WOLF VOSTELL – DICK HIGGINS

FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE

Something Else Press, New York, 1969

Rilegatura in tela ed. con sovracoperta / Hardcover, dust jacket

in 8°, dim.: 15 x 21  cm., 186 pag.

Interamente illustrato in b.n., alcune pagine stampate su carta velina fully illustrated in b.w.

Book designed by Wolf Vostell, with publisher’s dust jacket designed by Richard Hamilton.

RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE AMERICANA / FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

with the help of several other great minds in the field of architecture, employ the reader to conjure artistic theories away from the drawing board..

5.75 x 8 hardcover book with 186 pages with vellum overlays and extensive illustrations (drawings, collage, and photographs) throughout; documentation of Fluxus Architectural theories. A typical avant-garde publication of the period with the text printed and reproduced from handwritten pages, some on plain and some on transparent paper. German edition of this book was titled “Pop Architektur”. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.

Influenced by FLUXUS, HAPPENINGS and POP ART the book includes work by:

Carolee SCHNEEMAN, Pol BURY, Joseph BEUYS, Stephen WEWERKA, Buckminster FULLER, Richard HAMILTON, 

Lawrence WEINER, Jan DIBBETS, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Ben VAUTRIER, Michael HEIZER, Claes OLDENBURG, 

Kurt SCHWITTERS, John CAGE, Diter ROT, Raoul HAUSMANN, Gerhard RHUM, Erich BUCHHOLZ, Wolf VOSTELL, 

Bici HENDRICKS, Franz MON, Robert FILLIOUU, Dick HIGGINS, Addi KEPECKE, Milan KNIZAK, K. H. HOEDICKE, 

Jan Jacob HERMAN, Jean TINGUELY, Daniel SPOERRI, AYO, Frances STARR, Alsion KNOWLES, Philip CORNER, 

Douglas HUEBLER, Geoffrey HENDRICKS, Hans HOLLEIN.

First edition in English of the work which Presaged the attack on hide-bound methods and attitudes which a new generation of visionary architectural theorists were to begin mounting in the 1970's" (FRANK: Something Else, page 33).

COPIA IN OTTIMO STATO, piccolo taglio al piatto, ben restaurato, piccolissima mancanza (5 mm) al margine basso del dorso / VERY GOOD, small cut at the plate, beautifully restored, very small failure (5 mm) to the bottom edge of the back