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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:

eros / Williams, Emmett., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-56976-62938
Scope and Contents These prints, depicted as reproductions in this issue, were shown in a show entitled Generations and Continuities (1979-1980) held at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University.At the opening of the exhibition Yo-Yo Ma himself performed Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma, playing a Bach unaccompanied suite, accompanied by the late Ivan Tcherepnin making waves of electronic distortion to match the progressive complexity of the score. he five suites of serigraphs shown in the exhibition - Eros, Shakespeare's XXXth, A-Journey, Impressions of Japan and Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma were produced by Edition Noël at Harvard in 1979-1980. All of them are based on experiments in the electrostatic distortion and generation of texts and images. To oversimplify: I used the Xerox 3100 duplicating machine at Leverett House, Harvard University, as a creative tool to perform tasks that makers, buyers and users of such machines used to consider (a) a misuse of sophisticated hardware, (b)...
Dates: 1979

Fall / Mayer, Hansjorg, editor ; Roth D ; Phillips T ; Williams E ; Latham J., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06297-6412
Scope and Contents

The three covers have different collaged images taken from Tom Phillip's Words and Texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11245-11460
Scope and Contents

The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Fluxus Etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection / Jon Hendricks, curator ; Higgins D ; Knizak M ; Sharits P ; Williams E ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Brecht G ; Cage J ; Friedman K ; MacLow J ; Ay-O ; deRidder W ; Filliou R ; Williams E ; Koepcke A ; Maciunas G ; Oldenbourg S ; Ono Y ; Paik NJ ; Patterson B ; Shiomi C ; Spoerri D ; Watts R., 1981

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Identifier: CC-11588-11804
Scope and Contents

This exhibition catalogue describes the philosophy, attitudes, influences and purposes of Fluxus. It documents Fluxus editions, periodicals and bibliographic materials. Includes a chronology of Fluxus performances from 1962 to 1978. The exhibition was curated by Jon Hendricks. R.W, Smith: Massive exhibition of 683 works organized in three parts: Fluxus Editions & Related Works; Fluxus Periodicals and Documents, Related Publications and Bibliographic Material; and Fluxus Performance: Documentation of Events. Introduction by John Hendricks; A Complete History of Fluxus, Including Philosophy, Attitudes, Influences and Purposes (consisting of statements by Fluxus artists and Fluxus founder George Maciunas reproduced in facsimile); chronology of Fluxus Performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Freibord. No.100 / Gerhard Jaschke, editor ; Williams E ; Voss J ; Ruhm G ; Noel A ; Nitsch H ; Mon F ; Mayrocker F ; Jaschke G ; Huber C ; Herbst W ; Garnier P ; Gappmayr H ; Franzobel ; Achleitner F., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28818-30136
Scope and Contents

The alphabetical letter pictures are 26 photographic sites listed on the inside cover onto which the letters are positioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

From Imagism to Concrete Poetry: Breakthrough or Blind Alley? / Cluver, Claus; Saroyan A; Solt ME; Williams E; Indiana R; DeCampos A; Gomringer E; Mallarme S., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19809-20196
Scope and Contents

Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

From Imagism to Concrete Poetry: Breakthrough or Blind Alley? / Cluver, Claus; Saroyan A; Solt ME; Williams E; Indiana R; DeCampos A; Gomringer E; Mallarme S., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19835-20222
Scope and Contents

Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

futura: Rotapoems. No.12 / Emmett Williams., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27469-28517
Scope and Contents

Rotapoems, dedicated to Dieter Roth, are in fact 6 versions of a poem in Roth's lyrical collection "Scheisse," Providence 1966. They are a return to a form Williams first used in his book "Konkretionen," Krefeld 1959, and the "Litanies for Alison Knowles," placed in a musical landscape by Dick Higgins in 1966. The vowels of Roth's original poem are shifted progressively from version to version, resulting in constant sound changes and frequent alterations in sense. They are meant to be read aloud." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Hannah-Hoch-Preises / Williams, Emmett ; Schwitters K ; Hamilton R ; Roth D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28168-29331
Scope and Contents

This catalogue documents how in recent years, Williams has gone from composing classic concrete poems to adding visual ornamentations to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Happening & Fluxus / Hans Sohm, curator ; Harald Szeemann, curator ; Higgins D ; Williams E ; Paik NJ ; Lebel JJ ; Spoerri D ; Beuys J ; Brecht G ; Sohm H ; Knowles A ; Ono Y ; Filliou R ; Saito T ; Maciunas G ; Hansen A ; Kaprow A ; Klintberg B ; Schneemann C ; Shiomi C ; Ben ; Watts R ; Vostell W., 1970

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Identifier: CC-09816-10010
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was co-curated by Hans Sohm and consisted of material from his Archive. It included a chronology of Fluxus performances. Haralld Szeeman (1933-2005) was a Swiss curator and art historian whose Archive and Library was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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