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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2008.00.77 |
Author |
Ting, Walasse |
Title |
1 [cent] life |
Published Date |
1964 |
Object Name |
Book |
Summary |
This is a regular edition of "One Cent Life Portfolio" ("1 ¢ Life"), written by Walasse Ting, edited by Sam Francis, and published by E.W. Kornfeld. According to E. W. Kornfeld : "(Ting) wanted to publish the most international illustrated book, intended to illustrate his text, uniting tachisme, neo-dadaisme, pop art, and all other artistic movements. The idea was born from global experience, close contact with culture, pseudo-culture, primitive existential worries, urban erotic and eastern wisdom. It was a Herculean task, for which only a Chinese would have been able to muster the perseverance" - excerpt from Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd. This ambitious project of limited edition color lithographs and Walasse Ting's poetry, incorporates 62 lithographs by the following American and European artists, mingling Pop, abstract, and Conceptualist sensibilities: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Reinhound, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Asger Jorn, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Kimber Smith, K. R. H. Sonderborg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Antonio Saura, Bram Van Velde; Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Kiki O. K., Asger Jorn, James Rosenquist, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Alfred Leslie, Allan Kaprow, Machteld Appel, Alfred Yensen, Ben Simcoe, Vivian Springford, Robert Ho, Ivan C. Karp, Natalie Ting. Lithography is by Maurice Beaudet, and Paris Typography by Georges Girard. The unbound signatures were printed in Paris in an edition of 2,100. The Museum's copy is number 1329 and signed by Francis, Ting, and Kornfeld. |
Physical Description |
- 16" H x 12" W x 2" D - 170 p. (portfolio) on wove paper - 62 unsigned and unnumbered lithographs in colors, in- and hors-texte. - Cloth boards with screenprinted glazed paper dust jacket, cover design by Machteld Appel. |
Subjects |
Artists' Books |