Art Techniques

by Bern Porter

"photographs / pressograms / photo poems / photo covers / page layouts / maps / jackets / covers / map blankouts / map cutouts / poster poems / folders / bone sculpture / portraits / toys / all for helen" 21 B&W plates and title page (in portfolio)

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Bernard Harden "Bern" Porter was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the avant-garde art movements Mail Art and Found Poetry.

In 2010 his work was recognized by an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Reviews

[Carl · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Thus it is possible to have a new approach to the foundation of things, the reason for their existence, the truth with which they carry out that existence and the force for good which by their being they instill in things about them. The wholeness and the apartness are double images in conflict but the reason for the apartness is that a new wholeness may yet rise again. Obviously the forced combination of similarly fused and widely divergent objects via painting methods opens an entirely new world populated with yet unconceived forms not yet described in any vocabulary or language. No greater revolution in art may exist than that"