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Start Over Collection Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978 Date range 1976

Bardo Matrix Print items, 1974/1976 1 folder(s) Box 4, Folder 7

These items include a printed sheet for "Way Out" by Gregory Corso, with cast list (circa 1974); printed sheet, "on dreamers! / waken or die/" ; printed sheet with poem and woodcut, "Forests of eyelids"; title page and sheet of poem from Paul Bowles' "Next to Nothing" (Starsteams Series, 1976).

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978
  3. Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Bardo Matrix Woodcuts, many with the Bardo Matrix stamp, 1976 1 folder(s) Box 4, Folder 8

They include images of Vlad the Impaler; Gandi; a cartoonish dancing frog; an art deco swan; a mouse with a star; letterhead with a double-headed eagle; figures designed by Dana Young; a skull wearing a hat and suit, seated and holding a gun (from "Poem for La Malinche"); a Dana Young Egyptian figure; dancing or intertwined skeletons; eagle foot with talons within a circle; traditional Nepali and Tibetan designs; with mandalas, Buddhist and Hindu motifs, Arhat lamas, Tibetan Shiva, scorpion protector, and intricate woodcuts of temples.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978
  3. Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Black Handmade Art Journal with a Poem, 1976 1 folder(s) Box 3, Folder 6

The journal has a black lokta paper cover with colored ink decoration. The volume contains an eight-page poem illustrated in pen and ink and collage, possibly titled "Think Galactic or Your World is Lost" (numbered 26 in dealer description of notebooks).

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978
  3. Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt

Handmade Art Journal and Small Journal in Brown Wrappers, 2 volumes, 1976 1 folder(s) Box 1, Folder 6

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).

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978
  3. Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt

Journal with Silver Foil Wrappers, 1976 1 folder(s) Box 2, Folder 3

This thick journal has lace and printed script reading "Petra Vogt" on the inside cover. This is one of the most heavily annotated and collaged items of the series, containing references to the "Black Ashram," notes on Gregory Corso, a holograph poem by Roberto Francisco Valenza (a Bardo Matrix author) which is illustrated by Petra Vogt, an autograph poem by Iris [Gaynor] (another Bardo Matrix author), autograph poems by Ira Cohen, and autograph poems by others.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978
  3. Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt

Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978 4.09 Cubic Feet 5 legal document boxes, 2 letter document boxes, 2 oversize folders (2 x 3 feet and 14 x 18 inches), and 2 oversized boxes.

Vogt, Petra

This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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