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Irving Petling (*1934)
Contemporary American painter.
Cover Design.
Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton.
Su Braden (*1940)
English Conceptual artist.
Project For A Bridge.
Pen and ink drawings on vellum that has been
die-cut and folded.
James Lee Byars (*1940)
Sculptor and Performance artist.
Black Dress.
Model of "Friendship Dress" meant to accommodate four people, which is made of elegant black tissue and encased in a black tissue envelope. Beautifully printed with four photographic portraits, including Byars', on the front cover.
Christo (*1939)
Conceptual and Environmental artist.
Store Front.
Mylar and heavy paper construction of a classic Christo Store Front hinged so that the exterior and interior can be viewed separately or as one.
Richard Hamilton (*1922)
British Pop Artist.
A Postal Card For Mother.
A sepia picture postcard depicting a crowded British beach, the middle of which opens out to reveal eight accordion- folded black and white photographs of the same scene as it gets progressively blown up from a long shot to a close-up blur of a beach ball.
Kaspar Köning (*1940)
German art critic and curator.
My Country 'Tis of Thee: West Germany, 1968 (Four Views).
Four photographs, each with a hand-drawn outline of a television screen on a vellum overlay through which is viewed from four angles a German housewife serving herself a slice from a Black Forest cake.
Julien Levy (1910-1981)
Art dealer and critic specializing in Surrealism.
Pharmaceuticals.
Levy's specially-printed prescription pad for "conception control" on which he prescribes "Dream-A-Mean" for Leonardo to be taken "introVENUSly"; "Stop-It-All" for Michelangelo; and "GO-STs" for Stuart Davis. Capsules included.
Sol Mednick (1916-1970)
Photographer.
Hottentot Apron.
A large black and white photogravure of a man's hands squeezing his "Hottentot Apron", medical slang for a fat stomach.
Nancy Reitkopf (*1938)
Wife of SMS's production manager, Bernard Reitkopf.
Luggage Labels.
Six colorful luggage labels to disasters:
S.S. Titanic, Hindenberg, Andrea Doria, S.S. Luisitania,
Hiroshima, and Calvary.
La Monte Young (*1936)
Marian Zazeela (*1940)
American avant-garde composer/musician and artist, respectively.
Two Propositions in Black.
La Monte Young's provocative statements regarding the relationship of tuning to time, hand-written in silver on a folded piece of black construction paper with an elegant Zazeela calligraphic border.
Walter de Maria (*1935)
American Conceptual artist.
Chicago Project.
Sketches, a photograph, and correspondence, between de Maria, Jan van der Marck and Duchamp concerning the exhibition "Art by Telephone" based on an early Moholy-Nagy project. De Maria's proposal was to install a telephone booth in the center of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition space with instructions to visitors to answer if the phone rang. Only de Maria, who would call at random from New York, had the number.