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Ardengo Soffici
BÏF§ZF+18, 1915
1568-453
Soffici was an Italian painter, critic and writer who lived and worked in Italy and France in the early 20th century. During the first phase of Italian futurism, Soffici designed a notably original cubo-futurist work that used Filippo Marinetti's principles of parole in libertà or "words in freedom." This book appeared the same year as the first edition of Zang Tumb, Tumb, Marinetti's experimentally composed poems. However, Soffici's overall composition was far bolder and prefigures Marinetti's metal books published in the second phase of Italian futurism.
Claes Oldenburg
False Food Selection, 1965
890164
As part of the larger archive originally collected by Jean Brown at the Shaker Seed House in Tyringham, Massachusetts, this is an important assemblage of works by artists involved in the Fluxus movement and in other explorations of the conceptual arts, such as mail art, concrete poetry, and happenings. The works reflect these movements as they spanned the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s and include objects, constructions, assemblages, or other expressions, often small-scale and ephemeral, some made simply as accompaniments or memorials of performances and related artistic events. Many are unique pieces created especially for Brown, bearing witness to her strong appreciation and support for the artists and their work.
Among the artists whose works are included are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Amelia Etlinger, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Per Kirkeby, Milan Knizak, John Lennon, George Maciunas, Maurizio Nannucci, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Steve Random, Dieter Roth, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, and Robert Watts. Also represented are presses such as Coach House, Coracle, and Edition Hundertmark, as well as groups like Interdada Group San Francisco and Fluxus.
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