Throwing Three Balls in the Air to get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts).
by BALDESSARI, John
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About This Item
Milan.: Giampaolo Prearo Editore S.r.L. / Galleria Toselli., 1973.. Original publisher's blue card envelope with flap, gilt titles to upper cover with the small excised rectangle to show the title vignette.. Oblong folio. (248 x 328 mm).. Leaf with titles and small colour vignette, 12 leaves each with colour offset illustration and final leaf with colophon, all recto only on glossy stock with rounded corners. (Sheet size: 244 x 324 mm). John Baldessari's beautiful photographic serial multiple. From the edition limited to 2,000 copies. As early as 1972 / 1973, Baldessari had set himself the impossible task of balancing order and chaos with Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 Tries) and Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get an Equilateral Triangle (Best of 36 Tries), continuing in 1974 with Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Square (Best of 36 Tries).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48238
- Title
- Throwing Three Balls in the Air to get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts).
- Author
- BALDESSARI, John
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's blue card envelope with flap, gilt titles to upper cover with the small excised rectangle to show the title
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Giampaolo Prearo Editore S.r.L. / Galleria Toselli.
- Place of Publication
- Milan.
- Date Published
- 1973.
- Pages
- [14 unnumbered leaves].
- Size
- Oblong folio. (248 x 328 mm).
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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- Folio
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