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

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Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

he las / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-57125-10000465
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From page top a cut out letter " l" is collaged onto page center with a green strip. At the bottom left Houedard has written "ode to the colonels" in reference to the Greek military dictatorship. On the right border he has written "glastsz ode consturctions ltd." Wikipedia: The Greek military junta of 1967"“74 (alternatively The Regime of the Colonels. The Dictatorship and The Seven Years was a series of right-wing military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d'état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The dictatorship ended in July 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

HEAVE n / h EARTH... (160769) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55926-58988
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The texts of the seven poems in this work has bled through on the verso and becomes legible when viewed from a mirror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

hello cuckoo can i be your friend (740514) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-55916-9999383
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The typed caption in the upper left side whose letters are formed by small o's reads,"hello cuckoo can i be your friend." Next to the text stands a small densely typed with slashes and @'s, little bird. The bird stands on a typed rectangle beneath which there is a typed 3D tube form and a 3D rectangular box. This piece is the only typewriter poetic work of Houedard's held by the Sackner Archive for the year 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

hello JACK / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-57490-10000783
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The letter to Jack [?] reads "here in a boite box with some bonbons sweets and a friend un ami and his chien dog for you and your jambe Leg to get well soon from silvester." The large letters on the right side of the page are typed by using the following lower case letters or punctuation marks: o _ . " $ . The right side of the page is crumpled and torn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[henri chopin coming] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ; Chopin H; Gysin B; Heidsieck B; DeVree P; Garnier P; Sharkey W ., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56735-10000112
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This letter is addressed to John Sharkey in which Houedard mentions well known poets of the '60s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

homage 1 a leopold sedar senghor/ machine rollcall for peter levi sj (050964) / POEME BLANC (140663) / GOMRINGER (190864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Levi P; Gomringer E; Senghor LS., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-57866-10001118
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This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 1964

homage a leopold sedar senghor 3 (201163) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56065-9999512
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56063-9999510
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

homage to dylan - bob/thomas (011266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Thomas D., 1966

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Identifier: CC-44117-46241
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The column of letters in this poem spell out "dylan" as an homage to bob dylan and dylan thomas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

homage to leopold sedar senghor 2 (201163) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56064-9999511
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

hommage a napoleon III (120763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55817-58797
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This poem deals with the role of Napoleon III in the Salon exhibition in Paris in 1863 and lists several painters of that time, viz., Manet, Fantin-Latour. Whistler, Guillaumin, along with Salon des Refusee and the dates 1863 and 1963, the 100th year anniversary of this event. Wilkipedia: Pissarro agreed with a group of these young, artists about the importance of portraying individuals in natural settings, and expressed his dislike of any artifice or grandeur in his works, despite what the Salon demanded for its exhibits. In 1863, almost all of the group's paintings were rejected by the Salon, and French Emperor Napoleon III instead decided to place their paintings in a separate exhibit hall, the Salon des Refusés. However, only works of Pissarro and Cézanne were included, and the separate exhibit brought a hostile response from both the officials of the Salon and the public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

HOUBABALUBALUBA (150663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56061-9999509
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The page contains multiple verses combining French and English. Each poem is dated separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

hovedard / veda - hoard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55779-556677
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The verso depicts dsh's handwriting in the u.r. corner of the title "hovedard / veda - hoard" where the v stands for u. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968