Letters and Jazz: for Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker
Artist's Book
1983 (published)
1983 (published)
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This spontaneous bookwork is the result of drawings made collaboratively by George Brecht and Stefan Wewerka. The two artists appear to have had an enjoyable evening drinking wine, talking about letters and Chinese, listening to jazz artists Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and others whilst experimenting with creating letter formations inspired by the music and by Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint 'Five tires' (an art work described as 'cut up, stamped, glued'). The results of their evening's work effectively records the process of developing an idea.
Object details
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| Title | Letters and Jazz: for Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Bound book |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'Letters and jazz: for Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker', Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, 1983 |
| Physical description | Artist's book comprising colour illustrations. Text (in English and German) on inside front cover. 16 pages. |
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| Summary | This spontaneous bookwork is the result of drawings made collaboratively by George Brecht and Stefan Wewerka. The two artists appear to have had an enjoyable evening drinking wine, talking about letters and Chinese, listening to jazz artists Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and others whilst experimenting with creating letter formations inspired by the music and by Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint 'Five tires' (an art work described as 'cut up, stamped, glued'). The results of their evening's work effectively records the process of developing an idea. |
| Other number | X890294 - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | 38041989023163 |
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| Record created | February 6, 2014 |
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