KUNST DER SECHZIGER JAHRE [5. erweiterte Auflage]
ART OF THE SIXTIES [5th revised edition]
Wolf Vostell [Designer], Gert von der Osten [introduction]
Gert von der Osten [introduction]: KUNST DER SECHZIGER JAHRE [5. erweiterte Auflage] | ART OF THE SIXTIES [5th revised edition]. Koln: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1971. Fifth Revised Edition. Text in German and English. Thick quarto. Flexible debossed plastic covers bound with 2 stainless steel bolts through a clear acrylic spine. Unpaginated. 209 tipped-in color plates by 92 artists. Catalog and short biographies. Multiple paper stocks and printing effects, including tipped-in plates, printed transparent slipsheets, fold-outs and more. A zeitgeist-defining tour-de-force of book design and production by Fluxus master Wolf Vostell. An exceptionally well preserved copy with no visible flaws, thus a fine copy. Rare thus.
9.5 x 11.75 unpaginated soft cover book with 209 tipped-in color plates and a portrait of each represented artist printed in black-and-white on a transparency. This is the definitive fifth revised edition of this famous and striking exhibition catalogue, which is itself a work of art. Wolf Vostell designed the catalogue for the Ludwig collection of contemporary art, given as a permanent loan to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. Beautiful production including butcher paper, onionskin and graph paper. Includes a "Personal Word" by Peter Ludwig, essays by Horst Keller and Evelyn Weiss, a section of quotes by the included artists, an explanation of terms and a "Druckgraphik" section in addition to the "Katalog."
Artists include Joseph Albers, Carl Andre, Horst Antes, Richard Artschwanger, Larry Bell, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hartung, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Morris Louis, Piero Manzoni, Marisol, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardi Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Segal, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Richard Tuttle, Victor Vasarely, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman and Wols among others.