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Duke, Jas H., 1939-1992

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Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

925. No.10 / Pi O, Jas H Duke, editors ; Pi O ; Duke JH ; Clements L ; Murphy P ; thalia., 1981

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Identifier: CC-56296-53727
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Stored in Jas H Duke's box. It includes Jas H Duke's infamous 'Shit Poem" by Australian radio's ABC who commisioned it but declined to broadcast it once they heard the tape of his reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Around Sound / Duke, Jas H.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-58027-10001283
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This work was exhibited in one of pete spence's correspondence art shows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Dada Kampfen um Leben und Tod / Duke, Jas H.; Hudson M; Jarvis J; Pi O; Marinetti FT; Hausmann R; Serner W; Schwitters K; Ono Y; Keen J; Hennings E., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28536-29818
Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...
Dates: 1996

Destiny Wood, 1978

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Identifier: CC-47982-69005
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This book appears to be an autobiographical-based experimental novel with a large cast of characters. The protagonist, Jim Arch, appears to be based upon jas h. duke and Ann who is Anna Blume. The Sackner Archive holds two artist books done by her. The end of their romance on the final page parodies the Molly Bloom's speech at the end of James Joyce's Ulysses: Is it all over now? said Ann. Yes said Jim.Yes I think so. Yes I'm certain. Yes.The time period of this novel vacillates between the time that the novel was written to a much earlier time such as the 17th century. The well known characters include Janis Joplin, Spiderman, Daniel Webster, Ben Franklin, Jonathan Swift, Oblomov, and Lord Byron among others. This book is printed in a many divergents layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Destiny Wood / Duke, Jas H.., 1978

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Identifier: CC-51278-72367
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This book appears to be an autobiographical-based experimental novel with a large cast of characters. The protagonist, Jim Arch, appears to be based upon jas h. duke and Ann who is Anna Blume. The Sackner Archive holds two artist books done by her. The end of their romance on the final page parodies the Molly Bloom's speech at the end of James Joyce's Ulysses: Is it all over now? said Ann. Yes said Jim.Yes I think so. Yes I'm certain. Yes.The time period of this novel vacillates between the time that the novel was written to a much earlier time such as the 17th century. The well known characters include Janis Joplin, Spiderman, Daniel Webster, Ben Franklin, Jonathan Swift, Oblomov, and Lord Byron among others. This book is printed in a many divergents layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Industrial Woman, 1986

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Identifier: CC-15720-16049
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The prints with the same title are also held by the Sackner Archive. This book describes the inequities of women working in Australia. The book is documented with photographs and the photographs are also embellished with red lettering on the photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Industrial Woman / Duke, Jas H.; Lyssiotis, Peter; Mehes, Vivienne., 1986

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Identifier: CC-15719-16048
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The book with the same title is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

poems of life & death, 2003

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Identifier: CC-41737-43729
Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....
Dates: 2003

Poems of War and Peace, 1987

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Identifier: CC-15600-15927
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This is the major anthology of Duke's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

se poesia e(') immagin e... / Giovanni Fontana, curator ; Vigo EA ; Duke JH ; Gappmayr H ; Gruber H ; DeCampos H ; Deisler G ; McCaffery S ; Kocman JH ; Vojnar J ; Kolar J ; Valoch J ; Cespedes F ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; Garnier P ; Labelle-Rojoux A ; Below P ; Bense M ; Groh K ; Rehfeldt R ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Staeck K ; Niikuni S ; Sunada C ; Takahashi S ; Claire P ; Crozier R ; Riddell A ; Baroni V ; Belloli C ; Bentivoglio M ; Bertini G ; Binga T ; Blank I ; Caruso L ; Costa C ; Danon B ; DellaCasa G ; Diamantini C ; Dragoni F ; Ferro G ; Fontana G ; Gualtieri M ; Gut E ; Lora-Totino A ; Marcucci L ; Miccini E ; Minarelli E ; Morrocchi G ; Nannucci M ; Niccolai G ; Ori L ; Osti M ; Pavanello G ; Perfetti M ; Pignotti L ; Sandri G ; Schodl G ; Simonelli F ; Sitta C ; Spatola A ; Tiziano F ; Villa E ; Vitone G ; Xerra W ; Todorovic M ; Flores A ; DeRook GJ ; Partum A ; Tavares S ; Finlay IH ; Boso F ; Buchwalder E ; Gomringer E ; Galantai G ; Padin C ; Banana A ; Cleveland B ; Cook G ; Etlinger A ; Helmes S ; Kempton K ; Kostelanetz R ; Mustill N ; Prost R ; Seaman B ; Spiegelman L ; Arnold D., 1980

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Identifier: CC-38643-40552
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This copy is printed on brown paper stock, another on white paper stock.This copy also has a folded poster announcement wrapped around it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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