*rare* Paste-Ups by JESS COLLINS 1968 SF Museum Art Catalog Robert Duncan
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*rare* Paste-Ups by JESS COLLINS 1968 SF Museum Art Catalog Robert Duncan. Originally trained in chemistry and employed during the atomic era at Hanford, Jess later abandoned science to pursue art in California. • Artist: Jess (Jess Collins). • Detailed exhibition checklist. Rare 1968 exhibition catalog for Paste-Ups by Jess Collins, issued by the San Francisco Museum of Art for the May 31 – June 30, 1968 exhibition. This scarce artist publication features intricate black-and-white collage and “paste-up” imagery throughout, including highly detailed surrealist compositions blending Victorian illustration, pop imagery, mythology, science fiction, cosmology, typography, and visual poetry. Contents include: • Foldout and full-page paste-up reproductions • “Structure of Rime XXVII” text by Robert Duncan • Detailed exhibition checklist • Artist biography and chronology • Bibliography/checklist of publications • Bay Area Beat and counterculture art references • San Francisco avant-garde material from the late 1960s Item details: • Title: Paste-Ups • Artist: Jess (Jess Collins) • Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Art • Year: 1968 • Softcover exhibition catalog • Approx. 9” square format • Black-and-white illustrated throughout Condition: Good vintage condition with handling wear, edge wear, light toning, and age-related wear from storage. Interior pages remain clean and complete. Please review photographs carefully for exact condition. History / Bio: Jess Collins (1923–2004), usually known simply as “Jess,” was a major American assemblage and collage artist associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat culture, and postwar experimental art movements. Originally trained in chemistry and employed during the atomic era at Hanford, Jess later abandoned science to pursue art in California. He became widely known for his elaborate “paste-ups,” dense collage constructions combining Victorian engravings, comic strips, occult symbolism, classical mythology, science fiction imagery, and surreal visual narratives. Jess was also the longtime partner and collaborator of poet Robert Duncan, one of the central figures of the Black Mountain and San Francisco poetry scenes. This catalog captures an important moment in late-1960s Bay Area counterculture art and experimental publishing, documenting one of Jess’s key museum exhibitions. Search keywords: Jess Collins, Paste Ups catalog, Robert Duncan, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat art, Bay Area avant garde, surreal collage, assemblage art, psychedelic art, counterculture ephemera, 1968 art catalog, Black Mountain College, Dixieland Gallery, experimental art, visual poetry, underground art, museum catalog, rare art book, California modernism A1
