Lisa Carver archive, 1989-1999.
Collection Number: 8497
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Lisa Carver archive, 1989-1999.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8497
Abstract:
Periodicals, pasteups, proofs, ephemera, audiotapes, and a videotape, documenting
Carver's work, life, and interests. Includes a complete run of Rollerderby (issues
1-25), as well as preliminary pasteups, proofs, artwork, and photographs for use in
the zine. Also, ephemera and poster artwork for an issue of the zine Generation L,
Suckdog and other projects; eight cassette tapes of music or performance sounds; and
a VHS videotape containing a rough cut of the work Anatomically correct and Lisa Carver's
laptop.
Creator:
Carver, Lisa.
Quanitities:
1.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in In English.
American stage and recording artist, author, and publisher, the editor of the zine
Rollerderby and member of the band Suckdog. Her work spans the worlds of publishing,
art, transgressive sex, and gender politics and performance. In Roller Derby, Carver
and her friends interview bands and other celebrities; the zine also includes comics,
illustrations, games, and letters to the editor.
Periodicals, pasteups, proofs, ephemera, audiotapes, and a videotape, documenting
Carver's work, life, and interests. Includes a complete run of Rollerderby (issues
1-25), as well as preliminary pasteups, proofs, artwork, and photographs for use in
the zine. Also, ephemera and poster artwork for an issue of the zine Generation L,
Suckdog and other projects; eight cassette tapes of music or performance sounds; and
a VHS videotape containing a rough cut of the work Anatomically correct.
Lisa Carver's diaries, notebooks, additional photographs, correspondence including
letters from Bill Callahan of Smog and Boyd Rice, material documenting the fanzine
Dirt, and Lisa Carver's laptop from 2006.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Lisa Carver Archive, #8497. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Carver, Lisa.
Suckdog (Musical group)
Subjects:
Erotic art -- Periodicals.
Avant-garde (Music)
Zines -- Publishing.
Form and Genre Terms:
Audiocassettes.
Printed ephemera.
Fanzines.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Suckdog
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Tipper Gore, "Rape G. G." lyrics
|
1990 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
"Why Miss World?
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Rollerderby
|
1990-1999 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Paste-ups, proofs, etc...
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | V-7209 |
Rough cut - Anatomically Correct [VHS tape]
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-10513-10520 |
Eight cassette tapes of music and performance sounds
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
|
1989-1998 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Magazines with articles regarding Lis Carver
|
1995, 2000, 2014 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Newspapers with articles regarding Lisa Carver
|
1998-2005 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
WWE program with signatures
|
2012 |
|
Scope and Contents
-Ryback, Hornswoggle, an unknown signature on the front cover and 3 other unknowns
on the autograph page
|
|||
| Box 3 |
Photographs, diaries, notebooks and other writings
|
1959-1999 | |
| Box 4 | HD-4 |
Lisa Carver's laptop
|
2006 |