This series is arranged into three subseries: 2A: Issue Files, 2B: Unsolicited Submissions, and 2C: Related Projects.
This series includes editorial files documenting the submission of materials, editing of works for publication, layout design and illustrations for the magazine, and related projects of the editors. Manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of articles for publication in Form are present for works by international writers and artists, including Pierre Albert-Birot, Thomas Bernhard, Charles Biederman, Simon Cutts, Girard Genette, Oliver Hawkins, R. C. Kenedy, Xanti Schawinsky, Richard Sherwood, and Charles Tomlinson. Contributor lists, paste-ups and page proofs for whole issues, illustrations, and photosetting specifications are also present, as well as unsolicited submissions and related correspondence. This series also contains other editorial and writing projects by Form's editors, including copies of previous publications on which they collaborated, such as Image and Kinetic Art, as well as related projects by individual editors, such as Philip Steadman's printed object poems for Augusto de Campos and the 1967 Brighton Festival and Mike Weaver's academic writings on American studies and concrete poetry.
Researchers should note that editorial files are not complete and represent later issues more thoroughly, especially Form 8 and 10. Occassional unsolicited submissions and proofs are present for materials intended for Form 11, which was never completed.
Typescripts and manuscripts for individual articles are arranged alphabetically by last name of writer, followed by proofs and illustrations arranged by issue.
This subseries includes editorial materials related to published issues of Form throughout the late 1960s, primarily in association with Form 8 and Form 10, although a smaller amount of materials related to other issues is also present. Typescript and manuscript author's copies and editorial copies for individual articles, notes, and introductions, with hand-written edits, are accompanied by proofs, paste-ups, marked-up illustrations for photosetting, research materials, and a list of possible contributors.
A research file devoted to a feature on the Russian Constructivist magazine LEF (Journal of the Left Front of the Arts, Levy Front Iskusstv), compiled by translator Richard Sherwood for Mike Weaver's Great Little Magazines series in Form 10, provides insight into the magazine's editorial methods. By providing bibliographies and reproductions of materials in other avant-garde little magazines from around the world, Form connected an otherwise diffuse international arts community.
Typescript editorial copy of material published in Form 8. Includes typescript in French, with some English translations by Barbara Wright.
Typescript editorial copy of material published in Form 8.
Offprints of an article republished in Form 10, along with two black-and-white photographs of artwork by Biederman.
Typescript author's copy of material published in Form 10.
Typescript editorial copy of Finlay's editorial note for Form 10.
Typescript author's copy of material published in Form 10.
Typescript editorial copy of material published in Form 8.
Typescript author's copy of poem published in Form 10.
Author's copy, along with a manuscript draft of an introduction by Mike Weaver.
Editorial copy.
Typescript editorial copy of material published in Form 8.
Includes typescripts, galley proofs, copies of magazine covers, author indexes and a bibliography, and some correspondence related to a study of the Russian constructivist magazine, Journal of the Left Front of the Arts (LEF, Levy Front Iskusstv), compiled by translator Richard Sherwood. While some of these materials were published in Form 10 as a part of the Great Little Magazines series, edited by Mike Weaver, others were intended for Form 11, which was never realized. Present are correspondence and typescripts from Sherwood, as well as galley proofs for unpublished material.
Typescript author's copy published in Form 10.
Submissions are arranged alphabetically by last name of sender.
This subseries consists of a variety of unsolicited submissions to the magazine from international artists and writers. Submissions include typescripts and manuscripts of essays and poems, photographs, artwork, and related correspondence. Materials submitted range from collaborative work by the Struti group of Calcutta poets to minimalist typewriter poems by the Czech artist Jiří Valoch. Also present are general solicitations inquiring about opportunities for publication of essays, artwork, and reviews in Form. Submissions sent to the editors following the magazine's end in 1969 are also occassionally present.
Files are arranged alphabetically by title.
This subseries includes related projects by the editors of Form, both before and contemporary with Form. Present are copies of Image and Kinetic Art, both of which were other publications from the mid-1960s, regarding concrete poetry and the Bauhaus aesthetic. Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, and Stephen Bann collaborated on these projects prior to starting Form, which was deeply influenced by and built upon these predecessors. Also present are materials related to several of the editors' independent projects, such as copies of object poems, printed by Philip Steadman for the 1967 Brighton Festival, including for poet Augusto de Campos, as well as Mike Weaver's writings on concrete poetry and American studies.
Includes two items designed by Philip Steadman and distributed in conjunction with Form for the Brighton Festival in 1967, one package of printed cards, titled "six concrete poems," containing works by Augusto de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eugen Gomringer, Jose Lino Grunewald, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Gerhard Ruehm, along with "Linguaviagem: cubepoem," by Augusto de Campos, colorfully printed on a cardboard fold-out.
Includes one copy of each of the three issues of Image magazine, a precursor to Form, which Philip Steadman edited prior to starting Form in 1966.
Kinetic Art was a group of four essays, published by Motion Books in 1966, that served as a precursor to Form, on which Philip Steadman and Stephen Bann collaborated.
Includes a Lugano Review (Volume 1/5-6 1966) offprint of Mike Weaver's Concrete Poetry, a typescript of a lecture on "American Arts and Letters: A New Approach to American Studies," and an information sheet on the American Arts Documentation Centre at the University of Exeter.