1¢ Life
Designer, concept: Walasse Ting
Poet: Walasse Ting
Designer, concept: Sam Francis
Collaborator: Sam Francis
Contributor: Sam Francis
Categories: Bookwork / Illustrated Books, Planographic Print Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Printmakers' Books, Unbound Works
Reference no.:L/Tin.W/64.00 Place/Shelf:2DR
| Book title: | 1¢ Life |
| Published by: | E.W. Kornfeld |
| Year made: | 1964 |
| Place made: | USA |
| Original: | Yes |
| Edition: (No. in Edition) |
2000 (1751) |
| Dimensions: | 305 x 410 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | unbound sections with hard cover, slip case |
| Medium: | poetry, illustrations, graphics |
| Further information: | |
| "The art and poetry of '1 Cent Life' began as an idea by Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (October 13, 1929 – May 17, 2010), an idea based on bringing together a community of artists caught between the moment of abstract expressionism and pop-art in the early 1960s. In 1962, Ting began discussing the publication with his friend, artist Sam Francis. Both artists shared strong interests in calligraphy, I-Ching, Henri Matisse and the crossing of East-West culture. Ting wished to combine an array of contemporary artists who worked in many different styles into a single anthology, linking them together with his own art and poetry.
...It was a revolutionary tract for a collective aesthetic; an assembled vision of Pop and European abstraction, featuring flat hard-edged drawing and splatter painting, biomorphic art, splashing florescent colors and monochromes all meeting up in a single loud and dynamic package. '1 Cent Life' is among the most beautifully conceived and artistic book-works of the 1960s, unlike anything published before or after. It was a compact visual manifesto of the sixties – bright, psychedelic and pulsating, a collaboration of artists who came together under Walasse Ting’s poetic street magic." (from http://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom) Some of the artists involved with this project were: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist. |
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| Designer, concept: | Walasse Ting () |
| Poet: | Walasse Ting () |
| Designer, concept: | Sam Francis () |
| Collaborator: | Sam Francis () |
| Contributor: | Sam Francis () |
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