Softcover, stapled wrappers. 48 pages, 18 × 26 cm. Text in English and German. Published by Schirmer/Mosel / Edition Julie Sylvester, 2012. Re-edition after the 1987 original.
Condition: Good used condition. Rubbing, handling marks, light soiling, softened corners, and wear to wrappers.
A later edition of Kippenberger's 1987 artist's book, collecting 67 aphorisms, jokes, and short verbal propositions. The original appeared through Edition Julie Sylvester, New York; this Schirmer/Mosel edition keeps the object in circulation after its first appearance as a small artist's book.
Kippenberger's books sit close to his broader practice: provisional, funny, self-mythologising, and resistant to clean categorisation. Here the artist appears through language, repetition, correction, and minor absurdity. Not a catalogue of works, but a printed support for tone, persona, and method.
A handled copy. The later edition is not rare in the same way as the 1987 first, but it remains a useful Kippenberger object: inexpensive, portable, and structurally close to the artist's book format.
Shipping and handling included in the listed price.
