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[Letter to Jean-Paul Curtay] / Musgrove, Victor; Wolfli A., 1983

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Identifier: CC-06143-6257

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Scope and Contents

Musgrove, a British poet with a collection of Outsider Art (the outsider archive) writes about Adolf Wolfli: "It is also of particular importance that Wolfli was ahead of everybody - he invented collage combinations with painting around the turn of the century, included a Campbell soup can in a painting in 1904 and the sound poems were begun before DADA, and so on." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 letter + 2 stapled pages (photocopied)) ; 30 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

General: Title provided by Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. 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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