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she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material.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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First issued on 33rpm records in 1978. Stored in shelf CD cabinet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First issued on 33rpm records in 1978. Stored in shelf CD cabinet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book begins with a timeline of the history of sound poetry tracing the literature, instruments, playing and treatises. It contains a descriptive analysis of the works of the major European sound poets with minimal attention to the works of non-European poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book begins with a timeline of the history of sound poetry tracing the literature, instruments, playing and treatises. It contains a descriptive analysis of the works of the major European sound poets with minimal attention to the works of non-Europeans. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Elisabeth Sussman, the editor, provided the introduction. Certain key texts selected by Greil Marcus have been translated and annotated by Thomas Levin. Debord, in his 1967 study "Society of the Spectacle" articulates his principal theses. Greil Marcus provides a critical essay on Debord's key publication "Memories". Key texts of Debord's are translated into English. An excellent chronology of the Situationist movement is provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.