Finding aid for the Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry, 1958-1975 890143B

Lynda Bunting.
Special Collections
1998
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry
Creator: Boshier, Derek
Creator: Furnival, John, 1933-
Creator: Gosewitz, Ludwig, 1936-
Creator: Hindmarch, Brian
Creator: Horovitz, Michael, 1935-
Creator: Cox, Kenelm
Creator: D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992
Creator: Filliou, Robert
Creator: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Creator: Carmi, Eugenio, 1920-
Creator: Chopin, Henri
Creator: Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Creator: Azeredo, Ronaldo
Creator: Bann, Stephen
Creator: Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998
Creator: Vigo, Edgardo Antonio, 1928-1997
Creator: Sharkey, John, 1936-2014
Creator: Reichardt, Jasia
Creator: Solt, Mary Ellen
Creator: Simonetti, Gianni-Emilio, 1940-
Creator: Mon, Franz
Creator: Mayer, Hansjörg, 1943-
Creator: Phillips, Tom, 1927-2005
Creator: Niikuni, Seiichi, 1925-1977
Creator: Latham, John, 1921-2006
Creator: Kriwet, Ferdinand
Creator: Lucie-Smith, Edward
Creator: Logue, Christopher, 1926-2011
Identifier/Call Number: 890143B
Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1958-1975
Abstract: British art critic, editor, and curator born in Poland. The collection consists of poetry in a variety of media: manuscripts and typescripts, screenprints and posters, collages and original graphics, sound recordings, photoprints, and objects. Artists include Ronaldo Azedredo, Stephen Bann, Derek Boshier, Eugenio Carmi, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Ludwig Gosewitz, Brian Hindmarch, Michael Horovitz, D.S. Houedard, Ferdinand Kriwet, John Latham, Christopher Logue, Edward Lucie-Smith, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Seiichi Niikuni (and the Tokyo Assn. for the Study of Arts [ASA]), Tom Phillips, John Sharkey, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Mary Ellen Solt, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and Wolf Vostell.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record  for this collection. Click here for the access policy .
Language of Material: English .

Scope and Content of Collection

The Jasia Reichardt Archive of Concrete and Sound Poetry consists of poetry in a variety of media: manuscripts and typescripts, screenprints and posters, collages and original graphics, sound recordings, photoprints and objects (some ready-made) sent to and collected by Reichardt. Artists include Ronaldo Azedredo, Stephen Bann, Derek Boshier, Eugenio Carmi, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Ludwig Gosewitz, Brian Hindmarch, Michael Horovitz, D.S. Houedard, Ferdinand Kriwet, John Latham, Christopher Logue, Edward Lucie-Smith, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Seiichi Niikuni (and the Tokyo Assn. for the Study of Arts [ASA]), Tom Phillips, John Sharkey, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Mary Ellen Solt, Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Wolf Vostell. Some works are accompanied by letters sent to Jasia Reichardt. Some materials have been digitally reformatted.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by artist.

Biographical/Historical Note

Art crtic and curator with an interest in art and its intersection with other fields, especially technology. Jasia Reichardt was Assistant Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (ICA) 1963-1971, where she organized the exhibit Cybernetic Serendipity and wrote the book of the same name. She served as Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery 1974-1976.

Separated Material

The Library received the Reichardt collection in 1989. It contained books, periodicals, recordings and archival materials. Most, but not all, of the archival papers were transferred to Special Collections the same year. The Library cataloged ca. 10 publications in 1989 and set aside the remaining books, periodicals, recordings and archival materials. In July 1996 Special Collections transferred 2 sound recordings to the Library. In May 1997 approximately 0.6 linear feet of sound recordings, publications and archival materials were transferred to Special Collections from the Library. In 1998 the following were transferred to the Library, representing a portion of the May 1997 transfer.
Roth, Dieter. Little tentative recipe. England: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1969. Ou. (3 recordings) ASA. (1-3; vol. 4, no. 4; vol. 5, no. 5; vol. 6, no. 6) ASA. Spatialism/concrete poetry. (1969, 1971 and 1973) Niikuni, Seiichi. Zero-on (collected poems) 1960-1963. 1963 Niikuni, Seiichi. Po'emes phone'tiques sur spatialisme. Columbia, ca. 1970.

Processing History

Lynda Bunting processed the collection and wrote the inventory January 1998. Descriptions are based on the dealer's inventory.

Acquisition Information

Archive acquired in 1989.

Preferred Citation

Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry, 1958-1975, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 890143B.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa890143B

Publication Rights

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers. Audio recordings are unavailable until reformatted. Contact the repository for information regarding access.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sound recordings
Sound poetry
Collages
Concrete poetry
Posters
Prints
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original

box 1, folder 1

Azeredo, Ronaldo

Scope and Contents note

Typographic setting of a concrete poem, unsigned and undated, poet's name typed on sheet, 23.5 x 33 cm.
box 1, folder 2

Carmi, Eugenio, 1967-1968

Scope and Contents note

Exhibition announcement "Pitture multiple," 1968, 6 pages with 10 color reproductions of letter-images from 1967.
box 1, folder 3

Chopin, Henri, 1977

Scope and Contents note

"Amour toujours voui?", 1977, screenprint with typewritten inscription, 33 x 20.5, and handwritten inscription: "Homage to Jasia. love H. Chopin 1977."
box 1, folder 4

Cobbing, Bob, 1970

Scope and Contents note

handmade greeting card, ca. 1970, typed and handprinted in folded card, 22 x 19.5 cm., inscribed by hand inside: "spontaneous / appealin' air / contemplate / apollinaire / Xmas & N Year wishes / Bob & Jennifer."
box 1, folder 5

Cox, Kenneth, undated

Scope and Contents note

2 Christmas cards, "Winter solstice," n.d., height 25 cm., inscribed on verso: "best wishes Ken," and "Saturnalia," n.d., folded size 7.5 x 7.5 cm., inscribed with message of apology and greetings to Jasia and Tony Reichardt.
box 1, folder 6

Filliou, Robert, 1962

Scope and Contents note

14 page typescript "Lille Kirkestrade no. 1," ca. 1962, with many annotations and a handwritten note to JR on first page (25.8.68). The work was performed by Dick Higgins and Filliou at ICA, 1962.
box 1, folder 7

Furnival, John, 1962-1970

Scope and Contents note

pen and ink palindromic poem "Sator-Rotas," n.d. (1964), signed on the verso, 20 x 21.5 cm.; 2 page letter from dated May 13th, 1964, concerning his work, especially the "Tower of Babel" piece, and his feelings about Pop art; pen and ink drawing "Idee fixe" with a print on the verso, dated 1962; collage on luggage label titled "Ma" for Houédard, ca. 1963, 6 x 12 cm.; folding poem "Devil-trap...," n.d. (1963/64), made from collage and pen and ink on black paper, mounted on blue card folder, 13.5 x 14 cm. when closed; handmade card "Pishhthes," n.d. (ca. 1970), collage and print ink on paper with letter to JR on verso, signed, 9 x 14 cm.; pen and ink drawing "Vowel pyramid," n.d. (1965), 12.5 x 12 5 cm.; pen and ink drawing "Sunt Lachrymae," n.d. (ca. 1970), 15 x 15.5 cm.
box 1, folder 8

Houedard, Dom Sylvester, 1964-1975

Scope and Contents note

poem "Frog/plop/pond" folded into a child's game, n.d. (ca. 1964/65), 10 x 10 cm. when closed; poem "Womb word...worm wood," 1965, printed red on translucent paper (press smv daneway) for Christmas 1967, signed, dated and numbered 67/100, 84 x 8 cm. when rolled, inscribed on verso: "no. 67 for jasia with luv for newxyear 67. silvester. 67/100"; "Monster (frog)," 1967, ink and photocopy on cut and folded paper, signed and dated, 21 x 8 cm., inscribed "d/h 160367 for jasia with luv"; rough draft for an invitation titled "Begin," 1975, felt pen on green paper with thumbnail sketches in ink inside, 21 x 15 cm.; 8 page typescript "Recent reversals & reflections, sent to JR March 1975.
box 1, folder 9

Kriwet, Ferdinand, 1965

Scope and Contents note

letter from, n.d. (1965), with synopsis in German of a lecture he gave at the ICA.
box 1, folder 10

Leonardi, Leoncillo, 1961

Scope and Contents note

lithograph, 1961, signed and numbered 24/200.
box 1, folder 11

Little Press Book Fair, 1971

Scope and Contents note

poster advertising fair at National Book League, Albemarle Street, London, W1, 4-19 June, 1971, with image of the 1970 fair.
box 1, folder 12

Lucie-Smith, Edward, 1965

Scope and Contents note

printed poem "Fir-tree song," 1965, signed, published by Turret Books, London.
box 1, folder 13

Mayer, Hansjorg, 1965

Scope and Contents note

pair of lettriste stockings printed with black letters on white stretch nylon, n.d. (1965), length 65 cm.
box 1, folder 14-15

Niikuni, Seiichi, 1970-1974

Scope and Contents note

4 photos of Niikuni in his Tokyo studio, May 1974; invitation to Spatialisme/concrete poetry, 1973; poster for ASA 1970 concrete poetry & spatialisme; journal Geijutsu seikatsu 4 1970 with articles "This is concrete poetry" and "Independent word"; Niikuni catalog of visual poems exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1974; 11 pages of typescript material from which the Whitechapel catalog was edited, includes: bibliography, lists of exhibitions and works, notes on spatialism as a supranational poetic form, biography, notes on some of his works, and ASA manifesto; Whitechapel Art Gallery poster, 1974; Niikuni's death announcement, 1977. In a separate folder are 26 photoprints of Niikuni's poems which were blown up to comprise the Whitechapel exhibition, 1974.
box 1, folder 16

Ou, ca. 1968

Scope and Contents note

printed handbill, ca. 1968, 33 x 20 cm., edition of 500.
box 1, folder 17

Sharkey, John letter to Reichardt, 1965

Scope and Contents note

typed letter from, 1965, about poetry magazine LOC and raising money.
box 1, folder 18

South Street Publications

Scope and Contents note

publication announcement "Handout" nos. 1 and 2.
box 1, folder 19

"The kalender", undated

Scope and Contents note

printers scraps, n.d.
box 2, folder 1

Latham, John, 1966

Scope and Contents note

untitled, altered book from "skoob" series, 1966, signed and dated, 17.5 x 11.5 cm.
box 2, folder 2

Vigo, Edgardo Antonio, 1968-1969

Scope and Contents note

"Poemas Matemàticos (in) comestibles," 1968/1969, welded tin cans with label, 10 cm. in diam., embossed on tin "Envasado 1969," dated on label "Envasados en 1968."
box 2, folder 3

Vostell, Wolf, 1966-1967

Scope and Contents note

"Dé-coll/age-happenings," 1966, published by Something Else Press, original print signed and dated 1967, no. 149/500.
box 3

Kriwet, Ferdinand, 1965

Kriwet, Ferdinand (digital version available on-site only)

Scope and Contents note

"Campaign radio-text IX," 1965, recording of Kriwet reading his own work in Germany.
1 sound tape reel : stereo.
box 3

Niikuni, Seiichi, 1974

Niikuni, Seiichi (digital version available on-site only)

Scope and Contents note

Recording of Niikuni reading phonetic poems created between 1966-1971. Some tracks include Harry Guest. Signed and dated 1974.
1 sound cassette.
box 4**

Bann, Stephen, 1967

Scope and Contents note

"Ampersand," made from plywood and painted yellow, signed and dated 1967, inscribed on verso "For Jasia / A souvenir from Brighton, April 1967," 90 cm. high.
oversize 1**

Concrete & kinetic poetry, 1964

Scope and Contents note

poster of "First international exhibition of concrete and kinetic poetry," St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, November 1964, poem by Pierre Garnier, 56 x 18.5 cm.
oversize 2**

Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1964

Scope and Contents note

"Le circus!!" 1964, poster poem published by Wild Hawthorne Press, 44.5 x 57 cm.
oversize 3**

Furnival, John, 1959

Scope and Contents note

5 items: photograph of drawing "Coalbrookdale Gate, Kensington," n.d. (1959), 50.5 x 49.5 cm., inscribed in pencil: "John Furnival Coalbrookdale Gate, Kensington Original 6' x 6'" (reproduces a drawing made while at the R.C.A. in connection with the "Anti-ugly" campaign, ref. page 2 of the 1971 Ceolfrith retrospective exhibition catalog); "The thought in the hand of a mathematical God," signed and dated 1963, pen and ink on board, 30 x 37.5 cm.; untitled poem, n.d., printed blue on off-white paper, 31 x 31 cm., inscribed on verso: "Happy Christmas John & Astrid"; poster poem "(Bear/ours) the great bear," Ursa Major, 1965, published by Wild Hawthorne Press, 43.5 x 56 cm.; letter dated 10th July 1974 regarding Satie musical evening at the Whitechapel Art Gallery with wallpaper pasted on the side of the handwritten text.
oversize 4**

Gosewitz, Ludwig, 1964

Scope and Contents note

"Der wald steht schwarz und schweigt," 1964, typewritten on card, signed and dated in pencil on verso, 26 x 26 cm.
oversize 5**

Horovitz, Michael, undated

Scope and Contents note

poster poem "Bank holiday," screenprint advertising his book of same name, signed, n.d.
oversize 6**

Kriwet, Ferdinand, 1964

Scope and Contents note

untitled poster poem published by Wild Hawthorne Press, 1964, 44.5 x 57 cm.
oversize 7**

Mon, Franz

Scope and Contents note

poster poem "Epitaph für Konrad Beyer," 1964, published by Wild Hawthorn Press, 57 x 43 cm.
oversize 8**

Boshier, Derek and Christopher Logue

Scope and Contents note

poster poem "Pop song," n.d. (c.1967?), published by Gear Poster, Turret Books, London W.8, 101 x 76 cm.
oversize 9**

Chopin, Henri

Scope and Contents note

screenprints "Le temps aujourd'hui," 1972, signed and numbered 2/71, 77 x 38 cm., and "The common market," 1973, signed and numbered 36/60, 77 x 43 cm.
oversize 10**

Niikuni, Seiichi

Scope and Contents note

poster "Concrete poetry ASA," 1966, 72 x 25.5; poster "In concreto," 1968, for the international concrete and visual poster exhibition of Tokyo.
poster "Exhibition of contemporary concrete poetry," 1970, Geijutsu Seikatsu Gallery, Tokyo, 12 March -1 April.
oversize 11**

Miscellaneous artists

Scope and Contents note

Brian Hindmarch "Even before I wake...," 1977, typographic setting of poem by Jessica d'Este, signed by poet and printer.
Christopher Logue poster poem "Kiss kiss," n.d. (ca. 1967), screenprint devised with Tom Salter, Fulham Gallery, London, 74 x 50 cm. (see also Boshier folder for more Logue).
Tom Phillips "Six pieces op.x," screenprint, signed and dated 1967, 72.5 x 49.5 cm., inscribed: "for Jasia a/p".
Mary Ellen Solt "Forsythia," screenprint, signed, n.d., 89 x 58.5 cm.