NINE DIRECTIONS IN ART. 1964. ONE OF BEN VAUTIER’S RAREST & EARLIEST BOOKS.
£600.00
Amsterdam: Amstell Gallery, n.d. (1964)
13 x 18.5cm, 12pp unbound, self cover. Very early artist’s bbok by Vautier with every page designed by himself with most texts in his facsimile hand plus b/w photographs. The title referrs to the following “directions of art” as invented or discovered by Ben.
The nine directions are:
1. The Absence of art
2. Destroy all art
3. Everything is art
4. Don’t sign art
5. Copy art
6. Do as usual art
7. Change art
8. You are art
9.
The edition size of this book is unknown but it appears Maciunas distributed them in some Fluxus 1 boxes and ran out of copies. This is in VG++ condition.
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