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Scope and Contents This exhibition featured impossible objects with captions that stylistically are reminiscent of Roland Topor's work. The contents were organized into the following categories: Le Travail (Work), La Maison (House), Les Loiers (Leisure), L'Homme, La Femme et L'Animal (Man, Woman and Animal), and Divers (Miscellaneous). Wikepedia: acques Carelman (born 1929, Marseille - 28 March 2012, Argenteuil)[1] was a French painter, illustrator and designer. In 1966, Jacques Carelman adapted the Raymond Queneau's novel Zazie in the Metro in bandes dessinees. He is also the undiscovered author of one of the most famous poster of May 1968 in France showing a threatening CRS. But Carelman is best known for his Catalog of fantastic things ("Catalogue d'objets introuvables") also known as Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, made in 1969 as a parody of the catalogue of the French mail order company Manufrance. This work has been translated into 19 languages (including Korean, Hebrew and Finnish). Among...

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In the principal essay, "My Eye is a Mouth," the curator Felicitas Thun states that the work of Dieter Roth forms the core of his self conception and of his principle of art. "Through constant self-reference the artist gives the presence of his own existence precedence over his work...Roth confronts dialogue and communications with a massive collection of items and flood of images...[He is] an artist who orients himself along the basic precepts and rules of an avant-garde, which attempts the radical task of transforming the self, his own reality, into a work and thus defends itself against institutionalisation." Most of the works in this exhibition are held by the Austrian Ludwig collection. The Sackner Archive holds several works depicted in this catalogue including "Buch AB 1973 and Roth's verlag books among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition features impossible objects with captions that stylistically are reminiscent of Roland Topor's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...

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This is designated Dossiers 4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.