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Letters and Jazz: For Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker / Brecht, George ; Wewerka, Stefan ; Hamilton R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21549-21960

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Scope and Contents

G. Brecht and S. Wewerka cut-up, stamped and glued R. Hamilton's artrubberprint "Fire Tires" while listening to jazz to make this book.Printed Matter: This book presents reproductions of collaborative drawings made in January, 1981, by Brecht and Wewerka. As Brecht writes in the introduction: "We talked about letters, and Chinese, while / listening to jazz: Lester Young, Billie Holiday / Yardbird, and others. / Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint "Five Tires' / was cut up, stamped, glued. / There was plenty to drink, too! / We have never thought of these "drawings' as / works to be shown, let alone reproduced. They are / just the leftovers of an evening when the authors / tried to get a bit clear(er) about "letters.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (18 pages)) : color illustrations ; 14.9 x 21.1 cm

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: Cologne, West Germany : Edition Hundertmark. Nationality of creator: American and Polish. General: About 1000 total copies. 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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