FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE
Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins
Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins: FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE. n.p.: Something Else Press, 1969. First Edition. A fine hardcover book bound in full buckram in a near fine dust Jacket: one small chip to top edge of front panel. Book designed by Wolf Vostell, with publisherıs dust jacket designed by Richard Hamilton. Out-of-print. 5.75 x 8 hardcover book with 186 pages with vellum overlays and extensive illustrations (drawings, collage, and photographs) throughout; documentation of Fluxus Architectural theories. A typical advant-garde publication of the period with the text printed and reproduced from handwritten pages, some on plain and some on transparent paper. German edition of this book was titled Pop Architektur. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
Influenced by Fluxus, Happenings and Pop art the book includes work by Ben Vautier, Carolee Schneeman, Pol Bury, Joseph Beuys, Stephen Wewerka, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Hamilton, Lawrence Weiner, Jan Dibbets, Dennis Oppenheim, Ben Vautier, Michael Heizer, Claes Oldenburg, Kurt Schwitters, John Cage, Diter Rot, Pol Bury, Raoul Hausmann, Gerhard Rhum, Erich Buchholz, Wolf Vostell, Bici Hendricks, Franz Mon, Ben Vautier, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Addi Kepecke, Milan Knizak, K. H. Hoedicke, Jan Jacob Herman, Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Ay-o b., Frances Starr, Alsion Knowles, Philip Corner, Douglas Huebler, Geoffrey Hendricks, and Hans Hollein.
First edition in English of the work which ³Presaged the attack on hide-bound methods and attitudes which a new generation of visionary architectural theorists were to begin mounting in the 1970's" (FRANK: Something Else, page 33).
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