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Lubbock reviews an exhibition at Whitechapel titled "Live in Your Head." In it he writes, "In the age of ink jet and laser printing, it's amazing to see a text-based art that's so happy with the manual Olivetti. (But a conter-example: the most beautiful works in the show are the typewriter drawings of of the Benedictine concrete poet - lower case, please - dom sylvester houedard.)" This article along with its scanned counterpart and the cover of the exhibition catalogue is stored in the Houedard ephemeral and printed matter portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau( 5 July 1889 "“ 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf and Raymond Radiguet. Houedard's epitaph to Cocteau probably relates to pace, the Latin word for peace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924"“15 January 1992), also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1966). Among his best-known works is the poem Frog-Pond-Plop, his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Basho. Houédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961. Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder...

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The photograph depicts the group mentioned in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The initials refer to Pat Morrissey, the Director of the Bear Lane Art Gallery in Oxford England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original drawing for this bookplate is held by the Sackne Archive. This work was given by Houedard to Ken Cox's family shortly after Cox's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original drawing for this bookplate is held by the Sackne Archive. This work was given by Houedard to Ken Cox's family shortly after Cox's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy has a white background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy has a yellow background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece consists of three images drawn in 3-D perspective. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete title is "erected by the gloucestershire ode producers association." The handwritten name Keith is at the upper right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete title is "erected by the gloucestershire ode producers association." The handwritten name" keith" is at the upper right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.