Scope and Contents

First published by Edition Des Amateurs in 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents One pamphlet is the music score of Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1933) in the American movie "Moulin Rouge." The other pamphlet by Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton "A Cellular Maze," (1983) is a polemic of the British prison system in Northern Ireland. This book is based upon an exhibition held in 2000 but as Emmett Williams comments on the dust jacket "by no stretch of the imagination could you describe it as an art catalogue...Call it simply an artists' nonbook Happening that happens to be a monument to the art of bookmaking." This book also reprints a manifesto by Oldenburg from Store Days (1961) as follows below. I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap & still comes out on top. I am for an art that imitates the human, that is...