STATEMENTS NUMBER 2 (NOVEMBER 1970)

(Art & Language)
Analytical Art
STATEMENTS NUMBER 2
November 1970
Coventry: Analytical Art, November 1970
21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. Second of only two editions of this artist's book (both differed) of work carried out by founder student members of Art & Language at Coventry in 1969 under their title of Analytical Art. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The works include two since lost or destroyed works - Noisy Channel Chair 1 (1969) where a found chair was photographed and then coated in photographic emulsion and the original photograph projected back onto the chair and developed - thus creating a merger of signifier and signified - and Noisy Channel Canvasses (also now destroyed) where a similar process was undertaken using unpainted canvasses. There are 8 b/w images of these works. Only 'a couple of hundred' of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition.