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• Fonds: Fonds Melvin Charney, 1947-2012
•    Série(s): Projects, 1955-2012
•      Projet: Walking stiffs, 1993

Personnes et institutions

• Melvin Charney (architect)
• Melvin Charney (archive creator)

Titre

Walking stiffs

Dates de création

1993

Niveau de description archivistique

Project

Collation

• 0.05 l.m. of textual records¨
• 107 drawings (including 12 reprographic copies)

Présentation du contenu

Project series documents Melvin Charney’s artistic series entitled "Walking stiffs" and includes textual records, sketches, and photographic materials.

Numéro de réference

AP041.S1.1993.D2

Mode de classement

Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.

Langue et écriture des documents

English, French

Inventaire

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  • Numéro de réference: DR2012:0012:063:007
  • Titre: Assorted newspaper clippings, notes, and sketches, Walking stiffs
  • Dates de création: 1968-1984, 1991-2000
  • Classification: documents textuels
  • Objets catalogués : 0

  Personnes et institutions:

  • Melvin Charney (archive creator)

  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.

  Quantité / Type d’objet:

  1 textual record(s)

  Collation:

  • 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.)

  Mention de crédit:

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

  Sources complémentaires:

  • 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.

  Numéro de chemise:

  041-009-002

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  • Numéro de réference: DR2012:0012:070:002
  • Titre: Conceptual drawings, Walking stiffs
  • Dates de création: 1998-1999
  • Classification: dessins
  • Objets catalogués : 0

  Personnes et institutions:

  • Melvin Charney (archive creator)

  Description:

  File containing conceptual drawings (photocopies and originals) related to the Walking stiffs project.
  
  Original folder inscribed in graphite: WALKING STIFFS

  Quantité / Type d’objet:

  1 file(s)

  Collation:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records
  • 12 reprographic copies
  • 2 drawings

  Dimensions:

  sheet (smallest): 15,1 × 10 cm (5 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.) sheet (laargest): 27,8 × 21,5 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

  Mention de crédit:

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

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  • Numéro de réference: DR2012:0012:075:001:002
  • Titre: Newspaper clippings, sketches, and photograph, Walking stiffs
  • Dates de création: 1992-1993
  • Classification: dessins, documents textuels
  • Objets catalogués : 0

  Personnes et institutions:

  • Melvin Charney (archive creator)

  Description:

  Assorted documents in French, including newspaper clippings, sketches, and a transparency related to the Walking Stiffs project.

  Quantité / Type d’objet:

  1 textual record(s)

  Collation:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records
  • 19 drawings

  Dimensions:

  sheet (smallest, irreg.): 3,3 × 37,7 cm (1 5/16 × 14 13/16 in.) sheet (largest): 27,7 × 42,9 cm (10 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.) .

  Mention de crédit:

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

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  • Numéro de réference: DR2012:0012:077:001:009
  • Titre: Sketches and notes, Walking stiffs
  • Dates de création: 1992-1994
  • Classification: dessins
  • Objets catalogués : 0

  Personnes et institutions:

  • Melvin Charney (archive creator)

  Description:

  File containing sketches and notes related to the Walking Stiffs project. Further investigation required for confirmation of other projects.

  Quantité / Type d’objet:

  1 file(s)

  Collation:

  • 62 drawings
  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Mention de crédit:

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