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Artist book (mass produced)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Spare Parts / Ford, Charles Henri., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-13017-13309
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet indicates that this is an editorial copy sent for book review. The title of the book is printed on the dust jacket and is not in the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The imagery between the two dust jackets differs greatly. The images on most of the pages are composed with different typefaces and sizes clipped from magazine and newspaper articles. On some of the pages, found visual images are integrated into the poems. Finally some pages have solely Pop Art images. "Spare Parts" was an advanced poetic book for its time. Papachrysantou was the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Spare Parts / Ford, Charles Henri., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-13018-13310
Scope and Contents

The title of the book is not printed on the dust jacket as is the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The imagery between the two dust jackets differs greatly. The images on most of the pages consist of poems composed with different typefaces and that appear to have been clipped from magazine and newspaper articles. In some of these poems, appropriated images have also been integrated into the poems. Finally, some pages have solely Pop Art images. "Spare Parts" was an advanced poetic book for its time. Papachrysantou was the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966