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This catalogue for the first comprehensive exhibition of Conner's work defines and illustrates the diverse areas of the artist's creative output including assemblages, collages, films, drawings, prints and photographs. Critical texts by Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss and Bruce Jenkins are presented along with a listing of Conner's previous exhibitions, a bibliography and a filmography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is catalogue conceptualizing the marriage of Wallace Berman and Robert Watts, including a printed wedding invitation, illustrations from Semina by Berman, a reproduction on a typed letter from Berman to David Meltzer, correspondence art by Watts and a reproduction of a dollar bill by Watts. The book was designed by Jerry Lekky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by Wesley Tanner as a gift from Moe's Books for the New Year. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The front cover was designed by Richard Geer, the back cover by D.r. Wagner. This book consists of poetic quotes by others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The dust jacket was designed by Wallace Berman and depicts a grid of four verfax images without Hebrew letters on the front and back covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Also designated Blue Plate #2 and is McClure's second book. There is a taped label on the inside of the front cover identifying the previous owner as Harvey M. Matusow.An obituary was written as Harvey Matusow: Death of a Snitch by Bruce Jackson and Emile de Antonio (adapted from the book, Emile de Antonio in Buffalo, edited by Bruce Jackson, CSAC Working Papers, 2002). Harvey Matusow, the most notorious of the paid perjurious snitches for the Communist witch-hunters in 1950s, died in New Hampshire on January 17 at the age of 75. Matusow worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy and testified for the Senate Internal Security Committee, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and any other federal and state Commie witch-hunting committee that would have him. He testified in trials against people charged with being or having been Communists. He testified against the Girl Scouts and the New York Times. He testified against just about anything that moved, breathed, was incorporated,...

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Includes 11 short plays, including The Shell, Spider Rabbit, and The Authentic Radio Life of Bruce Conner and Snoutburbler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover was designed by Wallace Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Timothy Longville signature, dated July 31 1963 appears on a blank page near the title page. He edited Grosseteste Review (1967--84) along with John Riley. This began essentially as an English Objectivist magazine, gazing at the USA, and gradually became devoted to something much more local, unidentifiable, and unexpected, something which hadn't really existed in 1967; and sometimes called the Cambridge Leisure Centre, although that isn't very appropriate, and "English Objectivism' isn't wholly descriptive either. Most readers will know this group through A Various Art (1987), edited by Longville and by Andrew Crozier, the publisher of Ferry Press books, who had co-edited The English Intelligencer with Peter Riley), which is useful and widely available. It includes poems by Longville, Crozier, JH Prynne, Roy Fisher, John Seed, John Hall, Anthony Barnett, John James, Douglas Oliver, Peter Philpott, John Riley, David Chaloner, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Nick Totton, Ralph Hawkins,...

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DeFeo (1929-1989) was an important influence on West Coast artists of the 1960s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.