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Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933 November 18 - 2008 July 7

Nationality

American

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II / Conner, Bruce ; McClure M ; Ferlinghetti L ; Berman W., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33550-35200
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999

Beat Culture and the New America: 1959-1965 / Ginsberg A ; Berman W ; Herms G ; Perkoff S ; Connor B ; Hedrick W ; Ferlinghetti L ; Jess ; McClure M ; Patchen K ; Norse H ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Corso G ; Joans T ; Dine J ; Rauschenberg R ; Rivers L ; Schneeman C ; Kerouac J., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27244-27740
Scope and Contents

The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Book One / Conner, Bruce., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-20255-20652
Scope and Contents

The high density of the markings of the images is similar to the early work created by El Hanani, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Forgotten Heroes of Networking Series - Wallace Berman & Semina Magazine , 2010

 Item — Box 325: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-51068-72149
Scope and Contents

Baroni writes "A triumph of the do-it-yourself esthetic, Semina is a fragmentary guidebook to alternative modes of thinking, living, and art-making..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After the Rose / DeFeo, Jay ; Hedrick W ; Berman W ; Connor B ; McClure M ; Lamantia P., 2002

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Identifier: CC-52673-73809
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2002

Mandalas / McClure, Michael ; Conner, Bruce., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-47549-68557
Scope and Contents

The cover and five pages depict abstract formed mandalas by Conner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Retrospectives / Metzger, Gustave ; Phillpot C ; Schwitters K ; Paolini G ; Connor B ; Fontana L ; Reinhardt A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33030-34652
Scope and Contents

Influenced by the Holocaust, Metzger created "an art that aimed at introducing destruction as a means of transforming peoples' thoughts and feelings, not only about art, but to use art to change peoples' relation to themselves and society." Metzger is best known for organizing the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London in September 1966. The main object was to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms including the Viennese Actionists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Favorite Word In His Vocabulary Is Undermine / Wallach, Amei; Conner B; Boswell P., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35034-36755
Scope and Contents

This review mentions Peter Boswell who curated the exhibition and contributed to the exhibition catalogue. The latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000