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Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

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In Good+ to Very Good condition. Some light bumping and fraying to corners. Text in French, German, and English. With hand written letter (in English) (signed) by Oscar Wiggli to gallery owner introducing this new book, laid in. Oscar Wiggli (9 March 1927 ? 26 January 2016) was a Swiss composer and sculptor. "Oscar Wiggli has dedicated all his life to Eros, vital force. This has structured his plastic work into three objectives through stages that are formally different. He achieved his objectives step by step in the time frame, but changes happened and still do, providing new solutions. The sensual and obsessional experience of the female body drives his interpretation of his sensations by mimetic representations of the body. The formal problem caused by the use of larger and larger iron plates led to the workings of axiomatic geometrics on basic forms. This suggests the physical reality of a female body by cryptic evocations. The ability of using large sledgehammers allowed him to create a series of grand archaic idols which are not strictly feminine, but simply portray human existence.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Oscar Wiggli: Collection Prisme, Volume 14
Author
Wiggli, Oscar. Introduction by Marie-Claude Beaud. Extraits de textes de Peter F. Althaus, Florens Deuchler, Manuel Gasser, .
Publisher
Collection Prisme
Publication year
1977
Condition
Very Good
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Binding
Hard cover
Edition
First edition.
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Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

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