Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage scrapbooks, 1958-1967
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Description
- Title
- Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage scrapbooks, 1958-1967
- Creator
- Wodening, Jane, 1936-
- Contributor
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Brakhage, Stan.
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
Dorn, Edward.
Gassen, Arnold.
Iwasaki, Minoru.
Kelly, Robert, 1935-
McClure, Michael. - Abstract
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Three scrapbooks, compiled by Jane Wodening, containing correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, printed material, artwork, cut film, and objects documenting the work and family life of Wodening (née Collom) and Stan Brakhage from 1958 to 1967. The correspondence consists chiefly of incoming letters and postcards from poets, filmmakers, and artists, many of whom came of age in the decades following WWII, and includes complete letters, often signed, and clippings or manuscript and typescript fragments of letters, initialed by Wodening. Letters discuss personal matters and the literature, film, and art of the period, as well as particular film projects by Brakhage. Correspondents include: Kenneth Anger, Robert Branaman, Jack Collom, Joseph Cornell, Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Clayton Eshleman, Jerome Hill, Robert Kelly, Peter Kubelka, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopolis, Michael McClure, Jonas Mekas, David Meltzer, Charles Olson, Carolee Schneemann, P. Adams Sitney, and Louis Zukofsky. There are also letters between Brakhage and Wodening and copies of outgoing letters
Photographs in the scrapbooks include black-and-white and color portraits and snapshots of members of the Brakhage and Collom families, the five children (Myrrena, Crystal, Neowyn, Bearthm, and Rarc), friends, and correspondents. Photographs of people not already identified among the correspondents include George Gamow, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Orlovsky, Parker Tyler, Philip Whalen, and Richard Wright. There are photographs of Brakhage by both Arnold Gassen and by Life magazine photographer [Minoru?] Iwasaki. Manuscripts include holograph and typescript drafts and copies of work by Dorn, Kelly, McClure, and others. Printed materials consist chiefly of clippings of writings, often fragments, but there are also printed reproductions of pictures and announcements for events. Clippings feature the work of Robert Branaman, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, and Walt Whitman. There is also a complete copy of Creeley's chapbook entitled A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verses. Artwork includes original sketches and paintings by Brakhage and Wodening, the Brakhage children, Angelo [DeBenedetti?], Charles DiJulio, McClure, Meltzer, and one sketch, dated 1958, by Schneemann. The scrapbooks are accompanied by a statement by Wodening describing the method (collage) of compiling the scrapbooks
- Description
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Jane Wodening (1936-), writer.
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003), filmmaker.
In English. - Provenance
- Purchased from Granary Books on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2006.
- Extent
- 3 v.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- YCAL MSS 229
- Container / Volume
- 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Clippings (information artifacts)
Collage (visual work)
Motion pictures (visual work)
Photographic prints
Printed ephemera
Scrapbooks - Subject (Name)
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Anger, Kenneth.
Brakhage family.
Brakhage, Stan.
Branaman, Robert.
Collom, Jack, 1931-
Cornell, Joseph.
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
Davenport, Guy.
DeBenedetti, Angelo.
DiJulio, Charles.
Dorn, Edward.
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
Eshleman, Clayton.
Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Gassen, Arnold.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Hill, Jerome, 1905-1972.
Iwasaki, Minoru.
Kelly, Robert, 1935-
Kubelka, Peter.
Maas, Willard.
Markopolis, Gregory.
McClure, Michael.
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-
Meltzer, David.
Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.
Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Tyler, Parker.
Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
Sitney, P. Adams.
Whalen, Philip.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Wodening, Jane, 1936-
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. - Subject (Topic)
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American literature
Art, Modern
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Subjects
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Anger, Kenneth
Brakhage family
Brakhage, Stan
Branaman, Robert
Collom, Jack, 1931-
Cornell, Joseph
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Davenport, Guy
DeBenedetti, Angelo
DiJulio, Charles
Dorn, Edward
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Eshleman, Clayton
Gamow, George, 1904-1968
Gassen, Arnold
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Hill, Jerome, 1905-1972
Iwasaki, Minoru
Kelly, Robert, 1935-
Kubelka, Peter
Maas, Willard
Markopolis, Gregory
McClure, Michael
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-
Meltzer, David
Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Tyler, Parker
Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
Sitney, P. Adams
Whalen, Philip
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Wodening, Jane, 1936-
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
American literature > 20th century
Art, Modern > 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage Scrapbooks. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 7748458
- Object ID (OID)
- 2019757