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Artist(s): Pierre Alechinsky (Brussels, Belgium, October 19, 1927 - )
Printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris
Title: Page 134 from 1¢ Life, an illustrated book by Walasse Ting
Date: 1964
Dimensions: 16 1/4 in. x 11 1/2 in. (41.28 cm x 29.21 cm)
Medium: lithograph
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 2002.70.50

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In 1964, Chinese-American poet and artist Walasse Ting invited twenty-eight European and American artists to contribute lithographic illustrations to a volume of his poetry. Often described as a visual manifesto of the 1960s, this wildly colorful and inventive unbound book reflects a moment when diverse art movements such as COBRA, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop all overlapped. Using his poems to weave together a disparate array of artists and approaches—from the gestural, paint-splattered images of Sam Francis (who was also the book’s editor) and the scribbled, imaginary creatures of Karel Appel, to the graphic and deadpan images of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol—Ting produced a volume that, in his words was as “exciting as Times Square, color bright as neon light, hot as espresso.” The liveliness embodied in <i>1 ¢ Life</i> inspired several of the Pop artists included in it to turn seriously to printmaking as an important means of expression and the project exemplifies Pop’s embracing of printed and therefore accessible art.

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