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This CD consists of a 11 second recording of silence. The ink drawing of a silouette of a bird has been used in Broutin's lettriste drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This consists of a brief recording of four tracks, one of which is a dog barking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts lettriste publications and objects with annotations year by year over the period 1946 to 1977. The first page (cover) depicts a photographic reproduction of the first Lettriste manifesto (c.1946). A great many of the publications in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This falsely documented print has the formate of an official document with a seal of approval. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This CD consists of a 11 second recording of silence. The ink drawing of a silouette of a bird has been used in Broutin's lettriste drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This CD consists of a 11 second recording of silence. The ink drawing of a silouette of a bird has been used in Broutin's lettriste drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Henri Chopin Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry Frédéric Acquaviva Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian: "Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Henri created sound poetry, capturing breaths and cries made by his voice and body. He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an "inner space explorer", but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing...

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In Lemaitre's essay, he mentions that that only 200 bound copies of Les Journaux Des Dieux were delivered for distribution because there were insufficent funds to pay him - "which of course makes the saved volumes extremely valuable." The books as well as prints and printed plates depicted in this exhibition consisted of 'Les Journal des Dieux' [The God's Diaries], 'Initiation a la haute volupte' [Initiation to High Voluptuousness], and 'Jonas.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wolman invented "Scotch Art" and the Sackner Archive has one such example. It consisted of sticking Scotch tape onto printed matter such as posters, magazine pages, newspapers and pamphlets, and, placing them in water so that the cellulose support of the paper dissolved, leaving the image on the surface of the tape. This was then first repostioned on thin pieces of wood and later on a cavas support on a stretcher. The Sackners met Wolman in his apartment in Paris in 1982. Adrian Dannatt who wrote his obituary for the London newspaper, The Independent, characterizes his life well. Gil Joseph (Gil J. Wolman), film-maker, writer, political activist - born Paris 7 September 1929; died Paris 3 July 1995 "Those who live by obscurity die by it also, so the minimal response to the disappearance of Gil J. Wolman is hardly surprising. Wolman led a brave, ferociously independent existence at war with the forces of contemporary conformity, the celebrity machine of the mass media being high...

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This catalogue was written bt Frederic Acquaviva. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This consists of a brief recording of a sound poem. The ink drawing of packed 'boules' (ovals) on the surface of the case is the typical imagery of Parant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the program for the memorial service celebration for Francesco Conz that was attended by the Sackners. The event lasted from 4PM until 11PM. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Giovanni Acquaviva (1900-1971). He becmes Futurist in 1919 and begins a close association with Fortunato Belloni, for which illustrates some books, and using images drawn from some of Giacomo Balla [1] and in 1938 promoted to Savona group futurist Sant'Elia. His work is characterized by a typical sensitivity as incandescent and whooping as obsessed clarification and accuracy , be it in the pictures, it is in the processing of ceramics, be it in poetry. Along with Farfa is considered one of the greatest representatives of Futurism Savona and appears three times in the Venice Biennale, twice the Rome Quadrennial , and in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among the most famous paintings remind Butterflies of 1966, a design of pastel on paper, colored ethereal and impalpable. A major retrospective was dedicated to him in 1987 by the city of Savona, where he lived for many years. Acquaviva also devoted himself to the manufacture of ceramics, graphics, and theater...

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This CD consists of a 11 second recording of silence. The ink drawing of a silouette of a bird has been used in Broutin's lettriste drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.