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Note that "Tonto or" No.7 pamphlet that was included in this collection is stored in a portfolio box with other issues of "Tonto or." This collection also includes two Standing Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Opening Numbers 2 & 4 edited by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts six word and image columns that include the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy, numbered cubes and aphorisms. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Images consist of language towers, number tower, the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy and Uncle Sam dipping an Englishman into a pot of tea. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A drawing of four windows in a partially drawn bolted door. The graphite pencil is worked onto the surface of the paper so that the glass panes have a silvery reflection. The complete text printed at the top of the drawing reads, " Although the Meteorological Office has not yet released the forecast for September, it is not expected to be a cheerful one. " Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bluebeard's Castle by Ronald King, "Ein Deutsches Reqyiem - After Brahms" by Tom Phillips, "S.M.S." Issues No.1,3,4,5, "De Morandi" by Ian Tyson, and "Selected Shorter Poems" by Emmett Williams, which were exhibited, are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Printed by John Furnival as a single or as two copies, probably trial proofs, and never realized as an edition. Ten prints comprise an identical grid of 64 different ampersands in different colors on different colored paper stock and weights. There are 2 copies of the title page. In 6 prints, a grid of 31 x 32 ampersands is manipulated from a rectangular to an overprinted optical image. Three grids of 64 ampersands are identical. The Sackner copy is the most complete copy of this work. In Ceolfrith 14, Furnival's exhibition catalogue 1971, the work is mentioned by Bann and interpeted by Furnival as an incomplete folder. Getty Research Institute, the only other collection with this work indicated that the prints consist of dense rows of ampersands in a variety of styles, printed and overprinted. Their copy is dated 1969 snd contains 6 prints.. A version called "Amber sands" was constructed in wood by Kenelm Cox for the Brighton Festival, 1967. Cf. Concrete poetry -- Source of...

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Depicts a summer landscape through double windows and lists 19 words, several archaic or made-up, that describe the weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is also designated Jargon Society Card No.17. It depicts a portrait of the composer, Anton Bruckner, with an ant on his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts the Arc d'Triomphe as a shaped poem formed by collaged newsprint and calligraphic text. This Parisian structure is depicted facing the Avenue des Grandes Armees. The latter serves as a metaphor for part of an ejaculate from another of the print, viz., a penis shaped from collaged newsprint & calligraphic text that is a metaphor for the young revolutionaries in the May 1968 student led rebellion in France. Texts in the poem support the May 1968 action against the government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Typed on graph paper. Cinicolo ruminates on making an almanac with Anthony Harwood and trying to get a grant to attend St Martins.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard mentions that he edited Anthony Harwood's text and wanted Furnival to design the cover for the book. He also states that he would like to review Cinicolo's new book, Sky Blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ca - Tea in the title can be read as [Erik] Satie, the French avant garde music composer who is depicted in full figure view at the top of the pedestal in this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was organized by the students of Bath Academy of Art to carry out projects proposed by their three teachers, Furnival, Finlay, and Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the catalogue for an international exhibition of concrete, intermedia, and related work at Arlington Mill, Bibury, Gloucestershire held from July to September, 1966. This copy also has poet's names in graphite handwriting scrawled on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the catalogue for an international exhibition of concrete, intermedia, and related work at Arlington Mill, Bibury, Gloucestershire held from July to September, 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a review of the exhibition "The Open and Closed Book," the reviewer singles out a John Furnival sreen "Manhattan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print is a reproduction of a black and white photograph of Astrid, John's wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image is a contemporaneous photograph of Astrid Furnival in 1958 with a reproduced typewriter poem by Houedard in its right upper corner, Halley [Halley's Comet]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.