BUY ONE TONIGHT, READ IT FOREVER; THE BEST IN WORDS AND PICTURES; YOU ARE THE STORY: With that earnest air
of hucksterism indigenous to an earlier time in American history, Allen Ruppersberg spins new narratives from old ones in his bright, sizable 1985 collage Cover Art (
Wonder Series)-- a
pristine composite
of pasted - up texts like the above (whether in adlike tag lines rendered with vintage label - maker tape or via disconnected words and numbers torn from paper) and mostly midcentury print images (including a depiction
of the pope, one
of a monkey wearing a lab coat, and several
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