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Review of Sackner collection of Russian Avant Garde art at the Lowe Museum, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ruth Sackner contributed an essay to this issue titled "the Avant-Garde Book: Precursor of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Artist's Book." Writing about Tom Phillips' A Humument, she stated "The blending of literature, poetry, and visual art is extremely successful in the work of Tom Phillips. In the main, his work derives from personal intellectual explorations, mythological languages, historic paintings, postcard images, and classical literature and poetry. These are presented in an amazing variety of artistic formats. Tom Phillips has used the book in particular to span the distinction between word and image, for as he says, "in a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."" "Ending as a book" may very well be the credo of contemporary book artists who knowingly continue the ideas of the avant-garde and the concrete and vis-ual poets into our...

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Draft of letter regarding Curtay sending the Franklin Furnace exhibition catalogs. The card depicts a photographic image by Rodchenko. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announcement of the exhibition of the Sackners' Russian Avant Garde collection at the Lowe Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Susan Goodman. The Sackner Archive lent El Lissitzky's "Beat The Whites With The Red Wedge" (p.196) and Chashnik's "Maxim Gorky - Vladimir Lenin" book cover design (p.163) as well as two El Lissitzky books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an essay in a medical magazine that describes the beginnings of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.