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exhibition archive
Wallace Berman
Wallace
Berman's work was exhibited in
Out West
The Artist's Book in California: Part 1, Northern California
Semina 7 (reproduction)
(1994)
Folder with pocket containing 18 items, mailart magazine, Larkspur, original 1961. The nine issues of "Semina" are essential documents of the beat era, and Wallace Berman was one of the era's most fascinating and influential figures. He began the magazine in Los Angeles in 1955, when he was given a tabletop press, and produced it at irregular intervals over a period of ten years. "Semina," which couldn't be purchased--it was given away to friends and acquaintances--contained his own deeply mysterious collage and poems both by writers he admired (Artaud, Hesse, Cocteau), and by significant poets of his milieu, including Michael McClure, John Wieners, William Burroughs, Robert Duncan, and David Meltzer. McClure called "Semina" "a décor for soul-building."
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