Box 4

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

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These items include a printed sheet for “Way Out” by Gregory Corso, with cast list (circa 1974); printed sheet, “on dreamers! / waken or die/” ; printed sheet with poem and woodcut, “Forests of eyelids”; title page and sheet of poem from Paul Bowles’ “Next to Nothing” (Starsteams Series, 1976).

Scope and Contents They include images of Vlad the Impaler; Gandi; a cartoonish dancing frog; an art deco swan; a mouse with a star; letterhead with a double-headed eagle; figures designed by Dana Young; a skull wearing a hat and suit, seated and holding a gun (from “Poem for La Malinche”); a Dana Young Egyptian figure; dancing or intertwined skeletons; eagle foot with talons within a circle; traditional Nepali and Tibetan designs; with mandalas, Buddhist and Hindu motifs, Arhat lamas, Tibetan Shiva, scorpion...

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This collage features a background of cobras with a photograph of a man and candlesticks in front (framed with glass).

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Collage features a woodcut image of a candlestick or cylinder with photograph of Petra Vogt’s head at the top and entwined by a snake (framed with glass).

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These include an image of a rhinoceros that was used on the cover of the Bardo Matrix Starstreams publication of Gregory Corso, skull art clippings, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, postcards, and photographs.

Scope and Contents Correspondence includes a note from S.B.I., postmarked Paris, July 28, 1970, to Vogt in Italy, on the back of a printed Living Theatre notice for “Paradise Now.” There are two letters on stationery from West Bengal. One dated April 7, 1971, is from Diana, mentioning that she had heard Petra had left Italy and Carol had died. The same letter also informed Petra that Birgit had told her that Petra was currently in Morocco making a movie with Pierre. The second letter...

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Correspondence includes an undated postcard and a letter, June 19, from “Geo” (George?) addressed to “Most Precious Fools”; an undated letter from Ross to Ira, wishing Ira good luck with his new book; and a typed undated letter from Tina and Steve to “My Lord and Lady,” with both Petra and Ira possibly then in Chicago. Tina writes that her editor loves her new book and that George has gone back to New Orleans where they all hope to celebrate Mardi Gras with Vogt and Cohen.

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Several items dated from September to December, 1974, apparently all sent at one time to Petra in Kathmandu, Nepal, from London, in which Tad discusses his work on astrology and mandalas for a wealthy client, and wonders if she has returned easily to the Eastern fold. Tad also discusses his experiments with a pendulum and sends transcriptions of his psychic flash experiences.

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Includes five autograph postcards from Young to Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt, two of them with the inscriptions “from the alchemical wing” and “offering of the opium embryo”.

There are three postcards with apparent poems by Young, which have been trimmed or cut, possibly by Petra for a collage.

Also present is one holograph manuscript of a visionary poem on brown paper. Most items are signed only with the star glyph of Dana Young.

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Correspondence includes a typed letter written from North Wales, October 22, 1970, asking Petra to visit, an undated note with a drawing of a bird from Peter, and two postcards possibly from Peter, both mentioning Marcia, and one telling Petra they were going to Crete.

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...