Fantastic Architecture
[New York]: Something Else Press, [1970]. First American Edition.
Anthology on modern architecture issued by Dick Higgins's Something Else Press.
Contributions from artists often associated with the Fluxus movement and conceptual art, including Claes Oldenburg, John Cage, Richard Hamilton, Pol Bury, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Beuys, Dennis Oppenheim, Alison Knowles, Daniel Spoerri, Carolee Schneeman, Ben Vautier, Robert Filliou, and many others.
"Compiled by Higgins and Vostell for German and American editions, Fantastic Architecture presaged the attack on hide-bound methods and attitudes which a new generation of visionary architectural theorists were to begin mounting in the 1970s." (Peter Frank, Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography, McPherson & Co., 1983. See page 33.)
The German edition of this book appeared under the title Pop Architektur, published by Droste Verlag, in 1969. Our copy, published the following year, is the first American edition and should not be confused with a 2015 reissue by Primary Information.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8.125 x 5.875 inches; 205 x 150 mm), [192] pages, cloth binding, titles to spine, in an unclipped ($6.95), illustrated dust jacket featuring Richard Hamilton's Guggenheim Collage.
CONDITION: Slight sunning to cloth and page extremities but otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows some light edge wear. Item #3043
ISBN: 0871100649
Price: $75.00