Ashbery, John, 1927-2017
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1927-07-28 - 2017-09-03
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Anthology / Levine, Les, editor; Denby E; Berkson B; Ashbery J; Acconci V; Williams E; Perreault J; Schjeldahl P; Waldman A; Saroyan A; Giorno J; Koch K., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-43811-45907
Scope and Contents
This work consists of poems embossed on clear celluloid by various writers. One of the prints is a version of Aram Saroyan's "eyeye." The tirage is unknown. Born in Dublin, Les Levine attended art school in London and emigrated to Canada in 1958. Levine began working in New York in the early sixties and is one of the first artists to be known as a "media artist." His first videotapes were produced in 1964. Since the, he has had over 100 exhibitions in the United States and has participated in such groundbreaking international exhibitions as Documenta 77. His work has been collected by most major contemporary art museums. Levine's most famous projects include his Irish-Jewish Canadian restaurant (New York, 1969), his imaginary "Museum of Mott Art" and his billboards with the slogan "Sex Won't Save You." Levine has been called the founder of media art, but his intent has been to question societal and cultural norms in innovative ways rather than to simply advance the use of...
Dates:
1968
Magazines / Agius, Juan J. ; Bennett JM ; Ashbery J ; Dachy M ; Carrion U ; Agius J., 2014
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Identifier: CC-58487-10001706
No.199: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Kryss TL ; Ashbery J ; Beckett S ; bissett b ; Blackburn P ; Bukowski C ; Creeley R ; Cutts S ; Duncan R ; Ginsberg A ; Higgins D ; levy da ; McClure M ; Olson C ; Raine K ; Themerson F ; Sharkey JJ ; Zukofsky L., 1999
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Identifier: CC-33640-35299
No.207 / Ursus Rare Books ; Baltazar J ; Cage J ; Copley W ; Ashbery J ; Dine J ; Duchamp M ; Lissitzky E ; Ernst M ; Goncharova N ; Grosz G ; Heartfeld J ; Iliazd ; Johns J ; King R ; Leger F ; Cendrars B ; Ray M ; Mutel D ; Oldenburg C ; Ting W ; Warhol A ; Sharoff S ; Chernikov I ; Tzara T., 1998
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Identifier: CC-31213-32682
Scope and Contents
Listed in the catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive are the following: SMS, For Reading Out Loud by Lissitzky, Wendigen with cover by Lissitzky, Ledentu le Phare by Iliazd, Fizzles by Johns, La Fin du Monde by Leger, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Oiseaux and The Metamorphosis by Didier Mutel, and Architectural Fictions by Chernikov. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1998
No.211: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Ashbery J ; Birney E ; Blackburn P ; Bowering G ; Mills S ; Finlay IH ; Cutts S ; VanHorn E ; Dawson F ; Fisher R ; Grenier R ; Houedard DS ; Mayakovsky V ; Morgan E ; Mottram E ; Napora J ; Nichol bp ; Smith WJ ; Snyder G ; Williams J., 2002
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Identifier: CC-39164-41108