Scope and Contents

This book was a gift on the occasion of Leandro Katz's visit to the Sackner Archive. It contains three essays by Ana Longoni, Jesse Lerner and Mariano Mestman following the career of the artist, filmmaker and writer from the 1960's, his travels throughout Latin America as editor and experimental poet and his four decades living in New York. The book also includes a selection of Katz's literary texts with photographs and documents from his extensive archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents These wall texts were from the Reina Sofia Museum exhibition "Encuentros De Pamplona" for the typewriter and scroll sculpture "Word Colmn IV" lent by the Sackner Archive. The original text is dated 11/8/71. The English text is as follows;"Columns or else enumerative lists of words, any or the least utterance, statement of fragment of speech, isolated words chosen at random and therefore not necessarily arranged in alpabetical or other systematic order and in any tense, state, length or form, be it generative, transformational, with or without orthographical errors, comforming to or violating grammatical rules and any other condition of speech, the verbal expression in contrast with action or thought presenting the object to the mind like a picture and composed in sections of text, inscriptions or scriptures approximately 7 feet tall which may accumulate, join, rise and elevate into the depth of the atmosphere of 60 KM and be called THE 21 COLUMNS OF LANGUAGE each one named after a...

Scope and Contents These wall texts were from the Reina Sofia Museum exhibition "Encuentros De Pamplona" for the typewriter and scroll sculpture "Word Colmn IV" lent by the Sackner Archive. The original text is dated 11/8/71. The English text is as follows;"Columns or else enumerative lists of words, any or the least utterance, statement of fragment of speech, isolated words chosen at random and therefore not necessarily arranged in alpabetical or other systematic order and in any tense, state, length or form, be it generative, transformational, with or without orthographical errors, comforming to or violating grammatical rules and any other condition of speech, the verbal expression in contrast with action or thought presenting the object to the mind like a picture and composed in sections of text, inscriptions or scriptures approximately 7 feet tall which may accumulate, join, rise and elevate into the depth of the atmosphere of 60 KM and be called THE 21 COLUMNS OF LANGUAGE each one named after a...