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3 Notations Rotations / Octavio Paz; Toshi Katayama., 1974

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Identifier: CC-04732-4821

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Scope and Contents

Toshihiro Katayama aka Toshi met Octovio Paz at the Carpenter Center at Harvard. Movement and transformations in Toshi's work was related to the form and meaning in the poetry of Paz. In this piece, Toshi made the design for which Paz invented the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1974

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (3 rotating discs (museum board) + print (museum board) in box (cardboard, perforated)) ; discs each 29 x 29 cm, in box 30 x 30 x 3 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

1904 shelf

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: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Carpenter Center Harvard University. Signed by: Octavio Paz (l.r.- colophon); Toshi (l.r.- colophon). Nationality of creator: Mexican and Japanese. General: 26 copies of 11026 total copies. General: Variable edition; multiple copies available. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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