Grammar. (Gramatyka)
Kozlowski, Jaroslaw
Poznan. Galeria Akumulatory. 1973
An excellent copy of Jaroslaw Kozlowski's semantic artist book 'Grammar'.
In 'Grammar' Kozlowski makes use of the verb 'to be' in English and through a manipulation of its various iterations and tenses, each mapped to a specific date in January, February or March 1973 (the book was published in March 1973), takes the reader on a journey through what is, via what will be and what is being to what will have been and what has been being.
'Kozlowski's rich and multifaceted work has its roots in conceptualism. It is marked by a critical-analytical discourse with art and the mechanisms of perception, self-reflection and the building of correlations between the grammar of the artistic language and the sphere of meaning. In the 1970s he created works of a purely linguistic nature; they reflected his interest in language games and puns, as well as in transposing the rules of formal logic to reality and vice versa.' (Ewa Gorzadek, 2004).
[Printed Matter. Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek. pg.135].
In 'Grammar' Kozlowski makes use of the verb 'to be' in English and through a manipulation of its various iterations and tenses, each mapped to a specific date in January, February or March 1973 (the book was published in March 1973), takes the reader on a journey through what is, via what will be and what is being to what will have been and what has been being.
'Kozlowski's rich and multifaceted work has its roots in conceptualism. It is marked by a critical-analytical discourse with art and the mechanisms of perception, self-reflection and the building of correlations between the grammar of the artistic language and the sphere of meaning. In the 1970s he created works of a purely linguistic nature; they reflected his interest in language games and puns, as well as in transposing the rules of formal logic to reality and vice versa.' (Ewa Gorzadek, 2004).
[Printed Matter. Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek. pg.135].
pp. 40 + 1 loose insert sheet. 8vo. (234 x 168 mm). Leaf with title recto and Kozlowski's text in five sections recto and verso throughout, final leaf verso with achevé d'imprimer, with the additional sheet of translations of technical English grammatical terms into Polish inserted loose. Original publisher's tan printed wrappers, stapled as issued, titles within rule to front cover in black.
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