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

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Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook 1 / Atchley, Dana ; Cobbing B ; Hendricks G ; Higgins D ; Houedard DS ; Johnson R ; Meyer T ; Newman I ; Ockerse T ; Sharits P ; Solt ME ; Hompson DD ; D'Agostino G ; Varney E ; Williams J ; Lee-Nova G ; Weege B ; Williams E ; MacLow J ; Filliou R ; Topor R ; Hendricks B ; Blei N ; Hejinian L ; Morris M ; N.E. Thing ; Tarasoff V ; Topor R ; Filliou R ; deRidder W ; MacLow J ; Williams E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-25316-25772
Scope and Contents

This book was done while Atchley was teaching at the University of Victoria (1969-1971) in Canada. Although Atchley had a background in fine printing and typesetting, he had dabbled in xerography in Baltimore and conceived of this book as a xerox project. He bought 250 empty three ring notebooks and invited all his friends to contribute up to 10 pages, 250 copies of each page. To encourage participation, the invitation stated that all pages would be included without editing. By the end of the year, there were about 60 contributors. Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1, edited by Kostelanetz and Korn.The envelope within the notebook contains ten Fluxus performance direction sheets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Notes Comments Talks Articles on Concrete / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09071-9250
Scope and Contents

Lists manuscripts and the periodical of their publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Notions and Notations / Cobbing, Bob; Furnival J; Houedard DS; Cox K; Claire K; Claire P; Williams E., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17596-17963
Scope and Contents

Cobbing concludes in this essay, visual (concrete) poetry can be heard, smelt, has colours, vibrations whereas sound poetry dances, tastes, has shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

ode to the colonels (Hellas) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-38008-39894
Scope and Contents

This card deals with the contemporaneous political situation in Greece, e.g., a military dictatorship. The first 'l' in the ancient word for Greece,"Hellas," is displaced at an angle over the 'e' leaving an blank 'l' space in the word. It signifies the "club" held over Greece by the dictatorship. The card does not have the perforation of the 'l' as in Openings Press Card Series No.8, is larger in its dimensions, and its verso is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

odyseus / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55808-9999336
Scope and Contents

There are four permutations of "odyseus" on the left side and one permutation of "obedient on the right side." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Official Mentality Over Last 40 years Since Russel Pasha / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09441-9628
Scope and Contents This brief polemic is an expression of Houedard's negative views on including non-addicting hashish with narcotocs as an illicit substance. In this respect, Houedard differed with Russell Pasha's (1879-1954) opinion as cited by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. Houedard became a member of SOMA, an organization that campaigned to improve the cannabis law. Their first action was a full page advertisement in the Times on July 24th 1967, headed 'The law against marijuana is immoral in principle and unworkable in practice'. Below that, a quote from the philosopher Spinoza: 'All laws which can be violated without doing anyone any injury are laughed at... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.' The rest of the advert was an explanation of how damaging the law was, compared with the harmlessness of cannabis. There were quotes from modern medical opinions such as 'does not lead to degeneration, does not affect the brain cells, is...
Dates: 1964