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Lot 55

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$500 - 800
Price Realized
$384
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[Art] Kalmbach, Ann, and Tatana Kellner. My 9 Migraine Cures


Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop/Rosendale, New York: Women's Studio Workshop, 1987. First edition (one of only 300 copies). Folio. Comprising 18 unnumbered accordion-folded pages, with offset and die cut moveable parts on rectos of eight pages, text on facing pages; rubber glove on twelfth page perished (as sometimes seen) with residue partially adhering sheets along gutter, plastic straw on same intact. Original stiff printed pictorial wrappers.

Scarce moveable book by artists Ann Kalmbach (b. 1950) and Tatana Kellner (b. 1950) (KaKe), showing the variety of methods used by Kalmbach to relieve migraines, including wraps, massage techniques, aspirin, "whitefood," "Chinese brain beater," hyperventilation, and sleeping pills.

According to RBH, this is the first example of this limited artist's book to ever come to auction.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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