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Knowles, Alison, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933 April 29

Nationality

American

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Dick Higgins, 60, Innovator in the 1960's Avant-Garde / Smith, Roberta; Knowles A., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31102-32568
Scope and Contents

Higgins died in Quebec at a sound poetry colloquium one day after performing a piece that involved screaming as loudly as possible for as long as possible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11245-11460
Scope and Contents

The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years, 2000

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Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Four Hands Examining the Color of a Thought / Hendricks, Geoff ; Buczak, Brian ; Conz F ; Weiner L ; Knowles A., 2003

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Identifier: CC-58721-10001954
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was first conceived on the occasion of the exhibition "Geoffrey Hendricks, For Brian Buczak, in Memoriam" in Dorf Tyrol, Merano, Italy in 1997. It was re-published in 2003 in conjunction with the exhibition "Geoffrey Hendricks, Accidental Significance: Collaboration with Brian Buczak" at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: by Alison Knowles. No.1 / Alison Knowles., 1965

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Identifier: CC-10569-10774
Scope and Contents

Higgins related at a symposium on Portuguese concrete and visual poetry at Yale University, New Haven, CT, that the name "Great Bear" originated from the name of a water cooler at Something Else Press - wanted pamphlets to refreshing just like the water from the Great Bear water cooler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Pictures To Be Read/Poetry To Be Seen [box], 1967

 Item — Box 291: [Barcode: 31858072460706]
Identifier: CC-04845-4938
Scope and Contents

This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Spoken Text , 1993

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Identifier: CC-07988-8144
Scope and Contents

The text consists of Knowles' radio plays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993