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Dworkin selects and critiques in detail several high spots of Illegible Texts to support the title of this book, e.g., text over text, cancelled texts, neologisms. These include Guy Debord's 'Fin de Copenhague' & 'Memoires,' Susan Howe's poetic works, Charles Bernstein's 'Veils,' of which five originals are held by the Sackner Archive, Rosemary 'Waldrop's 'Camp Printing,' John Cage's mesostics, Ezra Pound's 'Cantos,' Tom Phillips' 'A Humument,' Ronald Johnson's 'Radi Os,' Ken Campbell's 'Father's Garden,' and Fraenkel's version of Mallarme's 'Coup de Des' (held by the Sackner Archive). The book is accompanied by a large section of notes to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sheet describes directions for stepping up and down a 18" stool until unable to so at 30 steps per minute; its daily duration is recorded for the month of April 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The members of Group Material consisted of Tim Rollins, Julie Ault and Doug Ashford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of 29 essays of writings by the Avant Garde in America. Kostelanetz mentions "Seatbelt, Seatbelt" by Amirkhanian and notes that it never has been commercially recorded. He includes essays on the work of Michael Joseph Phillips and Harry Polkinhorn. Kostelanetz raves about the esthetics of Peter Rose's film, "Pressures of the Text (1983), a work held by the Sackner Archive. He writes a complementary essay on Kenneth Burke and illustrates it with a concrete poetic "flowerisches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a collection of essays that Kostelanetz had previously published. An exposition of Dan Graham's schema is published on pages 143-145. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was also designated a Delta Original by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners contributed three works in this exhibition to the Lowe Art Museum by Paul Berger, Gordon Matta-Clark and Luigi Veronesi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Wording the Silent Art collects Barbara Caruso's essays on the contemporary art scene, including controversial issues like the National Gallery's purchase of Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire and the recent transformation of public galleries from institutions of preservation to places of pop entertainment and the effect this has on art. She also writes with elegance and verve on the subject of her own painting, on painting practice, and on how to look at visual art. Her generous and wise advice to a young painter is worth the price of this book alone. Caruso's is a unitary, clear, communicating voice, and she brings to the reader a marvellous and accessible vision of the essential nature of art in our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Kenneth Goldsmith Amazon.com "In 1959, Brion Gysin famously claimed that poetry was fifty years behind painting. Gysin's prophecy still holds true: half a century later, contemporary poetry is just beginning to explore ideas forged by language-based artists in the 1960s. As such, this book is a roadmap, bursting at the seams with inspiration and ideas for current literary practices. By embracing an intermedia approach--one where music, photography, visual art, poetry and performance all live in the same room--Liz Kotz elegantly creates a compelling portrait of our digitized networked present. The implications are radical: by gazing backwards, this book predicts the future."Craig Dworkin Amazon.com "Words to Be Looked At is a landmark account of the central story of post-war art: the first sustained investigation of the 'linguistic turn' that has defined the arts since the 1960s. As Kotz details with unequalled authority and insight, language became a primary media for artists in...

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This exhibition was curated by Isabella Puliafito. It demonstrated the language in art, for the most part conceptual works, of the 1970's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.