PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 180 color / 90 bw

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/2/2001
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Catalog: SPRING 2001

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ISBN 9783883754475 SDNR30
List Price: $36.00 CAD $45.00

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On Kawara: Horizontality And Perpendicularity

Edited by Ulrich Wilmes.Essay by Michel Butor.

Horizontality and Perpendicularity documents the various places visited by Japanese artist On Kawara through his projects I GOT UP and I WENT, ongoing projects begun in 1968. I GOT UP consists of stamped postcards--stating time, venue, sender, and addressee--sent twice a day by Kawara from cities all over the world to friends and acquaintances. I WENT documents the distances covered daily by the artist, marked in photocopies of city maps. Horizontality and Perpendicularity covers both process-projects, combining a postcard and a city map for each day. French novelist and theorist Michel Butor contributes with an essay on Kawara's extremely systematic art--which recalls, in its way, Butor's experiments with the nouveau roman (or new novel) in the 1950s and 1960s. Beautiful and necessary, Horizontality and Perpendicularity is an impressive testament to Kawara's dismantling of the boundaries between art and life.

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