Zdenek Primus
Much POP more ART : Kunst der 60er Jahre in Grafiken, Multiples und Publikationen
(German/English version catalogue): Oblong sm. 4to., 118 pp/. 35 b&w and colour illustrations, many full page, illustrated still wrapper; folded insert poster.
(Czech version): Oblong sm. 4to., 115 pp/. 14 b&w illustrations with one affixed gum wrapper on title verso, numbered. Vinyl wrappers. Books enclosed in plexi case with folded posters and gum affixed to top plexi layer. Metal clips hold plexi case together.
Art historian and curator, Zdenek Primus is a major collector of Pop-Art and Czech Avant-Garde graphics. This catalogue documents a major exhibit that pulled together American Pop/Fluxus with its European countepars. The first catalogue contains written documentation, including essays by Zdenek on ‘Pop Art-Art of the Sixties’, ’1¢ Life’ and ‘SMS-Shit Must Stop’. This publication, along with the reprint in Czech completed years later, are encased in plexi glass with 2 metal clamps and Wrigley’s gum affixed to the inner top cover. The edition of the (German/English version) is 2,200. The edition of the (Czech version) is numbered in pencil below Wrigley’s gum wrapper 333/1750. America Haus Stuttgart (German/English version) (1992). Muzeum umeni Olomouc (1994)