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This copy is from the deluxe edition of five copies. The tirage of the ordinary edition without the drawing is not provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The duplicate copy does not have folds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was a collaboration among the artists, the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) and the Galerie Le Chanjour (Nice). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book compiles a series of interviews of Isou by Devaux that took place between November 1991 and January 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this festival was avant-garde film and audio-visual works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each stylized playing card depicts a photographic portrait of a lettrist artist with varied lettrist symbols and/or calligraphic styles that are printed directly on the photograph. These are associated with the visual works of the specific artists. Some markings are also directly painted onto the photographs. For some artists, the letters of their names appear as negative spaces on the photographs. Isidore Isou contributed an introduction to this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In one copy, there is a letter enclosed from Scott Helmes to the Sackners mentioning that he didn't get to see much of the show because the gallery didn't open on time. There is also a newspaper clipping of a review by Alan Artner, the art critic of the Chicago Tribune. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Frederique Devaux. It was advised that No.21 of this periodical by Michel Amarger was a unique example and was deposited in the Bibliotheque Nationale -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Francoise Canal and Albert Dupont. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners attended this exhibition and purchased the first Albert Dupont work from this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The documentation of this experimental lettriste film in the accompanying book was written by Frederique Devaux.Wikipedia: Treaty of drool and eternity is an experimental film French written and directed by Isidore Isou in 1951 , produced by Marc'O and mounted with the help of Maurice Lemaitre . Duration: 120 min. This is the first work of cinema Lettrist . This film caused a scandal at Cannes in 1951 and received the Prix Spectators Avant-Garde. This film is based on the principle Isou called discrepant assembly, which consists of a total disjunction between sound and image, processed independently without any meaningful relationship. Thus, the soundtrack consists of poems Lettrists (for generic and interludes), which is added a narrative telling the story of Daniel, author of a manifesto for a new cinema (the cinema discrepant) of his speech in front of a hostile audience and his love affair with a woman named Eve. The empowerment of its purpose to do to reach their full...