Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.

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Description

Title
Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.
Creator
Cage, John
Contributor
Cage, John--Autograph
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Influence
Eye Editions
Sumsion, Calvin (Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014
Sumsion, Calvin--(Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014--Autograph
Published / Created
1969
Publication Place
Cincinnati, Ohio :
Publisher
Eye Editions,
Description
"Lithographs A and B / Using 8 aluminum plates and 9 colors, Lithograph A was hand printed on black Fabriano rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4". Lithograph B, using 8 aluminum plates and 8 colors was hand printed on rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" ... / Hand printed under the supervision of Hollanders Workshop Incorporated, New York."--Colophon.
125 numbered examples plus 18 roman numeraled artist's proofs.
A work created by John Cage and designer Calvin Sumsion in memory of Marcel Duchamp. The edition consists of 8 plexigrams, each comprised of 8 Plexiglas panels showing silk screened letters, words and visual images which Cage selected according to chance operations. Two panels are tinted bronze, six are clear. The panels can be arranged randomly on an accompanying slotted, wood base measuring 37 x 61 x 2 cm. A black sheet of paper with a white label has typed instructions on how to arrange. Also included is a booklet (38 pages ; 36 x 51 cm) with title: "To describe the process of composition used in Not wanting to say anything about Marcel: Plexigrams I-VIII lithographs A and B / together with a glossary." Inserted into the booklet is a diagram printed on a transparent sheet (fig. 3). Housed in a black cardboard box.
Numbered in manuscript on instructions sheet: II, 40/125. Imperfect: lithographs A and B wanting. Autographs Calvin Sumsion and John Cage on wood base. Booklet annotated.
Signed and numbered faintly on slotted side of wood base.
Extent
8 prints : plexiglass, silkcreen, color ; 36 x 51 cm, in box 63 x 39 x 5 cm. Assembled sculpture : approx. 61 x 37 x 37 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
2017 Folio 276

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
three dimensional object
Genre
Artists' books
Sculpture (Visual work)
Resource Type
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Subject (Name)
Cage, John--Autograph
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Influence
Eye Editions
Sumsion, Calvin (Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014
Sumsion, Calvin--(Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014--Autograph
Subject (Topic)
Concrete poetry

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13321397
Object ID (OID)
16719024

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