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The Secret Book of Jazz

Item date(s): (1987)

A. R. Penck


Pages: unpaged
Size: 120mm


Place publication: n. p.
Exhibition 2019-1

Additional notes:
Aluminium 12cm cube held shut with two screws.

The top shows the title.

The bottom has an illustration of nine stick figures.

The sides have the following texts:

1. MAGIC XTTTX SIGN. Nr. 11. [and signed in black ink by Ar. R. Penck]

2. EUROPA USA

3. BLACK AND WHITE

4. AFTER XXX FREE

Inside the box there are nine metal squares, one cm thick, each with two holes at the right and the left which fit over two rods:

Each has a name at the top and "The Secret of JAZZ" at the bottom and an illustration in the middle.

Frank Wright.

Heinz Wollny

Jeane Lee

Dennis King Charles

Frank Wollny

Butch Morris

Billi Bang

A. R. Penck

Frank Lowe

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts

JGCBA, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/14188









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