Format:
circa 362 Seiten
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21 x 15 cm
Edition:
3rd revised edition
Content:
"herman de vries's 'wit white' is a foray into the depths of minimalism, as well as a decades-long process of refinement of the artist's idea of nothingness. Closely associated with the Zero Group and inspired by Buddhist concepts of emptiness, in 1960 herman de vries produced a series of white monochromes, accompanied by a self-published twenty-page booklet. The booklet's cover was blank, without title or author, containing nothing but a short poem celebrating the 'everywhereness' of the color white. Another version of this concept surfaced in the 1962 book 'wit', which contained two hundred blank pages, four white collages, and a completely blank introduction. Another revised version of two hundred and fifty pages appeared in 1967, and the final 'third revised edition' [...] was published in 1980, in a larger format and with more pages. The original title was translated into English, Japanese and Sanskrit, and appears on a detachable publicity strip which is wrapped around the completely blank book."--Printed Matter
Note:
Titel von der Banderole (Titel dort Niederländisch, Englisch, Japanisch und Sanskrit)
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"362 pages paper in white cover; on a broad white strip (banderole) author, title and impressum are printed, on the first flap a text by herman de vries in Dutch, English and German: 'about this universal book, which neutralizes all contradictions / whose content is intelligible to everyone / which resolves all problems and isolates nothing of reality / at the expense or for the benefit of any aspect, remains to be said / that it represents a positive contribution to the synthesis of all'" -- Website des Künstlers
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Auf der Banderole angegebene Auflage der 3rd revised Edition: 5000 Exemplare, tatsächlich realisierte Auflage laut Künstler-Website: 100 Exemplare
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Banderole: 1. published: Israel - Arnhem 1962, 5 Ex., reprinted: Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart 1967, 500 Ex
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Text auf der Banderole niederländisch, englisch, deutsch
Language:
Dutch
Keywords:
Künstlerbuch
URL:
Notice et cote du catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Author information:
Vries, Herman de 1931-
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