Main entry:

Barry, Robert, 1936- artist.

Title & Author:

One page book / Robert Barry

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2007

Description:

1 online resource (73 PDF pages)

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2007; 140 x 225 mm; 150 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound Interior: black and white; Edition limited to 250 numbered copies" -- Publisher's description
"Robert Barry has always been a man of a few, well chosen words - could it be that ONE PAGE BOOK is his last (and first and only) word? It's hard to improve on perfection. But is enough really enough?..." -- Publisher's website
"First edition limited to 250 numbered copies" -- Colophon
Title from PDF page 1

Summary:

"One page book took 7 years and 35 seconds to make: 7 years to think about it, and 35 seconds to put it on paper. It consists of the single word 'ENOUGH' on a single page, plus a lot of blank pages. But because this is Robert Barry's book, it is naturally a vehicle for investigating his obsession with space and time. First of all, what about all those blank pages? Does the word 'enough' echo invisibly on them? Does the word have a spectrum of tones? Paternally irritated? Royally surfeited? Biblically severe? Objectively neutral? Or is it toneless? Or both? Or does 'enough' work like a conceptual radio carrier wave transmitter, silencing everything else on its frequency (Barry set up a transmitter in a gallery in the early 70s to silence all other radio waves within its reach)? Is this book conceptually infinite? Do we need to own it to appreciate it? Does its 'signal' diminish the farther we get from it? Is this book really a sculpture? Is it a kind of minimal architecture model? Is it a conceptual koan? Can I use it as a notebook? And so on..."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Full text PDF

Subject:

Blank-books.
Artists' books France Specimens.
Conceptual art.
Livres en blanc.
Livres d'artistes France Spécimens.
Art conceptuel.
blankbooks.
Conceptual.
Artists' books
France

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
artists' books (books)
Artists' books (books) France 21st century.
Specimens
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, publisher.