Auction catalogue. It offers artists' letters and documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue is a selection from the counterculture selections of Maggs Brothers and includes "books, manuscripts and graphic and plastic art by and about bohemians, crazies, eccentrics, exiles, extremists, the violent, the persecuted, the mad, modernists, revolutionaries, terrorists, urban guerrillas, visionareis, and outsiders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was designed by Henri Parisot. The drawings and cover designs were made by Frederick Kiesler. The edition also comprised 30 examples printed on Holland paper and 25 examples with a lithograph by Kiesler. 175 copies printed on Marais Creve-Couer paper were signed by Breton. Charles Fourier was a 19th century Utopian philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text appears to be short biographies of European poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book blurb: Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh-oh-oh." Alfred Jarry, who probably founded the Dada movement as well as the Theater of the Absurd, invented the science of imaginary solutions around the close of the nineteenth century. Pataphysica collects the thoughts of contemporary pataphysicists, pataphysicians, and scholars. They awaken the discipline for our century while writing on subjects as diverse as the Theater of Pure Form, baseball, minute measurement, laughter, language, and the infinite sphere.This book references Davis Daniels' work at the Sackner web site. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this work of cultural criticism, Weiss explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination by weaving together cultural and technological history. His investigation reveals how radiophony transforms expression. He presents new perspectives on the avant-garde radio experiments of Antonin Artaud and John Cage. A great deal of attention is paid to sound poetry.The book was designed by Richard Eckersley with high usage of Italic typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a mini-survey of modern and contemporary art. The authors designate "copy-art," aka xerox art, as a body of art work, which may be the first time that this movement has been placed alongside of major art movements of the 20th century, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.