Daniel Buren and Michel Cenet, The Paris Metro (legend 1 / legend 2). 2 volumes in slipcase. Designed by Daniel Buren, photographed by Michel Cenet.
Two volumes of photographs taken in two hundred Paris metro stations. Each photograph is centred on a billboard and in the upper right-hand corner of each billboard vertical white and black stripes are noticeable. Images in both volumes are black and white, but hidden under the front end flap in each volume is a fold-out of Buren's colours; blue in volume I and orange in volume II. Text by Daniel Buren about his "pieces of white and blue vertically-striped paper put up/pasted" in Paris metro stations as "a pretext for Michel Cenet's photographs." Peter Townsend is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Examples of this work are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona among others.
Title: The Paris Metro (legend 1 / legend 2)
Artist/Author: DanielBuren and Michel Cenet
Publisher: Warehouse Publications / Overlook Press
Publication date: 1973
Design: Daniel Buren
Language: Texts in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Format: 2 softcover volumes in a grey slipcase
Pages: 207, 207
Images: illustrated throughout in b/w
Condition: very good. Spines darkened and slightly spotted. Otherwise pages clean and crisp. The slipcase with moderate wear.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04449 PT 78
Two volumes of photographs taken in two hundred Paris metro stations. Each photograph is centred on a billboard and in the upper right-hand corner of each billboard vertical white and black stripes are noticeable. Images in both volumes are black and white, but hidden under the front end flap in each volume is a fold-out of Buren's colours; blue in volume I and orange in volume II. Text by Daniel Buren about his "pieces of white and blue vertically-striped paper put up/pasted" in Paris metro stations as "a pretext for Michel Cenet's photographs." Peter Townsend is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Examples of this work are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona among others.
Title: The Paris Metro (legend 1 / legend 2)
Artist/Author: DanielBuren and Michel Cenet
Publisher: Warehouse Publications / Overlook Press
Publication date: 1973
Design: Daniel Buren
Language: Texts in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Format: 2 softcover volumes in a grey slipcase
Pages: 207, 207
Images: illustrated throughout in b/w
Condition: very good. Spines darkened and slightly spotted. Otherwise pages clean and crisp. The slipcase with moderate wear.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04449 PT 78
Two volumes of photographs taken in two hundred Paris metro stations. Each photograph is centred on a billboard and in the upper right-hand corner of each billboard vertical white and black stripes are noticeable. Images in both volumes are black and white, but hidden under the front end flap in each volume is a fold-out of Buren's colours; blue in volume I and orange in volume II. Text by Daniel Buren about his "pieces of white and blue vertically-striped paper put up/pasted" in Paris metro stations as "a pretext for Michel Cenet's photographs." Peter Townsend is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Examples of this work are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona among others.
Title: The Paris Metro (legend 1 / legend 2)
Artist/Author: DanielBuren and Michel Cenet
Publisher: Warehouse Publications / Overlook Press
Publication date: 1973
Design: Daniel Buren
Language: Texts in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Format: 2 softcover volumes in a grey slipcase
Pages: 207, 207
Images: illustrated throughout in b/w
Condition: very good. Spines darkened and slightly spotted. Otherwise pages clean and crisp. The slipcase with moderate wear.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04449 PT 78