Harold Cohen: Drawing (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1979)

Harold Cohen

Andrew Forge

1979

Ephemera

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Exhibition brochure
11" tall
De Cordova Museum stamp on the cover

The Library Exhibition Catalog AI

Description

This brochure for “Harold Cohen: Drawing,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1979, with an introduction by the museum’s director, Henry T. Hopkins, and an essay by Andrew Forge, Dean of Yale University School of Art. An “Installation” page of nine photographs shows Cohen’s drawing “turtle,” a Tektronix storage tube display, a DEC PDP-11/45 computer and his program listing. In his own text Cohen writes, “It is the program, and not the devices, that makes the drawings what they are.” The De Cordova Museum, which stamped this copy, showed Cohen in 1982.