Full Description
Once described as 'small explosions of intelligence and sensation, the seeds of wonder' by poet Thomas A. Clark, the eschenau summer press publications stretch the definition of 'artist's book' as far as it will go. Since 1974, from his home in Eschenau, Germany, renowned artist herman de vries (1931) sends out leaves of gold, the dust of some roads, the forbidden down of thistles. A longtime key figure in the book-as-art himself, most of these publications are the result of an open invitation from de vries to artist friends like James Lee Byars, Marinus Boezem and Melanie Bonajo, but also to poets and musicians - even to a keeper of bumble bees. This book facilitates our reception of all 77 of these shared objects through full illustrations and written clarification. Two essays connect the series to the international context of the artist's book.
Contents
6 Thomas A. Clark Dissemination
Archival introduction (2000)
8 1:1 overview
86 Lynne van Rhijn Clouds of coherence in the
eschenau summer press publications
96 Ton Geerts a book is a book
herman de vries and the (artist's) book
o1 herman de vries noise
o2 herman de vries to be all ways to be
o3 [Marinus] Boezem as wide as
o4 Sjoerd Buisman swellings: 1976 composterra /
prades pyrénées orientales france
o5 herman de vries ○
o6 Rudolf Mattes linie 200 cm lang
line length 200 cm
[o7] [Marinus] Boezem - light events - [not published]
o8 herman de vries october, february, june
o9 herman de vries the dust of some roads & a leaf from a tree
o10 Rolf Sachsse both sides
o11 Heinz Brand brand news
o12 James Lee Byars - devil -
o13 [Bernard] Aubertin essai sur le feu
o14 Dieter Roth [untitled] [aus der heimat ...]
o15 [Ryszard] Winiarski strategic game
[o16] [Maurizio Nannucci] ANTHOLOGY 1967/2007 [not published]
o17 Ewerdt Hilgemann for herman random sculptures, torano di
carrara, 11.00-12.00 a.m. on a day in august
o18 herman de vries - concept -
o19 François Morellet a badly bound book
o20 Jiří Valoch five parts of one work
o21 Jiří Valoch three possibilities
o22 Jan Smejkal nine days - 1985
o23 Wolfgang Schmidt worte machen
o24 Paul Panhuysen - clock -
Paul Panhuysen & - spider -
Johan Goedhart
o25 herman de vries rosa damascena
o26 Nicolaus Koliusis schau dem licht in die augen
o27 herman de vries von wirklichkeit und sprache
o28 Thomas A. Clark poem
o29 Martin Haseneier mykographie einer wiese
o30 Susanne Stövhase let us HELP in your RECREATION plans
o31 Geoffrey Hendricks TASCHENGEWITTER (POCKET STORM)
o32 Chris Drury amanita muscaria
o33 herman de vries remember theodor gustav fechner.
a reading-performance at the royal botanic
garden edinburgh at the 16th of august 1992
by herman de vries
o34 herman de vries botanische werke : distelsamen
o35/36 Hartmut Geerken das zeichnerische spätwerk von immanuel kant.
kommentiert von hartmut geerken
o37 herman de vries this
o38 Robert Lax circle
o39 Robert Lax More Scales - selection by John Beer
o40 Paul-Armand Gette Kleine botanische Mythologie
Petite mythologie botanique
Small botanical mythology
o41 Robert Lax red blue
o42 herman de vries wörter
o43 Ted Purves collected notes - observing birds 1995-1998
o44 herman de vries tutto
o45 herman de vries different & identic
o46 Robert Lax notebook
o47 herman de vries philosophische bemerkungen
o48 Hartmut Geerken may bug fly!
a paper sinking in the indian ocean
o49 Joe Jones joe jones memorial
o50 herman de vries change
o51 herman de vries gold
o52 Christa Schuster rosen in die dunkelheit - juni 2004
o53 Eugen Gomringer es muss alles hand und fuss haben
o54 Muriel Desroches papillions
o55 Karin Sander eschenau, februar 2008
o56 herman de vries eigenblut
o57 herman de vries le chêne de trévans. statement
o58 herman de vries quelques moments du courant de bès.
réproductions photographiques
(3 sec. de difference)
o59 herman de vries looking smelling hearing etc.
o60 herman de vries kant cant
o61 Hartmut Geerken - bombus terrestris visited -
no. zero minus one
o62 Thomas A. Clark the hidden place
o63 herman de vries searching for the source
o64 Ulay power flower - nature paper.
a gift exchange
o65 Hartmut Geerken signed / not signed
o66 François Morellet stamped
o67 susanne de vries alles auf seinem platz
o68/69 Carlijn Mens het is daar - dat is het.
shadows of moments passed
o70 susanne de vries, die wolken / the clouds
herman de vries
o71(1) herman de vries looking, smelling, hearing, etc.
o71(2) herman de vries zufall
o72 susanne de vries places
o73 Katharina Winterhalter drawing in the wind
o74 melanie bonajo the coven
o75 herman de vries zweitausendneunzehn
o76 Hartmut Geerken motz el son
o77 susanne & die wäscheleine
herman de vries
o78 Nan Groot Antink from the garden in eschenau
[Marinus Boezem] Unpublished: correspondence
[Maurizio Nannucci] Unpublished: correspondence
[Lawrence Weiner] Unpublished: correspondence
428 Name index
429 Selected bibliography
430 Credits
431 Colophon
