Robert Indiana, Robert Creeley, and others
Numbers
1968
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- Artist: Robert Indiana
- Author: Robert Creeley
- Publisher: Edition Domberger
- Publisher: Galerie Schmela
- Printer (prints): Domberger KG
- Printer (letterpress): Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei
Numbers
1968
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with color screenprints and letterpress, Book: 251 x 212 x 12 mm. (9 7/8 x 8 3/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1990.38
Robert Creeley met Robert Indiana and Bill Katz in 1967. The three worked together on a portfolio entitled "Stamped Indelibly" with a group of other artists before embarking on "Numbers", the brainchild of Katz. Creeley wrote poems in response to Indiana’s earlier and now-archetypal Pop Art number paintings (based on stencil designs). In the book, the numbers one through nine are followed by zero. The sequence of the pages was thoughtfully arranged in threes so that for each number, one first reads a corresponding poem by Creeley printed on textured, oatmeal-colored paper in English and German before experiencing the jolt of seeing one of Indiana’s brightly-colored screenprints. Here are the lines from the last third of Creeley’s poem “Three.”
Jan Howard, BMA, "Marking the Decades: Prints 1960-1990," February 23- April 26, 1992.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
