Assorted newspaper clippings, notes, and sketches, Walking stiffs

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People:

Melvin Charney (archive creator)

Title:

Assorted newspaper clippings, notes, and sketches, Walking stiffs

Date:

1968-1984, 1991-2000

Description:

Assorted newspaper clippings in English (predominant) and French, notes, and sketches. Includes the following original divisions:
- Walking Harlem; Manhattan series;
- Québec dictionnaire; Geometric ruins; Series #8;
- Lenin’s tomb continued;
- Parable series, 1990-1992;
- Running/walking stiffs;
- Monuments;
- People/refugees carrying away cities;
- Group photos as cities;
- Displaced cities; Situationists updated;
- [Untitled];
- Series: group photo in collective form;
- Series: Walking stiffs; Factory stiffs; Laid off; Particular pieces of factories;
- Dictionnaire series: Rust belt; Abandoned cities;
- Dictionnaire, misc.

Original folder inscribed in graphite: ARTWORK SERIES RUNNING STIFFS MISC. MONUMENTS.

Form:
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 textual record(s)

Extent and medium:

0.02 l.m. of textual records
12 drawings

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 19,2 × 16,2 cm (7 9/16 × 6 3/8 in.) sheet (largest): 43 × 35,5 cm (16 15/16 × 14 in.)

Reference number:

DR2012:0012:063:007

Credit line:
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney

Related units of description:

For more material related to the project "Un dictionnaire..." see also AP041.S1.1970.D2. And for material related to the project "Parable series" see also AP041.S1.1990.D3.

Folder Number:

041-009-002

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