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ARK The Journal of the Royal College of Art #32 (London: Summer 1962).
4to. Wrps., perfect bound (44pp + ads.). Ed. Bill James.
Metzger contributes “Machine, Auto-Creative, & Auto-Destructive Art”. Illustrated with a photograph of Metzger on the South Bank, London, demonstrating the effects of hydrochloric acid on nylon.
Other contents include a tipped-in booklet, “A Kit of Images”, featuring “three painters in their last year at R.C.A.”, Derek Boshier, David Hockney and Peter Phillips, with further illustrated articles by Richard Smith on all three; John Moynihan’s “Whitechapel Birdman” insert; a series of photographs taken by Brian Haynes during a recent visit to America, including a full-page colour shot of “outcasts… of the Bowery”; an ARK flyer insert; more.
Surface loss along narrow strip to right edge of front cover, o/w Very Good plus.