ART AND THE BOUNCY BANKER: New York Public Library

The Bruxist Collective's take on Art and (as Alfred Jarry might put it) P'finance.

A numerically dyslexic artist (and reluctant consumer) shares his dearth of financial wisdom and resulting frustrations with his Bank Manager. Read personal letters from the elusive Art to his even more elusive Bank Manager. See a comic rendition of a Day In The Life Of The Bouncy Banker. Art struggles to make sense of the senseless as the Authorities of Finance wobble but never quite fall down. Full of hot air they float above it all! When they bounce it is with impunity! Why are there no Remorseful Bankers? Can Art and Finance ever coexist? Do you have a Blue Chip on your shoulder?

When bankers get together they talk about Art. When artists get together they talk about money. Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bouncy Banking doggerel!

The interior of this jaunty pamphlet menu includes additional line drawings by the cover artist, H. B. Eddy, along with bouncy banking doggerel. ("The first thought of the banker/Is now the interest rate/But when he dines with us to-night/'Twill be, what's on his plate.") The dessert course, Baked Klondike, promised "genuine Klondike nuggets"--one per table--within.

Menu cover, New York Bankers' Association, Group No. 8, Second Annual Banquet. Hotel Manhattan, New York. Tuesday, February 8, 1898. [Eight-page pamphlet, paper covers; actual size 10¼" x 7" closed]