Seminal Kinetic catalogues

(1) Public Eye. Kinetik, Konstruktivismus, Environments. Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1968. Catalogue designed in the form of a register by Wolfgang Reindel. 15 x 37 cm, 156 pp. Features b/w ills. of work and portrait photos of 72 artists, including Aubertin, Bonato, Dibbets, Colombo, Dadamaino, Hilgemann, Knoebel, Posenenske, Willats, Rinke et al. This copy shows age-wear, soiling to rear cover, creasing to paper ends and a tiny chipped off corner on Duarte's sheet. Scarce.

(2) Kinetics, Hayward Gallery London. London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970. Card stock folder containing 74 loose and folded plates printed b/w., 22.5 x 11.5 x 3 cm. Signature design by Crosby / Fletcher / Forbes. Each of the 67 participants is representend by a separate plate featuring a portrait, a statement and an example of their work. Artists include Martha Boto, Alexander Calder, Liliane Lijn, Piotr Kowalski, Christian Megert, Lily Greenham, Bruno Munari, Nam June Paik, Jean Tinguely, Stephen Willats et al. Enzo Mari's plate notes his refusal to participate in the show citing insufficient cost coverage by the Hayward. Mild toning and rubbing to upper edges of folder, else very good. (total 2)