La Caída del Avión en el Terreno Baldío (Signed)
- SIGNED
- Madrid: Zaj / Artes Graficas Luis Perez, 1967
Madrid: Zaj / Artes Graficas Luis Perez, 1967. A near fine copy, with minimal toning to loose leaves; housed in a remarkably well-preserved copy of the printed cardboard box. Uncommon, especially signed, with 8 OCLC records located in North America.. Limited Edition. Quarto. Printed cardboard box housing 88 leaves of concrete poetry (10.5 x 8.25 in.); this copy SIGNED by Castillejo to the interior of the box's lid (dated Köln, 1969). Translating its title from a passage in John Cage's Silence—"beware of that which is breathtakingly beautiful, for at any moment the telephone may ring or the airplane come down in a vacant lot"— this is one of the more literary instances of the cartón genre developed by the Spanish artist's collective Zaj; a form of concrete poetry closely aligned with minimalism, performance, and mail art. Critic, poet, and diplomat for the Spanish government, José Luis Castillejo here mobilizes wordplay, suggestion, and visual composition to create a flexible sequence of 88 physical poems, with key references to a number of contemporary artists and writers, including William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Yves Klein, R. D. Laing, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol.
Details
Title
La Caída del Avión en el Terreno Baldío (Signed)
Author
CASTILLEJO, José Luis
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Madrid: Zaj / Artes Graficas Luis Perez
Date
1967