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  • The Course Of The Knife / Il Corso Del Coltello: Claes Oldenburg / Coosje Van Bruggen / Frank O. Gehry - Signed By Claes Oldenburg

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    THE COURSE OF THE KNIFE / IL CORSO DEL COLTELLO: CLAES OLDENBURG / COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN / FRANK O. GEHRY - SIGNED BY CLAES OLDENBURG

    (OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE) (GEHRY, FRANK O.). Celant, Germano, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen & Frank O. Gehry. Milano, ITALY: Edizioni Electa S.p.a., 1986. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Artists Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With a bibliography. This is the detailed monograph written by noted art historian Germano Celant documenting Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, and Frank O. Gehry's collaborative theater cum performance piece "Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife)" that premiered at the 1984 Venice Biennale. The partcipants included, Oldenburg, Van Bruggen, Gehry, Celant, Pontus Hulten, John Miller, and much of Gehry's family. A bright, most handsome example of the paperbound Electa English language edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes O" in black ink across the title page with a two page Solomon R. Guggenheim press release.regarding their upcoming December 1986 exhibition of the "Knife Ship" from "Il Corso del Coltello" additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 025790

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    Filed Under: Architecture, Artist Monographs, California Artists and Arts, Performance Art, Pop Art, Signed Books

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