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Didier Semin provided the introductory essay. This book deals with and prints reproductions of Dufrene's written texts. -- 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.

Scope and Contents The first of what was to have been a two volume work; the author died before completing Volume Two. This first volume covers the classic age of collage, prior to WW II and contains some material on the 1950's and 1960's. The author, Dr. Herta Wescher, was the friend of many Bauhaus and other collage artists.Her writing embodies the enthusiasm, humor, affection, and personal comprehension of a participant in the lively and contentious circles she frequented. Assiduously she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material. Thanks to her research, the reader may not only see the output of world-famous collagists, but also may meet the brilliant but often neglected Czech adherents of Futurist and later styles; the Russian Avant Garde; the loners from various parts of the world, all of whom helped make collage one of the most direct and unguarded forms of expression in the long history of art." --...

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This exhibition and catalogue were organized as a memorial to Dufrene who died in 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.