Edition Stemmle 65 (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Text in English. Small hole on the dust jacket. In the Textpieces the artist's body becomes the prop to illustrate a text, or to appear to illustrate a text, or to pose in the simulation of illustrating a text, any text, any text that strikes his fancy, so that all texts become sullied, as it were, or penetrated - as an odour penetrates a carpet - with the possiblity of being illustrated by these vulgar gestures and this profane body: all texts are sound bites waiting to be dirtied by these infantile, appealling and erotic tableaux, waiting to be transformed into the subvocal accompaniment to a slapstick schtick, the passion of St. Herrmann, he who is overcome by a drunk and bumbling libido.…