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America drill : red cut, white cut, blue cut / Carl Andre.

Accession number
PML 129714
Creator
Andre, Carl, 1935-2024.
Published
[Brussels : Les Maitres de Forme Contemporains / Michèle Didier ; Paula Cooper Gallery, 2003]
Credit line
Gift; Werner H. Kramarsky; 2006.
Notes
Facsimile of 1963 edition; publication information from colophon.
Limited ed. of 600 copies, of which the first 100 are signed and stamped.
Library has copy no. 27.
The three sections (cuts) are made of quotations typewritten in varied configurations. They draw from: "Indian history, biography and genealogy pertaining to the good sachem Massasoit," Ebenezer W. Peirce, 1878 (Red cut); the same source, and "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1824 and 1838-1841," ed. Edward Waldo Emerson, 1909, and "Incident at Harper's Ferry," ed. Edward Stone, 1956 (White cut); "We," Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927, and "The Hero Charles A. Lindbergh and the American dream," Kenneth S. Davis, 1959 (Blue Cut).
"... America Drill is a long poem the subject of which is three racial tragedies -- the tragedy of territory as property -- the tragedy of person as property -- the tragedy of everything as property ..." -- Author's note.
Description
[104] p. ; 39 cm.
Provenance
Werner H. Kramarsky.
Classification
Department