Bremerhaven: Kunstvwerein Bremerhaven, 1978
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a b/w image of a felt suit placed high up on the museum walls just under the ceiling on the front. The suit is as if Beuys is ever present watching the events below. Verso museum details. VG+.
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Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1978
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a b/w image of the "Telefone T_R (Telephon S_E)" multiple from 1974 on the front, verso museum details. VG+.
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Achberg: Free International University 1978
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp b/w announcement card for a lecture by Beuys with an image of the artist in full flow on the front, verso details of the event and documentation by R. Rappmann and J. Stuttgen. VG+ but this card has been previously framed and there are paper hinges still present in the corners of the card. This is signed in red ink on the front of the card over the image.
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Firenze: Gallerie de Amicis, 1978 21 xx 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card - on the second side there is a brief biography of Beuys in Italian. A mailed and franked example with hand-written address. VG. ...
Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern 1978 24.5 x 24.5cm, unpaginated - approx 80pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book designed by the artist - b/w images are alternated with text by the artist. Covers a bit grubby (as almost always found) and a little fading to rear covers but otherwise very good. The first of the "white books" by the artist which coincided with this major retrospective where many sculptural objects were displayed for the first time since the artist's early career when he displayed stones alongside a walk in his parents' home....
Warsaw: Galerie Foksal PSP, 1978
15 x 21cm, 16pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue but also artist's book displaying the 14 b/w large photographs of everyday objects which could have been from the artist's past such as a toy cowboy or a jigsaw.
An important exhibition which is on the cusp of Boltanski's change of direction - thereafter for a number of years much of his publicly shown artworks were posed photographs of model or meals or diaoramas. This show both relates to the earlier archiving of his past life (truthful or not) and the future deliberately forged pictures. VG+ although some rusting to the staples.
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Dayton, OH: Modern Times Books, n.d. (1978?) 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp b/w leaflet for a benefit evening of underground film and "cheap beer!". The films including Aquarian Rushes - Yalkut's film of Woodstock. Also starring " Ritey, M. Frant & Priscilla": a soft rock band. VG. ...
Dayton, OH: Contemporary Media Study Center, n.d. (1978) 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp b/w leaflet for a talk and screening of works. VG....
Dayton, OH: Sinclair Community College and the Ohio Arts Council, 1978 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp b/w press release announcing a series of multimedia workshops led by Yalkut along with a biography of the artist. VG....
Bonn: Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a museum lecture on Beuys by Lothan Romain.
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Pescara: Lucrezia de Dominzio, 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard showing Beuys at a meeting of the "FOUNDATION FOR THE REBIRTH OF AGRICULTURE" organised by the FIU. Verso postcard design. VG+.
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Pescara, Lucrezia de Domizio, 1978 10.4 x 14.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a b/w photograph by Buby Durini of Beuys informally talking with students and members of the public on the grass of the Friedrichplatz in Kassel (probably during Documenta). Lucrezia De Domizio is next to him. The card was issued for an event in Italy “Fondazione per la rinascita dell’agricoltura” (Foundation for the rebirth of agriculture) and there is a second card also issued for the event with a not dissimilar scene of Beuys in discussion. VG+. ...