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Williams, Emmett, 1925-2007

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 April 4 - 2007 February 14

Nationality

American

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (Alphabet Poem), 1963

 Item — Box 298: [Barcode: 31858072460870]
Identifier: CC-48358-69384
Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...
Dates: 1963

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

An Opera, 1963

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-43838-45934
Scope and Contents

A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Books To Burn, 1989

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-23330-23770
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Tom Trusky. The cover and pages are in the the shape of oversize matches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Lecture for Eyear, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09695-9888
Scope and Contents

Houedard in his introduction states that this is the first lecture (concrete poetry) delivered in the English speaking world. He presents an extensive critical analysis of Gomringer's poems including "Avenidas," "Silencio,"etc. and DeCampos poetry. Calligrammes were inspired by Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des" as well the music of Webern. He discusses the basis for Ultra-Lettrisme and Sound Poetry and provides a chronology for Sound Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Monks Pond. No.4/Winter, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-30016-31409
Scope and Contents

Includes four photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Noch Mehr Scheisse Eine Nachlese (the book of porn...), 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-39247-41193
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a book that was first published in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Paradada (FOR TLS AS-AG NO - 1964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55982-9999450
Scope and Contents

This essay was published in "The Times Literary Supplement" No.3,258 August 6 1964 in a slightly modified form from this manuscript. The Sackner Archive holds this issue of TLS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964