 49 drawings are... More
xvi, 364 pp.; 2 p.l., 397 pp. Two vols. 8vo (220 x 140 mm.), 19th-century polished calf (joints a trifle rubbed), spines gilt, red & green morocco lettering-pieces on spines. London: R. Ackermann, 1824.
First edition of an essential firsthand history of the mass British acquisitions of Old Masters in the first decades of the 19th century. “William Buchanan (1777-1864), a Scottish lawyer turned art dealer, was to benefit most from the turmoil caused by the Napoleonic Wars, although he started too late to participate in the Orléans sales. He employed mainly James Irvine of Drum, Aberdeenshire, in Italy and... More
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Black & white illus. 142 pp. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff printed wrappers. Cologne: [1968].
A rare and early bookseller’s catalogue offering artists’ books. This catalogue was specially prepared for documenta 4 (1968). It offers artists’ books by Beuys, Cage, Duchamp, Filliou, Guston, Higgins, Hockney, Kaprow, Nauman, Oldenburg, Emmett Williams, Rauschenberg, Richter, Ruscha, Vostell, Warhol, etc.
Near fine.
❧ Not in A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013). More
Many black & white illus. 35 pp. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Zürich: 1970.
Bookseller catalogue offering an interesting selection of books, catalogues, multiples, and posters. Near fine. More
Black & white ads. Unpaginated. 4to (207 x 148 mm.), pictorial wrappers with R. Lichtenstein illus., staple-bound. Cologne: 1970.
An early European bookseller catalogue offering the artists’ books, editions, and exhibition catalogues of or concerning Beuys, Brouwn, Cage, Christo, Duchamp, Flavin, R. Graham, Judd, Knowles, LeWitt, Lichtenstein, Long, Oldenburg, Ono, Rauschenberg, Rot, Ruscha, Warhol, Weiner, etc. Fine. More