Bruce Nauman / Burning Small Fires [urning all ires - b sm f]
Los Angeles, [Bruce Nauman], 1968, 32x24,5 cm, folded sheet poster, bounded with a pictorial cardboard cover, artist’s book with two-color typographic cover containing a large folded poster measuring 93x127 cm illustrated with 15 black and white reproductions photographs of burnt pages from the artist’s book “Small Fires and Milk” by Edward Ruscha. Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered.
[Bibliography: Christopher Cordes, “Bruce Nauman. Prints 1970 - 89, A Catalogue Raisonné” 1989: pag. 130; Stephen Bury, «Artists’ books. The book as a work of art 1963 – 2000», London, Bernard Quaritch, 2015 2015: pag. 50; Anne Moeglin Delcroix Anne, «Esthétique du livre d’artiste. Una introduction à l’art contemporain», Paris, Le Mot et Le Reste / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2011: pag. 392, pag. 432].
Los Angeles, [Bruce Nauman], 1968, 32x24,5 cm, folded sheet poster, bounded with a pictorial cardboard cover, artist’s book with two-color typographic cover containing a large folded poster measuring 93x127 cm illustrated with 15 black and white reproductions photographs of burnt pages from the artist’s book “Small Fires and Milk” by Edward Ruscha. Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered.
[Bibliography: Christopher Cordes, “Bruce Nauman. Prints 1970 - 89, A Catalogue Raisonné” 1989: pag. 130; Stephen Bury, «Artists’ books. The book as a work of art 1963 – 2000», London, Bernard Quaritch, 2015 2015: pag. 50; Anne Moeglin Delcroix Anne, «Esthétique du livre d’artiste. Una introduction à l’art contemporain», Paris, Le Mot et Le Reste / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2011: pag. 392, pag. 432].
Los Angeles, [Bruce Nauman], 1968, 32x24,5 cm, folded sheet poster, bounded with a pictorial cardboard cover, artist’s book with two-color typographic cover containing a large folded poster measuring 93x127 cm illustrated with 15 black and white reproductions photographs of burnt pages from the artist’s book “Small Fires and Milk” by Edward Ruscha. Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered.
[Bibliography: Christopher Cordes, “Bruce Nauman. Prints 1970 - 89, A Catalogue Raisonné” 1989: pag. 130; Stephen Bury, «Artists’ books. The book as a work of art 1963 – 2000», London, Bernard Quaritch, 2015 2015: pag. 50; Anne Moeglin Delcroix Anne, «Esthétique du livre d’artiste. Una introduction à l’art contemporain», Paris, Le Mot et Le Reste / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2011: pag. 392, pag. 432].
