The B-Thing
  • artists' book
  • pictorial boards
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 27.5 x 18.5 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883755079

The B-Thing

Gelatin, Tex Rubinowitz

The B-Thing

description

An amazing artist's book by the collective Gelatin that documents in drawings, texts, and lush photography, the supposed efforts by the group to build a balcony on the 91st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center in New York. Rich in details the book illustrates what may be the successful efforts of the team to remove a window, construct a gangplank, then a small balcony. Did the performance actually happen? It's hard to tell. Forget the events of 9/11 and consider this book for its wonderful effort to subvert architecture. Also, check out the author's website for further details about the project.

references

"Sand in der Vaseline : Künstlerbüucher 1980 - 2002" by Uwe Koch, Sabine Roeder, Dorothea Klein, Klaus Pohl, Melitta Kliege. Köln, Germany : Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, 2003, pp. 114 - 117, 121.
$15,000.00
Condition:  Used
$1,799.00
Condition:  Collectible