Badura, Michael.

Anlässlich der Ausstellung im Städtischen Museum Göttingen vom 17.1.-2.3.71.

Göttingen: Städtisches Museum, 1971.

Quarto, 128 pages with numerous photographic images and photographic experiments. Light brown printed wrappers.

- First edition.

euro 80

Baldessari, John.

Throwing three balls in the air to get a straight line. (best of thirty-six attempts).

Milano: Edizione Giampaolo Prearo/Galleria Toselli, 1973.

Blue printed portfolio, with small rectangular cut out, that contains one title, one colophon page + 12 photographic plates in color, printed on heavy glossy stock.

- First edition. One of 2000 copies.

euro 350

Baldessari, John.

Four Events And Reactions.

Florence: Centro Di, 1975.

Oblong duodecimo, 3 pages, plus 48 full-page b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Near fine.

- First edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The four events are: (1) Putting a finger in milk; (2) Touching a cactus; (3) Putting out a cigarette; and (4) Pushing a plate off a table. Jjphn Baldessari was together with Jean le Gac among the first artists in the late sixties to work with photographs and texts. In an interview he says: « II est possible que cela ait été une issue à un art de simples rapports : ce rouge est joli à côté de ce vert, bla, bla, bla... Voilà une des raisons qui ont fait que j’ai cessé de peindre.
Je n’étais plus capable de passer le reste de ma vie à fabriquer des combi-différentes de couleurs. » .(moeglin-delcroix 273)

euro 80

Baldessari, John.

Close-cropped Tales.

Buffalo: Albright-Knox Gallery/CEPA Gallery, 1981. Octavo, 84 pages, printed wrappers. Light soiling to wrappers.

- First edition. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition in the Albright-Knox Gallery/CEPA galleries, contains six chapters, entitled ‘three-sided tale’, ‘four-side tale’ and so fort. Each chapter is composed of images framed with either three, four, five, six, seven and eight sides, and the images used are either publicity or movie stills. (moeglin-delcroix 277, 278)

euro 70

Baldessari, John 

Zorro. (two gestures and one mark).

Stuttgart: Oktagon Verlag, 1998.

Oblong duodecimo, unpaginated (76 pages), with photographic reproductions of fragments of films starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Zorro (Tyrone Power?) and Humphrey Bogart.

- First edition. One of 800 numbered copies, signed by Baldessari on the title page.

euro 80

Barbieri, Nino.

Frühstücksstück.

Remscheid: VICE-Versand, 1969.

Wooden block (7,1 x 5,4 x 5,4) with black and white photographs of an egg affixed to all six sides.

- First and unlimited edition. Signed, dated, and numbered by Barbieri on the bottom. (Peter Schmieder, 78, 79).

euro 160

Baruchello, Gianfranco.

TV Highlights.

Remscheid: VICE-Versand, 1969. Brown printed envelope (17, 5 x 25 cm) that contains a page printed on one side and contains 10 tiny photographs (1 x 1, 5 cm).

- First and unlimited edition. Signed on printed page in pen "Baruchello". (Peter Schmieder 79, 80, 81)      

Becher, Bernd & Hilla.

Anonyme Skulpturen. Kunst-Zeitung Nr. 2.

Dusseldorf: Verlag Michelpresse, 1969.

Newspaper size magazine, 16 pages, with 5 full page (that includes the front page image) and 19 smaller size photographic reproductions of the work of the Becher’s. this issue has been folded and has a 2 inch tear in the fold towards the right hand side of the magazine.

-First edition. Includes a four page insert, printed on different stock with short biography and a text in German, French and English about the function of the Cooling Towers, represented in this issue.

euro 200

Becher, Bernd & Hilla.

Fotografien 1957 bis 1975.

Köln: Rheinland-Verlag, 1976.

Small square quarto, 167 pages, more then 110 photographi plates. Illustrated wrappers.

- First edition of this exhibition catalogue (Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Kunsthalle Tübingen). Introduction by Klaus Honnef. The book prints on the right hand page a minehead, while a photograph of the same minehead is reproduced on the left hand page from a different point of view.

euro 150

Becher, Bernd & Hilla.

 
Fachwerkhauser des Siegener Industriegebietes.

Münich: Schirmer/Mosel 1977. Squarisch quarto, 17 pages + 350 black and white plates. White paper over boards. Dust wrappers missing. Former owner’s name on first free endpaper.

- First edition. Signed in pencil by on title page by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

euro 250

Bochner, Mel.

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography).

New York, NY: Multiples Inc., 1970 .

Small quarto size envelope that contains ten note cards.

- First edition. The cards print texts about photography by Mao, Duchamp, Taine, Wittgenstein, Zola, Proust, Merleau-Ponty, James J. Gibson, and the Encyclopedia Britannica + one image. Item included in Artists & Photographs, published by Multiples Inc., 1970.

euro 120

Boltanski, Christian.

Reconstitution. Textes by Andreas Franke and Michael Schwarz (text in French).

Karlsruhe/Paris: Badischer Kunstverein/Edition du Chêne 1978.

Quarto,124 pages, numerous illustrations of which four in color. Illustrated wrappers.

- First edition.

euro 80

Boltanski, Christian.

    
les modèles. cinq relations entre texte & image.

Paris: cheval d’attaque, 1979.

Octavo, 44 pages. Black illustrated wrappers.

- First edition. One of 2000 copies. Published on the occasion of the exhibition: "les modèles", at Chalon-sur-Saône 1979.

euro 30

Boltanski, Christian.

Le Club Mickey.

Gent: Imschoot  Uitgevers, 1990.

Octavo, unpaginated (28 pages) of which 25 pages with pictures of the members of Le Club Mickey. Illustrated wrappers. wrappers lightly soiled.

- Second edition. One of 500 copies. (the first edition was published in 1990 in an edition of 400 copies.) Published on the occasion of the exhibition series “affinités sélectives’ in ‘Het paleis voor schone Kunsten’ in Brussels.

euro 60

Boltanski, Christian.

Livres.

Köln: Walther König, 1991.

Black card board box, (35 x 25,5 cm) containing 28 items in different sizes and formats.

- First edition. One of 900 copies.‘Recherche de présentation de tout ce qui reste de mon enfance’, 1969 ; ‘Reconstitution d’un accident qui ne m’est pas arrivé et où j’ai trouve la mort’, 1969 ; ‘Photographie de la soeur de l’artiste en train de creuser sur la plage’ 1969; ‘Lettre manuscrite demande de l’aide’, 1970; ‘Tout ce que je sais d’une femme qui est morte et que jen’ai pas connue’, 1970; ‘Christian Boltanski d 5 ans 3 mois de distance’, 1970 ; ‘Christian Boltanski et ses frères’, 1970; ‘Reconstitution de gestes effectués par Christian Boltanski entre 1948 et 1954’, 1970; ‘Carte de maladie’, 1971; ‘Catalogue: Essais de reconstitution d’objets ayant appartenu à Christian Boltanski entre 1948 et 1954’, 1971; ‘Six souvenirs de jeunesse de Christian Boltanksi’, 1971 ;‘Recit-souvenir’, 1971 ; ‘Reconsitution de chansons qui ont été chantées á Christian Boltanski entre 1944 -1946’, 1971 ; Musée Social; Dispersion à l’amiable du contenu des trois tiroirs du secrétaire de Christian Boltanski’, 1972; ‘10 portraits photographiques de Christian Boltanski 1946-1964’, 1972; ‘Je me permets de vous écrire pour vous soumettre un projet qui me tient au cœur,,,’, 1973; ‘L’appartement de la rue de Vaugirard’, 1973; ‘Les histoires’, 1973; Christian Boltanski a l’honneur de vous faire ses offres de service’, 1974; ‘Inventaire des objets ayant appartenu à une femme de Bois-Colombes’; ‘20 règles et techniques utilisées en 1972 par un enfant de 9 ans, décrites par Christian Boltanski, 1975. ‘Saynètes Comiques’, 1975 ; ‘Monuments’, 1986; ‘Le Lycée Chases: Classe terminale du lycée Chases en 1931:Castelgasse - Vienne, 1987 ; ‘Geo Harly: danseur parodiste’, 1988; ‘El Caso’, 1989; ‘Sans Souci’, 1991; Catalogue - Books and printed matter, ephemera. 1966-1991.

euro 750

Boltanski, Christian.

Reconstitution.

Eindhoven: Van Abbe Museum, 1991.

Brown card board box, (32 x 26,2 cm) containing 19 items, each different size and format.

- First edition. One of 900 copies. Contents: ‘Christian Boltanski – Reconstructie/Reconstitution’; Catalogus met essay van Lynn Gumpert -’De vele gezichten van Christian Boltanski’; Biography and Bibliography; Christian Boltanski interview door Georgia Marsh;‘Reconstitution de gestes effectués par Christian Boltanski entre 1948 et 1954’; ‘10 portraits photographiques de Chrütian Boltanski 1946-1964’; ‘Recherche et présentation de tout ce qui reste de mon enfance’; ‘Inventaire des objets ayant appartenu à une femme de Bois-Colombes’; Christian Boltanski — Saynètes Comiques’ ; ‘Lettre de demande d’aide’; ‘Lettre aux conservateurs de Musêe proposant le projet des Inventaires’; ‘Dispersion d l’ amiable’ ; ‘Christian Boltanski a l’honneur de vous faire ses offres de service’; ‘Christian Boltanski d 5 ans 3 mois de distance’; ‘Christian Boltanski et ses frères’; 3 colour post cards; Colour poster – ‘L’Ange d’alliance.

euro 300

Boltanski, Christian.

Les Suisses Mort. (text in German and English)  

Frankfurt: Museum fur Moderne Kunst, 1991.

Octavo, 99 pages with 621 black and white photographic illustrations. Printed wrappers.      

- First edition. Boltanski explains his choice of the Swiss: "In previous works I used photographs representing Jewish school children, but for this body of work which is linked to the tradition of vanitas I needed a group of people with a perfectly neutral resonance. Tragically, ‘Jewish" and "dead" are two ideas that fit too well together ... The Swiss, on the contrary, are not at all linked with the idea of a terrible fate. As a group, their destiny seems more universal, and thus, in a certain way, more dreadful".       

euro 40

Boltanski, Christian.

Réserve des Enfants de Duisburg / Inventar der Duisburger Kinder.

Duisburg: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 1994.

Octavo, 47 pages, several photographic illustrations. Printed wrappers.

- First edition. texts by Christoph Brockhaus, Bettina Ruhrberg and Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel.

euro 40

Boltanski, Christian.

Les Vacances à Berck-Plage. (Août 1975).Pour A.M.

Stuttgart: Oktagon Verlag, 1995.

Octavo, unpaginated, 25 original tipped in color photographs. Printed yellow cloth.

- First edition. One of 500 copies, numbered and signed in pencil by Boltanski.

euro 350

Boltanski, Christian.

Sterblich.

Darmstadt/München: Hessische Landesmuseum/Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1996.

Quarto, unpaginated, numerous plates. Illustrated wrappers.

- First edition of this exhibition catalogue.

Boltanski, Christian.

Zeit.

München: Kehayoff, 1996.

Octavo, unpaginated, 62 photographic plates. Printed wrappers.

- First edition. Boltanski represents time, in this booklet by placing on the left hand side page a picture of a man or woman being a child and on the right hand page a picture of the same person being an adult.

euro 40

Boltanski, Christian.

Kaddish.

München/Paris: Gina Kehayoff Verlag/Musée d’Art Moderne, 1996.

Quarto, unpaginated, numerous plates. Illustrated paper over boards.

- First edition of this exhibition catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition dernieres annees, held in the Musée d’art moderne in the fall of 1998. The catalogue consist of a compilation of 4 books publsihed earlier: Menschlich, Sachlich, Örtlich and Sterblich.

euro 100

Boltanski, Christian.

L'Album photographique de Christian Boltanski 1948-1956.

Bruxelles/Hambourg: Lebeer Hossmann, 1998.

Large octavo, 32 pages, 32 photographic illustrations. Printed wrappers.

- Second edition. One of 1500 copies. (first edition published in 1972).

euro 20

Boltanski, Christian – Kabakov, Ilya - Kalman, Jean.

Der Tag danach. Beelitz 1999.

München: Kehayoff Verlag, 2000.

Cardboard box containing 37 colored post cards + folded sheet with text by Ilya Kabakov and reproduced drawing on rear. Box with pasted on title label.

- First edition. One of 69 copies with a quarto size half cloth portfolio containing 29 boards with colored photographs mounted with transparent photo corners. Numbered and signed on last page by Boltanski, Kabakov and Kalman.

euro 400

Borm, Roswhita. (Tristano)

Eckig.

Freiburg: Self published, 1979-1980.

Oblong folio, 42 pages, of which 6 pages with photographic illustrations in sets of four behind covering die-cut pages. Ring-bound. Die cut front cover with Plastic protective acetate.

- First edition. One of 50 numbered copies with 6 re-photographed Polaroid’s (in sets of four). The text relates about a relationship between a man, a woman and photography. The re-photographed Polaroid's report scenes from daily life.

euro 200

Brock, Bazon.

Eine saubere Sache. edition/et nr. 13.

Berlin: Edition Et/Verlag Christian Gruzmacher /herausgegeben von b. höke. 1967.

Square quarto, 50 unbound sheets with the same photographic portrait. In red printed portfolio containing unbound sheets.

- First edition.

Carotti, Franco.

Ipotesi per una linea.

Pollenza-Macerata: La Nuova Foglio (Altro), n.d.

Quarto, 54 pages with illustrations. Illustrated black wrappers. In publishers printed plastic bag.

- First edition of this wonderful artists’ book in the series 'Altro' of La Nuova Foglio, under the direction of Magdalo Mussio. In this 'homage' to the line, we see how the line, as moving point, encounters in this wonderful artists' book text and images, among which several photographic reproductions.

euro 80

Carrega, Ugo.

La Porta Apoerta. Introduction by Carrega: "richerche interlinguistiche"(text in Italian).

Pollenza Macerata: Altro / la Nuova Foglio Editrice, (1971).

Quarto, five tri-fold and one double-page folding signatures printed on stiff stock. Loose as issued in stiff printed white wrappers. In original black printed slip case and original printed protective plastic bag.

- First edition. On each page is a small centered image (mostly photographic) and on each page on the left top side we read "lo c’ero" and on the bottom right side " ma non lo sapevo"

euro 100

Ciam, Giorgio.

Ciam Fotografie. Opera Altra. Ciam Bacon.

Bern: Edition Erika & Otto Friedrich, n.d..

Small octavo, 30 pages, 12 photographic illustrations. Yellow cloth. Illustrated
wrappers.

- First edition of this little booklet entirely made on a laser printer.

euro 50

Dekkers, Ger.

Landscape perception Wood near Krabbendijke, Z.

N.p.: Self-published / Art Animation, 1973.

Squarish quarto, 10 colored plates printed on right hand page. Printed wrappers. Original vellum wrappers.

- First edition. One of 900 hand-numbered and signed copies.

euro 60

Dibbets, Jan.

Roodborst Territorium/Sculptuur 1969. Robin Redbreast Territory / Sculpture 1969. Domaine d’un rouge-gorge/Sculpture 1969. (text Dutch, English and French).

Cologne/New York: König/ Seth Siegelaub, 1970. Large octavo, 32 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

- First edition. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix writes extensively about Dibbet’ s book, here some of the intersting comments she makes about Roodborst Territorium/Sculptuur 1969: "Dibbets, qui a abandonné la peinture en 1967, procède depuis lors à des interventions éphémères dans la nature uniquement pour pouvoir les photographier. L’action n’est pas une fin en soi pour l’artiste qui ne l’effectue que pour en retenir des traces, ici présentées en livre. On est là dans une situation exactement inverse de celle des artistes de la performance. Il importe plutôt à Dibbets de conserver le sens d’un projet dont la réalisation a finalement moins d’importance que l’idée qui l’inspire.
Après s’être renseigné sur les habitudes du rouge-gorge, Dibbets décide d’agrandir le territoire de l’un d’eux, … en déterminant de nouvelles limites avec des poteaux sur lesquels le rouge-gorge va se poser, collaborant ainsi au « dessin/ sculpture » de l’artiste : « Début mars 1969, je me décidais [sic] à faire une intervention dans le domaine d’un rouge-gorge, de telle sorte que l’oiseau volât et contrôlât à la fois mon dessin/sculpture. Celle-ci ne peut jamais être vue dans sa totalité; c’est grâce à la documentation que l’on peut en reconstituer la forme en pensée.»
Le livre, très joliment quoique sobrement mis en page, reproduit sur les pages de gauche photographiés, relevés topographiques et annotations manuscrites de l’artiste, ces dernières transcrites en caractères d’imprimerie dans les trois autres langues sur les pages de droite….
Ce genre de livres se lit (même s’il contient des images) un peu comme se lit un livre de philosophie ou de littérature: moins pour prendre connaissance des choses que pour pénétrer une certaine manière de comprendre les choses. « Mes travaux ne sont pas exactement faits pour être vus. Ils sont plus la pour donner le sentiment fugitif que quelque chose ‘est pas juste dans le paysage.»" (moeglin-delcroix 136,144,145)

euro 450

Dibbets, Jan.

Perspectief Correctie 1967.

New York: Multiples Inc.,1970.

Folded poster. (50 x 65 cm unfolded) with one photographic illustration and two sketches for the construction used for the "correction".

- First edition. Item included in Artists & Photographs, published by Multiples Inc..

euro 120

Dibbets, Jan.

Autumn Melody – Herbstmelodie. Text (in german) by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Luzern: Kunstmuseum, 1975.

Quarto, unpaginated. (20 pages), 7 photographic plates. printed wrappers.

- First edition of this early catalogue softcover. Early cat. of Dibbets with (in German) and black & white nature photographs by Dibbets.

euro 80

Dibbets, Jan - Rudy H. Fuchs.

Jan Dibbets

Eindhoven/Paris/Bern: Van Abbemuseum / Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Kunsthalle Bern, 1980.

Oblong quarto, 102 pages, numerous photographic illustrations. brown printed wrappers.

- First edition of this catalogue that presents all the photographic work of Jan Dibbets from 1967 to 1980.

euro 50

Dimitrijevic, Braco.

Braco Dimitrijevic. Introduction by Johannes Cladders.

Munchengladbach: Städtisches Museum, 1975.

Cardboard box (20,5 x 16 x 2,8) containing 2 booklets, I : quarto, 22 pages, 18 photographic illustrations. Printed wrappers. II ("This could be a place of historical interest"): quarto, 50 pages, 20 photographic plates. In separate compartment a multiple, being a piece of bent iron wire. All together in printed white box.

- First edition. One of 330 numbered copies. In both booklets does a text comment the represented image. The photographic images in part II are all printed on the right hand side, a text (‘his could be a place of historical interest’, or ‘ this could be a masterpiece’), printed on the left hand side alludes to the image on the opposite page. The photographs are taken Paolo Mussat Sartor, Nebojsa Boric and Tim Morris (part I) and by Cepo Kaleb, Fedor Vucemilovic, Harry Gruyaert and Braco Dimitrijevic (part II).

euro 200

Filliou, Robert.

Research at the Stedelijk, Nov. 5-Dec. 5 1971. (text in English and Dutch)

Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1971.

Quarto, 24 pages, many illustrations. Green printed wrappers.

- First edition. Filliou uses text and photographic images (mostly snapshots in which he appears) in search for The territory of the Genial Republic, a project that started already in 1967 with The Games at the Cedilla. For him it is not so much the material presentation (although very consciously chosen, as in this case i.e., that of a ‘cahier), for him is art, as he frequently liked to say: a ‘spiritual adventure".

euro 50

Fischli, Peter – Weiss, David.

Bericht über den kunstlerischen Schmuck im Neubauder Börse Zurich. Fotos Niklaus Spoerri.

Frankfurt: Oktagon Verlag, 1995.

Octavo, 54 pages, 56 colored illustrations. Stiff illustrated wrappers.

- First edition. One of 900 numbered copies, signed by Fischli and Weiss on first free end paper This book is a photographic inventory of banal and less banal objects from daily life exhibited in the Zurich Neubauder Börse.

euro 75

Fischli Peter - Weiss David.

Gärten.

Koln: Oktagon Verlag, 1998.

Duodecimo, unpaginated, numerous colored photographic illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Fine copy.

- First edition. One of 800 numbered and signed copies. Signed by Fischli and Weiss on first free end paper. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Skulptur. Projekte in Munster 22 juni - 28 september 1997. All photographs were taken in the period between 1987 and 1997.

euro 100

Fischli Peter - Weiss David.

Peter Fischli David Weiss: Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Musee d"art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Matthew Marks Gallery New York, 1999.

Quarto, unpaginated (42 folded sheets), illustrated throughout. Printed wrappers. White wrap-around band and original publisher’s shrink wrap.

- First edition of this publication of work exhibited in the Musee d"art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Illustrated throughout with varieties of flowers and blossoms.

euro 60

Gajani, Carlo.

Ritratto-Identità-Maschera.

Pollenza Macerata: La Nuova Foglio, 1976.

Thick quarto, 280 pages, numerous black and white illustrations. Black printed wrappers.

- First edition. One of 600 numbered copies. With portraits (23) of Arbasino, Binga, Barilli, Boatto, Bonfiglioli, Calvino, Celati, d'Agata, Eco, Fioroni, Gajani, Ginsburg, Manai, Melandri, Menna, Moravia, Mussio, Neri, Parise, Pasolini, Pozzati, Ruggeri, Scabia. Each person has been given a section in this book, separated by red paper and each section has one full page portrait and one or more pages on which Gajani has been experimenting with contact prints. On the 'front flap', we read: "Questo libro es un libro di facce e di discorsi sulla faccia....

Cos'è una faccia? Cos'è una maschera? Cos'è un ritratto? A queste domande rispondono ! ritrat­tati, in una serie di interventi che aprono il di­scorso ai più vari problemi, ma anche a tutti i fantasmi dell'identità.

Questo libro è un libro di pittura: didattica su come si può fare un ritratto ali'uomo moderno. È un libro di azioni comportamentistiche: con­trasti tra chi non vuole perdere la faccia e chi gliela vuole catturare. È infine un libro di rifles­sioni sui problemi dell'identità, della maschera, deiìa persona e le sue apparenze. Carlo Gajani da molto tempo svolge un lavoro di analisi dei rapporti tra fotografia e pittura. Sof­fermandosi questa yoìta sulla convenzione dei ritratto..."                                                                                                                                 

euro 200

Gerz, Jochen.

Rufen bis zur Erschöpfung (to shout until exhaustion)

Zürich: Edition Howeg, 1972. Black cardboard box (3 x 19,5 x 27) with colophon page pasted on top of box. The box contains 5 original (very enlarged) photographs pasted on black cloth covered boards; 2 black cloth covered boards with on the left side of the page reproduced pages (83 + 104) from Georg Buchners Lenz., while parts of these texts have been copied in handwriting by Gerz on the right hand side of the page; 1 black cloth covered board with pasted on colophon page, here numbered and signed in pen by Gerz.

- First edition. One of 30 numbered and signed copies. In one fragment of Büchner’s text that is reproduced here, we read: "Gegen Abend wurde Oberlin zu einem Kranken nach Bellefosse gerufen. Es war gelindes Wetter und Mondschein. Auf dem Rückweg begegnete ihm Lenz. Er schien ganz vernünftig und sprach ruhig und freundlich mit Oberlin. Der bat ihn, nicht zu weit zu gehen; er versprach’s. Im Weggehn wandte er sich plötzlich um und trat wieder ganz nahe zu Oberlin und sagte rasch:„Sehn Sie, Herr Pfarrer, wenn ich das nur nicht mehr hören müßte, mir wäre geholfen." - „Was denn, mein Lieber?" - „Hören Sie denn nichts? Hören Sie denn nicht die entsetzliche Stimme, die um den ganzen Horizont schreit und die man gewöhnlich die Stille heißt? Seit ich in dem stillen Tal bin, hör ich’s immer, es läßt mich nicht schlafen; ja, Herr Pfarrer, wenn ich wieder einmal schlafen könnte!" Er ging dann kopfschüttelnd weiter...

Oberlin ging zurück nach Waldbach und wollte ihm jemand nachschicken, als er ihn die Stiege herauf in sein Zimmer gehen hörte. Einen Augenblick darauf platzte etwas im Hof mit so starkem Schall, daß es Oberlin unmöglich von dem Fall eines Menschen herkommen zu können schien. Die Kindsmagd kam todblaß und ganz zitternd . . "

"Lenz" is written in 1835 and was left unfinished in draft form, though perhaps relatively near completion. The text is a biographical narrative about the Sturm und Drang author Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) and his stay of nineteen days (20 January until 8 February 1778) in the Ban de la Roche in the Vosges with the Pietist pastor and philanthropist Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740-1826)."Lenz" has been celebrated as one of the most innovative narratives in German literature and has inspired a number of literary pathographies from the age of Expressionism to various modernist and post-modernist authors. The text has also provided the script for several films and inspired Gerz here for his Rufen bis zur Erschöpfung.

Reproduced printed and handwriten text and a sequence of photographic images create this complex and intriguing work that refers to vocal sound and ‘silence’.

p.o.r.

Gerz, Jochen.

Das zweite Buch. Die Zeit der Beschreibung.

Lichtenberg: Klaus Ramm 1976.

Octavo, 154 pages, numerous photographic illustrations. Black printed wrappers     

- First edition. (glasmeier, 168)

euro 60

Gerz,  Jochen.

Das dritte Buch der Beschreibung.

Spenge: Klaus Ramm, 1980.

Small quarto, 211 pages, numerous photographic illustrations in black and white. Black printed wrappers.

- First edition. Gerz started the “books of description” in 1974. The fourth in this series was published in 1983.

euro 60

Gerz, Jochen.

Eine Ausstellung. Text in German & English.

Köln: DuMont, 1988.

Large octavo, 165 pages with several fold-out pages, numerous illustrations of which many in color. Green felt covers. Illustrated heavy acetate wrappers.

 - First edition. This copy signed by Gerz in mirror writing on first text page.

euro 150