ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, LP cover for Speaking in Tongues / Talking Heads, 1983
33,5 x 33,5 x 1 cm
3 LP’s in plastic clam holder, wrapped in shrink foil, transparant sticker
limited edition 50.000
Byrne wrote in an obituary for the artist, published as Bob The Builder in the New York Times in May 2008:
‘I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover. I had recently seen some of his black-and-white photo collages at Leo Castelli’s gallery on West Broadway and thought they were amazing, and I wondered what he would do with an LP cover,…’
‘His package consisted of a conceptual collage piece in which the color separation layers — the cyan, magenta and yellow images that combined to make one full-color image — were, well, deconstructed. Only by rotating the LP and the separate plastic disc could one see — and then only intermittently — the three-color images included in the collage. It was a transparent explication of how the three-color process works, yet in this case, one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations.’
See also artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.nl
History of price:
Dr Fine Arts, New York, USA January 2022 US$ 440.-
ALISON KNOWLES, A Bean Concordance, 1983 New York, 1983
28 x 20 cm / 10 x 7.5 inches
108 pp. of which 90 pp. illustrated
published by Printed Editions, New York, 1983
A Bean Concordance gathers together a variety of material that relates to beans from social detritus across cultures. Clippings include pieces about Native American bean rituals, the Japanese tradition of Setsubun, in which end of winter is marked by throwing beans, and Italian proverbs using beans as well as more graphic findings from newspapers and packaging. In short many bean stories, pictures and ephemera collected and designed by Alison Knowles. Contributors include Alison Knowles, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Simone Forti, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Anne Tardos, Yasunao Tone, and many others. Estimate $50.00 August 2013
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, White Shroud, 1983 – text by Alan Ginsberg
40 x 31 cm
offset, HC, 32 pp., cloth bound green cover with guild title, plastic dust jacket
screen print on first page
edition 1111, here nr 821
published by Kalakshetra Publications Press, Madras, India
condition: excellent, apart from tiny missing plastic part of 1 cm on plastic protection jacket, otherwise a flawless copy in the original tight acetate dust jacket, with Indian hand made rough linen cover
€ 240,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail inv.FCle 000-pr
page 1
page 15
page 18 – 19
History of prices:
Dr. Fine Arts, New York, USA US$ 300.- March 2023
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam € 300,- July 2019
booksellers offer between US$ 252 – 350,- June 2014
