N. 3 artist's books SIGNED. Jonathan Monk is an artist who loves other artists. His work draws on oblique autobiographical references and personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk s extensive collection of artists books. Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series, which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems of signification in conceptual art publishing. An integral section of Cover Version is a transcribed telephone conversation between Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub, which unfolds and discusses their mutual obsession with book making and collecting whilst speculating on the nature of the object. This "collectable" book also has three different covers designed with its monetary value in euros, dollars and pounds, a direct reference to Lawrence Weiner s 1968 publication Statements. With a text by Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub. Designed by Jérome Saint-Loubert Bié. 64 pp + 6 blank pages in different coloured paper stock; 19,7x15,8 cm First edition. 1000 ex. N. 3 BOOKS SIGNED. Seller Inventory # 5719-cp-sogg

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Title: Cover version. $ 20 / Cover version. £ 10 / ...

Publisher: London, Book Works

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Staple-bound.

Condition: Condition: very good.

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The Studio Bibliografico Giorgio Maffei specialises in original texts by twentieth century visual and literary avant-garde artists. These range from the historic publications produced in the early 1900s, to the Futurist, Dadaist, Abstract and Surrealist volumes which are now considered to be classics, to the subsequent revolutionary techniques of the second half of the century. The bibliographic research already carried out by the Studio Bibliografico offers confirmation of the importance of this area and of the fact that the entire history of modern publishing continues to offer immense research potential in all areas, covering original texts, exhibition catalogues, specialist magazines and in particular artists' books, that fertile terrain which encouraged the meeting and cross- fertilisation of many different art forms.

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