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LA SEPTIEME INVESTIGATION (PROPOSITION 8). 1970.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:10:02 +0000

Paris. Galerie Daniel Templon. 1970 27 x 21 cm 15 sheets of photocopies typescript printed recto only. Stapled. This publication was part of Kosuth"s series First Investigations (subtitled Art as Idea as Idea), which he began in 1966. The series was comprised of photocopies of dictionary definitions and other texts; in it he sought to demonstrate that "art" is not located in the art object, but in the idea or concept of the work. By 1970, Kosuth's series had progressed to the Seventh Investigation which was comprised of a series of "propositions." This proposition #8 was created for a show at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris from November-December 1970 where this limited edition booklet was dispersed across several desks in the gallery space. The text entirely in French is composed of excerpts from unattributed texts about WWII (the French Resistance, the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, the siege of Stalingrad, etc.) and a final page which is an alpha-numeric schematic seemingly related to the book's interior structure. Slight browning to margins of cover and a hand-written note of the artist and gallery top right (which has been on every copy we have seen) and staples are slightly rusted else VG+. Rare,

STUDIO INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 179 NR 919. 1970.

paul robertson — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:58:58 +0000

London: Studio International, 1968 30 x 21cm, 52pp (33 - 84 + adverts) plus card covers. A single number of this long running art journal here with a feature on Barnett Newman including a 3 page essay by Donald Judd on the artist and a longer text by Barbara Reise and a two page article by Newman himself. The cover is an image of the artist in his studio. Other short features on Kosuth, Bochner and others. B/w and colour images throughout. Spine is torn in two places and the perfect binding glue is a little loose although intact, internally VG.

WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG PAUL MAENZ.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:40:49 +0000

Weimar: Schlossmuseum, n.d. 21 x 10cm, 12pp brochure for the exhibition of works from Paul Maenz - front cover is a Haring drawing and internally there are colour images of Pistoletto, Dahn, Salvo, Scholte, Ruff, Lewitt, Manzoni, Kosuth and Paolini. VG+.

GASTE UND FREMDE: GOETHES ITALIENISCHE REISE. 1999.

paul robertson — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 09:00:18 +0000

Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunstahalle, 1999 21 x 10.5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card, verso gallery details. VG+.

JAHRESBERICHT 1973. 1973.

paul robertson — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:35:43 +0000

Koln: Paul Maenz, 1973 30 x 21cm, 1pp small poster for an annual group show "Annual Report" at the Koln conceptual art gallery - a montage of images from Askvold, Atkinson, Baldwin, Barry, Burgin, Burn, Feldmann, Haacke, Kawara, Kosuth, Manzoni, Pnenone, Pilkington, Poirier, Ramsden, Roehr, Rushton, Salvo, Wery and Art & Language. Folded for mailing else VG+.

7 ORTE AUF DER KARTE EINES GESPRACHS. 1993.

paul robertson — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:11:26 +0000

Stuttgart: Galerie de Stadt, 1993 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a Kosuth neon installation - one colour image on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.

ART BY TELEPHONE. 1969. ORIGINAL VINTAGE COVER.

paul robertson — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:28:52 +0000

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969 Standard 12inch LP record in original (NOT a later repoduction) gatefold sleeve which was released on the occasion of the title exhibition which was abandoned because of "technical difficulties". The record contains the phone calls of participating artists Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Robert Cumming, Francoise Dallegret, Jan Dibbets, John Giorno, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Alain Jacquet, Edward Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Guenther Uecker, Stan Van Der Beek, Bernar Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and William T. Wiley giving instructions to the MCA staff on how to execute their various pieces for this exhibition. While it is possible to find some copies of the LP the gatefold sleeve is incredibly rare to find and any copies for sale are either sans sleeve or are a later facsimile reprint of it. This is the original and while there is some wear on all edges and one slit on the spine and some wear at top and bottom it is an incredible find. The record is in VG+ condition. Clearly rare.

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.

PAULA COOPER AT YVON LAMBERT/YVON LAMBERT AT PAULA COOPER. 1980.

paul robertson — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:08:09 +0000

Paris/New York: Chantal Crousel-Svennung, 1980 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a swap of gallery roster artists between the Paris and New York galleries. Listed are Lynda Benglis, Jon Borofsky, Joel Shapiro, Robert Wilson, Daniel Buren, Douglas Heubler, Jospeh Kosuth, Duane Michals, Giulio Paolini, Cy Twombly and others. VG+.

ABSENCE-PRESENCE, TWICE. 2013.

paul robertson — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:54:46 +0000

Paris: Imane Fares, 2013 42 x 30cm, 8pp exhibition catalogue for a joint show between two artists from different backgrounds who both work with texts and language. Seven works reproduced in colour and one portrait of the artists discussing work. Texts in English and French. Folded as issued else VG+.

ABSENCE-PRESENCE, TWICE. 2013.

paul robertson — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:51:24 +0000

Paris: Imane Fares, 2013 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a joint show. Verso gallery details. VG+.

ARMAN. WORKS FROM 1955 – 1989. 1989.

paul robertson — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:32:26 +0000

London: the Major Gallery, 1989

26 x 21cm, 72pp. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue displaying in full colour and full page 25 works including the wonderful poubelle containing the conceptualist Joseph Kosuth's rubbish.

Laid in the errata slip. Short essay by Jeffrey Robinson, exhibition list and biography. Fine.