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This portfolio was published to accompany Hirsal and Gregorova's book of concrete poetry, job-boj, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. The print by Kolar depicts a two-headed silhouette of Hirsal and Gregorova on a background of collaged words and phrases. The texts are adapted fom contemporary, foreign, newspaper articles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jakub Hanzi (internet): Jiri Valoch (1946-) theorist, art critic, columnist, exhibit curator, and conceptual artist. He is the creator of visual and conceptual poetry, photographic poetry and photographic concepts, text installations and conceptual drawings. Between 1965-1970 he studied German Language and Literature, Czech Language and Literature, and Aesthetics at the College of Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty) of Masaryk University in Brno. In the 1960s and 1970s he addressed the production of visual and conceptual poetry focused on linguistic introspection, text installations, and conceptual drawings, and events touching upon the field of body art, land art and conceptual photography. His poetic texts, bordering between word and image, gradually followed a more radical evolution. They began more to reflect his own language, work with texts becomes subordinate to a strict concept, and he returns to a traditionally-expressed, linear, poetic text: most often tied to the classic...