Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Claudio Parmiggiani. Several books held by the Sackner Archive at one time or another were displayed in this exhibition. These included among others, Cendrars & Delaunay's Transsiberian Railway, Apollinaire's colored copy of the Survage-Lugat catalogue (5/10); Lissitzky & Mayakovsky's For the Voice, Marinetti's Tin Book, Soffici's Bif&+18 (deluxe edition), Lissitzky's Two Squares, Belloli's Solo nel Sole, Mesens & Magritte's Poemes 1923 - 1958, and Depero's Depero Futurista. A page from Flavio Vegezio's "De re Militari," 1523 is reproduced; the typographic layout of using letters for battlefield positions is similar to Eliano De Nomi's book, "Ordini Militari" that is held by the Sackner Archive. The Futurist periodical, Vela Latina, is described on page 303. The content dwells more upon ancient shaped poetry and hermetics than contemporary concrete poetry. The book reproduces several examples of Hebrew religious poems and Kaballah. --...

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This book was compiled for college course material and reference libraries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is one of a series from "The Documents of 20th - Century Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book discusses artists, writers and esthetes "active and influencial during the late 1890 and 1900s, the time of Symbolism in Russia." Several chapters on "The World of Art" movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Proun 2 C(acquired in this exhibition), "Wendingen," "For the Voice," and "Of Two Squares" are among the works illustrated in the catalogue that were formally held by the Sackner Archive. This catalogue includes several critical essays by Lissitzky translated into English and German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.