The three-volume catalog for documenta 8 is (once again) a new approach to depicting and structuring the exhibition content: A comparatively slim volume of essays with text contributions by the artistic advisory board and members of the participating working groups (Volume 1) is accompanied by the actual exhibition catalog (Volume 2) and an artist's book with reproductions of sketches, collages, photographs, and conceptual fax and text submissions.
Volume 1: Essays, 168 pages
Text contributions by: Manfred Schneckenburger, Bazon Brock, Vittorio Fagone, Edward F. Fry, Michael Grauer and Wenzel Jacob, Wulf Herzogenrath, Georg Jappe, Pierre Restany, Lothar Romain, Michael Beilharz, Michael Erlhoff, Elisabeth Jappe, Heinrich Klotz, Klaus Schöning, Karl Oskar Blase, Vladimir Nikolic
Volume 2: Catalog, 352 pages
Volume 3: Artist's book, unpaginated