Eiffe For President.
[Graffiti] [Movements of 1968] [Eiffe, Peter-Ernst] [Uwe Wandrey].
Price: $750.00
Place Published: Hamburg:
Publisher: Quer-Verlag,
Date Published: 1968.
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Id: 17823
Description
Hamburg: Quer-Verlag, 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Side-stapled in cardboard covers, with photographic pastedown to front panel. Illustrated with two black and white photographs. Vertical crease to front and back covers, lower fore edge bumped, only minimally affecting the text block,some minor toning to margins, still a near fine copy of an extremely delicate book.The first and only edition of the only book on Eiffe, who is widely considered to be the first modern graffiti artist in Germany. His ludic and surrealist slogans were seen all over Hamburg during the tumultuous year of 1968, becoming the most visible public texts of the student uprisings. He would often leave his business card near the site of his work; when a building issued him an invoice for damages to their property, he famously responded by sending them an invoice to pay for his artwork. His culminating action was when he drove his Fiat into Hamurg Central Station and began to write on the tiles in May 1968. He was jailed and interred in a psychiatric ward; the book was produced around this time by Uwe Wandrey in order to raise funds for his defense (for another book published this year by the agit-prop bookmaking genius, see item 65). He was released from the ward later in the year, but in 1970 was reinterred in Rickling Psychiatric hospital for depression; he died of exposure during an escape from the institution in 1982. His life and works were the subject of a 1995 documentary film by Christian Bau, Eiffe for President. One of the landmark publications of the German Student Movement, and furthermore an important and overlooked book of early political graffiti art. Important as hell but criminally underrepresented institutionally, with OCLC locating only the Deutsch Bibliothek copy.
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