Dear Ray Anne Lockard,
There must be hundreds of such inventive covers. I cannot lay my
hands on it at the moment, but I am particularly fond of one
catalogue (from San Francisco?) in the form of a back pocket for
jeans.
In front of me are three different publications with hollow plastic
covers containing encapsulated materials, as follows:
Hygiène de l'art : Hervé Fischer; tête d'artiste sous sachet
plastique hygiénique a jeter. This is actually just a cover for issue
91 of Petroleprogrès: revue trimestrielle, printemps 1972. The
magazine is a trade journal for the petroleum industry, but this
particular issue is devoted to plastic materials used in contemporary
sculpture. The hollow, transparent cover has barriers or traps rather
like an artistic version of a pinball machine. The pink, sand-like
material inside flows through the gaps and outlines the barriers.
Mack. In der Galerie Denise René. Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, 1972. This
is an announcement card 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches (oversquare) that is
encapsulated in clear plastic. The printed image is a simple
structure of textured plastic sitting on a sand dune against a clear
blue sky. Fine, light-colored sand flows within the outside covering.
Addictions. Guest curators: Walter Gabrielson, and Edward C. Wortz.
Santa Barbara [CA] Contemporary Arts Forum, 1992. 9 x 12 inches
(oversquare). A group show. Bound behind a clear plastic cover is a
clear vinyl bag, sealed, with several kinds of disagreeable-looking
substances inside. A label on the bag says, "Do not cut, fold or
mutiliate -Materials inside this page may be toxic."
Then, of course, there are major publications like Barbara Rose's
1969 MoMA catalogue on Claes Oldenburg, with squishy plastic covers;
any of the editions of Kunst im sechzsigen Jahre, designed by Wolf
Vostell, with multiple layers of plastic covers and a heavy, clear
acrylic spine attached with nuts and bolts (the catalogue of the
Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Köln; the 5th and best edition is 1971);
and Jean Tinguely's Meta, with text by K.G. Pontus Hultén. The
Tinguely has a cover in the form of a boldly decorated briefcase with
lock and handle; it was published, variously, by the Moderna Museet
in Stockholm, 1972; Propyläen Verlag in Berlin, 1972; Pierre Horay,
Paris, 1973; and Thames and Hudson, London, and New York Graphic
Society, Boston, in 1975. This is just the barest sample.
Apologies to those on the list to whom none of this is news.
Laurence McGilvery
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