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Limited edition: a hand-pulled photo-lithograph of Joe Brainard’s mixed media collage Untitled (Nancy with gun) has been released in a numbered edition of 100, stamped by the estate of Joe…
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Joe Brainard
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard's letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
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Joe Brainard & Paul Auster,Paul Auster,Ron Padgett
As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories (‘everything is interesting, sooner or later’) as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by…
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This collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard’s poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
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John Yau
The first major publication in twenty years on the prodigious and innovative work of this beloved twentieth-century New York multimedia artist and poet, whose work in collage and assemblage transformed…
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Gathers journals, jottings, letters, stories, one-liners, comic books, mini-essays, and playlets, much of which exist in print only in expensive rarities –Back cover.
Based upon the Chinese translation of the Dhammapada, of which approximately two thirds of the verses have been selected for commentary. This work contains chapters which quote a number of…
Rona Cran
Devastating debut full poetry collection from the co-founder of the Network for New York School Studies
Alex Katz celebrates an old friendship, illustrating Brainard's 1970s journals with charcoal flower drawings
In this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries…
