Portrait by the philosopher René Denizot of one of the founders of conceptual art, whose work writes the measure of the course of his life on earth.

“In the series, each number is ‘Word for Word’ the document of a practice by which it is informed. As for the form, it’s a referential number. As for references, a number in the series. Documentation sticks to this evidence. It is a plain as the nose in one’s face; a symptom in the features of the text - not an act of faith. To each number its portrait. To each portrait its image. Indeed nobody is expected. But there are frames to “make reference”. Is it a frame up? The text draws practice out of cultural preserve: — all resemblance with persons, situations, of facts existing or having existed is symptomatic coincidence.” — From the book’s back cover.