Graphical Mesostic from John Cage’s M.

Poet, novelist, editor, publisher and printer, Charles Plymell, is a prime mover of the Wichita Vortex and a stalwart embodiment of the small press ethos. Grist was published by the Abington Book Shop in Lawrence, KS. Editor John Fowler is quick to thank various guest- and co-editors, chief among them Plymell and George Kimball. Plymell edited no. 7 (1966) which features, along with Glen Todd, Bob Branaman, Roxie Powell, Claude Pelieu, and Mary Beach, the first publication of Steve [S. Clay] Wilson’s artwork. Plymell would print the first issue of Zap Comix in San Francisco in 1968 and Wilson was a regular contributor to Zap from the second issue forward. Plymell edited, printed, and published three issues of Now (1963–65) which is among the most interesting magazines of its time.

From an amazing collection of independent magazines/books/zines that are now being offered for sale.

This book is a cover version, a recital, an echo. A guide to (modern) buildings in London: modified, amplified, rechannelled, redistributed through current modes of reproduction.

Published by Precint.

Sigmar Polke, Ghostreiter, 2003
Screenprint, Duplex on paper, 28.75 × 20.125 inches

Alex Olson, Proposal 5, 2012
Oil on linen, 61 x 43 in.

Alex Olson in an interview on the Studio Sessions blog for the Walker’s exhibition Painter Painter:

The second quality is its extensive history. It’s impossible to make a mark at this point that doesn’t come with a historical referent, but this is actually a huge benefit. You can pull from art history’s enormous catalogue and build off of a past meaning, re-situating it in the present toward a different end. In doing so, it’s important to understand how a specific mark or idea functioned in the past versus now, and to consider what using it now would mean, but this creates even richer possibilities to choose from.

More interviews from the show are available here.

Boswell Bay, Alaska White Alice site, tropospheric scatter antenna and feeder

Before satellites were invented, the USAF used to send messages beyond the horizon by bouncing radio waves off the troposphere. These “White Alice” antennas were left around Alaska when the system was obsoleted by rockets.

Paul Sietsema, Untitled Mule, 2010
Ink and enamel on paper in artist’s frame, 16 x 12 1/2 inches

George Macunias, Stomach Anatomy Apron, 1967/1973
Silkscreened apron

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, and Remy Zaugg
Architectural Design v.61 n.92 1991