- Creator:
- Vicuña, Cecilia, 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 2012
- Call Number:
- 2014 Folio 20
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
- Description:
- " ... a modern interpretation of the 5,000 year-old quipu, which recorded the literature of the Incas on knotted cords. It ... embodies the intention and essence of a poem by Vicuña translated into English by the poet along with Jerome Rothenberg. Accompanying Chanccani Quipu is a full-color signed drawing inserted into a pamphlet entitled Instruction Manual & Orientation to Various Meanings"--Publisher description., " ... produced and published by Granary Books in an edition of 32 copies each made entirely by hand. The poem was "printed" on unspun wool using stencils made by the poet who also knotted the threads. The quipu is tied or bound to a 16 inch bamboo spine from which it hangs to about 48 inches when installed. The work is housed in a hand-stenciled box (18 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 4 inches) made by Susan Mills. Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints in Philadelphia printed the drawing and the pamphlet in full-color. Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg signed the edition of 32 numbered copies"--Publisher description., and 10/32. Autographs of Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg. In box as issued.
- Publisher:
- Granary Books,
- Subject (Name):
- Granary Books (Firm), publisher., Mills, Susan (Susan E.), Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-, Rothenberg, Jerome,--1931---Autograph., Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, printer., and Vicuña, Cecilia--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists' books, Quipu, and Visual poetry.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chanccani Quipu / Cecilia Vicuña.
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- Creator:
- Cage, John
- Published / Created:
- 1969
- Call Number:
- 2017 Folio 276
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- 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., and Signed and numbered faintly on slotted side of wood base.
- Publisher:
- Eye Editions,
- Subject (Name):
- Cage, John--Autograph, Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Influence, Eye Editions, Sumsion, Calvin (Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014, and Sumsion, Calvin--(Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Concrete poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.
- Published / Created:
- 1955
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 118 | Folder 1888
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Press badge for Bandung Conference
- Creator:
- New York Public Library
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 613
- Collection Title:
- Joseph Brodsky papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 133 | Folder 2971
- Image Count:
- 2
- Subject (Name):
- Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 and New York Public Library
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The New York Public Library Literary Lions 10th Anniversary [medal]
- Call Number:
- X373 897
- Collection Title:
- History of the horn-book / by Andrew W. Tuer ... with three hundred illustrations
- Image Count:
- 8
- Subject (Topic):
- Hornbooks and Readers (Primary)
- Collection Created:
- London : The Leadenhall press ; New York : C. Scribner’s sons, 1897
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Three horn-books