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INVENÇÃO: Revista de Arte de Vanguarda No. 5 (São Paulo, Brazil: December 1966-January 1967).

Ed. Décio Pignatari. Sm. 4to. Dark magenta wrappers, printed in black. Perfect bound, 118pp. Four pages printed in various combinations of black, red and blue inks, and three tipped-in inserts: Augusto de Campos’ ‘LUXO’; ‘Organismo’ by Décio Pignatari; and ‘Cr$isto é a solução’ (an enlarged, altered and folded US dollar bill printed in black on white paper), also by Pignatari. Most texts in Portuguese (one of them translated into English by Edwin Morgan).

SIGNED and inscribed to International Times on the first leaf by Augusto de Campos: “To the life of IT [signature] augusto de campos 1968”.

Along with Pignatari and de Campos, the other contributors are Edgard Braga; Erthos Albino de Souza; Haroldo de Campos; José Lino Grünewald; Luiz Ãngelo Pinto; Pedro Xisto; Ronaldo Azeredo; Murilo Mendes; Oswald de Andrade; and Ignácio Ferreira.

Very small patch of surface loss to upper wrapper; some wear to corners and edges, o/w a tight, Very Good copy of the final issue of one of the most important periodicals from the Brazilian concrete poetry movement.

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