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Paul Thek: Notebook #41, 1977

Paul Thek: Notebook #41, 1977

Thek, Paul

Hardcover

Individual Artists

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ISBN10: 1948701863
ISBN13: 9781948701860
Publisher: Pace Gallery
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

A facsimile edition of one of Thek's composition notebooks from 1977, replete with vivid watercolors, sketches and notes

American artist Paul Thek, an influential figure in the post-1960s generation, left behind more than 100 notebooks containing drawings and watercolors, diary entries, poetry, correspondences, ideas for artworks and elaborate transcriptions of texts by philosophers or theologians. Considered by Thek to be artworks unto themselves, his notebooks provide unparalleled insight into his imagination, which he translated into sculpture, painting and installation. This facsimile edition of one of Thek's composition notebooks from 1977 provides an up-close experience of this intimate facet of his practice, with vivid watercolors, lists, scribbles, notes and sketches revealing glimmers of the inner life of a legendary artist. Within the notebook, Thek endeavors, continuously, to work out his mind, dispelling humorous and resonant self-directives, such as Avoid anyone who seeks to be a MASTER. A few pages later, in reference to another declarative, he cautions, This is not necessarily true; avoid definitions.

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