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Nine stamps with different variations of the "smiley face." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reviews international small press publications of alternative art with emphasis on visual/verbal imagery from 1968-1988. The bibliography includes a listing of the Sackner Archive catalogue and is divided into 1) art/poetry movements, e.g. Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Concrete and Visual Poetry, Mail Art, Artistic Rubberstamps, Xerox Art, etc. as well as 2) listing periodicals by alphabetical order and country of publication. Perneczky also lists Art Archives holding such materials. It is noteworthy that the publication of this book was supported by the George Soros Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is based on the Lewis Carroll masterpieces "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There." Vittore Baroni had a life-long fascination with the writing of Carroll and Alice's adventures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Critical text by Al Ackerman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists mostly of reviews of small mags dealing with Situationist and Anarchist literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Al Ackerman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This project comprised two looseleaf notebooks (I & II) with plastic sleeves pages. It included "188 answers, excluding latecomers, to 308 letters sent from Rosewell, New Mexico" by John Furnival. A self portrait photograph of each recipient was supposed to be placed into the windowed envelope and remailed to Furnival. However, many participants sent portraits of others clipped from printed materials. The envelopes and their contents were often highly decorated and contained personal notes to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Patricia Tavenner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Terrence McMahon curated this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lost and Found Times was founded by John M. Bennett and Doug Landies in 1975 and currently continues with Bennett as editor. This anthology contains a selection of text and graphics from isssues 1 to 39. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue features 53 essays on international aspects of visual poetry and individual poets. There are several poets cited in the essays whose works are not depicted in the exhibition. The essays deal with such topics as Mantova and visual poetry, political poetry dealing with war, visual poetry objects, futurism and Zaum, musical aspects of visual poetry, the periodical Lotto Poetica, Neoism, Oyvind Fahlstrom, constellations, Emilio Villa, Mario Diacono, Marcel Duchamp, calligraphic aspects of visual poetry, Quebec visual poetry, Carlo Belloli, Portuguese visual poetry, poema processo, Yugoslavian visual poetry, Carlfriedrich Claus, analysis of Brazilian concrete poetry, South American visual poetry, Gruppo 70, Joan Brossa, concrete and visual poetry in Japan, concrete poetry in England, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Lettrisme, visual poetry in Spain, Francesco Conz, and collections of Paolo Berardelli, Francesco Conz, Adriano Parise, and Giuseppe Verzeletti. All of these essays...