Over a period of four decades--from the early 1960s until his death in 1994--artist, writer, and designer Joe Brainard contributed greatly to the arts in a number of media. From his early paintings and assemblages, which built upon the work of Jasper Johns and Joseph Cornell, to his set designs for LeRoi Jone's "The Dutchman" and Frank O'Hara's "The General Returns from One Place to Another"; from his comic book collaborations with various poets,...