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Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: ARSHILE Magazine Records
Creator:
Salerno, Mark, 1956-
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0779
Physical Description:
7.8 Linear feet
(17 archives boxes, 1 flat box and 1 tube)
Date (inclusive): 1992-2005
Abstract: Records of
ARSHILE: A Magazine of the Arts, founded in 1993 by Mark Salerno. Published biannually in Los Angeles through 1999, it featured new work by established and
emerging writers and artists.
Scope and Content of Collection
Records of
ARSHILE: A Magazine of the Arts, founded in 1993 by Mark Salerno. Published biannually in Los Angeles through 1999, the magazine featured new work by established
and emerging writers and artists. The collection contains correspondence, manuscript drafts, drawings, photographs, ephemera,
and other materials chronicling the founding and publication of the magazine.
Arranged in three series: 1) MAGAZINE FILES, 2) WRITERS AND ARTISTS FILES, and 3) MISCELLANEOUS.
ARSHILE: A Magazine of the Arts was founded in 1993 by poet Mark Salerno in Los Angeles. The magazine's title references Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure
in the New York School of painting. Published by 96 Tears Press and designed by the Ted Williams Design Group, it featured
new work by both established and emerging writers in a variety of forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, essays, interviews
and translations. Important contributors included Dore Ashton, Anselm, Edmund and Ted Berrigan, John Cage, Robert Creeley,
Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Carl Rakosi, Martha Ronk, Jerry Rothenberg, Paul Vangelisti, as well as poetry and translations
by founder and editor Mark Salerno.
In addition to literary content,
ARSHILE featured visual art on four-color covers and black-and-white art and photography on inside pages by artists such as Willem
de Kooning, Nina Glaser, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Gerard Malanga, Yoko Ono, Wayne Thiebaud and Emerson Woelffer.
During the mid-nineties
ARSHILE gained recognition as one of the most innovative small press magazines of its kind, comparable to fellow veteran Angelino
poet Paul Vangelisti's literary magazine
Ribot.
ARSHILE: A Magazine of the Arts ran biannually for eleven issues between 1993 and 1999. The magazine ceased publication after 1999 due to financial reasons.
ARSHILE Magazine Records. MSS 779. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Mark Salerno Papers, MSS 780. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
ARSHILE (Los Angeles, Calif.)Arts, American -- 20th century -- Periodicals