Inner Planets is a bilingual artists’ book by American artist Cameron Jamie (1969). It was published during Jamie’s installation of the same name at the Palmenhaus of the Old Botanical Garden of Zürich in June 2013. The installation, in which 43 ceramic masks were hung from the roof of the glass building like a colourful galaxy or a pantheon for visitors to look up to, was curated by Lynn Kost…
9-postcard leporello published by Galerie Le Point Cardinal on the occasion of their group show in March-April 1968. The show included works by Max Ernst, Joachim Ferrer, Claude Georges, Matta, Henri Michaux, Louis Pons, Sima, Dorothea Tanning and Claude Viseux. A work of each of the partaking artists has been included in the leporello. Condition: fine with only slightly bumped corners.
American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) was an American poet associated with the second generation of the avantgardist New York School. He served in the US army for three years before taking a B.A. in English at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1959. Berrigan, who considered himself a late Beat poet, was active in Chicago for a number of years before he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. There he published and edited various books and his C Magazine, collaborated with other poets…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born to European immigrants in 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father having died shortly before he was born and his mother having been committed to a mental hospital soon after, Ferlinghetti was first raised by an aunt and then by foster parents. After having earned a B.A. in journalism in 1941 he published his first short stories while making a living as a sports journalist. He served in US Navy during World War II and after the war earned a degree…