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This calligraphic text was included as a folded print in Portfolio Chopin. It is a linear extract of letters by Henri and Bernard to each other from 1962 - 1977. The two are identified by heavy printed letters, BH and HC. The maquette drawing for this print is also held by the Sackner Archive. The prints are stored in the Heidsieck drawer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This perfomance and installation project is subtitled "Life Is Art Enough." This event was organized by Jurgen Olbrich. Allan Kaprow writes that "ten artists were able to get together and create art works, performances and installations in a playful environment without the veneer of the international art competitions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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This book is an homage to Francesco Conz. The editors are Hannah Stegmayer and Toni Stegmayer. The book presents photographs of fetish items in the Conz archive in addition to the rooms and shelves filled with other archival material including artist rendered pianos. Several fetish objects are displayed by Elisabeth Wahl, a curator of the Archivio Conz (pages 86-114). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this work is "Where id Eldridge Cleaver?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The covers of this brochure depict mandalas by Kriwet. A reproduction of the piece, "Group H" is signed by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thr dust jacket depicts one reel to reel tape recorder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The four artists are photographed in performance or reading on the slip case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Julien Blaine box. The cover was designed by Joel Hubaut. The videos of the performances is rather primitive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The four artists are photographed in performance or reading on the slip case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Julien Blaine box. The cover was designed by Joel Hubaut. The videos of the performances is rather primitive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris, as well as to innovative artists and performers such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, and Laurie Anderson in the next generation. Painter, writer, sound poet, tape composer, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on Japanese and Arabic scripts. The chance discovery by Gysin of the cut-up technique (later developed and refined by William S. Burroughs) and the concept of permutated poems gave rise to new and original forms of sound art wordplay, striking not only in print but also in recordings or live performance. Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to the Dreamachine and to collages of text and photographs. This is the first comprehensive publication on...

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The seven publishers comprising the group that exhibited the books in this show were Granary Books, Guy Schraenen editeur, Boekie Woekie, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, Edition Hundertmark, Stop Over Press, Rainer Verlag and Wiens Verlag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.