Endre Tót

Editions

year 1972 

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Possessive Adjective
ABSOLUTE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
TEN QUESTIONS by Endre Tót
Incomplete Information verbal & visual

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  • Possessive Adjective

    Budapest: self-publishing (samizdat), 1972.

    8 unnumbered pages, semi-rigid cover, stapled binding, 203 x 156 mm; black-and-white offset printing.


    Edition of 100 copies.
    Our copy is number 9, written in blue ballpoint pen on the back cover.

    On page 2 "your page" a handwritten dedication "for Thomas Howeg" in ballpoint pen signed by the artist.


  • A possessive adjective is printed on each page.

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  • ABSOLUTE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

    Budapest: self-publishing (samizdat), 1972.

    8 letterpress cards (size 103 x 148 mm) in a flap pocket (size 105 x 150 mm), offset printed in black and white.

    On our copy, the artist's signature in blue ballpoint pen on the back of the center flap.

  • Each card is printed with a personal pronoun: MINE, YOURS, HIS, HERS, ITS, YOURS, OURS, THEIRS

    No indication of the number of copies.


(...) Interpretation is generally based on a distinction between the central and the marginal, the essential and the inessential; to interpret means to discover what is central to a text or a group of texts.But because marginality is not ontologically given but is the outcome of interpretative framing, that which has been found to be marginal by earlier interpreters or has been put aside may now become essential. The fact the hierarchy can be reversed in order to show that... the marginal is actually central" does not lead to the identification of a new centre... but to an upsetting of the distinction between essential and inessential, between the inward and the outward. What is the centre, if even the marginal can become central ?(...)

Bordács Andrea - Kollár József
AESTHETICS OF PRESENCE AND ABSENCE IN ENDRE TÓT'S ART (excerpt)

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  • TEN QUESTIONS by Endre Tót

    Budapest: self-publishing (samizdat), 1972.

    1 center-fold sheet,
    304 x 215 mm; black-and-white offset printing.

    Edition of 31 copies numbered from 0 to 30
    Our copy is signed and numbered 0/30 in pencil.

    Stamp: "READ IT STANDING AND ALOUD".

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  • Incomplete Information /verbal & visual/

    Oldenburg, West Germany: Edition International Artist's Cooperation (I.A.C), Klaus Groh publisher, 1972.

    32 unnumbered pages, semi-rigid cover, stapled binding, 200 x 143 mm; black-and-white offset printing.

    Edition of 100 copies.

  • This book is presented with a page of acknowledgements and a last page containing the "table of contents" which refers to the corresponding page number.

    Since the book is not numbered, is this an oversight or intentional? The question remains open.