Notebook on Water, 1965-66

Creator

Joseph Kosuth
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Files

Creation Date

1970

Keywords

artists' books; water; Kosuth, Joseph (American conceptual artist, born 1945)

Description

1 envelope ([15] leaves : illustrations, map (1 folded)) Title from envelope.

Originally a component of “Artists & Photographs”, the acclaimed boxed set of printed multiples by leading artists of the 1960s published by Multiples Inc. Notebook on Water comes as an envelope with 13 sheets of Kosuth’s conceptual practice, including handsome offset prints on a black background displaying dictionary definitions of aspects of water, one per page. Ice, water, steam, oxygen, hydrogen, and snow are accompanied by an introductory page of printed handwritten (by Kosuth) statements from Ad Reinhardt and Donald Judd, a map of the world, and a photograph of a radiator. – Printed Matter, Inc.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1039789~S4

Press

New York : Multiples, 1970.

Rights

©New York : Multiples, 1970.

Materials / Techniques

offset printing; leaves (gathered matter components)

Measurements

24 x 31 cm.