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"Thanks for the Mammary" 20 piece postcard-Set (signed, numbered and dated 1974)

Genesis P-Orridge · 1974 · Mag/Lit · GB · legacy-bandlit-3894

<div> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(9, 0, 0);"><font face="Times" size="3">In 1974, COUM Transmissions had a total of 14 performances.</font></span></div> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(9, 0, 0);">In December 1974 Gen performed a&nbsp;</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(9, 0, 0); color: rgb(9, 0, 0);">&nbsp;piece designed and directed by the friend Rose Garrard called &ldquo;Universal Man in Forty Five tasks&rdquo; at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London</span></font></div> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times" size="3">It was filmed by the &quot;Central Office of Information, London for &quot;Britain Today&quot; TV programme, screened in Australia &amp; Mexico.</font></div> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> <div><font face="Times" size="3"><font color="#090000">At&nbsp;Christmas&nbsp;1974, Gen sent Rose&rsquo;s husband (</font><span data-offset-key="55t5m-0-0">&nbsp;(performance and installation artist Kerry Marshall Trengove; now deceased)</span><font color="#090000">, a postcard piece called &ldquo;Thanks for the Mammary&rdquo;&nbsp;</font></font></div> <div><font color="#090000" face="Times" size="3">&nbsp;It comprised of 21 postcards, 19 of which each has a capital letter from the title and the collaged photo of a bare breast on it. </font></div> <div><font color="#090000" face="Times" size="3">They are each signed, dated and numbered by Genesis.</font></div> </div> <font face="Times" size="3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> &nbsp;</font></div>