Paweł Pętasz.
Nędza: Destitution.
Elblag, Poland: Arriere-Garde, 1979.
Staple-bound softcover.
34 pages, printed only on rectos.
Very good.
Minor wear to top / bottom of spine as well as corners. Some green paint to front cover left hand side next to spine. One page has a small amount of unobtrusive white paint which doesn't obstruct enjoyment of the print.
A scarce hand-printed Polish artists' book by artist Pawel Petasz. The title Nędza is a Polish word which means poverty, misery, or destitution. The images depict such a life.
Pawel Petasz was a Polish artist, active in mail art who also made artists books, rubber-stamps, prints, etc. He created and edited the first issue of Commonpress in 1977, which was a mail art assembling with a rotating editorship so that if one editor was censored, the whole magazine would continue.
