Basket, Table, Door, Window, Mirror, Rug: 53 Drawings by Richard Artschwager
First edition artist’s book, consisting largely of Richard Artschwager’s full-page line drawings, published by Leo Castelli, Inc. in 1976. According to [his wife] Catherine Kord’s brief introduction, “The fifty-three drawings herein contained constitute an investigation (open-ended) of the possible forms into which six objects can be lugged, shoved, squeezed, and generally contorted, while still keeping their individual identities…Somewhere in this process whatever might have been the ‘definition’ of the object gets lost and the objects re-emege as pieces of a puzzle which has no correct solution.” Artschwager (1923-2013) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor associated with Pop Art, Conceptual art, and Minimalism. He had his first solo show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1965; he would later be represented by Mary Boone and Gagosian. Oblong 8vo, 11” x 8.5”, 55 pages with printed wrappers and a metal comb binding. Light bumping and rubbing to wrappers.
First edition artist’s book, consisting largely of Richard Artschwager’s full-page line drawings, published by Leo Castelli, Inc. in 1976. According to [his wife] Catherine Kord’s brief introduction, “The fifty-three drawings herein contained constitute an investigation (open-ended) of the possible forms into which six objects can be lugged, shoved, squeezed, and generally contorted, while still keeping their individual identities…Somewhere in this process whatever might have been the ‘definition’ of the object gets lost and the objects re-emege as pieces of a puzzle which has no correct solution.” Artschwager (1923-2013) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor associated with Pop Art, Conceptual art, and Minimalism. He had his first solo show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1965; he would later be represented by Mary Boone and Gagosian. Oblong 8vo, 11” x 8.5”, 55 pages with printed wrappers and a metal comb binding. Light bumping and rubbing to wrappers.
First edition artist’s book, consisting largely of Richard Artschwager’s full-page line drawings, published by Leo Castelli, Inc. in 1976. According to [his wife] Catherine Kord’s brief introduction, “The fifty-three drawings herein contained constitute an investigation (open-ended) of the possible forms into which six objects can be lugged, shoved, squeezed, and generally contorted, while still keeping their individual identities…Somewhere in this process whatever might have been the ‘definition’ of the object gets lost and the objects re-emege as pieces of a puzzle which has no correct solution.” Artschwager (1923-2013) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor associated with Pop Art, Conceptual art, and Minimalism. He had his first solo show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1965; he would later be represented by Mary Boone and Gagosian. Oblong 8vo, 11” x 8.5”, 55 pages with printed wrappers and a metal comb binding. Light bumping and rubbing to wrappers.
