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Cut and pasted printed papers on postcard · 1993
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Godollar is the Pie In The Sky
1993 · Cut and pasted printed papers on postcard
5 7/8 × 4 3/16 in. (15 × 10.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ted Joans
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Ted Joans was an American poet and painter who merged surrealism with beat aesthetics, grounding his practice in jazz culture and African American modernism. His work spanned canvas, performance, and written verse, refusing easy categorization across the postwar period. Based in New York and later abroad, Joans moved fluidly between visual abstraction and lyric intensity, treating painting and poetry as extensions of the same improvisational impulse.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 2mo ago
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