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Several shaped typewriter poems by Claude Cahun are reproduced from her previously unpublished homoerotic, feminist, set in ancient Greek, novel, "Heroines." It was translated by Norman MacAfee from a manuscript written in English and French in 1925. The typings include a mathematical poem, a French shoe, an arc of triumph, punctuation poems and a goblet. Several aphorisms appear in the novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez and Hector Olea who organized this first large-scale overview of the avant-garde in Latin America during the twentieth century. Many Latin American works predated artistic works from Europe and the United States and challenged traditional notions of art and science. the catalogue and exhibition are organized into six conceptual areas or "constellations": Universal and Vernacular: Play and Grief; Progression and Rupture; Vibrational and Stationary; Touch and Gaze; Cryptic and Committed. Leon Ferrari contributed an illustrated essay "The Written Word." Hector Olea's illustrated essay on Leon Ferrari is titled "From the Drawing to Texts to the Texture of Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A biography of Tilson is printed on each page of the catalogue with the art projects created during that time frame. Photographic reproductions of pages from Tilson's periodicals, Cipher and Atlas, are included in this catalogue. These periodicals are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Sanders, "Investigative Poetry" signifies a form of historical writing. "Investigative poesy is freed from capitalism, churchism, and other totalitatianisms; free from racism, free from napalm-dropping military police states --- a poetry adequate to discharge from its verse-grids the undefiled high energy purely-distilled verse-frags, using every bardic skill and meter and method of the last 5 or 6 generations, in order to describe every aspect (no more secret governments!) of the historical present, while aiding the future, even placing bard-babble once again into a role as the shaper for the future." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "Revolving Poetry" that is photographically reproduced in color in the catalogue opposite the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Geers' works are "powerful environments of terror and violence, eroticism and poetry. [His] raw language explores the boundaries of art and what is permissible, provoking and arousing intense feelings of desire and danger; seduction and repulsion." This book about his work has a presentation like an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes several statements concerning visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curator Laura Kruger contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes examples of the work of many of the most famous calligraphers of all time. This is the first book allowing the reader to follow calligraphy from its origins in pre-Islamic times to the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book has an introductory essay on Gullot's work by Govanni Iovane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with the making of artist books. The authors provide their definition of artist books, viz., "The Artist Book is produced and imagined by the artist himself, from the beginning to the end, in form and in content. The artist is the real craftsman of the book and it is only he that can make it into a "work of art." Therefore, it can be a single book or in a very limited edition, but always produced by the artist or in close collaboration with a publisher." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was published to accompany the exhibition at the Bodleian Library from June through October 2007. "Celebrated in Italy as the 'Tre Corone' (the 'Three Crowns'), Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio have exerted an immense influence over Western culture...Dante especially, as author of the Divine Comedy, was conspicuous in all aspects of life, from the university classroom to the pulpit, and from the workshops of book-producers to the street...During the last two hundred years there has been an extraordinary revival of British interest in Dante...Even today, Dante's presence in our culture is far-reaching. The contemporary artist, Tom Phillips, reflects on how his own visual work fits into this centuries-old tradition of Dante illustration and scholarship, bringing us up to modern times." Phillips' essay is titled "Hershey Heaven and Dante's Hell." In it, Phillips traces the story of his work through trial and tragedy to publish his book. The essay is illustrated with several...

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Dick Higgins, in his introduction, describes Porter as a "one-man art and technology movement...a brilliantly inventive but uncrackable Maine hickory nut." This book relates to the period when Porter left for Australia and supposedly sums up all his knowledge as a physicist, poet, publisher, sculptor, illustrator, and humorist. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.