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ID: 500352063
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500352063

 

Record Type: Person
Giorno, John (American poet and painter, 1936-2019)

Note: Poet and painter was the subject of Andy Warhol's 1963 film "Sleep," and created the "Dial-A-Poem" service. He was an intimate of William S. Burroughs, among others in the downtown Manhattan art world from the 1960s onward. As Giorno Poetry Systems he released more than 50 albums of poetry and music, with collaborators such as Laurie Anderson, Gregory Corso, Patti Smith, Karen Finley, Hüsker Dü, Anne Waldman, Richard Hell, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and Burroughs.

Names:
Giorno, John (preferred,U,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
John Giorno (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
LGBTQ

Roles:
artist (preferred)
poet
painter
producer
graphic artist
performance artist
conceptual artist

Gender: male

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
friend of ....  Burroughs, William S.  
................  (American writer and mixed-media artist, 1914-1997) [500053989]
friend of ....  Johns, Jasper  
................  (American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1930) [500022247]
friend of ....  Rauschenberg, Robert  
................  (American painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2008) [500002941]
friend of ....  Warhol, Andy  
................  (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) [500006031]
spouse of ....  Rondinone, Ugo  
................  (Swiss installation artist, born 1963) [500123760]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Giorno, John (I,U)

Biographies:
(American poet and painter, 1936-2019) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(American artist, born 1936) ..... [MoMA]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American poet, performance artist, 1936-2019) ..... [MoMA]
(American conceptual artist, 1936-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Giorno, John ........ [GRISC Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2171
..........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  Interview [online] (2015-) accessed 19 February 2015
..........................  Library of Congress Online Catalog [online] (2003-) n 85181232
..........................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 27328
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 263928
John Giorno ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........ [GRISC, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/2171; http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/27328
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2171
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 27328
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 263928
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 12373565; 17804741
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 84168002
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q272566; Q5921354; Q642513
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Interview [online] (2015-) accessed 19 February 2015
.......... Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
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