Blue Books [A Performance ; I Can't : A Performance ; I Mean It : A Performance ; It's Very Simple : A Performance ; So? : A Performance ; Stop Crying : A Performance ; A Performance]
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • monochrome
  • 19.5 x 16 cm.
  • 7 vol. [20] pp. each
  • edition size unknown
  • signed and unnumbered

Blue Books [A Performance ; I Can't : A Performance ; I Mean It : A Performance ; It's Very Simple : A Performance ; So? : A Performance ; Stop Crying : A Performance ; A Performance]

[Complete Set / Seven Volumes]

Ida Applebroog

Blue Books [A Performance ; I Can't : A Performance ; I Mean It : A Performance ; It's Very Simple : A Performance ; So? : A Performance ; Stop Crying : A Performance ; A Performance]

description

Complete set of seven artist's books comprising the "Blue Books" series. Titles within the sequence are: "A Performance;" "I Can't: A Performance;" "I Mean It: A Performance;" "It's Very Simple: A Performance," "So?: A Performance;" "Stop Crying: A Performance;" and "A Performance." Relays interpersonal situations.

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. 137 - 138.
New York, NY: Ida Applebroog,
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$1,500.00
Condition:  Complete Set of Seven Volumes. Fine. All books as issued. Signed, annotated "End of magnum opus" and dated in pencil on final page of last volume, "the end."
[Object # 17001]
$1,500.00
Condition:  Very Good. SIGNED. All copies in Very Good condition with light rubbing of edges and mild foxing of covers. Additional wear as noted: "A Performance," light bumping of top and bottom right corners; "I Can't: A Performance," bumping of bottom left corner of publication, 1 cm. of staining to recto, light foxing of edges of some pages; "I Mean It: A Performance," 8 mm. stain to verso, minimal foxing to some pages;"It's Very Simple: A Performance," 4.4 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of verso; "So? : A Performance," 4 mm. of soiling to verso ; and "A Performance," 2 mm. and. 1 mm. of staining to recto, light foxing of covers with a 4 mm. scratch to verso, SIGNED and dated (1982) by Applebroog in pencil on last image page of book.
[Object # 39309]