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The cover was designed by Daniel f. Bradley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Skuber's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Skuber's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalog. The Sackner Archive purchased a portfolio of 10 etchings by Ossip Zadkine of Calligrams by Guillaume Apollinaire from this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The work and publications of Claude Givaudan are reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article provides the background for Phillips' "A Humument" and is illustrated with two pages and two fragments from his altered Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book is Illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by John M. Bennett who organized the event and edited the catalogue. The exhibition featured the work of William S. Burroughs with most of the material lent by Robert Jackson, a Cleveland book collector. The story of the purchase of the Burroughs material by Robert Jackson from Roberto Altmann is told in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was presented at the conference and exhibition sponsored by OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. The exhibition was curated by John M Bennett who organized the event, edited the catalogue and conducted the presentations. Marvin Sackner was the keynote speaker for the conference and presented a powerpoint talk, "A Survey of the Sackner Archive." Geoffrey D. Smith, Director of Rare Books, wrote an inciteful essay, "Collecting the New." John M. Bennett contributed "The Blank Generation: An American Avant Garde." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...

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The recto image depicts a staged an art gallery scene. Chuck Close can be identified in a wheelchair among the four male figures and a large painting that is being hung is the front cover of William Burroughs book, "Junkie." The verso has three stamps, one U.S. Postal and two by Buster Cleveland, and a picture of shoes floating in space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Excellent reference scource for avant garde small magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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This a critical text on asemic writing that means writing without semantic content. It is filed with Asemic magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.