Unpaginated, printed on rectos only. Square 4to (154 x 155 mm), white printed softcover (faint dampstain to upper cover), title on spine. Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain; Dijon: L’Office, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de dijon, 2001.

Very rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book, published with the Casino Luxembourg. Measured in an “old foot of Luxembourg” (= 295 mm.), each recto repeats, in English and French, the number of feet Brouwn will walk on a given day, from 2 March to 29 April 2001.

Near fine. Edition of 700 copies. WorldCat: Art Institute Chicago.

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[52] leaves, printed on rectos only. Square 4to (155 x 155 mm.), printed softcover, title on spine. Gent: Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst, 2001.

Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book, edition of 700 copies. The spaces are measured in feet/pied. A fine copy.

❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More

[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. Printed by Stämpfli in an edition of 800.

❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). 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

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

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

Small black & white illus throughout. Unpaginated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, title on spine. Cologne: 1986.

Bookseller catalogue filled with books on design. Fine; sunning to lower wrapper. More

Black & white floor plan on recto, details on verso. Pictorial card. Düsseldorf: Galerie Konrad Fischer, 1982.

Scarce Daniel Buren exhibition announcement. Held concurrently with a show by Ludger Gerdes. In fine condition.

❧ Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 191 (p. 203). More

Black & white illus. on recto, details on verso with printed address label. Photographic postcard, mailed. Munich: Rüdiger Schöttle, 1980.

Scarce postcard for Buren’s second solo presentation with Schöttle. Part of the installation for Buren’s first exhibition with the gallery (3-31 May 1977) is shown on the recto. Fine; mailed to Eve Sonneman.

❧ Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 104. More

Black & white illus. on recto, details on reverse with printed address label. Photographic postcard, mailed. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1976.

Scarce postcard invitation to Buren’s 1976 solo presentation with John Weber. The postcard’s recto depicts the artist’s subtle interventions in the windows of the gallery at 420 West Broadway. In excellent condition; mailed to Eve Sonneman.

❧ Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 104. More

Color cover illus. & illus. throughout. [24] pp. 8vo, printed softcover. Lucerne, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1980.

Scarce Daniel Buren (b. 1938) exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with his exhibition-installation at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Buren reprised his use of striped sails, a medium he had first employed on Wannsee Lake outside of Berlin in 1975. An exhibition at the Akademie der Künste followed that installation. The present 1980 show was preceded by a work in situ on Lake Lucerne (3 May).

The catalogue is printed in parallel German and French and contains diagrams and photographs of the sails and the exhibition... More

Four black & white illus. on folding sheet pasted to the inside lower wrapper. [12] pp. Small 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Geneva: Centre d’art contemporain, 1976.

A booklet published in conjunction with Buren’s exhibition at Geneva’s Centre d’art contemporain (11 February-6 March 1976). This text was originally published in English in Studio International (Vol. 190, no. 977, September-October 1975) under the title “Notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed, taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are specially summarized here.” This is the text’s first printed appearance in French. The artist’s polemical essay is... More