Course of the Knife, the: Il Corso del Coltello (SIGNED by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen)

OLDENBURG, Claes / Coosje Van Bruggen / Germano Celant: Essay

ISBN 10: 084780822X ISBN 13: 9780847808229

Published by Milan Electa 1986., 1986

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Soft cover

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This copy is boldly hand SIGNED in full across the title page by both Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; with essay by Germanoo Celant; the trade edition of this book is limited 2,500 clothbound copies; published by Electa Milan 1986; with numerous b&w and color illustrations; softcovers with paper wrappers, pp 237; the removable fold-out dustjacket is printed by offset lithograph in four colors measures: 27 x 11in. (28x21.5cm) which is nice for framing; edition size is unknown; sewn bound and offset printed; the book with Bibliography. Documents the history of Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife), a monumental multimedia performance created by sculptor Claes Oldenburg, writer/curator Coosje van Bruggen, and architect Frank O. Gehry, and performed in Venice in 1985; SYNOPSIS: "An 83-foot Swiss Army knife cruising the Venetian lagoon? In 1985, sculptor Claes Oldenburg, L.A. architect Frank Gehry, and writer Coosje van Bruggen joined forces for an "architectural performance" interweaving an army of characters dressed as objects in a scenario too complicated to summarize. Il Corso del Coltello lovingly documents this urban theatrical from the earliest notes through performance photographs. The event preaching the new architectural order in the shadow of Venetian Renaissance buildings clearly was fun for spectators and performers alike." (Reference: Annette Melville, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, CA; Library Journal, 1987.); book is tight; with just few tiny nicks at the top of the spine of the illustrated wrappers, some kind of mechical mark on first title page, and there are a few small dents in the last pages of the Bibliograph's text in rear of book; otherwise in VERY GOOD COND.

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Course of the Knife, the: Il Corso del Coltello (SIGNED by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen)

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Milan Electa 1986.

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1986

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English

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084780822X

ISBN 13

9780847808229

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Soft cover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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