Michely ed viola (4 Ergebnisse)

1. Auflage. 352 Seiten. OBr., Groß-Oktav, XVIII S. / 334 S.; Strich auf Unterschnitt, sonst sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Softcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 256 Seiten/pp., 172 illustrations. - In the course of sixteen years, Joseph Beuys received more than a hundred letters from James Lee Byars, without ever writing back himself. Byars sent a wealth of elaborately designed letters to different people, letters which may well make up the greatest part of his work, but Joseph Beuys was the only colleague with whom Byars corresponded. And quite an unusual exchange of letters it is, enthralling readers by their extreme fragility and immense variety of materials, forms and ideas. His letters are not written with the purpose in mind of receiving an answer, rather, they constituted his day-to-day artistic routine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 160 Seiten/pp., 91 Abbildungen/ illustrations - The catalog presents a critical review of Byars's oeuvre and traces his development as an artist from his formative period in Japan to his later years in New York-ranging from his performances and work on paper and fabric devoted to the theme of life, to the splendid late sculptures in gold, marble, and velvet which deal with death as the embodiment of perfection.…

Near Fine in publishers cloth in very slightly rubbed dustjacket. 256pp. Illustrated throughout. 1st edition. In the course of sixteen years, Joseph Beuys recieved more than one hundred letters from James Lee Byars without writing back himself. Byars sent a wealth of elaborately designed letters to different people, letters which may well make up the greatest part of his work, but Joseph Beuys was the only colleague with whom Byars corresponded. The complete set of letters reproduced in this text contains reflections on Byars' own works and those of Beuys, and on the creative process and its counterpart, death. ISBN 3775709398.…