Coracle Press records, 1953-2008.

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Coracle Press records, 1953-2008.

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Coracle Press records, 1953-2008, document the artists' press and its exhibition space primarily during the years in England, 1975-1997. It also contains a small amount of material from Cutts's prior publishing enterprise, Tarasque Press, Nottingham, as well as material from the present incarnation of Coracle in Ireland. Each series in the archive is arranged into Artist/Author files and Project files. Within Series II are subseries reflecting the consecutive shipments of material from Simon Cutts to the repository. Most of these subseries, as well as Series III, also have an additional element, Other material. Artist/Author files comprise correspondence both personal and professional, along with the occasional multiple, artwork, poem, photograph or printed matter. Many, but not all, of the artists represented in this series worked with Coracle. Among the artists/poets most substantially represented are Roger Ackling, Thomas A. Clark, Tony Cragg, Chris Drury, Stephen Duncalf, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Bernard Lassus, Richard Long, Maurizio Nannucci, Yoko Terauchi, Richard Tuttle, Jonathan Williams, and Richard Wilson. Project files concern Coracle exhibitions and publications, and may include correspondence, paste-ups and printed ephemera, installation maps, object lists, computer files and financial records. Among the more fully documented projects are South Bank, Auto-didactic, Unpainted Landscape, and Allotment. Other material includes correspondence with collectors, clippings about exhibitions, grant applications, and materials related to Coracle's work as a production and printing press for museums, galleries, or other arts enterprises. Of special interest is a portfolio of Coracle ephemera apparently assembled for prospective clients, such as the Serpentine Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. Projects produced in partnership with the Victoria Miro Gallery and workfortheeyetodo are also amply documented. Throughout the collection are more than forty multiples, including a child's plastic sand shovel, twigs, twisted wire, and various other simple, found, altered, or otherwise construed art objects, generally expressing a playful reverence for nature's tiniest details.

105.2 linear ft. (203 boxes, 10 flat file folders, 1 roll)

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A unique English outgrowth of the 1960s European revolution in prints, books, and multiples, Coracle Press was founded in London by artist-poet Simon Cutts in 1975, incorporating the remains of Tarasque Press (1964-1972), a prior publishing enterprise of Cutts' (with Stuart Mills). In 1976 Cutts established Coracle Press Gallery in a building adjacent to the press, creating a physical expression of his interest in the relationship between the book and the exhibition. Influenced by concrete poetr...

Cutts, Simon, 1944-

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Van Horn, Erica 1954-

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Duncalf, Stephen

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Clark, Thomas A., 1952-

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Kosuth, Joseph

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Wilson, Richard, 1953-

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Cragg, Tony, 1949-....

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Victoria Miro Gallery

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British gallery owner, formerly associated with the Coracle Press. From the description of Announcements, invitations, 1990- (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82094164 ...

Terauchi, Yoko.

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Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956-....

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Workfortheeyetodo (Gallery)

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Drury, Chris, 1948-....

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Lassus, Bernard

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Bernard Lassus, landscape designer, born 1929 in Chamaliè€res (Puy de Dò‚me), France. Began as a painter; and from 1960, also worked as a kinetic and installation artist. His major achievements as a landscape architect are the Parc de la Corderie Royale, Rochefort-sur-Mer (1982-1996), and his landscaping works on French motorways. From the description of [Bernard Lassus papers, 1967-2009]. 1967-2009. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library). WorldCat record id: 762673842 ...

Finlay, Ian Hamilton

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Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Much of his work on paper was issued through his own Wild Hawthorne Press, which he founded in 1964. From the description of Collection of printed material from Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977-1990. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 301555191 Scottish concrete poet and garden designer, born 1925. From the description of Thonier : watercolor print, nd. (Unknown)...

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Willets, David G., 1873-

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Fulton, Hamish

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Ackling, Roger

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Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008

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Jonathan Williams is a poet, publisher, and photographer. He was educated at St. Albans School, Princeton University, and Black Mountain College, and also studied art and design at the Institute of Design in Chicago. His published books of poetry include An Ear in Bartram's Tree (1969), Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets (1971), The Loco Logodaedalus in Situ (1972), and Elite/Elate Poems (1979), and his published books of photography include Portrait Photographs (1979) and A Palpable Elysium: Photog...

Tuttle, Richard J. (Richard James), 1941-2009

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