SPUR. Zusammenfassung der ersten 7 Hefte ... mit den vier wichtigsten Manifesten der Gruppe Spur. (All published).

Munich.: (Gruppe SPUR)., 1962.. Original publisher's colour screenprint cloth boards, card slipcase.. Square 4to. (286 x 292 mm).. Illustrated throughout with original linocuts and lithographs. The complete 'SPUR' magazine, bound together with all of the group's manifestos, and with original signed drawings.This collective edition of 'Spur' magazine was issued in an edition of 270 numbered copies. The single volume contains a complete set of the seven issues of 'Spur', together with all four of the group's manifestos. In addition there are four original signed drawings to the front free endpaper, by Heimrad Prem, Hans-Peter Zimmer, Lothar Fischer, and Asger Jorn.Issue number 3 consists of 29 lithographs by members of the Spur-group and Asger Jorn.The foundation of the Gruppe SPUR followed a joint exhibition held in the autumn of 1957 in the Pavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten in Munich by the painters Heimrad Prem (1934-1978), Helmut Sturm (1932), Hans-Peter Zimmer (1936-1992) and the sculptor Lothar Fischer (1933-2004). They devised the group"s name in January 1958 when thinking about the tracks of their own footprints in the snow. Their shared goals related to their criticism of Art informel, which they regarded as devoid of content and too private. In the 21 points of their first manifesto of November 1958 (present here printed on pink paper) they rejected aestheticism, technique as an end in itself and abstraction in art. The members of Spur were encouraged and helped by Asger Jorn, who in 1959 introduced them to the Galerie Van de Loo in Munich, which thereafter exhibited and supported the group, as did the artist and art critic Hans Platschek. In 1959 Spur was accepted by the International Situationists in Paris, and in 1961 the group wrote their Januar-Manifest (present in this set, printed on blue paper).