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538

Title Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Maker Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
Date ca. 1966
Medium photocopy of handwritten text on paper
Type correspondence
Location Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 31, folder 30

In this letter, Mieko Shiomi responds to George Maciunas’s proposed design for the object edition of Spatial Poem No. 2 (Direction Event) (1965). She conveys misgivings about his expressive design choices, writing, “I’d like to show the people’s direction as transparently and exactly as possible. I’m afraid that too strong power of design’s image can weaken the contents.”

Used by permission of Mieko Shiomi.

Cite

Shiomi, Mieko (Chieko). Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas, ca. 1966. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 31, folder 30. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/538/.

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