BYARS James Lee (Detroit 1932 - Cairo 1997)
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983, 16,5 × 16,5 cm, paperback, pp. [924], Artist’s book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum. Texts edited by James Lee Byars and Piet de Jonghe. Edition of 500 copies. The exceptionally thick block of square leaves makes the publication approach the form of a cube. Texts and black-and-white reproductions are concealed among extensive sequences of blank pages, delaying the encounter with printed material. Reading becomes a search through the volume: its weight, thickness and intervals of apparent emptiness are integral to the work, as important as the images and words eventually discovered.
[Bibliography: CNEAI 1999: p. [6]; Delcroix 2011: pp. 380 and 426; Schraenen 1995: no. 31].
“(…) James Lee Byars’s The Cube Book (1983), which conceals texts and reproductions of his works among large numbers of blank pages.” (Delcroix).
BYARS James Lee (Detroit 1932 - Cairo 1997)
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983, 16,5 × 16,5 cm, paperback, pp. [924], Artist’s book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum. Texts edited by James Lee Byars and Piet de Jonghe. Edition of 500 copies. The exceptionally thick block of square leaves makes the publication approach the form of a cube. Texts and black-and-white reproductions are concealed among extensive sequences of blank pages, delaying the encounter with printed material. Reading becomes a search through the volume: its weight, thickness and intervals of apparent emptiness are integral to the work, as important as the images and words eventually discovered.
[Bibliography: CNEAI 1999: p. [6]; Delcroix 2011: pp. 380 and 426; Schraenen 1995: no. 31].
“(…) James Lee Byars’s The Cube Book (1983), which conceals texts and reproductions of his works among large numbers of blank pages.” (Delcroix).
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