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Villa, Emilio

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1914-09-21 - 2003-01-14

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Invisible City Books: Foresta Ultra Naturam ("forrest beyond nature'). No.6 / Emelio Villa ; Giulia Niccolai ; Luciano Caruso., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00702-719
Scope and Contents

This work was translated by Pasquale Verdicchio and edited by Paul Vangelisti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

La Scrittura (edited and written by Mirella Bentivoglio) / Di Sarro, Luigi ; Bentivoglio M ; Villa E ; Cattania L ; Novelli G ; Twombly C., 1991

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Identifier: CC-16321-16671
Scope and Contents

Mirella Bentivoglio comments that the works of Di Sarro (1941-1979), who was a doctor, should be considered as precursors to art as writing, a tendency which developed in Rome in the sixties in the work of Emilio Villa, Marco Balzarro, and Luciano Cattania. She adds that this was followed by the well known Roman tendency of sign-abstraction, "impersonated" by Capagrossi, Novelli, and Twombly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Le Soloeil Qui Se Leche Ses Cheveux Ayant Tue Ses Chevaux / Villa, Emilio; Caruso L., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00802-821
Scope and Contents

This production was edited by Luciano Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Lettera & Risposta / Villa, Emilio ; Cegna, Giorgio., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55531-63541
Scope and Contents

The covers and pages depict black typewriter ribbons that have been typed with seemingly random white letters even though the book is labeled a novel on the front cover. The ribbons are arranged in a variety of non-ordered layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Lilliput: Scritture. No.8 / Luciano Caruso, editor ; Villa E ; Diacono M ; Martini SM., 1971

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Identifier: CC-19156-19535
Scope and Contents

This series was edited by Luciano Caruso. This booklet includes the poetic works of Caruso as well as Villa, Diacono and Martini. Stored with Luciano Caruso material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Lilliput: Traitee de Pedersasthie Celeste. No.2 / Emilio Villa., 1969

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Identifier: CC-31990-33518
Scope and Contents

This series was edited by Luciano Caruso. Stored with Luciano Caruso material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Mostra Antologica 1963-1993 / Caruso, Luciano ; Villa E ; Zanella S ; Caramel L., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20415-20812
Scope and Contents

Several works held by the Sackner Archive are depicted in this catalogue: pp 29, 32, 35, 44, 45, & 51. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Omaggio a Fontana / Caruso, Luciano ; Villa, Emilio ; Fontana G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-20699-21101
Scope and Contents

The text of Caruso's writing was taken from a poem by Villa, "Il Fuori il Dentro del Signo."(1972) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Pattern: Exempla (1966 - 1973). No.40 / Luciano Caruso ; Villa E., 1975

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Identifier: CC-19174-19554
Scope and Contents

This publication was edited by Luciano Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pattern: La Derniere Mort Sentimentale. No.14 / Emilio Villa ; Caruso L., 1975

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Identifier: CC-31414-32903
Scope and Contents

This publication was edited by Luciano Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50211-71276
Scope and Contents This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Internet: Emilio Villa passed away on 14th January 2003. He had been born at Affori, near Milan in 1914. He spent his life in Milan, Florence, Sao Paolo (Brazil) and most of all in Rome, engaging in studies of Semitic - he was an exile from the Vatican Institute of Biblical Studies -- and early Greek philology and working actively with avant-garde artists both Italian and foreign. He carried out a remarkable prose translation of the Odyssey (1964) and he also translated some cuneiform tablets of the Accadic poem "Enuma Eli" (1939). Moreover he carried out a long labour of interpretation of some passages of the Bible, of the Pentateuch in particular. He contributed to several cultural reviews, such as "Frontispizio", "Letteratura", "Arti visive" (1953-56), to avant-garde magazines, such as "Ex" (1961-65) and...
Dates: 1971

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50214-71279
Scope and Contents

This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Although a label on the inside back cover calls for 200 copies signed by the authors, this copy is unsigned. Another copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive is signed by Villa and Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Piero Manzoni / Derbylius ; Manzoni P ; Caruso B ; Villa E ; Diacono M ; Parmiggiani C., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44939-47111
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides a partial listing of all documents dealing with Manzoni as well as books by Caruso and Villa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

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Subject
Visual poetry 19
Calligraphic text 13
Concrete poetry 9
Conventional poetry 9
Visual art 9