Peter Smith - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:10:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Peter Smith - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 THE RELATIVISM OF EMOTION HANDBOOK TO THE MODEL. 1972. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/the-relativism-of-emotion-handbook-to-the-model-1972/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-relativism-of-emotion-handbook-to-the-model-1972 Fri, 03 Nov 1972 12:09:36 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1603 Coventry: s.p. (the authors and Art + Language), n.d. (1972)
30 x 21cm, 50pp (printed recto only) plus printed card covers. Xerox inner pages as issued. The first and only edition of this theoretical work based on a physical model (electro-shock, photo beams and electronic buzzers) acting as metaphor for analogue, theoretical and representative models.

Front cover has a faint brown scuff and back cover has a faint diagonal crease else and the inner xeroxed pages are somewhat VG++. From the archive of David Rushton who believes only 10 or fewer of this book was published.

Note on condition: this book has been minorly repaired - there is a new ( i.e. 2016) xeroxed cover copied from an example of the original cover and new plastic ring binder has replaced the original as the original binder had several of the plastic rings missing. We have retained the original plastic binding and can supply this as part of any purchase if desired. ALL ELSE in this copy is vintage. Priced thus.

The post THE RELATIVISM OF EMOTION HANDBOOK TO THE MODEL. 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> Coventry: s.p. (the authors and Art + Language), n.d. (1972)
30 x 21cm, 50pp (printed recto only) plus printed card covers. Xerox inner pages as issued. The first and only edition of this theoretical work based on a physical model (electro-shock, photo beams and electronic buzzers) acting as metaphor for analogue, theoretical and representative models.

Front cover has a faint brown scuff and back cover has a faint diagonal crease else and the inner xeroxed pages are somewhat VG++. From the archive of David Rushton who believes only 10 or fewer of this book was published.

Note on condition: this book has been minorly repaired - there is a new ( i.e. 2016) xeroxed cover copied from an example of the original cover and new plastic ring binder has replaced the original as the original binder had several of the plastic rings missing. We have retained the original plastic binding and can supply this as part of any purchase if desired. ALL ELSE in this copy is vintage. Priced thus.

The post THE RELATIVISM OF EMOTION HANDBOOK TO THE MODEL. 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> CONCERNING THE PARADIGM OF ART. AN ANALYTICAL ART MONOGRAPH. 1970. ONE OF ONLY 5 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES . https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/concerning-the-paradigm-of-art-an-analytical-art-monograph-1970-one-of-only-5-signed-and-numbered-copies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=concerning-the-paradigm-of-art-an-analytical-art-monograph-1970-one-of-only-5-signed-and-numbered-copies Tue, 03 Nov 1970 08:56:19 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1564 Zurich: Edition Bischofberger/Analytic Art Monograph, 1970 -72
30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). White card covers - with offset title. A text published by Bischofberger from a theoretical document written by Kevin Lole, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton and Peter Smith (formerly Analytical Art and by this time fully regarded as members of Art & Language) which applied Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shift to art (the original theory by Kuhn being a view that revolutions in scientific thought only occurred when sufficient contrary evidence to the prevailing orthodoxy had mounted up and the original hypothesis could no longer explain the physical evidence emerging from empirical studies). It is worth noting that at this time Bischofberger bought a great deal of Art + Language material from the group and published other documents by them including some of the group's rarest publications - storing many of the more three-dimensional works for later resale.  Bischofberger did not print the books himself - rather Art and Language arranged design and publication in Coventry (for free using the University's resources) and David Rushton drove the books over in a camper van to Switzerland (breaking down just on the edge of the city due to running out of petrol and having little money left, Rushton coasted the last mile down hill on an empty tank).

The limitations of these series of books are usually placed at c. 200 but Rushton remembers taking far fewer than that with him and this Analytical Art book was in fact only produced in 50 copies taken to Zurich plus a few retained by the artists in the UK.

That said this is one of ONLY 5 copies which were numbered in roman numerals (this one being III/V) and signed by ALL of the four writers in pencil on the first title page.

Some aspects of the text from this book were reprinted and utilised in the famous Index Works created in late 1972 for Documenta 5 and the Haywood Exhibition. Fine.

The post CONCERNING THE PARADIGM OF ART. AN ANALYTICAL ART MONOGRAPH. 1970. ONE OF ONLY 5 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES . appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> Zurich: Edition Bischofberger/Analytic Art Monograph, 1970 -72
30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). White card covers - with offset title. A text published by Bischofberger from a theoretical document written by Kevin Lole, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton and Peter Smith (formerly Analytical Art and by this time fully regarded as members of Art & Language) which applied Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shift to art (the original theory by Kuhn being a view that revolutions in scientific thought only occurred when sufficient contrary evidence to the prevailing orthodoxy had mounted up and the original hypothesis could no longer explain the physical evidence emerging from empirical studies). It is worth noting that at this time Bischofberger bought a great deal of Art + Language material from the group and published other documents by them including some of the group's rarest publications - storing many of the more three-dimensional works for later resale.  Bischofberger did not print the books himself - rather Art and Language arranged design and publication in Coventry (for free using the University's resources) and David Rushton drove the books over in a camper van to Switzerland (breaking down just on the edge of the city due to running out of petrol and having little money left, Rushton coasted the last mile down hill on an empty tank).

The limitations of these series of books are usually placed at c. 200 but Rushton remembers taking far fewer than that with him and this Analytical Art book was in fact only produced in 50 copies taken to Zurich plus a few retained by the artists in the UK.

That said this is one of ONLY 5 copies which were numbered in roman numerals (this one being III/V) and signed by ALL of the four writers in pencil on the first title page.

Some aspects of the text from this book were reprinted and utilised in the famous Index Works created in late 1972 for Documenta 5 and the Haywood Exhibition. Fine.

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