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22 sentences: The French Army

Art & Language. Terry Atkinson & Michael Baldwin

Coventry. Precinct Publications. 1968
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Artist book, signed by both artists on the inside front cover. According to both Germano Celant and Moeglin-Delcroix only 50 copies of this book were published.

Atkinson considers various permutations of order on the meaning and logic of three concepts - the French army, the collection of men and machines and group of regiments.

[Ref. Germano Celant - Book as artwork 1960/1972. p.67; Moeglin-Delcroix - Esthetique du livre d'artiste, p. 158. Printed Matter; Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek. The Marzona Collection at the Kunstbibliothek. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, p. 90; Lippard - 6 Years: the dematerialization of the art object, p. 35].
pp. 48. 4to. (25 x 20.6 cm). Publisher's glossy white wrappers, stapled and with white sliding plastic spine.
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