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How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
1968
John Cage (Artist) American, 1912-1992 The Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc. (Publisher) American William Nelson Copley (Publisher) American, 1919 - 1996
Type printed on paper with acetate cover containing printed type
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (19.1 × 14 cm)
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Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin
F80.619.4I
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John Cage, How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse), 1968, type printed on paper with acetate cover containing printed type. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin, F80.619.4I.
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