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Necklace by Milan Knížák, Remschied, Germany: Vice-Versand, 1968 (wow. saw this today at Artists' Books and Multiples, please go there now!)

Porta Filliou

from Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1996 (image and quote from Porta Filliou, video, 1977)

Wuppertal, 1963

Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell at Exposition of Music, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963

This crumpled photocopy was pinned to my studio wall for years (the source book long forgotten). I dug it out tonight after seeing these amazing photos over at ROLU (thanks Matt!)

E.W.

The Alphabet Symphony by Emmett Williams, 1962 (26 photographs of the performance "Universal Poem". Photos by Bernard Kirchoff)
from FLUXUS by Thomas Kellein, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

A.R.

Allen Ruppersberg's studio in Hollywood, 1968

from Allen Ruppersberg: One of Many---Origins and Variants, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 2006

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Distorted TV set, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany, 1963 / excerpts from Paik's essay "afterlude to the exposition EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION, 1963, Galerie Parnass" published in The Fluxus Newspaper, 1964 / Beatles Electroniques / detail from letter to John Cage, 1964 / Charlotte Moorman with Chroma Key Glasses, 1971 / detail from letter to John Cage, 1965 / Dream TV, pencil drawing, 1973
from VIDEA 'N' VIDEOLOGY: NAM JUNE PAIK (1959-1973) edited by Judson Rosebush, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and Galeria Bonino, NY, 1974

Ben: terrain vague

(Terrain Vague, 1961, 1970 / Partie Du Tout A Ben, 1960 / Le Temps, 1961 / To Change Art Destroy Ego, 1965, 1968 / Centre Du Monde, 1962 / Jeter Dieu a la Mer, 1962 / Voiture, ca. 1964-65 / Voiture, ca. 1964-65 / Le Vitres De Magazins, 1979 )
From Strip Tease Intégral de Ben (Rétrospective Ben [Vautier]), Somogy editions d'art/ MAC Lyon, Paris/Lyon, 2010 (french language)

previously and previously

Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou's hat)

( Galerie Légitime, ca 1962-1963 / Galerie Légitime, serigraph, Galery Wilbrand, Cologne, 1969 / Galerie Légitime, ed. Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart, 1969 (exhibition poster that folds into a paper hat) / The Frozen Exhibition, ed. VICE-Versand, Remscheid, 1972 / still from 1977 video Porta Filliou/ Filliou c. 1964)

Inside my cap, on top of my head, I had small works of mine---at that time I used to make things where I used measurements, or I mummified them. Then in the streets of Paris I would walk through the streets, and I would come up to someone and a typical dialogue might be: "Are you interested in art, monsieur or madame?" and if they said, "Yes, yes," I would say: "Well you know I have a gallery." And if they expressed some interest I would say: "Here it is." There inside my hat were the works. They were perhaps a little bigger than this grape. And then we would look at the works.
So with the Galerie Légitime I could go through the streets, I could go also inside houses and other buildings, and many things happened to the Galerie Légitime. For instance, when I was in Germany with another version I lost it, so I went around Frankfurt looking for my gallery. At another time my gallery was stolen.

-Robert Filliou (transcribed from Porta Filliou, video, 1977)

from Robert Filliou: From Political To Poetical Economy, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Univeristy of British Columbia, 1994

Robert Filliou: Editions and Multiples, les presses du reel, Dijon, 2003

Fluxus, Thomas Kellein, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

previously here and here

The Encumbrance

From Strip Tease Intégral de Ben (Rétrospective Ben [Vautier]), Somogy editions d'art/ MAC Lyon, Paris/Lyon, 2010 (french language) I'll be posting more from this soon.

Ruth Krauss: Something Else Press

There's a little ambiguity over there among the bluebells by Ruth Krauss (with graphics by Marilyn Harris), Something Else Press, 1968

One of only a few books Ruth Krauss wrote for an adult audience, this book of "Theatre Poems" was published by Something Else Press (founded by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins). Includes contributions by Dick Higgins, George Brecht, and Remy Charlip. Some of the poems previously appeared in her 1965 book The Cantilever Rainbow.

Maybe best known as the author of The Carrot Seed (illustrated by her husband Crockett Johnson), Ruth Krauss was also Maurice Sendak's mentor and early collaborator. She worked with countless illustrators, including Ad Reinhardt (!), Phyllis Rowland, Marc Simont, Mary Blair, Ellen Raskin and Remy Charlip.

"At a time when children's books tended to be didactic, with lots of text, Ms. Krauss pioneered the use of minimal text, concentrating on precise language and working closely with an illustrator". -From NY Times obituary

A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of Definitions by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, 1952

Is This You? by Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, 1955

The Thumbprint by Ruth Krauss, 1967

Bears by Ruth Krauss and Phyllis Rowland, 1948

A Moon or a Button: A Collection of First Picture Ideas by Ruth Krauss and Remy Charlip, 1959

See also Daddytypes on Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak and The Carrot Seed.

More Ruth Krauss at Vintage Kids Books My Kid Loves and Curious Pages

George Brecht & Robert Filliou

from Games at the Cedilla or the Cedilla Takes Off by George Brecht and Robert Filliou, Something Else Press, 1967

(until I find a copy of my own, these are from photocopies I made ages ago)

see also: Robert Filliou: Mister Blue From Day-to-Day

choose between thees two squares and answer why?

sketchbook with inscription by Ben Vautier, Lyon, France, 2004