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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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This book was published as a companion work for the exhibition in the Rare Book Room of the Van Pelt Library. It proposes "A new culture of memory and archiving in the true spirit of the beehive." Anthony Grafton's essay "The Commonplace Bee; A Celebration" describes through historical commonplace books "how early modern playwrights and poets, scholars and scientists, ladies and schoolboys went about the vital task of mastering and using books - at a time when books were the most powerful source of knowledge about life, the universe and everything." The DVD "In which the thinking man finds himself" was produced by Aaron Levy and explores an archive in disarray in historic Founder's Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This publication served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Anastasi's work at the Slought foundation, Philadelphia, curated by Oswalds Romberg who contributed an introductory essay. It engages work by conceptual artist William Anastasi in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage. This publication is edited by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabate, with contributions by William Anastasi, Joseph Masheck, Thomas McEvilley, and Steve McCaffery, and an introduction by Osvaldo Romberg. In addition, nearly 40 manuscript pages from William Anastasi's manuscripts "me innerman monophone" and "du jarry," engaging Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry, are reproduced in the book, alongside 10 pages of reproductions of Anastasi's work from the 1960s. By showing concretely that many passages in Finnegans Wake contain buried allusions to Jarry's characters and vocabulary and personality, Anastasi is not simply annotating Joyce's...