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This volume presents a ten year retrospective of Emigre Magazine and includes every cover issued, a catalogue of over 80 Emigre typefaces, the magazines most striking editorial layouts, and commentary from Vanderbilt and Licks. Emigre has consistently broken the rules of graphic design and publishing and has proven to be both controversial and influential in the field.Since there was no budget to produce Emigre and the Macintosh computer had not yet been invented, the first issues were created with typings and photocopied paste-ups.Emigre 21 was produced almost entirely by undergraduate and graduate students at California Institute for the Arts at Valencia. The issue consisted of actual school assignments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was based upon the "Metamorphoses des Kunstlerbuches" that was presented as part of Documenta VI in 1977 in Kassel, West Germany. The text was written in German by Rolf Dittmar and translated to English and Farsi for this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a scholarly work which analyzes the artist book in several contexts including the book as idea and form, early 20th century avant-garde books, the codex, the book as a visual form, books as verbal exploration, and the book as document. The Sackner Arcvhive is mentioned in a footnote and as a major source of Johanna Druckers collected works. Drucker provides classification of artist books through headings and examples throughout this book but omits listing them in a tabular form for easy access. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The authors include lengthy discussions of the bookworks of Tom Phillips, Elisabeth Broel, Harry Reese, Ruth Laxson, Paul Zelevansky, Henri Chopin, Joelle Dautricourt, John-Eric Broaddus, and Scott McCarney among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprinting of the second edition of the book first published in 1951. Contains English translations of original Dada Documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this work, Perloff consolidates the thrust olf the avant garde movements of the early 20th century as a whole. She provides extensive critical and analytic discussions of Cendrars and Delauney's "La Prose du Transsiberien" (held by the Sackner Archive), Marinetti's "Zang Tumb Tuuum" (held by the Sackner Archive), and Carra's "Interventionist Manifesto" (possibly the best discussion of a Futurist collage work). In addition, several classical books and periodicals of the Futurist and Russian Avant Garde periods as well as Robert Smithson's conceptual works are extensively reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Nudel Books: The Howard L. and Muriel Weingrow Collection consists of approximately 4,000 items including original illustrated books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, letters, and original prints representing most of the major avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. It provides important information on primary and secondary works of related movements as well as themes of interest and concern to modern artists and writers. This catalogue is divided into two sections. Part One deals with all material excluding periodicals, which are covered in Part Two. Authors and/or artists are listed alphabetically. Each item is identified in terms of its movement. A description of its size and contents; information on special features of the publication, such as paper, binding, and edition; and other pertinent data concerning materials inherent in the book, periodical, catalogue, or object are provided. The reproductions included are representative of...

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Janecek provides a critical analysis of Russian Avant Garde literature and translations of some of key pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a personal history of international artists' magazines from 1968-1988. For the bibliographic section, there is an ikon for each of the following: multimedia publication, fluxus/concept/neodada, concrete & visual poetry/experimental literature, assembling, mail art/network publication, rubber stamp, xerography/copy & electrographic art, graphism/graphzine, radicalism/neoism, theory/review/history, and by/about computer. Toward the end of this boo,k Perneczky provides a complete listing of Commonpress issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the biography of John Quinn, the greatest American collector of art and experimental literature of the early 20th century. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bayard dedicated the book, which developed from her doctoral thesis, to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. In the acknowledgments she states, "I would like to express my gratitude ...especially to Marvin Sackner for generously granting me unlimited access to his marvellous collection of concrete and post-modern artefacts. Without such direct, visual, and hands-on contact with concrete and deconstructed items, I would have known them only abstractly."Bayard's book is heavily oriented to criticism and theory of concrete poetry with particular attention to the work of bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver contributed an essay, "On Representation in Concrete and Semiotic Poetry." Eric Vos wrote about "Visual Literature and Semiotic Conventions." Eduardo Kac's wrote on "Holopoetry and Hyperpoetry." Charlotte Schoell-Glas contributed "The Medium is the Message: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden Little Sparta,"an essay that reviewed the political side of Finlay's work. David Scott described the postage stamps of Donald Evans in "Semiotics and Ideology in Mixed Messages: The Postage Stamp."Cluver focuses on the word, "Ekphrasis" defined by some as "the verbal representation of graphic representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author writes that this study was intended as an introduction to the work of Georges Perec and was designed to accompany a reading of his texts. Motte attempts to develop the outline of a post-modern literary career and to present a coherent exposition of Perec's poetic theory. He organized the study into the following chapters: formal constraint, autoreference, the game, description, the letter, dream and memory, and metaliterature. It includes 22 texts from 1965 to 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Caws "emphasizes the thematic continuity rather than the theoretical differences between Surrealism & Dada" & the five major poets of the movements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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From his personal collection, Celant mounted an exhibition of record covers as artworks that also featured sound poetry. He includes a definitive discography from 1927-1977 and a listing of record producers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive also holds a first edition of the hard cover copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nancy Perloff writes about "Sound Poetry and the Musical Avant Garde." Antonio Sergio Bessa contributes an essay "Sound as Subject: Augusto de Campos's Poetamenos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.