STATEMENTS NUMBER 2. NOVEMBER 1970.

Coventry: Analytical Art, November 1970
21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. Second of only two editions of this artist book (both differed) of Coventry student work from the course originally established by Art & Language at Coventry in 1969. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. The first edition of Statements was published in January 1970. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The works include sections of two works since lost or destroyed – Noisy Channel Chair 1 (1969) where a found chair was photographed and then coated in photographic emulsion and the original photograph projected back onto the chair and developed – thus creating a merger of signifier and signified  – and Noisy Channel Canvasses (also now destroyed) where a similar process was undertaken using unpainted canvasses. There are 8 b/w images of these works. Only “a couple of hundred” of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition.