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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This documentation includes a letter of introduction by Johanna Drucker to the Dutch collector Meneer C.A. Groenendijk written on December 8, 1978, that requests an appointment to show him "from A to Z." Drucker has included a four page resume with the letter. A handwritten letter to the collector, dated January 17th, is included with ten typed pages of an explanation of "from A to Z." The detailed, personal, complex description illuminates the typographic masterpiece and writing of this poet/printer at the early stages of her career, and was considered lost until it was purchased by Marvin Sackner from a bookdealer in Holland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of five essays on artists books with extensive footnotes and a detailed bibiliography. Lucy Lippard is quoted on Artist Books as "not books about art, or on artists, but books as art. They can be all words, all images, or combinations thereof. At best they are a lively hybrid of exhibition, narrative, and object." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript summarizes books and essays published by Kostelanetz over the years dealing with the subject of the title. He has dedicated the book to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drucker annotates each book she has created and printed under her early imprint Chased Press and the current Druckwerk. The loose sheet provides the current prices of her works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This consists of the labels used for the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Charles Bernstein writes in the introductory essay that "Figuring the Word" is a wide-ranging collections of Drucker's essays in which she "presents herself as a visual artist, a literary writer, a scholar/historian, and an aesthetician. In all these areas, Drucker has made substantial contributions. But it is her synthesis of these fields that is her most extrardinary achievement." Chapters of collected essays in the book include Writing as Artifact, including a section on hypergraphy and Maurice Lemaitre; Visual Poetics; Artists' Books Past and Future; The Future of Writing; Personal Writing. In the section "The Interior Eye: Performing the Visual Text," Drucker traces visual poetry in the perfomance work of Massin & Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," Tzara's "Boxe," Marinetti's "At Night," Iliazd "Lendentua as Beacon," and Gomringer's "Ping Pong" and other icons of visual poetry.In the section, "Iliazd and the Book as a Form of Art," Drucker discusses and/or illustrates the...

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The reading of an essay by Johanna Drucker in this issue, "Letterpress Language: Typography as a Medium for the Visual Representation of Language" led the Sackners to contact Drucker and begin their long friendship and collecting of her works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Johanna Drucker, Jerry Cullum and Glen Harper contributed essays on Ruth Laxson to this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These notes were prepared for the Teachers' Conference at The Neuberger Museum on October 28th, 1998 in conjunction with The Next Word Exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.