SPUR buch

Munich, Spur, 1962. Orig. cloth cover with silkscreen in colour, 28.5 x 29 cm. The volume includes all 6 issues of the group’s journal, a not-previously-released seventh issue, and the four most important manifestos. Contains 4 colour lithographs by H.P. Zimmer, H. Prem, H. Sturm and Asger Jorn and over 28 b/w lithographs by various members of Spur. Good copy in bright colours, moderate staining on the front cloth cover and slight abrasions on the spine.

SPUR functioned as the German section of the Situationniste Internationale. They split by a disagreement on the role art should play in a revolutionary avant-garde organization like the SI. Meanwhile Gruppe Spur had been under the scrutiny of the German government and got in legal trouble. In the first trial of artists in Germany since the Third Reich, issue 6 of the group’s journal was seized by the police and its authors prosecuted for 'blasphemy' and 'pornography'.