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LOT 1649
SOLD €200,00

[Tim Burns. Artist's book with dedication] A pedestrian series of postcards.

What about Crosswalks in Mildura? New York - Mildura, 1976. Part I. By Tim Burns. New York, produced by Sara Seagull, Panama Design Studio for The Burns Family Press, 1976, (24) leaves printed on one side, with plates in colour photocopy, original cordbound limp cardboard, 28 x 22 cm.

Signed by Tim Burns in pencil in the colophon and with dedication in pencil by the artist on the flyleaf: "Time stands still again. Love Tim. To Utamina. For taking the writing off the wall and walking on it." "Acclaimed Western Australian artist Tim Burns produced his artist's book A Pedestrian Series of Postcards in 1976. It documents his guerrilla-style postcard project and subsequent print media response to his campaign to raise public opinion regarding the introduction of pedestrian crossings in Mildura, a regional City in northern Victoria. Burns' relationship with Mildura began in 1973, when his landscape piece Minefield was withdrawn from Mildura's Sculpture Triennial on the grounds of public safety. However, it wasn't until two years later, when visiting Mildura with his mother that Burns would set a course for his postcard action, a trajectory largely framed in response to his mother's near miss with traffic while attempting to cross a busy road." (Freemantle Arts Centre)

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