Seth Siegelaub: Better Read Than Dead

Seth Siegelaub: Better Read Than Dead
Author: Various
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Language: English
Pages: 352
Size: 19.5 x 25 cm
Weight: 1.2700 kg
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783863357849
Availability: In stock
Price: €29.80
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Seth Siegelaub: Better Read Than Dead
Writings and Interviews 1964–2013

Marja Bloem, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Sara Martinetti, Jo Melvin (Eds.)

An essential sourcebook on conceptual art's famed champion, reproducing his texts as scans to immerse the reader in this deep archival dive.

"Better Read Than Dead" was the title Seth Siegelaub had chosen for an anthology of his own writing—one of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation. The selected writings, interviews, extended bibliography and chronology in this source book fill historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions, publications, projects, and collections that constitute Siegelaub’s life’s work.

"Siegelaubian" paperwork comprises Siegelaub’s writings, which are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion. Interspersed with these “writings” are interviews and talks, several newly transcribed. The majority of interviews from 1969-1972 are reprinted here.