This is the first edition of this artist's book, published by Gotham in 1998, and only later by Chronicle Books the following year. Released on the occasion of an exhibition by David Byrne at the LipanjePuntin Gallery Artecontemporanea in Trieste. 104 pp; 35,5x28,5 cm. In this book, writer, photographer, musician, and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has created an extraordinary document and critique of the times we live in. Your Action World parodies the inspirational promotional materialsincluding books, tapes, and corporate advertising - with which we are inundated daily. Byrne's impulse is to fight back, to stem the tide of images and bullying texts that assault all of us, by building dikes and dams of my own images and texts. To understand the enemy I must become one with the enemy, I must be of one mind with the enemy. I must infect myself in order to be immunized Vinyl bound in original plastic envelope with printed letters that superimposed on the volume complete the title. Seller Inventory # 5182-CP-corr

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Title: Your action world. Winner are losers with a ...

Publisher: Milano, Gotham

Publication Date: 1998

Condition: Good

Edition: First edition.

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The Studio Bibliografico Giorgio Maffei specialises in original texts by twentieth century visual and literary avant-garde artists. These range from the historic publications produced in the early 1900s, to the Futurist, Dadaist, Abstract and Surrealist volumes which are now considered to be classics, to the subsequent revolutionary techniques of the second half of the century. The bibliographic research already carried out by the Studio Bibliografico offers confirmation of the importance of this area and of the fact that the entire history of modern publishing continues to offer immense research potential in all areas, covering original texts, exhibition catalogues, specialist magazines and in particular artists' books, that fertile terrain which encouraged the meeting and cross- fertilisation of many different art forms.

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