The Third Mind

Marsha Rabideau at 1520 Hill Street. Photo by Leni Sinclair.

Original d.a. levy collage, signed and dated 1965.

Top: Ed Sanders, a leader of New York's Other Culture.” Life, February 17, 1967.

Bottom: Original Claude Pélieu collage created from the 1967 Life cover featuring Ed Sanders. Inscribed on verso by Claude Pélieu to Ed, March 1967.

Ed Sanders backstage at the Fillmore East with his friend Janis Joplin, March 8, 1968.

Pense-Bête by Marcel Broodthaers

Hand-made facsimile edition of 100 of which 75 are for sale.

Pense-Bête is the fourth book of poetry by Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976). It was written 1962-63 and printed in an edition of 100 in December 1963-January 1964. Its title is a French term for a memory aid or visual reminder, such as a string tied around one’s finger, yet when pronounced it translates literally to “think beast” or “think stupid” and signals the frolicsome bestiary of poems within, a group of poems that play with the shared condition of humanity and the animal kingdom.

After selling a number of copies of Pense-Bête, Broodthaers decided to collage some of the book’s texts with a variety of rectangles and squares of colored paper. In some cases, the paper obstructs part of the poem and in others, one may lift the paper to read the text underneath.

In the spring of 1964, furthering his effort to physicalize the language of this book, Broodthaers set the last packet (50 copies) of Pense-Bête into plaster and in the process created one of the most important and influential works of his career, a decisive turn toward the concretization of language through the "plastic" or visual arts.

Wallace Berman, Untitled (Faceless Faces with Kabbalah), c. 1963-70, paint on photograph mounted on board with hand applied varnish, 34 x 30 inches.

Don't be afraid to be afraid or appalled to be appalled. How do you think the trees feel these days, or the whales, or, for that matter, most humans? — Father Daniel Berrigan

Fugs Flip. 

Privately printed flip book, "Conceived by Jordan Matthews". Some were said to be included in assorted copies of "Virgin Fugs" ESP-Disk LP. Circa mid-late 1960s. Watch Tuli Kupferberg wave small American flag, and slowly undress.