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The images integrate found photographs, printed text, and rubberstampings with Mussio's calligraphy. Each image was probably reproduced from a collage. The first page of the book is missing. The cover is labeled and signed with initials of Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Magdalo Mussio (1925"“12 August 2006) was an Italian author, artist, animator and editor. A native of the Tuscany town of Volterra, Magdalo Mussio served during the 1960s as the editor of several Italian cultural publications, including Marcatrè and was widely throughout his country's art gallery circuit. He was also the creative artist behind a number of animated films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno and published several books detailing his life and work and uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole. Magdalo Mussio died after a lengthy illness in the year of his 81st birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image of this print is the same as in Mercato del Sale April 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The tranlucent paper prints are are duplicates in whole or part of the prints on the heavy paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicted in this print is identical to the larger print with a larger white border catalogued under Mussio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Massio was born in Volterra, Tuscany in 1925. Widely known throughout the gallery circuit in Italy, he worked as the editor of several cultural publications, including the magazine "Marcatrè" in the 1960s, plus he has created several animated cartoons and published several personal books uniting his own creative writings with an archaeology of images in a sweet melancholic mixture. From the beginning of the 1960's, Magdalo Mussio has been one of the main protagonists of the artistic searches between word and image that have anticipated and accompanied in Italy the developments of the conceptual art. After obtaining a bachelor in architecture and long stays abroad Mussio it has been, from 1963, editor and publishing curatore of the publishing house Lerici of Milan, publishing in those years the fundamental review of culture of vanguard "Marcatre." The graphical and written sign of Mussio emerges on the surface of its tables and of its papers, through infinites layers of...