The Tinklers Charts and Stories - LEBRUN Olivier, LEHNI Urs

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The Tinklers Charts and Stories – LEBRUN Olivier, LEHNI Urs

30,00 €

an outsider band from Baltimore

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Catégories : Livre / Fanzine - Dessin & Illustration, livre Dessin Étiquettes : LEBRUN Olivier, LEHNI Urs

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The Tinklers are an outsider band from Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1979 by Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason. Aside from singing and playing music, both band members are also active creators of visual art, poetry, and artists’ books. With ‘The Tinklers Charts and Stories’ they present an anthology of selected visual work, including the drawings from one irreverently humorous performance titled “The Tinklers History of the World”, which featured the duo playing songs while walking along a 15-metre-long visual timeline of various events in world history. In addition, the volume includes “The Tinklers Songs and Charts”, “Home by the River”, and “The Tinklers Encyclopedia”.

LEBRUN, Olivier; LEHNI, Urs (eds.)
The Tinklers Charts and Stories

The Tinklers are Charles Brohawn & Chris Mason from Baltimore. They have been writing songs and making books, charts, and paintings in Baltimore since 1979, in kind of a Fluxusy way. This book combines 5 of their publications:

1. The Tinklers History of the World (1981): a scroll folded to make a book – a score for a performance. It lists inventions and discoveries of weapons, food, and clothing from prehistory to the future, through drawings and texts.

2. The Tinklers Songs and Charts (1980): a handmade book containing, well, charts and songs used in performances – the cover actually shows the Tinklers performing at Bread and Roses Collective Coffee House [?].

3. Home by the River (1983): this illustrated tale doesn’t hide anything about comment on fait les bébés, birth, and about growing corn either.

4. Our Childrens’ Childrens’ Worlds (1985): it’s an epic! Well, apparently this book also has its origins in a performance.

5. The Tinklers Encyclopedia (1982): from “Acne” to “Zone Fare”; B is for “Boss” and “Bug”; C links “Caca” to the different meanings of “Capital.” An anarchist, popular, hilarious, precious, approach to knowledge.

! Each cover is different – stamping at chance !