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Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. This copy is a second edtion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These prints depict characteristic images of contemporary artists in typewriter format; only three of the eight images could be identified. This portfolio is rare and only one other copy could be located at Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia Italy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Segay appropriated Chopin's typewriter poems and overlaid them with his own markings. Pages from this book are reproduced in the exhibiton catalogue held by the Sackner Archive, "Die Verwandlung" (2013). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of punto (point) and linea (line) is interpreted with several calligraphic and typewritten processes, one to each page. The photocopied letter was posted by Roland Barthes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book, one to a page, were composed on a smith-corona sn 118432 typewriter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Spooool reproduces the one-off rolls written by Elizabeth Lebon between 2013 and 2014. The artist wrote with a typewriter on till rolls. "From Newquay to Brooksby's Walk" is 23 metres long. "Forwards not Forwards", "Tide Weighs Four", "Water Looking, Letter, Yes", and "Bodies" are all 10 m by 6 cm. These five texts tune in as five voices to Elizabeth Lebon's literary manifesto -- a 63-metre long typescript. The typewriter was used as a pretext for staying away from contemporary writing cliches. Repetition, mistakes, and fragile paper turn these rolls into an archetypal masterwork that took two years in the making, during which the artist's relationship with writing constantly drifted between form and content. Lebon developed a performance-oriented personal language, consistent with the very nature of her performances (see Twelve Tapestries). She sees this arrangement as a new form of writing that questions the sounds of her language -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This work consists of typed graphic compositions based upon piano execises. The single unique typing in this book is signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book object unfolds to form a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The books in this edition have different covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.