"Tecken: Lettres, Signes, Écritures" catalogue (1978)

Malmö, Sweden: Malmö Konsthall (book, catalogue), 1978.
9.5" x 6.75" x 0.625", 200 pages, softcover.

Tecken: Letters, Signes, Écritures, a catalogue for the exhibition curated by Roberto Altmann at Malmö Konsthall between 22 March and 7 May, 1978. This includes works by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. This catalogue is in Swedish, German, French, and English, inconsistently.

The exhibition was organized by Roberto Altmann and Maggy Altmann. The catalogue was edited by Roberto Altmann, Ann-Marie Björklund, Eje Högestätt, and Elisabeth Liljedahl. Typography and design by John Melin and Gösta Svensson. Translations by Christine Albert-Nyström, Roberto Altmann, Maggy Altmann, Ann-Marie Björklund, Bengt-Erik Benktson, Robert W. Goldsmith, Anna Holmbom, Louise Holmström, Eje Högestätt, René Kieffer, Elisabeth Liljedahl, Birgitta Schultz, Jean Sellem, Marie Sjöberg, and Roger Tanner. Printed by Tryckerigruppen, Malmö.

Eight pages of Burroughs’ scrapbooks are shown over pages 164-165.

This copy was acquired from Rönnells Antikvariat (Stockholm, Sweden).

My thanks to CM von Hausswolff for bringing this item to my attention.

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.

Selected Contents:

• Roberto Altmann: "Volubilis" (cover art, 1973, detail)
• Plan för utställningen / Plan de l'exposition
• Roberto Altmann: "Förbehåll / Avertissement" (essay)
• Eje Högestätt: "Förord / Preface" (foreword)
• Roberto Altmann: "Bokstäver Tecken Skrift/Letters Signs Writing/ =Lettres Signes Écritures" (essay)
• Bokstäver / Lettres:
• Alfabet / Alphabets:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: "Alfabets ursprung / Origine de l'alphabet" (essay)
• Panckouke Encyclopedia: page reproductions
• Typografi / Typographie:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Elisabeth Liljedahl: "Typografi: en utveckling" (essay)
• Roberto Altmann: "Forslag till ett alfabet / Projet d'alphabet" (drawing, 1966)
• Sidodisposition / Mise en page:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• El Lissitzky: book illustration, 1922
• Guillaume Apollinaire: from Caligrammes, 1918
• Carrà: from Guerrapittura, 1915
• Guillaume Apollinaire: from L'Antitradition Futuriste, 1913
• Rodchenko: book cover, 1923
• Marinetti: from Les mots en liberté futuristes, 1919
• unstated: from Parole in libertà, 1915
• Larionov: book cover, 1923
• Rodchenko: book cover, 1931
• El Lissitzky: book cover, 1922
• A. Gan: constructivist manifesto, 1922
• El Lissitzky: book cover, 1928
• Bokstäver, sammanställda bokstäver / Lettres, ensembles de lettres:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Emmett Williams: "Autobiographical Sketch, no. 8" (painting, 1977)
• Jiri Kolar: book pages (mixed media, 1967)
• Jiri Kolar: "Ampoule" (mixed media, 1967)
• Jiri Kolar: "Bouteille" (mixed media, 1967)
• H. R. Köhler: collage, 1958
• Raoul Hausmann: collage, 1967
• Raoul Hausmann: collage 1963
• Raoul Hausmann: collage 1960
• Villeglé: "Rue Boulle" (collage, 1971)
• Arthur Aeschbacher: "Lettres macbélis" (collage, 1976)
• John Furnival: serigraph, 1978
• Tom Phillips: "S. A." (painting, 1975)
• Paul-Armand Gette: sculpture, 1965
• Kurt Schwitters: collage, 1947
• Paul-Armand Gette: sculpture, 1964
• Paul-Armand Gette: collage, 1965
• Jasper Johns: "Gray Alphabet" (painting, 1968)
• Fonetisk, visuell och konkret poesi / Poésies phonétique, visuelle, concrète:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Roberto Altmann: "Poème" (concrete poetry, 1963)
• D. S. Houedard: "Poèmes" (concrete poetry, n.d.)
• D. S. Houedard: "Poème" (concrete poetry, 1964)
• D. S. Houedard: "Poème" (concrete poetry, 1965)
• D. S. Houedard: "Poème" (concrete poetry, 1964)
• D. S. Houedard: "Poème" (concrete poetry, 1964)
• F. Kriwet: "Sehtext" (concrete poetry, 1960-61)
• F. Kriwet: "Sehtext, Rundscheibe No. 14" (concrete poetry, 1962-63)
• I. H. Finlay: "Poèmes concrets" (concrete poems, n.d.)
• Roberto Altmann: "Métàpoème" (concrete poetry, 1967)
• Bengt Emil Johnson: "Svart hål" (concrete poetry, 1977)
• Maria Nevelson: "Découverte de l'Alphabet" (mixed media, 1970)
• Klaus Peter Dencker: "John F. Kennedy" (mixed media, 1972)
• Klaus Peter Dencker: "Ständigt krig" (mixed media, 1972)
• Klaus Peter Dencker: "Frigörelse" (mixed media, 1972)
• Jörgen Nash: "Dyb Alvor" (concrete poetry, 1959-60)
• Jörgen Nash: "Divertimento" (concrete poetry, 1959-60)
• Roberto Altmann: "Métapoème" (concrete poetry, 1967)
• Roberto Altmann: "Métapoème" (concrete poetry, 1967)
• Klaus Peter Dencker: "Tre kapitel till visuell poesi / Drei Kapitel zur Visuellen Poesie" (essay)
• Eugen Gomringer: "Kommentarer till begreppet 'visuell poesi' / Bemerkungen zum Begriff 'Visuelle Poesie'" (essay)
• Tecken / Signes:
• Österländsk kalligrafi / Calligraphie orientale:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Japanese calligraphy, c.1200
• Japanese calligraphy, 18th century
• Elisabeth Liljedahl: "Kalligrafi" (essay)
• Japanese calligraphy, 13th century
• Japanese calligraphy, 17th century
• Iranian Koran pages
• Ajeki: calligraphy, n.d.
• Gestuellt måleri. Automatism / Peinture gestuelle. Automatisme:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Hans Hartung: "Rödkrita" (drawing, 1923)
• Hans Hartung: "Svartkrita" (drawing, 1924)
• Hans Hartung: "Blyerts" (drawing, 1935)
• Hans Hartung: "Tusch" (drawing, 1938)
• Hans Hartung: "Pastell och grafitblyerts" (pastel, 1946-52)
• Hans Hartung: "Pastell och kol" (pastel and charcoal, 1946-52)
• Jean Degottex: "Suite Serto (VI)" (drawing, 1957)
• Jean Degottex: "Suite Serto (III)" (drawing, 1957)
• Jean Degottex: "Suite Serto (VII)" (drawing, 1957)
• Jean Degottex: "Suite Serto (IV)" (drawing, 1957)
• Jean Degottex: "Suite Ashkenazi" (drawing, 1957)
• Tecken. Sammanställda tecken. Upprepade strukturer. Permutationer / Signes. Ensembles de signes. Structures de répétition. Permutations:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Roberto Altmann: "Métagraphie" (paintings, 1967)
• Constantin Xenakis: "Pilar" (drawing, 1975)
• Capogrossi: "Yta 512" (mixed media, 1962)
• Mark Tobey: "Gravyr" (painting, 1971)
• Mark Tobey: "First moonlanding" (painting, 1968)
• Guido Llinàs: "Träsnitt" (gravure, 1976)
• Dotremont: "Det var inbillning" (drawing, 1977)
• Dotremont: "Logogramspår" (snow drawings, n.d.)
• Guido Llinàs: "Bläck" (painting, 1977)
• Dotremont: "Zigzagtime" (painting, 1977)
• Brion Gysin: "Permutation" (painting, 1959)
• Graffiti / Graffiti:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• C. Prévot: photos of Paris graffiti
• Skrift / Écritures:
• Pictogram. Berättelser i bildskrift / Pictogrammes. Narrations pictographiques:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• runestone image, n.d.
• Constantin Xenakis: "Idé kring en teknologisk Kvävning" (drawing, 1971-72)
• Gabriel Pomerand: from Saint Ghetto des Prèts (drawings, 1950)
• Öyvind Fahlström: "Kidnapping Kissinger" (drawing, 1972)
• Öyvind Fahlström: detail from "Opera" (drawing, 1968)
• Endre Nemes: "Teckenspråk" (drawing, 1968/72)
• Baruchello: "I don't know who you are but I hate you" (mixed media, 1968)
• Baruchello: "Progetto Kenek No. 4" (mixed media, 1977)
• Constantin Xenakis: "Text" (mixed media, 1973)
• Datamaskinen. Den programmerade skriften / L'ordinateur. L'écriture programmée:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Manfred Mohr: serigraphs from the portfolio "Scratch Code", n.d.
• Imaginär skrift / Écritures imaginaires:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Sonia Assa: oils on paper, 1968
• Max Ernst: "Écriture surréaliste" (drawing, n.d.)
• Constantin Xenakis: "Pilar" (drawing, 1973)
• Constantin Xenakis: "No. 12" (drawing, 1973)
• Skriftrummet. Grafier / L'espace de l'écriture. Graphies:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Constantin Xenakis: "No. 13" (drawing, 1976)
• Constantin Xenakis: "No. 11" (drawing, 1973)
• Constantin Xenakis: "Kodad vågrörelse" (drawing, 1972)
• Bengt Emil Johnson: "Gubbdrunkning" (mixed media, 1964)
• Bengt Emil Johnson: "Bilddikt" (concrete poetry, 1977)
• Winfred Gaul: "Poème Visible No. 18" (concrete poetry, 1960)
• Elis Eriksson: "Ajasaåtd" (mixed media, 1963)
• Elisabeth Liljedahl: "Bild och bokstäver / Pictures and letters in Sweden" (essay)
• Forrester: "The Mark is Black" (painting, 1960)
• Marc Dachy: "Tecknets musikaliteter (elva uttlanden) / Musicalités du signe (onze propositions)" (essay)
• Georges Noël: "Texte un peu fou" (drawing, 1963)
• Winfred Gaul: "Poème Visible No. 19" (drawing, 1960)
• Georges Noël: "Petit texte très libre" (drawing, 1963)
• Gérard Duchêne: "Craies grasses sur toile" (painting, n.d.)
• Automatiska grafier / Graphies automatiques:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Georges Noël: "Sans titre" (painting, 1958)
• Winfred Gaul: "Poème-Décollage" (concrete poetry, 1969)
• Cy Twombly: "Bolsena" (painting, 1969)
• Roberto Altmann" (Essai de transcription polyautomatique d'une improvisation volubile" (mixed media, 1970)
• Carl Friedrich Claus: "Historische Allegorie" (drawing 1963)
• Dietlind Haedcenrot (ed.): "Fyra exempel på användning av grafisk automatism / Quatre pratiques d'automatisme graphique" (quotes)
• Kroppen som skrift. Gestuella grafier. Events / Le corps comme écriture. Graphies gestuelles. Events:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Roquin: performance view, n.d.
• Nan Jun Paik: performance view, 1971
• Roberto Altmann: performance views, 1973
• Arnulf Rainer: "Farces-Faces" (photograph, 1969)
• Den konceptuella skriften / L'écriture conceptuelle:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Ben Vautier: "Scratched signature" (drawing, n.d.)
• Joseph Beuys: performance view, 1971
• Arakawa: "Shape" (drawing, 1969)
• Mari Orensanz: "Tidiösa" (mixed media, 1977)
• Mari Orensanz: "Spikklubba" (mixed media, 1977)
• Joan Rabascall: "Korsord" (crossword, n.d.)
• Joan Rabascall: "Korsord" (crossword, n.d.)
• Roman Opalka: detail of "1965/1-infinity" (drawing, 1965)
• Notationer – Grafier / Notations – Graphies:
• Notationer – Grafier / Notations – Graphies:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Henri Posseur: "Souvenirs s'une marionette" (cut score, 1967)
• Jean-Yves Bosseur and Hossein Zenderoudi: "Galuband" (score, n.d.)
• Jean-Yves Bosseur: "Notationer/grafier / Notations/graphies" (essay)
• Chiari: "Teatrino" (drawing, 1966)
• Roberto Altmann: "Essai de transcription automatique d'une improvisation volubile" (mixed media, 1967)
• Rossett: "Partition graphique" (drawing, n.d.)
• John Cage: "Solo for trumpets" (score, 1957-58)
• Earle Brown: "November 1952" (painting, 1952)
• Boken / Le Livre:
• Skrift. Imaginär skrift. Skriftrummet. Boken som bokens föremål / Écritures. Écritures imaginaires. L'espace de l'écriture. Le livre en tant qu-objet du livre:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Michel Jaffrennou: "Evanescence" (book, 1967)
• Roberto Altmann: "Livre" (book, 1970)
• Roberto Altmann and Maggy Mauritz: "Livre manuscrit" (book, 1966)
• Alain de Latour: "Cryptogrammes" (book, 1966)
• Maggy Mauritz: "Livre manuscrit" (book, 1966)
• Tom Phillips: "A Humument" (book, n.d.)
• Emmett Williams: "13 variations on 6 words of Gertrude Stein" (book, 1960/1965)
• Gil J. Wolman: "Apollinaire sépar´´" (book, n.d.)
• William S. Burroughs: scrapbook reproductions, n.d.
• Ingeborg Lüscher: "A.S. Der grösste Vogel kann nicht fliegen" (book, 1972)
• Denise Aubertin: "Danses hiératiques" (book, n.d.)
• George Brecht: "Water Yam" (book, n.d.)
• Erik Dietman: "Quelques M et CM de Sparadrap" (book, 1963)
• Yolanda Meyer: "Cousu Main" (book, 1975)
• Imaginär estetik. Nya perspektiv på det litterära rummet / Esthétique imaginaire. Nouvelles perspectives de l'espace littéraire:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Isidore Isou: "Introduction à l'esthétique imaginaire ou Mémoire sur la particule artistique infinitésimale" (manuscript, 1969)
• Tidskrifter / Revues:
• Tidskrifter / Revues:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Julien Blaine, Marc Dachy, Mario Borillo, and Roberto Altmann: "Frågeformulär / Questionnaire"
• Ljudpoesi / Poésie sonore:
• Ljudpoesi / Poésie sonore:
• Dietlind Haedcenrot: introduction
• Kurt Schwitters: "Sonate" (poetry, n.d.)
• Théo van Doesburg: "Poème sonore" (poetry, 1916)
• Raoul Hausmann: "Kp'erioum" (poetry, 1920)
• Katalog / Catalogue