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Actions		Afini- Erota Remove from selection Add to selection Object number1975.0249 TitleAfini- Erota Creator Michael Leggett (vervaardiger)‎, The Beau Geste Press (uitgever)‎ DescriptionThe book has no front cover and no back cover. Each cover image - when read 'right way up' - leads to a series of photographs and word images that are read, by turning the book around, in either direction. The photos were found, together with the two poems, after my great-aunt Tina had died. They formed the basis of the two works: the book made collaboratively and printed at Beau Geste Press; and a film premiered at the Second International Festival of Avant-Garde Film, National Film Theatre, London. (See separate entry under Film). The image texts were made following an initial interpretation of the poems by Peter Foster-Marr. The authoring process took at random a 'translated' word from the poems and one of the photographs as the starting point for writing and maintained a loose narrative through each of the two accounts. Production date 1973 Production period20e eeuw Object namekunstenaarsboeken Object categorykunstenaarsboeken Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt Techniqueoffsetdrukken Dimensions hoogte: 19.5 cm pagina-aantal: 60

Object number1975.0249

TitleAfini- Erota

Creator Michael Leggett (vervaardiger)‎, The Beau Geste Press (uitgever)‎

DescriptionThe book has no front cover and no back cover. Each cover image - when read 'right way up' - leads to a series of photographs and word images that are read, by turning the book around, in either direction. The photos were found, together with the two poems, after my great-aunt Tina had died. They formed the basis of the two works: the book made collaboratively and printed at Beau Geste Press; and a film premiered at the Second International Festival of Avant-Garde Film, National Film Theatre, London. (See separate entry under Film). The image texts were made following an initial interpretation of the poems by Peter Foster-Marr. The authoring process took at random a 'translated' word from the poems and one of the photographs as the starting point for writing and maintained a loose narrative through each of the two accounts.

Production date 1973

Production period20e eeuw

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Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt

Techniqueoffsetdrukken

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