AMERICA Invention - Unsettled Objects.

New York.: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum., 1993. Publisher’s wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with creasing to rear cover.. 34.6 x 27 cm.. pp. 112. “Lothar Baumgarten’s site-specific work for New York’s Guggenheim Museum, AMERICA Invention, is comprised of two pieces: the painted installation in the Frank Lloyd Wright building and this publication. Just as Baumgarten’s wall work appropriates the architectural structure of Wright’s museum, this publication usurps the format of Guggenheim Magazine. This ‘issue’, however, has been designed by the artist, together with his long-time collaborator Walter Nikkels, and is intended to be a work in itself.” (from the catalogue’s Foreword). Most of the catalogue consists in fact of Baumgarten’s photographs of the Pitt Rivers Museum collection of ethnographic objects, taken between 1968 and 1970. This copy inscribed in 1993 by Baumgarten on the opening page.