Documenta 5. Cover design by Edward Ruscha

Kassel, Documenta GmbH, 1972. Edited by Harald Szeemann. Orange vinyl cover designed by Edward Ruscha featuring a parade of ants forming the number '5'. 28 x 15 x 8 cm, approx. 650 pp with b/w and colour ills. Edition 20.000.

Massive two-ring binder catalogue for the 5th Documenta, held in 1972. Texts in German. Near complete, registers 19-25 are missing (as often). Added to the binder are the Documenta 5 supplement Rundgang vom 4 juni 1972, 80 pp. and Claus Oldenburg's Documenta catalogue Maus Museum (with edge wear). Browning and creasing to register number sheets, interior pages clean, cover with minor paint spots (removable), generally a fine copy.