Karel Adamus (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 250 copies were printed at Beau Geste Press copyright remains with authors. No publisher stated. Limited to 250 copies. No date. Last indication of date within is 1974. Unpaginated; 42 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Clean copy of the rare second (and final) issue of this important seventies review of experimental and visual work (later combined with Pod to form E Pod). Unmarked copy, light sunning at spine and a little general wear. Not Signed.

First editions. Eight saddle-stapled 8vos of the same size in publisher's wrappers printed in various colors. Five of which are printed in black, and three in color. Pages mostly printed in black on white or yellow stock, a few in color. Unpaginated [varying page counts between 2032 pp.]. Text mostly in German, some English. A complete set of eight artists' books published by 'Edition & Verlag für Tendenz und Experiment,' each number devoted to a specific artist or collaboration between two artists. 'und 1: Contra Texte.' Reinhold Koehler. 1969. 20 pp. Featuring a collection of right- and left-justified texts printed in red and black along a middle axis. 'und 2: Gersaints Aushängeschild.' Jirí Kolár. 1969. 24 pp. Featuring a collection of eleven typescript concrete poetry portraits of modernist artists, including Josef Albers, Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Frantisek Kupka, Kasimir Malewitsch (Kazimir Malevich), Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters, and Reinhold Koehler. A set of thirty portraits were also published in 1965 by Svoboda in Prague, Czechoslovakia under the title 'Gersaintuv stít' (Signboard for Gersaint). 'und 3: Suprematistische Zeichnungen.' Kasimir Malewitsch (Kazimir Malevich). 1970. 16 pp. Featuring black reproductions of Malevich's Suprematist paintings and drawings. 'und 4: Memorabiler Lochtext, Décollages Imprimes.' Helmut Heissenbüttel, Reinhold Koehler. 1970. 32 pp. Featuring texts by Heissenbüttel paired with décollages reproduced in color by Koehler on every other spread. 'und 5: Intertexte.' Bohumila Grögerová, Josef Hirsal. 1970. 20 pp. Featuring a text collage portrait of the couple, typescript concrete poems, and texts. 'und 6: Feststellung a in der Kunst.' Kasimir Malewitsch (Kazimir Malevich). 1970. 24 pp. Featuring Malevich's treaty 'On New Systems in Art' originally written on November 15, 1919, in Vitebsk. 'und 7: Textbilder.' Rainer K. G. Ott. 1970. 24 pp. Featuring a collection of texts laid over various male portraits by Heide Kirchchner, some of which are nudes. 'und 8: Poems Pictures.' Karel Adamus. 1971. 20 pp. Featuring a collection of Karel Adamus' Poem Paintings with concrete poems laid over old paintings. Artifact Vibration Standard Score: 8.3. Trace amounts of rubbing to covers and age toning throughout. Near fine. [TIOTB Catalog 6 item 4a.].

Condition: Near Fine. 209 x 297 mm. A unique typestract work by the Czech concrete and visual poet Karel Adamus. Signed and dated in pencil by the artist. Adamus creates columns usuing an 'e' and 'x' motif. Adamus considered his work 'typed artpoe' and it appeared in a 1973 issue of 'Typewriter' by Robert Caldwell. Adamus is featured in Marvin and Ruth Sackner, 'The Art of Typewriting', Thames and Hudson, 2015, p. 315 and Barrie Tullet, 'Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology', 2014, pp. 68-69. Condition: near fine.

Kein Einband. Condition: Gut. Original Typewriter Picture auf weißem Schreibpapier (30 x 21cm). - Unten signiert und datiert. - Der tschechische Künstler Karel Adamus ist ein wichtiger Vertreter der "Visuellen Poesie". - Original Typewriter Picture on white writing paper (30 x 21cm). - Signed and dated at the bottom. - The Czech artist Karel Adamus is an important representative of "visual poetry".