John Furnival: Ends and Odds / Moxham, Bernard, curator ; Furnival A., 2012
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Scope and Contents
Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the curator of this third volume of Furnival's works. The contents include The Furnival Family, Mail-Art, More Botanical Works, More Locative and Vocative Works, More Visual Poetry, Miscellany and Work-in-Progress and Mail-Art Interviews with John Furnival - Part 3. Bernard Moxham contributes the forward."It might be thought that a volume of John Furnival's work entitled 'Ends and Odds' contains only minor works compared with those illustrated within the preceding volumes.While this volume contains work that, for space reasons alone, could not be incorporated into volumes 1 and 2, the viewer/reader must beware - there are no hierarchies in John's world. An ink landscape drawing is no inferior to a screen, his modernist of postmodernist works are not intrinsically better than his more traditional art, a print is no worse than a drawing or painting, and a large scale work is not superior to a postcard. In other words, Johm Furnival distrusts the notion of masterpieces. Accordingly, this volume of family-related works, mail art, miscellany and work-in-progress contains riches not to be ignored by those who seek a real understanding of John Furnival's personality and artistic ourput .However, on writing this foreword it occurs to me that a hierarchy does indeed exist withn his art...John preferences the laugh over the tear! As for volume 1 (Lost for Words) and volume 2 (The Locative-Vocative Cases), I have reversed normal publishing procedure, showing the artworks before the commentary and exegesis.O reader, finding your own meaning is more rewarding than taking at face value the comments and views of artists and critics." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2012
Creator
- Moxham, B. J. (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (154 pages)) ; 21 x 27.3 x 1.7 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
box shelf second bedroom alcove
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: Nailsworth, England : Openings-Closing Press. Signed by: John Furnival (t.c.- colophon); Bernard Moxham (t.c.- colophon). Nationality of creator: British. General: About 50 total copies. About 7 number copy. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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