allen, roberta. roberta allen. pointless acts 1-41 (or any sequence from 2-41 therein). new york, the collation center 1977.
kuenstlerbuch
englisch. 13,4 x 10,5. okarton mit 41 losen blatt mit je einer schwarzweißabb. mit unterlegtem text. in the opening gesture of this book, roberta allen draws 15 pointless arrows (15 being the number of letters in the phrase “pointles arrows.” ) and for the rest of the book the drawn marks and the photographed artist interact. it closes with the following tidbit: “the total number of possible sequences for 40 unnumbered pointless acts is so great that it is impossible to determine an exact number. this inexact number can only be represented by the following notation: 8.159152832478972e47. e denotes adding significant places where the numbers are unknown, in this case 47 significant places. in order to conceive of the incredible number of sequences possible one can bear in mind that trillion has only 12 significant places (or zeros).”. minimal berieben. sehr gutes exemplar.