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This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. The book is missing the dust jacket. it is complementary to another book held by the Sackner Archive of experimental music scores, "Spartito Preso" (1980) that emphasizes Italian composers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new series of essays from Phillips' current project which is based upon a century of picture postcards. For this magazine, the postcards have been selected to reflect aspects of the world of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first in a new series of Phillips' current project that is based on a century of picture postcards. For this magazine, te postcards will be selected to reflect aspects of the world of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new series of essays from Phillips' current project which is based upon a century of picture postcards. For this magazine, the postcards have been selected to reflect aspects of the world of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new series of essays from Phillips' current project which is based upon a century of picture postcards. For this magazine, the postcards have been selected to reflect aspects of the world of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new series of essays from Phillips' current project which is based upon a century of picture postcards. In this issue, the postcards depict portaits of Mario Lanza and Enrico Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new series of essays from Phillips' current project which is based upon a century of picture postcards. For this issue, the postcards depict two scenes of couple's love expressins seated at a piano stool. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing concludes in this essay, visual (concrete) poetry can be heard, smelt, has colours, vibrations whereas sound poetry dances, tastes, has shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typewriter concrete poems date to 1959. Carl-Friedrich Claus was born in 1930 and died in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jindrich Chalupecky contributed an introductory essay entitled "The Heretical Surrealism of Ladislav Novak." Novak describes his first meeting with Jiri Kolar in 1961 as one of the greatest experiences of his life. Kolar gave him "the kind of stimulus needed and the knowledge that in art one must be ruthless and thorough, that even the most brilliant idea isn't enough in itself, that one must develop it in series, push it, advertise it, etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...

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The introductory essay to this exhibition, "Situacion de la Poesia en la Era Technologica" was written by Jorge Lopez Anaya. The catalogue featured examples of concrete and sound poetry worldwide including a collage by Franz Mon entitled "Sehgang" held by the Sackner Archive and depicted with this reference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains critical essay and examples of work of Mathias Goeritz written by Jan Bervoets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The editors of this volume are Bruce Gilcrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks.Wikipedia: Gustav Metzger (born 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger is recognized for his protests in the political and artistic realms. Metzger was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 and came to Britain in 1939 as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement. He has been stateless since the 1940s. It is with an experience of twentieth century society's destructive capabilities that led Metzger to a concentrated 'formulation of what destruction is and what it might be in relation to art.Metzger is known as a leading exponent of the Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike movements. He was also active in the Committee of 100 and took part in their early anti-nuclear base campaigns of direct action...