Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 417

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WILLIAMS, EMMETT; and JEAN-MARIE ANTENEN / FLUXUS. La Derniere Pomme Frite & Autres Poèmes de Fifties et Sixties. 10 loose sheets with typographical poems, laid into a tri-folding game board also containing four small boxes with printed game pieces, explanatory text by Robert Filliou. Folio, 20x8 1/2 inches, folding out to 26 1/4 inches. Colophon numbered 89 of 1000 copies Signed by Williams and Antenen. (SA) Geneva: Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, 1989

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A Fluxus language game called 5000 New Ways that was developed in Darmstadt in 1962. It is played by placing the word and image cards on the gameboard, forming poems and metaphors by splitting up compound nouns and freeing up the second halves to function as action words.