Lawrence Weiner / Untitled [1971] (complete with the announcement)

€450.00

WEINER Lawrence (New York, Bronx 1942 - 2021), Amsterdam, Art & Project, 1971 (January), 21x10,8 cm., paperback [stapled], pp. (20) covers included, typographic cover, artist's book with a sequence of 20 statements introduced each time by the word "perhaps", organized in the upper part of each page in English, and in the lower part in Dutch. Translation by Louise van Santen. First artist's book published by Art & Project, Amsterdam. Edition of 300 unnumbered copies, exemplar complete with the original announcement of the gallery.

Bibliography: Lailach 2005: page 167; Schwarz 1989: n. 3, page 149

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Bibliography: Lailach 2005: page 167; Schwarz 1989: n. 3, page 149

An untitled book published the same year by art & project in Amsterdam shows a more complex structure. It introduce a modality and marks the action as a repetition, as in, “PERHAPS WHEN REDONE.” These works have non affinity with the analytical linguistic fetishism of some of Weiner's peers, who tried to produce complex yet tautological utterances as an exemplary embodiment of art. all first sight, Weiner's works seem purely language-oriented but they are clearly not self-contained because they necessitate a construction, a material construction involving the linguistic specification of the blanks in a sentence or the structuring of a real situation.” (Schwarz).