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Traces suspectes en surface

Title: Traces suspectes en surface / [Robert Rauschenberg, artist: images on stone, visual art work ; Alain Robbe-Grillet, author, wrote on plates]
Author: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008.
Publication: West Islip [N.Y.] : Universal Limited Art Editions : Tatyana Grosman, [1978]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1978 93-46	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

36 prints on folded sheets : lithograph, b&w, monochrome, col.; 70 x 53 cm.

Subject

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States.

Note

Printed on the rectos of the 2nd leaves of 36 bifolia. Each bifolium, except the first, is numbered (1-31, I-IV) in blind on recto of blank first leaf; each bears publisher's blind stamp on second leaf.
Collaborative work, consisting chiefly of prints reproducing images devised by Rauschenberg in response to the text written on offset plates by Robbe-Grillet. Ten prints present only Robbe-Grillet's text, 4 present only Rauschenberg's images. The first print (t.p.) and the last 4 (numbered I-IV) present respectively the title and the colophon (in English), all in Rauschenberg's hand; colophon prints also include images.
"Book is exchange with image + text"--Colophon.
Robbe-Grillet's text was incorporated in his Topologie d'une cité fantôme (1976).
Printed from 37 stones and 27 plates, chiefly in 1 or 2 colors and/or grayish-black: gray, blue, red, yellow, orange and green. Stones effaced and plates cancelled after printing.
Size of unfolded sheets: 70 x 105 cm.
Issued unbound, in orange-red cloth solander case (74 cm.) with title stamped twice in red, in Rauschenberg's and Robbe-Grillet's hands. Case designed by the artist and made by Carolyn Horton.

Indexed In (note)

Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre
Hogben & Watson. From Manet to Hockney
MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985
Sparks, E. Universal Limited Art Editions

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1978 93-46

OCLC

NYPG93-B9547

Author

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008.

Title

Traces suspectes en surface / [Robert Rauschenberg, artist: images on stone, visual art work ; Alain Robbe-Grillet, author, wrote on plates]

Imprint

West Islip [N.Y.] : Universal Limited Art Editions : Tatyana Grosman, [1978]

Indexed In:

Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre, 40

Hogben & Watson. From Manet to Hockney, 151

MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985, p. 327-328

Sparks, E. Universal Limited Art Editions, p. 447-457, no. 54-89

Local Note

36 copies, 6 artist's proofs, 3 printer's proofs and 1 copy not offered for sale printed by Bill Goldston, John A. Lund and James V. Smith on white wove handmade Twinrocker paper, specially watermarked with artist's and author's signatures. Spencer Coll. copy is no. 29/36: all but last 4 sheets numbered 29/36 and signed in pencil by the author on verso of first leaf, and signed in pencil and dated '72-'78 by the artist on recto of second leaf (except sheet no. 1, dated '72-'79, and no. 5, signed by author and artist on verso of first leaf).

Added Author

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008.

Horton, Carolyn. Binder

Universal Limited Art Editions (Firm) Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1978 93-46

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