Description
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.
Background
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.