Die Gärten in der Exosphäre

[Hamburg]: Das Hohe Gebrechen, 1979. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 600 copies. Oblong quarto (31cm x 42cm). Original pictorial paper-covered boards; [97]pp, chiefly illus. Very mild wear and a touch of toning to extremities; Near Fine.

A compelling artist's book by the founder of Viennese Actionism and early member of the NO!Art movement, reflecting Brus' post-Actioniste preoccupation with melding text and visual imagery into a new genre of "pictorial poetry...characterised by a synthesis of language and image, in which the two forms of expression, rather than being mutually dependent, instead lead to a form of dialectical and contrapuntal (truncated) coexistence and cooperation" (from the Neue Galerie Graz & Bruseum obituary of 2024). Quite uncommon; OCLC notes only two copies in North American institutions (as of March, 2025). (Inventory #: 84614)