Finding aid for the Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry, 1958-1975 890143B
Lynda Bunting.
Special Collections
1998
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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
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Language of Material:
English
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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.
Arranged alphabetically by artist.
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.
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.
Lynda Bunting processed the collection and wrote the inventory January 1998. Descriptions are based on the dealer's inventory.
Archive acquired in 1989.
Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry, 1958-1975, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
890143B.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa890143B
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Library Rights and Reproductions .
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
box 1, folder 2
box 1, folder 3
box 1, folder 4
box 1, folder 5
box 1, folder 6
box 1, folder 7
Furnival, John, 1962-1970
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
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
box 1, folder 10
box 1, folder 11
box 1, folder 12
box 1, folder 13
box 1, folder 14-15
Niikuni, Seiichi, 1970-1974
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
box 1, folder 17
box 1, folder 18
box 2, folder 1
box 2, folder 2
box 2, folder 3
box 3
Kriwet, Ferdinand, 1965
Kriwet, Ferdinand (digital version available on-site only)
box 3
Niikuni, Seiichi, 1974
Niikuni, Seiichi (digital version available on-site only)
box 4**
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Furnival, John, 1959
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.
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Miscellaneous artists
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.