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Gestures of Contact
(For Private Circulation)

Item date(s): February 1963

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (essay by)


Pages: 2pp
Size: 320mm
Language: English
Edition: Unique


Place publication: (Pretoria)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Quotes from Chagall and Braque's Note Books; aphorisms; thoughts on Freud and others.

Final comment "An extraordinary book by an artist is BREAK-PEDAL DOWN by JOHN BRATBY published by Hutchinson of London" with which Battiss ends the essay. Some quotes may be from this book.



Ref: GB/30684



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