urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00462 Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie: A Preliminary Inventory of Their Collection in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Finding aid created by Hope Rider Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2007 Finding aid encoded by Thu Doan, 8 October 2008 Finding aid written in English. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Bockris, Victor (1949- ) and Wylie, Andrew Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie Collection 1965-2003 (bulk 1972-1976) 7 boxes, 1 galley folder, 1 oversize folder (2.94 linear feet) This collection represents the writing collaboration between Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie during the 1970s. English Scope and Contents

This collection represents the writing collaboration between Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie during the 1970s. It is divided into three series: I. Works and Related Materials, 1965-2003; II. Photographs, circa 1970s; III. Works by Others, 1971-2002.

Series I. comprises the bulk of the collection, and is divided into three subseries. Subseries A. Subject Files, contains typescripts and tearsheets for works written by Bockris and Wylie, and published under the name Bockris-Wylie. The contents are arranged alphabetically by the last names of the subjects. It includes drafts and typescripts for their book Ali: Fighter, Poet, Prophet, as well as many interviews published in a variety of periodicals, including The Coldspring Journal, The Drummer, and Oui. Some of the notable subjects are William S. Burroughs, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, François Truffaut, and Andy Warhol.

Subseries B. is arranged by title and contains works written individually by Bockris or Wylie, and with various collaborators, as well as interviews used for two books, How I Learned to Like Myself, and The Life of Poetry. The latter two works contain interviews of multiple subjects.

Subseries C. Correspondence and Project Files is comprised of correspondence to Bockris and Wylie from Gerard Malanga, Aram Saroyan, and other various correspondents, as well as one folder of notes for various projects.

Series II. Photographs includes photographs of artists, musicians, and writers, some of whom were closely associated with Andy Warhol and the Factory, including Lou Reed and Holly Woodlawn. Other notable photographic subjects include Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Alice Cooper, and Patti Smith. The photographers are unknown for the bulk of the photographs.

Series III. contains works by others, some of which were edited by Bockris or Wylie, and published by Telegraph Books. Of interest are an inscribed copy of Explosion of the Swan: Salvador Dali on Federico García-Lorca and Three Poems by Gerard Malanga, and a typescript copy of Judith by Patti Smith.

 Acquisition:

Purchase, 2005 (Reg. no. 15408)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Hope Rider, 2007

The Ransom Center also has two boxes of manuscripts and correspondence relating to Telegraph Books acquired in 1974.

Books, film, and sound recordings received with the Bockris-Wylie collection have been transferred to the appropriate departments in the Ransom Center.

Container List Series I. Works and Related Materials, 1965-2003 Subseries A. Subject Files, 1965-1976 1 Ali: Fighter, Poet, Prophet (1974) 1 1-6 Draft sections, handwritten and typed 1 7 Typescript 1 * Galleys (*removed to galley folders) 1 8 Book jackets and materials re Ali 1 9 Photographs 2 1 Amis, Martin [by Bockris]: Martin Amis, interview transcript, tearsheet from Interview vol. IV, no. 3, 1976 2 2-5 Beach, Mary and Claude Pélieu: The Last Interview in Black and White, interview transcripts, final typescript, tearsheet from The Coldspring Journal, no. 6 March-April 1975 2 6 Bogdanovich, Peter: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich, interview transcripts, tearsheet from The Drummer, 8 April 1975 2 Burroughs, William 2 7 1st interview transcript, undated 2 Rolling Stone interview, circa 1976 2 8 Transcript with corrections, photocopy 2 9 Edited transcript 2 10 Colum, Padraic [by Wylie]: Interview with Padraic Colum on James Joyce, interview transcript photocopy, September-November 1965 2 11 Cook, Peter and Dudley Moore: Conversation with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore by . . . , interview transcript photocopy, tearsheet from Oui, August 1975 3 1 Dali, Salvador: A Conversation with Salvador Dali, interview transcripts, photographs, [Coldspring Journal , no. 7, 1975] 3 2 Dallesandro, Joe: Viva Interview: Joe Dallesandro, interview transcript, tearsheet from Viva, undated 3 3-4 Halston: Halston Interview, interview transcripts, photocopy clippings re Halston, circa 1974 3 5 Huston, John: A Conversation with John Huston, tearsheet from The Drummer, 30 July 1974 3 6 Jagger, Mick: The Mick Jagger Interview, interview transcripts, original and version sent to Playboy, undated 3 7 Johnson, Ray: Mayday Ray Graduates Collage, tearsheet from The Drummer, 15 May 1973; correspondence and short works [mail art] 3 8 Mead, Taylor: Taylor Mead on Five Dollars a Day, tearsheet from The Drummer, 22 January 1974 3 9 Michener, James: interview transcripts; tearsheets for James Michener: Portrait of the American Novelist, by Jeff Goldberg, The Drummer, 13 November 1973 3 10 Morrissey, Paul: Paul Morrissey 24 December 1973 at The Factory, interview transcript, photograph 3 11 Perich, Anton: Who's That Playing with My Cable, tearsheet from The Drummer, 1 May 1973, clippings, photographs, publicity posters 3 12 Reed, Lou: The Lou Reed Interview, interview transcript, Oui, 1974 3 13 Sanders, Ed: Part I Early Days: The Fugs; 'The Family': An Interview with Ed Sanders and Part II Among the Damned: An Interview with Ed Sanders, interview transcripts, photographs, tearsheets from The Drummer, 5 and 12 June 1973 4 1 Saroyan, Aram: The Rest, Telegraph Press proofs, 1971; Telegrams: Aram Saroyan Special Issue, 1971 [edited by Bockris] 4 2 Schjeldahl, Peter: biographical notes, handwritten 4 3 Snyder, Jimmy The Greek: interview transcript 4 4 Truffaut, François: Conversation: François Truffaut by . . . , interview transcript photocopy, tearsheet from Oui, September 1974 4 5 Van Sydow, Max: Max Van Sydow: An Interview by . . . , interview transcript and carbon typescript, Oui, 1973 4 Warhol, Andy 4 6 Andy Warhol Tapes, transcripts 11-31 July 1973 4 7 A Long Story about a Renaissance Man, article typescripts, photographs 4 8 Tearsheets from The Drummer: Andy Warhol, 1 January 1974; A Long Story About a Renaissance Man, 25 December 1973; Warhol at Work, 9 October 1973 4 9 Wieners, John: Twenty Hour Ballet: An Interview with John Wieners, interview transcript, photographs, for Contact no. 7 4 10 Wyman, Bill: How Does it Feeeel . . . , interview transcripts, tearsheet from The Drummer, 15 October 1974 Subseries B. By Title, 1971-2003 4 11 100 Good Things [by Bockris in collaboration with Patricia Loud], typescript, 1976 4 12 AliWarhol: The Video (2003) [by Bockris in collaboration with David Schmidlapp], press release 4 How I Learned to Like Myself (1975) [in collaboration with Gay Bryant] 4 Interview transcripts 4 13 Ali, Muhammad 4 14 Diller, Phyllis 4 15 Fiedler, Arthur, with letter 4 16 Michener, James, with letter 4 17 Mitchell, Martha 4 18 Polanski, Roman 4 19 Warhol, Andy 4 20 Typescript photocopy; publicity materials 4 * Keys, large poetry cards, undated (*removed to oversize folder) 5 The Life of Poetry (unpublished, circa 1973) 5 Interview transcripts 5 1 Brown, Otis: Brown is Beautiful 5 2 Hawkins, Spike [in collaboration with Constance Pickard]: I Am an Atmosphere Merchant; poetry, 1973 5 3 Malanga, Gerard: Confessions of an Ace 5 4 Padgett, Ron: Like Everybody Else 5 5-7 Typescript photocopy 5 8 13 bibliographies, typescripts and photocopies 5 9 Tenderloin [by Wylie], Telegraph Books signed proof, 1971 5 10 What frightens you most?, interview transcripts, notes, typescript, tearsheet from Oui, undated 5 11 What's better than sex? phone survey for Oui transcripts, proofs, 1974 5 12 Zazzle: Andrew Wylie Special Issue, author's copy, 1971 Subseries C. Correspondence and Project Files, 1973-1976 5 Correspondence 5 13 Malanga, Gerard, 1973-1976; some photocopy poems included 5 14 Saroyan, Aram, 1974-1976 6 Various correspondents 6 1 1973-1975 6 2 1975-1976 6 3 Miscellaneous projects, notes Series II. Photographs, circa 1970s 6 4 Bockris, Victor, by Andrew Wylie 6 5 Brown, Otis; Larry Fagin; John Giorno 6 6 Butler, Bill; Victor Bockris; unidentifed, 1972 6 7 Cage, John, [by Anton Perich] 6 8 Cooper, Alice 6 9 Dice [poetry] 6 10 Gillespie, Dana 6 11 Hawkins, Spike 6 12 Loud, Pat 6 13 Miller, Mitch 6 14 Moore, Dudley 6 15 Ono, Yoko 6 16 Ono, Yoko; John Lennon; Edgar Winter, [by Anton Perich] 6 17 Pickard family 6 18 Reed, Lou; Alice Cooper; Anton Perich; Holly Woodlawn; Viva; Peter Cook and Judy Huxtable Cook 6 19 Reed, Lou; Holly Woodlawn 6 20 Saroyan, Aram 6 21 Schjeldahl, Peter and Andrew Wylie 6 22 Smith, Patti and Victor Bockris 6 23 Telegraph authors photo shoot, contact sheets 6 24 Viva 6 25 Waldman, [Anne], paintings by Alex Katz 6 26 Warhol, Andy with Mao paintings 6 27 Warhol, Andy, movie-related 6 28 Weatherly, Tom 6 29 Wieners, John and Gerrit Lansing; March '73, on roof of apartment 20th & 3rd 6 30 Wilcox, John, by Anton Perich 6 31 Woodlawn, Holly 6 32* Unidentified subjects [some by Peter Simon] (*oversize photograph removed to oversize folder) Series III. Works by Others, 1971-2002 6 33 Girodias, Maurice. Communion of All the Suns: An Open Letter to Dane Rudhyar, Astrologer, typescript [for Coldspring Journal, 1976], correspondence, photographs 7 1 Joris, Pierre. The Fifth Season, inscribed proof, 1971 7 Malanga, Gerard 7 2 Explosion of the Swan: Salvador Dali on Federico García-Lorca and Three Poems, Sparrow 35 (Black Sparrow Press), August 1975, inscribed 7 3 This is Charles Olson Speaking, typescript photocopy, 25 June 1975, inscribed 7 4 Various poems, photography, short works, typescripts and clippings 7 5 Reed, Lou. All the pretty people, Do angels need haircuts, typescript photocopies 7 6 Reich, Matthew, Writings, typescript, poems, drawings 7 7 Robbins, Fred. Article re Liv Ullmann in Coq, tearsheet, undated 7 8 Saroyan, Aram. Annotated bibliography; six poems from Poetry in Motion, photocopies; family photographs 7 9 Smith, Patti, Judith, poem typescript; various publicity materials, 1997-2002 7 10 Warhol, Andy. Articles, tearsheets, 1975 7 11 Weatherly, Tom. Articles; typescript photocopy; tearsheet from The Drummer, 19 June 1973 7 12 Unidentified. Sunset, poem printed on orange cards and Are you asleep. . . , poem printed on yellow cards