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The exhibition was titled "In Transit: An Exhibit of Art Works from 3 Continents" and was sponsored by Art Works, Art/Life, Eins von Hundert, and Arte Postale. These artist publications are held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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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Program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Franklin Furnace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Yoshiaki Tono. The curator classifies the artist book as 1) documentation and memory holder, 2) unopenable object, 3) performance, 4) concept, 5) picture show, 6) skin, and 7) miscellaneous. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition catalogue documents a retrospective of works by Lebel. It provides detailed information regarding the "Happenings" that scandalized Paris with transvestite and sado-masochistic performances which were orchestrated by Lebel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a sumptuously illustrated catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition of works by and documentation of avant garde Japanese artists 1920-1970. Contains maps and diagrams that depict avant garde art in Japan in relation to world art movements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter provides instructions for a performance piece that was mailed as a solicitation for a contribution to the New York artist bookshop, "Printed Matter." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card is an invitation to the opening reception. This exhibition announcement was designed by Eileen Boxer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.