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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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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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Luciano Caruso contributed an introductory essay on Artist Books in Italy. The exhibition was divided into editioned books, book-objects, handwritten unique books, books with declarations, books incorporating unusual materials, and books using signs. 176 Italian book artists were represented in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition, in homage to Ulises Carrion for his promotion of artist's books, was curated and the catalogue edited by Martha Hellion. The books in this exhibition provide a contextural framework to present the theories that Carrion developed throughout the 1970's and 1980's in relation to artist's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a historic survey of women that have used language in art as well as women who are concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Adriano Spatola and Giovanni Fontana. It is extensively illustrated with examples of concrete and visual poetry and also depicts covers of small magazines published in this field. It provides the largest listing of contemporaneous concrete and visual poets working throughout the world. There is also a section on record jackets of sound poetry recordings. Niccolai and Spatola provide an introductory essay into concrete and visual poetry as follows: "The formulas "concrete" poetry and "visual" poetry are the most widepread in the world but they are only the tip of an iceberg up of at least a hundred definitions, for example: evident poetry, elementary poetry, gestural poetry, symbiotic poetry, ideographic poetry, spatial poetry, artificial poetry, casual poetry and so on. But to simplify matters, in writing this present statement, we will keep ourselves to the trade mark concreto & visuale. This exhibition is both a hypothesis of research and a...

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Adriano Spatola and Giovanni Fontana. It is extensively illustrated with examples of concrete and visual poetry and also depicts covers of small magazines published in this field. It provides the largest listing of contemporaneous concrete and visual poets working throughout the world. There is also a section on record jackets of sound poetry recordings. Niccolai and Spatola provide an introductory essay into concrete and visual poetry as follows: "The formulas "concrete" poetry and "visual" poetry are the most widepread in the world but they are only the tip of an iceberg up of at least a hundred definitions, for example: evident poetry, elementary poetry, gestural poetry, symbiotic poetry, ideographic poetry, spatial poetry, artificial poetry, casual poetry and so on. But to simplify matters, in writing this present statement, we will keep ourselves to the trade mark concreto & visuale. This exhibition is both a hypothesis of research and a...

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The 74 typographic prints by international designers are from the collection of Felix Beltran who also contributed a work. The prints were originally exhibited in Europe in the 1970's and were shown for the first time in North America at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides an anthology of Italian contemporary visual poetry along with statements by the contributing poets. Stored in Carrega box and reference shelf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue includes essays by Axel Marwuart, Siiegfried J. Schmidt, Klaus Peter Dencker, Bob Cobbing, Jeremy Adler, Manfred Sundermann, and Mirela Bentivoglio dealing with concrete, visual and sound poetry. The series of color photographs by Michael Badura depicted o pages 13 & 14 were held by the Sackner Archive but were damaged by light and had to be destroyed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.