Place publication: Pretoria Publisher: Artists Book Previous reference GB/14945 Battiss bibliography 29
Additional notes: This item comprises two copies.
1. Original. 15 A3 pages and 1 A4 photocopy:
2 pages of Dugong: Fook script white on black paper.
6 pages of photo-manipulated portraits.
8 pages of Fook text (not Fook script). The first page is the A4 photocopy.
2. An original from the Battiss Estate Archive [19pp]:
1 Title page with white text on black background.
1 Second page is a photocopy in Battiss's cursive:
I wrote the script & took the photographs. W.B.
This book was on my Retrospective at Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 1979. Nowhere else.
"Even the proper names in Stravinsky's text, (Lec Noves "The Wedding") such as Palagy or Savelyouchka, belong to no one in particular. THEY WERE CHOSEN FOR THEIR SOUND, their syllables and their Russian typicality."
[from PROGRAM NOTES by ARTHUR F. EDWARDS. Los Angeles Master Chorale Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) https://docplayer.net/216801836-Los-angeles-master-chorale-and-sinfonia-ensemble.html]
1 page transcribing the Dugong.
2 pages of Dugong: Fook script white on black paper.