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Scope and Contents Various paper stocks were used for the prints, viz., Centurian, Ferndown, Fibrex, Flexicover, Kendal and Soho cover boards, All British Cartridge, Astralux cast coated boards, and clear Acetate. According to Diane Kirpatrick (Eduardo Paolozzi, New York Graphic Society, 1969), the work was conceived as a giant file of text and image collages from the artist's voluminous collection. Each viewer is invited to 'edit' the book by experimenting with various arrangements of the sheets in the box. Paolozzi was concerned in this book between the relationship of Kitsch to technology. The color combinations of the inks are elegant with prodigious use of gold, silver, and copper metal inks. The moulded plexiglas box has a Dayglo pink color (other copies had this color or bright yellow or bright green). The images include movie stills and strips, There are several prints that include scientific, industrial, weather, and news photography. Images include graphs, advertisements, art...

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Brigitte Willberg composed this book using ornamental typographic devices. As she states in the preface, created "expansive new compositions in which the individual element is an integral component. The forms are fluid, streaming with an energy that is at times, explosive." Five different ornaments were used for these compositions. Each ornamental surface was based on just one figure which was typeset by hand after extensive calculations and sketches. Although the images were typeset, their appearance is reminiscent of typewriter art, particularly in the work of Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.