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(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Nollert, Angelika & Wolfgang Zumdick. Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY: Portikus Frankfurt am Main, 1998. First Edition 1/800. Oblong 8vo. Printed Die-Cut Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 7 color and 6 b&w illustrations + color cover. Text in English and German. With a bibliography. This catalogue documents Los Angeles-based Conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg's literary-inflected 1998 Frankfurt am Main installation/exhibition "Letter to a Friend", and whose cover features an inserted postcard reproduction of Nicolas Poussin's "Les Bergers D'Arcadie"). A most handsome example of the first edition limited to eight hundred unnumbered copies. 3-928071-40-8 Inventory Number: 021175