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(ANDRE, CARL). Delahunty, Gavin, Lynn Kost & Valerie Mavridorakis. Lynn Kost, Editor. Zurich & Schaffenhausen, SWITZERLAND: JRP Ringier & Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 2014. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. Designed by Nicolas Eigenheer and Vera Kaspar. With an exhibition checklist. "Carl Andre was a poet before he was an artist, and between 1960 and 1965 he produced a substantial body of innovative visual poetry. Arranging language on paper as carefully and as sculpturally as he was later to arrange pieces of metal or bricks on the floor, Andre approached words as adjustable entities, to be moved around within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper. These works, made during the height of the international Concrete poetry movement, appeared alongside his sculptures in exhibitions and were excerpted in scholarly writings about the artist. With this volume, Andre’s influential poetic oeuvre is now gathered comprehensively for the first time. The poems, which were often typed on 8 x 11" paper, are reproduced in quasi-facsimile, to convey Andre’s sculptural intentions. Also included are essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valérie Mavridorakis, and curator Lynn Kost". A brand new, pristine hardbound example of this scholarly yet lively study published in conjunction with a 2014 Swiss Museum exhibition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-03-764364-1 Inventory Number: 026555