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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Everything is the stuff of art. Tony Caro nailed us with this declaration as we were watching Phillip King working in the sculpture studio at St Martin’s School of Art. We were working up a collaboration between ourselves -Slade painting students and the Sculpture Department of St Martins. It was late 1962 early 1963. Yoko was due in for a gig with her partner students were collecting bicycles for her which she wouldn’t use; and the Black Bag piece that she did with her husband was rumoured to be on the menu. “The stuff of art… he didn’t just mean everything was ours for subject: from abstrac ideas random mark-making urinals beer cans traditional figuration or mass media popular culture. He was pushing the freedom of materials and process at us. It was a validation that meant a great deal to me. As an American student at the Slade I felt increasingly isolated because of gender issues cultural background and gaps in communication. I had begun to make sculpture in fabric. I had made Flowers a bouquet of body parts on stems coming out of a ceramic sewage pipe; Dog made of an old black coat I got from Portobello Road with wooden Georgian furniture legs; and Wardrobe with wooden clothes and hats made of plates bowls and random vessels. The best of the reactions to my work had been a mild-mannered indulgence as one would give to an amusing child-the worst: Eduardo Paolozzi then a tutor at the Slade glancing at the work on a rare visit to the painting studio “cast it in bronze” he’d said. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to bark after him “I’ve cost it in cloth! (SP)