Pictures To Be Read/Poetry To Be Seen [box], 1967

Item — Box: 291

Identifier: CC-04845-4938

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

Creation: 1967

Creator

van der Marck, Jan, 1929-2010 (Curator of an exhibition, Person)
Arakawa, Shūsaku, 1936-2010 (Person)
Baruchello, Gianfranco, 1924-2023 (Person)
Bauermeister, Mary, 1934-2023 (Person)
Brecht, George, 1926-2008 (Person)
Fahlström, Öyvind, 1928-1976 (Person)
Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995 (Person)
Kaprow, Allan, 1927-2006 (Person)
Kitaj, R. B., 1932-2007 (Person)
Knowles, Alison, 1933- (Person)
Nutt, Jim, 1938- (Person)
Simonetti, Gianni-Emilio, 1940- (Person)
Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998 (Person)

Extent

1 item (1 exhibition object) : 1 booklet + 1 scroll + 1 card + 1 pamphlet in bag (plastic, sealed) + 1 rubberstamp + 1 photograph (b&w) + 1 film reel + 2 shattered lightbulbs (loose glass) + 1 cap (plastic) + 3 bottlecaps + 3 chewing gum cigars + 1 safety pin + 1 oversized screw in box (plastic) + 2 combs + 1 crayon + 1 magnifying glass (plastic) + 1 soap bar + 2 dice on base (cardboard) + 10 stones + 1 tongue depressor + 1 square object (cardboard, wax), all in 1 box (plastic, label, printed) ; 6 x 25 x 9.8 cm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Materials Specific Details

Published: Chicago, Illinois : Museum of Contemporary Art. Signed by: several contributors. Nationality of creator: American. Copies: About 1 total copies. 1 number copy.