Jimmy De Sana Papers Bulk, 1977-1990 1954-1997

Ono, Yōko, 1933-

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Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently ...

Anger, Kenneth

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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". Anger himself has been described as "o...

Mitchell, Eric

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Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989

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Salvador Dalí (b. May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain–d. January 23, 1989, Figueres Spain) was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range ...

Astor, Patti

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Giorno, John

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Grief, Paula

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Churikova, Inna

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Curtis, Jackie, 1947-1985

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Simmons, Laurie, 1949

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Laurie Simmons was born on Long Island on October 3, 1949. She received her B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1971. She is best known for her photography work. From the description of The instant decorator, 2004. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233493 ...

Cote, Thom

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Paik, Nam June

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Harry, Debbie

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Battcock, Gregory, 1937-1980

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Art critic, educator, and painter; New York, N.Y. Birthdate cited as 1937, 1939 and 1941; d. 1980. Editor, ARTS MAGAZINE, 1973-1980, and author of numerous books and articles on art and art education. Battcock was on the faculty of William Paterson College in New Jersey. He was murdered in Puerto Rico, Dec. 25, 1980. From the description of Gregory Battcock papers, 1958-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80242447 ...

Sellers, Terence

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Byrne, David, 1952-....

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Pat Hearn Gallery

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Brecht, George

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Cutrone, Ronnie

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Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist and film maker. From the description of Andy Warhol collection of photographs of actors, 1915-1967. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79392132 Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. He studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949. After graduation, Warhol went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines such as Vogue and Harpar's Bazaa...

Acconci, Vito, 1940-....

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B. 1940. From the description of Vito Acconci artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228432004 B. in New York on January 24, 1940. From the description of Vito Acconci : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 440799764 Interviewee Vito Acconci (1940- ) is an installation artist, designer, and architect in Brooklyn, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is a former director of iCI in N...

Nudeback, Gail

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Hannah, Duncan

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McCormick, Carlo.

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Stefanotti, Robert, 1947-....

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Bidlo, Mike

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B. 1953. From the description of Mike Bidlo artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228433043 ...

Smith, Patti

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Anderson, Laurie, 1947-....

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Bourdon, David

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Hell, Richard

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Eno, Brian, 1948-

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Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995

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Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a painter from Locust Valley, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Johnson, 1968 Apr. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223586 Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson is frequently referred to as the "father of mail art." He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1945 to 1948, then moved to New York. Although he worked as an abstract painter for several years, by 1953 Johnson h...

White, James C. (James Charles), 1956-

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Lindsay, Arto

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Dlugos, Tim

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Born in Springfield, Mass. on August 5, 1959, Francis Timothy Dlugos later grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order, in 1968 and entered their college, La Salle, in Philadelphia. He left the Brothers a few years later in 1971 to openly embrace a politically active, gay lifestyle. He eventually left La Salle before graduating. In Washington, D.C., Dlugos worked on Ralph Nader's Public Citizen and became heavily involved with the Mass Transit poe...

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997

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Cyberpunk author and performance artist. From the description of Papers, 1975-1996 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271515 Cyberpunk author and performance artist. Acker died in 1997. From the description of Papers, 1973-1978. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271575 From the description of Kathy Acker papers, 1973-1996 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33429120 d. 1996. ...

Idol, Billy

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Cortez, Diego

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Smith, Rupert, 1943-....

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De Sana, Jimmy

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Jimmy De Sana was born in Detroit on November 12, 1949, where he lived until his family relocated to Atlanta in 1955. De Sana studied art in high school and at the University of Georgia in Atlanta. In 1972, before moving to New York City, he published 101 Nudes, a lithographic portfolio. This first mature work, comprised of nude photographs of himself and his friends in suburban settings, introduced themes that remained important throughout his career. De Sana's first ex...

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...