bloknoot: 1e jaargang nr. 4
arnhem: bloknoot, [1970]. First edition of 125, of which this is no. 30. Appropriated light blue folder measuring 25 × 35 cm (9.8 × 13.8 in.), printed in black, with title rubber-stamped in black at front cover. With A4 sheets bound into folder with a metal clip mimeographed in black at rectos on uncoated white stock. Includes several tipped-in items: an 8 mm strip of film housed inside a stapled-in glassine envelope; a pasted-down photograph; a pasted-down 12 × 21 cm (4.7 × 8.3 in.) brochure printed in black on white stock; a strip of glossy red tape with a price sticker applied to a page; a string tied around two punched holes at top, alongside a paper clip inserted into a small cut below; and a poem written in black marker on thick dark brown canvas. Unpaginated. Text in Dutch.
One of the earliest assembling publications edited by Ruud van Aarsen, Robert Joseph, and G. J. de Rook. This issue with contributions by Bevant, Hans Clavin, Peter Finch, Rob Goswin, Henjo Hekman, Marten Hendriks, Rien van den Heuvel, Robert Joseph, Mirja Muurling, Maurizio Nannucci, Nahl Nucha, Jan-Derk Plenter, Gerrit Jan de Rook, Jacques L. Schmitz, Hans van Weely, Toon Verstappen, Hans de Vries, and Ivo Vroom, among others.
A few contributions of note include typestract concrete poems by Nannucci; typescript poems by Clavin; a fragment from an 8 mm film laid inside an envelope by Verstappen; a thin, glossy strip of red tape with a price sticker affixed on top, titled ‘paprika’ by de Vries; a minimalist three-line manifesto using only the letters i, j, and k also by de Vries; and several pages of works reproduced in the artist’s handwriting by Joseph.
Artifact Vibration Score: 8.7.
Oversized folder with the common age toning along extremities, including a few closed tears, bumps to corners, and a small stain at upper right margin. Pages with trace amounts of age toning, a few reading creases, and faint indents and offset toning to adjacent pages from tipped-in items. Very good. Item 1328.
Price: $450.00