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Bense, Max, 1910-1990

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Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Una Biografia 1915 - 1990 / Goeritz, Mathias ; Bense M ; Gomringer E ; Mayer HJ ; Tablada J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33576-35229
Scope and Contents

This book documents and illustrates Goeritz's career beginning in Germany and continuing mainly in Mexico. A chapter consisting of six pages depicts his concrete poems from 1959 - 1968. This definitive biography of Goeritz was written by Lily Kassner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Zero / Piene, Otto, editor ; Mack, Heinz, editor ; Howard Beckman, translator ; Klein Y ; Bense M ; Mack H ; Tinguely J ; Arman ; Manzoni P ; Spoerri D ; Aubertin B ; Roth D ; Adrian M ; Kluver B., 1973

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Identifier: CC-29946-31337
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a reprinting in English of the three issues of Zero, an avant garde art group prominent in the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage / Trinkewitz, Karel ; Weiss C ; Bense M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34506-36204
Scope and Contents

Christina Weiss and Max Bense contributed introductory essays for the catalogue. On page 105, a letter from Marvin Sackner to Trinkewitz in 1985 is included in the collage titled "Ehrung fur Andre Breton." The work also includes a sketch of Jiri Kolar packing a work for Marvin Sackner that Trinkewitz made while the Sackners visited Kolar's studio and Karel served as the translator. The brochures, placed separately between several pages, are gallery invitations to exhibitions of Trinkewitz's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

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