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Düsseldorf.: Mediacontact., 1971-73.. 11 issues. Original wrappers, each signed or stamped by the contributing artists.. (30 x 21 cm).. pp. 8-24 per issue. ""Information from artists and artists’ groups in whose working fields a consciousness-building concept is discernible."" It was with this short sentence that publisher/artist Dietmar Kirves – also known to many as a German member of the ""NO!art"" movement – characterised his two publication series ""art information"" and ""media news"". With the two series, Kirves' aim was to create a platform for making information on contemporary art accessible to a broad public inexpensively, and thus to encourage a creative dialog with the public. In the period from 1970 to 1973, Kirves asked artists belonging to various art movements – generally of an anti-art-establishment nature – to submit momentary takes on their working processes as well as examples of their work. In the ""art information"" series, editions by Joseph Beuys, Michael Buthe,… Read More