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Duhring Duhring: nous etiens contre le pouvoir des mots contre le pouvoir / Wolman, Gil\aka Joseph Wolman., 1979

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Identifier: CC-52923-74063

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Scope and Contents

This work is depicted on pages 188-191 of Wolman's "Resume" (1981), a book held by the Sackner Archive. Ars Libri No.159 2011: This is Wolman's second artist book, published in the same year as "L'homme separe." "In October 1979, he exhibited all 64 plates of 'Duhring, Duhring,' an appropriation of Engels' Anti-Duhring' text, from which he excerpted a few words-nouns, individually enclosed in transparency mounts and arranged at regular intervals on the separate images of the heads of miscellaneous characters. In passing, they included Isou, mixed with Brezhnev and heads drawn by Wolman, thus defined by the noun associated with them, except that the photos recurred in a changed order and with different words. Once again, Wolman produced this large coloured wall fresco and a black and white version on cheap paper; a book with a tabloid or punk fanzine look about it, quite the opposite of the small edition of 150 of 'L'homme separe.' Keen for the book to be widely distributed, he printed an edition of 5,000. Nearly all these copies were destroyed in the act of arson committed on 28 November 1980 in the Galerie Speiss warehouse, where 'L'arbre separe' was also in storage. Paradoxically the work that had been promised a wide distribution would once again be "underground." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1979

Extent

0 See container summary (1 tabloid (folded) + unbound pages (newsprint) (64 pages)) ; 20.8 x 28.5 x 1.3 cm (folded) + 41.6 x 28.5 cm (unfolded)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box 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: Paris, France : Editions Inconnues.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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