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This catalogue lists magazines rather than individual author's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The six essays in this catalog provide a history of the contemporary correspondence art movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book served as a catalogue for an exhibition entitled, "Visual Poetry International," held at gallery 'de doelen' Rotterdam and later at Centre 't Hoogt, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1975. There is also a supplement to the book with the same title as well as an exhibition poster that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Leiber's catalogues show a consistent, innovative design. This issue with alphabetical notebook tabs sponsored by Rose Holtz, references several offerings to the Sackner Archive Catalog of 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Julio Plaza, Gabriela Suzana Wilder, and Calcida Teixeira da Costa. Includes several essays on the topic in both Portuguese and English. This is a good compendium of contemporaneous, international mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition presents works from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection as well as books made by students, staff and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalogue contains three essays on artists' books and the exhibition titled "Twenty-six (plus ten) Years Later: Nothing Left But Gas?" by AnneDorothee Boehme, "Artists' Books: Forever Young, Still Emerging and Not Yet Defined" by Christine E. Humpl, and "Value, the Book and the Artists' Book: A Re-evaluation of Cultural Meaning" by Melissa Azzi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Pavel Buchler who also wrote a seminal essay on Artist Books. It deals with books and book objects. Finlay contributed a pamphlet on blue stock paper bound into the book that consisted of the following text printed on facing pages. "greeness, leaf or bark - greeness, leaf or barque." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Juan Agius is the owner of Da Costa Editions. The Sackner Archive holds "Codice Transparente" by Alessandro Algardi and "Missing Work" by Juan Agius which are reproduced in this catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin was the curator. He was born August 27, 1949, in Budapest and is a Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism. In the 1970s, he studied medicine, but also participated in the underground arts scene of communist Budapest around Laszlo Beke as a folk singer. In 1976, he met the American prankster and Mail Artist David Zack at Art Club Budapest who then toured through Europe with his mail art collection. Zack encouraged Kantor to join him in America; Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978, lived one year with Zack and Blaster Al Ackerman in Portland, Oregon, encountering and working with artists from Mail Art and the industrial music scene. He was one of a couple of persons to whom Zack suggested to adopt the multiple identity Monty Cantsin, but only Kantor took this proposal seriously and adopted the Cantsin identity to the extent that it became chiefly associated with him....

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Provides both an historic background and a contemporary assessment of the Artist Book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This atalogue served as a major source for 1996 appraisals of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a large listing of Dieter Roth's works, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition included artist books in the following catagories: book object, book envelope, conceptual book, concrete book, process book, experimental book and photocopied book. There were no illustrations of the books in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.