Handmade Art Journal and Small Journal in Brown Wrappers, 2 volumes, 1976

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 6
Extent:
1 folder(s)
Scope and content:

The small handmade art journal or diary in lokta paper wrappers has a collaged cover of flowers and additional lokta papers. It matches a larger book version in Oversize Folder 8. The volume contains preparations for collages, with a few collages laid in, and is stamped throughout with the Bardo Matrix woodcut of a swan that also appears in the Bardo Matrix ephemera folders (item is numbered 10 in the dealer description of notebooks).

The small journal in brown paper wrappers, printed for the 1976 calendar year, contains extensive prose and poetic reflections, pen and ink drawings, collages, along with names and addresses. Laid in, there is a prescription for Gelonida (a painkiller), a bank withdrawal slip, a business card, and clippings from comics. There are approximately 56 pages of top-to-bottom text and artwork (numbered 11 in dealer description of notebooks).

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Parent restrictions:

Most of the collection is open for research. The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.

The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank).