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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> On January 23 1998 I made my first visit to Amsterdam to meet with Dutch artist and writer Louwrien Wijers who had organized the 1982 meeting between German artist Joseph Beuys and His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet. This meeting was the subject of my Ph.D. research which I had just begun a few months before. In fact my first step as a researcher had been to write a long letter to Wijers in October 1997 explaining my great interest in this meeting and in her work. It was the kind of heartfelt and effusive student letter that one in looking back on it cannot imagine writing as a “profes sional scholar and it was probably precisely for this reason that it got so prompt and warm a reply in a way that no well-seasoned prose ever could. She wrote telling me that she was delighted that some one was actually interested in this meeting and its consequences and she invited me to come to Amsterdam as soon as I could to meet her and begin a conversation in person. This book is the result of that conversation; it is an indirect result in that the project that has unfolded from that point to this has been circuitous and anarchic but a direct result in the sense that it was from precisely that moment- my receipt of that welcoming reply from an artist I had never met- that the project started.And upon its completion of even those parts that had nothing directly to do with her this book reveals itself to be circumscribed by that friendship in a way that makes this at once my project and her invention. (LL)