Ample Food for Stupid Thought
  • artists' book
  • boxed edition
  • offset-printed
  • loose leaves
  • black-and-white
  • 13.2 x 18 x 1.5 cm.
  • [96] pp.
  • edition size 104 boxed sets [plus 396 loose card sets, plus 992 clothbound copies]
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Ample Food for Stupid Thought

Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot, James Waring

Ample Food for Stupid Thought

description

Loose card version of the artist's publication by Robert Filliou featuring silly questions designed to trigger equally silly answers printed on postcards with unmarked publisher's wrap-around paper. Includes introduction by Daniel Spoerri with sentences by Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot, and James Waring. Title, colophon, and introduction are all also printed on postcards. These texts would be later made into a book, and read aloud in a performance at the Café Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, New York City, on February 8, 1965.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 61.
"Something Else Press : An Annotated Bibliography" by Peter Frank. Kingston, NY : McPherson & Co, 1983, pp. 12.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 102.
Cologne / New York / Paris, Germany / NY / France: Something Else Press,
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$2,000.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light dusting to title card and light aging to cards otherwise clean and unmarked. Includes unprinted bellyband. This set is one of the 396 loose card sets. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39327]