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The portfolio was designed by Novak & Chatrny. Valoch provided the introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Writers Forum Folders #3. Includes nine prints on papercard and one print on paper collaged to envelope. Fiver of the nine loose prints are stored in a binder; the others in the original envlope in the Valoch box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The words that are printed three times on each page are: white, square, traces, second, beginning, stroke, light, flowing, step, cloud, quivering, stone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch seems to have cut part of ablack annoucement card with fragmented letters and year in yellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The center of this book has been bored through with a drill. The hole is bored from cover to cover. The hole is located just below the portrait of Mao's chin printed at the frontpiece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Manuel de Seabra provides a brief classification list for this book: performance poetry, concrete poetry, sound poetry, mechanical poetry, and visual poetry. A section of this book deals with Coca Cola visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This issue includes a Glyn Pursglove's essay, "An Introduction to Concrete Poetry." He states "The phrase 'Concrete Poetry' is bandied about a great deal in a way which seems to suggest that all those to whom it is applied are part of a conscious, united movement, and that they are artists whose work is dictated by a set of common and explicit principles. As anyone with any understanding of artistic 'movements' will readily imagine, this is a superficial and misleading idea. Certainly there have been plenty of explicit statements by some of the poets involved but these have, naturally, attracted as many opponents as supporters. One of the most important of such statements was 'POSITION 1 of International (Movement) for Spatial Poetries" organised by, among others, Pierre Gamier. This was not quite a manifesto, in the sense of a document proclaiming plans for the future, but rather a formalisation of a situation. Gamier was fully conscious of the difficulties, and his closing words...

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The first edition was published in 1974; this is from a second printing in 1981. Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is a retrospective of Kocman's Artists' Books and Papers. Jiri Valoch contributed a critical essay that traced the interdisciplinary art movements of the 1970's, the European political and artistic community in which Kocman worked, and his studies in bookbinding and aesthetics. He describes Kocman's work as "a synthesis combining intellectual detachment informed by his conceptual experience with a remarkable sensibility and strong lyricism and with a continuous questioning of the nature of art." Several examples of Kocman's works are held by the Sackner Archive. For example, the catalogue depicts a reproduction of Poe's "The Raven," one of Kocman's paper re-making books that is held by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue lists "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka (1980) and Fragment of Videvdat and Other Fragments (1988), as well as several editioned books held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place: the "little-known story" of the advent of computers in art. It was through the activities of the New Tendencies movement, begun in Zagreb in 1961, and its supporting institution the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti that the "thinking machine" was adopted as an artistic tool and medium. Pursuing the idea of "art as visual research," the New Tendencies movement proceeded along a path that led from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art to computer-generated graphics, film, and sculpture. With their exhibitions and conferences and the 1968 launch of the multilingual, groundbreaking magazine Bit International, the New Tendencies transformed Zagreb"”already one of the most vibrant artistic centers in Yugoslavia"”into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientists from both...

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Also designated No.7 in run. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a single written word on each of the three pages, viz., voice, memory, stream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue depicts a Carl Andre drawing of a horse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The German title translated into English is "The Meaning of Words. The text is placed one word on each page and reads " page by page you discover the mystery of this book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.