Periodicals

Abstract: The Agenda Records consist of materials from the production files of Agenda magazine from volume 7, number 3 (1969) through volume 37, number 4 (2000), with related financial records, and additional materials from editor William Cookson's files. Writings include works submitted for publication in Agenda or the Agenda Editions and consist of articles, poems, and reviews in holograph, typescript, galley and proof form, many bearing annotations by editor or author. The production files contain...

Abstract: Correspondence, drafts of articles and poems, legal documents, press releases, clippings and other papers of the magazine which was published in New York from January 1941 to February 1942 under the editorship of Klaus Mann. Correspondents and writers include W.H. Auden, André Gide, Sir Julian Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, William Carlos Williams and Stefan Zweig. Also in the papers is the proof for an unpublished article by Vladimir Nabokov, "Soviet Literature...

Scope and Contents: Includes "The Plastic Parthenon" by John McHale, pages 4-11.McHale writes: "The future of art seems no longer to lie with the creation of enduring masterworks but with defining alternative cultural strategies, through a series of communicative gestures in multi-media forms. As art and non-art become interchangeable, and the masterwork may only be a reel of punched or magnetized tape, the artist defines art less through any intrinsic value of the art object than by furnishing new...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, audiovisual material, and printed material that document the life and work of American author, editor, critic, and translator Marilyn Hacker. Hacker's writings are documented by manuscripts, typescript drafts, proofs, and associated material, including correspondence with fellow authors and publishers. Kenyon Review materials document Hacker's tenure as editor of the journal, including controversy surrounding her...

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, printed matter, and memorabilia, chiefly documenting Hale's career as a journalist, as a member of intelligence units in the United States Army during and after World War II, and later as a member of the foreign service in Austria (1950-1953). His correspondence is largely with editors, publishers, and writers about the projected articles, or about the magazines that he sucessively edited, especially the New...

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Includes "The Human Image" by Robert Freeman, pages 6-9, with commentary on the work of Magda Cordell and John McHale; and "Images of the mass media" by John McHale, pages 10-11.

Abstract: The collection consists of newspapers, periodicals, flyers, handbills, newsletters, mailings, memoranda, reports, sound recordings, and other materials compiled by Leon Litwack that primarily document the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in and around Berkeley, California. The collection includes materials related to civil rights, Vietnam War protests, the Black Panther Party, the Free Speech Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Also included are...

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The collection comprises collage books, collages, drawings, palettes, and posters by John McHale, with related printed material, including catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters.

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Periodicals used include Life, London Sunday Times, Look and Saturday Evening Post. Includes "A 100 mile high portrait of Earth" (from Life) and an almost complete copy of Life, April 11, 1955. One advertisement in this issue is noted as being used in Richard Hamilton's A-A-AH.

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Periodicals used include Madison Avenue, New Yorker, and Time. One of the photographs depicts McHale's Virginia Imported, 1957.

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The last working palette, although a number of tear sheets are dated earlier (1950s). Some are prepared for collage.

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Includes tearsheet from tackboard in John McHale's London studio c.1956, as depicted in the Sam Lambert photograph.

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The papers contain correspondence and personal papers, including photographs, writings of Amy Margaret Smith, and art work of George Plank.