Spring Game : An Opera for Shadow Puppets

Published by West Glover, Unpublished Editions, 1974

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Artist's book. 1 of 200 stated copies SIGNED and NUMBERED. Design by The Barton Designers (West Glover). Performance conceived in July 1973. Introduction by the author, dated 24 September 1973. According to Dick Higgins, the music (piano, accompanying SATB soloists) must use traditional western rhythms but should "improvise their parts according to a predetermined system". Printed on yellowish hand-laid paper. 17 pp; 21,4X15,5 cm. Soft cover. In wraps with integrated flaps. First edition. 200 ex. SIGNED and NUMBERED (e. 87/200).

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Title
Spring Game : An Opera for Shadow Puppets
Author
Dick HIGGINS
Publisher
West Glover, Unpublished Editions
Publication year
1974
Condition
Condition: very good.
Binding
Soft cover

Libreria Giorgio Maffei

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The Studio Bibliografico Giorgio Maffei specialises in original texts by twentieth century visual and literary avant-garde artists. These range from the historic publications produced in the early 1900s, to the Futurist, Dadaist, Abstract and Surrealist volumes which are now considered to be classics, to the subsequent revolutionary techniques of the second half of the century. The bibliographic research already carried out by the Studio Bibliografico offers confirmation of the importance of this area and of the fact that the entire history of modern publishing continues to offer immense research potential in all areas, covering original texts, exhibition catalogues, specialist magazines and in particular artists' books, that fertile terrain which encouraged the meeting and cross- fertilisation of many different art forms.…

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