Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art

Gustav Metzger

First edition. Coracle, Tipperary, 1996. Paperback, 110 pp. White and mint wrappers, with a black and white photo of Gustav Merzer on the back cover. The slightest bumps to corners, and a crease on back cover. Signed by Andrew Wilson, art critic and historian, and writer of an essay included in the book. Published by Coracle, a small press run by Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, a publication dedicated to Gustav Metzer's theory of auto-destructive art, including two essays by Mertzer, an essay by Andrew Wilson, and a chronology and bibliography by Clive Phillpot.