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On Certainty
Über Gewissheit

Item date(s): 1991

Ludwig Wittgenstein - (author)
Arthur C. Danto - (introduction by)
Mel Bochner - (prints by)
Denis Paul - (translated by)
G. E. M. Anscombe - (edited and translated by)
G. H. von Wright - (edited with a preface by)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 377mm, square
Binding: Slipcase
Technique: Photo-engravings
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #158/326

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Arion Press
Cat. 023 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
A bilingual edition off the last work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most imporant philosophers of the twentieth century, accompanied by a series of Mel Bochner's minimalist "Wittgenstein drawings" a striking synthesis of art and mathematics.

Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with inset light blue cloth titling panels on the covers and spine in a slipcase with label on spine. With the prospectus laid in and ME.

This book in the thirty-fourth publication of the Arion Press.

Reference note:
Ursus catalogue 278, Number 16.

See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5013.

Illustrated as item 5 in Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books. 2011.

Illustrated as item 137 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.

Exhibition notes:
Item 023 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/12014