[Women Artists] Simone Forti, Handbook in Motion: An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and its Manifestations in Dance. Halifax/New York, Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design/New York University Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover, wrappers in ill. jacket, 22.5 x 17 cm, 143 pp. Artists' book containing texts, drawings, notes and photographs documenting her performances between 1959 and 1974. Moderate wear to wrapper, tiny dog ear lower left, fine copy.

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