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THE ANTI-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Course Catalogue - Spring Quarter.
London: Trigram Press, c. late 1967/early 1968. Sm. 4to. Pink wrps., stapled (8pp.). Designed and printed by Asa Benveniste, with illustration of a hand-drawn map to front cover. Edited by Stuart Montgomery. Originally distributed for free via sympathetic bookshops.
Contents include the anti-institution’s founding statement and a proclamation of its aims, plus registration information; a list of its 37 different courses, with brief biographies of and/or personal statements from the faculty (Roy Battersby, Joseph Berke, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Abrams, Barry Flanagan, Bob Cobbing, Ed Dorn, David Cooper, John Latham, RD Laing, Barry Miles, Jeff Nuttall, Allen Krebs, among others); a list of visiting faculty (William Burroughs, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Allen Ginsberg, Aage Neilson, Cedric Price, Carolee Schneemann, Susan Sherman, and Simon Vinkenoog); a list of associated Free Universities in Europe and America; and news of the creation of ‘spontaneous universities’ in England.
Loosely inserted is a printed ‘Registration Form’ and the mimeographed ‘Catalogue Supplement’ (c. February 1968), providing descriptions of further courses by, among others, Annea Lockwood (who “recently gave the glass concert at the Middle Earth”), Charles Marowitz, Harvey Matusow, and Alexander Trocchi (“Invisible Insurrection”).
Light creasing, o/w Very Good plus.