Notes in Hand
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • color
  • 15 x 10 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size 5000 clothbound copies published by Dutton ; 5000 clothbound copies published by Petersburg Press ; 20000 paperback copies published by Dutton
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0525169059

Notes in Hand

[Hardcover Edition]

Claes Oldenburg

Notes in Hand

description

Artists' book comprised of fifty altered and manipulated notebook pages by Claes Oldenburg, each mirrored with typographical transcriptions of Oldenburg's handwritten notes. Introductory text by Oldenburg. Preface photograph by Hannah Wilke [Wilki]. Additionally book has forward by Oldenburg, checklist and additional annotations by Oldenburg in rear of book. Printed by Staib & Mayer in Stuttgart under the supervision of Hansjorg Mayer.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 89.
"Artist / Author : Contemporary Artists' Books" by Cornelia Lauf, Clive Phillpot, Glenn O'Brien, Jane Rolo, Brian Wallis, Martha Wilson, Thomas Padon. New York, NY : Distributed Art Publishers / The American Federation of Arts, 1998, pp. 42.

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