ISOU, Isidore. Œuvres Aphonistiques. Paris: Editions Avant-Garde. 1967.
Folio. Soft white covers with pages loosely bound, blind stamped title to front cover, etchings by various artists throughout; pp. [48, (unpaginated)]; fine.
Part of the famous Avant Garde Portfolios and this copy has been signed by Isou, Alain de Latour, Roland Sabatier, Maggy Mauritz, Roberto Altmann, and Michel Jaffrennou.
This book is one of Isou’s most magnificent artbooks. It includes prototypes of silent action works created by Isou as early at 1959 which are connected to his theory of “Aphonisme” (this predates Fluxus).
This copy is one of twelve produced on Rives, and it is numbered fourteen out of fifteen to the limitation page. Also to the limitation page are the signatures of Isidore Isou, Alain de Latour, Roland Sabatier, Maggy Mauritz, Roberto Altmann, and Michel Jaffrennou. These artists created the six “Supertemporal” etchings. The concept of “Supertemporal” was theorised by Isou, and it essentially allows other people to finish your work in your place. For this publication, Altmann provided the first state, this was then altered by other Lettrists, and then this was erased and reconstructed in the late state of the etchings.
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