artists books (Beuys - Brecht)
Blackboard Eraser (1974)
Felt blackboard eraser, yellow label. Signed by Beuys in felt pen in Sutterlin (prewar German) script; numbered in felt pen by another hand.?Beuys had the idea for this editin at a political lecture he held during his first trip to the United States. When collectors wanted to purchase a blackboard he had drawn and written on, Beuys had it erased with this type of blackboard eraser. 5 x 13 x 2.5 cm. Edition of 550, plus 6 hors commerce. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. (Schellmann 101)
Joseph Beuys (1987)
The 22nd booklet from Edition Hundertmark. 21.0 x 15.0 cm, 16pp unpaginated. Catalogue of Beuys’ editions and the Hundertmark editions. Edition of 600. Edition Hundertmark, Cologne.
Glasmeier, Michael, 1994, Die Bücher der Künstler: Publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart.
filzpostkarte (undated 1985)
Postcard on felt. 10.5 x14.7 x 0.09cm. Multiple. Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.
Stanhope, Zara, 1997, Multiplication: the multiple object in art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1997.
holtzpostkarte (1974)
Postcard on wood. Multiple. 10.5 x 14.7 x 1.0 cm. Edition Staeck, Heidelberg. (Schellmann 99)
CAUTION (2001)
Digital prints, metallic paper, vinyl contact adhesive, acetate film, thread, glass paper, disposable airline headrest protector, foam packaging film. Satellites swarm above aerospace, traffic in its various modes: don’t get hit. A yellow book warning of the dangers of technological adolescence. 50 pp plus fold outs and multiple pages, 13.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm.?Edition of 4. Unsigned. Published by the artist for the 4th artists’ books + multiples fair, 2001, Brisbane.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 2001, 4th artists’ books + multiples fair, numero uno publications, Brisbane. p. 9
Ghost Writer – Und Wenn Sie Nicht Gestorben Sind (1988)
Ghost Writer’ is Bloom’s way of illuminating the central themes of her work without discussing the work directly. It includes an essay on ways of reading between the lines – a short story by Susan A Davis that is full of red herrings – Joseph Alsop on art forgery – Brian Wallis on photographic evidence – correspondence between Jane Weinstock and Bloom about love letters to and from Flaubert. Double-sided artist’s book. The centre insert is a four page work in braille over photos and sheet music. 120pp, 23.2 x 17.5. English and 120pp German, 1 colour and 76 b&w reproductions. Edition of 1,200 unsigned and unnumbered. Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
The Reign of Narcissism (1990)
The Reign of Narcissism’ guides us through what appears to be a 19th century museum room where everything we see is covered with traces of the artist’s likeness. Self-portraits take the form of vanity mirrors, chocolates, designs from her tombstone, commemorative stamps, even period chairs upholstered with a pattern of Bloom’s dental X-rays. The texts delve us into the disparate worlds of Hegel and Virginia Woolf, Ovid and Oscar Wilde. ”The book is a collection of texts, images, and photographic reproductions of the many objects through which she posed her investigation of the terms (particularly the gendered terms) of artistry and identity in Western art. Using her own profile image as a basic icon and pattern she had all manner of things fabricated – from chocolates to textiles, cameos and wallpaper, statuettes and decorative medaillions – in order to make an environment in which the artist’s image was everywhere. Presented as a handbook to the collection, the book functions as a mini-gallery and compendium. The fact that the work reflects upon the nature of the collection and catalogue gives it an extra self-reflexive dimension. Bloom makes one aware of a catalogue’s conventions through the book’s obsessive character, and as a consequence, it is fully self-sufficient”. Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books. Published to accompany exhibition, 244pp, 20.5×14.2cm, 9 colour and 191 b&w reproductions, envelope containing sheet with personalised watermark. English/German. Württembergisher Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
Drucker, Johanna 1995, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, NY.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
Esprit de L’Escalier (1988)
Book published to accompany exhibition of same title. “esprit (sprightlines, wit) – de l’escalier esprit de l’escalier: – witty remark which is thought of too late; good retort conceived after the event. Literally translated: spirit of the stairs, the inevitable staircase one is descending when the realisation comes of exactly what should have been said.” 23 x 15.5cm, 36pp, with gold leaf insert. Hallwalls,Buffalo, NY.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
Sans-Souci (1991)
This book is a haunting meditation on the bonds of history, in the format of a 1930s family photo album with 56 b&w photos. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. 16pp, 22 x 29cm, hardcover. Edition of 2000. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Walther König, Köln.
Bury, Stephen 1995, Artists’ Books The Book as a Work of Art. 1963-1995, Scolar Press, Aldershot.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 77Wey, Deborah and Weitman, Wendy 2006, Eye on Europe : prints, books, and multiples / 1960 to now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
White Shadows (1991)
A strip of photographs of paper cutout figures white on black evoking spirits, skeltons, and dancers in a macabre dance. 14 pp. 15 x 20 cm, concertina book in box. Edition 500. Bayou Books, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 79
Le Club Mickey (1991)
Imschoot, Uitgevers, Gent, Belgium.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 73.
Wey, Deborah and Weitman, Wendy 2006, Eye on Europe : prints, books, and multiples / 1960 to now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Archive of the Carnegie International 1896-1991 (1991)
The 84 pages of this book contain a list of all participants of the Carnegie International from 1896-1991. It was published on the occasion of the 1991 Carnegie International in Pittsburg, where Christian boltanski showed a related work. Edition 2,000, 100 include signed photograph. The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 80
Diese Kinder Suchen Ihre Eltern (1994)
In German with preface in English, French and German.87 pp., approximately 80 b&w illustrations. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich.
Kaddish (1998)
Kaddish is divided into four sections: Menschlich, Sachlich, Oertlich, Sterblich (human, objective, locality, mortality). In Kaddish, which is the Jewish prayer for the dead, Boltanski presents 1142 b&w photographs of people, objects, places and the dead from pre/during/and post World War II. The images printed on very thin paper are intentionally blurred, just as our memories become blurred with time. 27.0 x 22.5 x 5.5 cm. Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, with Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich.
Parr, Martin and Badger, Gerry 2006, The Photobook: A History volume II, Phaidon Press Limited, London.
Scratch (2002)
A “scratch it” book. Only by the slow and borning process of scratching to remove the silver surface are the shocking images revealed. The process is something akin to draging up forgotten memories. 5 pages covered front and back with silver surface, interleaved with tissue. 15 x 22 cm. One opened and one sealed copies held. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne.
La Vie Impossible (2001)
Denis Diderot names three possible ways of creativity: the real person, the person invented by the author and the person hovering in the author’s mind. In La Vie Impossible Christian Boltanski follows Diderot’s adage by answering a hundred imaginary questions about himself. In this “autobiography” by the artist, the answers take the form of pictures from his mind, and are presented in photo and text collages on see-through paper. 21 x 27 cm. 200 pp. Heavy black paper with text screenprinted in silver and 100 see through pages with images overprinted in black. Anhaltische Gemaeldegalerie Dessau, Dessau; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
Les Habitants du Louvre (2009)
Christian Boltanski and Jacques Roubaud
A game of mix and match – 80 cards with images of authors and artists who are represented in the Louvre collection. The cards have been cut into two, and it is up to the viewer/player to marry them or not. 80 cards accompanied by book in box container 24.5 x 19.0 x 6.5 cm. Collection holds No 16 of 40 signed by Boltanski and Roubaud and numbered by hand. Éditions Dilecta, Paris
Jonathan Borofsky Counting 3287718 – 3311003
Borofsky’s artist’s book functions as an abstract diary in which counting is both theme and art. 168pp, 27.7 x 10.5 cm. Openended edition. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (1991)
Black Swan (2007)
Black Swan has the text of a Russian poem (with English translation) by the Russian symbolist poet K.D. Bal’mont who visited Australia in 1912. He was so struck by the destruction of the country by white Australians in the quest for economic prosperity that he wrote this poem as a warning to white man to think and take note of what Australia is, before destroying it. In 2007 little has changed, except for the worse.?The book, made as a family history, honours two people who lived and made a contribution to this life, two people who made up the family I belong to, who valued the beauty of the word and the kingfisher, rather than the destructive greed of economic rationalism. 18 x 46 cm. Published for exhibition Lessons in History held at grahame galleries + editions March/April 2007. Unique State with hand written text. (Edition with letterpress: edition + artist book studio ANU, Canberra)
Album (1994)
21.5 x 30.8 cm. Edition of 850 of which a number are signed. Collection holds signed copy. Peter Blum, New York.
Moeglin-Delcroix, Anne; Dematteis, Liliana; Maffei, Giorgio and Rimmaudo, Annalisa 2004, looking. telling. thinking. collecting., Casa del Mantegna and Edizioni Corraini, Mantegna. Castleman, Riva 1995.
Ode à la Bièvre??(2007)
All 25 colour pages of the original fabric work by Bourgeois are reproduced. 52 pp, 25 full page colour reproductions with text by the artist. 28 x 40 cm. Zucker Art Books in an edition of 1800.?And a limited edition: containing two signed and numbered photographs entitled “The Garden in Antony, 1921″ and “The Bièvre River, 1951″, printed on Verona paper and mounted on 300 g watercolour paper. Hand bound with distressed linen. 30.0 x 41.0 cm. in an edition of 95 plus 25 artist proofs. Edition 77/95. Zucker Art Books, NY.
L’Artiste (1994)
(ou quelques questions posées à Robert Pletnioff dans son atelier du 54, rue Albert)
Photographs of ‘the artist’ with text in French, English, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. 36 pp. 22.0 x 14.0 cm. Edition of 500 of which 30 are numbered and signed by Christopeh Boutin, Laurent Brechet and Stefano Chiodi, and contain a photograph. Editions Florence Loewy, Paris.
Playes by the Rules (1992)
Works completed by the artist at the Centre for Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of New England – Northern Rivers, Lismore are reproduced here with the artist’s poems ‘plays’ in French with English translations. 40 pp, 22.0 x 13.2 cm. Edition of 500 unnumbered and unsigned. Kookaburra Editions, Lismore.
Notebooks I June – September 1958 (1991)
Cage Class-Summer ‘58-Reproduction of the artist’s original notebook. 104 pp. Edited by Dieter Daniels with collaboration of Hermann Braun. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Köln.
Notebooks II October, 1958 – April, 1959 (1991)
Reproduction of the artist’s original notebook. 166 pp. Edited by Dieter Daniels with collaboration of Hermann Braun. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
Notebooks III April, 1959 – August, 1959 (1991)
Reproduction of the artist’s original notebook. 166 pp. Edited by Dieter Daniels with collaboration of Hermann Braun. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
