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DA AU DELA. Da-a/u delà: a magazine of arts and literature.
Milano: ED.912, Edizioni di Cultura Contemporanea, 1966.
The first and only periodical from ED.912, the avant-garde publishing house founded in 1966 by Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Gianni Sassi and Sergio Albergoni (later joined by Tommaso Trini, Germano Celant, Mario Diacono and Maria Volpi; they also produced eight issues of the art newspaper, bit, and a series of artists’ posters).
The publication consists of two parallel sets of accordion folded leaves, printed on one side only, with the cover opening outward from the centre. 26.3x13.4 cm. Unpaginated (14pp.).
Prints texts and drawings (most of them printed across two-page spreads) by Ben Vautier; Emilio Villa; Lourdes Castro; Andrè Balthazar; René Bertholo; Rolf-Gunter Dienst; Alejandro Jodorowsky; Julien Blaine; Pierre Garnier; George Brecht; Gianni-Emilio Simonetti; Magdalo Mussio; Dick Higgins; Wolf Vostell; Daniela Palazzoli; Gianfranco Baruchello; La Monte Young; and Mario Diacono, with one loose plate inside printing a fragment from a recent musical score by Sylvano Bussotti (“Clip-Uno”).
A little light edge-wear and faint creasing to cover, o/w Very Good plus.