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Recollections: Modern and Contemporary Art's Books and Documents

Thursday 16 July 2020, 04:30 PM • Rome

19 Libri d’artista

Becher , Bernd

(Siegen 1931 - Rostock 2007)

Anonyme Skulpturen. Eine Typologie Technischer Bauten, Düsseldorf, Art-Press Verlag, 1970, 27.9 x 21.9 cm. editorial binding in canvas, cover, pp. [216].

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Artist book with illustrated cover and 196 black and white photographic images of industrial buildings and structures in Great Britain, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Text in German, English and French. Small and light spots on the cover. - Kingdom: BECHER Bernd - CONRAD Hans Gunther - NEUMANN Eberhard G., Zeche Zollern 2: Aufbruch zur modernen Industriearchitektur und Technik. Entstehung und Bedeutung einer Musteranlage in Dortmund um die Jahrhundertwende, Munich, Prestel Verlag, [print: Passiva Druckerei GmbH - Passau], 1971, 24.5 x 23 cm, editorial binding in canvas, cover, pp. 321- [3], artist book with illustrated cover in black and white containing 142 black and white photographic plates (part I) and 187 (62 + 125) illustrations in black and white in the text (part II).

Literature

First work: Martin Parr - Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, London, Phaidon, 2008, volume II, p. 266; Andrew Roth, The Open Book. A history of the photographic book from 1878 to the present, Götheborg, Hasselblad Center, 2004: pp. 258-259; Andrew Roth - Philip E. Aarons - Claire Lehmann, Artists who make books, London Phaidon, 2017 pag. 73.Second work: Bibliography: Antoine De Beaupré - Jean-Christoph Blaser, Bernd und Hilla Becher. Printed Matter 1964/2013, Lausanne, Librairie 213, 2013: n. 4 pag. 55

Specialist Notes

Lot of first editions. First work: "The title of this book" Anonyme Skulpturen ", speaks of the Becher's enormous success in the art world, where theoretical position and perceived ambition are often more important than the precise nature of the work itself. The word «sculpture» immediately raises expectations above and beyond the documentary photograph. The Becher's initial project of recording industrial building types succeeds both as a document (of sculpture) and as art (as scultpure) in its own right. " (Martin Parr - Gerry Badger).