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The Sackner Archive lent several pictures to the exhibition and participated in the seminar. Critical essays for the catalogue were written by Bill Gass and Johanna Drucker. In addition, the Sackners lent Tom Phillips' Dante Diary pages and manuscripts to the Olin Library for an exhibition in Special Collections curated by Kevin Ray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent several pictures to the exhibition and participated in the seminar. Critical essays for the catalogue were written by Bill Gass and Johanna Drucker. In addition, the Sackners lent Tom Phillips' Dante Diary pages and manuscripts to the Olin Library for an exhibition in Special Collections curated by Kevin Ray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is number 10 of Avant Garde Critical Studies and is based on the Yale Symphosophia held in April 1995 which was originally conceived to honor the Brazilian Concrete poet Haroldo de Campos on his 75th birthday. The symposium brought together over forty poets and performers and produced this volume of review and critical appraisal of an international perspective of avant garde poetic production. The volume includes the scholarly papers delivered at Yale and is divided into the following themes: Experimentation and Its Historical Moment; Experimentation in the Language Arts; Concrete and Neo-Concrete Poetry including Memoirs of Concrete; The Yale Symphosymposium on Contemporary Poetics and Concretism - A World View from the 1990s. The Sackners were invited to attend the symposium and were noted in the preface as follows: The Symposophia benefited from the perspectives of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, professional collectors representing the most extensive and complete archive of...

Scope and Contents This book is number 10 of Avant Garde Critical Studies and is based on the Yale Symphosophia held in April 1995 which was originally conceived to honor the Brazilian Concrete poet Haroldo de Campos on his 75th birthday. The symposium brought together over forty poets and performers and produced this volume of review and critical appraisal of an international perspective of avant garde poetic production. The volume includes the scholarly papers delivered at Yale and is divided into the following themes: Experimentation and Its Historical Moment; Experimentation in the Language Arts; Concrete and Neo-Concrete Poetry including Memoirs of Concrete; The Yale Symphosymposium on Contemporary Poetics and Concretism - A World View from the 1990s. The Sackners were invited to attend the symposium and were noted in the preface as follows: The Symposophia benefited from the perspectives of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, professional collectors representing the most extensive and complete archive of...

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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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An essay in this catalogue by Johanna Drucker deals mainly with the biography and work of Miriam Laufer who was the mother of Susan Bee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the inside flap of the book: Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture"”yet still struggling to escape the oppositional legacy of the early-twentieth-century avant-garde. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices.Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture"”all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-garde. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary...

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Part of the series Interpretations in Art, this book is subtitled "Visual Art and the Critical Tradition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.