Ulrichs, Timm.

[CONCEPTUAL ART – CONCRETE POETRY – FLUXUS] Eight publications by and about the artist and twenty minor additions.

Ulrichs. Various places: self-published and various galleries, 1964–75. Various formats, from 12mo to folio (15 × 15 to 42 × 29.7 cm). Various original bindings, most of them illustrated and staple-stitched; Predominantly with numerous reproductions. Very good. – In addition: 20 printed invitations and postcards designed by Timm Ulrichs; one of them with recipient address written by the artist. Various places and publishers, 1967–81. 12mos (10.5 × 14.5 to 23 × 17 cm). Very good. Item #54189

I: Timm Ulrichs. Was ist Kunst [What is art]. Wrapper title: Totalkunst – das neue mass aller dinge [Total art – the new measure of all things]. Hannover: self-published, [1964]. Quarto (32 × 22.5 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; 7 hectographed leaves. As of February 2024, OCLC lists two copies worldwide, one of which is in North America.

II: Worksandwordsandworlds. Turin: Studio di informazione estetica, 1968. Octavo (17 × 21.2 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers, 10 leaves with original graphics and image contributions by Timm Ulrichs, Giuliano Della Casa, Luigi Ferro, and Marco Gerra.

III: Diskus: Frankfurter Studentenzeitung [Discus: Frankfurt student newspaper]. Frankfurt a. M., self-published 1965. Folio (42 × 30 cm). Original self-wrappers, rear wrapper designed by Timm Ulrichs; 12 pp.

IV: Timm Ulrichs. Konstruktionen und Rekonstruktionen: Fotografische Beweisaufnahmen [I: Constructions and reconstructions: Photographic inventories and evidence]. Utrecht: Gamm(a), 1966. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; [20] pp. with 14 full-page photographic images.

V: Timm Ulrichs. Ich als Kunstfigur (2. egozentrisches manifest) (oder: was das ganze theater soll) [I as an artificial figure (2nd egocentric manifest) (or: what the whole theater is about)]. Wrapper title: Timm Ulrichs – das erste lebende Kunstwerk [Timm Ulrichs - the first living work of art]. Imprint: Totalkunst-Bulletin (pro forma), Nr. 1 [Total Art Bulletin (pro forma), No. 1]. Hannover: self-published, 1966. Quarto (30.4 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched, illustrated wrappers; 7 leaves (6 hectographed and 1 photocopied). As of February 2024, OCLC lists two copies in North America.

VI: Timm Ulrichs. Die Zeitungsannonce als Kunstwerk: Ein Katalog mit Beispielen aus zehn Jahren [The newspaper advertisement as a work of art: a catalog with examples from ten years]. Bonn: Magers, 1974. 12mo (15 × 15 cm). Original half cloth binding; [28] pp. with 11 reproduced newspaper cuttings.

VII: Timm Ulrichs: Kunst-Räume Landesmuseum Münster [Timm Ulrichs: Art Rooms Landesmuseum Münster]. Münster: Landesmuseum, 1975. (23 × 20 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [16] pp. with 29 photographic reproductions.

VIII: Timm Ulrichs. Kunst: im Schweiße des Angesichts. Anmerkungen zum "Schweißtuch der Mona Lisa" (nach einem Röntgen-Foto des Urbildes [Art: by the sweat of the brow. Notes on the "Sweat cloth of the Mona Lisa" (after an X-ray photograph of the original painting)]. Hannover: self-published, 1978. Octavo (21 × 14.7 cm). Original staple-stitched, illustrated wrappers; [6] pp. with 6 pictures.