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This 1978 announcement for James Lee Byars
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/13/2014

James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography, Sourcebook

This 1978 announcement for James Lee Byars' The Perfect Kiss is reproduced from 1/2 an Autobiography, Sourcebook, published to accompany the first major posthumous survey since the artist's death in 1997, which opens this Sunday, June 15 at MoMA PS1. Available at our store at the museum, ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1, the book is a gold-stamped treasure trove of archival photographs, original documents and previously unpublished interviews by David Sewell from the 1970s. It comes wrapped in delicate pink tissue paper with gold seal.

James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography, Sourcebook

James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography, Sourcebook

Walther König, Köln
Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 213 color / 87 b&w.





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