Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to be working with Jean-
Noël Herlin to offer for sale files from The Jean-Noël Archive Project.
"In the context of my activity as an antiquarian bookseller, J.N.
Herlin, Inc., I began in 1973 to acquire exhibition invitations /
announcements and poster / mailers on painting, sculpture, drawing and
prints, performance, and video. I was motivated by art historical
necessity to enter them into the bibliographical record, from which
they are mostly absent, and the quasi-neglect in which these ephemeral
primary sources are held by American commercial channels."
"Documentary value and thinness were my only criteria of inclusion.
Over time my curatorial concept evolved from a documentary to a study
archive project on international visual and performing arts,
reflecting the appearance of new media and art producing practices,
globalization, the blurring of lines between high and low, the
devaluation of originality and quality as authoritative criteria of
and the obsolesce of traditional typologies."
"In addition to painting, sculpture, drawing and prints, performance
and video, the Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project includes material on
architecture, design, caricature, comics, animation, mail art, music,
dance, theater, photography, film, textiles and the arts of fire. It
also contains material on galleries, collectors, museums, foundations,
alternative spaces, and clubs. Simultaneously, I incorporated posters,
press kits, press releases, exhibition catalogues (thin ones),
checklists, résumés, exhibition and performance schedules, programs,
book and magazine publishers' information, periodicals, press
clippings (writings and statements by, and interviews with artists,
articles, reviews, obituaries), visual documentation (transparencies,
slides, photographs, photocopies from slides, CDs and DVDs), a few
drawings, prints, photographs, and mail art works; artists' books
(again, thin ones), stamps, postcards, and calendars; pins and
buttons, stickers, coins, manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence,
name cards, records, and other miscellaneous items."
"The Jean-Noël Archive Project, which contains more than 254,000
physical items, is organized in four groups: documents pertaining to
individual artists, collaborators and groups; documents pertaining to
group events with a title and clippings; documents pertaining to
untitled group events or multiple events, and material pertaining to
organizations; and periodicals."
"All items are as originally issued. A few photocopies from originals
have been so identified. Most undated documents have been dated.
Clippings, the majority of the group event catalogues and selected
items have been indexed and cross referenced. With very few
exceptions, the material is in excellent physical condition."
"The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project is credited in more than fifty
books and exhibition catalogues. It is replete with important and / or
rare documents and publications from which numerous exhibitions could
be culled. The PDF consist of four lists. The first three represent
the files which, in the project's first three groups, contain ten or
more physical items. The first list is followed by a selection from
selected files within the letters A through D of the first group. The
fourth list consists of a selection of periodicals. The total of
physical items in these four lists accounts for more than 55% of the
project."
Jean-Noël Herlin, March 2009
A PDF of The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive may be downloaded at:
www.specificobject.com/projects/herlin/herlin-archive.pdf
Specific Object / David Platzker is now scheduling appointments to
view artists files from the Archive. Complete files will be sold only
-- individual files will not be broken into component parts -- we are
only offering for sale complete files composed of ephemera, posters,
press releases and other materials related to single artists.
Interested parties should make appointments by phone or email, and
providing us with details regarding which files you wish to view, with
a maximum of 5 files per individual appointment. Due to the size and
scope of this project please note we can not index individual files
prior to your appointment.
As the Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project documents nearly 40,000
artists we invite Inquiries about materials on artists other than
those listed, or on material relating to specific events.
Please note that the PDF will be updated regularly to reflect
additional materials being added to files and / or the sales of files.
Specific Object's hours are Monday - Friday 10 AM to 5 PM, or by
appointment.
Specific Object is located at 601 West 26th Street / Floor 2M / Room
M285, New York, New York 10001.
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