Research Catalog

Title

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard : sculpture / Michalis Pichler.

Author

Pichler, Michalis

Publication

Berlin : "Greatest Hits,", c2008

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Details

Additional Authors

• Broodthaers, Marcel
• Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
• Greatest Hits (Firm) pbl
• Kanschur Druck & Gravur. prt

Description

[32] leaves : chiefly ill.; 33 cm.

Alternative Title

Sculpture : un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard

Subject

• Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898. > Illustrations
• Pichler, Michalis
• Appropriation (Art)

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – Germany – 21st century.
• Cut-paper works.
• Laser art .

Note

• Produced in editions of 500 copies on paper, 90 on translucent paper and 10 on acrylic glass plates. Cf. artist's Web site, consulted July 25, 2011.
• Cover title.
• Artist's book, based on a reinterpretation by Marcel Broodthaers of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. In Broodthaers's version, titled "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard : image," Mallarmé's words and typography are replaced by similar-sized typographic rules. Pichler's version replaces them with laser-cut voids.
• Translucent paper ed. comprises 32 leaves of translucent paper. Eight are blank; 4 contain letterpress (added t.p.; 2 leaves with preface; colophon) and the remaining 20 contain laser-cut rectangles in the shape of the lines of Mallarme's poem. The cut-out spaces representing the poem appear on alternate pairs of opposite pages, but also in reverse on the intervening pairs of pages.
• The poem is printed in typographically compressed format as "Préface, par M.B." (repeated from Broodthaers's version), leaves [5-6].
• 2 loose sheets of heavyweight white paper inserted.

Binding (note)

• Issued in white paper covers, printed in black and red; in translucent paper book jacket.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 2006 11-134

ISBN

• 3978868740011 (paper ed.) (canceled/invalid)
• 3978868740028 (translucent paper ed.) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

535172213

Author

Pichler, Michalis.

Title

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard : sculpture / Michalis Pichler.

Imprint

Berlin : "Greatest Hits,", c2008 ([Senzig, Königs Wusterhausen, Germany] : Kanschur Druck & Gravur)

Edition

[Translucent paper ed.]

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 26/90 of the ed. on translucent paper; initialed in pencil by Pichler.

Binding

Issued in white paper covers, printed in black and red; in translucent paper book jacket.

Connect to:

Description and images on artist's Web site:

Place of Publication

Germany Berlin.

Germany Königs Wusterhausen.

Added Author

Broodthaers, Marcel. Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898. Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.

Greatest Hits (Firm) Publisher

Kanschur Druck & Gravur. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 2006 11-134