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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

coxbox-3 (memorial to ken cox) (160469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09091-9270
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

crane - in memoriam edith sitwell (011266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-33052-34677
Scope and Contents

The shape of the poem is formed by the words of the title. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Cratilismo: O Artista Ingles e a Palavra / Gerald Forty, curator ; Breakwell I ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Phillips T ; Instone J ; Leverett D., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-18745-19119
Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...
Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

[crossing rectangles z's border] (090964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55911-9999378
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[Crucifiction] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-55385-555000
Dates: 1962
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[cube formed of quotation marks] (190567) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-33057-34682
Scope and Contents

This work is composed of typed, mainly, red colored quotation marks. This work was exhibited in Force Fields: phrases of the kinetic held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona in 1999 and the Hayward Gallery London in 2000. The work was selected by the Curator, Guy Brett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[cube & propeller] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-09453-9640
Scope and Contents

The image of this work was formed with typed periods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[cubes and 8's] (312166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-08682-8855
Scope and Contents

Five cubes formed by apostrophes are divided by a vertical row of 8's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[cubes and letters] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-55347-9999095
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[cubes on staggered rods](170167[CR][cubes on staggered rods] (170167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-56051-9999502
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Dance in Dante (770423 & 7704something) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dante., 1977

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Identifier: CC-57856-10001107
Scope and Contents

Cameron writes that this work consists of "1 page letter in red & black type accompaning 20 pp dsh's carbon copy of his notes on Dante." The text of this manuscript is not linear. Houedard draws the idea of dance in the cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

dasein design / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-56651-59765
Scope and Contents

The font size is much smaller than in the vast majority of the dsh poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[dash construction] ????65 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56124-9999568
Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

dead help (22 FEB 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56901-10000266
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

dead help (22 FEB 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56901-10000266
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

[dear angelThings] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56760-10000135
Scope and Contents

This is a letter to John Sharkey where Houedard writes that he hopes to "see you tuesday at OU - no? And dont spend precious stamps just on old me like this is someing i do understand." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

dear so busy [to Charles Cameron] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-58644-10001875
Scope and Contents

Houedard mentions the ICA lecture on April 22, 1966; this is described in detail in a letter to Jasia Reichert that is alos held by the Sackner Aerchive -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

DEI GENITRIX (060963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57860-10001110
Scope and Contents

A long column on the right side of the page consists of varied shades of m's with three balnk spaces in the column. The title is typed in the bottom left corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

delphei (230469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08737-8911
Scope and Contents

The typed image depicts three major clusters of red periods above a long diagonal red typed line made of slashes. The text at page bottom reads "ritual dionysian cycle c. 8th cent bc used in pythonian winter rites (cult-furrow o 'sulcus' restored)" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Demand/ Castro (October 28, 1967) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-53327-59697
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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