A Letter to Ay-O or An Anti-Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Catalogue
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- overall: 12 5/8 × 12 5/8 × 3/16" (32 × 32 × 0.5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Emmett Williams
Artist
Emmett Williams was an American visual poet and performer who pioneered concrete poetry and intermedia art in the postwar period. Working across typography, sound, and staged performance, he created linguistic compositions that treated words as formal objects rather than vessels of conventional meaning. His work appeared in Fluxus contexts and influenced generations of experimental poets and artists engaged with the materiality of language itself.
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Untitled
2001 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper
13 Variations
1965 · Multiple of thirteen offset lithographs
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1963 · Offset lithograph
George Brecht's Word Event (1961), performed by Emmett Williams and George Maciunas during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962
1962 · Gelatin silver print
Alphabet Symphony, performed during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962
1962 · Gelatin silver print
Alphabet Symphony
1962 · Typewriting and pencil on paper
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- Emmett Williams
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- overall: 12 5/8 × 12 5/8 × 3/16" (32 × 32 × 0.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1976-M092017
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified