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Art Works [Japanese]. No.7 / Numata G., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-26063-26525

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Scope and Contents

Issue No.20. A collage, "Goldfish" by Taro Shinoda depicts a central image of a photocopied chest roentgenogram with right hilar enlargement and a rubberstamped label, + cancer. Two stooped human silhouettes flank the chest x-ray. In the lower half, goldfish and a receipt for its purchase are shown. The collage might be interpreted as depression received after diagnosis of lung cancer despite acquisition of a prized, material possession which in Japanese culture is the goldfish (aka carp). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1988

Extent

0 See container summary (1 broadsides periodical + pages (collaged, photocopied, photocopied colored, painted) + 5 pages (translucent paper) + 2 drawings (ink, paint) + 3 photographs b&w + collage (paper, twig, cloth) + 3 prints (intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut) (28 pages) in cover (acetate) + drawing (ink)) ; 30.5 x 21.3 x .8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf non-a

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: Tokyo, Japan : Art Works Committee.Signed by: several contributors. General: About 150 total copies. 79 number copy. General: Added by CONV; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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