Crawl For Art (A Proposal for the Reader's Digestible)
No Place: No Publisher, 1978. Unbound. Very Good. Item #022106
Collection of seven sheets, all approximately 8 ½ by 11 inches. A proposal for what we presume to be a work, "Reader's Digestible," which was issued as an anthology of Rhode Island artists. The first sheet, on thin graph paper, contains the proposal, which was a "Systems Model for an Artist's Motor Behavior," with what appears to be handwritten text and art. This sheet contains an explanation of the flowchart Coleman and Powell created. The second sheet is a mock up on paper, mounted to cardstock, of the apparent end piece of art, consisting of a flow chart type diagram with various images in rectangles and words. This is again titled, "Systems Model for an Artist's Motor Behavior." This is covered in tissue paper fastened to the cardstock with masking tape. The third sheet is the same as the previous, being a variation of the mock up. The fourth sheet is graph paper bearing what appears to be the final version of the piece, including a red stamp with a baby and "crawl for art" in a red circle. The fifth sheet is a mock up (mounted on cardstock) for another piece of art work, consisting of a newspaper clipping of want ads, a semicircular cut out map showing downtown Philadelphia, part of Camden, and the Crawl for Art baby glued on top. The sixth sheet is a final version of the previous. The seventh is another version, captioned in handwritten letters, "Providence to Philly/Summer 1978, C.E. Coleman/A W Powell. Pink marker X on the map. From the collection of Alan Powell, an electronic media artist, and founding member of the Electron Movers. The collective started in 1974 (and ended around 1979) as a group of five artists: Laurie McDonald, Robert Jungels, Dorothy Jungels, Dennis Hlynsky and Alan Powell. Three other artists joined later on. As McDonald notes on her website, the group "Explored the intersections of many disciplines, including film/video, music, dance, visual arts, electrical and optical engineering, challenging established moving image narrative formats in their attempt to explore video as a new language system." (See McDonald's website for previous quote). All in about VERY GOOD condition, with varying amounts of minor creasing, toning or edgewear.
Price: $300.00