T.V. Baby Poem.
$1,250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1968. First edition of Ginsberg's incantatory poem of television, empire, and American paranoia, issued in the striking form of a photographic facsimile of the poet's own working typescript, its typed lines alive with his handwritten deletions and revisions. Quarto, original printed wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author with his red inked seal on the title page, "For David and Naomi Savage - Sample of Composition - Allen Ginsberg Feb 27, 1970." The rear wrapper bears an original drawing by Ginsberg in green ink of the planet Earth ringed by sun, moon, and stars.The recipient, Naomi Siegler Savage, was a highly innovative American photographer who lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as the niece and protégée of the legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray, under whose mentorship in Hollywood she developed her signature experimental approach to the photographic medium. Influenced by Man Ray's techniques, Savage pioneered the use of the photographic metal plate, producing three-dimensional forms with metallic surfaces, and her best-known work is a magnesium mural for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and the International Center of Photography. In 1950 she married David Savage, a painter, sculptor, and architect, with whom she settled i
- Publisher: Beach Books, Texts and Documents
- Year: 1968
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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