Enquiries Inquiries.
by Susan HILLER
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Brighton.: The Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex., 1979. Original wrappers. Sun-bleached along lower edge of front cover, otherwise good.. (11.4 x 16.5 cm).. pp. (112). Early conceptually driven artist’s book by Susan Hiller (1940-2019). “The texts represented in this book have been selected, organised and reproduced photographically from two anonymous compendiums of general knowledge. I used some of the same material in two slide works also called Enquiries (first shown at Gallery House, London, 1973) and Inquiries (first shown at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1976)”. Hiller’s work Enquiries / Inquiries consists of pages from a British Encyclopaedia and an American one. The piece not only articulates Hiller’s personal relocation and adjustment from the United States to London, but the disparity between the two books, both purportedly written in the same language. This copy inscribed by Hiller in pen on the half-title: “For Richard [Bernas] - Thank you for the pick-ups & deliveries. I shall not be this exquisite & inquisitive again. xxx Susan”.
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- Bookseller
- Tim Byers Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1363
- Title
- Enquiries Inquiries.
- Author
- Susan HILLER
- Format/Binding
- Original wrappers. Sun-bleached along lower edge of front cover, otherwise good.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex.
- Place of Publication
- Brighton.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- (11.4 x 16.5 cm).
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Tim Byers Art Books
Biblio member since 2022
Richmond, Surrey
About Tim Byers Art Books
Dealer in modern artist's books, exhibition catalogues, invitations, announcements, posters, and related printed ephemera. Stock includes material concerning all major aspects of late 20th century art: COBRA, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Land Art, Fluxus, Neo-Expressionism, Post-Modernism, & YBA.
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