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This was the first artist book exhibition that the Sackners attended. It made a major impact on them in terms of the their subsequent direction in collecting. The catalog includes reproductions of Kenneth Snelson's drawings for the sculpture, Forest Devil, the maquette of which is held by the Sackners. Marcel Broodthaers' Un Coup de Des and Jes Petersen's Piero Manzoni, books held by the Sackner Archive were exhibited. -- 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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Poe called "Eureka" a prose poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue consists of an interview of Arakawa by Sarenco. The latter posed the question "...Do you think that this century's researches begin in the experiences of the historic avant garde or do you think that only personalities - as, for example you said about De Chirico - have made a contribution to art in the twentieth century?" Arakawa responded "I think the art of our century perhaps started from poetry, from poets." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition curated by Susan Bee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The majority of works in this catalogue consists of exhibition catalogues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was conceived on an original idea by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and curated by Andrea Rosen. The exhibition included the works of 341 artists and poets. Several works were lent by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue was a gift of Andrea Rosen and is a checklist of the exhibition including diagrams of the placement of the pictures in the gallery and an artist list index. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Arakawa, Whose Art Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 (May 20, 2010 NYT) By FRED A. BERNSTEIN Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73. He had been hospitalized for a week, said Ms. Gins, who declined to give the cause of death. "This mortality thing is bad news," Ms. Gins said by phone from her studio on Houston Street. She said she would redouble her efforts to prove that "aging can be outlawed." Arakawa, who was known professionally by his surname, and Ms. Gins explored their philosophy, which they called Reversible Destiny, in poems, books, paintings and, when they found clients, buildings. Their most recent work, a house on Long Island, had a steeply sloped floor that threatened to send visitors hurtling into its kitchen. Called Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa), it featured more than three...

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Also known as Druck & Buch. Directed by Susanne Padberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was in the collection of Jan van der Marck, director of the MOCA and curator of the exhibition. He wrote in the introduction, "What characterizes the majority of works in this exhibition is their complex permutation of words and images. The resulting visual language tends towards poetic rather than communicative functions." Van der Marck also wrote the biographies of the artists. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for the limited edition box with contributions from the artists that was assembled for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.