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Contains two reproductions from "Mise en Page," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book traces the history of concrete-visual-shaped poetry from ancient times to the earl avant garde movements of the 20th century and concludes with Hungarian works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book explores the ways in which books represent art and literature, and how the marriage of word and image can create a work of art in its own right. Chapters include the following: Illumination, Bindings, Documentary Manuscripts, Children's Books, Comics, Poetry and Experimental Typography, Book Art and Contemporary Art and Publishing. It also includes a history of the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Several examples of the books depicted in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several of the contemporary artist/poets works are represented in the Archive.Some definitions are of the book/poetry forms are not in the mainstream of classification. For example, Bob Cobbing's abstract sound poetry scores are classified as visual poetry in contrast to the more usual classification of visual poetry along the lines of poesia visiva.Under the citation of the John-Eric Broaddus book, Marvin Sackner's comments about his working methods are...