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1970

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1996

  • We acquired this object.

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2015

2025

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Book Cover, Talking to the Dead

This is a Book cover. It is dated ca. 1980–93 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is support: paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Steven Heller.

Its dimensions are

21.6 × 14.6 cm (8 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, verso: 55.1%

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Talking to the Dead; USA; support: paper; 21.6 × 14.6 cm (8 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.); Gift of Steven Heller; 1996-74-60

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