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Berlin.: Self-published., 1970.. Gummed spine, self-wrappers.. Small 8vo. (150 x 140 mm).. A playful artist book in which Schmit provides an anthology of language games, drawings and concrete poetry.From the edition limited to 410 copies.Artist book hectographed throughout reproducing "149 drawings (16 whole page, 7 coloured with red pen, and 114 tiny), 6 images, 10 glued-in-snippets, 2 bookmarks and (at least) 1 surprise" (from tomas schmit archiv). The surprise in this copy appears to be a page with has a line of thread stitching. Tomas Schmit (1943-2006) was an artist and author and one of the pioneers of the Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. He took part in Fluxus events that are nowadays considered milestones in the art of the 1960s. As organiser, he arranged the legendary event "20th July TU Aachen" 1964 (with Beuys, Köpcke, Vostell, Paik amongst others).[tomas schmit archiv - Works no. 70].
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43344
- Title
- das gute dünken.
- Author
- SCHMIT, Tomas
- Format/Binding
- Gummed spine, self-wrappers.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Self-published.
- Place of Publication
- Berlin.
- Date Published
- 1970.
- Pages
- pp. (272).
- Size
- Small 8vo. (150 x 140 mm).
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