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Knowles, Alison, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933 April 29

Nationality

American

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Ancestor Dragon Buddha Bean, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-08007-8163
Scope and Contents

Deals with Knowle's theme of the bean. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Bonnard to Kiefer: 20th-Century Artist-Illustrated Books from the Bareiss Collection at The Toledo M / Knowles A., 1988

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Identifier: CC-22724-23159
Scope and Contents

The installation of Alison Knowles' "A Finger Book" is announced. The Sackner Archive holds another version of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Bread and Water, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27880-29019
Scope and Contents

Alison Knowles analyzed the cracks on the bottom crusts of her home-made breads and discovered a universe of rivers, Matching each crack in the crust to a river pattern, she created palladium prints with river image, literary passages and text fragments. Henry Martin, in his introductory text, describes this book as an "experience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Dick Higgins, 60, Innovator in the 1960's Avant-Garde / Smith, Roberta; Knowles A., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31102-32568
Scope and Contents

Higgins died in Quebec at a sound poetry colloquium one day after performing a piece that involved screaming as loudly as possible for as long as possible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Do It / Brossa J ; Gette PA ; Gonzalez-Torres F ; Kabakov I ; Knowles A ; Ono Y ; Weiner L ; Kaprow A ; Kolar J ; Messager A ; Duchamp M ; Perec G ; Debord G ; Wolman G ; Cage J ; Obrist HU ; Brecht G ; Boltanski C ; Kelley M ; Baldessari J., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29739-31116
Scope and Contents

This exhibition for action/artworks that consisted of artists' instructions realized by the participating museums, was curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist. "Do It" is not concerned with copies, images or reproductions of artworks, but with human interpretation. No artworks are shipped to the venues, instead everyday actions and materials serve as the starting point for the artworks to be recreated at each performance site according to the artists's written instructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Event Scores, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07901-8055

Everyone Here Has His Own Bag. / Kind, Joshua; Fahlstrom O; Knowles A; Brecht G; Bauermeister M., 1968

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Identifier: CC-07747-7899
Scope and Contents

Review of exhibition "Pictures to be read/Poetry to be seen". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-11245-11460
Scope and Contents

The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Four Hands Examining the Color of a Thought / Hendricks, Geoff ; Buczak, Brian ; Conz F ; Weiner L ; Knowles A., 2003

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Identifier: CC-58721-10001954
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was first conceived on the occasion of the exhibition "Geoffrey Hendricks, For Brian Buczak, in Memoriam" in Dorf Tyrol, Merano, Italy in 1997. It was re-published in 2003 in conjunction with the exhibition "Geoffrey Hendricks, Accidental Significance: Collaboration with Brian Buczak" at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Frijoles Canyon / Alison Knowles., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07958-8112
Scope and Contents

The text and sounds derive from time spent in New Mexico and Alberta, Canada, a span of several years. Frijoles Canyon is the name of the site where the recordings were made in New Mexico. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: by Alison Knowles. No.1 / Alison Knowles., 1965

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Identifier: CC-10569-10774
Scope and Contents

Higgins related at a symposium on Portuguese concrete and visual poetry at Yale University, New Haven, CT, that the name "Great Bear" originated from the name of a water cooler at Something Else Press - wanted pamphlets to refreshing just like the water from the Great Bear water cooler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

It is Almost That (Box): House of Dust. No.7 / Alison Knowles., 2011

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Identifier: CC-56416-9999829
Scope and Contents

The editor of this boxed series is Lisa Pearson. This is a reprint of a book using computer programming that Knowles published in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011