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Recollections: Modern and Contemporary Art's Books and Documents

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Libro d’artista - Chicks On Speed

It's a ProjectLondon, Booth - Clibborn Edition, 2004, 32.5x26.5 cm., Hardcover editorial binding, pp. 228

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 128

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Information

Artist book with pages printed on different types of papers, different sizes and shaped margins, fully illustrated with photographs and line drawings by Alex Murray - Leslie, Melissa Logan, Walter Schonauer. The volume is kept in an illustrated canvas bag in which a group CD, a folded poster, a unisex dress and the pattern to create a dungaree are still enclosed, with very different materials that represent the different aspects of the group's work in the sphere of art, music and fashion

Literature

Bibliography: Tang Roger Fawcett, Experimental formats Books brochures Catalogs, Modena, Logos, 2005: fact sheets n. A014 - A042 - B057

Specialist Notes

"This autobiographical book dedicated to the art, fashion, music of the Chicks on Speed, apparently cheap but highly refined in terms of production, combines a variety of pages of different sizes. The extravagant cover is only the starting point of the purely random "cut-and-paste" aesthetic that characterizes a publication whose only straight line is represented by the spine. Each section was previously trimmed with different sizes or shapes; after tying the various sections combine, mutually excluding each other; and as the pages are turned, the fragments of the other sections are revealed. This uneven style is further accentuated by the use of different types of paper: newsprint, thin and low-quality coated paper and uncoated paper. " (sheet no. B057).

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