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TING, WALASSE. 1¢ Life Edited by, and with, 61 poems by Ting. 62 lithographs including 6 by Sam Francis; other lithographs and screenprints by Francis, Rosenquist, Indiana, Wesselman, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Ramos, and many others. Folio, 412x292 mm; 16 1/4x11 1/2 inches (sheets); mild bump to lower outer corners; contents loose as issued in original decorated cloth; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Appel and Alechinsky, minor edgewear; publisher's plain cloth slipcase, mild wear. Berne: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964
Number 1651 from the regular edition of 2000 with printed signatures of Ting, Francis, and Kornfeld. "In the early 1960s the Chinese artist-poet Ting brought lithographic plates to artist friends of his and Sam Francis to illustrate his book of poems. Pop artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Indiana, Wesselman, and Dine were were among the twenty-eight artists who contributed lithographs. Placed side by side with those of better established European and American, mostly gestural, painters their images seemed brighter and better suited to the jaunty typography of the pages, doubtless due to the commercial graphics that had influenced them"--Castleman 167; From Manet to Hockney 135.
