Fooks Nookspaaker LAAST (sic) WITH THE NEEWS (sic). FIIRST (sic) WITH THE TRUUTH (sic)
Item date(s): 1975
Walter Whall Battiss
(1906-1982)
Pages: 4pp Size: 600mm
Place publication: (Pretoria, RSA) Publisher: The artist ART 0889 and GB/12556 Battiss bibliography 21
Additional notes: Lithographic prints on four sides (pages 1, 2, 5 and 6) of a printed newspaper page - The Financial Times, Tuesday July 15, 1975. The Financial Times is famous for being printed in "pink" which Battiss used as his substrate. The "Fookball for Fun" illustration of a young African couple also appears on the title page of Fook Book 2 (where there is another illustration of the same sort - which does not appear on the title page of Fook Book 2).
Pages 1 and 6 are printed in green and brown, page 2 is in white and black and page 5 in white and green.
Some text: Be a king or queen like Ferd the Third;
Uninhabited Island For Sale. Pavilion on safe white sandy beach. Fifteen musical flowers. Price 12000 Aks. From Sales Manger CITI FERDINAND FOOK ISLAND.
Exhibition notes: ‘Nations by Artists’, University of Toronto Art Centre, Canada. 8 February 2022 –2 April 2022.
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