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On this DVD that runs 72 minutes, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour ot their Miami Beach home/museum - the largest private collection of its kind. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the world speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful lifeof collecting art, poetry, and artists books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On this DVD that runs 72 minutes, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour ot their Miami Beach home/museum - the largest private collection of its kind. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the world speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful lifeof collecting art, poetry, and artists books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Johanna Drucker contributes an introductory essay on historic aspects of visual poetry which is carried forth to multimedia information systems of today. She also was responsible for the cover design. Karl Young contributes an afterword in which he focuses on mail art. He particularly addresses his own, ongoing Shadow Project that refers to the faint traces people left on nearby surfaces after they were vaporized by the atomic bombs in Japan. Young indicates that d.a. levy stands out as the major figure in the last three decades who left an indelible inprint on underground publications and visual poetry. He also adds that Tom Phillips is the most complete book artist. The Sackner Archive partially funded this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with romance, self revelation, and poets and writers in her life while she lived in San Francisco bay area as expressed with "tour de force" experimental typography and layout. Drucker purchased a variety of cold typefaces for letterpress printing and set out to use the entire set in writing this book. As a reviewer writes, "Linguistic architecture in the personal voice as manifest in particular elements of vigorous typographic representation." In a personal communication to the Sackners, Drucker stated that 100 copies were intended but only 96 were actually collated.The following explanation of the book as copied from a 10 typed page letter, dated January 1979, addressed to Mr Groenendijk, a collector living in Amsterdam, is reproduced below. This letter is held by the Sackner Archive - the Sackners sent a copy to Johanna Drucker after a personal communication revealed that she did not have a copy in her possession.I did this book...

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The piece has writing on it in two places, reading, "I was a trophy wife" and "After us the savage god."

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Includes several statements concerning visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first five pages feature a large heavy black printed "T" surrounded by or incorporated with letters or parts of words printed in black. The large letter completes the word. This is followed by pages that use one large black printed letter on subsequent pages to spell out the title of the book. In turn, these letters are surrounded by or incorporate letters or words printed in black or red ink. The smaller black letters have varied typefaces and dimensions while the red letters are printed with the same uppercase typeface. The typography is a modern day version of the style used by Ilia Zdanevich when in lived in Tiflis, Russia in the teens and twenties. In his books of that time, he printed two letters in a vertical row adjacent to one larger letter repetitively to indicate multiple words. Drucker has written a biography on Iliazd as Zdanevich was known when he migrated to Paris and appears to have been influenced by this distinctive typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin...

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Consists of commentary on each page of the completed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typography and spatial arrangement of text is highly experimental. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cotter reviews "The Next Word" at the Neuberger Museum of Art to which the Sackner Archive lent 25 books and pictures. Several of the works from the Archive are specifically described in the article including a manuscript by Jack Hirschman, a drawing by Anne Wolf, Emily McVarish's pasted-up words locked inside a metal frame, Paula Scher's "Opinionated Map: Central and South America" in which every inch on the Southern Hemisphere that is jammed with critical annotationt. "Elsewhere, the printed text, often taking a cue from advertising, comes to the fore. Blair Seagram's 'U Temp est Us' uses a sleek sans-serif type, offbeat spacing and shifting character sizes to hide phrases within other phrases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.