Research Catalog

Title

Le miroir comme tableau / Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jacques Meuris.

Author

Pistoletto, Michelangelo, 1933-

Publication

Bruxelles : Les Maîtres de forme contemporains ; Paris : Liliane et Michel Durand-Desssert [sic], c1993.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Meuris, Jacques.
• Maîtres de forme contemporains. pbl
• Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert. pbl
• Imprimerie Clerebaut. prt
• Atelier-Éditions Paul Bourquin. bnd

Description

21 sheets (19 folded) : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Artists' books
• Mirrors in art
• Pistoletto, Michelangelo, 1933-
• Artists' books > Belgium > 20th century
• Artists' books > France > 20th century
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Century

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – Belgium – 20th century.
• Artists' books – France – 20th century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Century.

Note

• "Tiré à cent cinquante exemplaires sur papiers Couché Job et Rives Tradition, numérotés et signés par les auteurs, dont 15 exemplaires marqués HC, 10 marqués EA/MP et 5 marqués EA/JM"--Colophon, on p. [4] of bifolium numbered I.
• Cover title.
• "Michelangelo Pistoletto: Il disegno dello specchio/La forme du miroir. Tavolo pozzo/Table puits. Divisione e moltiplicazione dello specchio/Division et multiplication du miroir. Tavoli del giudizio/Tables de la justice. Le tavole delle legge/Les tables de la loi. Autoritratto di stelle/Autoportrait stellaire. Images accompagnées de textes de Jacques Meuris: Digressions sur le miroir comme tableau"--P. [1] of bifolium numbered I.
• Consists of 11 bifolia of glossy white Couché Job paper, 8 bifolia of light gray Rives Tradition paper, and 2 sheets of transparent plastic on which is impressed an original work by Pistoletto. Sheets with work by Pistoletto are inserted in the first glossy bifiolium; remaining glossy bifolia are numbered I-X and contain images of works by Pistoletto. Inserted in each of no. III-X is a Rives bifolium with text by Meuris; the Rives bifolia are numbered 1-8. "Clerebaut, à Bruxelles, a assuré l'impression typographique en caractère Century"--Colophon.
• The original work by Pistoletto is titled "Rotazione dei corpi" and comprises 2 photostats on rhodoid cellulose acetate plastic sheets, "presenting the shoulder of Pistoletto's l'Homme interstellaire"--Publisher's description, accessed Jan. 24, 2012. Screenprinted by Paul Bourquin, Besançon.

Language (note)

• Titles of works by Pistoletto in Italian and French; text in French.

Binding (note)

• Issued unbound, in white stiff paper covers, in slipcase of mirrored Plexiglas with small screenprinted ill. on each side. "L'emboîttage a été conçu par Michelangelo Pistoletto et a été réalisé en sérigraphie sur plexiglass [sic] miroir par Paul Bourquin, à Besançon"--Colophon.

Call Number

MEMZ+ (Pistoletto)

OCLC

774417729

Author

Pistoletto, Michelangelo, 1933-

Title

Le miroir comme tableau / Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jacques Meuris.

Imprint

Bruxelles : Les Maîtres de forme contemporains ; Paris : Liliane et Michel Durand-Desssert [sic], c1993.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 109/120; copy in MEMZ+ is no. 62/120; signed by Pistoletto and Meuris.

Language

Titles of works by Pistoletto in Italian and French; text in French.

Binding

Issued unbound, in white stiff paper covers, in slipcase of mirrored Plexiglas with small screenprinted ill. on each side. "L'emboîttage a été conçu par Michelangelo Pistoletto et a été réalisé en sérigraphie sur plexiglass [sic] miroir par Paul Bourquin, à Besançon"--Colophon.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Connect to:

Publisher's description

Place of Publication

Belgium Brussels.

France Paris.

Added Author

Meuris, Jacques.

Maîtres de forme contemporains. Publisher

Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert. Publisher

Imprimerie Clerebaut. Printer

Atelier-Éditions Paul Bourquin. Binder

Research Call Number

MEMZ+ (Pistoletto) 05-2404

Spencer Coll. Belg. 1992 12-25