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Actions		Ich bin ein Buch / kaufe mich / jetzt Remove from selection Add to selection Object number1977.0108 TitleIch bin ein Buch / kaufe mich / jetzt Creator A.R. Penck (vervaardiger)‎, Verlagsgesellschaft Greno (uitgever)‎ DescriptionThis artist’s boolc turns the conventional use of a book on its head, flouting expectations and intruding between reader and author. The title already refers ironically to the book’s commodity character, thus simultaneously cancelling it out. The book addresses the reader directly, provoking him through commands, questions or suggestions. It demands that he return to previous pages and contradicts itself. All the while, everything revolves around the book itself, as if its addressee were superfluous. A. R. Penck stages in this work a “monologue” on the part of the book, thus drawing attention to the reflection space available for art as well as the frame within which it unfolds: in the multi-layered communicative interplay between author and reader. Production date 1976 Production period20e eeuw Object namekunstenaarsboeken Object categorykunstenaarsboeken Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt Techniqueoffsetdrukken Dimensions breedte: 12.00 cm lengte: 17.30 cm pagina-aantal: 428.00

Object number1977.0108

TitleIch bin ein Buch / kaufe mich / jetzt

Creator A.R. Penck (vervaardiger)‎, Verlagsgesellschaft Greno (uitgever)‎

DescriptionThis artist’s boolc turns the conventional use of a book on its head, flouting expectations and intruding between reader and author. The title already refers ironically to the book’s commodity character, thus simultaneously cancelling it out. The book addresses the reader directly, provoking him through commands, questions or suggestions. It demands that he return to previous pages and contradicts itself. All the while, everything revolves around the book itself, as if its addressee were superfluous. A. R. Penck stages in this work a “monologue” on the part of the book, thus drawing attention to the reflection space available for art as well as the frame within which it unfolds: in the multi-layered communicative interplay between author and reader.

Production date 1976

Production period20e eeuw

Object namekunstenaarsboeken

Object categorykunstenaarsboeken

Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt

Techniqueoffsetdrukken

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