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The poem object by Ennio Pouchard entitled, "Leggere Parole" that is photographically reproduced in this catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. Mirella Bentivoglio conducted an interview of the four participating artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Images of automotive vehicles form a single letter on each page which together spell "TRAFFICO." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Catalog for the exhibition is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the works in this exhibition date from the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Julio Plaza, Gabriela Suzana Wilder, and Calcida Teixeira da Costa. Includes several essays on the topic in both Portuguese and English. This is a good compendium of contemporaneous, international mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealing mainly with illustrated books was curated by Ralph Jentsch. The essay for this brochure was written by Riva Castleman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealing mainly with illustrated books was curated by Ralph Jentsch. Several books in the exhibition (by Carmi, Pignotti, Anselmo and the Futurists) incorporating visual poetry and Parole In Liberta are also held by the Sackner Archive. The citations of the books are listed in a bibliographically, organized style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bentivoglio provided an introductory essay to this catalogue that featured solely women artists and poets. Amelia Etlinger contributed a typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Giancarlo Pavanello. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue is described on the back cover as follows: "Artists' books have emerged over the last twenty-five years as one of the most engaging contemporary art forms, addressing subjects from poetry to politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers have played a primary role in developing this new mode of artistic expression. The Book as Art presents more than one hundred of the finest artists' books culled from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. These exquisitely crafted objects are certain to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book." In her essay, "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" curator Krystyna Wasserman writes, "Among private collections, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Achives of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, has been a source of continual revelation and several...

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The exhibition was curated by Krystyna Wasserman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition Included Jochen Gerz's "Buchobjekt" which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Ruggero Maggi. The essays and art works in this book all relate to the chaos and fractal theory in mathematics, art and poetry. As Angelo Bertani writes in his essay, On Apparent Order and Chaos, "What seems to be extremely significant is the artist's need (now extremely widespread) to go out from protected, appointed places and instead, contend directly with existence, with the richess of material, with the spaces of life: in this sense, the creeping crisis of painting, the growing prevalence of installations and video-works are a sign, beyond the current fashion of the will to contend with change, accident and the relative: the other names for chaos. Moreover, in a world where technology prevails, perhaps only the ways of art can inser ta fragment of liberty into the oppressive mechanism of necessity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.