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“The Dialectics of Liberation, A Conference”, a 4pp. report in IKON #4 (NY: October 26, 1967) + 2 other issues.
4to. Stapled wrps., 48pp. IKON’s founding editor, Susan Sherman, who contributed to a seminar on art and violence with Jerome Rothenberg, Gustav Metzger and Carolee Schneemann at the Congress, concluded that the conference “did not ‘de-mystify’ violence or experience, which was its stated aim, but it did present in a concentrated form many areas of experience and that in itself was quite a feat… The information presented represented a cross-section of some of the most important ideas existent in contemporary culture.” Illustrated with John Haynes’s photographs of RD Laing, Gregory Bateson, Julian Beck, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael, and a scene from Carolee Schneemann’s Happening.
Also: “Psychiatry and Violence” by David Cooper; Blossom Leon on “Art and the Aquarian Age”; Diane Wakoski on “The Theatre of Eternal Music” (5pp., incl. calligraphy by Marian Zazeela, a half-page photo of a performance with light show, and Zazeela and La Monte Young’s horoscopes); “Tribal Picture-Poems from China” arranged by Jerome Rothenberg; and “The Tarot” by Nancy Colin (the magazine’s associate editor, who, like both its editor and London-based editorial assistant Joseph Berke, was involved with the Free University of New York). Cover design by Ronald Slowinski, with typography by Inge Druckrey. Coffee stain affecting back cover and final page, o/w Very Good.
Together with: IKON #2 and #3 (NY: IKON Publishing Corp., April and July 1967). Each 4to. Stapled wrps., 32pp. Ed. Susan Sherman. Contents in issue #2 include three letters from Julian Beck to his friend, Karl Bissinger (illustrated with the latter’s photographs of Beck and The Living Theatre), dating from January 1965; Charles Poncé on alchemy; poems by Jerome Rothenberg; Truffaut’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’; cover and drawings by Dorothy Heller; sculptor Jason Seley; Carol Bergé (mentions of Jud Yalkut/USCO and Max Neuhaus); Mark Hedden on prehistoric symbols; Allen Katzman (editor of EVO); the Tarot; ads. for The Free School of NY and the Dialectics of Liberation conference; and in issue #3, “The Schizophrenic Experience” by RD Laing (6pp.); Henry Flynt’s “Mock Risk Games”, a reconstruction of his 1961 work, ‘Exercise Awareness-States’, originally read during his appearance in July of that year at George Maciunas’s AG Gallery, and disavowed and discarded by him in 1962; the Bread & Puppet Theatre (4pp.); Grace Paley; Allen Krebs (who also taught at FUNY); Angry Arts Week; more. Cover by Ernest Dieringer. Very Good plus.
Originally conceived by artist and painter Nancy Colin as a magazine that integrated words and visual design, IKON lasted for seven issues between 1966 and 1969, before being reborn in 1982 with the focus on women.
(3 issues).
