Title: Mémoires
Artist: Asger Jorn and Guy Debord
Editor: L’Internationale Situationniste
Format: 64 pages, sandpaper dust jacket
ISBN: none
Mémoires [Memories] is an artists’ book made by Asger Jorn in collaboration with Guy Debord. Published in December 1958, it is the second of their two collaborative books whilst they were both members of the Situationist International. The second issue of the same book, in slightly different format, appeared in Copenhagen in 1959. […] The work contains two separate layers. The first is printed with black ink, reproducing found text and graphics taken from newspapers and magazines. The second layer is printed using coloured inks, splashed across the pages. These sometimes connect images and text, sometimes cover them, and sometimes are seemingly unconnected. […] The book is most famous for its cover, a dust jacket made of heavy-grade sandpaper.
[French version: 1993 reprint by Jean-Jacques Pauvert aux Belles Lettres of 1959 Copenhagen edition | English version: facsimile trans. Ian Thompson, 2015]