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Williams, Emmett, 1925-2007

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 April 4 - 2007 February 14

Nationality

American

Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:

The Page as Alternative Space, 1950-1969 / Franklin Furnace ; Berman W ; Roth D ; Williams E ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Kolar J ; MacLow J ; Flynt H ; Munari B ; Debord G ; Dienst KP ; Ben ; Higgins D ; Gette PA., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-11617-11833
Scope and Contents

Checklist for the exhibition of works from international experimental artists and writers curated by Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Rub, 1990 - 1995

 Item — Box 238: [Barcode: 31858072459484]
Identifier: CC-24069-24521
Scope and Contents

The images mostly depict animals, although the original frottage in this copy depicts a sailing ship. The original frottage is dated as 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990 - 1995

The Voyage, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-00352-360
Scope and Contents

Williams wrote this poem using only three letter words which gradually become smaller as the voyage progresses by fliping the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Typograms / Bridgwater, Patrick ; Indiana R ; Mon F ; Williams E ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Roth D ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Furnival J ; Mayer HJ ; Finlay IH ; Graham Ri., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-21401-21812
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Rigby Graham. This book is stored with Jos C. Brilliantes book, "Sonnets in Concrete volume one." Bridgewater in other publications also spelled his name as Bridgwater. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Vine Art Portraits / Kunst-Kraft-Werk II / Noel, Ann ; Williams E., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-60170-10003188
Scope and Contents

Emmet Williams writes in the forward, "Over the years, the artist [Ann Noel] accumulated a "vocabulary" of images printed from the inked ends of thousands of [wine] corks. The prints of the cork ends resemble wood cut prints in texture. For each print in the present selection, four enlarged cork images in different colours were superimposed over one another into a colored. background." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

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Subject
Concrete poetry 72
Visual poetry 24
Documentation 21
Fluxus 21
Visual art 20