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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Lc Locally Created
Scope Note: Previous term: Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

A. M. Fine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0518
Abstract

Fluxus artist, composer, and poet. Artworks, personal items, poetry, essays, and music scores.

Dates: 1960-1991

Alice Hutchins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0758
Abstract

Fluxus artist. Art works, audiotapes, videotapes, exhibition catalogues, photographs, articles, poster and show announcements, and various documents and correspondence.

Dates: 1961-2003

Artifacts of the Eternal Network Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0781
Abstract

Artworks and other documentation related to a 1997 exhibition at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Many Fluxus artists were included in this exhibition. Kris TigerLady 2015 addendum.

Dates: 1967 - 1997

Artists' Television Network Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0800
Abstract

Video by and about artists assembled for broadcast on the New York City cable networks between 1976 and 1984. The project was coordinated by Jaime Davidovich and the collection includes the cablecast material, in many cases edited in various ways for any of several anthology shows, as well as paper records. A portion of the collection has been re-recorded and is available in VHS format; a few pieces have been transcribed to DVD; and a growing number have been re-recorded digitally in DVCam and DVD versions.

Dates: 1976-1984

Artwords and Bookworks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0517
Abstract

Co-curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo, Artwords and Bookworks was one of the largest exhibition of artists' books and ephemera to take place during the 1970s. Comprised of experimental works by approximately six hundred contributors, the exhibition presented a diverse and provocative sampling of this alternative art form.

Dates: 1970-1978

ATCA Artists' Works and Correspondence Files Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0764
Abstract

This ATCA collection brings together mail art, correspondence, photographs, slides, compact discs, show announcements/posters, writings, and other ephemera related to or by various artists.

Dates: 1968-2010

ATCA Comics Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0780
Abstract

Artists' and underground comics.

Dates: 1966-1993; Majority of material found within 1969-1979

ATCA Periodicals and Zines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0779
Abstract

This ATCA collection brings together journals, newspapers, zines, and similar formal and informal periodicals that are art-related or have artistic merit. The range of subjects is broad and include political and cultural issues, gender and sexuality questions, as well as music, film, poetry, and religion.

Dates: 1960-2008; Majority of material found within 1980-1995

ATCA Rubber Stamp Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0788
Abstract

Miscellaneous printed materials (primarily catalogs) concerning rubber stamp art. The majority of the materials in this collection were acquired by artist, author, and archivist John Held Jr. (born 1947) from William Picasso Gaglione (born 1943).

Dates: 1927-1997; Majority of material found within 1985-1995

Buster Cleveland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0785
Abstract

Correspondence and art work by mail artist Buster Cleveland.

Dates: 1967-2005

Centro de Arte y Comunicacion (CAYC) (Center for Art and Communication) Buenos Aires

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0759
Abstract

Committed to the production and dissemination of systems art, CAYC was established as a multidisciplinary workshop in August of 1968. A collection of large scale works (each about 22 x 34 inches) was assembled in 1972 by Jorge Glusberg, CAYC Director, as an edition of 10 that circulated as traveling exhibitions. Apparently including about 72 works in 1972, the collection grew over time and the Iowa collection now consists of 143 diazo prints and appears to be the only extant copy. The collection includes a linear foot of catalogues, documentation, books and pamphlets, dating from 1970 to 1980 and a complete set of black and white photographs from which online images were derived.

Dates: 1970-1980

Comic Books of the Bronze Age

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0883
Abstract

Comic Books of the Bronze Age, 1969-1986, bulk dates 1970-1976.

Dates: 1969-1986

Conz-Friedman Collection 4 Fluxux Textile Multiples

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0760
Abstract

Part of the Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art Collection at the University of Iowa, this collection consists of four Fluxus textile multiples.

Dates: 1970-1980

Dick Higgins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0790
Abstract

He was a Fluxus artist. This is an Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art Collection (ATCA).

Dates: 1968-1993

E. F. Higgins III Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0855
Abstract

An Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art Collection

Dates: 1977-2015

Estera Milman Contemporary Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0815
Abstract

Primarily ATCA administrative files containing a vast amount of information on the sources of the ATCA collections and detailed records regarding grants won by and exhibitiions curated by ATCA staff prior to 2000.

Dates: 1980-2000

Fluxus West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0763
Abstract

Organization representing the work of the Fluxus group and its members in the Western United States. Original artworks and relics by Fluxus West members.

Dates: 1959-2003; Majority of material found within 1965-1975

Images from South Africa Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0789
Abstract

Artwork and miscellaneous documentation concerning apartheid in South Africa and/or the various installations of the traveling exhibit Images from South Africa, first shown at the Media Gallery in San Francisco from April 18th - May 10th 1986.

Dates: 1980 -1988; Majority of material found within 1985-1986

Jonas Mekas Collection of Fluxus Films

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0762
Abstract

Lithuanian-American avant garde film maker and critic. This collection is comprised of nearly one linear foot of Fluxus film loops.

Dates: 1960-1970

Lil Picard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0817
Abstract

Correspondence and related files of an artist, art journalist, and collector. Picard was born in Germany but migrated to New York City with her second husband in 1936. Exhibiting her own work, her writing about New York City art, and her extensive collecting made her a central figure in New York art until very near the end of her life.

Dates: 1899-1994