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Calligrams are presented in French and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing on the colophon page consists of a large K in ink and green graphite. Two phrases are handwritten at the top and bottom of the K: "Quand bien meme lance dans des circonstances eternelles" and "Toute pensee emet un coup de des." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue reproduces and documents Massin's book and record covers as well as some typographic layouts and bookbindings. The drawing on the colophon page consists of the letter K with an arm and leg hand drawn and colored. Inscribed on each side of the K is the phrase "Cette lettre K qui derive du [symbol of bent arrow] Phenicien." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. The Sackner Archive also holds the first edition that was printed in French. This reprinted edition is an English translation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an oustanding reference to the artistic times in Paris in the first part of the 20th century. The Sackners' reading of the book prompted them to purchase Stein's "Dix Portraits." The latter is described on pages 323-324. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an oustanding reference to the artistic times in Paris in the first part of the 20th century. The Sackners' reading of the book prompted them to purchase Stein's "Dix Portraits." The latter is described on pages 323-324. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages of this book have been deacidified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The editor states that the 17 essays in this book are concerned with poetry readings, the sound of poetry and the visual performance of poetry. They "offer original and wide-ranging elucidations of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art." Johanna Drucker contributed a chapter titled "Visual Performances of the Poetic Text" in which she describes and illustrates several poems of early 20th century visual poetry movements including an in depth analysis of "Poesie de mots inconnus" by Iliazd, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive. A listing of audio resources and a bibliography are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Features examples of Arabic and Oriental shaped poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first of what was to have been a two volume work; the author died before completing Volume Two. This first volume covers the classic age of collage, prior to WW II and contains some material on the 1950's and 1960's. The author, Dr. Herta Wescher, was the friend of many Bauhaus and other collage artists.Her writing embodies the enthusiasm, humor, affection, and personal comprehension of a participant in the lively and contentious circles she frequented. Assiduously she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material. Thanks to her research, the reader may not only see the output of world-famous collagists, but also may meet the brilliant but often neglected Czech adherents of Futurist and later styles; the Russian Avant Garde; the loners from various parts of the world, all of whom helped make collage one of the most direct and unguarded forms of expression in the long history of art." --...

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Auction catalogue. In addition to books, this auction included several reviews, personal letters and bookbindings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 15 reproduces a colored calligram by Apollinaire that is held by the Sackner Archive in a limited edition of 10 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bayard, in her Ph.D. dissertation, traces the beginning, growth and development of concrete poetry in Canada and focuses on styles of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a critical text dealing with issues after the exhibition, "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue has a fairly detailed biography of de Zayas. The exhibition features caricatures of famous poets and artists, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.