Historical/Biographical Note:
0 to 9 was a small avant garde literary magazine published from the East Village (Bowery St.) and the Lower East Side (Broome St.) of New York in the late 1960's. An 8.5 by 11", stapled, mimeographed publication, it existed for 3 years and 6 issues, and spawned the 0 to 9 Press which published works by the two editors, Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci. Like other similar small magazines of the time like Angel Hair (Mayer would later marry Angel Hair's editor, Lewis Marsh), the magazine included work from a number of nascent and notable artists of the time. Bernadette Mayer is an activist, editor and poet with numerous collections of poety to her credit. Vito Acconci began his career as a poet and expanded into photography, film, video, and performance and now heads the Acconci Studio which designs and builds public projects in parks, city streets, and city buildings.
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Scope and Content Note
The 0 to 9 Archive is a part of the Avant Garde Collection at the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel.
The 0 to 9 Archive is a collection of correspondence and manuscripts submitted to the editors Vito Hannibal Acconci and Bernadette Mayer during 1967 and 1969. Collection highlights include manuscripts/letters written by: John Cage, Tom Clark, Gerard Malanga, Richard Kostelanetz, Donald Sutherland, Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, and Aram Saroyan. Issues of 0 to 9 are not part of the 0 to 9 Archive but are available to view at Fales.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series I: Correspondence: contains correspondence sent to the editors Vito Hannibal Acconci and Bernadette Mayer. Noted correspondents include: John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Smithson, and Donald Sutherland.
Series II: Manuscripts: contains manuscripts submitted to 0 to 9. Contributors include: Tom Clark, John Giorno, Kenneth Koch, Sol LeWitt, Clark Coolidge, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer and Aram Saroyan.
Series III: Issue: contains one folder of manuscripts which created a supplement to issue No.6 of 0 to 9.
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Arrangement |
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| Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject/author heading then chronologically within each subject/author heading. | ||
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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections
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There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
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Access Restrictions
Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.
Use Restrictions
The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales
Library and Special Collections.
For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm
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Administrative Information
Provenance
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); 0 to 9 Archive; MSS 26; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections
, New York University Libraries.
Container List
[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]
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| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 1 | 30 | Issue No.6 Supplement[1969]. | 1969 |
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