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This book was published on the occasion of Cage's 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A collection of 41 essays written by Kostelanetz on the basic theme that the literary arts exist in a "universe of other arts; thus post-1960 avant-garde painting and music are relevant to post-1960 vanguard writing (and vice versa)." Each facing page contains aphorisms by 20th century avant garde writer/poets or examples of works. The essays, on alternative right pages, include Divergent Avant-Gardes, Anti-Art and Not Art, Spacial Form, Post-Modern, Accurate Perception. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dan Jaffe was the editor and publisher of this book and wrote to the Sackners "It's with pleasure that I remember my visit to your home and your cordiality.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is a section of this book that consists of visual and concrete poems that are reproduced as photocopied black and white images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is listed as resource of Artists' Books Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains statement by the artists on the definition of an Artist Book. This catalogue provides documentation of the artist's activities often accompanied by photographic reproductions. The quirky binding of this book, which in itself might be classified as an artist's book, make access to the pages difficult and time-consuming and therefore not a easily readable reference text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Covers by Cole. All contributors to this issue responded to the question "If you could apply for a grant of $500,000, what precisely would you propose to do?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth and Marvin Sackner contributed an essay about Kostelanetz dealing with his first visit to their house in Miami Beach. This book was edited by Harry Polinhorn, Joshua Carr, and Douglas Puchowski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript summarizes books and essays published by Kostelanetz over the years dealing with the subject of the title. He has dedicated the book to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "Three Decades of Citizen's Arrests," Kostelanetz has collected selected political essays written in the last three decades and organized them into two sections; Culture including In Darkest Fulbright, The Copyright Czar, Contemporary Scams and Cultural Funding including National Endowment for the Inhumanities, The King and Queen of Literary Grants, Ripping Off the Heritage Foundation. In these essays, Kostelanetz, as an expert in "the Art of Literary demolition," exposes the NEA, the NEH, the academic and grants community and the political literary culture in America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a well illustrated biography of Indiana (born Robert Clark) by Susan Ryan that was an outgrowth of a PhD thesis. It deals mainly with Indiana's work from the late 1950's to the early 1970's with emphasis on his visual language works and worded sculptured columns called "herms." The art works are critiqued by Ryan. There are sections that deal with Indiana's poetry and his artist statements. It mentions that Indiana was influenced by the poems of Jose Garcia Villa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In this book, pages 115, 126, 133, 140, 244, 323, and 334 of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" are reproduced in black and white.In his introduction, Kostelanetz defines the title of his book: A new art necessarily demands a new name, and the art of incorporating word within image has recently inspired a spate of new names "calligrams," "concrete poetry," "ideograms," "pattern poems," "concretism." They all are intended to identify artifacts that are neither word nor image alone but somewhere or something between. Since each of the terms in actual usage defines a particular strain of word-image art, there is a need for a more general yet discriminating term. My choice is "word-imagery," which encompasses the two major genres of the form"”imaged words and worded images. The distinction depends upon whether word or image is the base. In imaged words, a significant word or phrase is endowed with a visual form, so that language is enhanced through pictorial means. In worded images, in...

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CPGraham is Coutney Peter Graham who wrote imi, an experimental novel held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.