Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten
Dusseldorf: Art-Press Verlag, 1970.
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white. With 194 full page monochrome plates. Faint toning to contents else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket, an exceptionally nice copy. The first monograph of the Bechers and often considered their magnum opus. Minimal and clean in design, the viewer is quietly immersed into the couple's distinctively stark style. "In this book we show objects predominantly instrumental in character, whose shapes are the result of calculation and whose processes of development are optically evident. They are generally buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style. Their peculiarities originate not in spite of, but because of the lack of design." Roth 101, p. 194.
Price: $2,000