Pieter Brattinga - Unoriginal Sins

ALPHABET. 1970. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH KWADRAAT-BLAD.

paul robertson — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:34:39 +0000

Hilversum: Hilversum Jong & Co, 1971
25 x 25cm, 34pp (double sided loose sheets) plus wrap around folder printed on the inside, The twenty-eighth of the Kwadraat-Bladen books produced by Pieter Brattinga for Hilversum Jong & Co as a way to promote their high-end printing business. Here the book is "an alphabet" created by Beeke using photographs of posed naked women to spell each letter. The inside of the portfolio cover has 55 small b/w photographs by Ed van der Elsken on the inside showing the shoot (named "The Story, the arranging of the naked female bodies")

This is a VG+ example of a book that is often found damaged.

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UN LIBRO ILLEGIBLE QUADRATO (AN UNREADABLE QUADRAT-PRINT). 1964. THE SIXTEENTH KWADRAAT-BLAD.

paul robertson — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:46:32 +0000

Hilversum: Hilversum Jong & Co, n.d (1964)
Outer printed and folded paper wrapper with texts in green that are in eight different languages - the complicated fold opens up to show a 25 x 25cm, unpaginated (36pp approx) and card covers artist's book which has no text but each red paper page internally is cut in different shapes and bound in string. The card covers are wrapped around by a dust-jacket with a die-cut diamond hole that allows the red card to be seen through it.

This is probably the most famous of the Kwadraat-Blad books - the 16th produced - a highly complicated binding job for any press. Munari's unreadable books are a form of artist book that takes the form of a book but turns it into a sculpture - the obstructions put in the way of any reader taking the object away from its more usual function to something to be admired in itself.

This is very scarce item in any condition and the outer wrapping are almost always not in great condition. Here the outer pages have browning in areas, some tears along folds and some dog ears or creases on the pages. The inner booklet has a paper scuff near the die-cut hole in the dust-jacket - else is VG.

If you wish we can supply more detailed images of the condition issues but we have priced this to account for these flaws.

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CIJFER (A QUADRAT-PRINT). 1971.

paul robertson — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:02:55 +0000

Hilversum: Steendrukkerij de Jong, 1971
24.5 x 24.5cm, two-part cardboard box that houses a collection of approx. 50-100 reproduced store receipts symbolising a journey taken by the author and artist and editor of this series of experimental artist's books. The cardboard sheet affixed to back of the upper box lid reads (the English text is also there in Dutch, German and French) as follows: "This is a Quadrat-Print of steendrukkerij de Jong & Co. lithographic and offset printers... The Quadrat-Prints are a series of experiments in printing ranging over the fields of graphic design, the plastic arts, literature, architecture and music. They are edited by Pieter Brattinga and are not for sale... Quadrat-Print 'Cijfer' (figure) symbolizes visits to various towns of the world. The cash-register slips were collected by Pieter Brattinga who made up the design. Each box is numbered." The numbering is large and on the cover. This example is in VG condition apart from the front of the two part box which as a single tear in the top right middle which is noticeable but not too distracting, some breaking to the folded edges and some minor staining to the front box cover, some wrinkling and toning to receipt elements. A rather nice conceptual work. Priced to reflect damage.

75 uk pounds

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