Seth Siegelaub, John W. Wendler (eds.): Xerox Book (1968)

“Perhaps one of the most revered artists’ publications of the 1960s, the Xerox Book, published by dealers Siegelaub and Wendler is a xerox book in name only. Conceived by Siegelaub as an inexpensive artists’ publication – each artist was afforded twenty-five pages [plus a cover / title page] to execute a site specific project for the publication. The resulting projects were among the most important ever printed by these artists Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and Lawrence Weiner. When going to press Siegelaub discovered that xeroxes would be more expensive than traditional offset lithography so the xeroxing was forgone for reasons of expense, however, the name of the intended publication lives on.” (source)

Published in New York, December 1968
190 pages
via Primary Information

Commentary: Zachary Sachs (Container List, 2011), Jack Wendler (2012, video, 7 min).

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Marcel Broodthaers: Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (1969) [French]

Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance] is an artist’s book by Marcel Broodthaers published November 1969 in Antwerp. The work is a close copy of the first edition of the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem of the same name, published in 1897, but with all the words removed, replaced by black stripes that correspond directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text.

Often included in exhibitions tracing the history of the artist’s book, the work is seen as a seminal example of the European post-avant-garde. (from Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

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Robert Filliou, et al.: Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts / Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste (1970–) [EN/DE, FR]

“Off and on 3 years of work and now VERLAG GEBR. KOENIG, KOELN – NEW YORK publishes the first draft of TEACHING AND LEARNING AS PERFORMING ARTS by ROBERT FILLIOU and the READER if he wishes, with the participation of JOHN CAGE, BENJAMIN PATTERSON, GEORGE BRECHT, ALLEN KAPROW, MARCELLE, VERA and BJOESSI and KARL ROT, DOROTHY IANNONE, DITER ROT, JOSEPH BEUYS. It is a Multi – book. The space provided for the reader’s use is nearly the same as the author’s own” (from cover)

Publisher Verlag Gebr. König, Cologne/New York, 1970
Editor Kasper König
236 pages
via Charles Turner

Commentary: Hannah Higgins in Fluxus Experience (pp 188–189, 195–207).

Reprint (Occassional Papers, 2014, added 2015-8-18)

Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts / Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste (English/German, 1970, no OCR)
Enseigner et apprendre, arts vivants (French, 1998, 34 MB, added on 2017-6-20)