One Century. Dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Ghent.: Imschoot, Uitgevers for IC., 1988. Publisher’s cloth, print colour printed dust-jacket.. (22 x 15.5 cm).. pp. (246). Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, with this one of 25 deluxe hardback copies, numbered and signed with the artist’s initials on the initial blank page. The work 'A Century', which exists as nearly 900 mainly typewritten A4 pages, was created in 1971 by Darboven. The main section is a purely mathematical visualisation of a century starting from the year 00 through 99. The whole century is divided into twelve months, each of them corresponding to the twelve months in 1971 when Darboven actually worked on the project. The months, or chapters, are separated by vignettes, numbered from I - XII, silhouettes of the kind that was popular in the 19th century, with motifs from fairy tales or folk songs. In 1982, to mark the 150th century of Goethe's death, Hanne Darboven supplemented the Century with a section specifically dedicated to Goethe, quoting the Grosser Brockhaus Encyclopaedia, on the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This artist’s book reprints four A4 pages to one A5 page - and thus condensing Darboven’s text.