DEC. 7, 1988, 2019

Manufactured foldcase with acrylic painting over fabric cover, and printed copies of: Letter sent by Charles Eames from Moscow to his Daughter (1959); Typewritten copy of Russian human rights periodical A Chronicle of Current Events; Memorandum of Conversation from USA's Department of State The President's Private Meeting with Gorbachev (Dec.7, 1988); press not for the exhibition The New American Painting. As shown in eight European countries 1958-1959 (MoMA, New York 1959); Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War (Eva Cockcroft, in Pollock and After. The Critical Debate, Francis Frascina (ed.), Routledge, 2000); contact sheet from the lunch meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev at the White House (by Bill Fitzpatrick, 1988)