[1960s] Henk Peeters, Manifest Non Objekt Kunst, January 25 1967 Silkscreened poster, printed bright, black and neon orange, 87 x 30.5 cm, folded to 22.5 x 30.5 cm. Includes 3 stapled on text sheets, citing statements by Marshall McLuhan, Peeters, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Paul Panhuysen, and a loose inlaid sheet featuring a small black dot. Scarce document with some creasing, else in very good state. The manifest was produced in conjunction with Peeter’s speech on January 25 1967 during a 3 day conference ‘Socialisme is Kultuur’ (Socialism is Culture) at Borgharen castle in Maastricht. It was organized by the New Left and the Provo inspired artists’ magazine ‘Ontbijt op Bed’. Peeter’s Marxist-Leninist pamphlet is exemplary for his ‘revolutionary years’. After the disbanding of the Zero group in 1966 the artist gave up art production (though only temporarily) and became more involved with cultural activism and socialist ideals. The text (in Dutch) reads ’vanaf 25 januari 1967 is kunst uitsluitend het bieden van informatie op effektieve wijze, Kunst is sociale kommunikatie, kunst is effektief, niet object, Kunst is voortaan Non Object Kunst.’ Ref. Marga van Mechelen, Echt Peeters, Uitgeverij de Kunst, 2011, pp. 113-116.