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Ypudu, Anagrammiste.
(France): Christian Xatrec, 1987. First edition. 4to. Perfect bound wrps., 192pp. Illustrated with drawings, diagrams, musical scores and photographs. Texts in French and English.
SIGNED and inscribed by the artist on the frontispiece (dated May 11, 1988).
Dupuy’s first artist’s book, created at his studio in the village of Pierrefeu, near Nice, following a period of three years devoted to anagrams (“In this book, the anagram functions above all as a medium, linking literature and music to the visual”).
Dupuy began as a painter, but threw all his work into the Seine in 1967 and then moved to New York, where he exhibited in Pontus Hulten’s MoMA show, ‘The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age’, and won a competition arranged by E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) for collaborative work between artists and engineers.
Later, he organised group performances at The Kitchen, Judson Church and other downtown venues, and worked with and alongside artists and performers such as Laurie Anderson, Charlotte Moorman, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Larry Rivers, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Joan Jonas, Philip Glass, Charlemagne Palestine, Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sylvia Palacios Whitman and Olga Adorno. He moved to the Alpes-Maritimes in 1984 and, inspired by Marcel Duchamp, devoted his time to anagrams and the anagrammatic process, a concept he first discovered by chance in 1973.
Wrappers slightly creased, with some rubbing along spine edges, o/w Very Good plus.
Price:
£50.00
