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The labels are shaped like square cartoon bubbles and contain the first names of visual poets and the last names as descriptive verbs of their work. The center collage consists of lips, a map and sphere-like object which altogether resemble an eye. -- 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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The pages consist of search engine printouts of visual poetry on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Additional names involved: deAraujo A ; Figallo T ; Smith WJ ; Lora-Totino A ; Bohn W.

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Includes drawing of Giovanni Baroni, Vittore's son. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...