Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Façade (troisième partie)

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on August 13, 2012

More portraiture by Pierre et Gilles, of an artfully made up Iggy Pop, an assortment of club-goers –
and a characteristic shot of Karl Lagerfeld.

Prison playing cards

Posted in Beinecke Library, Cary Playing Card Collection by beineckepoetry on March 30, 2009

A selection of handmade and delicately stencil-printed playing cards,
made by inmates of Russian prisons, ca. 1980s – 1990s.

Small & Good

Posted in Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature by beineckepoetry on December 4, 2008

Newly added titles by Raymond Pettibon to the growing collection
in the Beinecke Library (50 +).
These books also feature the work of Nelson Tarpenny.

 

Copying for pleasure

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on October 27, 2008

Examples of “Xerox art” books made by a group of artists and writers
in the 1970s and 1980s. A large collection was acquired by Beinecke Library
in the summer of 2008.

“A Day at the Races” by Ginny Lloyd,  Lloyd Productions, 1980

 

“soms bin ik een copy van mijzelf. . .” by Henk Fakkeldij, 1980.

 

“Misisng Persons” by Louise Neaderland, Bone Hollow Arts, 1988.