Paris: Flammarion, 2011
28 x 22cm, 240pp plus boards with cut-away on front cover. A major monograph on the artist in English with essays by Catherine Grenier, Jean Hubert Martin and Daniel Mendelsohn. Illustrated in colour throughout. Interview with the artist, biography, bibliography, filmography and references.
This copy is signed by Boltanski on the first blank page. VG++.
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Paris: Art Press, 2010
28.5 x 22cm, 68pp plus wrappers. Single number of this long running art journal which here was dedicated to the work of Boltanski. Articles by Richard Leydier, Georges Didi-Huberman, and the artist. Colour and b/w images throughout. Text in French. VG+.
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Paris, Éditions 591, 2009
28.5 x 20.5cm, 200pp plus covers. The extensive and best to date catalogue raisonne of Boltanski's work - that covers the artist's earliest and middle career output (not artist's books which Calle published a separate book) from the earliest films, mail art, sculptures, installations and vitrines/archives. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Text in French.
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21 x 15cm, 24pp (Self cover) An English translation of certain sections of the French book - text only. VG+.
JOINT AS ISSUED:
The silver mylar outerr bag to store the books in,
This example is one of a small number of copies which are signed by both Christian Boltanski and Bob Calle (the author and, coincidentally, the father of Sophie Calle). VG+.
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Paris, Dilecta/Musée du Louvre, 2009
23 x 17.5cm, 120pp pluw printed boards including 40 illustrations b/w. This first edition of the artist's book lists all of the artists found in the museum alphabetically within various rather contrived groupings. Boltanski has added 40 constructions where b/w reproductions of portraits of artists and employees of the museum have been cut up and recombined with half of the upper faces being attached to a different artist/employee's lower face - much like a children's card game. One of 2,000 copies. VG++.
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Paris, Editions 591, 2009. 28.5 x 20.7cm, two part metal box content of the catalogue raisonne by Bob Calle along with an original appropriated photograph of three young women from the 1940s. This is one of only 22 examples each signed and numbered by Boltanski (as is the photograph in passpartou). VG+. ...
Zurich: ProLitteris, 2009
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the title installation in colour from 1985.
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Boston: MFA Publications, 2009
21 x 15cm, 240pp plus boards and dust jacket. A biography of sorts based on a long interview between the artist and Catherine Grenier. Sixteen b/w plates of works and photographs of the artist. A very useful reference and probably as close to an honest recounting of the history of the artist's life (although memory seems to have caused some incorrect recollections of particularly early activities based on documentation we hold in this archive). Near fine.
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Zurich: ProLitteris, 2009
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the two installations (both in same gallery room) in colour from 1985....
Vaduz: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009
21 x 10cm, 6pp. Announcement leaflet for the major retrospective with 3 works reproduced in colour.
A personal note - this exhibition took place at the same time as Falkirk Football Club played its only competitive European football match against Vaduz FC. Paul Robertson a life long supporter of Falkirk arrived at the match only to find the exhibition open opposite the bar in which he was having lunch. There were over a thousand football supporters in the town before the game - but when he visited the exhibition the woman on the desk told him he was the ONLY visitor to the exhibition that day. She also turned out to be the girlfriend of the Vadus striker who scored two goals and knocked Falkirk out of the competition later that day. One the positive side she gave Robertson all of the various publicity materials for the show for free including come large posters. VG+.
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Liechtenstein: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009
48 x 32cm, 8pp tabloid newspaper released by the museum on the occasion of a major retrospective of the artist;'s work. All text entirely dedicated to the artist - there is an interview in German and double page and single page b/w images of works. Folded as issued else VG+. ...
Vaduz: Kustmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009, 1994
20.5 x 14cm, 48pp plus typographic card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the major retrospective. Essay in English and German by Friedemann Malsch followed by 23 b/w images of installations and public works from the show. VG+.
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Liechtenstein: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009
140 x 90cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with one shadow work below floating text. A huge poster used for external walls and bill boards. VG+.
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