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Stored in Chopin box. Amazon.com: Since the 1960s, conceptual artists Henri Chopin (Pairs-London), Guy de Cointet (Paris-Los Angeles) and Channa Horwitz (Los Angeles) have dedicated themselves to analyzing system deducing the rules and consolidating them into visible structures. This book accompanied the parallel where drawings by these three respected artists generate new meaning as the aesthetic-visual translation of early post-structuralist thought. A Void, taken from George Perec's experimental novel, which famously did not include the letter 'e' as a nod to language epistemological constraints. Riffing on this idea, the artists' works seem clearly embroiled in such systems of meaning-making. Horwitz's on the boundary of symbol and performance, while Chopin explored the line between chaos and order. de Cointet left behind an oeuvre characterized by codes and puzzles for future generations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds one of the typewriter drawings from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typings to simulate artworks of well known artists has also been used by Jiri Kolar in several works held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a typewriter piece that depicts geometric imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a typewriter piece that has geometric imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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S. Wiese wrote the text. Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...

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This exhibition was curated by Craig Saper and Theo Lutz. The Sackner Archive lent 25 artists' books and 23 typewriter works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typewriter composition depicted in this pamphet is dated 1923/1929? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The poems have the appearance and sound quality of Rap Concrete Poetry like those composed by Kenneth Goldsmith.Wikipedia: William "Bill" Keith (January 20, 1929 -- September 1, 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s.As his work developed, Keith concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. This development toward African roots and branches led away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. Consequently, Keith developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts.An example of Keith's recreation of the substance of his visual style and the very nature of...