COMMONPRESS NO. 51: Hungary I like your works [with 1983 invitation and 1989 exhibition program]

Galántai, György & Júlia Klaniczay, eds.

Budapest: Artpool, 1983–1989. Edition of 300. Small square 4to side-stapled into glossy pictorial wrappers printed in color. With varying page sizes printed in monochromatic colors, including black, blue, brown, green, and purple. Unpaginated. Text in Hungarian and English. To which is added an A4 sheet printed in black at recto and verso on thin white stock, and an A3 sheet folded at middle to form an A4 brochure, printed in green and red on tan stock.

Issue no. 51 of Pawe Petasz’s ‘Commonpress,’ guest-edited by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay at Artpool, exploring the controversial topic of Hungary. The original 1984 edition was banned by Hungarian secret police, who claimed it was an attack against the state. This edition was not published until after the regime change in 1989. Accompanying this issue are the 1983 call-for-entries invitation, and the 1989 exhibition program for the re-release titled ‘Reconstruction of a Banned Exhibition.’ Edited by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay at Artpool, with contributions by over 100 artists from eighteen countries, including Tibor Papp, Metalliv Avau, Joaquim Branco, Guillermo Deisler, Gerald Jupitter-Larsen, Eduard Ovcácek, Petr Sevcik, Carsten Schmidt-Olsen, Jørgen Christensen, Daniel Daligand, R. Martinez, F. Darasse, Horus, Pegase, Ulrich Forchner, Michael Groschopp, Frieder Heinze, Birger Jesch, Ingo Regel, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Joachim Strange, Olaf Wegewitz, Gerd Börner, Klaus Peter Fürstenau, Klaus Groh, Christoph Machert, Henning Mittendorf, Georg Ozory, Jürgen Prusas, Hildegard Weiss, Mark Pawson, Arno Arts, Pier van Dijk, Joseph Semah, Rod Summers, R. G. Tili, Ruiz Solsona, H. R. Fricker, Günther Ruch, Clemente Padín, Cesar Espinosa, Buster Cleveland, David Cole, Peter Frank, Radio Free Dada, Geoffrey Hendricks, E. F. Higgins III, Ginny Lloyd, Carlo Pittore, Rockola, Joel Smith, Lon Spiegelman, Emmett Walsh, Janos Baksa-Soos, Sándor Bernáth, András Böröcz, L. Cászár, Mária Czako, Ildikó Enyedi, Daniel Erdély, Miklós Erdély, Tamás F. Farkas, Áron Gábor, Istvan B. Geller, Sándor Györffy, Arisztid Halász, István Jávor, É. Kapitány, Béla Kelényi, Attila Kovács, Balazs P. Kovács, Ádám Kéri, Endre Kukorelly, András Lengyel, Jeno Lévay, Lászlo Lugo, Lóránd Méhes, Gyorgy Orbán, Attila Pácser, Robert vé Palinkas, Imre Regos, László Révész, Géza Sáska, Lajos Somoskoi, Zsuzsa Stuiber, János Sugár, Robert Swierkiewicz, Gábor Szabo, György Szabo, Julia Szaniszlo, Amondó Z. Szegi, István Szirányi, Endre Szkárosi, Ádám Tábor, Árpád F. Tóth, Antal Vásárhelyi, Vittore Baroni, Ubaldo Giacomucci, Serse Luigetti, Ruggero Maggi,and Manuel E. Montilla, among others.

Artifact Vibration Standard Score: 8.5.

Side-stapled text block had detached from covers, but has been professionally restored using archival materials. Else with bumps to oversized cover corners. A4 sheet and A3 brochure with age toning, handling creases, and faint horizontal fold lines at middle. Very good.

[TIOTB Catalog 6 item 6a.]. Item 1246.

Price: $450.00