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This catalogue lists examples of artistic ephemeral material (mainly exhibition announcements) for sale in a presentation that is designed with the cover and format like the art magazine, "Artforum" but which is titled "Artform." The annotations include reference to the 1986 catalogue of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Franklin Furnace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dick Higgins comments are printed on the verso of the plywood cover. They read "Calling, a Happening by Allan Kaprow performed in and out of New York in the summer of 1965, is one of the landmarks of the form, and its scenario typifies the poetic rictual syle he has developed. This present graphic representation, however, began as an improvision when Kaprow, playing with a set of rubber stamp letters, stamped out each word of the scenario on a separate index card. I continued the game by assembling the cards on the copyboard of a graphic arts camera and shooting themby adding an element of color play. The resulting object os not, however, a final one in any sense. While the original acenario may be read by starting from bottom to top, right hand column to left hand, on the silver, blue, red, yellow, and, finally, brown sheets, there are other stories which the reader is invited to tell, other games for him to play." Kaprow died at age 78 years in San Diego on April 5, 2006 --...

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The Sackners purchased Jackson MacLow's drawing, "A Vocabulary for Sharon Belle Mattlin," from this show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the material lists works by Allan Kaprow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several listings in this catalog reference the Sackner Archive catalog of 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue is an example of Neo-Dada with found texts (these are cited in a bibliogrpahy on a loose sheet) opposite the item for sale bearing minimal relation to that item. The annotated items for sale are covered by a tipped-in, photocopied, reproduction from the item. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was in the collection of Jan van der Marck, director of the MOCA and curator of the exhibition. He wrote in the introduction, "What characterizes the majority of works in this exhibition is their complex permutation of words and images. The resulting visual language tends towards poetic rather than communicative functions." Van der Marck also wrote the biographies of the artists. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for the limited edition box with contributions from the artists that was assembled for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.