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• Author/Creator:Wolman, Joseph, 1929-1995.
  
• Title:Gil J Wolman papers, 1937-2011 (bulk 1950-1995).
  
• Physical Description:37.96 linear feet (62 boxes) + 3 broadside, 1 broadside oversize, 3 record album storage
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 969
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Box 46, 50-52 (Record album storage), 56 (Oversize), 59 (Oversize), 61-62 (Oversize), 63-65 (Broadside), 69 (Broadside oversize)
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 969
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-45, 47-49, 53-55, 57-58 (Oversize), 60 (Oversize), 66-68
    

   
• Notes:Chiefly in French, with some material in English, German, and Italian.
  Purchased from Charlotte Wolman, Hedy Laure Wolman, and Didier Lecointre-Dominique Drouet on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2012.
  
• Organization:Organized into nine series: I. Correspondence, 1946-2004. II. Lettrist Movement Material, 1946-1992. III. Writings, 1950-1995. IV. Anticoncept Film Files, 1951-2000. V. Professional Papers, 1952-2008. VI. Artworks, 1965-1992. VII. Audio Recordings, 1965-2010. VIII. Writings about Wolman, 1974-2011. IX. Personal Papers, 1937-1995.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Box 49 (audiocassette): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information. 50-52 (record album storage): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information. Boxes 66-67: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
• Biographical / Historical note:Joseph Wolman (1929-1995), best known by the name Gil J Wolman, was a French artist whose work spanned the visual arts, poetry, sound poetry, and filmmaking. Closely associated with the Lettrist movement, Wolman was among the founding members of the Internationale lettriste.
  
• Summary:The Gil J Wolman papers consists of correspondence, writings, printed items, artworks, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials by or relating to French artist Gil J Wolman (1929-1995) and his milieu. The collection documents the early Lettrist movement of the 1950s through correspondence, writings of Wolman and others, and materials related to Lettrist films, especially Wolman's Anticoncept (1952) and Isidore Isou's Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951). The collection also documents the creation of Wolman's artist's books, literary works, and sound poetry ("mégapneumie"), as well as his professional career in the Paris art gallery scene from circa 1960 to 1995. Correspondents include Noël Arnaud, Serge Berna, Jean Louis Brau, Guy Debord, François Dufrêne, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Dominique Meens, and others.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Gil J Wolman Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Arnaud, Noël.
  Berna, Serge.
  Brau, Jean Louis.
  Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.
  Dufrêne, François, 1930-1982.
  Isou, Isidore.
  Lemaître, Maurice, 1926-2018
  Meens, Dominique.
  Wolman, Joseph, 1929-1995.
  Internationale lettriste.
  Internationale situationniste.
  Anticoncept (Motion picture)
  Traité de bave et d'éternité (Motion picture)
  Artists--France--Archives.
  Authors, French--20th century--Archives.
  Experimental films--France.
  French literature--20th century.
  Lettrism--France.
  Lettrism in motion pictures.
  
• Genre/Form:Artists' books (books)--France--20th century.
  Audiovisual materials.
  Lettrist literature--France--Paris--20th century.
  Photographs.
  Screenplays.
  Screen prints.
  Sound recordings.
  
• Occupation:Artists France 20th century.