Diogenes
Subtitle: defictions
By: Thomas McEvilley
Contributors: Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.; Koch, Peter Rutledge, printer; Peter Koch, Printers; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: [Cardboard edition].
Publisher: Peter Koch, Printer
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Ancient Philosophy; Performance art; Art and philosophy; Cynicism in art; Artists' books; Facsimiles
Other titles: Defictions; Diogenes of Sinope : selected performance pieces.
Notes: "Twenty-one selected short, philosophical performance pieces by Thomas McEvilley composed from the lore surrounding Diogenes of Sinope. As the plates are loose and unpaginated, they can be read in a random order"--"Peter Koch, Printers" web site.

Letterpress edition, a facsimile of the engraved lead-tablet edition of the same year. Includes at front an essay by McEvilley, Diogenes of Sinope : selected performance pieces, adapted from his article in Artforum magazine (March 1983).

Title in brown and black; title vignette.

"Lettering by Christopher Stinehour"--Colophon.

Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch, assisted by Richard Seibert. Housed in a cardboard box with illustrated cover printed in brown and black.

LC copy is one of 500 copies from the 1st printing. Accompanied by a "variant keepsake and prototype before cardboard box," a loose set of the 11 printed leaves of chipboard. In a manilla envelope, 18 x 12 cm., printed (upside down) with the text of one of the performance pieces: Diogenes sat in the public square one afternoon glueing shut the pages of a book.

Essay includes bibliographical references.