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Cinicolo mentions trying to arrange meetings with Anthony Harwood, David Medalla and Edward Wright. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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From the back cover:"This book by the distinguished art critic Guy Brett is the first attempt to bring together a fascinating and ephemeral body of artistic work which escapes a simple definition... David Medella has distinguished himself internationally as a major innovator of the avant-garde. Over the last forty years his work has embraced a multitude of enquires and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world...evolving his own art which strives towards the emergence of a new kind of transitional and polymorphic culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Babs Jackson, the Director of Tristan Tzara's farciful play, "The Gas Heart," discusses the progress of the rehersals for it. This letter is filed in the houedard binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard begins letter with "i always seem to be emptying the commode when you appear on the steamradio - the cuba scene came over well...He also writes "they are doing my ballet sometime - roundhouse? the slab? - called 'the cosmic typewriter - a somantic diversion." In a handwritten note of the margin, Houedard writes, "this is terrible invicta typewritter - not at all cosmic" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mentions homage to Ronald Firbank at Lisson Art Gallery; letter has a sketched concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This letter typed on tissue paper is addressed to "my dear moonthought here is a wee machinepome on luv." The upper section gives instructions for six poems, the middle section is a typed square of luv and the bottom section designates four lines of instructions. This work was to be used for the LeicesterArts Festival. Wikipedia: David Medalla (born 1942) is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris. Medalla was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1942. At the age of 12 he was admitted at Columbia University in New York upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren and studied ancient Greek drama with Moses Hadas, modern drama with Eric Bentley, modern literature with Lionel Trilling, modern philosophy with John Randall and attended the poetry workshops of Leonie Adams. In the late 1950s he returned to Manila and met Jaime Gil de Biedma...

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The cover depicts a detail of a portrait of Houedard by John Furnival. The exhibition catalogue lists 50 works by Houedard including eight plastic laminate poems. The introductory essay was written by Guy Brett. There are also extracts from Houedard's writings and a letter to David Medalla printed in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.