15 People Select their favourite book

This display is in part reference and homage to an exhibition with the same title held at the Lannis Gallery/Museum of Normal Art, New York 1967. Joseph Kosuth and Christine Kozlov set up the gallery when they were students at the School of Visual Art. They invited fifteen people to put forward their favorite book for the exhibition. It was a mix of artists, who had established different degrees of reputations and students.

The display involved, Cristina Caterinangeli, Ian Davenport, Emanuale De Donno, Primo De Donno, Sean Dower, Jeff Gibbons, Joschi Harczeg, Jeffrey Isaac, Jo Melvin, David Tremlett, Franco Troiani, Giovani Rendina, Guy Robertson, Eva LeWitt, Grace Wier

From the gallery's website:
The idea of a book as art, or a publication as exhibition, is as open to interpretation now, fifty years later, as it was then. It makes us reconsider platforms, situations and contexts. And it brings together a set a variable conditions and spirals of interconnections between the different books’ temporalities, their presenters and this location.

Despite the fact that very few people saw the exhibition in New York from May 7 to June 7, it soon gained a mythic status as an artist book exhibition. Germano Celant used it as a touchstone in his introduction to The Book As Art Work exhibition cataloguem held at Nigel Greenwood Gallery, 1972. He remarked, it proposed ‘the problematic question of art as an object or as a physical aesthetic symbol uses the book as content and written language as a means of intervention

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