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This is a review of the exhibition at the New York Public Library "French Book Arts / Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue." The show originates from the collection of the Biblioteque Litteraire Jacques Doucet in Paris along with many items from the NYPL special collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Publication includes reproductions of A. Dupont's "Nathalie et Justine" and "L'Art en Ciel," and I. Isou and A. Dupont's "Concerto pour Oeil et Oreille" which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first of what was to have been a two volume work; the author died before completing Volume Two. This first volume covers the classic age of collage, prior to WW II and contains some material on the 1950's and 1960's. The author, Dr. Herta Wescher, was the friend of many Bauhaus and other collage artists.Her writing embodies the enthusiasm, humor, affection, and personal comprehension of a participant in the lively and contentious circles she frequented. Assiduously she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material. Thanks to her research, the reader may not only see the output of world-famous collagists, but also may meet the brilliant but often neglected Czech adherents of Futurist and later styles; the Russian Avant Garde; the loners from various parts of the world, all of whom helped make collage one of the most direct and unguarded forms of expression in the long history of art." --...

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Auction catalogue. Consists of the Surrealism collection of Jacques Herold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. This offering featured works by Jacques Prevert, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, and Henri Michaux. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proof copy with justified margins and paragraph signs rather than indents or spaces was designed by Richard Eckersley. Mary Ann Caws writes in the introduction that among the writings of Breton, this work is the most philosophical and political; the whole edifice of Surrealism is based on its theories. Breton attempts to establish a communicating vessel or "conduction wire between the far to distant wirlds if waking and sleep, exterior and interior reality, reason and madness, the assurance of knowledge and of love, of life for life and the revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an anthology of visual and picture poems made by students from kindergarten to the 12th grade living in Seattle, Washington. The poems and teaching methods are analyzed by the author who was a poet-in-residence in the school system in Seattle. In the final chapter, he presents and comments on poems by established adult poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete text of Karel Teige's typographic manifesto, published in Typografia No.34, 1927, is reprinted at the end of this catalogue in German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pictured in the catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive are Apollinaire's "Calligrammes," Marinetti's "Les Mots en Liberte Futurist," "Der Dada No.3," "291," Picabia's "Le Cannibale," "Dada No.4-5," "Der Blutige Ernst," "Der Dada No.2," Huelsenbeck's "En Avant Dada," VanDoesburg's "Kleine Dada Soiree," Mayakovski/Lissitzky's "For the Voice," " Le Coeur a Barbe." Stephen Foster contributed an essay, "Dada: Back to the Drawing Board and Richard Sheppard a comprehensive Dada chronology. The exhibition was curated by Joann Moser. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An exhibition of books, mauscripts, graphics and objects from the Howard L. & Muriel Weingrow Fine Arts Collection. Written and compiled by Haim Finklestein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In "Destruction Was My Beatrice" modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of Dada, showing how this little-understood artistic phenomenon laid the foundation for culture as we know it today. Although the venue where Dada was born closed after only four months and its acolytes scattered, the idea of Dada quickly spread to New York, where it influenced artistsl like Marcel Ducahmp and Man Ray to Berlin where it inspired painters George Grosz and Hannah Hoch: and to Paris, where it dethroned previous avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism while inspiring early Surrealists."THIS WAS THE LAST BOOK THAT RUTH SACKNER READ AND CATALOGUED. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The works reproduced in this catalogue depict sketches of Cocteau in the center portion of the paintings along with fragments of abstract and semi-realistic art pieces. This image is encircled with calligraphic and hieroglyphic texts at its periphery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.