SAYNETES COMIQUES. 1975. SECOND EDITION.

Bruxelles: Palais des Beaux Arts, 1975/1990
21 x 29cm, 32pp plus card covers. Second edition, without the black tape spine, of this artist’s book which displays the various comic performances by Boltanski where he pretended to be various parental and authority figures in a child’s life and common scenes relating to those figures – additionally the artist had painted various backgrounds for each scene. Twenty-two b/w images reproduced in the book, two per page. The performances were Le baiser honteux, La premiere communion, La visite du docteur, L’anniversaire, La toilete du matin. Two b/w images of the artist on every page. The book was originally published on the occasion of the exhibition “12 x 1, Une certaine actualite de l’art contemporain en France,” held at Europalia 75, France, October – November 1975 but reprinted in the Reconstitution box. VG+.