I Went, I Met, I Read, Journal, 1969
  • artists' book
  • boxed edition
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 4 vol.: 28 x 21.7 cm. (each book) ; 30 x 22.5 x 7.8 cm. (box)
  • 4 vol. : [unpaginated] (each)
  • edition size 300
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883751715

I Went, I Met, I Read, Journal, 1969

On Kawara

I Went, I Met, I Read, Journal, 1969

description

Four volume boxed edition of artist's books by On Kawara published on the occasion of the award of the Aachen Art Prize in 1992 to On Kawara. Volumes include "I Went," "I Met," "I Read" and "1969." "I Went" consists of black-and-white maps with walks taken by On Kawara between January 1 and June 30, 1969 marked in red. "I Read" includes reproductions of a scrap book with newspaper clippings from 1969 with notes in pencil. "I Met," contains daily dated typewritten lists of the names of all of the people On Kawara met between January 1 and June 30, 1969. "1969," contains calendars (in month form and list form) of when paintings were made as well as dates and descriptions of monthly news events that occurred in 1969, with texts in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

references

No. 623 in "Die Bücher der Künstler : Publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland" by Michael Glasmeier. London / Frankfurt, United Kingdom / German : Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1994, pp. 245.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 148.
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