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Williams writes in his forward, "The fables - on the right-hand pages of the book - came first. Only gradually, after several exhibitions of these far-fetched fictions, did I come to realize that there was at least an iota, a jot or a tittle of truth - and sometimes a big blob of reality - in each and everyone one of them. And here, for the first time, the documentation appears opposite the collages themselves...on the left hand pages, opposite each of the cartoons, are enlightening documents from the author's personal archive relating some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art 'show biz' over the years." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...

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Peter Moore's photograph appears on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In her essay "The Myth and the Mythmaker," curator Kathleen Edwards wrote that Roth was influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Buzz Spector contributed an essay "The Artist as Archivist, The Book as Body: Dieter Roth's Gesammelte Werke." He defined an Archive as a "repository of texts and/or images organized around a given subject. It provides for a relation of general equivalence between its components, and for a means of sorting through their accumulation. Unlike dictionaries or encyclopedias, which define words or ideas in relation to general linguistic or cultural models, and whose cognitive "force" is directed centrifugally, toward the margins of a discursive terrain, the force of the archive is centipetal, drawing in traces of its concern that coalesce to form clearer - which is to say, denser, more focused - insights into the meaning of its subject." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Emmett Williams writes about his creation of the Alphabet Symphony for the Festival of Misfits in London in 1962. The performance was one of the first Fluxus events even before the name Fluxus was used. It was preceded by the first Festum Fluxorum the previous month in Weisbaden with Williams and Ben Paterson as the only certified Fluxus artists. Paterson contributed an essay and conducted Williams' alphabet performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Francesco Conz contributed an essay "Winterreise" about his visits to Fluxus artists in Europe. Hannah Higgins writes about "Fluxus and the Sensible Thought c. 2001." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition catalogue describes the philosophy, attitudes, influences and purposes of Fluxus. It documents Fluxus editions, periodicals and bibliographic materials. Includes a chronology of Fluxus performances from 1962 to 1978. The exhibition was curated by Jon Hendricks. R.W, Smith: Massive exhibition of 683 works organized in three parts: Fluxus Editions & Related Works; Fluxus Periodicals and Documents, Related Publications and Bibliographic Material; and Fluxus Performance: Documentation of Events. Introduction by John Hendricks; A Complete History of Fluxus, Including Philosophy, Attitudes, Influences and Purposes (consisting of statements by Fluxus artists and Fluxus founder George Maciunas reproduced in facsimile); chronology of Fluxus Performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes several illustrations of editions published by Francesco Conz and Sarenco. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was co-curated by Hans Sohm and consisted of material from his Archive. It included a chronology of Fluxus performances. Haralld Szeeman (1933-2005) was a Swiss curator and art historian whose Archive and Library was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy was especially signed for the Sackners on their birthdays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The dust jacket was designed by Ay-O. The text is based upon personal reminiscences and correspondence from friends of Maciunas gathered by Emmett Williams and Ann Noel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book recounts Williams' autobiography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Ann Noel box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.