Remy Charlip: What A Fine Day For...

What A Fine day For... by Ruth Krauss, designed and illustrated by Remy Charlip, with music by Al Carmines (The Associate Minister of The Judson Memorial Church), Parents' Magazine Press, 1969
This is the second of two books Charlip made with Krauss.

All my previous Remy Charlip posts here

thought amplifier

STALKING THE WILD PENDULUM: On The Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov, A Bantam New Age Book, 1977 (illustrated by the author) (thanks S.H.)

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Read, Think, and Write by Florence A. Harris, M&S, Toronto, 1965

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from Theory For Beginners by Barbara Wharram, illustrations by Robert Zalay, Frederick Harris Music Co., Ontario, 1974

Kathy

(embellished back cover of) The Green Book of Birds of America, Whitman Publishing Co., Wisconsin, 1941

quillwork

Quill Work (Quilling, Paper Filigree, Rolled Paper Work)

from The Batsford Encyclaepedia of Crafts by H.E. Laye Andrew, BT Batsford Ltd., London, 1978 (1988 ed.)

misc. bookshelf

People of the Potlatch, Vancouver Art Gallery/UBC, 1956

Ship Models and How to Build Them by Harvey Weiss, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1973 (also by H.Weiss)

Far Beyond The Fringe (Three-Dimensional Knotting Techniques Using Macrame & Nautical Ropework) by Eugene Andes, VNR, 1973

String Figures and How to Make Them (A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands) by Caroline Furness Jayne, 1962 (here)

New Trends in Church Architecture by Justus Dahinden, Universe Books, 1967 (previously)
Forest Flora of Canada by G.C. Cunningham, Department of Northern Affairs Forestry Branch (Canada), 1958 (1969)

some recent library sale and thrift store finds

I.C.

South American Bookworms by Ivor Cutler, ARC publications, 1999

Listen here

Previously here

Much more here.

J.P.

Jon Pylypchuk opening today at Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal.

Wish I could be there.

Yo Yo

Ursa Minor

from The Amazing Yo-Yo, Ross R. Olney, photos by Chan Bush, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, NY, 1980

Anarchitecture

Richard Greaves: Anarchitecte/Anarchitect, edited by Sarah Lombardi & Valerie Rouseau, photos by Mario del Curto, 5 Continents Editions, 2005 (in print)

previously

Vestments and chasubles

( Vestment for Mass by Alfred Manessier/Vestment for Mass by Alfred Manessier/ Vestment for Mass by Sister Augustina Flüeler/ Chasuble by Alfred Manessier/ Chasuble by Henri Matisse/ Chasuble by Henri Matisse )

The sacred vestment in its disguising activity and artistic expression is an irradiating creative element, which is to be taken into consideration by the church architect.

from New Trends in Church Architecture, Justus Dahindren, Universe Books, NY, 1967

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

this is after

from Dear World: The Canadian Children's Project, Methuen/Sogides, 1986

(Karen Sum, Age 12, Don Mills, Ontario)

make your own...

from Make Your Own Monstrosities with Tooth and Nail by George Daniels, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1959 ("Comedy" do-it-yourself manual with a few inadvertently nice photos and a cover by Tomi Ungerer. Still not recommended.)