Description:
Paris: Centre Culturel Americain,, 1979.. First edition.. 4 x 8 inch card, printed in green on white stock. Fine. Announcement for exhibition, screenings, and performances by Moorman and Paik (TV Cello and TV Bra).
JAIL TO JUNGLE: Charlotte Moorman & Nan June Paik. [An original broadsheet poster promoting the Carnegie Hall Performance of "Jail to Jungle". by Moorman, Charlotte; and Paik, Nam June - 1977.
by Moorman, Charlotte; and Paik, Nam June
JAIL TO JUNGLE: Charlotte Moorman & Nan June Paik. [An original broadsheet poster promoting the Carnegie Hall Performance of "Jail to Jungle".
by Moorman, Charlotte; and Paik, Nam June
- Used
- very good
New York: New Ground Presentations, Inc., 1977., 1977.. Very good. - An original 17-1/8 inch high by 10-1/2 inch wide broadsheet printed in green and yellow on light pink stock. The text is printed in a column at the right. The bold title centered right is printed down the length of the poster. Illustrations from photographs by Peter Moore, Frank Pileggi, and Dick Preston are printed in two columns at left with an additional photograph overlapping the text at bottom right. The broadsheet is folded in half for mailing with the title additionally printed in light blue down the length of the verso with the return address and a few credits also printed on the verso. There are pinholes near the top and bottom corners of the right edge as well as minor creasing along the fold at right. A postal address label is mounted on the verso and there are remnants of tape to the center of the top and bottom of the verso's edges used for sealing the broadsheet for mailing. Very good.
The broadside advertises the Norman J. Seaman presentation of the three part performance: "Charlotte Moorman & Nam June Paik From Jail (1967) to Jungle (1977)" scheduled for "Thursday, 10 February 1977 at 8 pm", at "Carnegie Hall, New York". The performance art program included a recreation of Moorman & Paik's "Opera Sextronique", a staging of Charlotte Moorman's indecency trial for her topless cello concert, and a screening of Moorman and Paik's film "Guadalcanal: A Requiem" (1977).
The poster was designed by the Graphic Design Workshop at Hoosuck / Jim McWilliams.
- Bookseller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Book Condition Used - Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher New York: New Ground Presentations, Inc., 1977.
- Date Published 1977.
- Keywords ART; MUSIC; PERFORMANCE ART; JAIL TO JUNGLE; CHARLOTTE MOORMAN & NAM JUNE PAIK; FIRST EDITION; FLUXUS; 1ST EDITION; ORIGINAL BROADSHEET; CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT; JIM McWILLIAMS; GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSHOP AT HOOSUCK; PETER MOORE; FRANK PILEGGI; DICK PRESTO