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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.80.10.2
People
James Lee Byars, American (Detroit, MI 1932 - 1997 Cairo, Egypt)
Title
Long Narrow Gold Foil Band
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
archival material
Date
1979-1980
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/76846

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pnecil on gold foil band
Dimensions
514.3 x 3.1 cm (202 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
total paper used with length of each piece measured: 526 cm (207 1/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives
Copyright
© The Estate of James Lee Byars / Michael Werner Gallery
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.80.10.2
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Dear Mr. Haxthausen. / with Excitement I will arrive mid march at Harvard. / Allowing 2 weeks or so to plan the Exhibition of Perfect with you. Euro pers already very eager about it. / We do need the soliloquist on Perfect and If it is grand could it Be published as a Harvard classic like the small lectures of T.S. Eliot. / His poetry and Drama for example is truly elegant. / I do wish black cover don't you if it could possibly get to that . / Do you know Roland Barthes' the Pleasure of the Text? / As good as that please. / B.

Exhibition History

  • James Lee Byars Letters (title TBD), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, 01/17/2004 - 06/30/2004

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