JOHN HEJDUK | The Lancaster/ Hanover Masque

Prepared by Alvin Boyarsky with Hejduk in connection with the same exhibition at the AA in London in 1990. Published in 1992.
6 full fold-outs of illustrations (3 pairs). Many color and black + white drawings throughout. Essay by Wim lab Der Bergh. Text in English and French.

Short tear on back wrapper corner has been repaired with archival removable adhesive. Light wear to wrapper corners. Pencil underlining of a few sentences have been erased. Rest of book is clean and crisp. Very good condition.

Excerpt from Hejduk's "On the Drawings" :
"The Church House drawings (nos. 1 and 2) and the Court House/ Prison House drawing (no. 3) are, I believe, the first X-ray drawings. I was never more deeply in a state of mental and physical communion than with this investigation. The drawings are apparitions. What may at first seem somewhat ethereal is in fact absolutely precise: that is, everything drawn is sufficient, no more - no less.

During the revealing of a thought the pencil in my hand was almost without weight. The lead of the pencil hardly touched the surface of the paper; a thought captured before a total concretion. The drawing of the Court House (no. 3, left side) may at first appear to be the vaguest, yet it is the most complete. It encompasses the whole of a dematerialized thought: the Accused is sentenced, the Judge is seen through. The drawing is like a sentence in a text, in which the word is a detail... a detail that helps to incorporate a thought.

I maintain that this elementary drawing reveals the whole volume, if it is read in its entirety. As in an X-ray, the whole structure is there, the whole story. It's life that is there... the gene-making and the future pathology."

Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture and Architectural Association.
Note the ISBN in details is the UK distribution ISBN. There are different ISBN's for the Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian distributors.

9.1 x 9.1 inches