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The books exhibited were part of the collection of Arthur and Elaine Cohen, owners of Ex Libris, NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

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An exhibition of books, mauscripts, graphics and objects from the Howard L. & Muriel Weingrow Fine Arts Collection. Written and compiled by Haim Finklestein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Traces the manifestations of Futurisms in three sections - La Velocita, I Rumori, Il Movimento. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of an long essay on the history of word-image works begining with Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des..." to Concrete Poetry by A. Schug. The folding of the book is similar to Cendrars and Delauney's "Transsiberian Railway." The latter is reproduced in color as a facsimile in the same dimensions when this catalogue is fully opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The verso of the poster is a photographic reproduction of the title page of El Lissitzky's "Sieg Uber Die Sonne" print suite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.