Frenzy (2:00) -- I want to know (2:00) -- Skin flowers (2:20) -- Group grope (3:40) -- Coming down (3:46) -- Dirty old man (2:49) -- Kill for peace (2:07) -- Morning, morning (2:07) -- Doin' all right (2:37) -- Virgin forest (11:09).
Track Information:
101 Frenzy / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
102 I Want to Know / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
103 Skin Flowers / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
104 Group Grope / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
105 Coming Down / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
106 Dirty Old Man / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
201 Kill for Peace / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
202 Morning, Morning / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
203 Doin' All Right / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
204 Virgin Forest / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1464
ESP.1028
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York ESP 1966
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), New York, United States.
General:
Program notes on container by Allen Ginsberg.
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4 AM blues--New York youth call annunciation--Put down that cigarette rag--Slack key guitar--Bus ride ballad to Suva--Tear gas rag--Everybody's just a little bit homosexual--Prayer blues
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0792
General:
REEL 4; CDR copy
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Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
CIA dope calypso--New York youth call annunciation--Come back Christmas--MacDougal Street blues--Put down your cigarette--Broken bone blues--Prayer blues--2Am Dirty Jersey blues--Hard-on blues--Tuff Street blues--Flying to Fiji
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0797
General:
REEL 9; CDR copy
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Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Kaddash, pt. 1--Howl, pt. 1--Howl, pt. 2--Howl, pt. 3--Sunflower sutra--Footnote to Howl--A supermarket in California--Transcription of organ music--America--In the back of real--A strange new cottage in Berkeley--Europe Europe--Kaddash, pt. 1--Rock for Joel--For the sheik of Khalif--The thru-gu--Dedicated to Margery--Love poem for Margery--Songs from a San Francisco burning--I got you babe--On the everyday theater--Sing C'est la vie--Unknown excerpts--Kaddsash--Howl--Recordings at Jerry Benjamin's home
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-RR-2122
FLP.47332
General:
CDR copy (2)
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Talking--Everybody is a bit homosexual (5 parts)--New York blues (2x)--CIA dope calypso
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-3900
General:
Tape "D" of studio or show practice session in New York on 1/4/1976 with Allen Ginsberg and members of The Village Fugs. Many are retakes of bawdy protest songs found on " Allen Ginsberg: First Blues" FSS 37560. Incorrect note on box "D. Weythe" likely refers to a street in Brooklyn, New York.
CDR copy
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CIA dope calypso--Don't smoke-Hard-on blues--Dope fiend blues--Talking--Dope fiend blues (2x)--AH--Talking--CIA dope calypso--Conversation
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-3901
General:
Tape "E" of studio or show practice session in New York on 1/4/1976 with Allen Ginsberg and members of The Village Fugs. Many are retakes of bawdy protest songs found on " Allen Ginsberg: First Blues" FSS 37560. Incorrect note on box "D. Weythe" likely refers to a street in Brooklyn, New York.
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Allen Ginsberg reading--Bat by D,H. Lawrence--The snake--Proper way to eat a fig--Analogy for D,H,. Lawrence--Fine work with pitch and tar--Young woman at the window--Perpetuum mobilethe city--Classis scene--The term--The poor--Africa--Defective record--Details by Patterson--Last word of my English grandmother--Various poems by Williams--Comparing williams to Walt Whitman
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5834
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
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Ginsberg's classroom discussion (In my father's pants)--Patterson readings--Charles Shelor's paintings--Williams, Pound readings--The right of way- Jaundiced old woman
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5838
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
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Intro--Graph--Flower--Clouds--April is the saddest month--To be hungry is to be great--Song--Song again--To close--The injury--Rip rap--John Muir on Mt. Ridder--Songs of Maximus--Death of Europe--Now a graph of the mind moving--Poem for painters--Poem for the old man--Poem for trapped things--17th chorus--81st chorus--82nd chorus--Singing 84th chorus--85th chorus--Class--Pictures of Bruegel and Williams read--Emily Dickenson/ Williams read--Portrait of a woman at her bath/ Cocktail party/ others--Salad for the soul/ Stolen ponies and others
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5840
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, August 15, 1975.
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CDR copy
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Intro--Ginsberg reads Williams works--Dedication of a plot of ground--The knife of the times--Class discussion--The old men--The late singer--Complaint--Thursday more discussion--Discussion of Ezra Pound--Williams poems read--Young laundrymen--Time the hangman--To a friend--The poor--Waiting--The thinker--The widows lament in springtime--Light hearted William--Portrait of the author--The great figure--unk-- Three small feathers-Squirrel--Window cleaner to nude mannequin--Discussion of various works--Testimony--Trout season opens--Particulars--Calcium poem--Believe and technique for modern prose--Poezes
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5841
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, July 30, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
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An interview with Allan Sekula conducted 2011 August 20-2012 February 14, by Mary Panzer, for the Archives of American Art at Sekula's studio and home in Los Angeles, California and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York.
Sekula speaks of his career and some of the mediums he works in; language and contemporary art; Roland Barthes; his relation to contemporary art; west coast conceptualism; genre switches; realism; documentary photography; Belgium and the industrial revolution; Meunier; minor figures; art history and marginalism; Roberto Matta; World War I; Homer Folks; Fish Story; historic cinema; economic factors of art shows and publication; galleries and the art world; growing up and his family; his father and moving; Ohio; his brothers and sisters; San Pedro; demographics of students at school; sports at school; Vietnam; protests; cross country and swimming; California; fishing; college; U.C. system; declaring a major; John Altoon; Ed Kienholz; exposure to art; visiting museums; Marcuse's classes; Baldessari's classes; course work and student life; student demonstrations; working in a library and exposure to books; father losing his job; science and working as a chemical technician; politics; his uncle committing suicide; moving away from his father; the draft; John Birch; Students for a Democratic Society; his mother; politics of his parents; Aerospace Folk Tales, autodidacts and scholarship; San Diego and Mexico; obtaining a camera and starting to use it; art school; CalArts; UCSD; Meditations on a Triptych; David Salle; Fred Lonidier; Phel Steinmetz; MFA and art training; poets; story of Allen Ginsberg and one of Sekula's sculptures; production and the audience; A Photograph is Worth a Thousand Questions, photography and the burden of tradition; pictorialism; moving to New York; Artforum; October; New York music scene; Captain Beefheart; Bo Diddley; Little Richard; Steichen and aerial photography; origins of October; New Criterion; Art Critic's Grant; teaching at Ohio State; television; technological historians; New York subway and getting a ticket for using French money; RISD lectures; Long Beach; photography; collages; Metro Pictures; New Topographics; School as a Factory; moral choice and the viewer; work method and the audience; Social Criticism and Art Practice; east and west coasts; Ed Ruscha; documentary; film, Los Angeles; cinema and social history; Ohio State Department of Photography and Cinema; Los Angeles Plays Itself; Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador; Ohio State campus, anti-Semitism; Ronald Reagan and protest; influences and colleagues; intellectual genealogy; Michael Graves and Ohio State architecture; Bad Ohio; tenure; University Exposed; AIDS issue of October; The Body and the Archive; making film; Korean War; collectors and images. Sekula also recalls Eleanor Antin, Jeff Wall, Terry Fox, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Paul Saltman, Marcuse, Baldessari, Sacvan Bercovitch, Stanley Miller, Jef Raskin, Paul Brach, David Antin, Howard Fried, Peter Van Riper, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Manny Farber, Ihab Hassan, Diane Wakoski, Jackson Mac Low, Martha Rosler, Lenny Neufeld, Joshua Neufeld, David Wing, Brian Connell, Max Kozloff, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Carole Conde, Karl Beveridge, Barry Rosens, Tom Crow, John Copeland, Harry Lunn, Hilton Kramer, Grace Mayer, Carol Duncan, Eva Cockroft, Richard Pommer, Rosalind Krauss, Sally Stein, Paddy Chayefsky, John Hanhardt, Mel Ramsden, Sarah Charlesworth, Jospeh Kosuth, Baruch Kirschenbaum, Robert Heinecken, Brian O'Doherty, Howard Becker, Jay Ruby, Jerry Liebling, Anna Wilkie, Ronald Feldman, John Gibson, David Ross, Britt Salvesen, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Roy Ascott, Ilene Segalove, Paul Schimmel, DeeDee Halleck, Noel Burch, Joan Braderman, Woody Hayes, Thom Andersen, John Quigley, Ron Green, Kasper Koenig, Dan Graham, Jonathan Green, Christa Wolf, Catherine Lord, Ben Lifson, and Annette Michelson.
Biographical / Historical:
Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was a photographer, filmmaker, and writer, based at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Mary Panzer (1955- ) is a historian from New York, New York.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Allen Ginsberg. Survey comments regarding Bob Thompson, between 1966 May 30 and 1997. Bob Thompson papers, 1949-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
