1969-12-01-0700

v69-70 [but you don't know what it is]

catalogue number: 1969.011.15
date created: 1969/1970
classification: works on paper
work type: collage
medium: black rub-off letters of the text 'but you don't know what it is' [source: Bob Dylan, 'Ballad Of a Thin Man' from the album Highway 61 Revisited (1965)], distributed with at random selection of place and font size, on paper
dimensions: 19.9 × 10.8 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'but you don't know what it is', signed and dated/work number 'v69-70' [?]
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comment: the contribution to the series of 36 prints was sent to Maurizio Nannucci on December 1, 1969 [notes herman de vries 1969]
the series exempla: documenti di poesia concreta e visuale / documents of concrete and visual poetry was edited by Maurizio Nannucci with works by herman de vries, Heinz Gappmair, Shohachiro Takahashi, Franco Verdi, and others (Firenze 1970); edition 200, numbered. In addition to the artists’ contributions, Nannucci also provides a declarative essay in Italian and English which outlines the global role and influence of experimental poetry since the 1950’s, and how as an art form, it will continue to evolve and influence language and semiotics.
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rights & reproduction: herman de vries