European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Nobody knows what people Livin Gln their houses Jack Earl Tell you How i started All writes Barton Lidice Benes to explain the razor lenses glasses and bound Book reproduced on these i was once on a train going to and i started Reading a biography of and i started scratching it out As i read and by the time i got to Philadelphia i had scratched the whole thing then i started nailing books shut and tying them and All these objects came from scratching out Nixon everything is done so they cannot then there is a chair that spills Down the Middle and a typewriter with fingers for a collapsed Lea table and a Clay curious a quilt full of tiny Alt 6f these Are part of the object As currently on exhibit at the new Yorks museum of contemporary the exhibition was originally assembled for the rent Kkt gallery of the National collection of Fine arts of the smithsonian institution in As Rose Slivka tails it in the exhibit she has Long been a spell bound traveller in the world of her Mother was a Weaver and her father was a poet and it was from them that i first Learned that the object of the poet and the object of the maker was Mutual Illume the result is a Cross Media exhibition of about 65 works that Are either what Slivka Calls wordless the object that needs no words or worded such As Banes bound Book in which the words Are incorporated into the object the for whatever you want to make of is when the makers hav when i used to live i people lived in wrote Jaci lived to them mostly at Duran would come out Sod do would go in and turn of the lights an they would turn them nobody pm living in houses Robert Arneson s writer it must stand for Shaword for it should probably be i int there a Little song that one does v or some people can make them sins can make them some people c die viewer has the final poetic to 8arne quilt on death of cock Robin by Joan its Dada a typewriter by Robert Poge 14 the stars and stripes a
