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Artist Various artists

Artist Walasse Ting (American, 1929–2010)

Artist Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, born 1927)

Artist Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)

Artist Jim Dine (American, born 1935)

Publisher E. W. Kornfeld, Bern, 1964

Printer lithographs and calligraphy: Maurice Beaudet, Paris, with lettering on stone by Paul Loyer; screenprint reproductions: Atelier Ra

Author Walasse Ting (American, 1929–2010)

Date1964

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 16 5/8 in. (423 mm); W: 12 in. (305 mm); Depth: 1 5/8 in. (42 mm).
Book: H: 16 3/8 in. (416 mm); W: 12 in. (305 mm); Depth: 1 3/8 in. (35 mm).
Page: H: 16 1/8 in. (410 mm); W: 11 7/16 in. (291 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 62 lithographs (3 in black and 59 in colors). Reproductions: screenprints and photolithographs, some in colors. Text: letterpress in colors, set expressively, plus lithographed script (the colophon). Paper: Rives BFK cream wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.963

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Label TextWalasse Ting was born in China in 1929 and settled in New York in 1964 after a 10-year stay in Paris. In 1963 he approached a number of Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists to illustrate his slang-filled, light-hearted poems about women, sex, and the modern accoutrements of life in the United States. The book includes lithographs by Ting himself, Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, born 1927), Machteld Appel (Dutch, died 1970), Jim Dine (American, born 1935), Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994), Robert Indiana (American, born 1928), Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997), Joan Mitchell (American, 1925–1992), Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, 1929), Mel Ramos (American, born 1935), James Rosenquist (American, born 1933), Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987), Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931–2004), and others. The publication was dedicated to Florence Barron, a Detroit collector.Published Referencescf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1994, pp. 208--209, col. reprs.

cf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, 1985, no. 135, reprs. (1 col).

cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 55

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 155.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 87

Toledo Museum of Art, Embracing the Page, Feb. 14-May 19, 2002

Toledo Museum of Art, Pop Prints from the TMA Collection, July 7 - Oct.8 2006.