Research Catalog

Title

Asger Jorn & Jacqueline De Jong : The case of the ascetic satyr : snapshots from eternity / the authors: Axel Heil, Karen Kurczynski, Marc Lenot, Roberto Orht, Kevin Repp.

Author

Jong, Jacqueline de

Publication

• New York, NY : JdJ : D.A.P., [2015].
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973
• Repp, Kevin
• Lenot, Marc
• Ohrt, Roberto
• Kurczynski, Karen
• Heil, Axel

Description

30 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color); 30 cm +

Summary

In 1962, while living in Paris, Dutch painter, sculptor and editor of The Situationist Times Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) completed a set of 11 woodcut engravings, a medium in which she rarely worked. Danish painter and writer Asger Jorn (1914-1973) adored the engravings and decided to publish them. First, however, Jorn decided to compose a set of texts to accompany the art work, turning the suite of engravings into an "erotic novel" which they called "The Case of the Ascetic Satyr." Over the course of the next decade they jotted down playful (and occasionally sexually explicit) notes to each other on anything that came to hand--exhibition flyers, cocktail napkins, even an unused sheet from Memoires, Jorn's famous collaborative artist's book with Guy Debord. The texts are mostly in English, the language Jorn and de Jong usually used together, though some are in French, Danish, Dutch or German. Wordplay is prevalent, sometimes referring to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. In the end, the book project outlasted the relationship between the two artists, and so was never published. This beautifully produced artist's book -- published in a signed and numbered edition of 200 copies -- is thus not so much a facsimile as a true first edition, with the prints accompanied by replicas of the notes between the two lovers. A companion volume includes essays on the piece by leading art historians in the field, Kevin Repp, Marc Lenot, Roberto Ohrt, Karen Kurczynski and Axel Heil. -- Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

• Case of the ascetic satyr : snapshots from eternity
• Asger Jorn and Jacqueline De Jong

Subjects

• Jong, Jacqueline de > Case of the ascetic satyr
• Wood-engraving, Dutch > 20th century
• Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973 > Case of the ascetic satyr
• Artists' books > Specimens

Genre/Form

Artists' books.

Note

• Issued in case.
• Published by D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers).
• The portfolio includes 1 volume (unpaged) of the woodcut engravings and facsimiles of the handwritten notes for the text.
• 200 copies signed and numbered by Jacqueline de Jong. 100 copies hors commerce, signed and numbered by Jacqueline de Jong. 34 copies with an original etching from La Folie enormie, signed and dated 1962 by Jacqueline de Jong. -- Colophon.

Call Number

MEMZ+ (Jong) 16-4954

ISBN

• 9781938922862
• 1938922867

OCLC

919483106

Author

Jong, Jacqueline de, artist.

Title

Asger Jorn & Jacqueline De Jong : The case of the ascetic satyr : snapshots from eternity / the authors: Axel Heil, Karen Kurczynski, Marc Lenot, Roberto Orht, Kevin Repp.

Publisher

New York, NY : JdJ : D.A.P., [2015].

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Library has copy number 3/2000, signed by the artist.

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973, author.

Repp, Kevin, writer of supplementary textual content.

Lenot, Marc, writer of supplementary textual content.

Ohrt, Roberto, writer of supplementary textual content.

Kurczynski, Karen, writer of supplementary textual content.

Heil, Axel, writer of supplementary textual content.

Research Call Number

MEMZ+ (Jong) 16-4954