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      Pavel Büchler

      Marx Angels

      48 pages | Black & white | 140 x 100 mm, Soft cover | 1997 | Edition of 1,000 copies
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Marx Angels is a book that formed part of a commissioned work for Chetham’s Library in Manchester, one of four commissions for the Book Works’ project Library Relocations.

Drawing on research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library.

Presented as a journal and illustrated with details of hand gestures culled from the media, Marx and Engels’ correspondence is paraphrased by extracts from Pavel Büchler’s imaginary diary. These diary extracts, reading like a list of Fluxus actions, reveal the warmth, humour and the mundanity of domestic arrangements within the correspondence of Marx and Engels.


本書は、Book Worksのプロジェクト[Library Relocations]の一環として、マンチェスターにあるChetman's Libraryに制作されたコミッションワークに関連した書籍。Chetman's Libraryで勉強をして過ごすマルクスとエンゲルス2人の往復書簡の抜粋により構成されている。メディアから抜粋された詳細なジェスチャーの絵で彩られた日誌の形を取りながら、2人の往復書簡は著者であるPavel Büchlerの想像上の日記にもなっている。
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