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Berman, Wallace, 1926-1976

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1926-02-18 - 1976-02-18

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II / Conner, Bruce ; McClure M ; Ferlinghetti L ; Berman W., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33550-35200
Scope and Contents

This catalogue for the first comprehensive exhibition of Conner's work defines and illustrates the diverse areas of the artist's creative output including assemblages, collages, films, drawings, prints and photographs. Critical texts by Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss and Bruce Jenkins are presented along with a listing of Conner's previous exhibitions, a bibliography and a filmography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

A Return Trip to a Faraway Plae Called Underground / Cotter, Holland; Berman W., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46322-49045
Scope and Contents

This is a review of the exhibiiton "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Arranged Marriage / Berman, Wallace ; Watts, Robert ; Berman W ; Watts B ; McClure M ; Duncan R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33705-35367
Scope and Contents

This is catalogue conceptualizing the marriage of Wallace Berman and Robert Watts, including a printed wedding invitation, illustrations from Semina by Berman, a reproduction on a typed letter from Berman to David Meltzer, correspondence art by Watts and a reproduction of a dollar bill by Watts. The book was designed by Jerry Lekky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Art As a Muscular Principle: 10 Artists and San Francisco 1950-1965, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-24862-25315
Scope and Contents

The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Beat Culture and the New America: 1959-1965 / Ginsberg A ; Berman W ; Herms G ; Perkoff S ; Connor B ; Hedrick W ; Ferlinghetti L ; Jess ; McClure M ; Patchen K ; Norse H ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Corso G ; Joans T ; Dine J ; Rauschenberg R ; Rivers L ; Schneeman C ; Kerouac J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27244-27740
Scope and Contents

The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Connections with the Past / Solnit, Rebecca; Berman W., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-01899-1935
Scope and Contents

Review of exhibition "Past/Presence/Contemporary Sources" at the College of Notre Dame Gallery and extensive discussion of six works by Wallace Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Contemporary Art / Sotheby's ; Paolozzi E ; Warhol A ; Berman W ; Arman ; deCointet G ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Johns J ; Rauschenberg R ; Ray M ; Ruscha E., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-30267-31676
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. The Sackners purchased Wallace Berman's "Composition" (c.1960) at this auction. George Segal's multiple, "Girl on a Chair" (1970), a work held by the Sackners, was offered at this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Dark Brown and Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems / McClure, Michael ; Berman, Wallace., 1969

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Identifier: CC-47544-68552
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket was designed by Wallace Berman and depicts a grid of four verfax images without Hebrew letters on the front and back covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Forgotten Heroes of Networking Series - Wallace Berman & Semina Magazine , 2010

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-51068-72149
Scope and Contents

Baroni writes "A triumph of the do-it-yourself esthetic, Semina is a fragmentary guidebook to alternative modes of thinking, living, and art-making..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After the Rose / DeFeo, Jay ; Hedrick W ; Berman W ; Connor B ; McClure M ; Lamantia P., 2002

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Identifier: CC-52673-73809
Scope and Contents

DeFeo (1929-1989) was an important influence on West Coast artists of the 1960s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

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Conventional poetry 29
Conventional fiction 19
Visual art 13
Critical text 10
Concrete poetry 8