Touch - Attention - Perception.

(London).: (N.p.)., 1976. Title + 16 sheets printed rectos only on kodak photo paper. Handling crease to edge of title, otherwise good.. (40.8 x 50.6 cm).. Portfolio edition, composed of large unbound sheets, signed dated and numbered by Druks on the title sheet. This portfolio edition was published in an edition of 20 copies (later published in 1977 in smaller booklet form by the Agora publishing house of Maastricht, in collaboration with the Baack’sher Kunstraum in Cologne, edition of 200 copies). Michael Druks is an artist from Israel equally adept in working with video, painting, and other creative media. These include performance, photography, collage, and installation. Druks’s work has featured at documenta 6 of 1977 in Kassel, the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Tel Aviv Museum as well as other exhibition venues in Israel. Born in Jerusalem in 1940 and having grown up in Tel Aviv, Michael Druks has lived and worked in London since the 1970s. After spending several months in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1972, Druks expanded the scope of his artistic practice to include video, conceptual body-related performances, and mapping. With his conceptual work Touch - Attention -Perception’, close-up photographic shots of various parts of the artist’s own body are paired with short texts and diagrams illustrative of each bodily sensation. (Rare, with no listings of the limited portfolio edition found on WorldCat).