Von Phall zu Phall.
by Tomas SCHMIT & Maruta SCHMIT & Ludwig GOSEWITZ
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About This Item
Berlin.: (Self-published)., 1967. Pink wrappers, with title label pasted to front cover.. (19.5 x 14.8 cm).. 58 leaves, mostly illustrated with pencil drawings. Artist’s book, a joint work by the Fluxus artist Tomas Schmit, together with Maruta Schmit, and Ludwig Gosewitz. They distributed this phallic-obsessed work under the pseudonyms Regula Grind, Luis de Morales and Erwin Siewin in order not to be prosecuted for pornography. The phallic words and phrases, stamped on most of the pages in lower case, ""der einphall"", ""der abphall"", ""das ist häufig der phall"", ""besagter phall"" and so on, are then illustrated with pencil drawings, in some cases with touches of red pencil or opaque white or with applied scraps of coloured paper; ""ein literarischer phall"" has a small collage made of yellow glossy coloured paper with the typewritten inscription ""phallobstzönales”. The picture titles themselves are stamped, mostly as signatures. The books are therefore completely hand-made, the individual copies of the edition therefore differ slightly from one another and are each unique. The book first appeared in an edition of 50 copies in 1966. After the first edition was sold out, the artists produced a second edition the following year in November 1967 in an edition of 30 copies, numbered with the letters A-Z and the special characters Ä, Ö, Ü and ß. This copy is from the second edition.
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- Bookseller
- Tim Byers Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1226
- Title
- Von Phall zu Phall.
- Author
- Tomas SCHMIT & Maruta SCHMIT & Ludwig GOSEWITZ
- Format/Binding
- Pink wrappers, with title label pasted to front cover.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- (Self-published).
- Place of Publication
- Berlin.
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- (19.5 x 14.8 cm).
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Tim Byers Art Books
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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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