Sans-Souci
  • artists' book
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22 x 29 cm.
  • [16] pp.
  • edition size 2000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Sans-Souci

Christian Boltanski

Sans-Souci

description

Artists' book featuring photographs of soldiers with loved ones: "[p]ublished on the occasion of the exhibition Christian Poltanski, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main... During his stay in Berlin, the artist came across many photographs of the members of the Wehrmacht with their fiancées, wives, and children. in the context of their everyday life, at home or on holiday, and removed from the trappings of propaganda, these soldiers seem like ordinary men... Watching television in America at the end of the Gulf war, Christian Boltanski was struck by the images of the troops coming home: These men who, by the force of circumstance, had killed, seemed so kind and almost childlike" -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991.

references

"Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991.
No. 77 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 202-203.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 198.
"Eye on Europe : Prints, Books and Multiples / 1960 to Now" by Deborah Wye, Wendy Weitman, New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art, 2006, pp. 98.
"Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 68 - 69.
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