8to. (oktavformat). obr./ softcover, (100) unpag. seiten, mittig mit einer ausklappbaren 4-seitigen schwarzweißabb./ softcover, (100) unpaginated pages, featuring a fold-out, 4-page black-and-white illustration in the center. publication of script, 1976/79, extracts from audio works, 1980, and slide documentation of related work 1976/80 were be seen and heard for seven days at matt’s gallery. matt's gallery: 'jeff instone has for the last eleven years used the written word, and to a lesser degree, number as the basis for his painting. by the mid seventies this written material had taken the form of an abortive science fiction story called the terre verte venus probe, an inconclusive essay on the artist and the welfare state, a random art history, ‘evanescent adumbrations’ and from mid 1976: script. originally 14 rows of 55 words to start the painting spit into the wind nobody’s lover, this script of 770 words was extended to 69,000 using uncomplicated systems in themselves of no importance, and the results have been scribbled onto canvas and paper, typed and photocopied, mixed with other material, systematically added to, coded or obliterated to produce the work of the past four years. logically, script now takes shape as a 14 chapter book in which repeated typefaces emphasise the way that the original words are multiplied.. leicht berieben, annähernd sehr gutes exemplar.