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The drawing consists of the word "all" written repetitively in several colors lined up in a 16 x 15 grid. A varient of this drawing with a vertical orientation is depicted in de vries book, "eschinau sutra" (2002). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Argumentstellen was conceived just one year after Wit weiss (a new version of the White book) and Permutierbarer text (but was published in 2003). It is a direct result of his recent reading of Tractatus. This large format book wherein a minuscule black dot always appears in a different location on the vast blank space of the page, does not treat language as such, but the way in which situation in the space (which is an attribute of all existing things, natural or human) implies a unique point of view each time, a never identical relation to the connection between the things that make up the world. indirectly, however, language is involved to the extent that it is powerless to say that which is never the same. This book visually translates (and illustrates) one of Wittgenstein's propositions (2.0131), quoted on the last page: "a spatial object must be situated in infinite space. (a spatial point is an argument-place)." It foreshadows the series of works on the experience...

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Documents the publications of Group Zero. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book includes a minimalist poem by Wolf Wezel about de Vries' work. The pages depict intersecting rectangles based upon mathematical operations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a listing of De Vries works still available for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhbition in 1967 was the first manifestation of the international postwar Avantgarde Art in Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Herman De Vries contributes an article on his white paintings and poems. Urs and Ros Graf describe and illustrate the versatilitiy of De Vries in their essay ...to be all ways to be... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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With the exception of a page with collaged dried leaves, the other pages of this book depict black on white or colored, calligraphic, concrete poetic drawings. The book was meant to accompanyve vries' exhibition, "herman de vries different & identical." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction to this print series Nannucci writes that "The growing importance of the visual over the verbal which started developing during the fifties, has doubtlessly influenced the proliferation of experimental poetry all over the world...This collection of unpublished poems is both a survey of the field made up to the end of the year 1970 and a proposal for the continuation of experimental work in poetry and for th e qualitative renewal of its original aspects." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction to this print series Nannucci writes that "The growing importance of the visual over the verbal which started developing during the fifties, has doubtlessly influenced the proliferation of experimental poetry all over the world...This collection of unpublished poems is both a survey of the field made up to the end of the year 1970 and a proposal for the continuation of experimental work in poetry and for the qualitative renewal of its original aspects." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheets consist of four joined postcards to be hung at the end of the spokes of an umbrella as an art object. Most but not all of the images deal with umbrellas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Kunstinformatie 36 (Vol.8 No.1). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Words constituting a constellation are printed horizontally, with each word in one of four different languages. These constellation are arranged at different angles across the surface such that the composition provides a visual impression of a contructivistic image. This work was loaned to the Museum of Modern Art NYC for their exhibition, "Eye on Europe: prints, books & mutiples 1960 to now." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a punctuation poem.Sims Reed email: Modern Artist Books comments: Herman DE VRIES.: Gesammelte Matritzendrucke 1964-1972. Bern. Verlag artists press. 1974. 4to. (29.3 x 20.9 cm).Title page, and 19 dot matrix prints. Publisher's stiff card wrappers,cloth spine. A collected volume of de Vries' typewriter matrices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book lists and depicts among other works all covers of issues of the eschenau summer press through 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.