Series VIII: Oversize Materials, 1962-1969, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series contains oversized clippings, periodicals and posters separated from series one through four, and arranged in four corresponding subseries.
A. Aldo Tambellini and Ben Morea in the pre-Black Mask Period
The Bridge Presents "Outfall" Poster, Sep 1965, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Beck, Julian & Judith Malina in an open discussion: "Revolution as an Alternative." "Center" flyer featuring a photograph of a street kid in front of an Aldo Tambellini sculpture., Ca. 1964, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Village Voice "Theater Journal" article with photos covering "OUTFALL" in which a machine created by Ben Morea and Aldo Tambellini were featured., September 30 1965, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Village Voice, "Theater Journal", re Black Zero/Tambellini, 1965
Box: 4, Folder: 3A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Evo interview prints, with "Black Sperm" photo portrait of Aldo Tambellini. Questions by Lil Picard addressed to Aldo Tambellini, titled: "Art Child is Black.", Ca. Nov 1967-ca, Dec 1967, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Center [poster, 11.5 x 17] re: showing of Quantum 1 at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery featuring Charles Mingus, Louise Bourgeois, Aldo Tambellini, Benn Morea, Ron Hahne, Ad Reinhardt, et. al., ca. 1965, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Quantum exhibits: Photograph (oversized) of Tambellini's works, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Quantum 2: Poster (11.5" x 17") of Group Center and Group Zero's showing of at Sachs Gallery and Noah Goldowsky Gallery. Featuring Peter Agostini, Louise Bourgeois, Ilise Greenstein, Ron Hahne, Chuck Hinman, Charles Mingus, Benn Morea, Aldo Tambellini, et. al., 1965, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Post clipping (Wednesday June 12, 1963) with a piece on Aldo Tambellini by Sally Hammond titled "Downtown Artists Have a Coming Out.", 1963, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Screw: A Newsletter of Social Consciousness (Issues 1-5; photocopies). The first issue (March/April 1962) announces: "The artist is dying a controlled death.", 1962, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
B. Black Mask
Black Mask [tabloid paper], issues 2 and 9 [photocopies], 1966, 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
C. Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker oversize poster (around 16" x 24") of fiery skeleton with the International Werewolf Conspiracy logo. (A Rat centerfold.), undated
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACID (Action Committee for Immediate Defense) Up Against the Wall Motherfucker poster/comic titled "Agent of Acid: Lower East Side Defense.", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Page in a complete issue of The Rat (January 24-30, 1969, p. 5): on Ben Morea's acquittal after a four-day trial in Boston on two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon., 1969, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journal of The Resistance (October 1968): Page in a complete issue of with an article by Ben Morea, "The Issue Is Not the Issue" which defines "the revolutionary project as the total destruction of dominant bourgeois reality." The article is published following an editorial note drafted by the "Ben Morea Defense Fund" calling for funds., 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Armed Love" Up Against the Wall Motherfucker poster: "TO LIVE ONE MUST LOVE, TO LOVE ONE MUST SURVIVE, TO SURVIVE ONE MUST FIGHT!", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
D. Publications of groups in NY and London connected or relevant to Ben Morea and the Up Against the Wall Motherfucker "affinity groups,"
Action (Paris: Realise au Service des Comittes D'Action), Oct 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Broadside "High School Strike" "Rally Sunday October 27, Washington Square Park", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Issue [incomplete] of Newspaper: Lead Article "1...2...3...Many Bostons"
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Evo article by Alex Gross on "Artists Attack Moma.", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker comic in The East Village Other, December 27, 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
SDS New Left Notes (January 22, 1969, p. 2): Article on Ben Morea's acquittal, 1969, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"King Mob: Two Letters On Student Power" [four page broadside] published in London as a supplement to King Mob Echo, Nov 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sansculottes issues 25 & 29, published by the Free Youth Press (a high-school group influenced by the Motherfuckers and the SI)., undated
Box: 4, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sundance (First issue); by the White Panther Information Service. Headline: "YOUTH WILL MAKE THE REVOLUTION AND YOUTH WILL KEEP IT!" Oversize full-color 32-page paper, edited by David Sinclair. Sinclair's opening poem ends with: "in my dreams I hear the triumph of my forest speech in another time, and it says, with a vengeance, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers!", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Logos, Oversize full color paper with centerfold on "Revolutionary Ecology." Text by Murray Bookchin., undated
Box: 4, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
