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PORTFOLIO S.M.S. I-VI, A Collection of Original Multiples.
Set of 6 volumes with approximately 71 multiples, 1968. Each 180x330 mm; 7 1/8x12 7/8 inches, loose as issued. Edition of 2500. Published by the Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc., New York. Each in an original printed folder with inventories. With original exhibition catalogue for SMS The Portable Museum of Original Multiples from Reinhold-Brown Gallery, New York, October 11-December 11, 1988. Lacking the S.M.S. 3 cassette tape edition by Terry Riley, with the packaging designed by her daughter, Colleen, at age 9, and the S.M.S. 4 cassette tape edition by La Monte Young, with packaging designed by Marian Zazeela.
S.M.S. (the acronym for Shit Must Stop) is a collection of six portfolios conceived by the artists William Copley (1919-1996) and Dimitri Petrov (1919-1986). The collection was published bi-weekly from February to December 1968. Each issue is composed of diverse artworks and objects, created by individual artists considered groundbreaking and influential at that period. The portfolios include various aspects such as Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art in various media such as photography, print and writings.
Includes works by CHRISTO, DUCHAMP, HAMILTON, KOSUTH, LICHTENSTEIN (Corlett III.9), NAUMAN, OLDENBURG (Axsom 56), ONO, RAMOS and MAN RAY.
