Aspen, Issues 5/6, Fall/Winter 1967

Boxed set of text, sound, and film items, including work by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, John Cage, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Morris, Merce Cunningham, Sol Lewitt, William S. Burroughs, and others. Burroughs is represented on "section 5"  of this double-issue, on one side of a flexi-disc: "Nova Express (1964) (excerpts)", an excerpt from the English Bookshop release of Call Me Burroughs.

This copy acquired from Dark Star Books (Yellow Springs, OH.).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C177
• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C152
• Raven 19671000ASPE.0.5

Contents:

• Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author" (essay)
• George Kubler: "Style and the Representation of Historical Time" (essay)
• Susan Sontag: "The Aesthetics of Silence" (essay)
• Samuel Beckett: "Text for Nothing #8" (audio, flexi-disc)
• William Burroughs: "Nova Express (1964) (excerpts)" (audio, flexi-disc)
• Alain Robbe-Grillet:
• "Now the Shadow of the Southwest Column" (audio, flexi-disc)
• "Translation of Jealousy (recorded excerpt)" (prose)
• John Cage:
• "Fontana Mix-Feed" (audio, flexi-disc)
• "Score for Fontana Mix-Feed" (music score, with Max Neuhaus)
• Morton Feldman:
• "The King of Denmark" (audio, flexi-disc)
• "Score for The King of Denmark" (music score)
• Tony Smith:
• "The Maze" (art)
• "Drawings for The Maze" (art)
• Hans Richter: "Rhythm 21 (1921)" (film)
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: "Lightplay: Black-White-Grey (1932)" (film)
• Stan VanDerBeek: "Site (1964)" (film)
• Robert Rauschenberg: "Linoleum (1967)" (film)
• Merce Cunningham:
• interview (audio, flexi-disc)
• "Space, Time and Dance" (audio, flexi-disc)
• Marcel Duchamp:
• "The Creative Act (1957)" (audio, flexi-disc)
• "Some texts from A L'Infinitif (1912-1920)" (audio, flexi-disc)
• Michel Butor: "Conditionnement" (poetry)
• Dan Graham: "Poem, March 1966" (poetry)
• Sol LeWitt: "Serial Project #1" (art)
• Mel Bochner: "Seven Translucent Tiers" (art)
• Brian O'Doherty: "Structural Play #3" (art)
• Sigmund Bode: quote from Placement as Language

Publishing Information:

• Guest Editor-Designer: Brian O'Doherty
• Guest Art Directors: David Dalton, Lynn Letterman