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Bory, Jean-François, 1938-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1938

Parallel Names

  • Bory, Jean-Francois

Nationality

French

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

La Moustache de Lope de Vega dans les Cheveux de Dorothy Parker / Bory, Jean-Francois ; Kolar, Jiri., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-24192-24644
Scope and Contents

Every other line of poetry is set in Bory's characteristic experimental typography (as used on the page in the golden typwriter held by the Sackner Archive). Kolar's work, which is different for each copy in the run, is a card with a cut out of a cubist woman placed over a card of the Mona Lisa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

sans titre / Bory, Jean-Francois., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-20988-21397
Scope and Contents

This copy is the ordinary edition. The deluxe edition of 30 copies is consists of a card box covered with grey cloth, containing, besides the book itself, an original multiple by J.F. Bory: silk-screened pieces of card featuring 6 pieces of books spines showing the same illustration as the one on the front cover of the book, pasted on a sheet of brown rhodoid, mounted inside the front cover of the box. It is numbered and signed by the artist in the first page of the book and signed again on the SPINE of the box. According to Bory, only 5 copies of the preconceived 30 copies were realized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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Experimental typography 1
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