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Williams, Emmett, 1925-2007

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 April 4 - 2007 February 14

Nationality

American

Found in 192 Collections and/or Records:

[Card To Emmett Williams] / Nannucci, Maurizio; Williams E., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-40474-42446
Scope and Contents

The card is written on the verso of "sixty natural greens," a conceptual art piece. Nannucci asks Williams to make a contribution to his magazine, Mela. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-33468-35112
Scope and Contents

In this book, Williams depicts chicken footprints as name-portraits or paintings of Dada artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-33469-35113
Scope and Contents

In this book, Williams depicts chicken footprints as name-portraits or paintings of Dada artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes / Williams, Emmett ; Tzara T ; Arp H ; Huelsenbeck R ; Duchamp M., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-33461-35103
Scope and Contents

In this book, Williams depicts chicken footprints as name-portraits or paintings of Dada artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Choragos. No.21 / Williams E., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-17060-17417
Scope and Contents

Mary Connors' interview of Emmett Williams is titled "Artist As Poet, Inventor and Cosmological Humorist." It describes his mode of creating his sequence works and his exhibition "Schemes and Variations-Serial Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Concrete Poetry: A Teacher's Guide / Michael Warshaw; E Williams; ME Solt; D Pignatari., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-45975-48681
Scope and Contents

This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Concrete Poetry: A Teacher's Guide / Michael Warshaw; E Williams; ME Solt; D Pignatari., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-45975-48681
Scope and Contents

This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Concrete Poetry: A Teacher's Guide / Warshaw, Michael; Williams E; Solt ME; Pignatari D., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-00445-457
Scope and Contents

This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Das eigensinnige Kind, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-44755-46921
Scope and Contents

The poems are printed with different typefaces from page to page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Echtzeit: Copy-Art/Installation / Jurgen O. Olbrich, curator ; Hainke W ; Noel A ; Olbrich JO ; Tilson J ; Williams E ; Nieslony B ; Muhleck G., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13527-13830
Scope and Contents

The expanded catalog with original xerox prints in an edition of 12 is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Echtzeit: Copy-Art/Installation / Jurgen O. Olbrich, curator ; Hainke W ; Noel A ; Olbrich JO ; Tilson J ; Williams E ; Nieslony B ; Muhleck G., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13528-13831
Scope and Contents

This is a limited edition catalog of the exhibition that includes prints from the exhibition. Another limited edition of signed prints enclosed within a box was published in an edition of 50 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Emmett Williams im Gutenberg Pavillon Mainz / Williams, Emmett ; Patterson B ; Higgins D ; Knowles A ; Page R ; Spoerri D ; Maciunas B ; Filliou R ; Kopcke A ; Spoerri D ; Ben., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-54908-990326
Scope and Contents

Emmett Williams writes about his creation of the Alphabet Symphony for the Festival of Misfits in London in 1962. The performance was one of the first Fluxus events even before the name Fluxus was used. It was preceded by the first Festum Fluxorum the previous month in Weisbaden with Williams and Ben Paterson as the only certified Fluxus artists. Paterson contributed an essay and conducted Williams' alphabet performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Additional filters:

Subject
Concrete poetry 72
Visual poetry 24
Documentation 21
Fluxus 21
Visual art 19