Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Mr. [George] Schneeman, who began the collaborations

in the late 1960s, was not the first painter to work in double harness with a poet: Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara had done so in the late '50s. But he was undoubtedly the most prolific. Over four decades Mr. Schneeman produced hundreds of collaborative pieces that were neither pure visual art nor pure verbal art but something tantalizingly indefinable between the two.

from The New York Times: George Schneeman, 74, Poet-Artist, Dies

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