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The unbound pages depict essays and photographic reproductions of the poets/artists works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The firsr section of this catalogue depicts artist books using photographs borrowed from various sources and the second section depicts artist books based upon photographs in Bibliotecas in Spoleto, Umbria, Modena, Catania and in Art Academies. The opposite dos a dos present book objects and works that resemble books, e.g. paintings, drawings, magazines, etc., followed by a section on visual poetry and small magazines dating from Futurism to the present. Several books and magazines depicted in this exhibition catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This second edition of the book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Pornografie was first published in 1971, and has subsequently become an outstanding and timeless document of political artwork. The Gerrman film-maker Klaus Staeck took news photographs and the advertisements as the basis of this hard-hitting anti-Vietnam War, anti-violence artist`s book.Seven Decaders Books: Klaus Staeck created this book in 1971 as a reaction to the Vietnam War and a protest of the values of the society which allowed the war to continue. Its content is entirely visual and consists largely of blown up press photos and grainy newsreel images as it devel-ops in chapters showing war and its aftermath, protest and its suppression, weaponry and other instruments of violence and con-trol, and finally a long series of...

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This book is stored with issues of Fan Mail. Several artist envelopes are depicted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.