WAKEST AIMS? KIND LAW & ZEAL!
by Floating Concrete Octopus (Was, Liz; And, Miekal; Helsem, Michael)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
An introductory note by "Amendant Hardiker. March 1989" explains that "Wakest Aims?" is "a composite assembling of styles of visual information...a collaboration between Liz Was and Miekal And (Madison, WI) and Michael Helsem (Dallas, TX)....They have deliberately contrasted the hand-drawn with the computer-generated, the cave painting with the graffiti. Language has been twisted to form palindromes and anagrams. Photos have materialized out of nowhere to be assigned neologisms. Glyphs have been etched into paper & slogans have been coined. Such is the nature of Wakest activity...."
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10233
- Title
- WAKEST AIMS? KIND LAW & ZEAL!
- Author
- Floating Concrete Octopus (Was, Liz; And, Miekal; Helsem, Michael)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Iowa City, IA: Photostatic, (1989).
- Date Published
- (1989).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VISUAL POETRY; FLOATING CONCRETE OCTOPUS; LIZ WAS; MIEKAL AND; MICHAEL HELSEM; WAKEST AIMS? KIND LAW AND ZEAL!; COLLABORATION; COMPOSITE; COMPUTER-GENERATED; HAND-DRAWN; LANGUAGE; VISUAL INFORMATION; CONCRETE POETRY; CONCEPTUAL ART.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Visual Poetry;
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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