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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This is a re-edited book by Rachel Simkover from the original Something Else Press edited by Emmett Williams in 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The styrofoam objects on the cover have the appearance of two breasts. This second edition of this book object differs from every page ranging from subtle ornamentation, typeface, layout or content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds the calligraphic drawing for the printed format poem on page 31 entitled "regelmassig." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In addition to a theater review, this issue includes reprinted examples of concrete poems from Material, a periodical edited by Daniel Spoerri. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Claus Bremer was born in 1924 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet is a trade edition reprinting of a 1835 novel with marginalia by Spoerri and an introductory essay by Claus Bremer. It is stored in the Bremer box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a brief survey of German language speaking concrete poetic works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was based upon proceedings of 17th annual workshop sponored by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Reinhold Grimm wrote a detailed, historical, illustrated essay on emblem, concrete and shaped poetry titled, "Poems and/as Pictures: A Quick Look at Two and a Half Millennia of Ongoing Aesthetic Intercourse." Sixty five examples of such poems are depicted. Grimm provides several shaped poems by different authors from George Herbert to Eugen Gomringer on "meditative wings." A shaped poem by an anonymous author entiltled "Cube" (1710) is printed in German and Yiddish (Figure 29). ee cummings' poem "Grasshopper" (1935) is reprinted (Figure 32). Includes three erotic shaped poems by Reinhold Aman, editor of the magazine, Maledicta (Figures 62-64). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Foreword for this anthology involving permutations of groups of four words, sentences &/or images was contributed by Pierre Garnier. The afterword was done by Dieter Mahlow. The 70 Roman numeral designated books were distributed to the artists (Sackner copy); the remaining 80 numbered copies were offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One long poem has the phrase in German, "strings always in that remains" repeated in a long vertical column about 100 times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is no English identification nor illustrations in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.