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This book was made to honor the centenary of the birth of Arthur Rimbaud. The images are collaged to the 50 keys of a restored child's game. One image is collaged to the visible part of each key. Depression of the key, which is hinged, brings up two additional images, viz., one collaged to its undersurface, the other collaged to the surface that was covered by the upper part. The box of this object is covered by red cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The text and two drawings of this book were done by Pagiras, the book binding by Knoderer. The title of the book is The Electric Woman: A Little Erotic Tale. Tac. Tic. Tac...Electric woman, With a magnetic smile, Positively your Sssshhhhhhtttttt. Her third resonant eye, Luminous energy, Of electrodes, Fffffhhhhhtttttt. Caustic envelope, At the primary source, Of electronic bosoms, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Electric woman, Your negatively, Sssshhhhhhttttt. At the sundial disc, Stubborn, At the luminous oblivion, Of a dazzling logic, Ffffhhhhhhtttttt. Endothermic nudity, Chemically prisoner, Of a cathode tube, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Put me in gear, With the luminous needles, Of your electroacoustic awakening.Tic. Tac. Tic. Tac...This poem suggests that the woman in this poem has a great deal of inner electric energy which wants to be fleshed into the open. It compliments the sculpture of Miller Levy's "L'homme La femme" in which man is represented by a single on-off switch and woman by a plethora...

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The cover of the book depicts a cyclist who is composed of elements of graphic design e.g., exclamation point, question mark, parenthsis, commas, period, bracket, not-equal-to sign. This is the deluxe edition which contains 5 prints numbered 2/60 and prints on velin d'arche numbered 2/20. The Sackner Archive also holds "The Cyclist" by William Jay Smith published in 1995 by Stone House Press. Dupont and Smith were introduced by the Sackners in Paris and shortly thereafter became collaborators. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Every other line of poetry is set in Bory's characteristic experimental typography (as used on the page in the golden typwriter held by the Sackner Archive). Kolar's work, which is different for each copy in the run, is a card with a cut out of a cubist woman placed over a card of the Mona Lisa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Exit 2. The print was made by Claudio Parmiggiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a facsimile of the artist's book originally published in 1913, made after an original copy in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. The original copy was purchased from the Sackner Archive. This edition also includes a new English translation and essay by curator Timothy Young in an accompanying book. The facsimile was reproduced from scanned images of the original and printed on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite Eggshell 100 text. It was letterpress scored, then hand folded like the original and assembled. The slipcase was base on the original vellum cover, which was hand-painted by Sonya Delaunay and glued to the text block. This work is stored with "Metaphor Taking Shape." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Guillermo Deisler was born in 1940 and died in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each letter of the alphabet is incorporated into a surrealistic image. The print accompanying the book is reminiscent of work by Maurice Escher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lames means thin metal in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages depict printed calligraphic, rubberstamped, and typeset poetry composed by de Charmoy. The background drawings on the pages that depict trees and abstract markings as well as the collage were done by Sarah Wiame. The rubberstampings are shaped like trees or branches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cloth cover was made from blue jeans' cloth. The authors are Francis Osowski and Leonie aka Catherine Bourbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a facsimile of a book first published in 1969. Jean-Pierre Gillard comments: The youth of the creators of books, once established their glory, have always fascinated those who try to swim upstream to the source. When, in August 1969, Broutin realizes these pages in Indian ink on rough paper with the attention of a beginner than twenty-one years, he shows the product of his early research: "I attended Lettrists artists since 1968 and I tried to capture the most recent contributions before imposing my own style. "There are writings recalling the Egyptian demotic - Broutin studied Egyptian epigraphy - the set of lines polyautomatiques, imaginative, and, in terms of rhythm, a taste for eccentricity, even for the vacuum. The linearity of the following year will move with metecisations It is young, before developing, in 1973, with a large project still continued today, Desire and externite paradise. Take note of this notebook c ' has become aware of the defining moments in the...