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Paranoia: 40 Pastelle - 40 Zugeständnisse Desselben Gengenstandes. Selbst, Nature Morte [MONOGRAMMED]

Janssen, Horst

Hamburg: Verlag Galerie Brockstedt, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Monogrammed on front free endpaper. Folio. 30 leaves. Original black half cloth over color-illustrated boards. 40 pastels, 40 condition of the same object, in person, nature morte.

"Willfully born, living happily but pointless, to die in excessive rage" are the words Janssen launches his intricate comparison of drawing self portraits and portraits with, concluding with the thought of a self portrait as therapy, or an inner masquerade of self-abandonment, resignation, pretending, via the self portrait, that suicide is overdue, make you believe that murdering you, the people, is, based on my illness, way to inconvenient, not like Dostojewski's Petroff in Ostrogg: "just like that - without cause - without agitation and consequences, as far as remorse goes." And please do believe my last joke - all this because of two things that brought me unbearable confusion after doing it for 52 years: myself and you, the people. Illustrated with 40 extraordinary color offset-lithographs of Host Janssen''s self-portraits by Claus Clément. Printed at Brothers Sülter and bound by Willy Schacht, both in Hamburg. Text in German. Very light wear along edges of binding. Binding in overall very good, interior in near fine condition. vg to near fine. Item #43689

Price: $125.00