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This book is a Holiday gift from Marcel Fleiss, owner of Gallery 1900-2000 in Paris. He provides photographs of Jazz musicians that he took after the end of WW II. Biographical details are also recorded. The book also contains a calendar for 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Edouard and Jean-Jacques Lebel, the artworks are based on the famous images of Duchamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the 2nd printing of this book in September 1961; it was 1st printed in July 1961. Theodore "Ted" Joans (July 4, 1928 - April 25, 2003) was an American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter. Born on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois, Joans earned a degree in fine arts from Indiana University. He later associated with writers of the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. In the 1960s, Joans had a house in Timbuktu. He claimed to be a brother of Leroi Jones, despite the spelling difference, but this appears to be apocryphal. Joans' painting Bird Lives hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco. He was also the originator of the "Bird Lives" legend and graffiti in New York City after the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955. Joans invented the technique of outagraphy, in which the subject of a photograph is cut out of the image. Joans died in Vancouver, British Columbia due to complications of...

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The image in this print has a pop-art, erotic sensibility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The issue depicts an abstraction of an erotic happening event. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition catalogue documents a retrospective of works by Lebel. It provides detailed information regarding the "Happenings" that scandalized Paris with transvestite and sado-masochistic performances which were orchestrated by Lebel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue was published in conjunction with an exhibition by Heidsieck at the Centre International de Poesie in Sept 1998. There are several reproductions of Heidsieck's works in this issue including a collage from the Canal Street series (no.42) that is held by the Sackner Archive. This collage is depicted on page 12. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of photographs of erotic happenings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the back cover was drawn by Joel Hubaut - the Sackners were given the drawing by Hubaut during his stay in Miami for the exhibition, "Tour de France/Florida. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners lent Joni Mabe's book, "The Elvis Presley Scrapbook" to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is number three in the Arkhive series of documents of the avant-garde. It consists of three sets of reprinted texts written by writers associated with Georges Bataille, some of whom were members of his Acephale group and others were members of Surrealist groups in Paris and New York. What unites these texts is their form, which derives from that of dictionaries or encyclopaedias. The content of "Critical Dictionary" has several anti-religious themes as well as absurd texts with accompanying illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The contributions are mostly conventional poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the most experimental issue of the EX series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes reproductions of the assemblage series, Canal Street, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are eight pages in red and black colors with cacophonous content produced by Joel Hubaut in his characteristic layout of text and image. The loose sheet describes Hubaut's rock band. This book is stored in the box with Hubaut's material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.