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Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since May 27, 2000
12mo. Stiff unprinted paper boards in printed dustwrapper. Offset-printed. Edited by German Celant and Perluigi Pero. Text in Italian, French, German, Spanish and English. Unpaginated. This now famous artist book presents investigations by Kosuth in what has been subtitled Art As Idea As Idea. Cited in "Book As Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. Small inked prior owner name to the blank front endpaper else a very good copy in printed dustwrapper. Edition size not stated. Seller Inventory # 26929
Title: Function Funzione Funcion Fonction Funktion
Publisher: Sperone Editions, Torino
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Edition: First edition.
Seller: Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, United Kingdom
pp. (96). Artist's book containing a series of logic problems translated into five different languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and German. Edited by Germano Celant and Pierluigi Pero, translations by G. Certi, B. Gabriele, C. Scaglia and M. Bonino. ÒThis is from the Ôsixth investigationÕ. All of the investigation beginning with the first one (1966) have been subtitled ÒART AS IDEA AS IDEAÓ and my notebooks beginning with that time have been divided into ÔSpecificÕ and ÔGeneralÕ Ò (from KosuthÕs introduction). [Ref. Germano Celant - Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972, p. 80; Anne Moeglin-Delcroix - Esthtique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980, p. 156; Lucy Lippard - Six Years. The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, p. 141]. Original cloth-backed stiff card wrappers, with printed dust-jacket. Seller Inventory # 671
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE! SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Joseph Kosuth on front free end page. First edition. Bound in flexible card wraps in dust jacket. Important artist's book. Jacket shows some soiling, otherwise very good. Boards show some minor soiling, otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 80746
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Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
(90)pp. Boards. D.j. (light wear, back cover torn). Important artist's book containing a series of art investigations translated into five different languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and German. Seller Inventory # B206707-2
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Seller: Studio Bruno Tonini / Tonini Editore, Gussago, BS, Italy
Brossura. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. KOSUTH Joseph (Toledo 1945), Torino, Sperone Editore - Editarte, 1970, 16,7x11 cm., paperback, hardcover with dustjacket, pp. [96], artist's book with typographic cover, entirely made up of logical problems translated in five different languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and German. Edited by Germano Celant and Pierluigi Pero, translations by G. Certi, C. Scaglia and M. Bonino. Edition size unknown, first edition. Bibliography: Moeglin Delcroix 2011: pp. 176-177 with illustration, page 431. Seller Inventory # ABE-1681486181304
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Seller: Antiquariat Uhlmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Kart. m. OU. Kl.8°, o. P.: 48 Bl. OU etw. unsauber, mit kleinem Verlust am Kopf sowie oben etw. randknittrig u. tlw. -rissig, Buch tadellos EA. Text engl., ital., span., frz. und dt. Seller Inventory # 13354
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