Xerox Book by Siegelaub Seth (7 results)

Wrappers in Acetate Jacket. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/1600. np (372pp), 350 b&w illustrations. Issued in 1968 by gallerists Seth Siegelaub and John W. Wendler, this collaborative project known as "The Xerox Book" features contributions from artists Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner. Each participant contributed an original twenty-five page, 11 x 8 ½" artwork that would only exist on the printed page - not on a gallery wall. Generally considered to be the first conceptual artists' book, it was originally envisioned as being produced by a Xerox copy machine, however the price for printing the three hundred and sixty-eight page volume proved to financially unworkable, so it was ultimately printed using the offset process. A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2015 facsimile edition of this extraordinarily important Conceptual Art document limited to one thousand, six hundred copies published in conjunction with the Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and De Appel arts centre's exhibition "Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art" still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Artists' Book.

4°, 155 Bl. zahlr. Abb., Broschur, Min. gebrauchspurig. Eine Reprint des ursprünglichen Meisterwerks von 1968. Ursprünglich im Dezember 1968 in einer Auflage von eintausend Exemplaren veröffentlicht. Legendäres konzeptionelles Künstlerbuch. Als Teil dieses Projekts wurde jeder der sieben Künstler gebeten, 25 Seiten Kunstwerke beizusteuern, die mit Hilfe einer Xerox-Maschine hergestellt wurden. Ein prächtiges, fast schönes Exemplar in gebundenem weißen Umschlag, nur minimal am Rücken bedruckt. Seth Siegelaub (* 1941 in Bronx, New York City, USA; ? 15. Juni 2013 in Basel) war ein US-amerikanischer Kunsthändler, Kurator, Verleger, Autor und Textil-Wissenschaftler. Siegelaub hatte in den Jahren 1964 bis 1966 in Manhattan seine Galerie Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art, in der er junge, von ihm vertretene, unkonventionelle Künstler ausstellte und durch Pressearbeit und Werbung deren Arbeiten aggressiv vorstellte und schlussendlich auch verkaufte. In den folgenden Jahren trat er auch als Verleger von Katalogen und Künstlerpublikationen auf und wandelte sich zum privaten Kurator für Künstler der Konzeptkunst, so zum Beispiel in seiner Ausstellung im Jahr 1969 January 5-31, 1969 mit Joseph Kosuth, Robert Barry, Lawrence Weiner und Douglas Huebler. Er organisierte bzw. publizierte in den Jahren 1968 bis 1971 circa 20 Ausstellungen, Symposien, Kataloge, Bücher und Projekte, darunter 1968 das Xerox Book und im nächsten Jahr die Ausstellungen March 1969 sowie July, August, September 1969, die im Wesentlichen in Form der Kataloge existierten. 900 gr. Schlagworte: Kunst - 20 Jht. nach 1945.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. Seth Siegelaub-The Xerox Book-Andre, Barry, Huebler, Kosuth, Lewitt, Morris, Weiner Carl Andre Robert Barry Douglas Huebler Joseph Kosuth Sol Lewitt Robert Morris Lawrence Weiner Special Collection by Seth Siegelaub. Published by Roma Publications in 2015. Paperback. Second edition, one of 1600 copies, a facsimile edition of the rare first edition of 1000 copies published in 1968. As new in publisher's plain wrappers titled to spine in clear dust jacket with printed title slip laid in. A legendary artists' book originally published by Seth Siegelaub with large sections created by Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris and Lawrence Weiner. Uncommon in this facsimile edition. Collectible item in excellent condition.

Softcover with clear plastic dustjacket partially taped to inside front covers as issued, unpaginated; very good condition except small crimp to bottom of spine and plastic dj has a 4-inch vertical tear from top of spine at rear edge that ends in a 1-inch horizontal tear across spine; internally fine; clean and crisp; no internal marks; no tears or creases to page edges. A landmark conceptual artist book. Foreign shipping may be extra.

[350] pp.; 27.8 x 21 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size 1000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed 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 artist's 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. References : "International General, Distributing Independently Produced Vanguard Art Books, Catalogues and Information" by Seth Siegelaub. New York, NY : International General, 1971. "Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 67. "Artists' Books : The Book as a Work of Art, 1963 - 1995" by Stephen Bury. Hants, United Kingdom : Scolar Press, 1995, pp. 47. "Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 171, 240, and 250. "Artist / Author : Contemporary Artists' Books" by Cornelia Lauf, Clive Phillpot, Glenn O'Brien, Jane Rolo, Brian Wallis, Martha Wilson, Thomas Padon. New York, NY : Distributed Art Publishers / The American Federation of Arts, 1998, pp. 123, 128. No. V3 in "Robert Morris : Estampes et Multiples, 1952 - 1998, Catalogue Raisonné" by Robert Morris, Christophe Cherix, Rainer Michael Mason, Valérie Mavridorakis, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Geneva, Switzerland : Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1999, pp. 128. "Materializing Six Years : Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art" by Catherine Morris, Vincent Bonin, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Brooklyn / Cambridge, NY / MA : Brooklyn Museum / MIT Press, 2012, pp. 152-153. "Seth Siegelaub : Beyond Conceptual Art" by Leontine Coelewij, Sara Martinetti, Marja Bloem, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jo Melvin, Götz Langkau, Matilda McQuaid, Alan Kennedy, Seth Siegelaub. Köln and Amsterdam, Germany / Netherlands : Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König / Stedelijk Museum, 2016, pp. 116-123. Good. Yellowing of covers along spine and along top and bottom edges, 9 mm. tear to surface of top right corner of recto, rubbing of spine, and bumping of verso corners. Tears to protective mylar dust jacket. Acidic clear tape used to attach to covers has yellowed: 2.1 cm. stain to inside of recto, 2.7 cm. stains to first page, 1.7 cm. stain to inside of verso, and 2 cm. stain to last page. Light yellowing of page edges. Binding adhesive has yellowed and is visible at top and bottom of spine edge and along edge of first page. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required for international orders.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated throughout with Xeroxed work by each of the 7 artists. Original publisher's white wrappers glassine jacket, fine copy with very tiny signs of having been picked up over the years so covers not 100% mint, though 100% clean, no staining just not untouched copy. inside s new condition throughout other than on 2nd page upper right corner a very neat, very small short ownershiip name. and bottom right corner less than ¼ cm some pages slight corner denting. From the edition limited to 1,000 copies. The curator Seth Siegelaub invited the seven artists to participate in a project that soon became well known as 'the Xerox book'. Siegelaub s idea was to transfer the physical space of an exhibition onto the pages of a book. He asked the seven artists to each contribute 25 pages of artwork produced with the help of a Xerox machine. '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.' (Riva Castleman, who ran MOMA s great print department). One of the seminal conceptual artist books. [Ref. Castleman 112; Lucy Lippard - Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object, p.64]. Exhibition Catalogue/ Artists' Book. As is wellk nown, it was too expoenmsive and time consuming to actually use xerox so the book in truth was lithographed!.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. Seth Siegelaub: The Xerox Book; Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner Special Collection by Seth Siegelaub. Published by Seth Siegelaub & John W. Wendler in 1968. Paperback. Illustrated throughout with xeroxed work by each of the seven artists. From the edition limited to 1,000 copies. The curator Seth Siegelaub invited the seven artists to participate in a project that soon became well known as the xerox book. Siegelaub's idea was to transfer the physical space of an exhibition onto the pages of a book. He asked the seven artists to each contribute 25 pages of art work produced with the help of a xerox machine. Collectible item in excellent condition.