![Closed Box of the artist's book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.](images/j/dieordnungderdinge-box-1856.jpg "Closed Box of the artist's book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.")
›M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge‹ is part of the Series ›Copy and Erasure.‹ In this case, the starting point is a book*, I found in an antiquarian bookstore. The previous owner had underlined selected passages in the book. The entire text was transcribed by hand; all passages that were not previously marked in the original were crossed out. The transcribed pages were bound and assembled into a book and placed in a custom-made box.
* Foucault, Michel: Die Ordnung der Dinge: Eine Archäologie der Humanwissenschaften. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1990 [The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.]
2006/2020
Artist book: hardcover with paper covering, 320 pages, endpapers, thread stitching, felt pen and ball-point pen on paper.
Format of the book: 30.9 x 22.5 x 4 cm.
Box: lid and bottom made from cardboard, covered inside and out with paper. Format of the box: 36.9 x 28.4 x 6 cm.
![Opened box of the artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.](images/c/dieordnungderdinge-box_open_full-1862.jpg "Opened box of the artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.")
![Artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.](images/l/dieordnungderdinge-book-1854.jpg "Artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.")
![Opened and empty box of the artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.](images/9/dieordnungderdinge-box_open_empty-1854.jpg "Opened and empty box of the artist book »M. F. Die Ordnung der Dinge« [M. F. The Order of Things] by Herbert Stattler.")