Bern Porter, Aphasia. Madison, Me.: [s.n.], 1961 [i.e., 1961-ca. 1966].
![Bern Porter, Aphasia. Madison, Me.: [s.n.], 1961 [i.e., 1961-ca. 1966].](https://sca.bowdoin.edu/50-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/nggallery/50-books/porter.jpg "Bern Porter, Aphasia. Madison, Me.: [s.n.], 1961 [i.e., 1961-ca. 1966].")
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Unique 'found art' artist's book.
Porter defined this work as 'A psycho-visual satire on printed communication' (p. [3]). It consists exclusively of equally sized and bound clippings from newspapers, advertising inserts, comic strips, and similar pulp printings that illustrate commercialism, popular culture, and the mundane. Formerly a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, Porter quit his job after the bombing of Hiroshima and, although he later participated on the Saturn V space project, he principally turned to publishing, to making avant garde art and to writing experimental poetry. He was an innovator especially with such art forms as found art, mail art, and performance art.
Gift: Bern Porter.