Written in the 1950s and 60s, the action poems comprising a A Users Manual were published in their complete form in 1969 when they were paired with the 52 collages of Weekly 1967, the first of Kolárs celebrated series in which he commented visually on a major event for each week of the year. Taking the form of directives, largely absurd, the poems mock communist societys officialese while offering readers an opportunity to create their own poetics by performing the given directions. The collages on the facing pages to the poems are composed of layered documents, image cutouts, newspaper clippings, announcements, letter fragments, reports, or decontextualized words, oftentimes forming concrete patterns or the outlines of figures, to create a sort of evidential report on the year. Text and image taken together, the volume displays Kolárs enduring interest in extracting poetry from the mundane to demolish the barrier separating art from reality, or even to elevate reality itself through this dual poetics to the level of art. What art historian Arsén Pohribný wrote about Weekly 1968 equally applies to Weekly 1967: it shocks with its abrupt stylistic twists and is a Babylonian, hybrid parable of multi-reality. The volume also includes the complete Czech text as an appendix.
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