Scope and Contents Internet: Argumentstellen was conceived just one year after Wit weiss (a new version of the White book) and Permutierbarer text (but was published in 2003). It is a direct result of his recent reading of Tractatus. This large format book wherein a minuscule black dot always appears in a different location on the vast blank space of the page, does not treat language as such, but the way in which situation in the space (which is an attribute of all existing things, natural or human) implies a unique point of view each time, a never identical relation to the connection between the things that make up the world. indirectly, however, language is involved to the extent that it is powerless to say that which is never the same. This book visually translates (and illustrates) one of Wittgenstein's propositions (2.0131), quoted on the last page: "a spatial object must be situated in infinite space. (a spatial point is an argument-place)." It foreshadows the series of works on the experience...

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The book includes a minimalist poem by Wolf Wezel about de Vries' work. The pages depict intersecting rectangles based upon mathematical operations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a listing of De Vries works still available for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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With the exception of a page with collaged dried leaves, the other pages of this book depict black on white or colored, calligraphic, concrete poetic drawings. The book was meant to accompanyve vries' exhibition, "herman de vries different & identical." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of 63 printed/written languages and dialects that provide its title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookshop was originally founded under the name, "Nova Zembla." This catalogue featured Dutch book artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Transparent plastic envelopes containing specimens of plant seeds with filaments to disseminate them through the air are affixed to the pages of this artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of a dried rose flowers in a printed folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover and all the white pages are blank perhaps as a metaphor for the poem printed on the inside covers, viz., 'white is superabundance.' This is the second revised edition of the book. The first edition of 120 copies was published in 1960/1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover and all the white pages are blank perhaps as a metaphor for the poem printed on the inside covers, viz., 'white is superabundance.' This is the second revised edition of the book. The first edition of 120 copies was published in 1960/1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is de Vries' first published artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.