The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1 / Paul Zelevansky., 1985
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Scope and Contents
Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1985
Creator
- Zelevansky, Paul (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 sculpture (stick, box, thimble, roller, paper, rubberstamped, gravel) in suitcase (wood, metal, wire, labels, handle, lock, hinges, plack, engraved)) ; suitcase closed to 12 x 30 x 23 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
room off kitche
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: New York : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Paul Zelevansky (u.l.- suitcase bottom). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
319-335-5921