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Les Livres de Gandelu

Gerz, Jochen

Liege. Yellow Now. 1976
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Deluxe edition, limited to 12 copies, each signed and numbered by Gerz on the justification (the artist has signed and numbered in reverse, as if writing in a mirror). Each of these deluxe copies are accompanied by an original miniature slab of white marble, carved into the shape of an open-book grave headstone. The marble is numbered on the verso in pencil.

'Les habitants du village de Gandelu n'écrivent pas de livres qui racontent leur histoire. On n'écrit pas non plus de livres sur leur vie. Les seuls livres qui parfois portent leurs noms sont ceux que l'on peut trouver sur leurs tombes.' (from jacket notes).
Unpaginated. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions of marble headstones at the Gandelu cemetery. Each of the headstones are those in the traditional shape of an open book. Publisher's wrappers.
#40208

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