Visually interesting and unpaginated catalogue from a 1968 exhibition at the Kunsthaus in Hamburg, three introductory essays and an alphabetical illustrated register of 72 participating artists. Oblong (5 3/4 x 14 inches). Original wrappers, front cover with optic illustration, back cover with a chronology of modern artists and their affiliations. Some soiling to covers, creasing especially at page extremities, small areas of paper loss, overall good. Hamburg: Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1968.

According to the introductory essay by Peter Kuttner, "Public Eye is an attempt at examining the exhibition as a means of communication. It seeks to establish a more direct relationship between the artist and the public, to bring to Hamburg some aspects of current involvement in kinetik, constructivist and environmental art...Public Eye is using the Kunsthaus as a starting point (indeed we should not need to rely on the emptiness of galleries for showing works of art) from there it has extended into the immediate area of the Kunsthaus and then into selected public places in the city...The sites we have chosen in Hamburg cause direct confrontation between the everyday pedestrian flow and the objects we place on them."

72 international artists participated in the exhibition, and each is depicted on an individual page in this tabbed register-catalogue, with a photograph of the artist, contact information, and a reproduction of one of their artworks. These artists include Jan van den Abbeel, Carla Accardi, Bernard Aubertin, Ueli Berger, Paul Berry, Vittorio Bonato, Keith Brocklehurst, Hugo de Clercq, Dadamaino, Jan Dibbets, Angel Duarte, Ewert Hilgemann, Knud Knabe, Adolf Luther, Gino Marotta, Marcello Morandini, Klaus Rinke, Mark Verstockt, and many others.

Scarce institutionally; as of September 2025, OCLC locates six holdings of this exhibition catalogue in North American institutional libraries.

Book ID: 53542

Price: $950.00