Paul Sharits archive [Details of an intimate love affair ; collection of unpublished original manuscript letters, photographs, and ephemera]

Four (4) photographic portraits of Sharits, ca. 5 x 7 to 8 x 10 in. each ; hand-annotated program for P.A.P. program for the XXIIIe Festival d'Avignon from August 10 to August 14th ; hand-annotated program for Sunday, March 15, 1970, Goucher College / New York Pro Musica presentation of Medieval and Renaissance Music of England 1300-1600 ; hand-annotated pre-publication (photocopy) typescript for "Blank Deflections : Golden Cinema" (Paul Sharits / Aspen, Summer 1968) ; set of (13) photocopy leaves, one hand-annotated "Happy Set Theory Memory Honey, love&joy, Paul" ; San Francisco Art Institute Cinematheque addressed to "Dagne" (October 1977?) ; newspaper article "The Avant Garde Film," by P. Adams Sitney, concerning the work of Paul Sharits. Items housed loose in manila folder. Very good. [837]

An intriguing collection of items including extensive and intimate correspondence by Sharits addressed to his lover, "Dagny," for whom we can find no immediate references in the literature on Sharits, save for a letter in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo [Paul Sharits (1943-1993), Untitled (handwritten letter to Klaus Kertess, head of the Bykert Gallery), August 26th, 1971; colored marker on graphic paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches]. Altogether, the materials present an image of the filmmaker deeply in love and haunted by the memories of intense physical intimacy.