(Xerox Book). Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner.

New York.: Seth Siegelaub & John W. Wendler., 1968. Original publisher's white wrappers, with glassine jacket. Minor loss and tear to rear of glassine, otherwise fine.. (28 x 21.5 cm).. pp. 184. Illustrated throughout with xeroxed work by each of the 7 artists. From the edition limited to 1,000 copies. The curator Seth Siegelaub invited the seven artists to participate in a project that soon became well known as 'the xerox book'. Siegelaub s idea was to transfer the physical space of an exhibition onto the pages of a book. He asked the seven artists to each contribute 25 pages of art work produced with the help of a xerox machine. 'Using the serial possibilities of electrostatic copying processes, the seven artists who contributed to this work were able to transform their drawings and objects by simply arranging them on the surface of a Xerox machine and printing them in sequence. As with many copies of letters that were the ordinary result of photocopying, until artists started using it, bits of dust and incomplete or solarized lines and solids changed their fidelity to the typewritten and drawn originals. In this work, those imperfections have been exploited by artists for whom the process of art making itself was their subject.' (Castleman). One of the seminal conceptual artist books. [Ref. Castleman 112; Lippard - Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object, p.64; Maffei & De Donno - Sol Lewitt Artist's Books, p. 29].