Jean Tinguely: "Meta

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. Hardcover. VG/G- (some age toning along textblock, dustjacket has significant wear and is fastened to book, several creases and tears, still protects the book). Gray cloth boards with silver gilt lettering along spine, off-white pictorial dustjacket with color illustration and black lettering, 364 pp., bw illustrations throughout. "Tinguely is clearly a successor of the Dadaists, a believer in the anarchist principle that destruction can be creative. His works are elaborate, satisfying, photogenic, and sometimes rather awesome. The comment on modern civilization is obvious. Pontus Hulten, the former curator of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, is now Director of the Plastic Arts Department at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris. He organized the historic 'Machine' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and has been a friend and collaborator of Tinguely's. This detailed account of the artist's career includes a number of fascinating unpublished documents, among them letters and postcards full of inexhaustible (and sometimes indecipherable) artistic and mechanical inventions." - from dust jacket.