Ferdi.
by Shinkichi TAJIRI
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Baarlo.: X-Press., 1970. Original plastic-covered boards, with colour illustrations by the artist’s daughters on front and rear panels. Binding slightly cocked, otherwise good.. (29.7 x 21.5 cm).. pp. (351). Artist’s book edited and printed by Shinkichi Tajiri on his own offset press (X-Press), published in memorium to his recently deceased wife, the Dutch sculptor Ferdi. The book was presented a year after his wife’s death and accompanied a retrospective show of her work at the Gemeentemuseum Arnhem in 1970. It contains contributions from a close group of international artist friends; poems, letters, drawings, paintings, photographs, reviews, as well as her life story shown in images, including her infamous hortisculptures. Published in an edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed by Tajiri. This copy additionally inscribed by Tajiri to the Dutch photographer and photojournalist Eddy Posthuma de Boer, and includes inserted loose, an additional signed postcard, as well as the original printed funeral notice for Ferdi from February 1969.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tim Byers Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1552
- Title
- Ferdi.
- Author
- Shinkichi TAJIRI
- Format/Binding
- Original plastic-covered boards, with colour illustrations by the artist’s daughters on front and rear panels. Binding slightl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- X-Press.
- Place of Publication
- Baarlo.
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- (29.7 x 21.5 cm).
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About the Seller
Tim Byers Art Books
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Richmond, Surrey
About Tim Byers Art Books
Dealer in modern artist's books, exhibition catalogues, invitations, announcements, posters, and related printed ephemera. Stock includes material concerning all major aspects of late 20th century art: COBRA, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Land Art, Fluxus, Neo-Expressionism, Post-Modernism, & YBA.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...