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190817t20192019gw a bc 001 0dita d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783956794209 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
3956794206 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
AE-ShKH |
| 041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
ita |
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eng |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
N6888.B4637 |
| Item number |
A4 2019 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Eigenschriften 1968-1973 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Irma Blank ; edited by Archivio Irma Blank, Milano. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Berlin : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Sternberg Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2019] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
405 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (chiefly color) ; |
| Dimensions |
31 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-405). |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Parallel texts in English and Italian. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Linguistic and visual representation intersect in Irma Blank's pastel-colored, script-like "Eigenschriften" (Self-Writings, 1968-73), a series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work. The cycle stems from Blank's experience moving to Italy in the 1960s from Germany, where she was born in 1934. No longer surrounded by her native language and unable to express herself through words, this form of writing became a type of escape for Blank. The slender lines of these works are reminiscent of writing, but one that is incomprehensible. Without any specific meaning, the work is pure sensation transmitted from the hand to the surface of the page, from the body to the work. Alongside more than three hundred full-color reproductions of the "Eigenschriften" works, this extensive monograph includes a text by Luca Lo Pinto examining the artistic and historical influences on Blank's cycle of drawings, considered an exercise of subtraction to reach a basic form of writing, while Douglas Fogle's essay looks at Blank's work through the lens of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, in terms of a shared practice of repetition, as well as the work of the writers Robert Walser and W. G. Sebald. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Blank, Irma, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1934- |
| Form subdivision |
Exhibitions. |
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17364 |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Blank, Irma, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1934- |
| Title of a work |
Works. |
| Form subheading |
Selections. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17365 |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Archivio Irma Blank (Milan, Italy), |
| Relator term |
editor. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17366 |
| 730 02 - ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Eigenschriften 1968-1973. |
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17367 |
| 730 02 - ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Eigenschriften 1968-1973. |
| Language of a work |
English. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17368 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
