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Equipo Cronica was an artistic collaboration between Rafael Solbes and Manuel Valdes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a museum recreation of a city wide festival of experimental art, poetry, music and dance that took place in Pamplona in 1972. The Sackner Archive loaned Leandro Katz's Word Column XII to the exhibition; it is depicted on page 266 of the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners lent several Futura prints to this exhibition. The surprises by their absence in this exhibition as noted here were the works by Tom Phillips, the Lettrists and the Italian visual poets (poesia visiva) among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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William Jeffett contributed a lenghy, enlightening essay entitled "Avant-Garde and Moderization" to this catalogue. Marvin Sackner was a co-speaker with Jeffett at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition," Tour de France/Florida" at the Frost Museum in January 2012 and Jeffetts donated this catalogue to the Sackner Archive. Of note is a photograph of Joan Rabascall's sculpture "Monument to Televison (1992) on page 80 of the essay. The Sackners agreed to lend this sculpture to the exhiibition but their professional art movers deemed it too fragile to travel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Illustrated or listed in the catalog and held by the Sackner Archive are "Picadilly Square" by Roth, "News Mews, Pews" by Ruscha, "Book" by Samaras, "Girl on a Chair" by Segal, "General Dynamic F.U.N." by Paolozzi and "Andy Warhol's Index Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition, curated by Wendy Weitman, consists of prints and multiples from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Weitman contributes an essay. "Printmaking in the Pop Era: The Medium amd the Message." The catalogue is divided into the following sections: Proto-Pop; Mass Media; Consumer Culture; Politics; Erotica. It contains a chronology from the years 1960 to 1970 of Pop Printmaking, Pop Art, and Politics/Popular Culture. There are extensive notes on the artists, art works and publishers as well as a selected bibliography. The relevance of Pop Art is examined by Colin Self who writes, " Pop Art was the first art movement for goodness knows how long to accept and reflect the world in which it lives...In other words, there is a conspicuous absence of 20th century iconogrpahy in 20th century art - until Pop Art. Before POP all ART hid behind being 'ARTY.' Art had reached such a state of insincerity and pretentiousness, POP was a real revelation." Illustrated and contained...

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Equipo Cronica consisted of Raphael Solbes, who died in 1990, and Manola Valdes. This print depicts a Roy Lichtenstein pop-art image over a section from Picasso's Guernica. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.