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"Twenty-one selected short, philosophical performance pieces by Thomas McEvilley composed from the lore surrounding Diogenes of Sinope. As the plates are loose and unpaginated, they can be read in a random order"--"Peter Koch, Printers" web site.
Letterpress edition, a facsimile of the engraved lead-tablet edition of the same year. Includes at front an essay by McEvilley, Diogenes of Sinope : selected performance pieces, adapted from his article in Artforum magazine (March 1983).
Title in brown and black; title vignette.
"Lettering by Christopher Stinehour"--Colophon.
Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch, assisted by Richard Seibert. Housed in a cardboard box with illustrated cover printed in brown and black.
LC copy is one of 500 copies from the 1st printing. Accompanied by a "variant keepsake and prototype before cardboard box," a loose set of the 11 printed leaves of chipboard. In a manilla envelope, 18 x 12 cm., printed (upside down) with the text of one of the performance pieces: Diogenes sat in the public square one afternoon glueing shut the pages of a book.
Essay includes bibliographical references.
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