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

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

[Man with Cat in Cafe] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-55977-9999446
Dates: 1954
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)

[Man with Sash of Keys] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1956

 Item
Identifier: CC-55370-333999
Dates: 1956
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)

mandala of directional buddhas & consorts (300167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56135-58926
Scope and Contents

There are eight typed red opened boxes composed of slashes, dashes and apostrophes.Ther are also two clusters of period dots. -- 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)

[Man's Head with Body & Hand - Saint Sebastian Sketch] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954

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Identifier: CC-55371-333000
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954
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)

mantra for albertbirot / mantra for raoulhausmann (111264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Albert-Birot P; Hausmann R., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09847-10041
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)

mantrascore for john cage (070368) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Phillips T; Eno B; Tilbury J; Cage J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55905-9999372
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes next to the title," really to be played on 4 foghorns - one each of 4 islands." Other instructions are for playing with variations of the letters cage and two long bars of notes also based on the name cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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)

manuscript: [Instructions Kinetic Poems] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Mayer HJ; Carroll L., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08857-9032
Scope and Contents

This unpublished manuscript provides instructions for making highly advanced kinetic poems that apparently were never realized. Houedard recommended devices, film or programs without mentioning computers for making them. These projected poems anticipate digital poetry. For storage purposes, the staple was removed and the individual pages stored in a binder with other Houedard manuscripts.. -- 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)

[Mapiro] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-55426-9999121
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)

Marcuse / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-09097-9276
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Herbert Marcuse (German: [maʁˈkuːzÉ™]; July 19, 1898 "“ July 29, 1979) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin into a Jewish family, Marcuse studied at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research - what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924-1951), Inge Neumann (1955-1972), and Erica Sherover (1976-1979). Active in the United States after 1934, his intellectual concerns were the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology. After his studies, in the late 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of Germany, France, and the USA. Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US Government Service, which helped form the basis of his book Soviet Marxism (1964). Celebrated as the...
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)

mark you sir / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55782-55661
Scope and Contents On the verso of this card in the handwriting of Houedard is the name "marcuse." This title of this poem refers to Herbert Marcuse. Wikipedia: Herbert Marcuse (German: [maʁˈkuːzÉ™]; July 19, 1898 "“ July 29, 1979) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin into a Jewish family, Marcuse studied at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research - what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924-1951), Inge Neumann (1955-1972), and Erica Sherover (1976-1979). Active in the United States after 1934, his intellectual concerns were the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology. After his studies, in the late 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of Germany, France, and the USA. Between 1943 and...
Dates: 1968
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)

Matrix. No.10 / Verity S ; Houedard DS., 1990

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Identifier: CC-06187-6301
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

[md j&w - & kids] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56741-10000117
Scope and Contents

This is a letter to John Sharkey and Wendy and their children. The text begins in the middle of the page and discusses that several of Houedard's work "got fuckingwell lost in this bloody post - whats going on? - i being bugged? fuzzed? hope this gets to you." -- 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)

mdc grabinoulor (270365) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Albert-Birot P., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57847-10001099
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes about this collection of '1 foolscap letter addressed "mdc" (my dear charles) concerning Pierre Albert-Birot's celebrated book Grabinoulor,together with4 foolscap pp of dsh's translation, book 3 chapter 8, with ca 20 - 30 corrections in dsh's hand on each page" The covering letter is stored with the manuacript in the manuscript binder. -- 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)

[Me Yes No Us & Houedard Photograph] 261066 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-57569-10000847
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the scrapbook of John Furnival. It contains a black and white photograph of dsh sitting at an outdoor table. Beneath the photo is a large size ink drawing of the name pierre silvester houedard.There is also a collaged ex libris card with the name Piere-Thomas-Pavl Joseph Houedard and a card with the titled concrete poem.The verso contain other items from the Furnival scrapbook. -- 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)

Me Yes No You Us (09/06/63) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963 - 1966

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Identifier: CC-55310-58808
Scope and Contents

This card was printed by Simon Verity (born 1945) who is a British sculptor and master stonecarver. Much of his work has been garden sculpture. He has works in the private collections of the Prince of Wales, Sir Elton John, and Lord Rothschild. Verity received his training through the architectural practice of Oliver Hill (known to dsh and through Robert Baker's teaching at Wells Cathedral. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 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)

Me Yes You No Us (090663), 1963

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-09833-10027
Scope and Contents

This lettered hand-drawn poem is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Meeting on the Corner] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1961

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Identifier: CC-55382-9999106
Dates: 1961
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)

memorial for oliverhill (150668) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56299-9999728
Scope and Contents

This page contains two poems: life & death and adehtefil. Oliver Hill was a known architect who lived in Glos, England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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)

memorial poem (251268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

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Identifier: CC-08627-8799
Dates: 1968
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)

memorial poem the authorized translation of ken - werbhehtmerf - (251268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09134-9315
Dates: 1968
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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