Nov 09, 2021 - Sale 2587

Sale 2587 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
MULTIPLE ARTISTS. [The Xerox Book.] Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner. 4to, original white perfectbound printed wrappers; acetate dust jacket affixed to front and rear cover versos by small cellotape rectangle; printed slip from The Lannis Museum of Normal Art announcing an opening featuring several of the artists present here. Stated first edition of this seminal artists book of an edition of 1000 unnumbered copies. "Using the serial possibilities of electrostatic copying processes, the seven artists who contributed to this work Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner were able to transform their drawings and objects by simply arranging them on the surface of a Xerox machine and printing them in sequence. As with many copies of letters that were the ordinary result of photocopying, until artists started using it, bits of dust and incomplete or solarized lines and solids changed their fidelity to the typewritten and drawn originals. In this work, those imperfections have been exploited by artists for whom the process of art making itself was their subject" (Castleman). New York: Siegelaub & Wendler, 1968