Jean Toche - Unoriginal Sins

RESULTS IN 4D. c. 1966.

paul robertson — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:10:00 +0000

NYC: Socialist States of Belgium in exile, n.d.
28 x 21cm, 1pp. Offset leaflet which was published by the so called "Socialist States of Belgium in exile" and promoting an evening of films by Louis Lacille Lenglet who is noted here as a "Belgium Provo, moviemaker and U editor" "with the co-operation of Aggression Art Inc./Third Rail Gallery" alongside films by Jon Hendricks and Fluxus works by Poppy Johnson, Al Hansen, Darlene Butlich, Anya Robbins, Maryann Zaccone and Jean Toche. An unusual event where the political European tradition coming out of the events taking place in the Netherlands and Belgium met the new radical arts found in the Fluxus movement. A rare document indeed. Formerly folded but else VG.

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GAAG. THE GUERRILLA ART ACTION GROUP. 1978.

paul robertson — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:12:48 +0000

New York: Printed Matter, 1978

28.4 x 18cm, Unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus pictorial card wrappers. . First edition of this collation of writings, works and many b/w photographs by the leftist art activist group formed by Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche. The book is chronological in design and the increasingly interventionist activities of the group are well documented. VG+ copy with only mild edge wear to the wrappers. Scarce.

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THE FOX. NUMBER 2.

paul robertson — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:20:36 +0000

NYC: Art & Language Foundation, New York.1975
26.5 x 21 cm, Volume Two: 163 pp. The second of three journals of conceptual art was published by the first incarnation of Art & Language when the group included later major figures such as Kosuth, and Piper (before being reduced to a much smaller grouping around Ramsden and Baldwin).

This number contains articles by Eunice Lipton, Ramsden, Terry Smith, Lizzie Borden, Charlesworth, Mark Klienberg, Piper, Menard, Corris, Burn, Bruce Kurtz interview with Robert Smithson, Stefan Morawski, Jean Toche, Robert Horvitz, Paul Kagawa, Annson Kenney, Rushton and Wood, Kosuth, Smith, Menard and White, Atkinson, Beveridge and Burn on Donald Judd, Trevor Pateman.

A VG example apart from a split along the edge of the spine. Priced thus.

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PRESS RELEASE ADMITTING THE FABRICATION OF A LETTER FROM HARALD SZEEMANN. 1972.

paul robertson — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:11:21 +0000

NYC: s.p. (Hendrics/Toche), 1972

30 x 21cm, b/w offset. A press release in which Hendricks and Toche announce publicly that a supposed letter to them from Harald Szeeman in which he hints at a sexist policy for Documenta 5 (which he was curating) was a forgery made by the Guerrilla Art Action Group. They ascribed views to Szeemann that he had not actually made (but they inferred) and mixed in English translations of short passages by Adolf Hitler including "“The whores were at it again. […] I give the orders. Women should make soup, that’s all.”.

The letter by admitting this (actually illegal) act opens an interesting debate as to whether such tactics are reasonable or not. The forged letter was believed by some at first and while it did open a debate about the inclusion of women in Documanta 5 it also maligned Szeemann by exaggerating his real position.

This has some edge damage and browning on the right and small tears where the leaflet was folded but a scarce document indeed.

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GUERILLA ART ACTION GROUP. (HENDRICKS/TOCHE). 1972. SPECIAL EDITION – ONE OF 25 NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:58:50 +0000

NYC: s.p. (Hendrics/Toche), 1972

30 x 24cm, blue outer folder with hand-written title content of a large number of original documents and other reproductions by the grou. The Guerrilla Art Action Group was founded in 1969 by Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche and targeted art institutions (in particular the Museum of Modern Art) seeing them culpable in the preservation of capitalism and the Vietnam war. They were quite successful in such actions - forcing MOMA to allow them to curate an intervention into the museum (The AND BABIES? poster being put on display). This is one of only 25 “special edition” copies. VG+. Rare.

1,750 uk pounds

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WAITER! THERE IS A TERRORIST IN MY SOUP! 2001.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 May 2020 11:18:20 +0000

Koln; Edition Hundertmark, 2001

21 x 15cm, 16pp. Original card covers. First edition artist's book with press and other cuttings all on the theme of modern aspects of terrorism and the fear of the phenomenon. VG+.

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THE DESTRUCTION ART GROUP 1968. 1968.

paul robertson — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:09:32 +0000

NYC: Judson Gallery, 1968
27.8 x 21.4cm, 1pp b/w small typographic poster for a nearly two week series of events by Jean Toche, Kurt Kren, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Malcolm Goldstein, Lil Picard, Jud Yalkut (A tribute to Hermann Nitsch), Steve Rose, Bici Hendricks and Ralph Ortiz. Minorly browned else VG+. Very scarce DIA (Destruction in Art) document.

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