Allen Ginsberg

Improvisation in Beijing

1990

Typed page titled "Improvisation in Beijing" showing Allen Ginsberg's long list of reasons he writes poetry.
Typed page titled "Improvisation in Beijing" showing Allen Ginsberg's long list of reasons he writes poetry.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1990

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset photolithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 29 3/4 × 21 15/16 in. (75.6 × 55.7 cm)

Accession number
93.124.8

Edition
80/100 | 20 APs, 3 HCs, 1 Impression for the Bibliotheque National

Publication
Printed and published by Editions Nicole Fauche

Credit line
Gift of Bunty and Tom Armstrong

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/8880

Part of a series:
Allen In Vision
8 works

Typed page titled "Improvisation in Beijing" showing Allen Ginsberg's long list of reasons he writes poetry.
A vivid psychedelic portrait with color calibration bars and multicolored test patterns across the image.
A distorted face with glasses and a mustache appears warped by colorful digital glitch patterns.
A close-up of a bald person wearing round glasses with a distorted, wavy color glitch effect.
Blurred cyan and teal digital-style portrait of a bearded man's face with glitch-like distortion.
A blue outlined three-lobed abstract figure with a simple face and two small eye shapes on a speckled background.
A line drawing shows a meditating figure on a cushion labeled "AH", surrounded by stars, moon, and skull.
A reclining person with arm raised against a blue textured background with small sun and squiggle symbols.

Allen Ginsberg
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