"kamagraph" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, Year Book Covering the Year 1968, page 131:",
          "text": "Max Emst, the well-known dada and surrealist painter; Edouard Pignon, a French abstractionist; and the late René Magritte, the extraordinary Belgian surrealist who died this year, have all executed special work for the kamagraph.",
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          "text": "I learned from this book, for instance, that kamagraph is a name for a 'special printing press that faithfully duplicates up to 250 copies of a painting, including raised brush strokes, destroying the original in the process.",
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          "ref": "1967, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 89, page 172:",
          "text": "Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call this type of work a “multi-original,” because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque.",
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          "text": "The procedure that Takis devised for moving the stiff pages of the book and the nails already fits the initial description of a multiple given by Franc5ois Barre/, in 1967, who applied it to small and medium runs (kamagraphs, multiples), mass produced work (design, graphics) and polycyclic structures (Eugenio Carmi): “The multiple is therefore essentially composite: it is a construction, it is a fixed or mobile system, sometimes the gernator of multiple combinations included in its design, which often make it a work of art.\"",
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