Scope and Contents Ubeir Peeters commented: "The wide variety of single characters or letters join together to make up words which carry the meaning of ideas. Whereas, feelings and sentiments are easier to convey through a representation of plants, animals, humans, landscapes or objects. To the world of ideas, the letter is a building block for the concrete expression of ideas through words: no other medium is equal. Can you imagine a philosophy that could have survived without script? Inside our mind, deep inside, each word is related to a particular item, a given concept, a fragment of memory, but nowhere this appears more clearly than in a written text, where ideas are chopped and reassembled in a string of words. Writing is an incarnation or rather, the mirror of ideas. Algardi's cursives indeed have the liquid flowing quality of ideas. However, the writing itself is made illegible. By superimposing text over text Algardi conveys a problem regarding the eventual meanings. Thus his writing covers...

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The chapters dealing with the world-wide concrete poetry movement include Experimental Poetry and Poetic Experiences, Technical Styles, Alphabets and Calligraphy, Silences of Movement, Constellation, Text/Surface, and Bibliography. This is the 2nd expanded edition of the original published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is based upon "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry; Accame (1932-1999) was the first to translate Jarry's works into Italian. The Sackners first saw this work when they attended the exhibition "Jarry E La Patafisica" held in Milan in 1983. They purchased the work through Ugo Carrega during the exhibition. Accame was one of the co-curators of the Jarry exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of Accame's comments on the series of drawings with the same title held by the Sackner Archive. He indicates that he was the first to translate Jarry's poetry into Italian. The work deals with a teatise on pointology. As Accame explains, "If pataphysic is, by definition, the 'science of particulars,' what there is more particular than a point? ...'point becomes the place where beginning and end meet each other,' as you can also read in my tables." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Two cities and four institutional venues have more than one thousand works from various foundations and collections, with a total of one hundred and fifty Italian and foreign artists selected: these features make Visual Poetry the most important initiative dedicated to Visual Poetry, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Group 70 Florence, among the first and most effective propellers of this kind of art, who in 1964 coined the term, in fact, "Visual Poetry" in the climate of the turbulent bubbly and neo-avant-garde European Union. The Group was formed in '63 by Lamberto Pignotti and Eugenio Miccini, brought forward his artistic research in an interdisciplinary way, probing the possible relations between culture, language spoken, advertising and mass communication, between word and image, writing and painting, creating new meanings and complex systems, according to an idea of "‹"‹total art that characterized the research of various movements of the sixties...

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Although this international exhibition was designated as visual poetry, all the examples depicted in the catalogue are concrete poems. Frederick Heckmanns and Peter Weiermair provided introductory essays to the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.