Spare Parts
Charles Henri Ford
1966
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Spare Parts
Charles Henri Ford
1966
Athens: Vassily Papachrysanthou
Unpaginated [160 pages]
35 × 25.5 cm
Edition of 950; 850 numbered and 100 HC; signed and numbered 355/850

Charles Henri Ford was a Surrealist writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. A central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he belonged to Gertrude Stein's Paris circle in the 1930s and later became an important influence on Andy Warhol in the 1960s. He is best known as the co-founder, editor, and publisher of View, the influential Surrealist art magazine. A true flâneur in the richest sense of the term, Ford lived and worked in places including Paris, Morocco, Kathmandu, Crete, and New York.


 


It was in Athens, in the workshop of the master printer Vassily Papachrysanthou, that Ford produced one of the most original bodies of work of his career. Between 1964 and 1965, he created the series Poem Posters, followed in 1966 by his landmark artist's book Spare Parts, published in a limited edition on richly textured paper, with each copy distinguished by a unique dust jacket. Conceived as visual poems (or, in Ford's words, "poem posters"), these works move fluidly between collage, concrete poetry, and printmaking techniques. Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.


 


Produced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. Working in close collaboration with Papachrysanthou, Ford’s book embodies his notion of “ideas in the air": spontaneous constellations of words and images that are at once psychedelic and materially resonant.

Athens: Vassily Papachrysanthou
Unpaginated [160 pages]
35 × 25.5 cm
Edition of 950; 850 numbered and 100 HC; signed and numbered 355/850

Charles Henri Ford was a Surrealist writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. A central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he belonged to Gertrude Stein's Paris circle in the 1930s and later became an important influence on Andy Warhol in the 1960s. He is best known as the co-founder, editor, and publisher of View, the influential Surrealist art magazine. A true flâneur in the richest sense of the term, Ford lived and worked in places including Paris, Morocco, Kathmandu, Crete, and New York.

 

It was in Athens, in the workshop of the master printer Vassily Papachrysanthou, that Ford produced one of the most original bodies of work of his career. Between 1964 and 1965, he created the series Poem Posters, followed in 1966 by his landmark artist's book Spare Parts, published in a limited edition on richly textured paper, with each copy distinguished by a unique dust jacket. Conceived as visual poems (or, in Ford's words, "poem posters"), these works move fluidly between collage, concrete poetry, and printmaking techniques. Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.

 

Produced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. Working in close collaboration with Papachrysanthou, Ford’s book embodies his notion of “ideas in the air": spontaneous constellations of words and images that are at once psychedelic and materially resonant.

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Charles Henri Ford was a Surrealist writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. A central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he belonged to Gertrude Stein's Paris circle in the 1930s and later became an important influence on Andy Warhol in the 1960s. He is best known as the co-founder, editor, and publisher of View, the influential Surrealist art magazine. A true flâneur in the richest sense of the term, Ford lived and worked in places including Paris, Morocco, Kathmandu, Crete, and New York.

 

It was in Athens, in the workshop of the master printer Vassily Papachrysanthou, that Ford produced one of the most original bodies of work of his career. Between 1964 and 1965, he created the series Poem Posters, followed in 1966 by his landmark artist's book Spare Parts, published in a limited edition on richly textured paper, with each copy distinguished by a unique dust jacket. Conceived as visual poems (or, in Ford's words, "poem posters"), these works move fluidly between collage, concrete poetry, and printmaking techniques. Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.

 

Produced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. Working in close collaboration with Papachrysanthou, Ford’s book embodies his notion of “ideas in the air": spontaneous constellations of words and images that are at once psychedelic and materially resonant.

Athens: Vassily Papachrysanthou
Unpaginated [160 pages]
35 × 25.5 cm
Edition of 950; 850 numbered and 100 HC; signed and numbered 355/850

Charles Henri Ford was a Surrealist writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. A central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he belonged to Gertrude Stein's Paris circle in the 1930s and later became an important influence on Andy Warhol in the 1960s. He is best known as the co-founder, editor, and publisher of View, the influential Surrealist art magazine. A true flâneur in the richest sense of the term, Ford lived and worked in places including Paris, Morocco, Kathmandu, Crete, and New York.

 

It was in Athens, in the workshop of the master printer Vassily Papachrysanthou, that Ford produced one of the most original bodies of work of his career. Between 1964 and 1965, he created the series Poem Posters, followed in 1966 by his landmark artist's book Spare Parts, published in a limited edition on richly textured paper, with each copy distinguished by a unique dust jacket. Conceived as visual poems (or, in Ford's words, "poem posters"), these works move fluidly between collage, concrete poetry, and printmaking techniques. Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.

 

Produced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. Working in close collaboration with Papachrysanthou, Ford’s book embodies his notion of “ideas in the air": spontaneous constellations of words and images that are at once psychedelic and materially resonant.

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Charles Henri Ford was a Surrealist writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. A central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he belonged to Gertrude Stein's Paris circle in the 1930s and later became an important influence on Andy Warhol in the 1960s. He is best known as the co-founder, editor, and publisher of View, the influential Surrealist art magazine. A true flâneur in the richest sense of the term, Ford lived and worked in places including Paris, Morocco, Kathmandu, Crete, and New York.

 

It was in Athens, in the workshop of the master printer Vassily Papachrysanthou, that Ford produced one of the most original bodies of work of his career. Between 1964 and 1965, he created the series Poem Posters, followed in 1966 by his landmark artist's book Spare Parts, published in a limited edition on richly textured paper, with each copy distinguished by a unique dust jacket. Conceived as visual poems (or, in Ford's words, "poem posters"), these works move fluidly between collage, concrete poetry, and printmaking techniques. Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.

 

Produced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. Working in close collaboration with Papachrysanthou, Ford’s book embodies his notion of “ideas in the air": spontaneous constellations of words and images that are at once psychedelic and materially resonant.

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