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| | Hackett-Freedman: Jess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Jess spent his early adulthood studying science at the California Institute of Technology before being drafted into the army to work on the Manhattan Project during the war years. |
 | | Art, for Jess, was an act of creative transformation-the overlooked, historically forgotten image is recycled, repurposed, and recomposed in the service of a dream-like and poetic defamiliarization. |
 | | Jess spent his life cloistered with his art, living with the poet Duncan in a dilapidated Victorian house in San Francisco, surrounded by neatly organized files of magazine clippings, old books, advertising art, and myriad other printed sources which were the foundation of his work. |
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