ARAKAWA (Shusako). &
CALAS (Nicholas), introduction.
The Mechanism of Meaning. Thirty-Six Drawings from the Collection of Shirley and Miles Fiterman.
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the title page, most likely to the art critic Suzi Gablik ‘To Suzi all my love Arakawa. [illegible, possibly a date] at N.Y.City’. Arakawa, artist and architect, began his career as a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, arrived in New York in 1961 and formed a friendship with Marcel Duchamp. He started to use diagrams in his work, an attempt to express philosophical ideas in a graphical idiom, which brought him to the attention of philosophers as diverse as Lyotard and Gadamer.
Some creasing and light soiling to the covers.
