{"title":"Daniel Bosser","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Bosser is a French collector and the named author of \u003cem\u003ePhilippe Thomas décline son identité\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), one of the key documents produced within Philippe Thomas’s practice of transferred authorship. Under Thomas’s agency \u003cem\u003ereadymades belong to everyone®\u003c\/em\u003e, collectors who acquired works became their official authors — their names replacing Thomas’s on the work’s surface, documentation, and public record. Bosser’s acquisition of the lecture-text made him, by the logic of Thomas’s system, its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication was first issued by Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, in 1987, and later translated into English by Occasional Papers, London, in 2015 — the first authorised English-language edition. In both versions, Bosser’s name appears as author. Thomas’s name recedes into the apparatus: the gallery, the publisher, the translator’s note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Rare holds publications attributed to Daniel Bosser within Philippe Thomas’s system of displaced authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bosser-daniel-philippe-thomas-declines-his-identity-occasional-papers-2015","title":"DANIEL BOSSER \/ PHILIPPE THOMAS — Philippe Thomas Declines His Identity, Occasional Papers, London, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e16 × 23 cm, 32 pp., black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Occasional Papers, London, 2015\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780992903909\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very good. Light shelf wear and minor handling to cover edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst authorised English translation of \u003cem\u003ePhilippe Thomas décline son identité\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published by Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, in 1987. The text relates to a performative lecture delivered by Philippe Thomas at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1987 and subsequently at the Musée de Grenoble — a lecture whose gestures, pauses, and delivery were already scripted within the book itself before it was spoken aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication is attributed to DANIEL BOSSER, the collector who acquired the work, in accordance with Thomas’s central practice: the systematic transfer of authorship from artist to owner. Under Thomas’s agency \u003cem\u003ereadymades belong to everyone®\u003c\/em\u003e (founded 1987), the buyer’s name replaced the artist’s on the work’s surface, documentation, and public record. The book enacts this displacement directly: Thomas’s name recedes; Bosser’s advances. The lecture becomes a script. The script becomes a publication. The publication becomes evidence of a transfer that has already occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOccasional Papers — the London-based publisher known for its rigorous programme of artist writings, translations, and critical texts — produced this edition as part of its ongoing effort to make key documents of conceptual and post-conceptual practice available in English. The translation makes Thomas’s system legible to an anglophone readership for the first time in authorised form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small but structurally important publication within Thomas’s body of work: printed matter as script, authorship as transfer, the book as the record of an artist’s deliberate disappearance from his own name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Occasional Papers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615833252178,"sku":"BOSSER-OCCPAP-CAT-2015","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bosser_Daniel._Philippe_Thomas_declines_his_identity._2015_front.jpg?v=1780303759"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/daniel-bosser.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}