Art & Language. Notes Topography and Hot Warm Cool

Two early collaborations between Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin who founded the English conceptual artists group Art & Language in the same year these books were published. (1) Notes Topography for Text Book or Encyclopaedia. Zurich, Edition Bischoffberger, 1967. Staplebound, 30 x 21 cm, 64 pp, printed recto only. First edition. Artists’ book featuring a detailed investigation into philosophical logic. Mild foxing to exterior, else a very good copy.

(2) Untitled Hot Warm Cool Cold aka Key. Unspecified publishing information, ca. 1967. Comb bound, 25 x 20 cm, 48 pp, printed recto only. Glossy cover with title information on front. First edition of 200 numbered copies, this one unnumbered. Artists’ book featuring a playful analysis of the conceptually related words Hot-Warm-Cool-Cold and High-Low-Long-Short-Small-Large. Possibly published by the artist's imprints Art-Language Press or Precinct Publications. Lower right corner of cover and first two pages bumped, else a very good copy. Both items scarce, held in the Tate collection. (total 2)