Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Fontana’s White Manifesto

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on January 22, 2013

An retrospective/homage to the work of Lucio Fontana, reproducing in full his original Manifiesto Blanco from 1946 in which he set forth the parameters for his art movement, “spatialism”. (Fontana, Lucio, Noci G. Le, and Ugo Mulas. Manifiesto Blanco. Milano: Galleria Apollinaire, 1966.)

Canvassing for Suffrage

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on June 1, 2010

A booklet with printed slips (one of which is filled in) used by canvassers for the Society of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in the England, circa 1911.