Judit Keele, I am a work of Art 1980

Budapest, Self-published, 1980. Softcover, 20.7 x 14 cm, 10 pp. Artists' book featuring 8 full page b/w portraits of the artist, taken by Laszlo Hari. Text in English, translated from Hungarian by David Biro. Very good copy, extremely rare.

Hungarian artist Judit Keele (1944-) investigated the notion of the art object and experimented with exhibiting herself as an artwork in a 1979-84 series titled 'I’m the Work of Art'. In a project for the Paris Biennale of 1980 she went a step further and auctioned herself off as a piece of art. She married the highest bidder and settled in Paris.