Scope and Contents The fingerprints dedication to Milan Grygar is appropriate since he used the tapping of his fingers in his performance pieces. Milan Grygar was born in Zvolen, Slovakia in 1926. After graduating from the College of Applied Arts, Prague (where he studied under Professor Emil Filla) he concentrated on still lifes which evolved into colour compositions devoid of subject matter. In 1964 he produced a series of 64 black-and-white drawings using the principle of a linear sequence. Working in a fast rhythm, he could "hear" the drawing he was creating. From there, it was only a step to a discovery that was to define his future artistic career and bring him recognition. Grygar began tape recording the acoustic process of drawing. In 1965 he started to pursue the relationship between drawing and sound, and in 1966 exhibited his first acoustic drawings with accompanying tape recordings. These New Drawings led him to the direction known as the New Music, and were followed by large drawings and...

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The envelope was addressed and mailed to Bob Cobbing. Each card gives the same admonition in a different language. The English word, "please" is misxpelled as "plese." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dipping the blank pages of this booklet into diluted planaxol. planaxol is a special resin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. The booklet is rubberstamped 241 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dripping planaxol onto a blank page of the unassembed booklet. Planaxol is a special redin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. It is rubberstamped 157 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the introduction, Gaglione mentions that Ben was the first to introduce rubberstampings into modern art in the late 50's and early 60's but that Kocman should be considered the "neo-father" of contemporary stamp art as demonstrated by his 1972 book "Stamp Activity." With this publication (30 copies), the concept of international stamp art was officially born into the eternal network. The rubberstamp collaged onto the cover carries the word, "touch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.