thing ltd iain (3 Ergebnisse)

square 8vo. unpaginated. profusely illus. in b/w. biographies, exhibition chronology biblo. Illustrated wrappers in excellent condition with very minor wear to extremities. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Zustand: Good. First edition. Softcover paper portfolio(metallic silver) with loose sheets. Folio. Unpaginated (86 loose sheets). Illustrated with 68 b/w full-page plate photographs, and many additional in-text b/w photographs and illustrations. An artist's book and exhibition catalogue to compliment a series of shows and events created by the art collective N.E. Thing Co. LTD to coincide with the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. The 18 sheets of text break down as: Schedule (1 sheet), [Video Programme, Slide Presentation: The Body in Art, Myself and Somebody Else by Eric Cameron, By Way of Introduction (4 stapled sheets )], Film Programme (1 sheet), Handlist of Works Included (1 sheet), The Aesthetic in Sport by David Best (3 stapled sheets), Body Works by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear, reprinted from Avalanche No. 1 Fall, 1970 (2 stapled sheets), The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: Women's Body Art by Lucy R. Lippard (5 stapled sheets), and Football for Art's Sake by Barrie Hale reprinted from Canadian Magazine November, 1975 (1 Sheet). All sheets are slightly yellowed around the edges. The portfolio is creased, rubbed, and worn, with frayed, bumped corners. and small tears in the fore edges and spine. Loose sheets in paper portfolio.

square folio. illus. 85 unnumbered loose sheets in paper portfolio (creasing & short edge tears to portfolio, corner of one sheet creased, another partly soiled on verso). First Edition. The artist's book and exhibition were launched at the Agnes Etherington Gallery in Kingston, Ontario during the Montreal '76 Olympics. N.E. Thing Ltd.'s 'Celebration of the Body' demonstrates the aesthetic concerns and relationships between athletic and artistic activity. It is "a tribute to the original concept of the Olympics. The exhibition has several areas of concern: the historical showing how the arts have used human movement in sport and art for visual esthetic expression; the contemporary body art interest showing the current activities in visual arts where the artist uses his or her own body for their visual expression; the athletic, showing the actual Olympics through the use of video and photographs and athletic participation; the performance, including many forms of dance and photographs of dancers; and body awareness, showing all else to do with the body." The set of sheets include illustrations from various sources superimposed on graph paper as well as a film program, video program, and handlist of art works included in the event. Also included are reprinted texts: "Body Works" by Willoughby Sharp & Liza Bear (from Avalanche), "The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: Women's Body Art" by Lucy R. Lippard (from Art in America), and "The Aesthetic in Sport" by David Best (from The British Journal of Aesthetics). N. E. Thing Co. (Ltd.), a Vancouver-based art collective, played a seminal role in the emergence of the conceptual art movement in Canada, 1967-1978. Focusing on an interdisciplinary practice and using photography, site-specific performances and installation, N.E. Thing Co. is seen as a "key catalyst and influence for Vancouver photoconceptualism" and is considered a precursor to the Vancouver School. N.E. Thing Co. created some of the earliest photoconceptual works to display a tendency to use photography to document "idea-works and their sites, as language games and thematic inventories and as reflective investigations of the social and architectural landscape." (See Ian Wallace, 'Thirteen Essays on Photography', pp. 94-97) Worldcat cites circa 75 leaves in one entry and in another 68 plates and 38 pages.