Les Tortures Volontaires, Den Frivillige Tortur
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.9 x 14.8 cm.
  • [40] pp.
  • edition size 600
  • unsigned and numbered
  • ISBN 8772286369

Les Tortures Volontaires, Den Frivillige Tortur

Annette Messager

Les Tortures Volontaires, Den Frivillige Tortur

description

Artist's book by Annette Messager featuring found black-and-white photographs interspersed with text, of women exercising and receiving beauty treatments, the instruments and actions of their treatments resembling torture devices. Text in French.

references

"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 200.
"Eye on Europe : Prints, Books and Multiples / 1960 to Now" by Deborah Wye, Wendy Weitman, New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art, 2006, pp. 207.
Copenhagen, Denmark: H.M. Bergs Forlag,
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$250.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. 5 mm. indentation near upper edge throughout pages, light yellowing of paper, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Numbered, with a stamp, 500 of 600.
[Object # 4987]