Enquiries Inquiries.

Brighton.: The Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex., 1979. Original wrappers. Sun-bleached along lower edge of front cover, otherwise good.. (11.4 x 16.5 cm).. pp. (112). Early conceptually driven artist’s book by Susan Hiller (1940-2019). “The texts represented in this book have been selected, organised and reproduced photographically from two anonymous compendiums of general knowledge. I used some of the same material in two slide works also called Enquiries (first shown at Gallery House, London, 1973) and Inquiries (first shown at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1976)”. Hiller’s work Enquiries / Inquiries consists of pages from a British Encyclopaedia and an American one. The piece not only articulates Hiller’s personal relocation and adjustment from the United States to London, but the disparity between the two books, both purportedly written in the same language. This copy inscribed by Hiller in pen on the half-title: “For Richard [Bernas] - Thank you for the pick-ups & deliveries. I shall not be this exquisite & inquisitive again. xxx Susan”.