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This catalogue lists artists' books from the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes first published English translation of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des by Daisy Aldan. The Sackner Archive also holds the separately issued hard cover book of Aldan's translation, the Cosmopolis version of 1897 and the 1914 version published after Mallarme's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in 1975 and reprinted by Marian Goodman Gallery in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition at workffortheeyetodo in London, April-May, 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition consisted of bookbindings submitted for competition to a prize. It included a binding by Alan Frederick Wood of "The Heart of a Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "Essays, manifestoes, critical and theoretical writings" the author traces the developement of visual poetry from Mallarme to contemporary multi-media poets. The essays concentrate on holographic techniques and specific holopoems of the author. The book includes in depth interview of Kac. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of an introduction into the history of concrete Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Diacono provides a parody of Stephan Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des." Diacono introduces the poem that he designates "a metrica n'aboolira with cartoons. He then cancells the 1914 layout with blue and orange colored rectangles to bring out its constructivistic presentation. Diacono's book predates the more famous cancelled text treatment by Marcel Broodthaers, a work also held by the Sackner Archive, that was published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Diacono provides a parody of Stephan Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des." Diacono introduces the poem that he designates "a metrica n'aboolira with cartoons. He then cancells the 1914 layout with blue and orange colored rectangles to bring out its constructivistic presentation. Diacono's book predates the more famous cancelled text treatment by Marcel Broodthaers, a work also held by the Sackner Archive, that was published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ruth Sackner contributed an essay to this issue titled "the Avant-Garde Book: Precursor of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Artist's Book." Writing about Tom Phillips' A Humument, she stated "The blending of literature, poetry, and visual art is extremely successful in the work of Tom Phillips. In the main, his work derives from personal intellectual explorations, mythological languages, historic paintings, postcard images, and classical literature and poetry. These are presented in an amazing variety of artistic formats. Tom Phillips has used the book in particular to span the distinction between word and image, for as he says, "in a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."" "Ending as a book" may very well be the credo of contemporary book artists who knowingly continue the ideas of the avant-garde and the concrete and vis-ual poets into our...

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Hirschman contributes a long critical essay on Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" and its relationship to Pierre Boulez's "Third Piano Sonata." Hirschman points out that the study of "Un Coup de Des" inspired him to write "Interchange" about Los Angeles in which the pages can be interchanged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book provides a detailed historic survey of French poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts images of each one of the works offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology and critical review of illustrated books produced by the great art publishing houses of France, e.g., Ambrois Vollard, Henry Kahnweiler, Albert Skira, Aime Maeght, Iliazd, Teriade, Pierre Lecuire, Louis Broder, and Pierre Andre Benoit. Reproductions of books deaccssioned by the Sackner Archive include La Prose du Transsiberien by Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars and Maximiliana by Iliazd and Max Ernst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The left sided portion of the book consist of bound pages that focuses on Mallarme's typographic treatment of the poem. The right side of the book consists of a portfolio of nine, unbound, folded prints which contains 68 plates each related to a page of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. The interpretations are similar in concept to Marcel Broodthaers work (also held by the Sackner Archive) in which each phrase of the poem is cancelled with a solid black rectangle. In Fraenkel's interpretation, from the 1897 Cosmopolis version, the spaces between the cancelled text are reconstructed with hand-drawn markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The painted images are abstracted floral still lifes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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DeCampos responds to a classification system proposed by Houedard by pointing out "visual organization of words, with an overemphasis on relations of proximity and resemblance between them, leads ineluctably to an equivalent overemphasis on sound, implying a dynamical use of paronomasia and alliteration that explains why Brazilian young musicians have been so much interested in many of our seeming eyepoems, and in the making of oral presentations for them." He states he wrote to Hugh Kennerabout Ezra Pound and received a sympathetic response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.