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Neben der Herausgabe von Einzelblättern verschiedener Künstler wurden immer wieder Portfolios aufgelegt, wie etwa 1967 eine Leinenkassette mit dem Titel "Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus", die Siebdrucke von KP Brehmer, KH Hödicke, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter und Wolf Vostell enthielt.
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Edition Block’s interest has always not only been on limited editions of objects, but above all on prints and the various printing techniques. Alongside bringing out individual sheets by various artists, it has repeatedly published portfolios, such as the 1967 canvas boxed set entitled "Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus" containing silkscreens by KP Brehmer, KH Hödicke, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Wolf Vostell. This was followed in 1971 by the book "Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus" with lists of the works of the same artists from 1960 to 1971. That same year, the company also launched "Weekend", a suitcase with block prints by KP Brehmer, silkscreens by KH Hödicke, Arthur Køpcke and Wolf Vostell, offset lithos by Peter Hutchinson and Sigmar Polke as well as an object by Joseph Beuys. And in 1988 the Edition issued a portfolio of prints entitled "Aus Australien", containing 40 sheets by 8 Australian artists. Not only did it present the Australian art scene to a European audience hitherto unfamiliar with it, but also serves as proof of how the center and the periphery mutually permeate each other in the cultural context – a topic that publisher (and later curator) René Block was to concentrate on in depth in the years to come. Block also pursued the strategy of bringing together several artists for a single joint edition, as nascent in the prints portfolios, on other occasions, too. "En Bloc" (1969–72), for example, a castor-based wooden container boasted drawers containing objects made by 19 renowned German artists – today, it is a miniature museum.
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