Köln, Germany: Edition Ariadne, 1971. 16,2x11 cm.

Announcement card for the iconic artist's book by Arnulf Rainer FACEFARCES. This series of distorted portraits is an integral part of the body art explorations of the late 1960s - early 1970s. Rainer revisits the grotesque oeuvre of his fellow Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) and puts it in dialogue with the Vienesse Aktionism of his time, producing an immediately recognisable and influential body of work. Rare. Near Fine.