"Du Catalogue"; (Les Cahiers du Musee National d'Art Moderne 56/57)
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996. First edition. Soft cover. 232p, many small photos and line ills. Good (covers soiled). Item #32911
This issue of Les Cahiers is devoted to the aims, content, and design of art catalogues of many kinds--exhibition, oeuvre, sale, etc. Texts by 12 artists, historians, and critics, including Siegfried Gohr ("Strategie du catalogue et signatures artistiques"), Anne Moeglin-Delcroix ("Du Catalogue comme oeuvre d'art et inversement"), Marion Hohlfeldt on Yves Klein, Camille Morineau on the Musee National d'Art Moderne exhibition catalogues from 1947 to 1977, and a French translation of an 1809 William Blake sale catalogue. Also book reviews. This particular issue is scarce.
Price: $60.00