Carnival. The First Panel 1967-70.

McCaffery, Steve. 

£100[Sold]

The publication, originally containing sixteen sheets (two are missing in this copy), is composed of McCaffery’s typewriter compositions.

Instructions written on a loose accompanying card are as follow: “In order to destroy this book please tear each page carefully along perforation. The panel is assembled by laying out pages in a square of four”.

The assembled work is shown on the front of the card.

A copy of the 1920 De Stijl Manifesto and McCaffery’s artist’s biography, printed on the same sheet, introduces the publication, and another sheet repeats this information at the end.

Canadian poet Steve McCaffery was a member of the sound-poetry collective, ‘The Four Horsemen’, and with BP Nichol, a co-founder of the ‘Toronto Research Group’.

Toronto: The Coach House Project, 1973. First edition. 4to (28.7 × 21.6 cm). Softcover. Texts in English. Side-stapled along top margin with perforated pages printed in black and red ink on recto side only. To which is added a slightly smaller sheet printed in black ink on recto side only, and a postcard printed in red and black ink on recto side, and black ink on verso. Condition: Very good plus. Creases to covers and shelf wear. Two sheets are missing. Item ID: 1260.

Subjects:Concrete Poetry,20th Century

Format:Artists Books

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