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Mac Low, Jackson, 1922-2004

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1922 September 12 - 2004 December 8

Nationality

American

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Matlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

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Identifier: CC-06771-6890
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive owns the prints (paper, cloth) of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Mattlin 10-17 June 1973 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06739-6858
Scope and Contents

The original drawing and print of this work are also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Mattlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

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Identifier: CC-47560-68569
Scope and Contents

This is the first of several visual scores created by making words from the letters of a person's name, in this case the title name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Vocabulary For Vera Regina Lachman March-April 1974 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06742-6861
Scope and Contents

A print by Mac Low of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Abacus: Prose and Verse from the Early Eighties. No.13/Oct / Jackson Mac Low., 1985

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Identifier: CC-27148-27623
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Abacus: Twenties 8 - 25. No.48/Feb / Jackson Mac Low., 1990

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Identifier: CC-25813-26273
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

Anthology / Finlay, Alec, editor ; Finlay IH ; MacLow J ; Cutts S ; Waanders H ; Clark TA ; Buchler P ; Tuttle R ; Finlay A ; Weiner L., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30372-31787
Scope and Contents

The labels are printed poems in varied typefaces and colors that are referenced to the titles written on each page. The handwritten titles appear to be done by different people but their origins are not identified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

August Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson ; Lezak I., 1967

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Identifier: CC-47575-68584
Scope and Contents

Iris Lezak designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Barnesbook / Mac Low, Jackson., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31189-32657
Scope and Contents

Mc Low composed four poems with a computer program derived from four sentences by Djuna Barnes, the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Bloomsday / Mac Low, Jackson., 1984

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Identifier: CC-47569-68578
Scope and Contents

This book was the winner of the 1984 Poetry Center Book Award. Many of the poems were written over the years on Bloomsday, June 16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984