Car Wash by Tom Clark
Tom Clark. Car Wash. San Francisco: Features, 1970.
First edition. Oblong quarto (approx. 26pp). Stapled wraps. Very Good condition.
A conceptual sequence of before-and-after black-and-white photographs documenting a car progressing through an automated wash. Wordless except for minimal captions ("Car Top Before"/"Car Top After"), this early graphic work by poet and biographer Tom Clark (1941-2018) exemplifies late Mimeo Revolution production values. The ghostly presence of an anonymous driver underscores the work's meditation on American banality - transforming the mundane ritual of car maintenance into a study of perception itself.
Car Wash invites viewers to reconsider the overlooked visual poetry of everyday life. A characteristically understated yet potent work from this prolific and underappreciated figure.
Tom Clark. Car Wash. San Francisco: Features, 1970.
First edition. Oblong quarto (approx. 26pp). Stapled wraps. Very Good condition.
A conceptual sequence of before-and-after black-and-white photographs documenting a car progressing through an automated wash. Wordless except for minimal captions ("Car Top Before"/"Car Top After"), this early graphic work by poet and biographer Tom Clark (1941-2018) exemplifies late Mimeo Revolution production values. The ghostly presence of an anonymous driver underscores the work's meditation on American banality - transforming the mundane ritual of car maintenance into a study of perception itself.
Car Wash invites viewers to reconsider the overlooked visual poetry of everyday life. A characteristically understated yet potent work from this prolific and underappreciated figure.
Tom Clark. Car Wash. San Francisco: Features, 1970.
First edition. Oblong quarto (approx. 26pp). Stapled wraps. Very Good condition.
A conceptual sequence of before-and-after black-and-white photographs documenting a car progressing through an automated wash. Wordless except for minimal captions ("Car Top Before"/"Car Top After"), this early graphic work by poet and biographer Tom Clark (1941-2018) exemplifies late Mimeo Revolution production values. The ghostly presence of an anonymous driver underscores the work's meditation on American banality - transforming the mundane ritual of car maintenance into a study of perception itself.
Car Wash invites viewers to reconsider the overlooked visual poetry of everyday life. A characteristically understated yet potent work from this prolific and underappreciated figure.
