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Attached is an announcement forwarded on behalf of Doro Boehme, Special Collections Librarian, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, John M Flaxman Library/School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Dear colleagues and friends, May I kindly ask for your attention: I am currently in the process of preparing for an exhibition of "exhibition catalogs as works of art". I am selecting from a multitude of formats and aesthetic approaches by artists, galleries, museums, etc. to expand the common function of the catalog as mere memory and inventory of a show into its own, autonomous work of art. For this event I will be producing a catalog with original contributions by Christian Boltanski (artist, Paris/France), Mary Jane Jacob (writer and independent curator, Chicago), Barbara Moore (art historian, publisher and rare-book dealer, also proprietor of Bound & Unbound), Anthony Elms (art critic and editor of WhiteWalls, Chicago) and Alan Cravitz (private collector of artists' books and exhibition catalogs, Chicago). The book and CD-ROM will be housed in a specifically designed and vaccuformed acrylic box and can be purchased for the price of $ 32.- plus sh/h For details and images of the mock-up please go to http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/flasch/flasch_exhibit.html or http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/flasch/exhibitcatalog.html (It's well worth taking a quick look; the design of the item is rather unconventional). Now comes the less pleasant, yet more important part: Unfortunately budgets are meager (putting it mildly) and I am thus forced to offer this item on a pre-subscription basis to be able to produce it later. I therefore kindly ask you to fax in or email me your order NOW (between July 1st and August 15th) so that you can receive from us a pro-forma invoice. As soon as you have processed it and we have received payment from you we will send you a confirmation notice. Actual production of the catalog will start in the Fall but you will not receive your copy until February 2003, as I want to add installation shots to the CD-ROM. Thank you for supporting this project and, please, come see the show, if you're in town. Doro ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ AnneDorothee Boehme Special Collections Librarian Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection John M Flaxman Library/School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 South Wabash Chicago / Il 60603-3103 312.899.5098 (phone) 312.899.1851 (fax) http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/flasch