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Extracts from this work were published in Art and Artist Vol 1, No.5, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. This work includes a discussion among Gustav Metzger, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Mark Boyle and Ivor Davies, held at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design on May 23, 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was mounted on the occasion of Mary Bauermeister's 70th birthday. The label of the compact disc depicts experimental calligraphic text; the disc content consists of film trailers for American recording stars such as Prince and has no relevance to the label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Clive Phillpot provides a chronologic biography of Metzger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter to Charles Cameron contains several names and details for poetry readings and several handwritten notes and instructions in red and black ink for a poetry reading to which DSH has been invited.The verso typing reads "cavan says ANDREI vOZNESENSKY reading leeds U Russdept 19:30hrs 4 june tell every one" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Notes dealing with the relation of words to painting, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The editors of this volume are Bruce Gilcrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks.Wikipedia: Gustav Metzger (born 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger is recognized for his protests in the political and artistic realms. Metzger was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 and came to Britain in 1939 as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement. He has been stateless since the 1940s. It is with an experience of twentieth century society's destructive capabilities that led Metzger to a concentrated 'formulation of what destruction is and what it might be in relation to art.Metzger is known as a leading exponent of the Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike movements. He was also active in the Committee of 100 and took part in their early anti-nuclear base campaigns of direct action...

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Influenced by the Holocaust, Metzger created "an art that aimed at introducing destruction as a means of transforming peoples' thoughts and feelings, not only about art, but to use art to change peoples' relation to themselves and society." Metzger is best known for organizing the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London in September 1966. The main object was to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms including the Viennese Actionists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announces an exhibition by Ann Noel at Boekie Woekie that is described on the recto in a reproduction of a letter from Noel to Hettie van Egten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.