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Tony Lopez contributes an in depth introduction including the history and participants of the Text Festivals from 2005. "An Alphabet of Fishes: Curating Bob Cobbing" by Philip Davenport is a detailed history of Cobbing and Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is "an introduction to happenings, kinectic environments, and other mixed-media performances." Nine members of the 1960's avant garde discuss their works with Kostelanetz in the new theatre forms, including John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg and La Monte Young. Richard Kostelanetz contributes two essays interpreting the new theatre in terms of its historical, social and aesthetic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in the United States of the output of this indispensable press, covering the enormously wide range of the work of publishers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Polish avant-garde artists who in their long tenure in England brought the likes of Jarry, Apollinaire, Queneau, Schwitters, and so many others to a wider English-speaking audience.. Includes a description and the covers of the 82 books published by Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is one of a series from "The Documents of 20th-century Art," in which originals or English translations of artistic documents are reproduced. It contains a section, "Constructivism and the Little Magazines: 1923-24," which provides articles from Lef, G, Disk, and Blok. It includes an essay by I.K. Bonset (Van Doesberg) entitled "Toward a Constructivist Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters"•the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it"•from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips' blog includes the latest information about his exhibitions and reviews and design projects in London and in the Westminster Cathedral. The most detailed portion of the blog describes and illustrates Phillips' work on his painting "Quantum Poetics." Phillips' description of his creative process in developing the work is a rare insight into an artist's mind and techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with the life and teachings of Charles Fourier who espoused the ideas of utopia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this catalogue, Reutersward presents works in which the letters of the alphabet have been formed into abstract visual and sculptural pieces. Susan Sontag contributed a critical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art--and art's value for all of us. In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a close up and personal view of almost a half century in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he terms its essential value--the range of responses to art that we as individuals have depending on our culture, education, and life experience. Few avid collectors are immune to the thrill of rising market value, but Findlay argues that buying for investment alone is seldom smart. A genuine love of art and the ways it may enrich one's social life also play important roles. Down-to-earth and with a touch of dry wit, he explains exactly how artworks are valued and reveals the workings of the art market....

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Michael Auping contributed a major essay "Reading Holzer or Speaking in Tongues." The Sackners attended this exhibition in Venice. An additional copy of the poster is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This critical text focuses on three themes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1) the relation of experimental typography used by the artistic avant garde to linguistic theories, 2) the divergence of experimental typography from visual images, and 3) the work of four influential practitioners of experimental typography and their debt to advertising copy, viz., Marinetti, Apollinaire, Tzara, and Zdanevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Molly Schwartzburg contributed an essay, "Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument. She concludes that "the palimsestic elements of this book suggest that what we construct is not a stable object. Instead, texts as we read them can only function as parts of a shifting set of relationships determined by the fact of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured Bentivoglio's stone book objects. It also included collages, prints, and poem objects. A portfolio, "Monument" and a poem object, Pagina/finestra, that are also held by the Sackner Archive were depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this article, Vos states that he is a follower of the linguistic theories of Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts the Fuck paintings but does not include any of the more recent rubberstamped paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.