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This book features 1) Werkman's pages from The Next Call, his typewriter poetry and letter pictures, 2) Piet Zwart's pages from the catalogue N.K.F. and other catalogues and advertisements with constructivistic typography, 3) Wladislaw Strzeminski's letter pictures and alphabet as well as examples of experimental typography from Schuitema, Berlewi, and Eggeling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology and critical review of illustrated books produced by the great art publishing houses of France, e.g., Ambrois Vollard, Henry Kahnweiler, Albert Skira, Aime Maeght, Iliazd, Teriade, Pierre Lecuire, Louis Broder, and Pierre Andre Benoit. Reproductions of books deaccssioned by the Sackner Archive include La Prose du Transsiberien by Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars and Maximiliana by Iliazd and Max Ernst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent the majority of works to this exhibition. Curtay wrote the text for the catalogue. It includes a history and chronology if the Lettrist movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Maurice Lemaitre was conspicuously absent from this exhibition although a photograph of him in a group appears on page 44 as does a worded photograph on page 57. This is a profusely illustrated catalogue of Lettrist artworks and documents comprising 249 b&w and color photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The extensive introductory essays include Artists' Books: Historical notes and cultural contexts and Classification criteria; Notes and comments. Another section deals with an alphabetical listing with tirage of 2928 artists' books with black & white illustrations on the bottom page borders. The final part of the book consists of artists' statements and illustrations. Many of the books listed in this anthology are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition, in homage to Ulises Carrion for his promotion of artist's books, was curated and the catalogue edited by Martha Hellion. The books in this exhibition provide a contextural framework to present the theories that Carrion developed throughout the 1970's and 1980's in relation to artist's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue documents an important, extensive extensive exhibition of artists books. The cover depicts a page from "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. The original of this page is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Raphael Tous, was also the collector of the books on display. Ulises Carrion, Guy Schraenen and Jose Luis Mata contributed introductory essays about artist books. It included approximately 1000 books. Several pages have been detached from the glued binding. Several books exhibited in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a text for middle school students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The authors cited above served as regional editors. Includes 2199 citations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thie examples of mail art in this book are mostly trextural. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue includes an essay on networking in mail art and statements by artists on the subject. The theme of the exhibition was "Portugal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This profusely illustrated book describes Mail Art examples and activities that took place in East Germany prior to Glasnost. It includes essays written about this period by German artists/poets and features one stand-out mail artist and organizer, Robert Rehfeldt, whom the Sackners met in 1981 in East Berlin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art." Juxtaposing the original works alongside scholarly contributions by well-established and emerging scholars from several disciplines, Mainframe Experimentalism demonstrates that the radical and experimental aesthetics and political and cultural engagements of early digital art stand as precursors for the mobility among technological platforms, artistic forms, and social sites that has become commonplace today.s -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book is mainly based upon unabridged Merriam-Webster dictionaries and less so on the Oxford English dictionary. Articles written in Word Ways magazine are also quoted. Eckler is the current editor of Word Ways. Definitions and lists of common and rare word plays are provided, e.g., lipograms, vowel language, text-determined obligatory or forbidden letters, tautonyms, word graphs, isograms, panograms, bigrams, ca dences, transpositions, word squares, letter-shifts, long words, et -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheet is an errata sheet. Caws reprints Mallarme's Un Coup de Des in English translation. Tom Phillips' manifesto deals with the nature of postcards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a historic survey of women that have used language in art as well as women who are concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Mavo was a self-proclaimed avant-garde constellation of artists and writers collaborating in a dynamic and rebellious movement that not only shook up the art establishment, but also made an indelible imprint on the art criticism of the times. Mavo artists cast themselves as social critics, strategically fusing modernist aesthtics with leftist politics and serving as a central voice for cultural anarchism in intellectual debates...While their work interrogated issues of asethetics, subjectivity, and mimesis, Mavo artists principally championed the reintegration of art into the social (and political) practice of everyday life.Book Description (dust Jacket): The radical Japanese art group Mavo roared into new arenas and new art forms during the 1920s, with work ranging from performance art to painting, book illustration, and architectural projects. Hurling rocks through glass roofs and displaying their rejected works, Mavo artists held peripatetic protest exhibitions against the...

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On page 147, Figure 10 depicts a hologram "Adrift" (1991) by Kac that is acknowledged to be in the collection of the Sackner Archive. Kac writes on page 145, "Adrift is composed basically of seven words that dissolve in space and into each other as the viewer reads them. In one case, the reader may be invited to start reading from the letter which is further away from him or her. In another case, the letter closer to the reader could be the starting point. The letters that make the words are floating irregularly along several Z axes, except for the word 'breathe', which is integrated into the overall light field. This word is blown by an imaginary wind as its letters actually move away from their original position to dissolve the light field. The movement of the letters in this word disrupts the apparent stability of the other words." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.